Life Through Instagram #5

Ella's italian dinner @ Mazzo, Amsterdam • Afternoon tea, the Greek way • Tiffany's hair donation back in December as a birthday good deed• Shameless selca, wearing the Korres lipbalm from this post • Tiffany's cute dinner with her cousin (Many dinners with cousins this month, yay!) • Tiffany's night out @ Escape, Amsterdam • Afternoon tea, the British way • Pai Combination Skin Cream• Tiffany after being at Holi Festival @ Amsterdam ArenA

We definitely slowed down with putting things up on Instagram, so hence the two old pictures between the new ones. I am not sure whether I should review the Pai moisturizer so I thought mentioning it here in case anyone is interested in one. Let me know if you want a review of it! Ever since I cut off like 23 centimeters of my hair for donation, my hair grew pretty fast. I should definitely do a before and after comparison soon haha. Other than that, the usual eating and I have been going out more often now. I guess that's what having housemates and summer holiday does to me. Really need to watch out with the calories. Anyhow, it was a great month. Hope you had a great one too!





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*M&C Go Dutch - Best Kept Secret Festival 2013

Last Friday I went to the first edition of the Best Kept Secret Festival. It was my first real festival ever, so seeing great bands performing there was more than just a cool experience. I could not really take a lot of pictures since my friend and I were almost literally fighting at the front row to have a nice view, but here are a few to give you an idea of what I did there.


The Maccabees!

Bloc Party

Aand the Arctic Monkeys. It went crazy once they were on stage, we were struggling to stay at the front

It is definitely true that they had a great line-up (we stayed at stage one the whole time, but they had two more stages filled with great artists), but the organization was a mess. It took us at least an hour to get to the actual festival area, even though we paid another 5 euro for a ride to the festival with their shuttle buses. Not exactly because it was so far away, but they kept dropping us at the wrong places and there were no clear directions to the location whatsoever. Oh well, I guess they can always learn for the next time!

The next day I actually went to the Holi Festival in Amsterdam as well, so that's why I haven't gotten the time to write a regular post. I didn't really take pictures there since I was afraid the colour powders would ruin my camera, but maybe there will be some showing up soon that were taken by professionals.





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*M&C Must Haves - Suncreens

Hurray, the sun has finally started showing up in the Netherlands! Now Ella and I are almost always wearing sunscreen, even if it is rainy and cloudy all day. We are believers of the damage UV rays can do to our skin, but we also believe that there are good and bad suncreens. Here are three that I personally like using, which are all paraben-free and has never reacted badly on my skin whatsoever.

For the face

This Sebamed Sun Care Multi Protect Sun Cream SPF 50+ is not too oily despite having a really high SPF rate, making it perfect to use on the face. Instead of saying that it makes your skin oily, I would say it gives your skin a somewhat dewy effect. Since it is also sold for a reasonable price and for the fact that it has never broken me out, it is definitely a recomendation for everyone to try out.


For the body

The Sebamed sunscreen can be used on the body as well, but I would personally prefer to use the Ultrasun SPF 30 Clear Spray Sports Formula. Not only does a spray makes applying it to the skin so much easier, it is also quite oily. If you are a fan of that oily body-look (is that even a look?) that celebrities sometime have, this is the product to try out. I am not too sure why, but I quite like that look myself..


For the lips

Don't forget about the lips! This Korres Mandarin Lip Butter Stick SPF 15 in Peach is slightly more moisturizing than the previous lipbalm with SPF that I recommended (This provides enough moisture when my lips are in good condition), and having a little colour is always a plus. Definitely not the best in moisturizing, but definitely the best I can find so far that also provides a little SPF protection.





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Life Through Instagram #4

Shin Ramyun, the best instant noodles everr • Street musicians in Amsterdam • Enjoying the rare great weather at a park in Amsterdam• Sunset after dinner • Ella's french pharmacy haul • Yukgaejang goodness • Ella's 'healthy' food haul • Sushi dinner • Tiffany's birthday accessories tree

It's totally obvious that we have a big love for Korean food or food in general. My accessories tree is so cool, it has like a bunny, birds and a plane on it- my rings collection totally makes sense now haha. The coming week will be my last stress period before summer holiday, because I'll be handing in my last paper of this academic year on Friday; wish me luck! In the meantime, hope you all don't have too much school stuff left to do and can be able to enjoy the weather (it's going to be consistently warm here this week, lovely for my concentration! NOT) in this new month.





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M&C Rad Readings #1

Sometimes oftentimes I am a little busy with my study or other things in real life. I might then not be able to update as frequent as I would like to, but I always try to keep up with my blog feed so that I don't get off track too much. K from Cosmeddicted always have these Weekly Reads posts that I love checking out because every now and then there are a few links up there that are interesting to read for me. Now if you check out my Tumblr you will see that I have been listing everything up there that I can use as inspiration, usually things that are fashion and DIY-related. I realized I haven't been able to list other things up there since that would just make it too random and messy (Yes I'm very anal about these kind of things, don't mind me haha~ ). And so, inspired by K I decided to list my interesting readings as well. I present you, the M&C Rad Readings número uno:

Not Fashion Related: Blogging 101 from Wardrobe Oxygen. Some very useful tips; worth reading for the bloggers among us.

Grey Areas from Lips So Facto. Honestly, I'm really good at neglecting my skin when it's not my face's. This post definitely made me think about the rest of my skin. I should really invest some more time into taking care of that as well, but I'm afraid I'm just too lazy..

Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain from Beauty Swatch. Not really a long read, but Yishan sure convinces me with her well-moisturized luscious lips that these balm stains are worth trying out.

Coffee Shop Oatmeal to Go! from A Beautiful Mess. Oatmeal. To go. And it supposedly tastes good?! This might actually awaken my never-existed oatmeal craving.

Get styled head to toe at Bubblekid from Overdose.am. An article about a cool shop we have here in Amsterdam. Never been there before, maybe something worth writing about again when I actually have.





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