Fanni

I have a long, naturally curly hair which requires a lot of care. I usually wash my hair twice a week, and it takes about two hours.

Firstly I don’t do anything special, wash my hair with silicone free shampoo twice then I rinse it out. After I put a big amount of silicone free conditioner and leave it in my hair for about 10 minutes. I rinse it out too and the fun part begins.

On weekdays I don’t comb my hair, because it’s the first rule if you have curly hair that you mustn’t comb your hair when it’s dry. So before I start to comb my hair, I put some oil to the ends in order to prevent them from breakage. Combing my hair lasts for a lifetime and hurt so bad, especially if I washed my hair more than 4-5 days ago.

After I finish it, a shake my head because this method my natural curls get back their original shape and be more defined. After shaking well, I put some hair cream in my hair, but I avoid the roots, because if the product get there, my hair will be easily oily. Then the next step is the mousse. This is the most important to my hair, because with the help of the mousse my curls get more defined, stronger, prettier and it helps to maintain this situation for days.

Then I take my diffuser and dry my hair. I don’t use a normal hairdryer because that would destroy my natural volume and natural shape of the curls. Drying my hair takes usually 45-50 minutes till every part will be dry.

After this whole suffering I can enjoy my hair for maximum 2 days, because my roots became oily and I put my hair into a bun. AAAAAAAfter, I can start everything from the beginning. However, I have to deal with it a lot, I would say worth it, because I love my hair, it’s my jewelry, I feel more special with it, especially among girls who have straight hair.

Eating healthily is extremely important in order to maintain our mental and physical health. Most people have no idea at all, what could they eat for breakfast, for lunch, or what snacks could they eat between the main meals.

My favourite breakfast is oatmeal. But it’s not just a simple oatmeal, I usually make it with some chocolate in which there is no added sugar or when I would like to taste some sour in the morning, I put frozen fruits to my oatmeal. Another good option is scrambled eggs with spices, onion and a few slices of (healthy:D) sausage.

For lunch you have several options. Currently I eat chicken with bulgur and many kind of vegetables, like broccoli, tomato, radish, cucumber, leek and so on. If you are bored with this meal, you can eat fish instead of chicken, for example tuna.

And the last meal of the day (hopefully) is dinner. You can eat the same that you ate for lunch, but also if you want to eat sweet thing, you can make cottage cheese with protein powder, update pudding and a bit frozen fruit.

Nowadays, in the world of rush, full of people with prejudice, you can’t meet everyone’s expectations, and you shouldn’t care about it. You can’t be accepted by everyone and that’s totally alright.

In my opinion is that the way of thinking has changed a bit in almost every field of life. Most people expect you to be as humble and modest as you can. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing itself. However, if you say compliments about yourself, for example, “I am beautiful today” or “The color of my eyes is amazing” or “I think this dress totally fits me” and so on, you are bumptious, smug, uppish, you think a lot about yourself, etc. But if you say “I am not good enough”, “I look horrible in these jeans”, “I can’t complete it” people would say that you are aware of yourself (what is a bullshit) and it’s good that you know how you look like, what you are able to do, you shouldn’t say to yourself positive things because you will became uppish.

And my question would be: WHY? Why is it negative if a person loves herself/himself, accepts herself/himself and makes some compliments about her/his appearance, personality? Why should we rather demote and blame ourselves for everything and humiliate ourselves?  

People are often confused about the two terms “self-confidence” and “being bumptious”. I’m confident, so I can say “My body is gorgeous, I love the way it looks” and if I would bumptious I would say “My body is the most beautiful in the whole world, nobody has a better one, because I’m the best.” So do you understand the difference between them?

It shouldn’t be wrong that you are aware of yourself and you can appreciate your values, your appearance, your thoughts, simply YOURSELF. 

For my last reading diary, I chose another “world day of something”. On 5 October we celebrate the teachers.

Besides our family members and friends we spend most of the time in the school, among teachers. They can easily shape our personality, some celebrities had great teachers who helped them to became what they have became.

