Make up of today

After I did this make up I saw it looked like the £ sign! Haha, didn't mean that to happen. Yeah, I have an expensive face..



A week already?

Last Wednesday I was in Neu-Ulm with my sister and had done the first shooting for X-tra-x. Already a week ago! How I miss it. Both the fun at shooting and meeting new, happy people as well as the treat to spend all days with my pretty sister :)

I think we better start planning for a new trip together - it was awesome!

Heh, and after being a bit lazy with my make up lately I think I did better today. More "me".

My German trip part 3

Thursday 12’th of May

At 9.45 our ride came to get us for today’s work. We managed to do 27 outfits each. We did so good we got an extra €100 each added to our salarys! (and no, I won't say the original salary)

We had just as fun today. I just can’t believe how nice they all were and funny. I just hope we made just as good impression as they did.

We, dressed in X-tra-x clothes from top to toe

 Todays lenses were Phantasee: Green Tornado

To celebrate a good day’s work I decided we should quit dinner and go for a HUGE ice cream from the Italian place instead. My sister was on. We ordered 5 kugeln and whipped cream each.

I had cappuccino, tiramisu, strawberry, pistachio and stracciatella. We really had to fight to manage the whole thing – but we made it!

We were soooo full as we left. Almost to the puking level.

Back to the room we put the TV on and put our asses on the balcony for the last night. Then we realized we had the qualification to the European Song Contest on and went in as they announced what countries would be in the real contest.
Eventually there was only one spot left and they said – SWEDEN!!! We jumped up from our beds and yelled! I’m sure we awoke the whole hotel screaming “Sweden, Sweden, Erik Saade, Erik Saade!”

Okay, so neither of us is that a big fan of Eric Saade, but it was the feeling that we’d be in the real contest on Saturday that made it.

And by the way - Sweden's Erik Saade made 3'd place.

Make up review

Max Factor 815 Night Valley Red

A shade of dark, thick blood mixed with cherry.
The color suits me really fine, and have this "old movie star-shade" to it. Absolute a favorite right now since I think it looks great with my marker colored hair ;)

It stays on all day, but you can't make out with it. Light kissing even leaves some "evidence", but to my lips it doesn't feel sticky or dry, just good. I recommend! Price: not horrific.

I have an almost identical color; 02 Cranberry Cream by Elizabeth Arden and that leaves my lips VERY dry after a days wearing it.

Question time

I sometimes answers questions, and here is one suggested by Henna to be answered in my blog. Good thinking there, Henna!

Henna Javedden 16 maj 11:55
I was wondering, where are your natural eyebrows? i mean to say, what do you do to them so they don't exist?

Well, I'm naturally gifted with thick, low, dark brows (but this was before the digital camera era so I have no pictures of this in my computer). At 12 I started plucking them to make them look like Boy Georges brows,

Me to the left, the original to the right

       

and after a few years I simply decided I needed more space to do make up on, so inspired by the 30's stars I simply waxed them off!

 

I use Veet wax strips for legs once a week and cuts off in eyebrow size (more economical than to use the ones for face). And for those who says waxing your brows will make them disappear I will only say: I WISH! I still look like Bert once a week...

Todays make up

Ich bin so müde..
My husband poked on me and said: "-Hey, why didn't you get up when the alarm went off?"
Yeah, good question... BECAUSE I WAS STILL ASLEEP, perhaps?
My 45 minutes of hair and make up-time was shortened to 25 minutes, it's so unfair!

If I would end up dead today I will be very mad this was the last make up I ever wore. At least the hair was good.

My German trip part 2

Wednesday the 11’th of May

Started off with a real model breakfast: eggs, salmon, lots of meat and a good German bread. The hotel served a very nice breakfast buffet. I really recommend City Hotel Garni if ever in Neu-Ulm ;)

At 12 a super nice boy from X-tra-x came to drive us to the shoot.

At the X-tra-x warehouse we said hi to all the nice people working there then we got upstairs to the office and shooting area. Finally I got to meet Jürgen/Monaco after all our mail contact. What a sweet man in person!

A big rack of clothes to be photographed were presented to us so it was just to get to work!

We had SO much fun. I tried to make every outfit look like my own, but it was sometimes difficult because many of the clothes were for the more rock orientated people and not really my style at all, but I tried to make it justice anyway.

We managed 11 styles each and I thought we did good.

Got a ride back to the hotel and then we went out on town in Neu-Ulm to find a store. I needed to buy a new shitty whiskey for my Irish coffee’s. Some local teen girls saw us standing there with a map in our hand looking a bit lost I suppose so they were totally nice and walked with us the 10 minutes to a Kaufhaus. Wow, what sweet residents of this town!

My blow-up sister is leaking air, and then restored (a London tale)

Went back to the hotel and then we went out to the Greek restaurant Monaco sent us to. My sister ordered 4 kinds of meat and I ordered 3 kinds of meat. We might look like vegetarians but we can for sure eat our weight in meat.

With an over full belly we went back and got to sleep with a nice meat taste in our mouth.

My German trip part1

Tuesday the 10'th of May

Kissed my family goodbye (and made sure to give the kids 4 extra kisses each for the goodnights I wouldn't be home for). Jumped on the train 2 minutes before departure. Heh, a bit of a close call - but the only thing that matters really is if you catch the train or not. Not how many minutes you have before departure...

