Follow your dreams

If you want to follow your dreams, there will always be people that will try to hold you back. However, I think it is important to follow your dreams because if you don't, you will regret it later. Even if your initial dream does not come true, you will probably find something along the way with which you are equally happy. Following your biggest dreams involves taking chances, because without taking chances you will never get there. You might come past obstacles along the way, but these obstacles will make you stronger and you will learn from them.

Certain dreams seem like they can't come true, and don't make sense to follow. If you dream of flying for instance, you might think it makes no sense to chase this dream. But I think you can make this dream come true, at least partially. If you'd love to fly like a bird sometime, why not try a parachute jump? Following your biggest dreams will enrich your life, give you experiences that you will never forget. Therefore, I believe it is always good to follow your dreams. Don't dream your life away, but live your dream!

I often follow my dreams and I am currently on my way to make some of my biggest dreams come true. The first one is studying in England. All I need to do is apply to the universities, then they need to accept me and I can go and study in England! Hopefully I'll be in England in a bit more than a year. Besides this, I also want to go on holidays without my parents for the first time next year. Maybe not such a big dream as studying in England, but still something I dream about. I want to enjoy the summer after my exams as much as I can, and hopefully I'll be going on my first ever Interrail trip! Of course you'll hear more from me as these two dreams become more and more realistic.

As long as you believe in yourself, you can make your biggest dreams come true! :)

What are your biggest dreams?

Outfit

This is my first outfit post ever... what do you think, should I post outfits more often or not?

I was wearing this yesterday, just a nice relaxed outfit :)

White top with dark blue stripes - Monki
Dark blue skinny jeans - edc by Esprit

Black All Stars - Converse

Robot necklace (used to be a keychain, but I wanted it as a necklace) - Six

Dark blue nailpolish - Hema

Change

As you can see, I've changed the layout of my blog a bit. It's just a normal blogger layout, because I have absolutely no idea how to make those really fancy, amazing, professional layouts that some people have. Do you like it in this way, or do you think something different would be better? If you think something different would be better, please tell me what I could change :)

Also I'd like to ask you what type of posts you like to see on From Behind Her Computer. Is there any type of post I write that you really enjoy and would like to see more often or something you think I should really dedicate a post to? Please tell me, because you can help me improve my blog! :)

And I would really appreciate it if you could tell other people about my blog, because I have so little followers. Of course I am happy with the people that are already following me, but I think it's kind of sad that I'm blogging for about 8 people xD Do you have any tips to get more followers?

xxx

Owl inspiration

Owls are becoming more and more popular in fashion. Everywhere we look we see items with owls, ranging from jewellery to sweaters. I am starting to like items with owls more and more and so I decided to make a post with Owl inspiration. I found all pictures on weheartit.com.

What do you think of fashion items with owls? Do you own anything with an owl on it?

Some new things

Yesterday I went to Amsterdam with Kim. First we went to the Sunday Market at the Westergasterrein, where designers sell their products, such as cards, jewellery and childrens clothes. There are also stalls with good food. The Sunday Market takes place every first Sunday of the month. After that we went to the Kalverstraat area to shop there. I didn't buy many things, but I still want to show you the things I bought! :)

White top with dark blue stripes, it's a bit wide but not really oversized.
Monki, € 10

 Grey sweater with owl

Monki, € 35

Cards with animals from Tamarulla design & more, aren't they cute? 

I bought these at the Sunday Market, for € 1 each.

Did you ever go to the Sunday Market in Amsterdam? 

Hamburg!

Yesterday I got back from a few days in Hamburg, the city in which I spent 7 years of my youth. I had a great time there with my parents and brother. We visited Miniatur Wunderland (a really big modeltrain museum), the Hamburger Dom (a really big funfair) and did a lot of shopping. I didn't buy any normal clothes, but I did find a nice cocktail gala dress! I also met up with Floriana, a friend from Hamburg (who lives in England now) and my brother and me went bowling with her. Here are some pictures I took in Hamburg. 

All pictures are taken by me, please do not copy or use them without my permission.

View over the Elbe and the Elbphilharmonie (the building that is being built in the background) from Landungsbrücken. 

Landungsbrücken, loads of (touristic) harbour boattrips leave from here. 

View on the (ruins of the) St. Nikolai Church from the Speicherstadt. 

View on the St. Michaelis Church from the Speicherstadt.  

Part of the USA in Miniatur Wunderland. I love how everything is so detailed.

To make it more realistic, there is even a day and night cycle and it slowly gets dark and light. This is Las Vegas at nighttime.


 








I thought this was such a cute winter scene!

Someone fell while trying to clean the snow off the roof...

 Isn't this a little bit dangerous...?

People relaxing by the Alster lake in the middle of the city. The weather was amazing!

The Alster again, with the fountain in the background.

A view on the harbour, taken from close by the Fischmarkt.








Have you ever been to Hamburg? What is your favourite spot in the city?

Review: Essence Cracking Nailpolish

A while ago I bought cracking nailpolish from the cheap make-up brand Essence, and I tried it out last week. I used Essence 02 Sparkling Silver cracking base colour and Essence 01 crack me! black cracking top coat. This silver base colour can be replaced by any other colour nailpolish, but I decided to go with this one for the first time. The black cracking topcoat can also be replaced by a different colour cracking topcoat. Essence also sells a white one, and I bought that as well but I don't really like the colour of that one.

 

Essence 02 Sparkling Silver and Essence 01 Crack me! black on my nails.

It is really easy to create the crackling effect with these two nailpolishes. Start off by applying a coat of the base colour. I had to apply 2-3 coats to make it nice and opaque. Let this dry (on the bottle of the base colour it says that you have to let it dry for 4 minutes, but basically you should just wait till it has fully dried) and then take the cracking top coat. Applying the top coat goes really fast because you only need to apply one coat per nail. I found out that applying a thin coat gives a lot of small/thin cracks (see right two nails on picture), and applying a thick coat gives fewer but bigger cracks (see left two nails on picture). So depending on what you like, apply a thin or a thicker coat. It is important that you apply this coat in one go, because the nailpolish starts cracking within a few seconds. When everything is dry, apply a transparant top coat (I used one from Hema). I applied the nailpolish on Thursday evening, and the first chips appeared on Saturday, but that's probably because I went climbing that day. I have now been wearing the nailpolish for about 4 days and it has chipped on some nails, but it's not really ugly yet. 

Essence 02 Sparkling Silver
Advantages: nice colour, not too glittery
Disadvantages: 2-3 coats need to be applied before it is really opaque
Buy it or not? yes, for the cheap price (I don't remember the exact price, but I think it was about 1,50 euros) it is very good! But if you have more money it is probably better to invest in a better silver colour.

Essence 01 Crack me! Black
Advantages: only one coat needed, very opaque colour, cracks very nicely, does not chip fast
Disadvantages: none
Buy it or not? yes, definitely buy it! For the cheap price (about 1,50 euros) this is an amazing crack nailpolish. I am very happy with it.

Where to buy these products:
In The Netherlands Essence is sold at most Kruidvat shops, and these nailpolishes cost about 1,50 euros (I don't remember the exact price) each. I don't know about other shops or countries.

What do you think of cracking nailpolish?