For example, Bill Gates’s math teacher said to him that Bill has to fulfil better in the school, put more energy into things. Maybe that’s why he became so successful. Another example is Oprah Winfrey, who said that she’s grateful for her teachers, because they do what teachers supposed to do:  “They create a spark for learning that lives with you from then on.”

Teachers play an important role on the development of a person’s personality, world view, thinking and so on.

On 5 October we celebrate the free education, which is one of the basic human rights. Unfortunately, there are many countries nowadays, where children can’t go to school.

In secondary grammar school my history teacher said that he likes to drink tea with milk, like the British people, who drink a lot of tea in a day. I tried to drink with milk, but it was horrible, but after I finish this reading diary, I’ll give another try. So basically, this inspired today’s diary. I’m a big fan of tea and coffee drinking, there is no day without a cup of both of them. According to the article, the official National Tea Day in the UK is 21, April.

Pouring the milk into the tea was always a big question: first the tea and after the milk or inversely? In the old times the rich people used to pour first the tea and after the milk. They drank from porcelain cups with a really good quality, which could withstand the temperature of the hot tea. The poor ones had to pour the milk first in order not to brake the cup because of the high temperature of the tea.

I’ve read about the “tea party”  which was rather an old tradition and habit. People got dressed in fancy clothes in the afternoon, got together somewhere like a hotel or a café and enjoyed drinking delicious tea from porcelain cups. But nowadays people made this “event” more informal.

And lastly, why 21, April? On this day tea parties were held across the UK, everybody sat with some friends, family members at a table, drank tea together, talked a lot and enjoyed others’ company. This day was about appreciating the opportunity of getting together with our loved ones, and trying new varieties of tea. link to the article: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/magazine/national-tea-day

I read an article about almost every people’s favourite sweets: chocolateeeeee!

Chocolate first was used as a drink, the Mayans mixed cocoa with vanilla or chilli. Cocoa beans were expensive as hell, people used it as money. Equador was the biggest producer of cocoa beans, but nowadays West Africa took its place, more than 70% of cocoa beans come from there.

The article mentions the process of making chocolate from the bean state to the end, which takes quite a long time.

But all of this informations are negligible, because people loved chocolate, still love chocolate and will love chocolate in the future, these datas are just interest things.:D

If you like going to parties, this post is totally for you. Conscious entertainment basically means that if you go to a party you have to be careful during at the whole night, especially if you are a young and pretty girl...

DON’T GO ALONE!

Before you leave the house, make sure that you will not be alone at the party and your friend will be there. It’s better, that if you get ready together, so it’s absolutely sure that neither of them will go alone to the party. Watch out for yourselves, if somebody is missing, go after her/him, look up each other! And of course don’t go home all alone, in the dark after a drunk night, it’s more dangerous than you think...

DON’T DRINK TOO MUCH!

Hangover is only one thing, but this isn’t the most important one. If you drink too much, you will be throw up, anyone can influence, hurt, and even rape you, so it’s way more serious than a little headache and a bad mood in the day after the party. Don’t drink too much amount of alcohol and don’t mix them!

DON’T ACCEPT DRINKS FOR UNKNOWN PEOPLE!

I think this is the most useful advice which can be given. If you don’t know the person who would like to invite you to a drink, don’t accept that, especially when it wasn’t you who opened the bottle, or if you didn’t see the moment when the bottle was opened. Maybe the unknown just tries to be nice with you, but be realistic, nowadays these people can put any kind of drugs into your drink, so be careful...

I read about the International Women’s Day, which was three days ago, on 8 March. In this article we can see this tradition from a different angle. It focuses on the “darkside” of being a woman nowadays, the article mentions some official informations that how many countries do not have a female leader, or what percentage of women are senior managers. It also points out to the salary of the women, which is way more lower the the men’s, even if they do the exactly same job. The lowest point of the article is the number of the murdered women, unfortunately it is an extremely high number.

The International Women’s Day is on the 8th of March, because a few decades ago on this day there was a conference about equality and women’s right to vote.

Social media plays an incredibly big and important role in our lives. We get informations from there, we communicate on social websites, basically it’s a part of a life in these days, in this generation.

