Japan Candy Box Review and Giveaway

Japanese Candy is all the rage recently and this box makes it so easy to get your hands on some weird and awesome sweets without you having to take the trip to your local asiatown, if you even have one, and find yourself overwhelmed by foreign writing and no clue what you're even buying.

In our box especially we got a huge variety of sweets, all exciting and most of them delicious. Everything is small enough that you won't sit on it too long and if you don't like one thing, why not let your friends try it and see their reaction to it?

Our definet favourites was the cola sour paper that didn't even last till the end of the day as well as the tangerine gum and the sour fish gummies! The only thing that really scared us was the Poppin Cooking DIY set that tasted like ... not pleasantly.

If you want to see our hilarous video of us trying all the different sweets on camera please follow the link below! And if you want to test one of the Japanese Candy Boxes yourself follow this link!
http://www.japancandybox.com/
Or enter this giveaway to get your own Japan Candy Box for free!
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Thank you for reading and have a delicious day!

Kawaii Box Review and Giveaway

Kawaii Box is the cutest monthly subscription service. Subscribe Now and receive a box filled with hand-picked kawaii items from Japan and Korea directly to your home every month. Your box will be shipped in the beginning of each month and the shipping is absolutely free, anywhere on the planet! Each box includes 10-12 cute, original and licensed kawaii items. We were so lucky to be gifted a Kawaii Box for the month of February. It arrived pretty late and due to sickness we got to unbox it even later but here is our post finally and we must say, though late, we are in love. First of all for the pretty cheap price we got 12 items, both of the sweets counted in otherwise it would be 10, which surpasses most other boxes by far and even if the things you get are smaller sometimes it's just great to get a lot of things.

The box mainly focuses on all things cute, as the name already suggests, so you can get a big variety of things such as accessories over stationary and sweets. If you like asia's sweet site you should definetly check this box out since it my tickle your fancy. Let's start with what impressed us least. The candy. One of them is one of those stir in water and you will get a violet goo and then add edible jewels to it. It's pretty unlikely we will every try it, but hey everyone should have the chance to try some of the crazy weird Japanese candy once in their life. The green tea Kitkat though is great, we haven't tried it yet but Maren loves green tea. The only problem we see is if we like this, where to get more of it?

Stationary wise we got a pretty underwhelming eraser from Hello Kitty, a cute pencil with bear design as well as an awesome hipster-y pencilcase all with triangle, space photo and meaningful text, we're in love with that one. We also got a sheet of really beautiful antique stickers that we can't wait to use. The accessories in this box seemed to be rather fitted for the Japanese Decora style and though somehow childish they still warm our hearts. You got a lollipop shaped hairpin as well as a bracelet with pastel cubes.

Last but not least we have the random bits that don't really fit anywhere else. We got a pair of wooden chopsticks with little pandas on top of them which we can't wait for to use. Then we got a chocolate/sweet shaped keychain which is also really cute, smells strongly of plastic though. And last but not least a diamon shaped travel tag which we love. It's a gorgeous colour and since we've been travelling quite a bit it's great to add to our bag. Another thing to add to our bags is probably the adorable red panda charm we got and eventhough Lyza was rooting for a squishy this makes up for it.

And of course the best comes last! Kawaii Box is nice enough to sponsor another giveaway and this time one of you lovelys can win their own Kawaii Box! All you have to do is participate in this wonderful Rafflecopter Giveaway ~ Click Me To Win ~   

Amsterdam Haul

We already mentioned that shopping wasn't our main priority when we went to the Netherlands in our Vlog. However Amsterdam has a lot of wonderful shops and we really enjoyed strolling through them, picking up a few items we dearly fell in love with.

This pair of Timberland winter shoes is not only the most beautiful shade of wine but was also on sale and the winter shoes that have lasted Lyza for at least five years of winters in a row are also by the brand so it ended up being a win/win situation that Amsterdam seems to overflow with Timberland stores.

Before we even knew we would be going to visit our friends we declared February as our no-spending month thus the small amout of things we bought. Pull&Bear is a store though we want to check out further in the future. For our trip we were good and only bought this set of three necklaces, all unique and wonderful.

The Netherlands have a few beauty/pharmacy stores we don't have and in one of them we were able to score those two beauties for one normal price plus 1€ for the second item. We can't wait to test them!

Even though we have Hema in Germany and even though we just did order from their online store you are oblidged to at least check out one Hema when in Amsterdam. We did check it out more than once but only bought a few more stickers for our ever growing collection of stationery.

