Shopgirl's Shanghai

They are currently having an up to 50% off sale. Most of the brands are American based , but designers you see all over magazines for example: Derek Lam, Proenza Schouler, Herve Leger, Preen, vince, yigal azrouel, alice + olivia, and many more.

Wish I could go, but I am stuck in a cold Sweden…

I am planning to dye my hair this fall, to brown. Kind of creepy because I have always had very very very black hair. My bf asked me why I never comb my hair and I told him that I like the look of being “heroine chic”, but then I looked next to me where my usual chocolate box was placed and directly took back my statement.

This is kind of embarassing, but the thought of becoming 23 (the final age to do stupid and shallow stuff like this) this winter makes up for it

I am actually amazed, seriously AMAZED at how important contrasts means to a photo!!! I kind of look really good on these photos which I unfortunately do not in real life (for real), I often wish that life itself had more contrasts…that’s why I love Shanghai so much I guess…

What I can’t staaaaaand with some folks is how ungrateful they are of their lives, ungrateful to people who has helped them, parents who have raised them or even to life itself.

I ALWAYS try to be grateful to things, even if I am not the luckiest girl in the jar. When something bad have happened to me I always climb back to my usual temper after I think about how much worse it could have been. Such as being blind, deaf, not being able to walk or even born to be ugly (although this is a relative word).

Let’s take a really good example of how ungrateful people are, actually I don’t blame them so much, we are indeed living in a very harmonious society where majority of things are generally awesome, so we start complaining when things are out of order – meaning not perfect. But gosh, people. Life is not perfect so isn’t the world we are living in!

Anyway, let me give you this example. In Sweden we receive money from the government to study in university (which tuition is also for free). In other countries people pay FORTUNES to just be able to study at university, and NO WAY that they would receive money from the government, and we are not talking about little money. Swedish university students receive about 350 USD a month, which is quite a lot.But still, I often hear students shouting, why haven’t my money arrived yet, I hate CSN (the system that pays out the money), their staff is soooo lazy and unefficient. Blah blah blah.

It’s really sad. I just want to slap them.

I love it!!! Maybe in a more discreet colour such as nude or grey as the design is already quite unique and eyepopping….

But oh how I love this jacket, can be found at the new brand Empire Blanc in Beijing. No idea about the price though…Love it!

Being an university mistress in cities like Shanghai is quite common these days. It all started in Tokyo where young girls saw it was the only opportunity to gain their dream bags and other stuff that their parents would never buy for them. Now the trend has landed in cities such as Shanghai. My cousin who goes to a very prestigious business university in Shanghai personally knows girls who are kept as mistresses, and she also told me that there are even BMW’s and Mercedez Benz cars outside the university waiting for the girls or trying to recruit mistresses.

Those girls get offered up to 10000 RMB a month and other stuff such as fancy dinners, gifts, and some times even cars and apartments…

This trend is so widespread now that two big Chinese universities has launched a new law saying it’s forbidden that their students participate in those kind of activities.

For more information, please read here: http://shanghaiist.com/2010/08/20/no_longer_okay_in_china_being_a_uni.php

Seems to me that those mistresses are being treated even better than real girlfriends. Sad.

For real. My body is full of shit! My friends are even surprised at how much unhealthy stuff I eat. The other week I ate a whole friggin box of chocolate within one hour. That sort of activities should be totally illegal. And if I want to keep my boyfriend I should also be somewhat aware of my looks (although the brain is more important, but did you know that it is statistically proven that fat people also are dumber people, and that you brain motors gets slower at the same time as your body fat increases?)

Anyway, my new week rules are

- Only 5 chocolate pralines a day!!! (some of you may think it’s a lot, but as I eat about 10 to 15 pralines a day, this is a BIG reduction for me, please understand.

- Soup for lunch or dinner every day

- Not buying chocolate cookies anymore (today I finished a box because I felt slightly depressed)

- Frozen mango cubes, fruits and berries, Läkerol gum, are welcoming desserts…..with a little little bit of cream.

Hehehe, look at my haircare stash Totally in love with the Wella SP Series…and VERY disappointed with my L’oreal professional schampoo that also cost a smaller fortune…Here is my new dress I bought the other day

Last night in Stockholm we were celebrating Fashion Night, which means that finally for once, the shops in downtown were open until 22.00 (which is given in Shanghai, but anyway we are in Stockholm where those occassions only happens once in a blue moon). But not only was it open to late, the stores celebrated with different things such as special discounts in store, but also free give aways such as Vitamin Water bottles, Moët Champagne, Cupcakes and believe it or not, Oysters!!!!! I was happy At WHYRED (a very famous Swedish brand, their clothes are totally awesome, commercial but at the same time with a twist that makes them somewhat unique).At Gina Tricot (high street clothing chain in Sweden)At Acne, where they offered 15% on all clothes, I was in heaven for a while, but was brought down to earth when I realized that I need to buy a Macbook Pro this week that will ruin me. My love for Acne is totally invincible, their choice of material and design is so good that I can not really put a right/fair word for how good it actually is. At Malene Birger (my favourite Danish designer) Why don’t they open up in Shanghai? Their clothes would go so well there!!! Very feminine and a love for pastel colours. Their shopping bag is so cute as well, reminds me of Ladureé.

Tod’s brown loafers – not for me though

Wesc mega purple headphones – love them!!!

Black half transperant dress at Urban Outfitters

Half year subscription to ELLE Magazine (got a free Kerastasé hairmist)

Here is a photo of me at the Mi Lajki fashionshow!