The Modelling as Waiting

My mom told me I know a lot about what a model needs to handle and deal with. I’m talking about my model bag, designers, teachers of graduated students, catwalk coaches, photographers… So this one will be about The Modelling. A synonym for modelling is waiting. Waiting for hair and makeup, waiting to get into your outfit, waiting for help to get out of your outfit, waiting for the lunch, waiting for dinner, waiting for someone (a model) who is starfing enough to finally join you in the kantine, waiting for your final repetition, waiting for your dress to fit perfect on your body, waiting for your train to catch back (and of course the train you needed to catch had just left), waiting till the designer and makeup artist figured out what they really want after trying 4 different looks on you. Well I can tell you a whole lot more about what kind of waiting modelling refers to.

I hear you wondering, why would anyone love modelling??? Well the thing I like most, is meeting people, people who inspire me. And my aim is to inspire them, I want to see their smiles, their inner oneselfs and I want them to be happy.

The bag: deodorant, nude underwear, water, fruit, smint, makeup remover (for after the show, and you find the makeup is awful), high heels (just in case the designer bought one pair short), charger, mobile phone, a book or something else which keeps you busy during waiting (that’s the thing you do all the time).

Make sure you get your socks off on time, because the stripes you get from them is something which pisses off the fashion industry. And something else which is important, wear a shirt with a big head hole, because hairdressers won’t be happy if you ruin their masterpiece/work. And more: don’t wear make-up, dress simple but be sure they will remember you. Personality is everything.

Beneath you see pictures from the KABK 2014 graduation show, I walked for Anna Mala for the third and last time.

And I walked for Marly Roosen , graduated student at the WDKA. What an amazing show was it!

<(C) Peter Stigter

Ps. I just figured out the problem with my camera and laptop connection! Pictures overload you may expect…

Pps. I’m going to study Psychology at the University of Leiden, you guys will finally get some better English blogs than this DutchEnglish one.

At the El Cid (introduction week Leiden). I won the

RunnersWorld competition, which I was signed up for by someone else, because I don't like losing something I compete in. Butttt I was the first girl and number 8 over the finish, with 4 hours of sleep and many beers... Don't know how.  But if you believe you can, you can! Just go for it ;)

Be your best self xox 

Summermusic!

Next to techno, deep house, dubstep, mainstream dance, I've been listening to lounge dance music these days. Fully inspired by these ultimate summer music channels. The Sound You Need and MrRevillz both have great mixtapes from Bakermat to Bastille. I found these channels during my Testweek, of course, study avoiding habits. 

TheSoundYouNeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7R2ubzlbUw&list=PLpyrjJvJ7GJ5eNen9UaobomTcIfe8lAtu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6teOmBuMxw4

MrRevillz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjEQOFZoRw&list=FLm-rKMCgVxp3SloalOyXL_A&index=17

Workout, it's fun!

Went for many runs and bicycle trips these weeks, I also do Brazil Butt Lift (from beachbody.com) and in the upcoming weeks I want to do some skating and more Insanity!!! Get a summerproof, actually I mean fit, body haha.

Did you know that you burn the most fat during an interval training!? Because cardio only burns calories, high intensity training is there for getting muscles and high intensity low intensity burns calories and fat! 

Enjoy xox 

Clouds, sun, beauty, I’m back

Dear Blog readers,

It’s been two months of Spring already!!! That means beautiful weather and lovely colors, in The Netherlands it’s not like that at the moment. Rainy days, but Friday my lovely friend Sun is coming back, luckily because Saturday it’s 909 festival time. We had sunny days too though and I was so inspired by such beautiful air portrets. Colors bright light city. At the same time these words remember me of my oral English exam, I have read Bright Lights Big City, The Color Purple and more.. I am sorry for not posting for such a long time. Not making an excuse, actually I do, but I was so busy with school. It is my last year at High School and I was/am pretty excited, frustrated, stressed, happy… Well mixed feelings as you might mention. I did my final exams till the 22th of may and I think I made it, hopefully I can start my study in Septembre. Bachelor of psychology in Leiden. Can’t wait to start a new chapter, new book actually. So done with this school doings.

Now I’m done, it’s weird, because we have 3 months vacation! THREE MONTHS! That’s a long time. But I made a list of things I wanted to do these months and of course I will go on holiday with my boyfriend and my mom, Portugal and Milaan it is. To do list/goals:

- Playing the violin, which for I followed lessons 6 years but stopped for 3 years now

- Sewing, making my own clothes

- Making a website for me as a model

- Posting more blogposts (do I hear a yell?)

- Working (promoting and also working in the supermarket)

- Cleaning my computer documents and trash

- Sports <3 (riding my bike, runs, Insanity, skating, yoga…)

- Arranging many meetings with lovely people I couldn’t see during my exams

- Many shoots and two fashionshows (KABK The Hague and WDKA Rotterdam)

I need to solve a problem first, the pictures I normally post I make them with my Sony Xperia S, but my phone doesn’t want to connect with my laptop anymore. I can’t let you read my bullshit without giving a beautiful shot of the air or whatever. Well as you see, this post is without a pic, but I will solve the problem and overload you with pictures I made from 8-11-2013 till now.

Much love, Kirsten

Sugarfree FOOD

Goooodevening readers,

Already winter here in Holland, freezing you know. And that means (for many people) more eatinggggg. But don’t worry, it’s a fact that you burn more calories in the winter than the summer, because you’re body needs to work harder to stay warm. Well of course you can also curl up against your boyfriend…

This blog will be about food.. Yes..

Since a month I’m trying to eat less sugars! If possible I only eat sugarfree products. They say, sugar is very bad for your body, all sugar we eat is not necessary for the body, because we make it our self. Americans say it’s poisson. Well I did some research before I started eating sugarfree.

