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To the Lovers

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Valentines Swarovski Love

Dear Lovers out there, today is your big day. If you are among the lucky ones who found somebody to love and they love you too, please tell them how much you value it. Make their eyes sparkle as much as you can.

It’s hard for me to write this text because it seems that love doesn’t want to be with me. While I feel that I have so much to give love still likes to stay away. But I want you to remember that if you were found by love, never forget to take care of it. Please don’t make the mistake of taking it for granted. Love doesn’t appear in your life and stays without asking you to continuously work on it. Please go any length for that if you have the opportunity.

Love is a precious thing, and I believe the most important in life. If you are in love and it’s reciprocated, use Valentine’s Day and every opportunity you have to celebrate the gift you received!

Yes, you can buy flowers, jewellery – like the sparkling set I wear from Swarovski – open a bottle of champagne and organise breakfast in bed. But in the end, it’s not just about those things. All those details can be wonderful ways to express your feelings in addition to how you express your love with your actions and how you treat the people you claim to love in good and bad times.

Please stop saying Valentine’s Day is too commercial for you out of laziness or niggardliness, start to invest in your love today and every day. I believe this is a better investment than stock, art and expensive watches without any doubt. And I don’t just mean it materially, the most significant gifts you have to give are time, stability, honesty, kindness and forgiveness.

Lovers, I envy you, to be honest. I wish I had somebody who would allow me to bring some sparkle into their day too. I’d be delighted to fill their days with little surprises, entertain with stories as well as songs and start a huge collection of shared memories. I wish my Valentine’s Day would be a celebration of love. So if yours is, please enjoy every second while I might stay in bed and dream of better Valentine’s Days…


Earrings & Bracelet: Swarovski
Pictures: Betty Heart

In Fashion

There is a Storm in my Heart

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neon tulle dress

Do you ever feel completely quite on the outside but there is a wild storm raging in your heart at the same time? A storm that doesn’t understand how reality and what you wished for could have drifted so far apart?

When you feel like that your heart doesn’t let you sleep. It keeps you up pondering why even if you dedicate all your energy to work on what stings you like a thorn, you’re still in a cold dark place. All you want is to scream out loud, refusing to accept that you can’t do anything but look for another dream. But your silly, sweet little heart doesn’t want to stop fightings invincible giants and never gave up believing in fairy tales. How difficult life can be!

I am a very stubborn girl: I know what I want, and I follow that path without looking left or right. I am like that in every means. When I buy a chair, and the perfect one is only available on another continent, I make happen that it gets to me even if people tell me it’s impossible. If I love, I love, and there is no but and why and other possibilities. It’s a gift, but a curse as well.

At the moment, maybe more curse than a gift. I stand on my terrace too often, feeling like a short-haired version of Rapunzel asking myself where the dreams I was hoping to live has led me. Loneliness makes my heart go cold, paired with a feeling of being abandoned.

Storm, oh storm, why don’t you calm down and show me the sun? I’ve been fighting a lot, I was strong, and I outdid myself on patience I didn’t know I could bring up, but now you made your point. Please let me get warm, let me laugh and spread all that excitement locked inside.

My Outfit
Dress: Do-Nuts Honey, Earrings: Tukadu, Shoes: A Gift

Pictures: Betty Heart

In Personal

What We Did Last Summer

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Photoshoot grass pink hair
Photoshoot grass pink hair

The snow can’t wipe away the memories of what happened in that magical summer in our hearts. Close your eyes for a few seconds until you hear the sound of the birds and feel the grass on your naked skin getting louder and louder.

Remember that perfect moment when all was peaceful, and the connection between you and earth was a comforting bond. When it was just you and me. I feel like I can almost touch this moment; it’s still so vivid and clear. I treasure it and keep it close to me in all its beauty. Oh, you sweet melancholy!

I imagine holding the magic to make it happen again if you agree to believe in us. In my daydreams, the snow melts the instant you turn around and there it is: The tickling grass, the wind playing with my hair, the freedom to be and the lightheartedness of a moment of pure and utter happiness. I hear the sweet sound of you laughing, and I wish it were not just in my head.

