Liebster Blog Award | Inspiration à porter

I want to thank Kate from http://thewonderfulworldofkate.blogspot.de/ so much for nominating me for this "Liebster Blog Award". I'm so excited to answer all of her questions and I hope you like this post as well. 

First of all I want to show you the rules of this TAG: 

1. Provide a link back to the blogger who nominated you
2. Post 11 random facts about you
3. Answer the 11 random questions set by the blogger who nominated you
4. Nominate bloggers with fewer than 200 followers for the award, excluding who nominated you, with questions for them to answer. (I will try to find as many of them as I can :))
5. Let the nominees know that you've nominated them

So let's get started!

11 random facts about me

1. I'm German but living in Switzerland
2. I've been living 10 months in France, doing an High-School year over there
3. I speak German, English, French, (Swiss :D) and a little bit of Italian
4. I love Sex and the City (All time favorite series)
5. My favorite city until today is Paris
6. I have very curly hair and it would take hours to straighten it haha
7. I love mexican food
8. Usually when I'm ordering a drink after 10 I have to show my passport ;)
9. My new favorite snack are kale chips
10. I'm always loosing my socks no matter how much I try to keep them organized
11. I'm going to study communications and photography 

11 questions by The wonderful world of Kate answered by me

1.Which is your favourite makeup brand if you had to choose?
 My favorite Make-up brand in the high-end section would be Nars and Chanel. For drugstore Make-up I would stick with Revlon. 

2. Which is your favourite time of the year? Spring/ Summer/ Autumn/ Winter?
My favorite time of the year is Spring

3. What is your most liked movie of all times?
My most liked movie of all times is "Breakfast at Tiffanys"

4. Do you prefer accenting your lips or your eyes?
I love to do both. At the moment I'm more into accenting my lips. 

5. What's your best inspiration for going to the gym?
 My best inspiration are the girls from ToneitUp.com which I'm going to write a blog post about very soon. Also the thought of being healthy and living healthy motivates me a lot. I just feel so good afterwards. 

6. What is your favourite food?
My favorite food are pancakes with maple syrup

7. What is your next beauty/fashion investment? 
My next beauty investment is probably going to be the a perfume. I'm not sure which one's definitely going to be the one :)

8. What is the song you love the most at the moment?
The song I love the most at the moment is "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers

9. Which is your favourite fashion trend this season?
My favorite fashion trend this season are definitely busted boyfriend jeans or busted jeans in general. 

10. If you had to choose a perfume to express Spring the best which would you choose?
I would definitely choose eaudemoiselle by Givenchy

11. What book are you reading at the moment?
I'm currently reading "The Body Book" by Cameron Diaz

My nominees are: 

1. http://www.mylifeassamia.blogspot.de/
2. http://kindofrosy.blogspot.de/
3. www.putonmascara.blogspot.com

(I'm not really following more people without a huge amount of followers but if I find someone I'll just paste the person in here :))


My 11 questions for you are: 

1.What's your favourite colour?
2.What's your favourite workout or sport?
3. What's your favourite clothing brand?
4. What's your favourite TV Show? 
5. What are your favourite treats?
6. Without what would you never ever leave your house?
7. Which country would you love to visit at some point? 
8. Which fashion and beauty magazine is your favourite?
9. What's your favourite book? 
10. Which is in your eyes the best music album ever?
11. What do you want to become after Uni, School? Or what are you doing?

Thank you so much again for tagging me and I hope you liked this post! 

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What to wear during a business trip

So this week I've been staying with an agency in Birmingham as part of my internship. 
I've already met these guys a few times and I really like what they're doing and how creative they are. 
Having this possibility for joining them and working with them on their projects has been amazing. 
I couldn't be more thankful for this experience. 
As I'm always planning my outfits for work days or especially for business trips, I had so much fun getting these three outfits together which I want to show you in this blog post today. 
I usually keep it simple and classy but every time I try to add something a little bit special to it. 
I really hope you enjoy reading this and I wish you a very nice day. 

PS: Read until the end and you will find two very nice restaurant tips for Birmingham ;) :*

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Outfit #1 details:

Blouse: Ralph Lauren (Vintage)

Boyfriend Jeans: JBrand

Black belt: Tommy Hilfiger

Flats: Cenedella

Necklace: Grieder 

Outfit #2 details:

Dark blue Silk top: Robert Friedman

White (super) skinny trousers: SOS

Red reptile belt: Reptile's House

Shoes: Seebago

Necklace: Zara

I'm sorry that the top's not really visible. That's why I uploaded my picture from instagram as well so you can see it better.

