St. Petersburg

Hi!

Last weekend I went on a trip to St. Petersburg, Russia with my dad. We left on Friday on a cruise ship where we went to eat at a buffet, saw a show at a nightclub and danced a bit. 

In the morning we jumped on a shuttle bus and started walking around after having some KFC for breakfast. Typical. I don't really know what else to tell other than we walked A LOT. St. Petersburg was beautiful and sometimes really reminded me of Helsinki. 

There was this one building that didn't fit in one picture so I had to take 4:

We walked through Nevski prospekt most of the day which is a street full of expensive stores. Only things I could afford were beauty products so I dragged my dad in to every beauty store I saw and the Russian word for "cosmetics" became familiar to me really soon.

Then it was time to jump on another shuttle bus and go back to the ship. We went to eat at an Italian restaurant, saw a show at the nightclub and I just remember thinking that I'd go rest for a while in our cabin and then go maybe dance for a while. Next thing I heard was my alarm clock going off in the morning. And then I went straight to sleep when we got home. I had a lot of fun on the trip but man, I was tired.

Here's all the things I bought excluding the tax free things from the ship because those were just candy and gum. I bought these from a few different stores but I have no idea what the names were.

One of the stores had some OPIs for sale for about 5€ so I bought two, No room for the blues and A grape fit!
I also got Blue frosting (Diamond strength) and Hypnautical (Triple shine) from Sally Hansen.

Revlon lip butter in Cupcake, Bon Voyage blotting sheets and a Dolce Milk lipbalm in choholate mint.

They sold the Dolce Milk products in a few stores I visited. I saw the banana scented shower gel and just couldn't resist. It smells AMAZING. The strawberry one also looked like something I wanted to buy but they only had a hand soap in the first store, the second one they had the shower gel in a big container and then finally I found it that size and I got really happy. I almost regret not buying enough of these shower gels to last me the rest of my life because they smell amazing and they were pretty cheap too.

Okay I think that's all.

See you soon!
~Susanna

Animals and nail polishes

Hi!

Somehow I won tickets to a pet, outlet, child and arts & crafts fair/expo from a contest on instagram so I asked Laura to join me and we decided to go. The expo was this weekend and I had really no idea what they had there that I'd be interested in but I found out the outlet expo had some pretty cheap nail polishes. It was nice because I'm getting more into nail art again, especially now that I have some new stuff. I ended up buying a bit more than I was planning on but I stayed in my budget the whole day, even after the expo!

Our friend joined us at the expo and after we had walked around for few hours, we decided to leave, go eat some Chinese food and go to few stores at the central. It was such a lovely weather outside. I'm so happy it's getting warmer!

Here's all the things I bought today:

China Glaze - Liquid Crystal, Essie - Mint Candy Apple (a nail polish I've wanted for YEARS), Blanc and Shake Your $$ Makers

Lumene Natural Code - Jewel Green, Angry Birds 54 and Pink Diamond and Lumene - Quick Sand (Jäljet hiekassa)

BYS - Ultra Violet, Diamond Glitter Satin and Emerald

We went to CesarsShop's store after the expo and I got a Nailfix cuticle oli in yummy gummy and Diamond Dazzling and Hexagon Dazzling glitters.

From a random craft store I got two tubes of holographic glitter to use on my nails and from Kicks I got a buffing nail file or whatever those are called :D

I had a really fun day and thanks girls for the company! :)

See you soon!
~Susanna

Winter break haul 1

HI!

So I went shopping today with my friend Laura today. I saved up some money especially to buy new clothes from Helsinki since my style has changed a lot this year. I found some amazing things and I'm so happy. I think I'm going to go through my closet when I go back to Rovaniemi and sell all the clothes I haven't worn in a long time. Anyway, here's what I bought today:

 I'm kind of obsessed with making little animals and charms out of loom bands and they had way more colors in Sinelli here. I got sparkly pink, 2 bags of black, silver, 2 bags of gold, red, bronze/brown and light blue.

From Anttila I got a Nivea in-shower body milk. And from H&M couple of makeup brushes since I was really smart and left mine at home.

Shirt and skirt from H&M

Top and skirt from H&M 

Shirt and skirt from H&M 

Skirt and jacket from New Yorker  

See you soon!
~Susanna

Christmas break haul

Hi!

So since I'm back in Helsinki and the after Christmas sales are going on, I've been doing way too much shopping for the past 2 days so I thought I'd show you what I got. I think only few things I bought weren't on sale.

A new thermos mug from Starbucks to keep my tea in on school mornings.

I went to look for a new book to read from Akateeminen and my friend recommended this and it sounded pretty interesting.

From Kicks I got IsaDora's peel off base for nails and Hugo Boss's Jour Pour Femme body lotion.

The Body Shop had brought back couple of their body scrubs I had missed when they were on sale so I got the raspberry one. It literally smells like raspberry jam.

From Sokos I got IsaDora's transparent lip liner, Rimmel's stay matte powder, a back up for my favorite makeup sponge from Cailap, Rimmel's Scandaleyes mascara, I Love... hand soaps in Raspberry & Blackberry and Mango & Papaya and Cleansing wipes from Nivea.

A book about how to keep your apartment clean and put together in a laid back way. I will probably need this more than I even know.

Went to Sokos again and got a GOSH lip lacquer in Crispy lips, a lip brush from We Care Icon and a night cream from Lumene.

I went to a different Kicks and almost died when I saw they had Dior eyeshadows HALF OFF. I've been dreaming about owning one of these for about 5 years so I just had to get one. This one was in 954 Pink Pompadour.

I went a bit crazy in Lush since their holiday stuff was half off. I got sets called Cozy Christmas and Good Tidings. Both of them include different kind of shower and skin care stuff.

Lastly we went to a toy store and I just had to get all the ridiculous One Direction stuff because why not. They were all on sale anyway. I got a secret diary (not so secret anymore) that is also a pillow, some toothbrushes (which are probably the funniest things I've seen), a singing toothbrush, stickers and some Frozen sticker packs.

See you soon!
~Susanna