Beauty

  • Summer Beauty Essentials

    Summer does not only bring a change in wardrobe, it also delivers a subtle adjustment in my go-to beauty products. With sun and heat on the daily, I replace eyeshadows with tanning products, lipstick with my favorite lip balm and stay cool with a spritz of Eau de Beauté. I resort to products that are…

  • my 5-step beauty routine

    A beauty routine is something highly personal. There is no one-fit-for-all or set rules to go by. Instead, it usually requires years of trial and error – especially if you have sensitive or problematic skin – to find a routine and products that have the effect they are supposed to. In my late teens and…

  • Suncare for Sensitive Skin

    Sun’s out, buns out – they say. Even though I am all for spending my spare time in a bikini, soaking up the sunshine, I am also very much against getting burnt. With blue eyes, freckles and fairly fair skin, I am definitely not the southern typ. Still, I manage to (almost) never get burnt….

  • (Almost) Arizona

    “Beautiful, big white blossoms on dry cactuses” – a perfect way of describing the magic of a wedding that took place in the middle of the California desert last Wednesday. In Joshua Tree National Park, to be exact. To see so much beauty, so many emotions and most importantly, so much love come together and…

  • chopped: new hair

    I have always considered myself a long-hair-type. Not only do I have really thick hair that needs a bit of length to be weighed down, but I also find my face rather “round” (personal perception, I know…) and figured a bit of length would help. Then, a few months ago, my best friend decided to…

  • backstage

    I think we can all agree that fashion is much more than just pieces of fabric draped over a body. To me, fashion is not a single thing – it is a collection of a lot of things. Especially beauty and hair. A red lip can instantly transform an otherwise simple look to something glamorous….

  • Up North

    T here are not a lot of specific memories I have from my early childhood. Don’t get me wrong, I had the most amazing parents, siblings and always lived in a happy home. But I don’t have those very specific childhood memories. At least not a lot of them. However, there is one thing that…

  • The lost make-up bag

    Exactly 1 week ago, I lost my entire make-up bag while traveling home to Vienna. It must have been somewhere at the hotel, various airports (Sylt and Düsseldorf) or inflight and I refused to actually consider it “lost” all week. Despite my efforts of getting it back by calling every lost & found I could think…