Why is it that we either wait for the most beautiful moments to happen, or they are memories? Why isn’t there a pause button so we can stay in a moment forever and not let evanescence win over the perfect beauty of a moment without worries?

But you are not here, and the snow feels cold and harsh on my skin. The warm memories disappear and leave me feeling frozen inside. Wherever you are: I do remember that summer, help me to bring it back. I don’t accept the possibility of this being an impossibility without giving it a million more tries. It will work, it has to work because I am still me and you must still be you.

Pictures: Philipp Mueller

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Don’t Lie to me, it Darkens my Rainbow

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Tukadu shell earrings

If there is one thing I can’t stand nor understand, it’s lies. Ok, I get that white lies told to not hurt the feelings of somebody might come with good intentions but isn’t it ok that sometimes the truth is a tad uncomfortable? If you discover somebody lied to you it often hurts far more then the maybe not so pretty truth would have in the beginning.

Being lied to feels like drinking tea and realising with disgust that the milk in it did go sour: The lie leaves a bad taste in your mouth and heart that lasts far too long. If I discover a lie it’s like my rainbow goes black from one instant to the next sometimes. Was that lie really necessary and worth what it causes?

I bet your parents told you as well that “lies have short legs” or something similar. Even if I disagree with some things I learned as a kid, I consider this true. Being caught lying might be by far worse than the truth would have been. Most of the time, liers are not as convincing as they think. While they are often proud of their poker face, the truth might be written there in big letters or appear from somewhere unexpected.

And if that didn’t convince you yet: Liying is an energy thief. Because one lie often calls for the next to keep up consistency and there comes the point when it gets almost impossible not to get tangled up in a wild mix of truth, half-truth and lies.

The moment a lie escapes from the lips, the person who senses it starts to ask themselves what else they get told by this person that is not true. Trust that is hard to build disappears within the blink of an eye. “What is wrong that I am not considered trustworthy, or why do I not deserve the truth?” I ask myself when I am lied to. The feeling of being seen as so naive to fall for the lie hits hard too.

Trust is hard to build. A lie can make it disappear within the blink of an eye.

I don’t want to paint a picture of myself as a little pink-haired angel that never lies. Of course, I do lie too, mostly white lies. If you cook for me and I don’t like I wouldn’t just tell you and sometimes it’s easier to say you’re fine even when you’re not at all to avoid any further questions. And yes: I hide empty packages of crisps and pretend I haven’t eaten. What a lier I am… Of course, I made the mistake of more severe lies too. But I always had this strong feeling inside me that telling the truth is the only thing worth my breath and voice.

So this text is a plea from the most artificial-looking girl you might know for realness and truth. Please be bold enough to stick to the truth and make it an implicitness. We all deserve the truth; I do, you do. If you have to lie about your actions, think about changing what you do and apologise if necessary. If you want to say something beautiful, but there is nothing but a lie, just don’t open your mouth. In a world of fake news, fake friends and fake lips, we need all realness we can get! Now you know about my crisp packages, so tell the truth as well and don’t darken any rainbows! 😉

My Outfit
Earrings: Tukadu, Sunglasses: Flying Tiger,
Scarf: Alex Max, Jumper: Lazy Oaf (old)

Pictures: Marco Borromeo

In Fashion

A Mermaid’s Tale

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Swarovski Shell Jewellery

Once upon a time, there was a pink-haired mermaid who loved her golden Swarovski shells. Her eyes were green, blue and grey, depending on water’s colour reflecting in them.

She played games with the fishes and got tickled by the seaweed, and her laugher was heard like the sound of clear, beautiful bells underwater. The mermaid loved life in the big sea since she could hide in the mysterious dark depths while she was dreaming of songs unsung to attract her true love. She was not afraid of anything in the sea, not even huge fishes, wild sharks, and eager fishermen, but her one and only fear was to never find the place she was meant to be. Never hold the hand she was supposed to hold.

As soon as the sun went out and the water got darker, melancholy was appearing in her big eyes. She longed for swimming in company so very much. At the same time, her head was full of stubbornness to give in for any company, but the one her heart truly desired. Her eyes filled with tears. When mermaids cry, nobody knows, since their tears just become a part of the sea. Sometimes she wondered if the whole sea was actually made of mermaid tears and nothing else.

