Upper East Side Feels

Dress - LF

Shoes - Public Desire (GET HERE)

Watch - Kapten & Son (GET HERE)

Celine Luggage in SoHo

The weather has been so indecisive this week from cold to warm from sunny to rainy - and both days I wanted to shoot an outfit it started raining, of course. Alexis and I made the best out of it, embraced the rain and took a few shots. Needless to say my hair was much curlier but one drop of water and my hair is as flat as it gets. I love pairing a cozy sweater with skirts and shorts in the summer and adding some wedges to make it look less like fall. The bag I got via Trendlee which sells second hand bags online and has a huge variety of brands. I chose the grey Celine Luggage because it's a nice classic but after using it a few times I would rather recommend to get a smaller size not only because it looks less bulky but also because big handbags are always used to throw everything inside, which makes it feel less valuable if you know what I mean.

Walking the streets of Soho

These are some of my favorite photos taken in the city so far. Luc is such a talent and has a great eye for aesthetics. I haven't uploaded more outfits this week because I got sick. New York is in this insane heat wave at the moment and changing from super hot to super cold was too much to handle for my very weak immune system. After a week of bed rest (as much as I could handle because quite frankly I don't do well with that) I've taken my friend out to a city bike tour to Brooklyn today which was so much fun. This was also my first time really exploring Brooklyn - or parts of it - because Manhattan has so much to offer, I haven't even seen everything there. We decided to start in the East Village, go all the way down to the Williamsburg Bridge - which was rather exhausting if you haven't worked out in a while - and then explored the area and ended up at the Brooklyn Bridge. This is a really fun route and also offers many city bike docking stations so you don't go over the allowed 30 minutes. I love having friends from home here because I get to do all the touristy things, New Yorker's don't like doing.

Lippen unterspritzen lassen - Meine Erfahrung

In der heutigen Zeit sieht man es immer öfter – Menschen gefällt etwas nicht und mit wenigen Griffen kann man es schnell ändern. Lange habe ich mir überlegt ob ich meine eigene Unsicherheit verändern möchte. 6 Jahre habe ich mir das durch den Kopf gehen lassen und von meinem Umfeld habe ich immer nur gehört ich soll es sein lassen und das wäre doch nicht nötig, aber für mich waren es nicht nur schmale Lippen, ich fühlte mich einfach unwohl damit. Und damit habe ich den Schritt gewagt von dem ich ewig geträumt habe – ich habe mir meine Lippen unterspritzen lassen. Ein weiterer Grund dafür, dass ich so lange gewartet habe hatte auch damit zu tun, dass ich selber niemanden kannte der diesen Eingriff hat machen lassen und ich deshalb auch keinen guten Arzt kannte. Anfang diesen Jahres hat mir eine Freundin aber von einer Ärztin in Köln erzählt, die ihr von einer Freundin empfohlen wurde. Nachdem ich dann ein bisschen recherchiert habe und nur Gutes über das Institut gelesen habe und wusste, dass der Eingriff nicht lange dauert und man nicht für eine Nachuntersuchung zurück muss entschied ich mich den Eingriff in Köln zu machen, bei dem Hyaluroninstitut.

New York Update - Month 1

So schnell geht es und da ist der erste Monat in New York auch schon rum. Was habe ich erlebt und gemacht bisher? Die Frage bekomme ich oft und dazu auch was ich in meinem Alltag so treibe.

Wie findet man am besten ein Apartment in New York?

Wie findet man ein Zimmer oder Apartment in New York?

