Last saturday i shot the pretty Luna. The weather was awful, there was thousands of tourists... But we made it! I asked her to wear a total black style ans she came up with the idea of the black lipstick. It is one of my favourite photoshoot so far because i realised how much I evolved since the start of my "photographic journey".
Last week Charlotte, a girl I met by facebook asked me if i could do some photos for her agency so as usual I said yes and met her in the "Centre Pompidou" which is an exhibition center. I took a few pictures and she took some pictures of me too (even if I hate being taken in photographs). Here are my two favorites.
Daria is a fantastic girl I met last summer in Malta. She cut her hair when she was drunk there (with the help of friends) and as she liked it she kept this hairstyle and dyed it in blonde. Her short hair inspired me for a "act like a boy" shoot. I wanted to do something different than my pretty-girls-with-long-hair usual shoots. This is why I sent her an inbox and she quickly accepted. So we went in a stadium with a skatepark and other pitches. I was pretty cool, she came with her best-friend who helped us for some stuffs. Even if we almost got killed by skaters and there were thousands of kids everywhere, I'm proud of the result!
Hello cookies, sorry I didn't post earlier but I feel really weak and tired this days. I don't know if it's because the weather is getting colder and colder, or if it's because highscool is already killing me, but i don't feel amazing at all.
Anyway, here are some pictures I took with my Iphone during the week. (yeah, food is half my life)
Hello cookies, it's me again!
Yesterday, I went to the pharmacy and i bought a dummy. The pharmacist asked me how much years old were the baby and i answered "6 months". So he gave me this lovely blue "Mommy I love you" pacifier. Hahaha, I imagine is face if he knew it was for me! You probably think I'm weird. I can understand... I mean.. I'm seventeen.
The reason I bought this is because I'm a very stressed and nervous person sometimes, I constantly need something to chew to calm down or get my mind out of something. I started to eat chewing-gums, but i ended addicted to that and I had to eat 10 (and more) chewing-gums a day, and it is very unhealthy. Yes it is weird to be addicted to chewing-gum, but it is the same as people who bite their nails, or creak their fingers... So I won't be able to get out with my dummy because everyone in the entire city is going to think I'm weird, and I won't be able to use it either at school because my classmate are going to laugh at me so bad, i don't want to explain my problem a thousand times! but at least I will use it at night and at home, which is okay i guess.
I also bought a lot of hair clips like this with flowers, spots, stripes and some others made of pearls. I've never been a girly person but I have the feeling that the girl essence inside of my is growing up by the time. I'm starting to take care of my skin, my hair; my clothes, to wear jewellery... A bunch of stuffs I didn't do before. I have never been a tomboy, far from that, but I never considered myself in a feminine way even if I always loved wearing dresses. I am even happy to realized how much progress I did in my feminization because I really like this flower and pink stuffs.
And here comes the best part of this article: the food part! I found these delicious biscuits a few months ago, but I feel like it is necessary for the development of your culinary path to know about them. On my way to school there is this shop called "HEMA". It is a dutch shop for daily products with very low prices. Food, body care, make-up, stuffs for the house.. everything! But I mostly go there for food, actually. The best thing I found were these amazingly delicious waffles. It is two biscuits stuffed with a delicious caramel-vanilla-cinnamon-butter cream. It is seriously fantastic. I'm sure you'll love it (if you forget about the calories!!!)
This shop only exists in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France and Luxembourg but if you leave in another country i'm sure that you can find this type of biscuits anyway!
Hello cookies! Last saturday I met a very nice girl from Vinted for some pictures in Paris. (Vinted is a website to sell clothes, but as it has a forum I asked if some girls were able to pose the time of a few pictures. She is the first I met, but I planned a lot of other shoots for the upcoming weeks!
Hello it's me again. So I went to Shangai for 2 weeks, to work my chinese. As I have planned to pass a test in chinese for my senior year exam, I needed to do some intensive class. It's actually one of the main reasons of this trip. It was very interesting but 4 hours a day of chinese... it's a lot! As I had this class I was really tired in the afternoon so we didn't do a lot of visits but we did a cooking lesson! I'll post about that later! Shangai is a very modern and international city. A lot of shopping malls, high buildings, international restaurants and there is air conditioner everywhere it looks like Los Angeles with a lot more chinese people. We did a ballad in "The Bound" which is a path in front of all the big building which is very cool to see by night with all the lights but it was very crowded. (I think it is because it was on the Chinese Valentine's day).
The best thing we saw was the "Chinese Venice" it was amazingly beautiful. We went on a boat and visited this city in a perfect timing as we arrived at the sunset. The color of the sky was reflected in the water and the inhabitants turned on their red lights. It was what we can call a "pure moment". It was just perfect.
