Polished Polyglot

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Hello, sweeties! Happy Monday!

Yesterday, I spent the most beautiful and exciting day at the Opera in Zurich with my hubby! We left the kids with grandpa and drove to Zurich, we had lunch in a fancy restaurant and attended the afternoon representation of "La Bohème" of Puccini. If you follow my Instagram Stories you must have seen the whole thing already, otherwise, you can find a few snaps of our Opera adventure on my highlights "Time with hubby" on my Instagram profile :)
You must know by now, that I am a fan of Opera (especially Italian composers), but since we had children it has become very difficult to attend any Opera, firstly the shows are quite long (around 3 hours including one or two breaks), so they are not children friendly! Although there are some nice adaptations for kids, they are not suitable for very young like mine, mostly for kids 8yo and up. Also, this kind of show only happens in big cities, that means we have to add travel time to the whole thing. When you end up spending 6 hours away in the evening, it usually needs you to stay overnight in the city you are visiting, that makes it all very complicated to organize, especially for expat families with no family near. But this time, my hubby organized everything and he found afternoon tickets on a Sunday!! That was so clever!! We had a family Sunday breakfast, we left around 11am and we were back home for dinner time around 7pm.
What about you? Do you often take time without the kids with your partner/couple? Does it require much organization? Is it also a total adventure for you too?
You know already, it's "Monday Shadow Challenge" time! I prepared a look in "Midnight blue" and "Coral" to share with you. My dear friend Lola, asked me to film a tutorial for this look, I am a bit film/video shy, but I would do a tutorial to please a friend. I hope you like it!!

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Hello, lovelies! Happy Monday!
I'm back home after spending two wonderful weeks in Italy, with family, friends good food and nice beaches. We stayed the first week in the countryside, at a 10-minute drive from the sea. The second week we stayed in a little coast city called Alba Adriatica, at the wonderful Eden Hotel. We enjoyed the sea, the swimming pools and the delicious Mediterranean food of the Hotel Restaurant. One whole week without cooking, washing up, not even making the bed! It was Paradise! haha. Now, back to reality and the usual routine, I'm already done with the laundry, but I still have to iron (seriously who even invented the concept of ironing?!) which will be postponed until the temperatures go down a little bit ;)

This Monday needs some makeup fun more than ever, so to cheer us up, the Monday Shadow Challenge proposed us to use "Anise Green" and "Teal" in our makeup looks. So, I've created a luminous and fun summer look that I hope you'll like :)

Something happened today, that was totally unexpected. I was working at home this morning when someone rang the bell. Let me tell you first, nobody ever rings the bell in the morning. So that was already quite unexpected. But I remembered seeing this morning a truck parked in front of our building because our neighbour on the first floor is moving out. So, I imagined

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Happy Monday, lovelies!
What a great weekend that was! It was filled with fun moments and high in emotions. My girl's birthday party was a success, our dear friends and family were there and I was so very happy. One of the things I enjoy the most in this life is hosting parties, any kind of party, children's parties, dinner party, grill party (though we don't have a garden, lol) whatever! I love gathering the people I love pampering them with things I've prepared for them with love and dedication. I think I got that from my mom. My hubby, on the other hand, though he enjoys the meeting moment, he dislikes all the prepping and the cleaning afterwards (even when it's me doing all most of the work). He feels uncomfortable and moody during the whole process. So we don't host as many parties as I would like... And when we do, we try to look for a "neutral place". In fact, I agree that our flat is quite small, so we come to this kind of compromise of hosting parties, but not at home. What about you? Do you enjoy hosting parties?

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Happy Monday, lovelies!
We are still enjoying our three-day weekend, we are about to go out for a picnic with the kids, relax and enjoy ourselves. Is it also a bank holiday where you live today?

Hello, sweeties!
After a long very cold week, we woke up this morning to a beautiful white snowy landscape! The whole Switzerland is under the snow! For us in the city of Biel is the first real snow this winter and my children were so excited to go out this morning that 7:30 am everybody was ready and fully dressed according to the weather. My two-year-old girl went singing "jingle bells" all the way to the daycare, lol. I think she was a bit confused, haha, but I found it so sweet I couldn't tell her anything. I think she wasn't the only one. The city authorities might have been confused as well, because even at 8 AM no street or pavement was shovelled or cleared, I struggled to push my girl in her stroller! and my stroller has special features for snow.
Well, let's get into makeup! I've prepared today's look a few days ago, because I wanted a fresh and soft look like one I would wear in Spring. However, now that everything is covered in snow, I wouldn't mind a few more days of winter, lol. For today's makeup I used a beautiful palette from NARS which was released last year for Fall in the "Man Ray" collection, this is the NARS Love Game palette, which was a limited edition but it is still available in Sephora.fr.