Jeder der schon mal in New York war ob beruflich oder privat weiß wie schwer es ist eine Unterkunft zu finden. Letztes Jahr habe ich mit einer Freundin in East Harlem gewohnt, aber das war mir zu weit weg von dem Geschehen. Diesen Sommer wollte ich gerne zentraler wohnen, aber ohne vor Ort zu sein ist es immer schwierig in New York etwas zu finden. AirBnB ist eine gute Anlaufstelle, aber das würde ich euch nur empfehlen wenn ihr ein paar Tage nach New York kommt, weil die Preise viel zu hoch sind hochgerechnet auf eine monatliche Basis. Alternativ gibt es auch noch Wg-gesucht und roommates, aber da findet man auch nicht immer etwas. Besonders bei Craigslist muss man aber aufpassen. Ich habe zwei Freundinnen, die auf der Seite ein Zimmer gemietet haben und die erste Monatsmiete vorher bezahlt haben und es das Zimmer leider nie gab und sie dadurch eine Menge Geld verloren haben. Deshalb habe ich mir dieses Sommer eine Alternative rausgesucht 'Manhattan Next'. 

Eyebrow embroidery review - Brow Art Asia

A few weeks ago I decided to do something I have been wanting to try for a while now – eyebrow embroidery. If you are like me and love your eyebrows to be expressive, this is the perfect way to do it. I used to either use powder or a kind of gel to fill in my eyebrows (I can really recommend the one from Make-up forever) but it took about 10 minutes in the morning. When I saw that Brow Art Asia was offering it at a special price I thought why not try it – and I am so happy I did because I love the result. Continue reading and I will explain the process and show you some before and after photos.

Singapore Outfit

Good morning, I am currently writing my capstone assignment and therefore my last remaining assignment before my graduation. As the weather is amazing right now I used the time to sort through my pc and delete some photos as my mac is getting a little slower and found these photos from January. It was pretty much in the beginning when Ranim was visiting me and I was as pale as always but I really liked the outfit and wanted to show it to you. I bought the shoes in December from Mango and they are among the most comfortable heels I own. Normally I am a bit sceptic towards Zara and Mango shoes but these are super comfortable - I can only recommend them. With Zara on the other hand I didn't always have the best experience regarding comfort and as much as we would like to admit we would wear them anyway - we really don't, right?

Goodbye blue hair - See you never again!

Two weeks ago I was on my way to the airport in Singapore, headed home. I didn’t need any time to adjust, I was just so happy to be back, to be able to wear pants and a blouse without having the feeling of being super sweaty within five minutes of leaving my apartment. The humidity is just so insane and Singapore is one of these countries that likes to cool everything down to a level where you need an extra jacket about everywhere you go. I tried to combine something simple as my hair already speaks for itself but to be honest, it’s so difficult to find something matching to this hair color because barely any blue in my wardrobe resembled my hair color and any other color simply doesn’t fit as well. If you are contemplating coloring your hair in any crazy color – blue included – I can wholeheartedly recommend you not to do it. It’s so bad for your hair to get it colored and then get rid of it again – or like in my case fail to get rid of it. The hairdresser told me there’s nothing else he could do for me – fortunately the blue only shines through occasionally. Anyway I am off to Maastricht now to take an exam and then plan my trip to Greece in two weeks.

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Coming home - and so does my new pleated maxi skirt

Hi loves, I am just sitting at the airport in Dubai waiting for my connecting flight to Frankfurt to start boarding. You have no idea how excited I am to head back to Germany. I have lived abroad for longer periods before, three times in total (California, New York and Maastricht) but never have I felt an urge to go back to Germany but Asia is a completely different world, a world I am not sure I can live in for longer periods of time. Singapore is termed as 'Asia Light' from many and I do agree but still it's very Asian. After traveling to Kuala Lumpur, Langkawi, Phuket, Boracay, Cebu and almost all of Vietnam I think I am done with Asia for a while. It's been a blessing and an amazing experience to live in Singapore but it's also a crazy change. The biggest and also worst change for me was the food - although you can get any kind of food in Singapore, it comes at a price. When you compare prices at hawker centers (meals ranging from 5-10$) to restaurants (around 20-30$) this is a huge difference on a daily basis. Another thing that frustrated me was the bad English of many people living in Singapore. Although English is the official language spoken in Singapore still many cannot speak the language well which makes it hard to communicate. I am sure I will return to Asia but for now I am looking forward to Western influences and my summer in New York. In the next few days I will write my travel diaries from the Philippines, Phuket and Vietnam so if you have any questions just post them in the comment section :)