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spain vlog

2014-03-30T14:33:00.000+03:00

Spain vlog finally! It took me almost a year to create a video I shot being in Spain and Czech Republic last summer. Due to this I officially open my YouTube channel - youtube.com/user/funkyjoleisa. There I will add other vlog and maybe even more (your ideas are welcome in the commen bar!).

Please watch this video and tell me what do you think, it was my first ever experience with Adobe Premiere and not everything went smooth. but generally I am pleased with the result.

Give the video a thumbs up if you liked it and subscribe to my channel for more! :)

diy memobook

2014-03-29T20:31:00.000+03:00

Special kind of post today - the very first Do It Yourself on my blog. I made an attempt to re-design an old childish memobook I had since I was fourteen I think and hopefully it turned out to be nice.

What you will need: an old memobook you want to re-decorate, some paper for outer parts (I used IKEA wrapping paper), two sheets of thick paper for inner side, set of brads (or stickers, crystals or whatever you want to be inside), double tape, glue, ruler, scissors and a pencil. Also later I used golden ribbon, matching threads and a needle to sew.

Step one: measure your book and make a scheme if needed - what paper size you need to cut off to cover the whole thing.

Step two: re-draw your scheme carefully on a wrapping paper (using ruler to make a precise one) and cut it out.

Step three: using double tape, attach your wrapping to a book, try to strain it so there won't be any wrinkles.

Step four: make a hole in a paper and bend the ends as the shape of the hole (heart-shaped in my book)

Step five: cut and glue thick paper to the inner side of the book.

Step six: don't forget to make a hole in a paper when you will work with front part - this may be not very precise.

Step seven: take your brads (or what you've chosen) and attach them to the thick paper in a manner you want - so that you can see it through the hole when you close the book.

Be careful with your fingers - that does hurt!

The hole didn't look as accurate as I expected it to be, so I found some golden ribbon and matching threads to cover the edges with it.

Step eight: sew! And again, be careful with your fingers, better use a thimble.

The end! This is how my memobook turned out to be!

And the very last step: clean all the mess you've made... :)

Hope you enjoyed my fisrt DIY blogpost, all the supplies I used were available in a local bookstore and in my home. Please tell me your opinion in the comments or whether I shall make more posts like this in the future!

many mani

2014-03-27T17:00:00.000+03:00

Lately I've been obsessed with manicure designs, tried different combinations and techniques, here are the ones I liked the most.

Sally Hansen - Champagne Diamond & Brick Wall.

Dibage Just Matte (no color name left) & Eccence Tip Painter.

Sally Hansen Blue Me Away! & Bourjois Pailettes Disco.

Do you have any tips or tutorials for nice nail designs?

yoga pad

2014-03-26T17:00:00.000+03:00

I finally managed to buy myself a new laptop - Lenovo Yoga Pad, and I am loving it! My old laptop was very slow, heavy and battery didn't work at all, and now I feel like I am on track again. This laptop has different regimes of work and a touchscreen display, so it may serve as a tablet, probably it is the most stunning feature of all. Also I like the colour, had to spend some time to find this exact one.

presents!

2014-03-25T17:00:00.000+03:00

And I am done with New Year thematics - last post about presents I got.

Seppala bathrobe.

A friend who is aware of my moustache obsession gave me this :) all from Accessorize.

New Pandora bracelet.

A hand-made toy and earphones - very important present cause I am a nightmare of all earphones of the world.

Lush "Shooting for the Stars" set.

hello 2014

2014-03-24T18:00:00.000+03:00

Would you ever believe I will post about New Year in March? Me neither, with my schedule I have more prepared posts than I actually able to post, but I couldn't skip this one, because New Year is always a marvelous time I spend with my family, so there is a little bit of warmth and comfort I get there.

Packing my makeup.

Setting you into a Christmas mood for the next year :)

Feeling super-comfy.

The most festive drink.

I always relax while playing the piano, sad I don't have one in Moscow.

