Sunday Laziness

pictures from here

Today is just great. Fernando Alonso won the Formula 1 GP, i finally completed my bachelor thesis, weather is amazing and inviting to take a stroll, already had ice cream today....short: EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL...

Happy Sunday everyone!

Love, V.

ps.: in exactly one week i'll finally be watching the hunger games! Anyone seen the movie? I am beyond excited and Taylor Swifts song totally gives me chills, this movie HAS TO BE amazing :-)

Look at me!

my new baby!! super love it <3

I just took these photos, I'm too excited to share to you guys about my new post.
I just bought a pair of red shoes last week, I found a shoe shop in Malaysia that has a unique model, convenient, and cheap. the store has a lot of shoes are cute and unique, and I began to fall in love with these red shoes.
so I decided to buy it, what do you think guys?

Polka Dot

 I still needed to show u guys my outfit from last weekend. I wore my grandma's Vintage Polka Dot skirt that I found in my sisters closte. It is just too cute :-)
I feel like last week Spring finally came along, the weather has been nice ever since and I try to be outside as much as I can despite the fact that I have to sit in an office all day long! The coming half of the week will be my last in Germany, on thursday I'll be on my way back to Vienna. I feel like a little child right before Christmas. I am counting the days until I get to meet all my friends again, drink coffee at my favourite places, grab some delicious Cupcakes and eat PASTAAA haha
This weekend will be filled with Bachelor thesis stuff (just when u though you're finished...) and some chillig. I also think of taking a tour with my sisters bike and discover the scenery around where I live as I never really did that. Oh, and of course I have to watch Formula 1 haha
What are u guys up to this weekend?
XOXO, V.

Review: Clinique Even Better Foundation

Source: Google.com

So I bought this foundation a little over 2 weeks ago and I've been wearing it practically everyday except for Sundays. As of now I am totally head over heels in love with it and here's why:


PRO's:

- Finish: I have never in my entire life come across a foundation that looks SO natural and invisible on your skin but at the same time gives good coverage. I swear, it is unnoticeable. And it totally covers all the spots or brown acne scars around my face. Even my colleagues at work asked me what I had "done" to my face because my skin is glowing. It also gives you a light dewy finish and doesn't look dull at all!
- Ingredients: Like all Clinique Foundations, this one does not contain any perfumes or harsh chemicals at all which is great because even though I have combination skin and some spots from time to time, I DO have sensitive skin. There are foundations that make me break out like madly! Big plus for this one.
- Functionality: This foundation is supposed to help even out ones skintone and it definitely does help me! I can not guarantee the same results for everyone but my dark brownish/redish scars from former acne do fade much quicker than they would normally. Also I sometimes get red around the cheek area and this foundation gives me just a nice, healthy looking even skintone. It does what it promises. LOVE!
- SPF: This foundation contains SPF 15 which for me is a huge plus, never go without sunprotection!

Neither Pro nor Con:

- Lasting Power: This Foundation is very nourishing to the skin, hence, if you have oily skin and want something completely mattifying, this might not be the foundation for you. I definitely do have to use powder throughout the day with this one, but as I usually always carry blotting papers with me, this is not a letdown for me. It really doesn't bother me because this foundation looks so much more natural than all the super long lasting ones. And it does stay on your skin, it may just not be as mattifying as for example my Estee Lauder Double Wear.

CON's:

- Price: It cost me 28€ which is pretty much considering I am a student and I wear Make-up regularly. Then again my Estee Lauder Double Wear costs almost 10€ more so I guess I'll just have to deal with- Still, I think they could be a little bit cheaper!
-Packaging: I usually prefer foundations with a pump or an open lit where I can easily control how much comes out. This one has none of the above and it is sometimes hard to get out the exact right amount that I need on my face. I am afraid i might use too much and coming at 28€ per piece, this is not funny. Sort that out Clinique! Immediately!
- Color Range: I myself got the PERFECT match for my skin tone which is Ivory. However, in most stores it is the lightest color and it still seems a little dark for those REALLY pale ones out there. Plus, once I'll get a tan I think it will also be harder to get the right color as the other available colors are all relatively dark and close to each other and seem to have more of a yellow undertone?! A bigger range would be nice as it is over all a great foundation.

Conclusion:
I love this foundation! And as long as it doesn't break me out or I find one that is cheaper but has the same amazing natural finish, I'll definitely repurchase this one! It is a great product!