Last but not least is what we really advise you to check out: Albert Heijn. It's THE dutch supermarket and their own brand has so many awesome things for such a great price range. We especially love the chia seeds and the tea. If you ever come to the Netherlands look for those things and maybe you'll find something you think we could enjoy as well! And of course we also filmed a video so head over to YouTube and watch it ~

A Trip To Amsterdam

This might have been the most spontaneous trip we've booked in quite a while and I am saying this knowing full well that we will also head to Paris this month which was nearly as spontaneous, but just not as much.

We've been pondering about going to the Netherlands for quite a while seeing as its super close to where we live and seeing also that a very good friend of ours lives there so just at the beginning of February we thought why not now?

And I am still so happy we for once just did it. We had three beautiful days in the beautiful city of Amsterdam and I don't know why it isn't as hyped as London or Paris. Amsterdam has such a beautiful architecture and everything in me just wants to go there again, now!

Another thing that definitely made us go on such a short notice was the incredibly cheap train tickets we scored as well as the great hostel we found. It has the funny name 'Stay Okay', but we really stayed way better than just okay. They had great rooms for a hostel and offered an even better, already in your room fee included, breakfast that we just loved. So if anyone of you feels like going to Amsterdam, or the Netherlands in general seeing as they are a chain, be sure to check out the Stay Okay Hostels we wholeheartedly recommend them.

Seeing as it was more of a trip to relax and meet our friend Wesley we didn't plan much before going there and in the end we spend most of our time wandering around just taking in a different sight and sometimes stumbling into shops without really buying much, that being said we'll still film a Amsterdam Haul for you guys just because we love the few things we ended up buying! 

Amsterdam is more expensive than Germany, at least Germany where we live, so we also didn't end up going to eat somewhere fancy, but the places we found, I mean when in the Netherlands you have to eat fries, and that our friend showed us were just perfect for the occasion.

Just saying this makes me happy because this trip as short and spontaneous it was ended up being perfect. This might also have to do with how Lyza and I want things to be. On our train ride back to Germany we sat across from a couple and all they talked about was how bad everything was. Why would you do that? Why don't you think about the great things you just experienced?

Of course to each their own, but we've just decided it would be so much nice to actually do what we want to do on our vacation and we want to do what makes us happy. This time around it was lots of talking with a friend we haven't seen in about half a year, do a lot of window shopping and just lots of walking around an inspiring city and this as simple as it was ended up being the perfect trip for us.

If you want to please feel free to check out the small vlog we recorded ~

Hema Haul

At the end of Janurary we placed a Hema order because there was one thing from their range we really wanted, but couldn't find in store. 

Of course you can imagine how easy it was to be roped in by the promise of free shipping on any order over 15€ so that's what we ended up doing and the items we added to our card grew and grew. In the end however we paid 19€ for 17 items which is a great deal in our opinion.

We also found their newest range of products super interesting and ended up buying 5 packs of post it's for only 75 cent per package!



Until our online trip to the Hema store we didn't know they also carried Instax accessoirs and since we own an Instax camera ourselves we thought why not try out some of the goods they're offering for it. Now we kind of want to get the rest as well!

Those post it notes, especially the fish saying 'lala' were the reason we even paid their page a visit since we were incredibly charmed by it! Now we have even more sticky notes to store away but it was so worth it!

Last but not least we must tell you that Hema is a great place to go to, to start your washi tape collection especially the thinner kind.
That's everything so far if you have any questions please feel free to leave them under our video or under this blog post!

Project 10 Pan

Everyone seems to be doing Project 10 Pan or some kind of variation of it. While we wouldn't consider us the owners of too much decorative cosmetics, nail polishes excluded, we thought getting rid of 10 items we like, but don't LOVE sounds like a great way to start into the new year.

Now for everyone interested in Project 10 Pan you will be able to find lots of posts around the internet. The main point of it is to use up ten products before you're allowed to buy anything new. We might cave in and at least take a look at new limited editions of drugstore make up brands, but we think that's okay. Next to that though there won't be any more shopping before we both use up the 10 items we picked out. In this post we just compiled our items, but in our video you can tell apart who owns what and since we live together we share a lot of our make up anyways. So lets get started.

So here are the first items of our pile. From left to right we have a Catrice eye brow pencil Maren bought because she forgot her eyeshadow she normally uses for her eyebrows, it works nice, but she prefers powder over pens, this might be the hardest object to use up.

Next are two of the Etude Color My Brow eyebrow mascaras. Both are well used and are just looking to be completed before being replaced by the same product most likely.

Then we have the Cover & Hiding Stick Concealer by Holika Holika which is a dream, when not combined with BB Cream or foundation. It's more or less a wear on it's own item and just needs to be finished up on those days where you don't need anything, but concealer. Probably won't be repurchased though.

The La Roche Posay Eyeshadow is great for highlighting, but has been eating dust since we bought a highlighter eyeshadow palette. Same goes for the Chanel eyeshadows which are pretty, but have been long forgotten due to us buying both the Naked 2 and 3.

