Faux Fur Coats

Hi,

One of the things we love most about winter is wearing fancy coats. This year one of the coat trends is faux fur coats. There are so many beautiful fur coats, and we've showed you some yet in out post about coats and jacket this year, but here we'll show you all the pretty faux fur coats we saw this year.

Altough we prefer fur coats in only one color, we also like this one. It's from Romwe and costs €54.99.

Here's another one from Romwe, also for €54.99. We really love the color of this one.

At Subdued we found this simple but cute black faux fur coat. It costs €89.

If you'd rather have something eye-catching, you can also go for a aux fur coat in a bright color. Like this green one from Bershka that costs €59.99.

Leopard faux fur coats can look really chic too, as you see. You can find one at Forever 21 for €56.84

Our favorite of all is this checkered brown coat from Forever 21 that costs €42.23

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Turban Headband

Hi,

Besides the beanies-with-a-pom-pom-trend, there is a totally new trend going on this winter too: the turban headband. You don't see this trend a lot on the streets yet. But all shops sell them and hipsters wear them whole the time. So if you wanna buy one, here are some we like:

This is an example of a turban headband. You can buy this one in H&M for € 5,99.

This birght bleu one is from Boohoo and costs € 8,00.

This one is from Forever 21 and will cost you only € 4,95.

This gorgeous one is from Urban Outfitters and costs € 19,00. 

This is another pretty one Urban Outfitters sells. This one costs € 17,00. 

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Bourjois Délice De Soleil Bronzing Powder

Hi,

Today Maia will review her new bronzing powder, Délice De Soleil from Bourjois. Maia loves the brand Bourjois so much! Bourjous is a pretty expensive brand, but we think it's better to spent a bit more money on somerthing really good than less on a product of bad quality. Maia already bought the Healthy Mix fond de teint from Bourjous (she reviewed it too by the way) and it's a really good one, that gives are almost a perfect skin. 
As she hoped, this bronzing powder is equally great. It gives your skin a lot of color without making it look unnatural and fake-tanned. It's also a little bit glittering, but you can barely see that when you've applied it and it's rather matt than shining. It also stays pretty long and you don't need to apply much of it.



We also really love the packaging. It's a bit big, wich makes it less handy, but that means the mirror is also bigger, wich is really useful. Also you can fully turn it around and adjust it just as you like. The packaging is actually too big to take it with you in your bag, altough that would be handy because there's a brush included, but this actually isn't necessery for the color stays on your skin the whole day.
The brush that is included is really good and easy to use. It's very soft on the skin, leaves no streaks and you can apply the bronzer evenly with it.




There are two shades and Maia chose the lightest one, because she has a very pale skin. As you see in the picture above, it still has a big difference with her natural skin color. On the picture above she tested it out on her hands, and hands are always a bit more tanned than your face, so this bronzing powder has a huge effect for her. She doesn't have to use a lot of it because it's very tinted.

On the package they also say it's 'good for your skin'. The bronzing powder contains cocoa beans, that give your skin radianc, SPF 15, wich works as a protection against the sun, orange blossom extract, wich hydratates your skin and it doesn't block your pores.

We made two posts already about how to use bronzer, so check them out here and here :)

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Louboutin Nail Polish

Hi,

You probably already heard it. But maybe not, so we're saying it anyway: Louboutin recently released a nail polish collection! As you can see on the picture above: the bottle has a very chic design. And the range has many colors to chose from. We would love to try it out, but the price a bit more on the pricier side as we are used to with Louboutin. One bottle of nail polish will cost you already € 45,00. Which we think is a bit too pricey for what it is. But we would still love to try it once!

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Party Dresses

Hi,

It's almost Christmass and New Year, so it's also almost time to wear your prettiest party dress again! :D Pretty exciting huh!
It's always so hard to pick a party dress, because they're all so beautiful, so we'll help you out by makin a list of all the beautiful dresses we found :)

This first one we found is from Romwe and costs €50. We think it's really princess-like :)

This retro dress is also from Romwe and costs €80.

This dress (also from Romwe) is a bit more simple, but just as sparkling :) It costs €21.

Less is more and  everyone should have a simple black dress, so that's why this dress from Subdued would be perfect. It costs €34. Combined with some statement jewellry it'd make the perfect party dress.

At New Year, glitter is a must. This lovely silver dress is from Bershka and costs €39.99

If glitter isn't really your thing, you can also go for lace. This dress is from Bershka and costs €24.99.

We found another beautiful lace dress at Forever 21 for €23.45.

Forever 21 sells a lot of cute lace dresses! This one costs €23.45 too.