I mostly enjoyed my trip to China (the cons I talked about in my last article excepted), but I'm glad to be far away from chinese. As I understand 1 word on 100 it is very tiring to hear and try to read it all day long. Anyway, as it's a very diverse country if you have the opportunity to go there it is better to visit it on a tour which show you the different sides of this country. I think you need to see all the historical monuments of Beijing as much as the progress of new cities as Shangai or Hong Kong. It is a interesting country, mentally and culturally very different from western cities even if they try to westernize their cities, they are still in some way sticked to their culture.
I'm just back from an amazing trip in China. I was supposed to post my journey daily but blogger and many other platforms as Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter are blocked (which was, to be honest, kind of hard to live with as I'm pretty much an internetcoholic.) So anyway, i travelled with my family to China. We did 1 day in Dubaï before going there then we did Beijing for four days and finally ended our trip in Shangaï for two weeks. Now I'm in Dubaï again for three or four days.
Beijing is culturally and historically a very interesting city to visit. We visited ones of the main places: The Tienanmen place, the Summer Garden, the Forbidden City, and the Great Wall. Believe it or not, i climbed the great wall (I have a "I climbed the great wall" tee-shirt to prove it.) Even if on the top i couldn't feel my body anymore, i couldn't see anything and I thought that I would die up there all alone surrounded by a thousand of chinese people. BUT I SURVIVED. Anyway, the monuments are amazingly beautiful a full of history. I learned so many things about the chinese culture, it is fascinating. The only problems during the visits were the crowd and the heat as I'm not really a "sun person" it was very hard for me. But it worth the price, really. Even if you are a lazy *bip* like me. Actually there is not much to do except visiting in Beijing. Except maybe go to restaurants. (yep yep yep) Beijing is a historic city, very sticked to its culture. I mean it's what I felt when I went there. They are not very used to strangers coming, they were acting weird when they saw us. They were staring at us, taking pictures. I was very uncomfortable and I felt like a monkey in a zoo. It is probably because I'm a black person and they're not used to see colored people there but it didn't feel good at all. It's was the main con of my trip for Beijing and Shanghai.
The best part of this trip was a little ballad at the back of a bicycle. I don't know how to say the proper name in english but in french it's "cyclopousse". It was very nice to go around the old city and see the little houses, the little bars and water pipes lounges. I think it's the hype neighborhood, it seems to be so cool if I lived in Beijing I would have spend all my afternoons and evenings there. And I've been told (and I saw) that life in China is not expensive at all if you consume local goods. You can eat big (and good meals for around 4 euros, and even less. The expensive things are the imported goods and the accommodations, even if it's out the city.
It's all i have to say by now, i'll post another article about Shanghai. For the moment I'm need some rest.
I was so bored today i decided to have a walk in "Le Marais" which is one of my favorite area in Paris. Little streets full of vintage shops and a lot of good restaurants. I was enjoying my ballad so much that I didn't realize I walked for almost 5 hours. (Please don't do that, except if you enjoy your feet being on fire). It was a very good day, all by myself. I think it is good to be alone sometimes. Today I realized how beautiful my city is. The street art, the new green places, the architecture, the passengers, the lovers, the bridges... everything. Many tourists only go the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysées ect... But there are thousands and thousands other places to see in Paris. Even me who grew up here I discovered a few places I didn't know, recommended by some Yelpers. (if you don't know Yelp it's a great recommendation platform for every kind of things, you HAVE to check it.)
Enough talking, here are some pictures:
+ And what about the food ?
French pastries, cappuccino, melon and I discoverd a tropical fruit jam. Lovely!
This is a nice ice cream from a gelateria named Amorino. I chose Vanilla and Nut. Very very good, almost as good as nuts ice cream from Italy (the best i've ever eaten).
I also tried a cupcake from "Bertie's cupcakes". It's a lovely cupcakery (if this world exist) but the cupcake wasn't amazing. The cream was too sweet for me and the cake was dry. The price didn't worth it at all. But if someone propose one, you can't say no it's too cute.
The "pain au chocolat" from "Pain Quotidien" is a pure delight. Crunchy on top, mellow inside. Le Pain Quotidien is a bakery and also a brunch restaurant with bio products. I'm not especially a "bio" person but I can tell their brunch is amazing. I'll tell you more about it if I go back there.
My discovery of the day: the Blue Keld. It's a zero calories pear flavored sparkling water and it's very good. Good when you want sugar but you already ate too much as i did!
