Application for a fashiondesign-school

I never applied for a fashiondesign-school before.
Secretly I wanted to become a fashiondesigner for SO long but was too scared to go for my goal (because of the bad job chances afterwards, the pricey apprenticeship and last but not least... because I was scared of not being good enough / not being what they search for [my sense of fashion is just so different from most of other peoples'...]).
BUT I applied for a fashiondesign-school in Leipzig and got a first interview. Now I have to do a lot of sketches... GOODLOOKING sketches....... I frequently do sketching before I start sewing, BUT... my sketches are just for remembering the details, length, colors or cuts I wanted to use (because I'm doing at least 5 things at the same time I need such sketches to remember *lol*) and NOT for looking good! They are chaotic, fast drawn and all over the place ^^;;;
So I need to practice drawing again... I didn't drew anything except fashion in my whole life, anyway. That's why it shouldn't be that difficult......................I thought. V_V
Usually I'm not drawing characters, just the clothes only... and I'm so bad at drawing proportions, hands and feet ^^; In addition I never colored any of my sketches (I've only written the colors next to the drawing *lol* lazy me)... so much to do... need at least 15 (!) drawings for my application-folder x_X

A (late) tribute to carnival // Nails

Because I didn't do anything for carnival this year (in my city wasn't much to do, tough) due to some circumstances I wanted to show my love for it at least with my nails.
I tried to do a confetti-theme... I'm still learning to do proper fake nails ^^;

 

At first I did those ones. I really like white nail polish and some glitter. But I wasn't satisfied with them..

Than I ordered some fake nails at ebay... 

some clear ones from this ebay-store

and in metallic silver *_*  from this ebay-store

And because I was just at it... I bought some bottom-lashes! Actually my first ones! 

from this ebay-store

Really cheap, huh? I'm curious of the quality...

After I removed the carnival-nails I got my eyes on those new nailpolishes from essence...

The left one is a topcoat with silver and colorful glitter in it (which reminded me of confetti again xD) and the left one got the name "better than gel-nails" top-sealer. That're some big words!

just my real, short nails

I did two layers of this glitter-polish and added one layer of this top-sealer. It dried very fast. That's an advantage! ^^ (I HATE waiting for my nails to be dry! Arrgh!) The nails looked - in real - quite shiny and glittery and I like this polishes. BUT..... "better than gel nails" - WTF? Never. It wasn't as thick as gel and not as protective. After 2-3 days the polishes were halfy broken -_-
So, nothing better than a "normal" topcoat.


But I'm going to experiement with real gel nails soon, harhar... just waiting for another order to arrive :D
So, stay tuned for more nail-experiement-posts! ^^

Sightseeing "Herkules": A view over Kassel

It's already half a year ago that we visited Kassel. It's quite in the middle of the distance between Mainz and Magdeburg. We're driving by everytime I visit my parents. Therefore we planned to spend a day in Kassel on our journey back to Magdeburg!
The city of Kassel isn't that beautiful. It's narrow and crowded. But there are some interesting places like the "Orangerie" and the "Auedamm". It's a huge park next to the riverside with lakes and little bridges and a large playground (yes, we played there as well :P - no pics from that! haha)
And - of course - the Herkules with castle Wilhelmshöhe! It's also a large park with meadows, lakes, brighes, little castles, rosefields and even a roman aqueduct. It's really really pretty! *_*

I made lots of pictures. And I regret again that I didn't take the good, heavy camera with me >_<! The pictures would have turned out SO much better >_< (it was really warm and sunny on that day and almost every picture came out in a awkward light exposure or turned out being blurry V_V;

Huge and beautiful park with view up to the statue of "Herkules"!

Castle "Wilhelmshöhe"

Wearing my "Sweet like candy"-Dress ^^

Resting at a lake

Aqueduct in the background!

Looks impressive!

View down the hill

.... and still a long way to go...

Kassel behind us

Incredible view from up there!

We climbed all this way up ^^

did I mention it was REALLY hot that day? ^^ (always making faces, lol ^^)

Cute castle on our way back down (sadly it was already closing the entry)

This should be my new home. It suits me :P

After all we spend a whole day in this park. It's really huge and you can walk hundreds of different ways and explore little castles and other attractions. It's quite a hike walkimg from the castle "Wilhelmshöhe" to "Herkules". And I hadn't got the best shoes for that ^^; There are a lot of gravel and country paths. And also a LOT of stairs ^^ (I had a bad muscleache after walking up there ^^) The statue of "Herkules" was under construction, that's why I couldn't take a picture of it :/
I can really recommend visiting this area! And take a GOOD camera with you, you'll need it!! ^^;;

... I just had to take a picture there :P

By the way, the dress I'm wearing is made by me. I named it "sweet like candy"-dress because my sister said I would look like a piece of candy in it xD