Going and going

Hi everyone and sorry about this blog silence =_=;; I've had so busy two weeks like work, work, going to some places, work again and doing stuff. So I've had no time to write my blog <_<

To be honest I don't remember much about last week... But I discovered two new things; kpop band called Day6 which are doing wonderful music, seriously made me consider buying their album. Maybe when I go to korea next time. I like this kind of easygoing band music, just my style~
And other is I found new Fazer Winter edition chocolate bar which is kind of christmassy (omg beware christmas things are coming) but I like to try new things so I had to buy it. The taste brings christmas memories so it was spot on from Fazer! Some of you, especially finnish might know that Fazer releases christmas edition chocolate bars which always comes to stores before christmas. Well, I didn't like those, there were too much spices in those but this winter edition is sooo good. There's almonds and cranberries and some spices like hint of ginger. Totally recommend to try it.

And here's couple songs from Day6, check them out~ I wouldn't even categorize them as kpop even though their company says it's kpop.

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Last week I also started new hobby, I'll attend dance practices on sundays. I was missing the time I was doing Oriental dance so I took course that is something very close in style to it; bollywood dance :P Today was second time and I like it very much, there's some same moves that they use in Oriental dance so I'm very happy~

This week has been going very fast. Monday and tuesday I was working. Then I went to eat+movies with Anniina on wednesday. We went to watch Inside out because Disney movies just are the best! It was funny, it started 6.45pm, teather was full and there were only adults lol. I enjoyed the movie very much, scriptwriter was genious! There were many jokes for adults also that children won't necessarily figure out xD

After that again I was working from thursday to saturday. I was soooo tired after my work. Especially thursday and friday were so busy I had no time to rest at all at work.
But next week are my last shifts, on tuesday and wednesday. Then I'll say goodbye to wdfg. I won't say much what happened why I didn't continue but I'm glad I said no thanks to new contract. One of the reasons were because they wanted to offer me 5th temporary contract with lower hours than now because "they can't guarantee there is more work" when there surely is! I've been with almost same contract for over a year now and it's always the same excuse... there's too much work actually and the company is missing people from shifts all the time but they do not want to hire us with more hours because then they would have to pay more etc. It's just ridiculous and this is just end of iceberg so I'm not going into details about the other reasons why I'm not continuing in there... Only thing I will miss is my coworkers, they're awesome!
But yay, no more that ugly work outfit. Seriously, it fits someone mediterranean but us finns look reeeeeeally anemic in it. We said thousand times this to the company but they don't care... See for yourself how unfitting it is for especially people with blond hair... (sorry I can't pose very well for camera):

Cosmetics and Habitare

I have so many things in this post so bear with me and my photos lol. I'll not do a seperate cosmetics recommendation this time, they are in the middle and end of my post because I have couple things to review.

So I had two cosmetics trainings this week, one which I already told you in my previous post and then on thursday I went to L'oreal luxe training which contained brands such as Lancome, Armani, Yves Saint Laurent and Biotherm. We got to know what new interesting frangrances, make-up and skincare products are coming and how to recommend them. Armani is launching new men's fragrance and renewing one. Also, Armani code for women gets new look and brand new fragrance, Armani code satin. I have never liked Armani code but the satin was quite nice! I recommend to try it even if you haven't previously liked Armani code.

Lancome is bringing brand new La vie est belle l'eau de parfum intense and I recommend this if you like sweet frangrances. This reminded me a little of marshmallows, it is actually made based on one traditional french dessert. I didn't like La vie est belle series before, they were too strong for me but I would definetly now consider buying l'eau de parfum intense from a shop.

We also got to try Biotherm's new products like the Blue therapy accelerated serum and cream. Omg the serum, it was seriously light and it had a cooling effect. I fell in love instantly and totally gonna use my whole sample bottle lol. I hope my skin likes it, I had a little problem with Aquasource cream, I cannot use it because my skin got lots of pores after I tried it about 3 weeks T_T But I like Biotherm's products so let's hope for the best~ And the serum is by the way, most effective and _most cheapest_ serum available in stores!! Accelerated serum was tested by blind test with customers, using current leading serum that customers had rated as best against it.

Lancome is bringing one new mascara to stores which I tested already:

Lancome Hypnose volume-a-porter
Price: 32€ / $36
Where can you find it: for example kicks. I believe any big cosmetics store will have this in their selection.