Outfit #3 details:

Military shirt: 81 hours

Skinny trousers: SOS

Shoes: Seebago 

Bracelet: From a very good friends' store. It's totally handmade and I love it. I got it for christma from my Love ♥ :)

Brown leather with fresh water pearls ♥

As promissed I'm going to give you two dinner or lunch tips for Birmingham :)

#1: The first Restaurant's called "Belago" and is a very nice mexican place you can go to. The staff is super friendly and the food amazing!!!! The portions are perfect and even if you choose a starter, main course and a desert you won't feel stuffed in the end. My highlight there have been the sweet potatoe fries and the red wine chorizzo. 

#2: The second one is called Thai Edge and I went there by coincidence. I really enjoied my meal and it was very light. Very nice staff, lovely food and I loved the restaurant's design :). As a starter we had some spring rolls, grilled chicken and a couple of other things. As a main course we had beef with beens and chilli, chicken with nudles and sesame and some veggies. 

It's snack time! (DIY kale chips)

Yesterday I went quickly into the Mark's and Spencer store as I needed something right after work.
I passed by the salad and vegetable aisle and I spotted packages of kale.
During the last weeks I've heard so much about kale and I know that it is very, very healthy. Unfortunately I don't really like it in a salad but I've seen that a lot of people use kale as an alternative to potatoe chips. So I decided to give it a try and started my little expermiment last night.

What you need: - Olive Oil
                          - Vinegar
                          - Sea salt

I put a certain amount of kale into a bowl, add 3 table spoons of Olive Oil, a little bit of vinegar and sea salt and mix it with a spoon.

Afterwads you take a baking tin and place the kale on it. On my pictures you can see that I didn't have baking paper at home, but if you wash the tin very well afterwards, it shouldn't be a problem.

Then you place the tin into your oven which you've preheated on 170 degrees and leave it in there for 10 minutes. After ten minutes you should have a look on your chips and their colour.
It's absolutely normal that they're a bit brown but they shouldn't be black.

When you think they look good, take them out of the oven and they're ready to be consumed.

It's such an easy recipe and I love it. It tastes so good and is a perfect healthy snack. You can use different herbs to create many different sorts of kale chips.

My ingredients!

Voilà the preroasted kale

OOTD #3 When in London...

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Hello everyone :), 

I hope you had a great weekend. My boyfriend came over from Switzerland and we had a very lovely weekend. On Saturday we went to London and as it was a very beautiful day, we went into a park and we took some pictures of my outfit that I wanted to share with you. 
I hope you like it!
Enjoy guys and I send you a big hug! 

Much love xoxo 

Lila  ♥ 

PS: I've noticed again how much I love taking outfit pictures for you and I really want to make this as a main thing on my blog when I'm back home and when there's somebody who can help me with it haha. For the moment follow me in instagram and you can see some of my daily outfits there :). xx Instagram: lilabelle23

The pieces I'm wearing:

Dress: Primark 
Blazer: New Look 
Tights: Wolford
Shoes: Strategia 

Location: Regent's Park 
Photographer: B ♥ 

H&M Spring 2014 inspiration for my wardrobe

Cupcakes and Cashmere ♥

Hello ladies, 

Today's blog post is about one of the books I've read during the last month. I got it by coincidence as it was recommended by amazon when I ordered Lauren Conrad's Style and Beauty book. 
I'm talking about "Cupcakes and Cashmere" by Emily Schuman. To be honest, I wasn't expecting a lot I just thought I would give it a try. 
Now you may already guess that I literally loved it! 
It's not a huge book at all but you can find all of the details you need to be inspired by that lovely woman. 

Her way of writing is very nice and I just loved reading it. It's split in the four seasons and I read one chapter every day. She gives you tips in Beauty, Fashion, Food and Lifestyle, which covers all of the subjects I'm interested in. The funny thing is that I hadn't known her blog before I started reading the book so I made this fascinating discovery as well and I love her cupcakes recipe. She's so creative and I love creative people so much. They give me a lot and that's one of the reasons why I started writing this blog. I wanted to give people something to get inspired or just something beautiful to make them smile. Creativity is something wonderful and I love to play with is. Not only with fashion and beauty but also with food. 
If you really want to read an inspiring book, which makes you happy at the same time, then I really recommend you buying this one. Give it a look and I know you'll love it. 
A little detail which I also loved was the fact of showing beauty products for each season. High-end and drugstore. These details made me adoring it that much. 

I wish you a wonderful day or night wherever you are! 

