PSYNOPSIS

♥ | Les Legs

2013-05-22T17:43:00.000+01:00

Couldn't sleep, it's been raining all day… All I can manage today is sorting photos and admiring Morgaine's legs… It was equally cold when we took this photo... Oh, English summers. ♥

Beauty | The White Stuff

2013-05-21T13:20:00.000+01:00

Come summer, come white – and with it some of my favourite beauty things… Creed's Love in White - the diviiiine concoction of orange zest, iris, jasmine, daffodils, rose and magnolia; a white eyeliner (to wide-open-eyedly say Hello to the world)… and I'm desperately searching for a new bottle of Kiehl's tinted moisturiser. Seems they've discontinued it. Whattheheck?!?! ♥

Art | Archaic

2013-05-20T14:44:00.003+01:00

...and laughing bottoms by Jan Thomas. ♥

P.S. Yes, I did go to the Karneval der Kulturen, too. You can't ignore half of the city plus 1.5 million visitors having a good time (& then I lost my friends and felt like this... Nooo, I didn't!)

Art | UFO

2013-05-20T14:00:00.001+01:00

Le Weekend – Flying objects by FD Schlemme …

Life | Desksitter

2013-05-18T13:12:00.000+01:00

Really, I would work - if he let me… ♥

♥ | The Mackerel Song

2013-05-17T15:03:00.002+01:00

Absolutely hilarious. I believe Elias, Camillo and Lukas have created Berlin's 2013 summer hit. ♥

Style | Zebra Meets Hearts

2013-05-15T14:47:00.001+01:00

Red and black is a combination I see a lot here in Berlin. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I find it too cliché (I do like it here – the strong colours go well with the shapes). But what I really LOVE is the zebra sweater in the back... Should have asked her where she got it from. ♥

Photography | Make-Up - Forget Reality

2013-05-14T13:53:00.001+01:00

Aahaa… a woman who forgot to button up her shirt? Naah, this photo is about MAKE-UP – studio make-up, actually - because in the process of putting together a photo studio and getting my head around the whole lighting thing I also learned that photography make-up has nothing to do with real life. In fact anything we might like about make-up (SPF, a bit of a sheen or shimmer to give us 'dewy skin' or 'a healthy glow') is a total no-no in studio photography. What you do need is a very fat layer of matte make-up, and then some more in different shades to contour the face. And powder, lots of powder – in a variety of shades, for contouring and to make absolutely sure that there's not a teenie-tiny sheen left. Only then can you start adding colours, and lipstick and highlighter**…

For someone who never wears make-up all this felt very strange (and moving behind and in front of the camera and realising that I've smudged the eye-shadow staring through the lens was frustrating, hilarious and awkward at the same time), but in the end I think it's true: A big fat make-up layer looks quite normal in a photo (though you might totally disagree)… Also, I seem to have been quite timid with the whole procedure as my freckles are still visible. Just starting to learn here… ♥

*Something to do with releasing the self-timer, climbing onto a table, thinking "What now?!? Angles! I have to create angles, first rule of fashion photography…"
**Actually you can add the highlighter earlier, but that's just getting too complicated now.

Berlin | Potsdam at Night

2013-05-13T22:04:00.002+01:00

Potsdam runs the risk of becoming so pretty soon it will look like a vintage edition of Disneyland… But as long as there are still cranes and building sites in the mix it all comes together nicely. ♥

Berlin | Boros Bunker

2013-05-11T12:54:00.002+01:00

...for the amazing Boros Art Collection - pity they don't let you take photos inside the bunker. ♥

Style | Shades of Green

2013-05-10T19:19:00.001+01:00

Pure cuteness. ♥

♥ | Tulips #238

2013-05-10T16:29:00.002+01:00

I know! 'tis a terrible addiction, it is, which can only be cured by a change of substance… methadone roses, perhaps? ♥

Style | Stitches

2013-05-08T12:15:00.000+01:00

Interesting hair-do and serious tattoo commitment… ♥

Berlin | Nowkoelln Flowmarkt

2013-05-07T16:09:00.000+01:00

Nowkoelln Flowmarkt… The place to go for finding 2nd hand clothes, having a coffee in the sun and admiring Berlin's love for tattoos. Very chilled indeed. ♥

Style | La Belle Francaise

2013-05-06T13:20:00.000+01:00

She just had the certain je-ne-sais-quoi… ♥

♥ | Spring Is in the Air

2013-05-05T22:05:00.001+01:00

Feels so good. ♥

Berlin | The Structure of Friedrichstrasse

2013-05-03T20:21:00.001+01:00

Friedrichstadtpassagen - great for shopping and having coffee, and most of all for finally feeling totally and wonderfully structured. ♥

♥ | I Smile with My Eyes

2013-05-02T09:16:00.001+01:00

Oh Brandon! As discovered courtesy of Hunger TV… Who's the camera man with the creepy voice??!? ♥

Style | Plaid the Streets

2013-04-30T20:26:00.003+01:00

Here they come... Berlin's sporty, stylish dads. ♥

Life | The Duckling Kitchen

2013-04-29T14:11:00.001+01:00

For forever and a day my sister has been demanding visual proof that we actually did procede with our Tearing Down the Wall project. We did. It's nowhere finished though – there's a DIY concrete worktop in the planning (on the left, on the left) and the new window is demanding a window sill… Some time, some day. ♥

♥ | Take a Leap

2013-04-25T19:57:00.001+01:00

Because it's the season for it... ♥

♥ | Carrie Me

2013-04-23T18:50:00.000+01:00

"I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet."

When SATC started I loved it so, Sarah had to get a name necklace for her birthday. 'tis the power of Patricia Field... ♥

Beauty | Feel Like a Flower

2013-04-21T21:31:00.001+01:00

First we danced like spring chickens then I got spring fever… And when lying in bed sneezing and coughing got too boring I started cleaning out the cream cupboard realising that Dr.Hauschka Hand Cream and Aesop Geranium Leaf Body Balm have for a long time and probably always will be my favourites for hands, feet and limbs. It must be the freshness of the geranium. ♥

Life | You Should Be Dancing

2013-04-15T19:23:00.000+01:00

Yahaa, this is how we felt when the sun came out... ♥

♥ | Nightflower

2013-04-14T00:31:00.001+01:00

Time to go to bed? ♥