Cooking panna cotta with my Mom. I am not a fan of jellys but this one was very delicious even for my taste.

theatre

2014-03-24T12:00:00.000+03:00

Pre New Year visiting of a theater with fellow physicists. Just after I dyed my hair - oh I love how it looks.

new room tour

2014-03-23T15:06:00.000+03:00

In September I moved to a new room in our dormitory and since then was eager to make my room a comfortable and home-like place to live in. Now I feel like almost everything is done here, so I made a little tour for you. Don't expect too much, it is just a little dorm room, but it is all mine, actually the first living space I was able to decorate as I want. And I am quite proud of myself!

My bad habit - to put jewelery I take off on the shelf, not to a jewelery box.

I used these Albertina wall stickers a lot in my room, simple and nice way to decorate your living space.

Is it ever late to have an advent calendar? :)

Workspace.

new hair

2014-03-07T09:42:00.000+03:00

Finally, mystery reveiled - my new hairstyle! I made my hair ends lighter, not really an ombre as you know it, but something like that. Because before I coloured my hair red, my ends became... orange! I was a little bit shocked at first but decided to love it, looks really refreshing. And I have even more plans on colouring my hair... if you are interested, stay tuned or I can show my ideas here on my blog.

Also wearing my new Asos Retro Specs there - a saver when I am not in a mood of doing a make-up.

Do you like my new hair? Would you do something like that? Or, maybe you have any ideas what should I do next - when my hair will grow longer I am going to cut off blond ends so there will be clear space for imagination and change.

darling i'll call you later

2014-03-04T22:11:00.000+03:00

I have to make a rule of meeting my friends on weekends and going out together - a few weeks in a row spent this way were very good. This was one of my weekends, just before New Year (if you are in a spring mood already - not with this blog, sorry! :).

Beautiful Red Square.

Remember choosing a christmas tree? Now you certainly do :)

Some zebra, nuts, squirrels and other stuff there.

New Orleans' evacuation plan - grab a beer and run.

just smile

2014-03-03T20:53:00.000+03:00

Don't pretend you don't like funny pictures, everyone does :) Just a little portion of happiness and smiles, because my blog is my happy place and I want all of you to be happy too :)

asos order number two

2014-03-02T21:12:00.001+03:00

Well, I'm getting used to Asos. This time I tried to buy a clothing item, but only one, because I am still afraid of choosing the wrong size, well, maxi skirt fits me perfectly, can't wait to wear it when spring comes!

Skirt - Only // Eyeliner - Rimmel // Retro specs - Asos // Watch - Asos

thor is back

2014-02-05T19:33:00.001+03:00

Just a lovely holiday with a friend, going to "Thor 2" movie and having fun. I quite liked the movie, actually, I am a fan of Marvel superhero-movies (so if you are a DC-fan, sorry :). Also, I am still red-haired on these photos, later I changed my style dramatically. Always, when I am bored, I change my hair, this helps so much!

Smiley :)

that large shopping spree - accessorizes

2014-02-04T20:03:00.001+03:00

Peeewf, the last post about my shopping - accessories! You all are probably tired of it, and I promise to have some more interesting posts next on my blog.

Earrings and bracelet, Diva.

Bun donuts, Accessorize.

Bag, Victoria's Secret. This was a present there when I bought two kilogramms of body cremes, shower gels and etc., haha :)

Ring, Diva

Necklace, Centro.

Ring and collar necklace, Kira Plastinina.

Sunglasses, Reserved. This is what you urgently need in the middle of winter, yeah...

Necklace, H&M.

Rings, Diva and H&M.

Earrings, Diva. You can probably tell I like Diva when it comes to accessoriez - yes, I do. Although the quality of metals isn't great, it quite often color your skin green and just gets old quickly, so I tend to buy things there only on sales.

Bracelets, H&M and Diva.

that large shoppins spree - clothes

2014-02-03T19:28:00.001+03:00

Second part of my shopping rush, dedicated to clothes and shoes. Let's get cracking!

