How wearing lipstick changed my life (kind of)

As you might know, I used to be more of the eyeliner/khol, mascara, powder kind of girl, but recently I have discovered that lipstick really can be a great toy when it comes to play with different styles.

Right now, inspired by LV´s fall/winter collection and due to the fact that I spent some money on fifties bags in a vintage shop, I am in some sort of lady-phase. And what makes a lady a lady? Yees, there you have it: lipstick. I like the whole drama when you put it on and then let it fall into your handbag. Although I really think that red lipstick is super-cool and very chique, I have to admit that I am too shy to go for it yet. Maybe when I get older (i will be stronger.. wavin´the flag - omg this melodie sucks really, anyways - back to our topic) I´ll have the courage to do the whole statement lip thing.

I bought it at Steffl´s make-up department. I have to admit that I kinda bought it, because the make-up artist (he had a fab sense of humour and really enchanting vibe) was so nice and I simply can´t resist hilarious gay guys. Like he put it, this tone really revives my skintone and it is not to overdone so that I can walk around with it and still feel normal and comfortable with myself.

Last weekend´s party not only left me with burnt spots  and scratches, but also with one, big, red and shining sting. Which makes me kind of desperate because it looks as if I had the strangest kind of acne or something, which I have not.

Suppose this was another exciting (cough,cough) trip into a 16-year-old mind...

Inspired by the cold weather

Guys, I just really think that the time has come to finally post a whole fashion post again. Personal thoughts have to stay aside, here comes the FASHION:

This is a verrrry funny collage of AW´s (how we super-cool fashion-wanna-bes like to call Alexander Wang) pre-fall collection.I love the cuts and that he isn´t afraid to go for the obvious black - because, when it comes down it: of course everyone would love to wear bright, sizzling colours in winter, but honestly - would you really walk around among black and grey coats with a pink coat and a bright yellow dress? No, I don´t think so. As you might not know, I am a total waistcoat girl. I think that they are just the perfect way to play with that masculine, androgyn side and still keep it chique and laid-back.

The hair kinda reminds me of Lanvin´s F/W 2010:

Maybe I´ll be posting more picture of this collection, but I have to say that despite my love for Alber´s work, I am not really fond of this one. The whole collection is just, you know nice. Because, when it comes to Elbaz´s mastepieces you can´t really say that they are hideous or not made in a creative kinda way.

Maybe I will have to add something personal:

This friday I am gong to attend this black-tie event, and I am having a little dress-crisis. Because, I am so sick of those sandals I bought myself one year ago in Paris, because they cut into my flesh and leave me wounded like I have spent all my life in them. So, I really am looking forward to buy myself a long, flowy evening dress that does not require high heels. Because at those events, you walk a lot and this doesn´t go well with 14-inches.

If I could buy myself any dress, then this lovely, red Valentino number would be my favourite:

Look down your glasses at that aranciata!

This is the cover of my current favourite album. Its name is CONTRA and it is from the super-cool band Vampire Weekend. At first, I wasn´t quite sure if I liked it, but then I sort of began to hum the melodies.
WARNING! You will never ever forget those melodies - especially the first track stayed with me for so long that my surrounding started banging their heads against walls.
Tonight I am off to celebrate the birthday of the girlfriend of a childhood friend of mine. Guess that this is kinda what "grown-ups" do, huh?
Have a lovely monday-night! xoxo

Fiiiiiinaalllly

Hell, this was kinda long school year. Omg I so sound like some kid in a 90´s teenie movie - but aren´t they 90´s fab again??

Anyway, it is so good to know that this week I´ll only have to wait until wednesday - and then, I will do fucking anything BUT learning. Gosh, this feels great.
Last week wasn´t only full of studying and vocab learning, it also let me sweat like ... I don´t really no what, anyways, it wasn´t pretty I can tell you.
Btw, I haven´t had those bag bought for my at Bejing, maybe I´ll tell you the reason why when I find the courage to say out loud what goes on in me (I can so see the three people in this world reading my blog going, "omg she is so trying to be mysterious, that girl").
The pic at the top is one of my favourite photoshoot pics ever. It is from UK InStyle last year - they did a really great shoot with the lovely Astrid Munoz who is origined in Argentinia. That´s way there is such a big riding influence, I guess.
I had this photo framed and today I hang it up on my self-customized wall. I love to look at it, because for me it represents beauty at its highest. She looks totally laid-back and in the moment.

GODDESS GUIDE

These are extracts from the book "Goddess Guide" by Giséle Scanlon, an Irish writer and lifestyle lover. I was given this book more than two years ago and I still like to look through the lovely made pages (every page is designed according to its content and sometimes perfectly un-perfect doodles appear on those pages). This book really has changed my life. For instance, one time when the zip of my bag didn´t work anymore, I consulted the book and got the zip running again ( by rubbing the tip of a pencil at it).

It was published in 2007 in England, and I heard that there was a new edition coming out, but I never saw a copy of it. Tell every girlfriend about this book, and if you are going to visit England next time, take some copies with you and give them as a present to your girlies - they will thank you forever.

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun

Dress from Mango, shoes from Pimkie;

Happy eightieth post!

Aren´t those shoes fab as hell? I spotted them at modcloth.com - seems like internet ads really do work on me. I just love the colour mix and the ruffled front. Does anyone know how much 150 bucks are in euros?

Apropos, is there anyone really reading me? I know I have asked this question before, but I was too shy to ask it again, because nobody answered?

Let´s get back to the shoes. They would work so well with my volants skirt and my paillette vest (this outfit I wore last wednesday, you missed it nylon sweetie ;))!

