Pictures I didn't Instagram

As almost everyone in the world, I am obsessed with instagram and I use it all the time, but sometimes I don't post some of the pictures I take for a lot of different reasons, so I like sharing them here. 

The Chernivtsi University - UNESCO Heritage Site

Most of this picturest are random and I may have posted similar ones on instagram, like the red hair one. My favorite is the last one where you can see the preparations for my cousin's wedding (If you wanna see more pictures of the wedding, let me know!)
Do you post most of your pictures on instagram or do you keep some for your self?
If you want to see the pictures that I did instagram, check here !

What Did I Do In August?

I began the month in Milan and I used this days to study and to spend some time with my friends.
One day, I decided to add some color to my hair and I went for the red. However, I used a spray that only lasted a few days, but I still enjoyed the result 











Usually I spend august with my family in Ukraine and this year wasn't different. I like going there because most of my family lives there while I live in Italy.
During this month I wanted to relax, study a little bit and obviously have some quality time with my relatives.
To go there, I took a road trip passing by Slovenia and Hungary. It usually takes about 20ish hours to arrive to my city and even if it might sound boring, it's actually really interesting because I get to see a lot of places like Budapest for example.

Keep reading on the next page

CELEBRITY PLASTIC SURGERY part 1

We all know that a lot of celebrities abuse plastic surgery and we all have different opinions about it.
I decided to make a post showing in the first part the little changes that made a difference in a good way, and in the other part you'll find the ones that aren't exactrly the most successful results.
Enjoy!

Blake Lively clearly changed something about her nose and with just one little change she turned into one of the most beautiful women on earth!













Scarlett Johansson changed something about her nose too, didn't she?

Some people say that Kim Kardashian looks so different because of her famous contouring, some think that she has used some plastic surgery. In any of the cases she really did change and she look beautiful.










Wanna find out who are the other celebrities who used plastic surgery to look better? Check out the second part of the post!

Cannes 2016

At the end of April, I went to Cannes for a couple of days with my friend Camilla for a fashion event.We took a few snaps here and there and these are some of my favorites.

Have you ever visited Cannes and/or the french riviera?

What I've Learnt About Relationships So Far

Currently, I've been in a relationship for four months and there are a lot of thing I haven't figured out yet, but there are also a few things that I now understand better and that I'd like to share.

When we decide to start a relationship with someone, we really have to want it because it will require a lot of energies and we have to make sure that that's something we really want, otherwise it will not end in a good way.

Even though it might seem a little hard, we need to discuss with the other person about our expectations and make everything clean, this way you'll both know if you want an exclusive relationship or if you wanna see other people, too. Personally, I believe that big part of a relationship depends on communication. If you keep everything inside and don't tell your partner what's wrong, eventually the two of you will realise that something changed without an apparent reason and trust me, this can ruin your relationship. I'm not saying that you should share every single detail of your life, but if you're feeling down and you treat the other one in a cold way, they will think that they did something wrong and will feel badly about their selves. 

What Did I Do In January?

New Year's Eve with Camilla

I still can't believe that the first month of 2016 is already gone. I began the year with my friends Camilla and Beatrice at a small house party that was really funny and cheerful.
And even tho the party was located in Italy, I had to speak english because there was a swedish girl who did not understand italian. It was a really nice experience.

Pictures I Didn't Instgram

As you can probably imagine, I check Instagram daily, but I don't post pictures every single day. That's why I like sharing with you some pictures that I didn't Instagram, even tho I like them!

If you want to see the pictures I posted, check out my Instagram

Me and Camilla, mirror selfie

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!

I've been thinking about this for a while, but I wasn't brave enought to actually do it.
But now, I did it! I made a facebook page for this blog! You can find it here! Obviously I still have to work on it because I literally made it like five minutes ago, but I'll start posting as soon as possible about all things beauty and lifestyle.
I hope you enjoy,
Inna xx

Tips For A Better Sleep

Sometimes falling asleep isn't as easy as it sounds. The lack of sleep can be the cause of a lot of stress, especially if we have to wake up early. A lot of different things can influence the way you fall asleep and the way you sleep,  but changing little things of your lifestyle can really make a difference. 

1) Don't eat heavy before bed 

If you have a really heavy dinner, of if you eat really late, you might have some difficulties when you fall asleep because your stomach is still working on the digestion! If you eat something light you won't feel bloated and your body will be more relaxed!

2) Music 

Music can seriously make a big difference! Every time I'm having a hard time sleeping, I put some slow music on that will help my body to relax and to fall asleep faster.

3 Walk 

Walking, or in general making physical activity, a few hours before going to bed, will make your body tired and this way it will need to get some rest to have brand new energy!

  

4) Tea
Teaa before bed is a really great idea because tea calms your nerves and it brings you in a really relaxed state of mind. If you're not sure of what tea you should choose, check out this post.