A lot of people became addicted to social media surfaces, for example Instagram, which is a website where you can share photos with descriptions and hashtags. You also can communicate with people in direct messages or in comments. According to my experiences most people try to show that their lives are perfect, they’re always happy and successful, they don’t have any problems at all. But of course it’s NOT true. It’s obviously, that people don’t want to share with anyone on the internet if they’re sad, they cry or they have financial, psychical or any kind of problems. But you shouldn’t believe that their lives are flawless.

There are thousand of girls who go to the gym regularly, post pictures from there, and about their healthy foods and exquisite body. Afterthat they go home to a huge, beautiful house to their gorgeous husbands/boyfriends with whom they live a dreamlike life. BUT again, this isn’t the truth. More and more people are becoming depressed because they follow lots of people, who live like this way. These people think that they are the only ones, whose life isn’t so successful, who hasn’t a perfect beachbody, and an excellent partner and so on. 

If you follow these “stars” you make yourself sad. You got home after an exhausting day, lay down on the couch and scroll down your Instagram feed, and feel yourself more sorrowful after every faultless post. You always see the better side of the life, but you will never see the bad and hard side. Luckily, there are more and more profiles, where people share the stories behind Instagram pictures, the fake poses, the perfect angles, makeup, dresses, and so on. There is an unbelievably big difference between reality and the edited instagram side, which can influence your mood, your mentality and some cases your opinion about yourself, even if you think it isn’t true. It happens unknowingly, subconsciously.

Perfumes are my favourites beside makeup products. It’s very important to me that people smell good, because it definitely says a lot about the person’s personality. In my opinion is that if you’re demanding enough, you have at least two or three fragrances for different occasions.

In winter I like using sweet perfumes, they give me a cozy, warm mood, which always make my day when I spray them on myself.

I’m going to write my top 3 favourites, the third one is the Reb’l Fleur by Rihanna. It is a really “deep” scent, it has coconut, peach, plum and red berries in it, so we can say that it’s mainly a fruity scent. Its base notes (the last and the longest part of the parfume) are patchouli, musk and vanilla, the head notes (this specifies the first impressions, very intensive but goes away quite fast) are peach, currant and plum. The heart notes show themselves after the head notes are gone, these are hibiscus, violet, coconut and tuberose. I would say it’s the perfect “party parfume”, really seductive and feminine.

My second fav is another celebrity scent, it’s Fantasy by Britney Spears. It’s also a fruity but more a sweet parfume. What makes it so unique is the white chocolate and the cupcake in it. Its bases are the woody tones, iris root and musk, the head notes are quince kiwi and lychee. Lastly, the heart notes are the special cupcake, white chocolate and jasmine, orchid. It’s more like an everyday perfume, lasts really long despite of this is a star perfume (and we all know, the celebrity perfumes don’t lasts for the longest time).

My birthday is on the 26th of November (which is almost here) and I had to buy something gift for myself. I bought the highlighter palette by Soph and Makeup Revolution.

Soph is a famous, 21-year-old british youtuber, who has a beauty channel and more than 700 000 subscribers. She is really kind and talented, (btw she has a very nice accent) that’s why the big brand Makeup Revolution made a collaboration with her.

They made an eyeshadow palette and a highlighter palette, both are incredibly good quality. The highlighter palette has eight colors, and it costs only 9 pounds, which is an extremely good price for it.

There are 5 baked powders and 3 creamy formulas. The upper line contains lighter shades than the bottom. The first shade is a light white color, a bit greenish, its formula is not as creamy as the others’. The second color is my third favourite in this palette, it is a mixed color from pink and gold, really creamy, it spreads on your skin softly. The next is a gorgeous gold color, this is baked one, very pigmented, full of glitter, but not too harsh and conspicuous, this is my second fav one. The last one in the upper line is my favourite, it’s a really smooth champagne colour, perfect for everydays and for occasions because you can use 2 or even 3 layers of it. It also fits every skin colour and type.

The bottom line contains only baked powders, there are two brownish shades and two pinky shades. From left to right the first color is a nice pink, really light and special. The second one is a lilac-purple shade, with silver glitters. The last two are a bit dark for my light skin, but you can use these for bronzing or as an eyeshadow, because they’re beautiful.