The mermaid kept on singing, night after night, hoping that one day she might be heard. Her golden shells were the most beautiful ones, and she hoped the right one would see how they reflected in her eyes, and it would fill his heart with delight. But the life of a mermaid was not easy. Where was a mermaid supposed to look for her look in the endless ocean? She turned stones, checked behind huge rocks, inspected sunken ships rotting on the bottom of the sea, but still: He was nowhere to be seen, not even hiding in a shell.

On full moon nights, she always sat on the same rock and told the moon about her wishes while she was humming a song about dancing. And there she might still sit every full moon night and on other lonely nights too, waiting for happiness without an end. Because what is happiness worth if it has an end?

Jewellery
Swarovski

Pictures: Betty Heart
This post contains sponsored content.

In Beauty

Giveaway: Curaprox Hydrosonic Easy

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Curaprox Hydrosonic Easy Giveaway

I really love because I think everybody needs a good electric toothbrush. This is why today’s giveaway is a Curaprox Hydrosonic Easy toothbrush.

The Curaprox Hydrosonic Easy is for everybody who wants their dental hygiene to be as effortless as possible. There are a million things on the to-do list, so two minutes with this toothbrush will make you smile for twelve hours, and you can focus on everything else. Yay!

This toothbrush uses the hydrodynamic effect that helps to improve your oral health. It has three cleaning levels and comes with a powerful battery. The Curaprox Hydrosonic is compatible with all Curaprox brush heads. No fuss, just easy and effective.

There is a very compact case included, so you don’t have to miss your favourite toothbrush while you are on holidays.

So who wants more time to think about the things in life that matter like eternal love stories, shoes and the best curry in town instead of worrying about their dental hygiene? Go ahead and enter my giveaway!

How to win:
Leave a comment on this post. Please include your mail so I can contact you if you are the winner.

You have an extra chance to win if you enter on my Instagram too. Good luck!

The giveaway will end on the 2nd of January.  
The Winner needs to have a Swiss address.

Pictures: Sara Streule

In Fashion

Living in Colours with Mama Tierra & Giveaway

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Colours, Fashion and doing good, those things Mama Tierra unites. As their member and ambassador, I am fully convinced by their concept, and this is why I think you do need to know more about them too.

Mama Tierra’s goal is to empower the Wayuu – indigenous people in Venezuela, the second poorest country in South America. The production of accessories has become a secure source of income for the indigenous people. In the 70s, Wayuu tapestry or pictorial art was extremely popular and on display in museums all over the world. However, tapestry went out of fashion. Mama Tierra’s design team transformed these tapestries into beautiful pouches and pillowcases. By selling ethnic art, Mama Tierra supports the financial independence of indigenous women.

The quality of the craftsmanship is outstanding and from a fashion point of view: Mama Tierra’s pieces spread colour and all of them are very unique eye-catchers you can combine to a big variety of looks. My pictures might give you some inspiration.

If Corona hadn’t changed my plans, you would have found me at a Christmas market now, telling people about Mama Tierra and doing my part of the support. Since I can’t do that I can at least share word here and even better for you: You can also win one of my fav clutches.

Giveaway
Win a pink Mama Tierra
Frida Clutch

The design is inspired by Frida Kahlo, who was a half-indigenous Tehuana herself and became a symbol of female power.
This beauty can be used as a clutch or – if you attach a strap (not included) as a bag.

How to win:
Leave a comment on this post. Please include your e-mail so I can contact you if you won.

You have an extra chance to win if you enter on my Instagram too. 
Good luck!

The giveaway will end on the 28th of December.  
It is open for internatioal entries.

Pictures: Katherine Klemenz-Portmann/Sara Streule

In Beauty

Giveaway: The Big Beauty Giveaway

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Giveaway Beauty products

Following last years tradition, the big beauty giveaway is back. And it’s even bigger and better than last year. You can’t say I’m a lazy Santa. One of you can win a huge parcel full of cool beauty products from brands such as Kneipp, treaclemoon, The Humble Co., Batiste, Hawkins & Brimble and Balade en Provence.