We also found a lot of adorable party dresses at New Look. Like this black one, that costs €79.99.

Also velvet dresses are totally back in fashion. This purple one can be found in New Look for €22.99.

High-low dresses will always be our favorites :) This one's also from New Look and costs €29.99.

Here's another glittery one! This time from topshop for €325

Most of the dresses we showed you were black, but with a gold dress you'll brighten up the whole party :) This one's also from Topshop and costs €60.

We hope this helped you with picking out a new dress!

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Ipsy

Hi,

Do you know ipsy yet? It's a beauty community and when you pay $ 10,00 a month you will get monthly a glambag free delivered at your home. In this glambag you will find beauty products. The value of the whole bag together will be a lot more than those $ 10,00. So you will save a lot of money with it! All the products are chosen by people who have tested them and approved them. On there youtube channel they have tutorials on how to use the products in your glambag. Doesn't this sound like a dream? Go check there site out: http://www.ipsy.com/

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Celebs At The American Music Awards

Hi,

Yesterday were the American Music Awards and as always we were very excited to see who was wearing what. In this post we'll make a little list of the amazing looks of the celebs:

Wow, Charli XCX is certainly one of the lady's who dressed the chiquest last night. We love the shape of her dress!

Rita Ora was on of the only celebs who dared to wear a bright color. This dress certainly brightened up the whole event! Yellow is mostly not that flattering, but Rita Ora looks great in it.

Another one who chose to wear something colorful was Taylor Swift, altough we like her look less. The dress has kind of a strange shape and we don't like the color either.

Selena Gomez stayed safe with a combination classic of black and gold.She looks really chic and we just adore her earrings!

But we think Fergie wore the black and gold-look better. We're so jealous of that dress!!

Diana Argon also looked great yesterday. We love her vintage-looking dress that she combined great with some silver jewellry. We're not really fans of her hair tough.

Nude colored dresses can be really beautiful, but we don't like the one Jennifer Lopez was wearing. The color doesn't look good with her skin color and we think the cut-out shape is kind of weird.

We just love Zandaya Coleman's look! While most celebs went for black, she decided to wear white. Her dress is super cute and  her hair looks just perfect!

Our personal favorite looks of the American Music Awards were those of Zendaya and Fergie, while we think that Jennifer Lopez and Taylor Swift could have done better.

As you see both black and white colors are totally in fashion, altough there were also some celebs who pulled of with a bright colored outfit. Almost everyone chose a long, vintage looking dress.

xoxo

Maia & Femke

Beanies With a Pom Pom

Hi,

Here in Belgium it's getting colder every day. And we noticed this cute trend going on: beanies with a pom pom. We love these kind of knitted hats. They are so cozy and warm: basically perfect for the winter. And they look of course super cute! If you don't have on yet, you must go and get yourself one! Here are some of our favourites:

Femke recently bought herself this one from H&M. She is obsessed with it! It looks so cute! It cost her € 9,99.

But if you prefer one with a bigger and fluffier pom pom, this one from H&M might be more for you. This one costs € 9,99 too. 

Aww, we think this one looks very cute. It's from Boohoo and costs € 11. And if you're a big Zoella fan: she has this one too!  

We love this baby ink one from Urban Outfitters! You can buy it for € 25,00. 

This is another pretty one from Urban Outfitters. This one costs € 25,00. 

This baggy one is from Zara and costs € 9,95. They sell them in other colors too. 

xoxo
Maia & Femke

What To Do Against Hair Loss

Hi,

Especially now winter is starting there are a lot of girls who have problems with hair loss. One of the reasons of hair loss is change of temperature. So we tought we should made a post about what to do against hair loss. Because of course nobody likes to have thin hair.

First of all we're going to sum up some other reasons why you might loose hair. The main reason temperature change this time of the year, but with the exams comming it might also be stress. Now for both of these reasons there isn't really a sollution. For the weather you'll just have to wait (some people are more sensitive for wheather change than others) and for the stress you'll just have to try to relax more. :)

When you have too much vitamin A in your body you'll loose hair too. This is mostly only when you take extra vitamin A-containing supplements and if you notice this is making you loose hair, you'll just have to reduce it.

On the other hand, vitamin B is something that causes hair loss when you haven't got enough of it. You can try eating fish, meat, vegetables, and non-citrus fruits or just take some kind of vitamin B-containing supplements.
A lack of protein can also cause hair loss. This means you have to eat more meat, fish and eggs.

Changing in hormones, when your pregnant for excample, can cause hair loss too. But of course then you won't be able to prevent it. But don't worry, it'll grow back ones your hormones are normal again :)
When you loose a lot of weight or when you're ill you can also have some trouble with hair loss, but this is also something you can't help of course.