Do you think that Modcloth would give them to me for free? If I´d just say many many times that Modcloth is so freaking great??

Speaking of great: I spotted this super-cool jeans shop here in Vienna. I can´t recall the exact adress, but it is called Common People. In tht shop they offer labels like Cheap Monday, Dr. Denim - although I tend to hate jeans shopping, I just have to go there when I find the time (and the money).

Yummy, omg guys, right now I am eating my freshly (self-)made sugo which I have made for my daddy´s dinner. It tastes awesome, really.
Enough of the cooking.

What will now follow is kinda of a hard topic for me:
Today we watched a film about a kid who is bullied at school and then finally breaks out of his hell and teaches his torturers how to treat people. Which reminded me of me when I was about 12. I just broke up with my first boyfriend (we used to hold hands - but only at home, we would have never dared to do so in public space) in a very, very un-lady-like fashion: via e-mail. And because of this all my friends started to turn away from me and they sort of formed a unit against me. Every day they´d tell me I´d look terrific although they didn´t think so. Or they set rumours which weren´t true at all. Being that young I couldn´t manage this hatred which was focused on me. All I thought about was how I could make myself more fitting, more cool. Actually, I learned how to. I am now even friend with one of the head-bulliers of that time and we can both look back to then and it seems as if we both learned our lesson.
And to all those bullying victims out there: I know how you feel and I certainly have felt your pain - but I can ensure you: although you might not see it yet, it will all turn out good - it has for me and it will for you. Just keep sure that you have at least one person you can talk to honestly and open as this will keep you off going mad.
Kisses,
ZiTa

Spending the weekend at the countryside

Current obsessions

Omg, I had such a lovely weekend, you guys. I laid in the sun and literally fried myself (which might have caused my big, thumming sunburn, but who knows, right?).
Finally, Europe has caught up with the hot summery weather and we all get to enjoy the summer vibe which fashion has injected us earlier this us.

Although it is not a really summery fragrance, I still can´t help but love Guerlain´s Shalimar. It has a warm, woody note to it which I am in awe of and lingers on your skin for ages. Unfortunately they don´t sell it in those fab vintage bottles (above) anymore, mine is quite puristic.

Right now, I am totally in to cooking and stuff - I like this feeling when you cook something for your loved ones. Yesterday I did my world-famous (hahahahhahaha) curry-turkey and today I cooked something I like to call "sweet vegetables with goat cheese and mixed salat" - really delish.

The Lady you see above is partly to be blamed for my new obsession, because I have watched one of her programmes ("Nigella´s Bites") and totally wanted to cook - watch and you will end up running into the kitchen and taking out your pans. I think, that besides her beautiful face and lovely voice, she really has a good sense of humour and makes the never too difficult recipes work just in such a great way. One day (when I have improved my cooking) I dream of cooking beside her and hearing what she has to tell about the food we are about to make.

Have you ever seen such creamy, lush and perfectly matte lipstick shades? No? I haven´t too and this is why I am totally obsessed with the idea of getting myself a "Rouge Volupté" lippy. Most of the time, I am really no lipstick-person. I prefer to go all natural or with a teeny bit of lipgloss, but it really has to be a quite big occasion so that I put lipstick on. But maybe if I had these I´d wear lippy everyday!

Take a walk on the wild side..

Well, guys as I told you last winter I owned those really fab Zara overknee boots, but they have kind of fallen apart which meant that they got holes which let the snow into the shoe - brrrrrrr. Yes, and because I am such saddo planner-type of person I am already thinking about what kind of shoes I should buy myself for this winter. As you know, I am not a totally casual kind of person, but too elegant neither. So - which comfortable winter boot would fit my personality, I thought. Then I saw those pics on lookbook.nu which showed all those racy american city girls wearing bodycon dresses with lots of jewellry and Doc Martens - wait, Doc Martens? Am I really thinking about getting one of those gothic inspired clumpy-clumsy shoes? Well, at least I am thinking about it. Okay??

Dear police, please do not read this post

One of my friends is flying to Bejing next weekend (yes, we are soooo cosmpolitan) and she offered me to get me some fake (yes, I know - but honestly, did you think that one can really afford those things we all crave for?) bags for me.
So I scrolled through the internet and some interesting lookbooks and chose two.

This is an Alexander Wang bag - although it doesn´t show on the picture, it has golden studs at the bottom which gives it the typically wang-ish rock theme that everyone (including moi) is crazy about.

Hope to get it!!!

These are Mulberry´s Alexa bags - of course, I GOT TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE. Not only becaue I am a huge fan of Alexa Chung, but mostly because I have been trawling through thrift and vintage stores for ages in search for a perfect satchel bag. This one would make me happy. Gosh, sometimes being rich would be just sooo cool.

Clog around the clock

Ya, I know this is not terribly extraordinary. Anyway, still I feel the urge to discuss the whole clogs thing.
Let´s bring up the question: Do we love ´em or hate ´em?
Today I had lunch at this fabolously delish turkish restaurant (this is something you should really love Vienna for: it has great - and by great I mean enormously great - turkish restaurants) and wore my favourite hat (white with a black ribbon - feels kind of like it requires red lipstick and cigarette). But as I looked down my outfit at my feet, I felt disgusted by my crappy ballet pumps I got at a Mango outlet. I would have wanted to look way more up-to-date. So those pics of the Chanel Spring 2010 popped up in my head and I kept thinking if I maybe am a Clog-person.
I already own shoes which make a clog-like noise (remember the theatre-story I told ya?) and i don´t that I have such a high self-esteem that I can carry this trend, but I would really want to!