The Pants

 Got this pants a while ago from Zara and unfortunately TOTALLY in the wrong size! Tried them on in Size S and accidentally bought them in Size XS. I discovered my mistake when it was too late and I had already removed the price tag which means no return. Sucks. Especially since they looked so fierce in size S. A bit loose but not too much so that they would drift into pyjama pant territory. Well I guess this means I'd better shed those 2 pounds I gained here in Germany as soon as I am back in Vienna because I have no intention of letting those pants rot away in the back of my closet just because of my stupidity to double check before purchasing and removing the price tag. I really like them, especially with the detailing of the white stripe on the side. They make a perfect cool, chilled black outfit and depending on the mood I can dress up or down!
So today I took some snapshots as it will be the only day with moderate spring weather (bits of sunshine and nicer temperatures u know...)
I am thinking of doing a foundation review in my next post as I got a new about 2 weeks ago and I reaaaally like it. What do you guys think about that? Would u like more reviews on this post?
Happy Saturday, LOVE V.

Ps.: On a side note, Formula 1 is back, how frikkin' a-some!!! HAHA

Wide Open Spaces

[thanks Candice! via ohtinyrnbw]

What's up, gash-snackers?


Hehehe.


Remember when I was bitching about it being winter forever? 


Remember when it felt like winter would never end???

[thanks deena]

Well!  The ground has thawed! The breeze has mellowed!  


The daffodils and crocuses (croci?) are budding through the damp, cool earth, sending slender green shoots of hope up into the winking sun of a brand new day!!

It's Spring!! We've turned the clocks forward! I wake up in the light and come home from work in the light! 


Little lambkins are baaaing and there are finally Cadbury Eggs at Walgreens and all the stores are trying to convince me that pastel colors are "what's fresh this season" and it's not cold even a little!

[Thanks Ariel N - SapphicSista on Youtube, y'all]

I'm thrilled.  Can you tell I'm thrilled?


Today I got my bright orange scooter, Stella, out of storage and tried to kickstart it.  


It wouldn't start.  
  
Shit.
Well.  Sometimes it does that. 

[via fairbettysworld]

I gave up trying and went back inside.  
I knew what had to happen.


I put on an really tight sweater, an incredibly tight skirt, and extra eyeliner. 

Then I pushed my scooter a half-mile (uphill! It weighs 250 pounds!) to the repair shop, sweating in the heat of the first truly hot day this year.

Let me tell you how much truckers like to see girls in tight sweaters pushing scooters.

And you know why I did this? 


You know why I pushed my fucking heavy, solid metal scooter uphill in a tightass outfit in the unseasonable 80-degree heat, faggettes?


For sex!  For the faintest possibility - the merest whiff! -  of sex!

There is a hot woman who works at the scooter repair shop.

[JAH.via queerbrownxx]

It's no one's fault.


As I grunted and pushed my baby up the shop driveway, I saw her:

A vision. 
Shining dark hair all slicked back.  
Lovely muscles visible under a black shop t-shirt. 
A streak of engine grease on her jeans; on the phone, making an annoyed face, as she talked to a customer. 

[via indoctrinatethemasses]

She hung up the phone and grinned at me. (Those teeth!! My god! Like an ad for teeth!)


Her: Heeey, I know this bike. Whatsa matter, she sick?


Me: Uh..yempf. Agalbbbale.


I handed her my keys, and she circled my bike like a vulture, squeezing the brakes, stroking the chassis, testing the clutch. 


The whole time, Ginuwine's "Pony" was playing in my head. 

[thanks Raquel! via sugarcoatedrenegade]

What is wrong with me?


Gaaah.


Hmph.  I'll tell you what's wrong.  I know what's up.


It's Springtime.  

Everyone's crazy.


It's a proven and long-noted fact that dykes come out of hibernation riiight about...now. 

[thanks

Suddenly the bars are packed.  
The dog park is hoppin'.  


The produce section at the co-op is jammed with gayelles squeezing  mangoes and the path around the lake is filled with zip-up-clad lesbians frolicking in the sunshine.

[thanks Roz!]

Fuck winter! 


Everyone's been inside for months, and now they're ready to mate!  Nature compels us to mate over and over, and there will be no offspring, no matter how often we do it! #winningatnature!

[thanks Jennifer B]

Now, let's be real, here:  I have virtually no chance of sleeping with the cute repair shop girl.  
Not only am I unable to speak around her, I don't even know yet if she likes girls.


And yet here I am, trussing myself up like a show pony, thinking filthy things while she talks to me about the front end suspension being loose. 

[thanks kate z]

I'll tell ya what's loose.


Gawd help me.  Gawd help us all. 

Spring is in the air, and everyone's randy, right?


We want to fuck!  We want to fuck everyone!


So that's why today...


I wanna talk about Open Relationships.

[thanks Madeleine E]

Yeeeees, homosexuelles, I do.

'Cause I'm in one, and it's been working for a long time, and lots of y'allfags write to me at effingdykes@gmail.com, asking me how me and CJ...do it.

And...don't be mad, but...
I can't exactly tell you. 