5) Pajamas

The clothes you're sleeping with make a really big difference! If your body isn't comfortable because you're clothes are too tight, it'll be be harder to fall asleep! So investing in some comfortable clothes pajamas is a really great choice!

If you've got a few more tips for sleeping better share them in the comments below 😊

My Five Favorite Bloggers Contest - Winners

A few days ago I wrote a post where I told you I decided to choose five blogger whose I liked the blogs, so I kept my promise and here they are!

From Straight To Curly 

This is a really recent blog, but I think that it has a lot of potentiality. 

For example, this post about coconut oil is very well structured and it actually makes you want to read the post! I'm definitely going to follow her blog and I hope that it will get better and better!

A Travel Soul

Cristian, who I actually know in real life, was an exchange student last year and throughout his blog he wants to share his experience and inspire people who want to travel. In his blog you'll be able to find travel quotes, advices and a lot of information about his exchange year in the US. 

 Charlotte Actually

Charlotte's blog must be one of my favorite travel blogs ever, let me explain.

What I like about this blog is that it's both professional and friendly: those two styles are mixed in the perfect way! While reading a post, you might get the impression that a good old friend became a great career woman and that she's telling you about her adventures. 

Stephanie Jane

An another travel blog, but different from the others. Stephanie did something great that not a lot of people would have the guts to do: she sold her house and bought a caravan so that she could travel around Europe. 

Besides the posts about her adventures, you can also find book reviews and recipes! 

Ooh Belle 

Milka is a 22 years old girl who lives in Montenegro who studies and writes for her blog. When I first opened her blog, I couldn't help but notice how lovely it looks!

Milka writes some really nice posts and you can thing inspiring quotes, hear something about her life, discover new songs.  

Picking Up 5 Favorite Bloggers #contest

My passion for blogs started a long time ago and besides writing this blog, I still enjoy reading other's people blogs because I like to find out what people think and just get inspired by them. That's why I decided to pick up my favorite 5 bloggers out of the ones that retweet this tweet and tell you what I like about their blog. 

So, if you want to be one of those lucky bloggers, make sure you follow my twitter and retweet this tweet!

The post where I talk about you will be on this blog the first of October and you have time until the midnight of the 30th September to enter!

I will personally contact the lucky five on twitter or by email.

Inna

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How To Enjoy Halloween

Halloween is a night that not everyone everyone enjoys properly, so I wanted to share with you some tips for making it great and feel like a little kid!

1) Get themed sweets and put them all around the house some decorated bowls and grab them whenever you want to!

2) Decorate your house

You can do it all by yourself or you can ask some friends to help you, this way you will have fun together! Halloween decorations can be very different so choose your style! You can use ghost decorations only or you can mix different things together, the choice is yours!

3) Watch movies

They don't have to be horror or to scary if you're not into that gender, you can simply choose something Halloween-related that you can enjoy without freaking out! Personally, I like watching some disney movies, or some Halloween-related episodes of your favorite tv-show!

4) Instead of buying a costume, do it yourself!

I think that this is the most exciting thing you can do, because you're going to be different from anyone else and you'll enjoy the process! If you're not that good with this, you can buy a basic-costume and decorate it the way you like it!

5) Carve pumpkins! 

I suggest you to do it the day before Halloween because this way they don't rot. You can carve it the way you like it better and put some scented candles inside of it to create a perfect atmosphere!

6) Read Halloween-related books

For enjoying Halloween the most, I suggest you to read all things Halloween related, this way you will know the real meaning of Halloween and you will enjoy it so much more!

Do you have other tips? Share them with me! 💕🎃

How I Make Money With My Blog: Sverve

Even though my blog is pretty young, I decided to monetize it a little bit, just to have some extra money that I can spend on make up or clothes that I'm going to talk about on the blog.

One of the sites that I discovered is Sverve. I particularly like this site because it allows you to chose the campaigns that you wanna apply to, but it even selects campaigns that mights suit you better. Let me explain: if you're a beauty blogger, you will not see technology campaigns. I think that this is a nice way to organize things because you don't lose time reading things that you are not interested in.

An another thing that I like about it is that you can get paid as soon as you reach $5.00, this way if your incomings aren't really big, you can still get your money without waiting too much.

Have you tried it yourself? If you did tell me what you think about it, and if you haven't you can try it right away, just click here! 

Funny and random 'this' or 'that' questions

I found these random and cute questions and I decided to answer because I think that it's a funny way for you to get to know me, you can write your answers as well in the comments box! 