From Shower Gel, to Body lotion, Dry Shampoo and Toothpaste, this bundle contains everything you need for some relaxing me-time at home. Forget the stress and everything that worries you for a second. Take a bath, treat your body with a deliciously smelling cream and make your hands smooth again. There are even some goodies for your favourite male in there as well. Sound s amazing, doesn’t it?

What the winner will receive:
Kneipp – Lavender Vanilla Aroma Shower Gel
Kneipp – Verveine Body Lotion
Kneipp – Cherry Blossom Rice Germ Oil Bubble Bath
Kneipp – Tangerine Cardamon Bath Crystals
Kneipp – Arnica Ointment
treaclemoon – Iced Strawberry Dream Shower Mousse
treaclemoon – My Coconut Island Shower & Bath Gel
treaclemoon – Raspberry Kiss Hand Cream
The Humble Co. – Bamboo Toothbrush
The Humble Co. – Natural Toothpaste
Batiste – Dry Shampoo Luxe
Batiste – Dry Shampoo Tropical Mini
Hawkins & Brimble – Post Shave Balm
Balade en Provence – Solid Shampoo for Men

How to win:
Leave a comment on this post. Please include your E-mail so I can contact you if you won. The winner will receive all the products mentioned above.

You have an extra chance to win if you enter on my Instagram too. Good luck!

The giveaway will end on the 26th of December.  
It is open to everybody who has a Swiss postal address.

Pictures: Sara Streule
This post contains sponsored products.

In Fashion

Giveaway: Swarovski Wonder Woman

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Giveaway Swarovski Wonder Woman

I believe that every woman is a Wonder Woman! The WW84 x Swarovski collection brings us the right accessories for our heroine adventures and supports our natural sparkle. I’ll give away my favourite piece from the collection, the sparkling golden bangle.

The bangle features Wonder Woman’s symbol and sparkling Swarovski crystals. I think it is a beautiful combination of elegance and feminity. The winner of this giveaway shall be reminded by the bangle that she is indeed a heroine, just like the famous DC icon.

For me, a heroine is not somebody who swings a sword, flies at the sky and wears a bright cape that flatters in the wind. Being powerful doesn’t mean to be aggressive and loud, but power can be gentle and quiet. In my opinion, a true heroine is a woman who masters everything that life throws at her, is kind above everything and takes care of the people around her. She is able to create that sparkle in the eyes of the ones around her and spreads dreams of a better world. She inspires others, helps them to keep the light in their hearts alive, while her own shines bright.

So if you are this kind of a woman, I wish you good luck to win this Swarovski Wonder Woman bangle. Wear it with pride while you do your wonders!

How to win:
Leave a comment on this post and tell me which woman is your heroine. Please include your mail so I can contact you if you won. The winner will receive all the products mentioned above.

You have an extra chance to win if you enter on my Instagram too. Good luck!

The giveaway will end on the 24th of December.  
It is open for international entries.

Pictures: Natasha Fischer, Editing: Sara Streule

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Giveaway: Neon Christmas with Caran D’Ache

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Caran D'Ache Giveaway Pen

Christmas is not just the time of gifts, but also the time of writing: Take out your favourite pen and write a few beautiful words to your loved ones. Oh, you don’t have a favourite pen? Well then, I hope it’s your turn to win the Caran D’Ache 849 PopLine ballpen in my signature colour: A bright pink.

Letters and cards are like hugs, making people feel warmth and comfort. Especially since more and more things have become digital, a handwritten letter or card became something precious and rare. Whenever I receive one, I feel very happy and usually keep it in a special box.

The Caran d’Ache 849 PopLine ballpen is not just a pen; it’s a stylish flashy statement. This pen will not get unnoticed with its spectacular neon pink. Caran D’Ache products are designed and made in Switzerland, and this pen comes in a cool, super flat packaging. I think the 849 pen lies very good in the hand and writing goes fluent.

Good to know: You can write up to 600 A4-pages with the Goliath ink cartridge. So get ready to write very, very long love letters 😉

How to win:
Leave a comment on this post. Please include your e-mail so I can contact you if you won. The winner will receive all the product mentioned above.

You have an extra chance to win if you enter on my Instagram too. Good luck!

The giveaway will end on the 20th of December.  
It is open for international entries.

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