The Maybelline Pure Powder hasn't seen the light of the day since we bought the Peripera Powder right next to it. Now we thought it would be nice to finish it off before never looking back again. We have a refill for the Peripera powder we're just looking forward to break in.

The Catrice blush has been bought last year and has been well loved by Lyza who just wants to finish that one to replace it with a new one.

Now we come down to the stuff we liked and replaced before they were finished up. First off we see the Holika Holika jewel liner which we love, actually already have a back up off, but ever since we invested in a brown version of this, that one has become our favourite.

We didn't even remember owning this Loreal eyeliner and we hope to forget about it again as soon as possible, as good as it is we don't remember buying it and we have enough other options to choose from so this will be fun to play with and feel accomplishing to use up, but then it's goodbye for good.

The nude P2 eyeliner and the white Maybelline eyeliner have both been replaced by a nude, glittery version of the Holika Holika jewel liner. Now if we talk eyeliner this might be one of the items we have way too many from. They are just so cheap and easy to forget that every once in a while you buy or have to buy a new one, use it once or twice till you're reunited with something better. Both of those products are great, but the nude Holika Holika one is just better.

Next up is the Skinny Microcara in brown and not waterproof. It's already in it's last breaths so we thought we finish that one off before it dries out and replace it soonish. The Holika Holika mascaras have been open for quite some time and it would just be nice to use up the rest of life in them before parting ways for good.

And here is the last batch. The only sample size we included is this cute bottle of Tony Moly's tint which Maren liked so much she bought the full size and then kind of forgot using up the sample size. finishing this up shouldn't take too long.

Neither of us have ever finished up a lipstick before or any other kind of lip product so we both chose as still pretty full one to see if we could. You're looking at one from Labello and one from Balea. Let's see who of us succseeds first. The The Face Shop Liptintstick might make the race though as he's super short already and just waits to be repurchased again because it's one of our favourites from 2014.

And last, but not least we have to confess we might have a small problem with handcream and thus decided it would be nice to finish at least one off this year. The Bioderma Atoderm Mains is currently sitting next to the bed so it should finish sooner or later and maybe we'll even make it two empty handproducts this year. There is this Tony Moly handcream we're looking at which has been with us just slightly too long.

Last, but not least if you want to hear even more about all of these products please check out our video and we'll hopefully see you again next time.

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Gyeongpo Beach 경포해변 and how to get there

Going to the beach in Korea is an exciting thing and one of the points on our list we definetly wanted to cross off before going back home this summer. While we originally planned to spend a weekend in Busan we found ourselves unable to do so in the end.

With all our hopes crushed we knew we needed to make up, especially since Maren and Greta REALLY wanted to go to the beach. We searched the internet until we stumbled over a certain Blog Post you can find HERE.

We are so glad this person sat down to write this detailed about all of the beaches South Korea has to offer and in the end we thought the beach in Gangneung sounded like the best option to us. All of the information she gives you on how to get there were still up to date and we can only agree with her. So we took the bus from the Dong Seoul Bus Termina and it took about 3-4 hours for us to arrive at the Gangneung Bus Terminal. Afterwards we took a taxi to Gyeongpo Beach.

Let us tell you the view we had after we left the taxi, right in front of the beach was something we didn't expect. It was even more perfect than we hoped it would be. Though be warned! Instead of the normal sand most beaches we know have, at least the ones in Europe, the Gyeongpo Beach has something that resembles super small rocks? Not really, but the sand isn't as fine there. Just so you aren't as confused as we were.

Next up we got some bigger shirts to wear on top of our swimsuits, which we initially intented to strip out of once we hit the waves but seeing as everyone else, especially girls, rather went into the sea with a shirt/pants combo we just left our shirts on. So make sure you bring at least another shirt with you to change into on your way back.

Also make sure to use enough sunscreen. Something we thought we did, but we all ended up getting toasted. But really this is the number one rule for any beach visit, isn't it? In case you were wondering there are also two convenience stores close by so you can just buy food there, make sure though to take your trash with you and throw it away properly and don't leave anything at the beach! Though this is another rule for every beach you visit.

The last thing we want to talk about is that you aren't allowed to swim at Gyeongpo Beach. This might sound strange and it definetly was to us, but once you go into the water, you can go in till it reaches your chest, I would say, you can feel how strong the current is so we think it's for the safety of everyone that you're not allowed to swim.

What you're allowed to do though is to sit down and let the waves crash over you. It's super fun, but be sure you'll have some red marks all over your body from the stone/sand.

Once again we can only say how much fun this whole trip was and that we definetly want to go again one day. Enjoy the video we filmed for you and lets just all hope summer will come soon enough and we can go and look for nice beaches here in Germany to relive this wonderful memory.