Jacket, black jeans and sweater - Reserved. Print on the jacket looks like old granny's carpet and that's why I bought it - really loved that detail, can't wait for spring.

Some previews I tried to make using new clothes.

Boots, Centro.

Jeans, top and knee boots - Kira Plastinina.

Comfy and wintery home pants from Tezenis.

"Hello" t-shirt, Bershka.

Cardigan and neck-chain, Mango. Cardigan is perfect - comfy and oversized, everything I love at the moment. And I was looking for a chain like this for really long time - not plastic but real metal, and finally found it at Mango.

Shorts and sweatshirt, Tvoe. I just couldn't stand buying this sweatshirt, it combines two of my favorite things - British flag and moustasche, strike!

Fur knee boots from Chester. During severe russian winters good and warm boots are a must have and I needed something instead of my Uggs, which you can wear only when it's very cold and dry outside.

Jeans, Oggi. I wasn't sure I would be able to wear such a thing, but sometimes I like to epater with my clothes (mostly myself), and actually now I wear this pair quite often.

Hoodie, Pull&Bear.

Vest, Colins. What I really like about it that it has a little bag so you can carry it everywhere and it doesn't need lots of space. It will be very handy during my spring travels (and I am going to have a lot, later about that!).

Basic white t-shirt and croshet top, Bershka.

that large shopping spree - beauty

2014-02-02T12:33:00.000+03:00

For the past few months I've been in a shopping rush, I can't remember any time in my life when I bought so many things on a regular basis. But, well, I had some tough times recently and this was a way to cheer myself up, so I blame myself for spending enormous amount of money, but not very hard.
It happened that for the last 3-4 months I bought so much stuff that it can't fit in one blogpost, so I'll separate it into three different ones - beauty, clothes and accessories. This one will be all about beauty and makeup I've bought.

Lush "No Drought" dry shampoo and "Snow Fairy" shower gel. Shampoo is not very comfortable to use because of the packaging, I end up with some on my floor, but it works okay and smells deliciousy-grapefruit, and "Snow Fairy" is super-cute glitter shower gel which smells like bubble-gum.

Well...things gone crazy in Victoria's Secret. I think for the next five years I am stocked with body cremes and shower gels. But how can anyone resist their awesome stuff?

"Grease Lightning" spot treatment and "Santa Baby" lip tint from Lush. "Santa Baby" smells like coca-cola, but it's super-red, all my hands are red after using it...

My recent make-up revelation - Catrice! I've been loving it a lot, at once I bought some of their "Liquid Metal" eyeshadows, "Nude" eyeshadow palette, "Pure Shine" colour lip balm and "Ultimate Colour" lipstick.

I've been obsessed with Lush bath bombs recently, they are amazing for a relaxing baths, which I take once in a week as a ritual.

"Stay Matte" face powder from Rimmel and some deep cleansing stripes from Cettua.

"Aquatic Aqua" deep moisture eye gell and "Beauty Base" primer from Lumene and eyebrow pensil from Rimmel.

"Master Precise" eyeliner from Maybelline and "Liquid Lip Tint" from Catrice. Lip tint appeared to be a really special thing, I'll make a separate post about it later.

If you want reviews on any of these products, let me know!

my favorite feet cream - beauty advice

2014-01-25T21:50:00.000+03:00

I find it extremely useful to listen to other bloggers' advices - you can never try that much products by yourself to make your own opinion, but there are people who make it for you (and have lots of fun, actually). We are all a society here, where good experience can be shared, so I would like to introduce you my all-time favorite feet cream which became a true rescue for me.

It is Peppermint Intensive Foot Rescue by The Body Shop. This is my second pot so far, and I rarely by products twice or more times, because I like to try different things, so I really loved this cream enough to by another one.

It works exactly how I want a perfect feet cream to work - super-moisturizing and caring, it totally saves my feet, especially in winter when they tend to be dry, but also in summer when open shoes damage your skin much more.

On The Body Shop's website it costs 9 pounds, which I'd say too much for a feet cream, but one pot lasted me for about half a year, so it won't be too bad for your finances to by it once in six months, and it is just so good - worth every penny.

