And so I go, inevitably...

~ Irony - Lizz

London: "You always told me stars would guide me back home, although they only show at night!"

I found this song by accident and I adored it so much every since. I'm not really fond of all the cliche love songs, because I never ever seem to agree with the lyrics. If a melody is good but the lyrics doesn't persuade me, than it isn't good in my opinion. This song was so pure and I have felt like this song a while ago. I feel like only a few songs are written about struggling and problems, society,.. I don't know how you think about it, but I really dislike love songs with the typical cliche writing you hear over and over again which is why I don't often listen to the radio. A song needs to touch me and makes me listen to it over and over again and think about it. If a song manages to do that with me, than I call it a good song. When do you like a song?

About this look; it's an inspired Christmas look. I was thinking about snow, which unfortunately wont be here in Belgium soon jet. I always long for a white Christmas that's perfect. I don't care much about other holidays, but Christmas for me is the perfect holiday. Family that spends quality time together, plays games, talks for hours, smiles, laughing and all the warmth that's there for a moment. I always look forward to this time of the year. The dress from Banggood is just the perfect dress that would turn somebody in a fragile snowflake. And don't you thing the bag from Banggood gives the look just the playful 'twirling' touch it needs? Banggood is a wonderful online shop in my opinion. The prices aren't expensive and the quality of their products is really wonderful. Besides that, I wish I could really have such long brown hair, though this wig from Lolitadressesshop looks so real in my opinion. Ow, don't these blue lenses from Pinky Paradise look amazing! I think it's so fascinating you can change the color of your eyes with lenses. It gives a complete different look. I really adore these blue circle lenses.I also want to thank Marieke for letting me win here Christmas Giveaway! These withe deers are so adorable and pretty! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Dress: Banggood - Bag: Banggood - Sock: H&M - Wig: Lolitadressesshop - Lenses:  Pinky Paradise - Hat: River Island

Change for the Better

Hello Maddies, here we are with an update of our 'Start to Run' project. As you perhaps have seen on television special K had made a promotion video for their new three grain recipe as part of the  'Change for the Better" campaign. which inspired us to do something different and change things to improve ourselves and make ourselves feel more happy and confident, not to forget more healthy.

• Me and my sister always were bad at eating vegetables, fruit, or even eating. We skipped breakfast, at little when we didn't liked dinner. I dare say we poorly drank any water, if it was three glasses it would have already been a lot. We realized this wasn't healthy at all, so we decided to change that.

We hope you can be inspired by the campaign as much as we do since here are a few thing that helped us: 

• With what did ''start to run"help us:
• First of all: it makes our head light and the only thing you think about is breathing, listening to the music, enjoying the surroundings and watching where you run of course. 
• Besides that we started drinking a lot more water because your body asks for it! Our body needs water to function properly. Water is besides oxygen the most important thing human beings need. It's the base of all biological processes. It's important for: 
• The digestive tract (transport of the nutritious substances)
• The body temperature (to stay stable)
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• It decreased our stress. Perhaps you are thinking "Ooh, I will bet tired, sweaty,..." and to be honest we thought this as well, but you won't feel tired after running, not mentally, your body perhaps a little, but it's really a wonderful light feeling you have in your head after running. Yes, you will be sweaty, but you can enjoy a shower twice as much after that. 
• Your stress decreases and you will sleep better! It's not good to sit behind the computer for hours to work on an essay for school and watch television after you work is finished. Getting some exercise and fresh air makes you feel much better. (I can't deny I can enjoy watching television very much too after a long tiring day!)  You can describe it like: running away from your problems temporary. 

We hope this can encourage you to start to run, or at least give it a try. Or you can of course do other sports you like more, though for running you don't need much more than proper running shoes and sports bra. Make sure you have those, because without those you can injure you body!!! So go to a local sport shop where they can help you, or you can help yourself find the proper equipment. ^_^

As for the food, here are some fun facts about food which makes you want to eat them!!

• Vitamin A - Gives you a smooth skin and health forehead. It also is good for your eyes!
• Melon, grapefruit,  apricots, carrots, broccoli, sweet potato's, pumpkin, eggs.
• Vitamin B - Prevents your skin from becoming greasy and get less acne. 
• Banana's, chicken, tuna, crustaceans, avocado, beans, nuts, eggs, milk, whole grains.
• Vitamin C - Lessens scars, bruises. It's also good for your immune system. 
• The sun, (3 to 4 times in the sun per week for 15 minutes), milk products, tuna and salmon.
• Vitamin E - Gives you a healthy skin. Lessens scars and protects your skin from damaging influences. 
• Juice, spinach, aspersions, broccoli, nuts. 
• Vitamin K - Prevents dark circles underneath your eyes. 
• Spinach, beet, parsley, lettuce, coli flower.  