• Summer or winter: winter

• Morning or night: night

• Rain or shine: rain

• Fall or spring: fall

• Black or white: black

• Red or blue: blue

• Milkshake or juice: juice

• Coke or pepsi: diet coke

• Tea or coffee: tea

• Beer or wine: beer

• Xbox or Playstation: playstation

• Board games or video games: board games

• TV or movies: movies

• Anime or manga: none

• Horror or comedy: comedy

• Facebook or twitter: twitter

• Planes or boats: planes

• Train or bus: train

• Pancakes or waffles: waffles

• Strawberry or blueberry: stawberry

• Meat or veggies: veggies

• Nachos or french fries: french fries

• Dogs or cats: cats

• China or Japan: Japan 

• Europe or Asia: Europe

• Lays or pringles: pringles

• M&M's or skittles: m&ms

• IOS or android: iSO

• Paypal or bank account: bank account

• Call or text: depends from the person

• Truth or dare: dare

• Frozen yogurt or ice cream: ice cream

• Outdoors or indoors: indoors

• Dimples or freckles: freckles

• Gift cards or cash: cash

• Christmas or Halloween: Christmas

• Drawing or painting: drawing

• Laptop or desktop: laptop

• Motel or hotel: hotel

• Sausage or bacon: sausage

• Drummer or guitarist: guitarist

• Dancing or singing: dancing

• Straight hair or curly hair: straight hair

• Long nails or short nails: short nails

  

health is the most precious thing you will ever have

This post is really a personal one and you'll understand the reason why as you read it. To be honest I didn't even read it back because I'm too scared but I hope you'll appreciate it anyway. 

Most people probably have no idea of how if feels to be seriously ill and probably they'll never know it and I really hope that they will never face serious health problems. 

Unfortunately, some people aren't that lucky and right now, at age of 18, I am scared as hell that I might be one of these people. I would have never thought that I'd go to sleep wondering if I'll ever see the sunlight again. What I'm saying might sound dramatic and I know that it is, but that's how I feel and that's the reason why I've been hard time at sleeping. I haven't talked properly about these feeling with anyone because they'd probably think that I'm just being crazy and I truly hope that they're right, I hope that I'm just temporarily losing my mind and that this isn't happening at all. I really hope that I'm wrong, that everything's going to be again and that one day, when I'll be old and grey, I'll think about all these thought and realize how naive I was. But I'm also freaking scared that this will never happen. And it's understandable to feel like this when even your doctor doesn't know what causes the pain you've been feeling all over your body for more than a month. And it even gets worst when your heart aches for real, not because a guy broke it. This time you feel like your heart it seriously not working good anymore. 

I wrote all of these stuff because I'd like to make you understand how precious your health is, so just try to treat your body right and take care of it, because when you'll lose it, you'll want it back with every inch of you. 

This Week: Back In Town

I started this week in the loveliest way possible: I found some really old pictures of me and my relatives and we all spent hours looking at them and trying to remember those moments. 

Me (1 year old) and my mom

Then, I just tried to spend some quality time with my relatives because it was almost time to leave Ukraine and go back to Milan, Italy. I really enjoyed those days and I had a lot of fun playing with my cousins' children, especially with Maxim who turned 1 recently. 

On Wednesday it was time to leave so we started our road trip in the afternoon and we arrived the next day. Even though long road trips like this one might look exhausting, I get to see some amazing places around Europe and my favorite is Budapest, Hungary which is a really nice and underrated city. 

When I walked in my apartment in Milan I ate a lot of pasta (I missed it!) and I tried to get some rest. I'm trying to enjoy the last days of my summer holidays until I start school again on the 14th of September.

During the rest of the week I just stayed home because I really needed to relax. However, on Sunday I met my friend Camilla in the evening in the city center and we chatted a lot and made a little shopping. We aso decided to visit one of the museums you can find in piazza Duomo, called "Museo Del Novecento" 

Me and my friend Camilla

Pictures I didn't Instagram #2

My post "Pictures I didn't Instagram" (here) has been pretty successful so I thought that you might like it if I made posts like that one every 2/3 months and show you guys what you've missed :)

My instagram: innasolonenko

10 Reasons Why I Love Autumn/Fall

When I was younger, I remember being really excited for autumn because it felt like we were closer to Christmas. As I grew up, I continue loving this season for the same reason, but I also learned to fall in love with it for a lot of different reasons and even if you might think I'm crazy for thinking about it in August (it's the 26th, it's not that bad!), I decided to share with you all the little reasons why this season is amazing!

1) The Atmosphere

As the first cold days arrive, trees become orange and they start to lose their leaves slowly start to fall and suddenly the streets aren't grey anymore! 

2) Coats

I'm a person who loves big and cozy coats and obviously there is no way that I can wear them in the hot months, so when the temperature goes down, my mood goes up!

3) Sweater Weather!