If you have your favorites at the moment, let me know in the comments! I think I will make such posts regularly - different advices, stuff I like at the moment - books, make-up, places and etc. Would you like some more advices?

Also, if you want to know more about Peppermint Intensive Foot Rescue, you can visit The Body Shop website.

first snow 2013

2014-01-23T20:47:00.000+03:00

Another traditional event at my faculty - First Snow Art Festival. If you read this blog not for more than a year, I'm hosting dance contest at this festival and this time was the fourth dance contest I made on my own. Can't believe how fast time flies!

I am really proud of myself this year, because dance contest was much better than previous year, I invited great judges and at the end we also made a workshop, where one of the judges showed a dance and we learned it, it was super-fun!

"Burlesque" from Resonanse Dance Studio.

"Jazz Funk".

My awesome judges!

Our workshop.

I am super-concentrated dancer :)

Also, I was a judge at rock-bands contest, great honor!

russian dance fectival 2013

2014-01-20T20:40:00.001+03:00

This is a second time I was helping at Russian Dance Festival held by where my dance teacher works. It is always a hard day for everyone, when you literally don't sit down for eight hours in a row, but super-inspiring, you rarely see so many talented dancers at once! This year my duty were rehearsals before the festival itself (which were lots of shouting, I almost broke my voice) and than afterwards I controlled teams coming to stage.
I like being part of Project818 crew, can't be happy enough that I've chosen that dance teacher two and a half years ago and decided to attend dance-workshops. Now I am looking forward to Russian Dance Championship 2014 which will be fifty times crazier!

Balta Monkiki appeared to be my fav among all the judges, he is so nice! Although Talia Favia is very funny and simple as well.

Try ro spot me, haha

I also found a few pics of... my back :)

One of my favourite teams, as usual, Girls Community - super sexy and incredible dancers! Join their team is probsbly one of my wildest dreams.

Girls came to calm me down, ruling the rehearsals is quite nervous job!

GTG Art Guru were mignons, so cute!

autumn-winter everydays

2014-01-15T22:27:00.001+03:00

Bits and bobs from my autumn and (the beginning of) winter!

I've decided to buy this Clinique blush quite long ago, because my mom has one and I liked it a lot, but suddenly everywhere they ran out of these blushes, probably because Clinique don't produce it anymore. Luckly, Mom found one! I love it, the color and quality are perfect!

Photo with my best friend from super-old photoshoot for Project818, discovered lately. We are different, but we are together =)

Fireworks, and I completely don't remember for what reason they were done...

Super-late present for my birthday (for 2012 one, I mean), haha.

A touching present from my friend, who knew I wanted to read "The Little Prince".

A friend's birthday party.

Accidental present from my mom.

Cooking for the first time using my fast-cooker - Egyptan-styled soup, turned out delicious!

An evening with a friend and delicious stuff.

tv-shows freak

2014-01-14T21:42:00.000+03:00

Time for some revelations on my blog: I LOVE serials! I always in the process of watching a tv-show and I have a huge list of ones I will watch sometime (over forty serials there already, whoops :). And if you like serials as much as I do, you will probably like this post - I am going to chat about the best ones I've ever watched so far.

Lost was my school favorite serial, everyone in my class were obsessed with it, we discussed it every morning and every evening I was at my TV to watch the next episode. I liked it a lot till the fourth season, afterwards it turned too mysterious (I think) although at the beginning it was just a realistic story of a plane crash. I haven't watched it till the very end, stopped on the third episode of the last season. I know how it ended though and... quite frustrated, to be honest, but once I will watch it from the beginning to the very end. And Sawyer (Josh Holloway) is sexy. A cute actor is also a reason to watch a series for me (one more revelation for you here, a friend of mine says I have a hundred favorite actors and that is almost true, I'd say about eighty :)

Oh yeah. If you like sarcasm and black humour as much as I do, you will like Dead Like Me. This tv-show is not that much famous but super-good. "Everybody dies" they say, and you have to cope with it. Lambent humour, quite a fresh and new story, great actors - enjoyed both seasons. But don't watch full-length movie, it turned out to be quite a crap (so frustrating!).