I'm always a little reluctant to try new mascaras because my eyes are _really_ sensitive and I get symptoms very easy like eyes constantly watery and itchy when I apply mascara. But I decided to try this anyway because it's dermatology tested and it should not leave any lumps. I tried it and it was as Lancome promised; very light, I didn't feel I had mascara on at all and it didn't leave any lumps. It has subtle rose scent which is a nice addition. The mascara should make eyelashes thick but for me it just made my eyelashes stand out more with black color. Volume-a-porter is also the only Lancome mascara with 38C feature so that's very positive turn. It is very easy to apply thanks to greatly shaped brush and it washes away very easily so all in all I'm very happy with this. I'm going to continue using it. It's a bit pricey but hey, can't always get quality with cheap price.
I can also recommend this for those who has sensitive eyes. I doubt anyone can be more sensitive than me (from those "cheap" market mascaras, if I apply them, I get symptoms like in a minute).

Tracon and stuff

So last week went fast. On friday I was very nervous about upcoming Tracon so I slept like one hour or so. My friend Linda who came to Tracon with me, also slept an hour. The only one who was bright (I think) was my other friend Annina. Our concentration were so off that we had to ask each other to repeat some sentences. But anyway, when we arrived to Tracon we finally woke up 100% because the weather was so cold in the morning. Annina went to get her staff badge and went to her assigned place while me and Linda waited the doors open. So this year they apparently didn't take any small handluggage at cloakroom in Tampere talo like last year. So we had to make extra trip to close building to leave our luggage there for a while.

I actually have no idea what we did next, propably went to leave our stuff to Tracon fleemarket? I don't know I was so out of it lol. But fleemarket was so big this year! And I didn't know you could bring fantasy books and movies there... I would have totally brought mine to sell what I won't read/watch anymore. Oh well, next year then.

I think we went to shopping hall after that and my friend Annina got herself stationed at eatyourkimchi merchandise table :D Me and Linda immediately started to think what to buy lol. I ended up with scarf because I totally don't have enough of them (that's a lie) and I also bought couple badges. Linda bought a little more. Then we just looked other sales tables and drooled some accessories. I couldn't take my eyes off from the alpaca plushies lol. But 50€ for big one was too much =__= But I found small alpaca plushie and it was only 10€ so that one I could afford. It's nice turquose color, here's a photo of it and big plushie shelf:

So after that we went to sing karaoke with Linda because kpop songs :D Then I got message from Annina that she had spotted eatyourkimchi Simon and Martina near merchandise table so we hurried there and then saw them. It was like that oh.my.god moment when you meet someone you have watched only from videos for couple years. Linda luckily got more words outside than me, I was stuttering something like "I like your outfit today, your videos are awesome." And then we got photos with them. They're really awesome guys and really wanted to talk with people and take photos with them. Those who bash them as pretenders, I can say you they're the same on and off camera~

Apparently Simon was FF Tifa's ugly brother Tofa lol. And Martina so beautiful Sailor Moon.

After that we went to our hotel Holiday Inn Tampere central station. It was just opened couple days before and everything was new. And location was great! And you actually couldn't hear trains to inside at all even though tracks were right next to the hotel! So after we dropped our stuff we went to eat and then Linda had a meeting so we stopped at Tullintori. I left Linda there and visited asianmart at bottom floor. They sell all kinds of asian food and I found especially tasty limonade in there. Too bad I didn't have time to go there again in that weekend and buy more because I would totally had bought them all lol.
When I was done shopping some snacks I headed up to Tampere talo again. I just walked there around some time before meeting up with Linda again and we went to "älä pysähdy putkessa" panel which was about how Tracon was born and what to expect in the future. So nostalgic for us to see some photos about first Tracons (at that time I was 16 years old or something).
After that panel we were really tired so we did a quick stop to our hotel to change clothes and then headed to hunt a restaurant. We ended up in mcdonalds, wow so original lol.

At Sunday we ate so much at hotel breakfast because it was included in the price and then about 11am we left towards Tampere talo. Dropped our stuff to our car and I went to eatyourkimchi picnic where only 20 participants were picked by Tracon staff. And I was one of them so yay! We had so much fun and we ate too much lol. Then at the end of picnic we all took selcas with Simon and Martina. I won't post my selca because I basically look like a panda who's got not enough sleep.

After picnic I met with Linda, Laura and couple others and went to see eatyourkimchi panel *stalkstalk*. It was nice to hear stories about they living in korea for 7 years and how they have interest also to go to Japan.

