Walking Hangang - OOTD

We took a stroll along the beautiful Hangang today..~ This is what we wore. It's late summer in Korea already, but it can still get pretty hot and oh so humid. Especially today. Ideal weather for a thrumming headache. A walk along the riverside is the most calming for body and mind on days like these...

Enjoy and tell us what you think about shorter clips like this one ~

A coffee date with sheep

A Friday afternoon in Hongdae.

Thanks Nature Sheep Café

마포구 서교동 486 서교푸르지오상가 B121

Mapo-gu, Seogyo-dong, 486 Seogyo Prugio Apartment Store B121

Everything we had was extraordinarily good, not at all expensive and the atmosphere is really unique and cute. We'd really recommend you go there if you have the time.

Our footwear of choice for rainy days ~
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Enjoy your day everyone!

Visiting Insadong

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Insadong, located in Seoul’s Jongno-gu district, is a famous traditional culture street and shopping district that is quite popular with foreigners. Being most famous for its souvenirs, traditional Korean crafts, and also for calligraphy and pansori demonstrations, it is especially crowded by tourists on the weekends, so try to go on a weekday if you can. We love the artsy atmosphere!

In order to get there, go on Line 3 and get off at Anguk Station. If you take exit 5 and walk straight, you will soon find Insadong on your left side.

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Ssamzigil is a famous shopping mall, opened in 2004, which concentrates on handcrafts and specialty stores.

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~~~ Ssamzigil. Be prepared to take many pictures. ~~~

~~~ Friendship. We miss you, girl. ~~~

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Leaving the bustle of Insadong's shopping streets we found some rest and quiet in the traditional tea garden Dawon which can be found in Kyung-In Art Gallery.

Kyung-In Museum of Fine Art, 11-4 Insa-Dong 10-Gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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Hot tea, delicious cold drinks & free traditional snacks.

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오미자화채 - Fruit punch
수정과 - Cinnamon punch
식혜 - Sikhye
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The names of all the stores along the main road are written in Hangul, even those of famous international or Korean brands, which creates a very special atmosphere.
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Enjoy your day everyone!

Watch what we have in our handluggage ~

"What's in my bag" videos on Youtube are always really fun to watch aren't they? At least it's something we enjoy seeing a lot and so we prepared a special travel version for you guys where we show you what's in our handluggage that we took with us onto our flight to Korea. If you'd like to know which bits and pieces we like to bring onto airplanes to be as comfortable as possible during hour-long flights feel free to watch it. ♡

We hope you enjoyed watching and have a nice day everyone! ~

We're off to South Korea ♡

Hi everyone, this is just a really quick post to tell you that we're officially on our way to Seoul now and we're so so so happy and excited for everything to come, we can't even tell you. ~ We hope we can take all of you with us on this journey and share bits of our experiences along the way.. There's definitely more to come, but until now, here's what we plan to do whilst staying in Korea. Enjoy and we'll talk to you very soon!~

✈ Airplane Makeup & Travel Skincare Essentials

Since we have a tremendously long flight ahead of us ourselves (tomorrow to be exact, we are beyond excited), we thought it'd be interesting to talk about how we prepare our skin for the long drying hours on a plane. Here's what we normally do when travelling for 18+ hours straight. We still want to look and feel good in our skin but the main focus lies on maintaining this feeling throughout the whole journey so that we'll still look somewhat fresh, awake and put together upon our arrival. Just a little sneak peak, the main point is practically moisture, moisture, moisture.. in everything you do.

Our first and most important rule is not to use anything drying on your skin, the plane's aircon will do that for you, it can be really intense. So don't go for your makeup you know will dry out your skin after a few hours, no matter how good it is apart from that. Go without powder for once, otherwise we promise you, your skin won't feel too well after a while. Don't pile products on, no matter what they are, only use thin layers or they will get flaky. This especially applies to concealer in the sensitive eye area, because the thin skin there will dry out even faster.

Basically, for us, BB Creams are a present from the heavens, they are very moisturizing yet decent-coverage, they give you that healthy glow that you can always use an extra of when you are tired from all this travelling and you can layer them without them becoming super cakey, which is a plus if you want to opt for some more coverage when getting of the plane at your destination.

Still, use a good moisturizer underneath, and remember to bring hand cream and a hydrating chap stick with you on the plane. We find ourselves reapplying those all the time while flying, so they will definitely come in handy. For the lips, we personally really love the Maybelline Baby Lips line since they are extremely moisturizing and even slightly tinted to give you a little bit of colour.

Another wonderful product to bring along with you on plane rides is a moisturizing facial spray. Products like these are extremely useful since they not only give you an extra cick of moisture but are also really refreshing to use if you are tired. Plus, they calm down irritated skin, something you can get easily on a plane due to the drying aircon and lack of sleep. You don't want to reapply moisturizer over your BB Cream and if you don't feel like taking everything of and starting anew using something like a thermal spray is a quick and easy alternative, especially if you are transferring flights like we are and want to freshen up a little in between.

If your skin gets oily pretty easily and you are now wondering what you are supposed to to if you can't wear your powder for a whole day you can use blotting paper on your face from time to time and just take the excess oil away instead of piling more product on.

Don't wear anything that needs loads of touch ups and go for products you can sleep in comfortably, nothing smuding, nothing drying, nothing creasing. What we do instead is bringing a minimal amount of products in our hand luggage that we can apply upon arrival. Some eyeliner and mascara are easy to use and don't require a lot of additional tools. And we always make sure to bring some concealer to take some of the deadness away after the arrival.

Obviously there's need to look like you just stept out of a photoshoot, just remember, everybody on that plane is and probably looks just as tired as you are, it's just that in your personal perception you will always notice your own flaws more which will make you feel like you look worse than anyone else. You don't, we promise. Other people don't even notice that much.

What do you do when flying for a long time? Do you wear no make up at all, do you have a whole beauty program pepared for the plane ride, do you apply a full face makeup look before landing? We'd be very happy to hear from you in the comments. Have a nice day and safe flight everyone!

...bringing you the joy of summer time

Our Summer Lookbook is up on our Youtube channel! We're giving you 9 outfit ideas on how to spend your summer time styling wise. We'll probably be wearing all of these outfits during our summer vacation in Korea. Here in Germany it is quite frankly still a little too cold and gloomy to wear them... So sad. Dear weather, what is going on?

Filming this was so much fun, seriously. We hope that we could bring it across in the video, at least a little. Maybe it'll brighten up your day a bit, especially if you're currently suffering under this dull non-weather like we do.

Enjoy ~

Some things we learned while filming this thing: Lyza likes swings, the sun likes Lyza, Maren and Greta shouldn't go shopping at the same store seperately because they will end up buying the same things, Greta's legs look as if she's wearing white tights even though she isn't, Primark could live off Maren alone, H&M off Greta, clouds are the most economic light diffuser and we love each other very much.

Along these lines