Well, quite an obvious one - Sex And The City. I still sometimes watch it or full-length SATC movies when I don't feel like thinking but more like looking at gorgeous outfits. Can't say the plot is very interesting for me, or the problems they discuss touch my heart, but it is easy and nice to watch. Wine and SATC - and the worst evening in your life becomes better.

Again, classics. I think everyone loves Friends. Because it's so good! I rarely laugh with jokes, but they made me. My favorite character is Joey ("Joey doesn't share food!"), love him, he's the best. If you somehow haven't watched it yet - go and do it immediately, I said.

Well, also in school I was quite obsessed with Heroes. But here I am talking only about season one - this is a masterpiece. Seasons second, third and fourth are crap, which is quite sad. I would recommend to watch season one, this will be enough. Sylar is one of the coolest anti-characters ever, and Milo Ventimiglia is just cute (*another favorite actor here*).

Yep, Disney series! I love them all - Hannah Montana, Jonas, Wizards of Waverly Place and others. I know that I am 21, but who cares? They are funny and I am going to watch the rest of ones I haven't seen completely when there will be time for that.

"This is my spot". Big Bang Theory there! I love it, it is funny, good and... about physicists! I am a physicist, and will tell you some truth - characters there are grotesque but real physicists are REALLY look like them sometimes, no kidding. I don't know how will Big Bang Theory end, but so far it was super-good. And, btw, what I do in physics is something in between of what Raj and Sheldon do =)

If you like mystery (and handsome guys), you will like Supernatural, all about ghosts, witches and mysteries. Main characters, brothers Sam and Dean are super-cool, especially Dean, he has a good sense of humour and life-attitude I like. After season four they turned into Bible themes, which was quite obvious after dealing with hell so much, don't know if I like that a lot, but in general, a huge like for Supernatural.

I've just started watching Breaking Bad. Everyone seem to like it so much so that I had to watch it myself. I also feel like I need some more black humour in my life, and Breaking Bad seems like a good option. I also enjoy lots of chemistry there ( I studied it in school, and though I chose physics, still like chemistry as well). And, Breaking Bad got a few Golden Globes and I believe people there won't choose a bad tv-show to award.

Oh, this was a long chat and I feel that my language is quite bad and flat in describing, but I loved to write my series advice. I would like you to tell me which tv-shows are your favorite, have you watched ones of above and what do you think about them, and if you would like more of these "chatty-opinion-describing" posts =)

birthday girl

2014-01-13T22:35:00.000+03:00

On 21st of October I officially turned 21! From one side, this is quite a lot, I really don't feel like being in my twenties already, but I also feel like this is a beginning of something new and incredible (although I recently saw a picture that before 21 you are growing and after 21 you are aging and that bugs me ^^).
I want to claim that in this post I am not showing off in any way, the thing is that all my friends and family were incredible this year, all I got for my birthday are things I wanted and really needed. I decided not to celebrate my birthday but they've thrown me a surpsire party! Insane! I can't wish for better people in my life, thank you (you know who you are =))!

Beginning of the day.

Starbucks cup, I was craving for it for years.

Some austrian chocolate and liquior from my roommate who recently made a trip to Austria and Italy.

I asked my parents to present me a toaster and a fast-cooker, these things made my life in a dorm a little bit easier.

French press. My room is an official coffee-making place now!

Wall stickers, I've decorated my room with it (sooner or later I will make a room toor).

New charm for my Pandora bracelet - Sagrada Famiglia, as a memory of my summer Spain trip.

Housewarming present - a flower. Although, it has died. Sorry for a friend who gave it to me, but I am just not a flower-keeper, unfortunately.

Furla bag and wallet, super-cool! Bag is just perfect for me, as well as my favorite color - deep blue.