[thanks Chelsea]

I can't lay out the extreme specifics of our relaysh on the internet, but I can talk about strategies and offer some tips on what works for us.


Maybe in a two-part series on open relationships!!

[thanks Sara]

If, um, you want.


'Cause I feel like everyone hears about this stuff, but not many folks are actually talking about it in constructive ways.


Ok?  Ok for talking about fucking? 


Ok.
Let's talk.

[thanks Ri]

*But first! The Very Long Warning!*


*Homos, I am not a professor of queer theory.  
I failed the only women's studies class I ever took.  I'm not an authority on this subject - I'm just gonna talk about my personal experience with open relationships.  I may screw up and say something uneducated.  Bear with me.

And let me just say:  Monogamy is cool. Monogamy can be beautiful.  It works well for some couples.  
I ain't bein' judgey- it's no better or worse than non-monogamy.
CJ and I were monogamous for years, on and off.


I'm not trying to sell an open relationship.  
Like bananas (yes), it doesn't need selling. Either you want the bananas when you go shopping or you don't want bananas - no advertisements needed.  


It's only when you've never had bananas and you're not suuuure if you'll like bananas that there might be some discussion at the grocery store.*

[thanks Anne M]

Mmkay, fwends?

So:  What is non-monogamy?


Our dear friend Wikipedia sez:


Non-monogamy is a blanket term which covers several types of interpersonal relationships in which an individual forms multiple and simultaneous sexual and/or romantic bonds.

[via stinker]

Cool. 


You get to have more than one sexytime or romantic friend at once.


Sounds good, right? 

All of a sudden, it seems like we're hearing about this everywhere.


More and more people are embracing non-monogamy. 

[thanks Miri]

Books like The Ethical Slut and Opening Up have introduced the topic to the general public, and lots of queers (trendy as usual!) were either already doin' the open-relationship thing or first in line to try it when they heard the news.


And why not?  
I mean - we're already in non-traditional relationships.

[thanks Sadie and Devin]

Everyone thinks we're freaky sex-machines anyway - why not push the boundaries a little further?  


Uncle Mike is already really uncomfortable around us at Thanksgiving; we're clearly destroying the fabric of American families with our very existence - might as well actually be having lots of filthy dirty gaysex if we're gonna get blamed for it, anyway, right?

[thanks jraak from xr2808 ]

As non-monogamy enters the public sphere, it's becoming less and less exotic to be in an open relationship - no one's even surprised to hear about someone in one anymore.  

[thanks bee]

Especially among lesbians.  
Especially especially among younger lesbians. 


Lots of us have tried it, been in one, or are in an open relationship right this second.

[thanks Isabella C]

Because, well, everyone can see the obvious, main benefit of an open relationship:


You get. to sleep. with other people.   


And still be in a secure, loving relationship with your partner.

[thanks Marie Antoinette]

And it's becoming more and more socially acceptable, at least among queers, to do this.  
Hooray!


But! 
The cons of doing the open-relationship thing are sometimes harder to see.

[thanks Christian]

There's JEALOUSY.  And COMMITMENT ISSUES.  
And TIME MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS.  
And INSECURITY and TRUST ISSUES and SAFETY CONCERNS and...well, the list goes on.


We tend to only think of the good parts about an open relationship. 

Until it explodes in our faces.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/dat-pics/]

Ask any queer you meet! 


Have they ever been in an unsuccessful open relationship? 


Ha.


The answers usually go along these lines:


Yes/it was miserable/I'm never doing that again/two of the worst years of my life/it didn't work but I feel like it could with someone else/OMG the drama.


A lot of us have been burned before.


The bottom line is, open relationships aren't for everybody.


In my experience: you have to really want it.   

[thanks Ivan I]

But you know what?


Doing the open thing can work.  
It can!  


It takes a bit (ok a shit-ton) of extra effort and lots of negotiation, but, if yer willing, it is possible to work around jealousy and have fun sleepin' around a lil' and learn to get through issues with your partner and not get dumped.


It is!


IF everybody is on board.  

If only one person in a couple wants an open relationship, though, guess what?  


...An open relationship is prolly not going to work.

[thanks Liz D.]

Unless the other person is willing to try and be flexible and really try.


Likewise, if only one person in a couple wants to be monogamous, a monogamous relationship is probably not going to work, unless the other person is willing to try and keep a damn lid on it and really try. 


Sluts, if there's one thing I've learned about non-monogamy, it's that both people have to want it and be willing to work on it.


Otherwise things go kablooie.

[thanks Heather]

So! This is the intro to talking about this at all - I wanna see what you y'all have to say on the matter. 


We'll talk specifics and strategy next time, kay?


Got any feeeeeelings about open relationships, y'allfags?  


Anything specific you wanna talk about?