Another more common reason of hair loss is overstyling. This can be from too much heat used in you hair but also when you wear a lot of tight braids or ponytails. When you think this is the reason you loose hair you'll have to stop using heat on your hair (try no-heat curls instead of a curling iron and let your hair air dry), use conditioner after every shampo and when you put your hair up, don't do it too tight.

There is also medication that prevents hair loss, but normally if you take everything we wrote above into account, you won't need that.
Not all hair loss is bad by the way. You'll always loose some hair and that's okay, because your scalp needs to get rid of the dead hair so it can grow again. Without that little bit of hair loss, your hair won't be healthy.

xoxo
Maia & Femke

3 Ways To Fake Bangs

Hi,

Kayley Melissa recently made a video where she showes you 3 different ways to "fake" bangs. We just love the idea of faking bangs, because bangs are such a hard subject; everybody wants them, but no one knows if they will look good on them and people who have already bangs themselves get very quickly bored of them. So now you can play around with it. Here is the video if you're interested:

You probably noticed our love for Kayley Melissa's videos! Well, we think she always makes very beautiful hairstyles. And besides her normal hair tutorials, she always makes these kind of very original and usefull hair tutorials. You should really check her channel out!

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Robbie Williams For Primark

Hi,

Robbie Williams announced that he will release a collection for Primark. Which makes us very excited, because Primark doesn't collaborate a lot. But the stupid part (for us girls) is that it will be a collection for men. It's going to be a chic collection for a put together look, which we also aren't really used to for Primark. But we hope that this will lead to more collaborations for Primark. 

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Vaseline

Hi,

We've already wrote about how useful Vaseline can be a few times, but there are so many different ways to use it that we decided to give it it's whole own post today.

The most commen use of vaseline (and we've also mentioned this a few times before) is on your lips. If you're one of those people who struggle horribly chapped lips every winter, you can try putting vaseline on it. Just putting it on will help a lot already, but it's even more effective if you srub your lips with a tissu or a toothbrush afterwards. It's also pretty as a translucent lip-gloss by the way. You can either put it over lip stick or use it on it's own, it'll both look good. If you mix Vaseline with your favorite blush or eye-shadow, you can create a great lipgloss by the way.
You can also use it under your eye-shadow to make it sparkle more or on your cheeks for a bit of shine. It actually works great as a highlighter.
What we also told you before is that you can also use it on your eye-lashes. If you put it on every night before you go to sleep, it will make your eye-lashes grow longer, fuller and thicker over time. It feels a bit sticky, but the result is so good that this doesn't matter :) If you don't apply too much you can also wear it instead of mascara for a more natural look.
It's also good to remove make-up with. It'll work for both make-up stains and make-up on your face. But we find this rather clumsy, because it's so sticky.
Now something that may be useful in winter times: it also makes dry spots on your skin soft again. For excample if you've got some dry skin spots on your face you should apply some Vaseline under your foundation to hide it. Also, a lot of people put a little bit of Vaseline on their feet every night, covered up by socks, to make their feet feel softer. Same for your elbows and even your knees by the way. You can also make a scrub with Vaseline if you mix it with some sea salt. Ans if you're planning on using a tanning lotion you can put on Vaseline on drier spots first to prevent uneven tanning.
If you have some trouble with dry or split ends in your hair, you can apply some Vaseline on the ends of your hair.
Also your nails can profit a lot from Vaseline. To start with you can put it on your cuticles to make them look better and softer. Also, if your too lazy to polish your nails again after a week, just apply some vaseline over it to make it shine again.
Another rather uncommon, yet effective use of Vaseline is to put in on your 'perfume spots' before you spray on parfume. This way the scent will last longer.
You can also but a little bit of it on leather bags or shoes to make them shine more.

As you see you can use Vaseline for almost everything. :o And the best part of it: it's not expencive at all!

xoxo
Maia & Femke

How To Make Your Braids Stand Out

Hi,

Kayley Melissa recently made a video where she teaches you how to make your braids stand out. She teaches you a technique to make your braids look a lot fuller. If you aren't familiar with this technique yet you should definitely watch this video. But even if you know how to make your braids stand out, in this video Kayley gives you a lot tips to do it the right way, so you will still learn a lot from it. It's definitely worth watching it, here is the video:

xoxo
Maia & Femke

Christmas Nail Art

Hi,

Christmas is coming soon, so we already gathered some cute inspiration for Christmas nail art.

















As you see, we found a lo, but if you're still not inspired yet you can check out last years Christmas Nail Art post.

xoxo
Maia & Femke