November Q Box

A few months ago we finally bit the bullet and ordered one of the infamous QBoxes. Since normally at least the two upcoming ones are sold out super quickly we opted for the November box and now after all this waiting it finally arrived on our doorstep.

I don't even know where to start, I am just so excited. Let's start at the beginning though, We have been toying with the idea of trying to order any of the thousands of monthly boxes that are out there but couldn't really decide. Most of the 'normal beauty boxes' have a really big hit and miss rate in our opinion so we wanted something we could be sure to enjoy.

So something with maybe not American or European brands but rather Asian brands sounded like a good idea to us. And even for this you have a lot of options to choose from. Some cute couldn't hurt either though we thought and we like that the Q Box mostly sends out well known brands rather than new/unpopular ones.

After all this thinking we started checking out the older Q Boxes finding us liking most of the things they send out so far. In the end we ordered one and lets be honest the price for the box itself is really cheap, shipping sadly, isn't. Anyways spoiler alert we are extremly happy we paid the shipping.

The ordering happened back in September so get ready for waiting quite some time since the Q Boxes normally ship out at the end of the months (about the 20th I believe). One months passed, the next one passed and we must admit the September box didn't look that fabulous and the October box, though awesomely Halloween themed, seemed a bit to heavy on the 'only usable on Halloween'-theme.

We were a bit anxious what we would receive when we got the email that our package was send out. Five(!!!) days later we held the package in our hands, opened it on camera, for you to see our sheer joy and excitement, and found ourselves extremely happy with most of the things inside the box.

The theme for this box is 'Winter is knocking at the door' and well we coudn't really find it in the items they send but that's just details. Another detail is, though this seems to be something a lot of box companies do, that the prices they state for their products are a bit higher than things probably actually cost. We are still positive that you don't loose money when you order this box so everything is good.

For the products we got, we got a brown, feltip eyeliner from Too Cool For School which really made us happy, seeing as it's a brand known for their good eyeliners and brown being our prefered colour for eyeliner. A nailpolish from Tony Moly in a ... bright colour. Not our first choice especially since you were able to get one out of 10 colours but in summer we're sure you can rock it.

Next to those things you got a see through cosmetic bag with my all time favourite San X characters The Little Twin Stars, an adorable hairband, a bunny eared ring, the cutest coaster they probably could find that will find lots of use now that it's tea weather again. As well as a set of post it's, a bit random but with extremely cute design and, the only thing we didn't like, a tote with what looks like characters from an 80ties cartoon.

This post ended up being way longer than expected but we have a lot of feelings about this Box so please bear with it and we hope you enjoy the photos! We are very sure we'll order another Q Box for us and would reccomend everyone to try it at least once if they were interested.

ETUDE HOUSE Play 101 Pencil Haul and Review

A few months ago the Etude House finally launched an international online shop something a lot of people have been waiting for, us more or less included. As you might know we mostly buy everything Korean from Gmarket but we thought we should give the very own Etude online shop at least a try, plus they offered, and are still offering, some really great deals.

Their first month went by without them offering anything of interest for us but then they put the 'Play 101 Pencils' on discount and after having heard a lot of good things from a lot of different people about them we decided to give them a try.

First things first ordering at the Etude House online store is pretty simple. We even made a mistake with our first order and had to cancel that first one and replace it and that went extremely smoothly. The only downside is that Lisa tried also to get in contact with them over the wrong order and they never got back to her, we managed to fix it on our own but it would have been nice to hear back from the Etude staff.

We ordered at the end of Octorber, tracking included, and the parcell was send out at the 28th we think. It arrived at our place on the 12th of November which is very okay considering we opted for cheapest shipping.

The next thing that made us sad was that the online store advertised with the fact that they would include free samples in every package. Maybe they said somewhere that this didn't inlcude offers but not receiving any freebies made us a bit sad.

However the overall experience was pretty neutral. Now onto the products we got. We ordered eight of Etude's 'Play 101 Pencils' and Lisa got one as a gift a few months ago that we decided to put into this haul as well to give you a review about.

18 - Is a super pale purple, very dry and even lighter than you might imagine it to be.

19 - Super intense purple/violet, also dry but usable as a lipstick on it's own if you put moisturiser underneath.

23 - Beautiful dark red, usable as lipstick or blush, extremely mositurised.

26 - Pink with a golden shimmer to it. Definetly an eyecatcher, slightly drying but still super pretty as a lipstick.

29/33 - Easy every day colours. 29 is slightly darker with a bit more brown tones in it while 33 is pretty light and just a honest pink colour.

42 - An ashy/grey/brown colour, difficult to describe but extremely pretty for the eyebrows and probably a very simple eyeliner make up.

46 - A coppery highlighter with a lot of glitter particles in it. This one is a creamy dream if you don't want a white or pink highlighter for your eyemake up. We heard though that the glitter is pretty make up remover resistant.

48 - Dark brown, nearly black, eyeliner. Something basic. Ultra matte if you don't like glittery eyeliner this is a great choice.

We didn't have much time to try around with the pencils yet but the two times we swatched them we found out they are super water resistant, another plus for those products in our opinion. In the video linked below we are wearing:

Lisa - 26 on her lips, 46 as a highlighter on her waterline and 48 as her normal eyeliner.

Maren - 19 on her lips and 42 (combined with the Etude Browcara in #03) on her eyebrows.

Vlogtober Daily Vlog #24

In this daily vlog we had to combine quite a bunch of days.

This was the week we really wanted to get some things done around our apartment so we ended up not filming a lot while cleaning everything but afterwards we recorded some longer talking vlogs.

