What I Got For Christmas 2013! ♥

Happy Holidays! Sorry it's been a while. I have always enjoyed watching and reading about what other people got for Christmas and really wanted to do a video of my own. However, over the past few years my relatives, family members and friends have took the easier route of just giving me money and gift cards (which is totally fine). There is just something about receiving a gift that someone really put thought into. So here my list for this year.


I wish you all a safe and fantastic holiday. I hope each and everyone of you are enjoying yourselves :) Man, I can't believe 2013 is almost over.

The Life Without Internet Experiment

So it has been about a week since I've moved into my new house for university. That also means I have survived about a week without internet. Our internet provider is coming this Sunday to install it, but until then, we are internet free. My phone plan is already expensive enough, so I never got data as part of it. Those of you reading this may be thinking "life without internet isn't that bad". But this is kind of one of those things you actually have to experience life without before actually making a judgement. I'm in the library using the university's internet right now.

In my new house, I live with five other internet hungry teenagers. It is quite interesting to see the reaction and behavior of my housemates without internet. It feels like we are slowly growing a disease and each day without internet it just gets worse.

For the first few couple of days in the evening after dinner, we just sat around on the couch and pretty much stared at each other. I'm not even joking. We did try to have some small talk here and there, but even when it felt like hours and hours passed by, it was usually only ten or fifteen minutes the next time someone checked the clock. School recently just started so there aren't really much assignments or homework we can distract ourselves with.

I guess each night we get more used to having nothing to do after dinner. At the very start, we didn't know what to do with ourselves. I know that is a very silly first world problem, but I can't help it. It's like feeding a baby calf milk all its life then suddenly taking it away. If someone was walking past our house and looking into our bare window, they would think it was some kind of teen psychiatric institution. We were jumping up and down, dancing to no music and pretending to do the big clock on the floor like Loonette from The Big Comfy Couch. By now, we have calmed down and tired ourselves out and just resorted back to staring at each other.

I've always wondered how my parents could go to sleep so early at only 9 or 10 at night. Now I know exactly why. Every long, stretched out night, we would check the clock and it barely be 8pm.

Life without internet has made me realize how much time I actually spend surfing the web. I usually end up going to sleep at like 4 or 5am with internet. Now I go to sleep at around 10 or 11pm. I guess that is one of the pros that came out of this. I wake up feeling energized, instead of feeling tired and dreadful. 

Although internet is a great tool and advancement that us teenagers are fortunate enough to have and often take for granted, we should definitely not bury ourselves in it or live through it. These past few days, I've gotten to explore my new neighborhood and be more active at school, which is something I never would have done if I was still able to access Tumblr at home. I definitely will not stop using the internet, but I've realized how much of an in-person introvert this genius invention is turning us all into. 

I don't know if this exists, but if it doesn't it should. There should be an experiment conducted on teenagers to see their reaction and behavior once internet is taken away from them. If not, at least make it into a reality TV show. I would totally watch that.

"Dangling" Earrings Haul

Happy late night Friday everyone! School is right around the corner (for me it starts next Tuesday). I decided to do a haul video of just "Dangling" earrings. I love studded earrings, but I prefer earrings that are loose hanging because I like to wear my hair down more often than up. And my hair always gets in the way of those beautiful pearl studs. I waited awhile to do this video so I would have enough earrings to include in the haul video. I'm pretty sure that's NOT how haul videos work, but oh well ^_^.

There were a few pairs in the haul where I have "just because". There were these two pairs that my friend gave me, which are gorgeous patterned hoops, but just not my kind of style. My favorite pair of earrings out of the bunch have to be these hanging studs, which kind of remind me of a dream catcher.

I'm definitely excited about all these additions to my earring collection and can't wait to wear all these earrings in the future! I cant believe its the end of August already. Where did my summer fly to?  I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Hoops that were given to me as a gift

Hello, I guess

So first post on this blog. Awkward icebreaker time.

Hi, I'm Lilian aka Lily. I don't know if anyone will be reading this, but I decided to start this blog to share my experiences beauty and non beauty related with others. I've always enjoyed reading other peoples' blogs, so I figured, why not start my own too :)

I should have smiled, I look bored out of my mind here D':

Well since this is the first post, I wont make it too long. I hope I will see you guys (or anyone reading this) in the future.

xoxo 

Lily