Then it was time to leave. We met Annina outside and then left Tracon. Next year again without hard raining on car trip thanks~ (we basically drove 80/kmh in 120/kmh area half the way because it was raining so hard we could barely see anything).

Some events

Last week went fast, on wednesday I was like "today is monday"... so I was a bit confused ok :D
So, I saw two of my friends at airport in tuesday, they both left as exchange students for Korea. I'm sorry for Daphne I didn't have more time to talk D: it was middle of rush hour so I could only talk for little while until I had to go back to till.. but at least I could wish nice trip~

I remember not mentioning in here that I have repetitive strain injury on my foot. Anyway, on wednesday my foot was more painful again so I had to go to doctor. I wish I hadn't... the doctor was like "ok, I will give you cortisone shot, it won't hurt that much. And it will help you not feel the pain for a while"... not hurting that much, yeah right. The needle was big so I was a bit terrified and especially when he just pushed it to my foot like "this doesn't hurt." Imagine taking blood test, instead the nurse don't hit the vein but next to it and keeps going deeper. It felt like that only that the needle was bigger... Lucky, person can't be given cortisone shot but only couple times a year and with long gaps between the shots. So doctors won't recommend it for me at least for a while.

I feel like I didn't do anything productive this week except studying korean with my friend Anniina~ Trying to remember more korean words is hard task lol. Sometimes it feels like "yay this is easy" and then you open a textbook and be like "ok bye" :,D

Tomorrow I'm going to sushi restaurant with my friend Annina. I miss asian food all the time. Sushi in Finland is quite expensive but well, as long as it's good~

And then to cosmetics recommendation~

Nature Republic Cell Boosting BB cream SPF 30PA++ (color 01)

Price: about 15€ / $17
Where you can find it: For example roseroseshop 

Ok, I'm a fan of Nature Republic alright :D I ordered this a little while ago since the bb cream from Missha I'm using now is almost finished. I saw this discounted in kpoptown when I was ordering other stuff and so, since I like Nature Republic I wanted to give it a try. This bb cream has a nice looking pastel-colored package and in the side of package ingredients are listed in english so that's a plus! I tried the cream and texture is very light but for my skintone it was a little bit dark, only a little but still noticeable. I haven't tried apply it for my whole face so I'm not sure what look it will give. But I can say that this will last long! I accidentally pump a little too much and it just kept spreading like crazy lol. So if you want a longlasting bb cream I recommend this.

Do I want to buy it again? Well propably not since it's a hint too dark but I will maybe try provence series bb cream next. I just note here that my skin is quite pale, so for normal toned skin this would be very good. I have actually difficulties to find bb creams from korea, even though koreans adore pale skin and pale make-up, they're usually still much darker for me.


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That's all~ Next post is propably coming after next week. Because next weekend is Tracon where I'm going with two friends~ And btw, I got accepted to eatyourkimchi picnic event. I didn't even know my explanation about some finnish snacks/food was that great xD So everyone going there, see you there~

Korean food and other things

Hello again after a week~ I was somehow so tired throughout the week. I didn't have any long workdays or anything, I was just tired for some reason. But I was happy to meet my friends Anniina and Daphne on last friday, we had fun day; eating korean food and just walking in Helsinki city center. Daphne will leave to South-Korea for school exchange, so it was kinda farewell thingy.. I'll miss you :< I also promised to start studying korean also with Anniina because we're both intermediate level and she will also leave to Korea next year. And I need update to my skills lol. I need someone to speak it with~ When I go to Korea next time I want to be able to speak more better than last time. I still have to think too much and I'm slow at speaking >__< At least I can write in korean to my boyfriend and friends time to time to practice. I'm reeeeeally not good writing hangul either, I have to check like every other word from dictionary for spelling xD

Here's a photo from the korean restaurant, I ate 김밥 aka kimbap. 

It was great~  I recommend to visit the restaurant if you have time: koreahouse
It was funny when we were eating, a really large group of korean tourists came in. It felt a little bit like in korea because everywhere we could hear just korean language :P

On saturday I had my first morning shift like in 3 months. I was a little confused and tired lol. Taxi came to pick me up at 3.50am, my shift started 4.45am. I saw my sister and her boyfriend first thing in the morning, they left to Marbella via Malaga. I was like "pleaaase take me too" xD instead I had to stay and work. Cruel world. Well, hopefully I will be able to go to London in October. I have serious travel fever and I want to get out from Finland lol. And finally got my passport so I'm able to leave the country yay~

 So now let's change the subject to cosmetics recommendation~

Nature republic Provence make up base SPF30 PA++

Price: about 16€/$19
I originally bought this from Korea in Nature Republic but you can also get it from for example cosmetic-love. Nature Republic have recently made a new packaging for it so you might not find the exact same I have in the photo.