Aren't these reasons for you to eat them all? It was an encouragement for us to do so. As you know (or not) we have a lot of trouble with dark circles. Lets try eating a little more spinach, beet, lettuce,... shall we?! <(^_^)>

... so I can stand on mountains

Westlife - You raise me up 

London: "When I'm still awake here in the silence, until you come and sit a while with me."

There is always that one person who knows you better than you do yourself. Always that one person who tells you, you can surpass that mountain in times it may have seem impossible. There is always that person who's sitting beside you, even when you didn't realize her of him sitting there and in the end you realize you would never been able to eventually stand on top of that mountain, if the person next to you, right next to you on that mountain, wouldn't have been there for you all the time. You have always a person you admire, and the person I admire most, is the person who is always sitting right beside me even when I don't realize she's there.

I was inspired by cuteness when I wanted to wear this lovely coat from Milanoo. The coat is so fluffy and has bear ears! How can that not be adorable? Though I was inspired by cuteness, I still wanted to give it a dark touch. And so I did with the dark velvet skirt and the dark YSL lipstick. I adore the design of YSL lipstick, but I'm not very fond of the lipstick itself though, though the color is truly amazing!

Coat: Milanoo - Top: Tidestore - Skirt: Lavish Alice - Shoes: MaxStar

DIY Macaroons

Hello mad readers! This video is part of the Kellogg's "Change for the Better" project. We wanted to show you how to make macaroons. It's very easy, quick and super delicious. Sometimes you don't need to buy sweets since you can make them yourself and add more healthy food to it that makes is more healthy and even more delicious. Did you know walnuts are at the top of our list for increasing omega-3? Here are some fun facts I found:

• Walnuts Improve Sleep (wish is good for me since I'm having sleeping problems. Check out the post about stress and sleeping problems 'here')
• Because: The body's pineal gland produces the hormone "melatonin" that induces sleep and helps regulate sleep.
• Walnuts lower your risk of gallstones and lower your bad cholesterol risks
• Walnuts improve blood vessel health
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Since we wanted to be somehow increase eating walnuts, we decided to make macaroons from them. 

Read more to find out wish easy ingredients we have used.

Once upon a December

Hello dearies! I don't have much time to write, because my (paris) weekend is very busy! I went to Bruges with the family of my boyfriend. His mother wanted to celebrate her birthday there, so we visited it. It is a very beautiful city! I really loved it! Today I'm going to snowboard for the second time! Wish me luck!
Oh yes! The giveaway winner is: Ice Pandora!  We will sent a mail to Rosegal to let them know that you won :)
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Paris is wearing: Dress: Chicwish - Cardigan: ZLZ - Shoes: H&M - Wig: Lotitadressesshop
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Life is old there, older than the trees

~  John Denver- Country Roads 

London: "Dark and dusty, painted on the sky. Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye "

I can't express how how fond I am about this top from FrontRowShop. The texture and form is really wonderful. It felt like I was wearing a designer piece. Perhaps the the cause of that was, that FrontRowShop has a young and professional design team. They do research, search for the latest FW trend and make them affordable! My first impression of the side was literally "wow"! But after I received this top, I became a even bigger fan of this site. I'm really happy about the texture, pattern and the size firs me perfectly. I combined it with my long black pants to give it a clean look and wanted to drawn the attention to the top. We are still getting used to the more modern looks, though we absolutely love it. We need to experiment some more and we sure let you see some more modern looks in the future.

Top & Necklace: FrontRowShop - Pants & Shoes: H&M - Bag: Vintage

Lookbook VS What I Wear

Lookbook VS What I Wear

Hellow fellow bloggers. I guess almost everybody has heard of these two websites even if you aren't on one of these platforms. We wanted to give our experience with them and would love you to comment your experience as well, or whether you do or don't agree.

Starting with Lookbook. Lookbook is the first platform we had joined to show our look and discover new looks. As soon as we started we realized it wasn't easy to get 'hypes'. We recently started so our pictures weren't that professional like all the pictures on the hot page. Gradually we started learning more about photography and bought a new lens. Ever since than our look were getting more 'hypes'.
Lookbook has a system that makes it very hard to get your spot on the hot-page. The people who are the longest on Lookbook get priority. You have to post regular if you want to make sure you would like to receive the hot page. You need to collect enough 'karma' with you looks, but seeing the 'popular' girls and boys who have been there longer, getting on the hot page almost every time are getting more hypes and receiving more karma each time, which makes it almost impossible for the newcomers to achieve there spot on the hot page. Besides that, I think that not only the outfits are important but also the photographs, like I explained before. There are a lot of people who have a beautiful look, but don't have the camera to get such a 'perfect' picture. Lot's of people are attracted by beautiful pictures and  sceneries (which I do like as well of course!!) but, I think the outfit is what's important, right? What I can't deny is that Lookbook definitely gains you traffic!