Seal from my friend who lives in Irkutsk.

This probably excites me the most - complete Harry Potter collection! I have all books in russian but wanted an English version as well. This was a long story how my friends got an information that I want them, really amazed me!

Super-soft mint scarf.

my first asos order

2014-01-09T19:43:00.000+03:00

As much as I love online-shopping, I am also scared of trying new things in this area. I've been loving Asos for ages, but never were brave enough to order something there. Because of the delivery from quite a far away destination and payment via credit card. But finally I've managed to make an order! Just a few small pieces to check out how does it work for Russia - and it works great! My first order came in a month and a half and the second one (will be shown soon!) just in a few weeks! Now I crossed my barrier and guess will be ordering lots and lots stuff over there... now my next goal is eBay and Etsy. To be honest eBay literally scares me... =)

Beanie - Brave Soul - here // Extra WOW Mascara - Rimmel London - here // Necklace - ASOS - here

The most adorable necklace ever! :)

posvyat style

2014-01-04T01:01:00.001+03:00

Hello there! How were your first days of 2014? Mine were pretty well, and I got some blogging vacation, which I am sorry about, as usual. I thought I'll be posting something every day, but then I realized I just want to spend some quality time with my family and enjoy my holidays. Now I am back on track, being a "responsible" blogger I will now make a post about... September event. No idea how to hurry myself up and update you with up-to-date news, really.

The September event I am talking about is our traditional faculty one, called The Initiation (sounds quite cool, isn't it?). It happens every year in September for our freshmen students. This takes the whole weekend and the idea is that they have to put some effort to become real physics students.

It takes place somewhere in the forest not very far from Moscow, and it is one of my favorite events to be honest, a few hundred people come "camping" for a few days (when it is quite cold already), a team of organizers spend enormous amount of time to prepare the whole thing, and what you feel there is that you are a part of this physical community and feel really proud about it. I know that after 30 years ago this tradition started on our faculty others make their own initiations as well, but no one of them have such an atmosphere and popularity as our does *proud there*.

Being one of organizers I made double duty this year, first of all I was as usual the head artist - we made a lot of simple paintings to decorate the place and also I was on duty to one of parts of the initiation itself. It was my first time to do that, it didn't really go very smooth... but as we say here in Russia first pancake went as lump. Next year I will make it ten times better :)

I know how simple is this thing but always feel so proud of myself!

My part of the initiation, yeey!

I am not a "camper" person as well but just can't wait for the next initiation! But three days in a forest are my limit for the whole year, my need for "wild" life is filled with making it once a year, haha :)

imagine - book advice

2013-12-11T22:05:00.000+03:00

I would like to tell you about the book I've read recently, which is "Imagine" by Jonah Lehrer. I got it accidentally because I am subscribed to an "english-learning" page on vk.com and was hugely impressed with it. The book really changed my mind about some stuff and that is why I want to share my feelings with you, my dear readers.

This book is about creativity and insights, on the cover it says "Imagine. How creativity works." The author shows from different points of view, what influences our ideas and our imagination - how it works biologically, how were great inventions made, why brainstorming is a bad idea and crowded bathrooms are good one. How are greatest companies like Google or Apple organized inside, what's the difference between "insight-art" and "on-drugs-art" and why Israel is a good place for sharing ideas.

I've learned enormous things about creativity and imagination. I am a physicist, but I also work as a designer and both science and art need creativity, fresh ideas and insights. But it is never easy, as some people may think, great ideas are unique and they don't come to your head immediately when you need one, even if you are "ought" to be creative and overfilled with cool new stuff, and "Imagine" cleared some points of the process for me, I really started thinking easier about the way you create something new.

I would recommend this book for everyone, because the way new ideas appear in people's heads is fascinating and, probably, you will be the one who has the greatest idea in the world and should just get it out of your head? :)

If you had read this book, please share your opinion! And if you know something similar, I would like to read something else on this topic, personally, I'll definetely read other books of Jonah Lehrer! Are you reading anything good at the moment?