Much love! xoxo

Lila  ♥

Living inspiration ♥

Hello everyone :), 

Happy Monday to you even if you usually don't wish someone a happy monday as it's the beginning of the week but I do it anyway ;). 
Today I want to share with you a quite personal story but also some beautiful things. 
I don't know if you've already made this experience or if you're still waiting for it to come. 
8 months ago I met this guy by coincidence and I think it was destiny that we met. It was his and his brother's birthday party and I fell in love with him right away. I don't know what it was (probably his amazing blue eyes ;)) but I knew that it was true. Some months before that day I had made some very sad and bad experiences and I don't wish those kind of experiences to anyone. I thought that I would never ever be able to trust a guy and be able to give him all I have. My heart, my thoughts, my joy and my worries. It took myself some time to open myself but this guy I met at his birthday party did everything you can imagine that made it possible for myself to do everything I was afraid of. I gave him everything and still today he deserves it as much as the first day I dared doing it. This guy is in my eyes the Love of my life and in some eyes I must sound stupid but I don't care about that! I know what i feel and I know what he has done for me until today and I think that everything we go through, whether good times or bad times, we will stick together and love each other every day! 
Last fall we've decided to move together because the both of us are going to start university this year. 
We've already found an appartement and we're super happy and super excited to start this adventure together. I don't doubt that step a single minute and I'm sure we'll be fine. 
Some of you may ask yourself why I'm writing these things for a blogpost in which I wanted to show you my "living" inspiration for our appartement. Well usually there's a story behind everything and this one, I wanted to share with you. 

I hope you like my favorite pictures of today and I wish you a nice day or night wherever you are!

Much love xoxo 

Lila ♥ 

PS: I love you honey and happy anniversary! ♥ 

Outfit of the night #1

Hello everyone, 

I finally made it to England and took some time to arrive and feel comfortable with everything. I want to share with you my "outfit of the night", which I was wearing during the last dinner I had with my boyfriend (who I miss a lot :) ♥ ). We went to a mexican restaurant and it was very delicious. I'm sure I'll be posting more in the near future as I've seen a lot of nice beauty products when I went to the supermarket today ;). I hope everyone of you is fine and I send you a big hug! 

Enjoy! 
Much love xoxo, 

Lila ♥ 

 PS: In one picture you can see that black box and I'm sorry for that ;). I have to admit that my hair looks quite red on these pictures but it's definitely not ;). Third point: I'm sorry for the blouse as you've already seen it in my last outfit, but I  really liked it with this skirt! 

 
I'm wearing: 

Blouse: H&M 

Skirt: H&M (SALE)

Tights: Wolford (shade: coca)

Shoes: Navyboot

Necklace: Zara

Clutch: market 

My favorite christmas present ♥

Good morning (here in Europe :)),

As a following post I wanted to share with you my favorite christmas present. I'm not a huge fan of sharing ALL my presents with you guys. It's not a matter of privacy I just think it would look like "hey look at me I'm so much better than you because my presents were more expensive or bigger or whatever". I hope you understand that but I decided that I'm going to show you at least one. And here it is: My favorite christmas present of 2013 is......

...The Clarisonic "mia2"- Facial Sonic Cleansing

To be honest, I already knew that I would get it before christmas because my mum had bought her clarisonic 3 months before and she was so happy about it, that I just had to get this for christmas ;).
My skin is really, really fragile and I have to pay a lot of attention on what I put on my skin. So the clarisonic works perfectly for myself. I also got the brush for fragile and dry skin with my clarisonic because the usual one includes a brush "only" for sensitiv skin.
Well I've been using it for 3 weeks now and my skin is feeling so well. I don't have that feeling of uneven skin anymore. My face is so soft and looks fresh and healthy.
I know that this cleansing method has been known around the world for about 5 years or even longer now, but if you don't have it yet, please give it a look and think about it, because it is truly amazing!!

You can really feel and see the difference and even my boyfriend uses it from time to time ;).

It has 2 speeds, 2 year warranty and the package includes a travel case which is really practical. If you want to use it on your body too, then there is a bigger one availabe in the stores. A little "plus" for all of you ladies, you can get it in different colours. I've spotted it in pink 2 weeks ago and it looked great.

I hope you liked this post and I wish you a really nice day or night wherever you are :)!

Much love xoxo

Lila ♥ 

Delicious Salmon-Potato rolls ♥

Hello my dearest! :)

Yesterday my mum and I have made some very delicious salmon-potato rolls for lunch. It's been a long time that I had it for the last time and I must have forgotten how amazing they are haha.
I just wanted to share this yummy recipe with you and hope you try it and of course like it :).