Same as for the point 2, it's unthinkable that someone can wear sweaters in summer and I don't even have to tell you why! So one of my favorite things to do in September is autumn shopping and I always end up buying way too many sweaters, but I can't complain LOL

4) Warm Socks

This might sound a little weird, but socks are one of my main autumn essentials because my feet tend to get pretty cold so I consider socks-shopping a full time hobby! And I'm not even talking about ordinary black socks, I'm talking about super warm and cute themed socks #noshame

5) Candles

One thing that I really love doing in this season is setting some nice smelling candles all around my flat and just enjoy the atmosphere that they create

6) Hot Drinks

I swear that as soon as the hot days are gone, I go to the kitchen and make myself my favorite hot drinks because I can finally drink them without having the feeling that I'm burning inside! 

7) Halloween

Who doesn't like Halloween? I really like the fact that for one night people don't worry if they look weird and they don't wonder if they're wearing too much make up: for once they don't worry that someone might judge them for the way they decided to go out!

8) Rainy Evenings 

Once again, I love the atmosphere that creates in this season and rain makes everything five times better! Plus if you feel like staying in bed the whole day while it's raining, you won't even feel guilty! 

9) Make Up

Usually people tend to wear less makeup in the hot months and when it gets cold I always feel like I can wear something more elaborated and a little darker which is the kind of make up I love! Even thought I don't always wear them, I really like dark lipsticks and this is the perfect season to wear them!

10) Warm Baths

While in the summer people usually prefer a quick and cold shower, this season is perfect for a long and relaxing bath, eventually using some Lush Bombs (again, fall essential) 

So, these are 10 reasons why I believe that autumn/fall is the perfect season , do you love it as much as I do? If the answer is yes, I really hope that you write your favorite fall-related things in the comments below!

Have a good day, 

Inna

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Why Being Shameless Is The Key To Happiness

People who know me well know that I'm a person who always thinks twice before making any choice. I am completely aware of this and I have to admit that I'm proud of this because it shows that I'm a rational and mature person who always thinks about the consequences. What I recently realized is that thinking too much ofter led me to missing things and that I'm probably screwing up the days that I might remember and laugh about as the years pass by. 

For once I decided that I didn't want to think about every single action I make and just go with the flow following my heart instead of my mind. I decided to try this way of (not) thinking on my cousin's 18th birthday party. I went there convinced that I wouldn't have touched any alcohol because I didn't want to "lose control" or something. But then I just thought about the fact that I'm considered as an adult by the law and that there was nothing bad in drinking a few shots. I perfectly knew that a few choice wouldn't have done absolutely nothing so I decided to get them just like everybody else at the party. After those shots I was still sober, but they totally helped me to get relaxed and to free my mind! For the rest of the night I socialized with my cousin's friends and danced like nobody was watching! 

People who know me well also know that I like dancing but I don't like dancing in public because I don't want people to judge me or think my dance moves are weird. This time it was different, I danced like I was alone in my room feeling a little embarrassed in the beginning, but then I just realized that I was one the best feelings in the world! I remember that at one point I just thought "wow, I'm actually happy thanks to something I thought would be frustrating". It was seriously a funny experience and I had an amazing time with those people and I've got absolutely nothing to regret!

The reason why I told you this little story is because I want you to understand how easy it is to have fun without being ashamed of how you look or about your dance moves just by opening your mind and just don't worry about what people might think. 

I'm not suggesting you to drink or anything, I'm just trying to explain that if you think too much and you might miss a lot of things and you'll probably regret it when you won't be able to do some things anymore.

July Playlist

These four song have been the ones that I enjoyed the most these month, tell me yours in the comments below!

Believe - Mumford & Sons

If you're following me on twitter or if you have seen this My Week In Pictures post, you know that I'm currently in Ukraine, the home-country and that I reached it with a road trip across Europe. During this road trip I got really obsessed with this song because it felt amazing seeing the lights in the dark and dream with my eyes open with this song as soundtrack.

Ten Feet Tall - Wrabel

I didn't know this song until a friend of mine randomly played it on a girls' night. There are two versions of the song: one is a remix made by Afrojack and the other one is the slow version. I like both versions and I choose which one I should listen by my mood. What I really appreciate about both the versions is the lyrics because it makes you feel in love even thought you're an 18-years-old-girl who is enjoying her summer like a single lady! 

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Miley Cyrus version

As I said earlier, right now I'm 18, single and enjoying this amazing summer in the best way I can, so I thing that this song describes perfectly what I'm going throughout right now! I literally wanna have no worries this summer, don't wanna think about that guy who's probably going to break my heart and so on, I just wanna be selfish for one and think about my self and the best way to do it is just having fun! 

Shut Up And Dance With Me - WALK THE MOON

I discovered this song when they played it on MTV a few weeks ago and the very first thing I noticed is its rhythm because it's really catchy and it literally makes you wanna dance all night (I'm pretty sure people dance to it even if it's not night tho ahah). After listening to it a couple of times I already new the lyrics and I wanted all my friends to be with me in that moment so that we could've dance to it all together!