1. Cherrish                  2. HanByul            3. Simona                 4. Leah                     5.  5Foot Inch

Now about What I Wear. What I wear did only start recently and wasn't very popular in the beginning. We were doubting to start, because you already have so much platform to maintain like: facebook, twitter, intagram, lookbook and your own blog of course. After a while we decided to give it a try and we liked it. Now What I Wear is also getting more popular and we are certain it is going to get more popular soon! What we like about what I wear is that they have a overvieuw of all the looks on the hot and new page. You can compare looks, have more chance to get 'wowed" and besides that, the quality of your pictures aren't that important, because the pictures are shown a lot smaller. People do look more at the outfits than the Photograph. What I wear doesn't gain us a lot of traffic though, but we're certain that will change in the future. For newcomers, we recommend this platform the most!

IWhat is your experience with these two sites?

I just got lost

~ Ryan Woodward - Thought of you 

London: "I just got lost and slept right through the dawn and the world spins madly on."

Do you have a certain dream, fantasy you keep holding on to? Something you didn't achieve, but still wish to achieve even though it's only in your head since it's impossible in reality. Urging for it, but not regretting anything you have done to come this far, but not far enough. It's like you have climbed the stairs, but you just haven't stepped on the last one for several reason. I'm glad that I have avoided the last stair which would have lead me to a different path that perhaps lead to hating what I loved most. Nowadays I only try to achieve what I have always wanted to achieve, only it's in my dream, my world and nothing can go wrong, nobody can hurt you since it's all yours and yours only. Reaching for things passionately is worth more than achieving something which would end up badly.

Have a little faith in me

~ John Haitt - Have a little faith in me
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Paris: "When the road gets dark and you can no longer see. Just let my love throw a spark and have a little faith in me."

Trusting people is sometimes harder than you think and just when you're about the get hold to it, being able to understand the meaning of trust, it gets taken away out of your hands unable to pull it back because you are now asking the same question you did before; "what is trust?" I do believe it's hard to regain faith in somebody when you had tried so hard to have trust in all that surrounded you, and one person, only one person can take it away. That one person that makes you doubt everything and probably not even realizing that he caused an enormous damage in my mind but also in my heart. I blame myself for not being able to trust others, but I blame him for taking my trust away. Taking away something that wasn't his, something that didn't belong to him, and yet, he just took it like it was a present I was about to give to him, but he took it way to early and he took away to much, so I was and will be unable to regain what I ones had. And people start wondering why people become so distant, careful and separate themselves from the rest of world. For me, it isn't any surprise that people do, because I've seen the world for what it really like.  "Don't think for a beat it makes it better and when you sit her down and tell her everything gonna be all right 
She knows in society she either is a devil or an angel with no in between. She speaks in the third person so she can forget that she's me!" ~ Emilie Autumn (Written by London, about a recent experience.)

The outfit was inspired by the autumn colors and male business outfits with a colorful touch. The coat from ZLZ was just perfect for this outfit. It's a great coat for autumn. Because the coat itself in our opinion had to be the eye-catcher, we decided to remain the rest of the look monochrome.

Coat: ZLZ - Pants: H&M - Shoes: Steve Madden - Blouse: Romwe - Glasses: GiantVintage 

Rosegal international GIVEAWAY

ROSEGAL INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY

Hello dear mad readers! Rosegal.com were kind enough to sponsor this giveaway for you guys, isn't that amazing! They sell vintage clothing but also clothing with a modern touch. They sell dresses to pants, coats and jewelry. There is something for everybody for sure. The clothing isn't expensive and the quality is great . We have already selected a few of our favorites, but it sure was hard to choose since they really have many amazing items!
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Blue dress: link - Printed dress: link - Cardigan: link - Yellow coat: link - Turquoise coat: Link
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What can you win? We'll chose one winner who can chose 1 item out of 5 items whom you can see in the pictures below. The winner will be chosen in 10 days!
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Blue Blouse: link - White blouse: link - Striped dress: link - Long dotted dress: link - Long dress: link

Read more to find our what you need to do!

Can you count the stars where you are?

~ Howie Day - Longest Day 
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London: "Are you lost where you are? Can you find your way when you're so far. Do you fear, where your are? A thousand nights alone."

Here you have a dreamy outfit. I somehow sometimes have a sudden inspiration and urge to dress up like this. Escaping the darkness and step into a different world I can only be allowed in sometimes. Then the first foot you step into it, you can look around and see things from a different point of view, forget reality and believe in what you want to believe, even though it's just for a moment. Is it dark where you are and can you count a thousand stars where you are? I want to count them over and over again, closing my eyes after that and just smiling because you know you will never be able to count them all. It about finding and trying things even though they aren't able to be found or never done before. It's about challenging yourself to step over a certain edge and do thing you have never done before, because it's only you who can convince yourself to jump even though you never had a reason to jump in the first place. It's about searching for things, but finding other things you haven't been searching for.

Dress & Necklace: Romwe - Flowered Headband: DIY - Blouse: Local store - Socks: River Island - Wig: Abhair