Much love xoxo

Lila ♥

What you need: 

First step: Pay attention that the mashed potatoes are still cold from the fridge. Then add two eggs and a little bit less than half a parmesan cheese into the bowl. Season it with salt, pepper and some nutmeg. (Please do not to much season it, as the mashed potatoes are still seasoned.

Second step: Add the fine breadcrumbs and some flour and knead it all gently with your fingers. 

When the mixture has a good consistance (you want to flatten it) take it out of the bowl and on your floured work surface. 

Third step: Now flatten it also very gently with your rolling pin. When this step is also done, the salmon is going to have his appearance ;). Take the slices and add them on the flattened dough. Also add some more of the parmesan cheese. (Now it looks like a weird salmon cheese pizza ;) )

Fourth step: Now roll it to a big "sausage". If the dough's still too wet there can be some problems but just mend the holes with the dough and add some flour. When this step's done you can take a knife and cut it in sclices which should have a width of 3 cm. (I'm sorry if you don't calculate with cm, m, etc.)

Now you can put them into a pan and cook them until they have a nice, crispy looking, goldbrown colour. 

Tip: You can have this lunch with red cabbage and crème fraîche like I did. This tastes amazing!

Voila that would be my recipe and I really hope you liked it! 

This is an amount for 4-5 people :) 

the "raw" "snails" before cooking :) 

                               

My sunday outfit

Hello everyone :), 

I really hope you had or you're still having an amazing sunday. My boyfriend and I went to some friends who live quite far away from us and we had an amazing time with amazing food. Today I wanted to share my outfit of the day with you and I hope you like it. I'm sorry for two things ;). First point is my hair haha I have quite a big hairline but my hairdresser is going to correct that during the week which is coming :). Second point would be my look on the picture. I was so blended by the sun that sometimes I look a little bit angry or just weird. I was definitely not angry haha. 

I hug you guys!

Much love xoxo 

Lila ♥

 Clothes: 

Coat: Woolrich 

Blouse: H&M

Jeans: Seven for all mankind

Shoes: Cenedella

Necklace: Zara

Bag: Longchamp 

Miss Wolford and Baby NYX ♥

Hello my lovely ladies out there, 

Today I went shopping with my mum, my sister and my little baby brother. As I still had some credits left for one of my favorite stores, (which is by the way the only store that sells NYX cosmetics) I got myself the NYX "03 Caviar & Bubbles", The Runway Collection, Eyeshadow palette. I'm super excited to try out these beautiful coulours and I'm so, so happy that I bought it. The palette includes 10 very natural and a little bit shimmery colours. If you want to I can make a little review on the eyeshadows in another blogpost which will be in the future of course. 

One more little present for myself were the "Wolford Roxette tights" which I got in the sale and I think they're super sexy, beautiful and just amaaaazing :). They have one, longer black strip which ends on your thigh. On the black strip they've put some silver studs which highlight the tights perfectly.

I'm really looking forward to wearing them and of course you'll get a picture of it as soon as I'm wearing my new friends. 

That's it for today I hope you enjoyed this little blogpost and I wish you a very nice evening or day, wherever you are at the moment. 

Much love 

xoxo 

Lila

♥ 

About me

Hello everyone :)

I'm a 21 year old student who loves all about beauty, fashion and special moments in life.
When I was about 13 I was sure that one day I'd become a famous journalist ;). During the time I've changed a litte bit my opinion but I still want to study communications which is not completely different than journalism :). But even if I won't study journalism I still love to share my opinion with other people even if I don't know them.
Another passion of myself is travelling. When I was 16 years old I spent one year in France to perfectionate my french and it was definitely one of the best years in my life! Now next week I will go to England for 6 months. I'm going to do an internship over there and I'm very excited. I think that one reason for my excitement is at one hand the job which I'm really looking forward to and on the other hand I'm really happy to meet another "culture" and other styles and make-up products ;).
I would love to take you on this journey with me and if you like this 6 months with me I'd be so happy if you would still continue reading my posts.
I hope that I could describe myself a little bit for you :)

So much love to everyone!!

♥

Lila

Welcome ♥

Salut mes belles,

I'm so happy that I finally opened my blog which has been a very big dream of myself for a very long time. Unfortunately I haven't really had the time to create one but now I'm ready to share my passion with you. If you're as crazy as I am then you're totally wright here. I love talking about everything which contains beauty, fashion, a little bit interior design and great moments in life. I would be so glad if I just reach one of you with my inspirations and ideas.
I thank you very much for reading and hope that you'll have fun on my blog.

A big bisous

Lila 

♥