The make up base is very light, applies smoothly and is not sticky. I usually have to pump only very small amounts so it's also long lasting. But beware; if you have really dark or extra light skin, I would not recommend this for you. It is a bit whitening so if you have very dark skin it would look unnatural or if you have extra light skin, you will propably look like a ghost even after applying bb or cc cream. For my skintone it's comfortable so I like to use it. I apply it after skincare and obviously before bb cream. It's also great for the SPF30 if you don't like getting tanned walking outside in sunny day. This product also made me want to try other Provence -serie products.

So that's all this time. Have a nice week everyone :)

Work, work, work

Pretty much this week's theme was work. I felt like I was working 24/7. Everyday I was asked to stay a bit longer so I had long days especially in tuesday and wednesday when I stayed work close to midnight. So it was rough week at work but I made it out alive :D

Today I had easy, fun day with my family. We grilled food and just talked how everybody's doing. We are so rarely together anymore. Especially now that my sister lives with her boyfriend and my brother is in the army.

Tomorrow I'm going to police office to finally apply for new passport. I should have applied earlier because I knew my passport weren't valid after first week of July but somehow time just went by and suddenly it was the end of July and I was like o_m_g. But better later than never lol. So everyone; remember to check up your passports every once in a while and get new asap if your passport is not valid for long anymore. It would be not very nice surprise to wait some trip excitedly and then notice you can't go because you don't have any valid id. Well, I have only my driver's licence but it's not ok for travel for most of the countries.


And then to other subjects...

So in my previous post I was talking about doing skincare and cosmetics reviews and here is the first one. I am open to try many kinds of skincare and you will also hear from me if it's suitable for sensitive skin, wether to buy it or not. I have atopy and so, my skin is very sensitive. I usually can't use any "cheap" cosmetics because they're produced from cheap materials and therefore I get symptoms like rash often from them. But sometimes I get rash even from expensive products. So I just have to try and see. I'm addicted to asian cosmetics, especially korean ones even though most of them are classified as "cheap". I have gotten rash from some of them but on the other hand some have been excellent.

My favorite korean brands: Nature Republic, Innisfree, Aritaum, Mamonde, Missha.

So I was shopping the other day and saw this one skin product and thought to give it a go. Because lately I've been having more pores so I was thinking why not then. And this one was a total jackpot.

Let me introduce you to...

Maybelline New York new Baby Skin instant pore eraser.  

The texture is very light, you can barely feel it when you apply it. And I have to say it works really well! And it didn't cause me to break out so I recommend this also to those who have sensitive skin.
Bought from: Anttila
But I think you can get this from biggest stores that sells cosmetics and skincare.


So here was today's post. Thanks for reading^^

Hello Hello

I didn't quite know if I should write in finnish or english but I decided to write in english after all, so that everyone can understand~

So a short introduction: My name is Kati, I'm 25 years old (soon 26) and I like travelling, food, music (especially kpop), reading and hanging out with friends. But I also need my own time to relax (I count myself as introvert). I am often mistaken a bit cold or too quiet even though I'm only shy and like to listen more than speak. But with friends or people I'm familiar with, I'm totally different. I currently live with my parents, I have a great family and I have loving boyfriend whom I'm with long-distance relationship because we live in different continents.
I have a job at Finland's biggest airport, Helsinki airport so if you ever see me there when you're travelling, come and say hi~

So why did I decide to put up a blog? Well this is actually my fourth blog, previous ones have been only travel blogs but this time I just wanted to write about my life and adventures. I've always been a little jealous of bloggers who have amazing blogs and have ambition to keep it going for so long hehe. So I thought why not make a lifestyle blog. Hopefully I can write about many trips to come to another countries since I love travelling and I don't know how to survive even a year without visiting somewhere. And perhaps I will be living in South-Korea in the future so I can write about living in Korea again. And I say again because I lived there previously 3 months as a volunteer worker. I told about it in my other blog, it's in finnish so I won't link it in here.
And I will propably write some reviews and stuff from example new cosmetics I'm trying etc.

And where did I get inspiration for my blog name? Wild guess ;D Because I love Korea and I like Seoul's atmosphere I chose something to connect to it.

So that's all for now~ Thanks for reading my blog^^