We even went out which is something we didn't do much this month. It felt like we were hibernating on some days.

But at least we enjoyed our Netflix trial month to the fullest, we also decided it would be a good idea to continue using Netflix so we will buy it after this month is over.

We also had some of the last warm days this week we fear and even though autumn and winter have some perks we like spring and summer better. It's just so expensive to turn on the heater.

Some more footage of the 21st will be in our next vlog. Somehow we managed to film so much on that day that it didn't fit all into one video. So if you want to see how our nails turned out stay tuned.

Vlogtober London Part 2 #23

Finally we can share the second part of our London Vlog with you. We encountered some problems after we threw the video into our cutting program and the picture didn't show up. It's been nearly a year since we edited anything from the camcorder so we simply forgot how to work our way around this problem. Bless our new camera.

But enough of that and more of the beautiful city of London. Editing and watching this video again made us crave going to London so much. Right now the place we want to go to the most, next to Korea obviously, is Cardiff though. We went there in May 2013 and we just really want to go there again, it was one of the most beautiful places we've ever visited.

Something else this video did to us was that we now are really looking forward to the Christmas time. We can't wait to see all the beautiful decorations, even if they are not as impressive here as they are in this video.

In conclusion we must say we are glad we took all of this footage and didn't work with it for now. It made us reappreciate our friendship and all the things we already did together. Making memories like this and even having videos from that time to look at again is something we really learned to appreciate.

Vlogtober OOTD Dinner With Friends #22

We put together another outfit of the day for you guys!

This time we were invited for dinner so we thought we could get a bit more fancy. In our daily vlog #27 you can see us actually going to the dinner.

The things we liked best about our outfits were our shoes and our necklaces. The jewelery is from a brand called Revival London and for all of you Germans out there you can buy it at Karstadt. To us it looked a lot like Top Shop jewelery just way cheaper so we definetly want to look into it again.

Vlogtober A trip to the Zoo #21

Going to the zoo is one of the best ways to spend time in our opinion so of course we go as often as possible.

Especially the small Dortmund Zoo holds a special place in Maren's memories since it's the closest to her home town and she still remembers going there with her cousins and even on school trips.

This summer we only made it to one zoo but we were lucky enough to go with one of our best friends, we had incredible good weather and the chance to try out our new beautiful lens.

This is one of our very first vlog videos so bear with us when it gets shaky, we tried to make the best out of the footage we took. We really want to go back there but it's getting too cold for zoo in our opinion.

And of course we had to share a beautiful instagram selfie as well. If you want to follow us on instagram just check out our profiles on the sidebar.

And afterwards it got even better when we decided to go and get some real burgers!

Until a few years ago Maren was one of the biggest anti-burger people you could find around, now she loves them. If you ever get a chance to go to a Roadstop restaurant we would tell you to go for it.

After stuffing our faces we went back home, relaxed a bit from walking around so much and just talked while having some coffee. This must be the perfect way to spend a day in our opinion. How would your perfect day look like?

Vlogtober Massive Korean Stationary Haul #20

As you may be able to tell, today we finally got around to film a haul for you!

Next to everything else it's also impossible not to binge buy tons of cute stationary.

First of all, stationary is rediculous cheap in Korea, even though you'll probably get picky at one point, trust us when you come back you'll realize even what you considered 'expensive' is dirt cheap compared to what you are facing.

Next to that the designs are just to die for. Do you have a favourite animal? Rest assured you will probably find at least three different kinds of sationary featuring it. Do you like buildings/dolls/travelthemed things? No problem either. With what we chose we were kind of all over the place but you could probably stick to a theme just as easy.

Everything you can see in the photo above was around 1,000₩ each, if not less. Think about it. All your friends asking you to bring something from Korea for them? Stationary might we a wise, cheap and most probably small slash weight friendly option.

In Germany most of the time you find simple blue/black/red pens with boring designs. In Korea you can find the cutest designs and then they also come in every colour you could ever imagine! Plus some of the pens have super thin tips which we really do like.

Even the most boring things come in such cute packages that you can't help but needing to buy one. This brigh blue paper-collective-thingy might be the most 'boring' purchase out of all of them.

Something we only found out about after we already lived in Korea for at least a month were goodie bags. Which basically means a buch of stuff for a really good price. The photo above shows everything (except for an earphone winder) we got for 15.000₩. Can't really go wrong there ...

Now the above shown is a love it or hate it item. We hated Choo Choo Cat the first time we saw it and it still has a creepy vibe to it but for all of your friends who like cats this might be the perfect present. At least you'll have something to laugh about!

Something else we couldn't stop buying were stickers. And trust us we actually have enough stickers to probably replace our wallpaper with them. But with once again 1,000₩ per sheet we couldn't really stop us. Plus most of the time those packages come with two sheets so we ended up splitting those up with Greta. Which made it possible for us to buy EVEN MORE different sets ...

 The last thing that really flashed us were masking tapes / decorative tapes however you want to call them. All of the above were bought at Daiso and each one of them did cost 1,000₩. Sorry to talk about Germany again but masking tape is rediculous expensive over here and most of the time you don't get as pretty of designs in our opinion ...

And this concludes our massive haul. We hope you enjoyed it, we hope you found some inspiration on what to buy when you get the chance to go to Korea and if you have more questions please don't hesitate to ask us.

By the way most of the things shown in this haul were bought at Artbox, Daiso and Penpia, which is a stationary store in Sinchon, but you can find way too many stationary stores plastered all over Seoul.