If you are a student in a secondary grammar school, you have to take a final exam, a graduation in your last year. I experienced that most of the teachers like to exaggerate and enlarge this exam, and this is what you are going to worry about, not the difficulty of this test. If you would like to know my secrets, and prepare more easily for the exam, this post is written for you.

I would like to start with the 'score calculator’. In Hungarian you can “choose” one of the two calculating method, the first is when your grades and your final exam results all count, the second is when you can double your two best results of your final exam. The system will calculate your scores, the best method will be chosen by it, so you can not be a victim of a scam, your score will be as high as they can.

So, the preparing period can start 2-3 years before your final year, and also 2-3 months before the exam. I am a really lazy person, so I picked the latter. My studying started at December or January, and lasted for the day before the exam. I learned quite hard and now I must say this was the good choice, because this double scoring thing led to success.

I checked my grades from every subject, then I thought about what are my favourite subjects. Afterthat I realized that Hungarian Literature and Grammar, and the English language are my favourites and I am very good at them, so I decided this two subjects will be my main subjects, and I started to ignore the other, like Maths, Physics, History, Biology and the other unneccessary subjects (obviously these are unneccessary only for me).

I made every single task for these lessons, I tried to be the best and to get the most out of myself. I even went to an English private teacher regularly, which helped me a lot.

One of my most useful advice is that do the previous years’ final exams! In this way you can get use to the tasks and their types, the length of the solving, so you will have this advantage againts those who did not do the tests of the previous years.

Another important thing is that you have to percieve the material for the classes (and the exam too) FOUR viewpoints. You have to read, write, hear and say the words, sentences etc. I know it might sounds weird but it really works!

(For credibility I share with you my results. They were quite good, English in advanced level was 74% and that is an excellent evaluation according to the system, and my Hungarian Grammar and Literature was 96%, so I think I can call it a success) 

All in all, you do not have to worry about high-school graduation, you do not have to be afraid from it, you will be great, and you will perform as you wish.

The only thing what is important and what you need to concentrate on, that is APPROPRIATE PREPARATION.

Hope this post will be useful some of you! Good luck! :)

Beside the lipsticks I’m a huge fan of bodylotions. I’ve tried thousand of body lotions, especially those which are coconut-smelling, because I love the smell of coconut, it’s really calming and - for me - for some reason luxurious. So let’s begin the battle!

I would start with my first coconut-smelling body lotion, which is the Balea -  Cocos & Sheanuss body lotion. You can find it only in DM, because it’s an own branded product. Firstly, I would mention the packaging. It’s really pretty, not too complicated. The blue and the white colours are dominated, it’s aestethic. The quantity of the product is 400 ml, which is enough, and its price value ratio is also good, 400 ml costs 500 HUF. The cream is water-based, it’s easy to blend to your skin. This lotion moisturizes your skin very well, because of the shea walnut (but it’s not enough for fall and winter) and the scent of the coconut is soooo good. It’s kind a sweet, sugary, coconut smell. Above these facts it’s a vegan product, so it doesn’t contain any animal origin ingredients.

The second one would be the Inecto Naturals - Coconut body lotion, which is a cruelty-free product. This means that they don’t test their products on animals, and that is an extremely good point!! Their motto is “We believe in natural. We have no unnecessary nasties. We are not tested on animals. We are vegan friendly.” And I think this is one of the main reasons why I use it regularly. (In the 21st century it’s an out-of-date method to test on animals. There are thousand ways of test certain ingredients, for example the modern technology can create human skin with special computers, so it’s completely unnecessary to test on animals.) The formula is perfect, not too watery, not too oily, not too light, not too heavy, it’s just appropriate. The scent is REAL coconut, it’s not artifical. There is one thing that can be annoying, this is the price. The price is about 1500 HUF for 250 ml, and you can easily run out of it, because it decreases quite fast, but I don’t mind it, it’s a perfect body lotion for all seasons.