My travel booker made me a bunch of print outs for our whole trip so I started to look through them to put them in the right order. PANIC! The flight tickets wasn't there!!!

After some texting back and forward it seemed to be in order. Thank God!

Two stations later I saw the most gorgeous girl – she looked almost like me. Oh, it was my sweet sister Jenni. I was so happy to see her. We were a total match.

After some “training” we arrived to the first country – Denmark, city: Copenhagen.

Found the flight to bring us to the next country - Switzerland, city: Zürich. And as the globetrotters we are the trip didn’t end there – we kept on going to the next, as well as the final country – Germany, city: Stuttgart. But nooooo – the trip was far from over…

Went by a bus with a sour chauffeur who wanted me to pay for the trip although I know for a fact it’s all been paid for in advance.
I told him off and refused to pay.
Went on a train to Ulm, and then to the final destination at last – Neu-Ulm. Never in my life I could imagine I one day would end up in Neu-Ulm, but I did!

Discovered they had cut my lock open at the airport! WTF?! My sisters bag had too been opened and been messed around.

The hotel they ordered for us, City Hotel Garni, was just 65 meters from the station and when we got there it had an envelope for Mr & Mrs Wimmerstedt. Hahahaha!

It was the cutest little hotel and a super room. We really liked it, it was so cosy and fresh. It even had a balcony that we used every day to sit and chitchat. Went out for a Peking soup and a veggie plate at a nice wok restaurant before bedtime.

I'm back from Germany!

I'm finally back, but after a tough day of travelling I must go to sleep - but tomorrow I will show our trip in pictures and videos :)

I'm leaving the country!

Tomorrow me and my GORGEOUS sister Jenni  will go by train, train, speak another language, and then train to a flight, go down, fly some more, speak another language, go by bus then by train, then by foot, then enter a hotel, then go to sleep.

I've been asked to do this trip before, but I always turned it down, but this time I asked if I could bring my pretty sister and they were super happy to have us both!

Two pretty faces are always better than one.

We are going to be models for the X-tra-x catalogue. For those who do no know: X-tra-x is the biggest goth store in Germany (to my knowledge) and also have a great online shop.

They used to have very cool girls and boys in their big catalogue that one could drool over.
This will be fun!

Old picture of the day

I just stumbled on this picture from December 2003.

I was 4 months pregnant with our first child, Synthia, at the time <3

I just can't believe how young I looked back then!

Kids really makes you age! But mostly there are happy wrinkles :)

New haircolor

There is no big secret one of my idols (look-wise) is the shockingly beautiful Nina Hagen.
As a young Adora I one day dreamed of being as beautiful as she was (and still is). Her different hair colors always appealed to me, so I've had a few the same as she had. This time I tried to make it "her" green.

It's Directions Spring Green

Nina did it better :)

She's really the reason to why I continue having my own look no matter my age, because she always had her style and don't let age be a fact. She is my role model for sure.
In my opinion she is so beautiful one can't take the eyes off of her.
Nina Hagen story.

Ready to make a run for it!

The nice Police men gave me the idol picture back today so I can show it in different countrys to show them how beautiful I am ;)

It comes in handy to have one of these if you all of a sudden needs to flee the country, like, say if you accidentally stumble on your plateau shoes behind a person out in a dark park while holding a small razor blade in your hand and just  "oops, slice the neck clean off". This can look really bad in the media, so it can be smart to leave for a few years depending on the statute of limitations and let things calm down before you get back.
You know, it CAN  happen like that...

Who can look good in one of theese....hahaha

Newest to the right

Pictures of the models

Yesterday was great day! But it left me a bit tired - as all good days should.

I was hired as the head make up artist (MuA) for a hair show. There were 28 beautiful and sweet hair models to make prettier.

Fortunate for me I had a stab of very qualified young girls at the Hair Academy who did exellent at executing according to my pictures :)

All of us, 28 models, MuA, as well as the hair dressers was then put in a tiny, round room at Kalmar Castle while waiting to go on stage.

I can tell you the room was so small that we had to perform castling everytime anyone should get anywhere - it was THAT crowded. And the toilet was out through the Castle church, down 4 stairs, outside to the castle yard, into a new door 15 meters away and then down in a dungeon-like toilet. I was so scared! I have never peed faster. Model misery...

The show went well and I hope everyone had fun. It was a nice atmosphere anyway.

At 22.30 I had to walk all by myself all the way from the castle, out to the castles inner yard - I never raised my eyes - I was that afraid of seing a ghost, then through a tunnel and then over a wooden bridge over the moat where the water was all still and black. All of a sudden something made a big splash in the water just under me! I thought my heart stopped for a few seconds. Stupid, stupid duck!

Wondering about the horrific dresses? Well, the poor models had to pick outfits from a bag. I really wished I could have been the wardrobe stylist as well, then I would have put them all in long, black dresses, all in different designs. I think the hair should be the center of attention and not some colorful outfits with unknown background.

There were 3 different hair dressers showing different models, and everyone wanted different make up on their models. It was supposed to be a bit more "show" make up.

I had one of the models as a midnight snack before I left. I needed some energy before I got behind the wheels ;)