Avon Care - Restoring moisture with coconut oil is the next lotion. I don’t really like this body lotion because it’s too heavy for my skin. It absorbs hardly, and leaves behind an oily layer which won’t disappear in 2-3 hours. But it smells really good, not especially coconut, but some kind of natural fragrance, I can’t describe it. This isn’t the best body lotion that I’ve ever tried. You have to pay 700 HUF and you get 400 ml of this product, but in my opinion it doesn’t worth it.

One of my favourite is the Dove - Nourishing Secrets body lotion with coconut oil and almond milk. It would be my number one lotion, if it were cruelty-free, but it isn’t. :( The formula is unexceptionable again, it moisturizes perfectly, and the smell OMG it’s really hard to explain, but I try: like a freshly baked warm cookie with coconut and there is something sweet creaminess, which is really special, and this scent lasts so long!! 400 ml costs 1600 HUF, it’s not too expensive.

And the last one is again from the Inecto Naturals but it’s not simply a coconut-smelling stuff, it’s a limited edition Lime & Mint Coconut Infusion body lotion. It’s the usually Inecto-quality, it’s just excellent. The effect, the price, the smell (which is an extremely fresh, fruity, green, refreshing, nice aroma) and its durability, everything is flawless. Like its sibling, this is also cruelty-free. One problem is that it’s limited, and you can buy it only in the summer, so if you want to use this during the other seasons, you have to buy more than one if you have the chance. :P 

I hope you’ll try some lotions of these!

Wedding photography is a really hard and complex job. There are factors, which can’t be skipped and I would like to share with these “rules”.

1. ENJOY!

This is the first and - in my opinion - the most important thing, when you get married. Wedding day is your and your partner’s day, everything is about two of you. You mustn’t worried about anything, just enjoy the occasion, your wedding cake, the proximity of the relatives and the guests, because if you don’t have fun, what do you think, who has? And of course the pictures will be reflect every emotion...

2. Preparing? Just slowly.

Everyone will look at you, so you don’t have to hurry! Every tiny details is important today, every accessories can increase your self-confidence, therefore when you will walk in to the church, you will be calmed and confident enough, maybe the bride even more beautiful, too. And what will happen, if you will be late 5, 10 or maybe 15 minutes? Nothing. Everybody come here for you, nobody can say: “Oh my God, the bride is late, I don’t wait anymore, rather I go home”.

3. Wedding planner

It is optional, but if you hire a professional wedding planner, she/he makes everything that connected to the wedding easier. You don’t have to plan the whole wedding alone, including the decoration, the bouquet, the seating of the guests, or anything else, you only have to think about these things. If the wedding planner is really professional, the photos will be more harmonic and idyllic.

4.Bridesman

Linked to the previous part, this is also important, unless more important. The bridesman is necessary! If you think that one of the family’s friend can do this, can handle a hundred or more people, you’re wrong. Probably your friend will be amateur, in vain he is a good guy, this is not his job, he has no or just a few experience in leading a whole wedding, and if he doesn’t know what to do, the mood and the atmosphere can become easily awkward, which absolutely kill the party.

5. Appropriate venue

I mean spacious, light and harmonic under appropriate. These are the main components of a good venue. If the place is too tight it will be crowded and the people won’t feel comfortable, if the lights are bad, the photographer and the video maker will be annoyed, because they can’t do their job as the way as they usually do. In some cases (if the wedding’s date is on summer) there is a good point, if the venue has a climate, because this is also a very uncomfortable situation, when everybody feels hot and during the ceremony everybody sweats as hell.

6. Creative photography

First of all, I would tell what creative photography means. This is a 3-4 hours long photography, when the par takes part in a creative, special photography. The couple “lead” everything: they say the place, the positions, there is no border. This is much better than a photography in a studio, because the couple can be themselves completely, there are no strained positions, just they two. If the photographer is talented, he/she can immortalize the sincerest, the realest moments. It is also relevant, that the day of the creative photography and the wedding day won’t be the same day!  If the creative photography is on the wedding day you wouldn’t have the possibility for taking professional photos, because of the dense programs. The day of the creative photography can be before the wedding or after the wedding, it depends on you.

These were the most important things when we talk about wedding photography, I hope this will be useful somebody, who wants to get married soon. :)