It’s not thát bad for you but simply there are no important nutrients in it. So it’s not bad eating some sugar, and I know it’s difficult to resist some sugarbombs as crème, chocolate, muffins, icecreams. But if you eat much, you can gain a lot of weight and you risk diabetes, heart and vascular diseases. So warning : you can eat sugar, for energy it’s perfect for a while, but it’s also addictive. So be careful with that. You can also gain energy from other foods that are less fattening.

I know and noticed that if I eat sugar, my blood sugar levels rise for a while, and than it drops, so you’re body is asking for sugar again and that’s why eating sugar can be an addiction.

When you eat little or no sugar, your blood sugar is balanced, which means your need for sugar is less and secondly your blood sugar will remain constant.

Of course this is different for any person. But after some weeks I made sure that my need for sugar has diminished. With the result that you (can) lose some pounds.

Moreover I do not shun for natural sugars, which are in many fruits.

Here what I eat most :

-         Oatmeal (low in calories) with soya milk

-         Dried fruits like apricots

-         Unsalted peanuts, almonds and raisins

-         Breadsticks

-         88% cocoa chocolate

-         Rye bread

-         Vitalu crackers with toppings like: young cheese, apple sauce (no added sugar), smoked beef and peanut butter

-         Olives and greek feta cheese

-         Greek yogurt, low fat yogurt or quark

-         Lots of veggies and fruit

-         You can find many recipes for sugarfree snacks or cakes on the internet

-         For a drink : orange juice with no added sugar, green tea and lots of (lemon) water

If you want a challenge, or maybe you want to lose some weight. Well I would say : TRY IT ! It’s certainly not bad eating no sugar.

Be aware : you might have an headache for a week… Withdrawal symptons.

Many KiSsEs

Kirsten 

THE LIFE

Hello beautiful readers,

How many Fringe bikini’s did you see this summer?! If you don’t include the Facebook advertisings haha.

I hope you all have/had a wonderful vacation and got a beautiful tan.

Well I had! Now I’m already home for more than two weeks.

This post will be about (little) things that makes you happy:

Flowers, smiling people, start saying yes, spontaneous actions, the sun, the shimmering in the water

I will tell something about my vacation as well, because I can’t let it.

First I really need to share these beautiful pics I found. 

Right above is a garden in the Japanese city Kitakyushu. Right beneath are cherry blossoms along Meguro River, Nakameguro, Tokyo. Mother nature is beautiful <3

I planned a surf holiday in Zarautz. It’s half an hour from San Sebastian, which is the surf capital of Spain. After a 17 hour bus ride with stinky Belgium guys behind us we arrived at the Surfblend camp. HOT the weather was!

Three nights out, visiting San Sebastian and Bilbao, having a nice bicyle ride, three days surf lessons and lots of walking and great food during the week. Walking on slippers as well, ouchh from the beginning.

You can really have a good night out in Zarautz, 0,5l cocktails for 5 euro and a beer for 1 euro! Also the lights on the boulevard are beautiful by night.

Bilbao wasn’t that special, it’s the capital of Basque country, but it was National First Vacation Day or someting so all shops were closed and there isn’t that much history about the city we found. Ofcourse you need to eat some tapas and chocolate churros in Spain as well, really delicious!

Such a great experience. It was my first time on a surfplank, but it wasn’t as difficult as I thought. First time standing on it, such a great feeling J

Oh and a tip : do not smear yourself with sun oil before..  Only if you need more challenge.

The sun makes us feel so happy and what I can really enjoy is the shimmering in the sea. Can look at it for hours. After the shimmering there was another little village called Getaria, we went there by bike. You can rent bicycles in Zarautz for 12 euros for 4 hours. Getaria is a really nice and small village. What we noticed first was the smell of fish. Fish was freshly grilled outside the restaurant.

Well I came home on 28th of June, Sunday.

Yeah and now a good story. Monday I texted a good friend to ask if he still wanted to go on cycling holiday with me. I didn’t really mind that I was exhausted, but I really was. He still wanted to! Saying YES on more questions can be something which will change your life. Watch the movie Yes Man for more information. So mondayevening we booked our boottickets and hotel near Londen in a place called Ilford.

Well I’ve been on cycling holiday before from Rotterdam to Paris to London back to Rotterdam again. But this one was anything but prepared haha. Tuesday evening we went on our bikes through storm and heavy rain to Hook of Holland, 10 minutes left to check in. Yes we stressed out on our way.

But we made it and that is all that counts.

People tell me I’m insane, but believe me everyone can do this. Just don’t think and do! If you go for it and through everything you make it, well that feeling is just addicting. Wednesday we went from Harwich to London. 6 and an half hour on a bike, google maps said… But with the wind in front, biking through (little) villages as Colchester, Braintree and Chelmsford we were on our bikes for 12 hours! 135 km in total. The most kilometres I ever made on one day! Insane I do agree. I was thinking: why the hell am I doing this!? The last 15 kilometres every minute. My Achilles tendons hurt really bad and I was changing my ass’position every 5 minutes to feel a bit comfortable, which didn’t help at all ofcourse. Sometimes we needed to ask the right direction because we didn’t had a map or something, and a funny fact is that (English) people constantly tell you that it’s a long long way from where we were at that moment, but they are very friendly and helpful.

My body was really broken, after that week Spain and I had a cold as well. But I kept telling myself: if your body tells you to stop, your mind is only half way left. You can make it as far as you want. However it was hard. But when you’re about to quit, remember why you started. And pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.

But we survived and after having a not so nice dinner we noticed we only could have a cold shower, brrrrr. Little note: I went to sleep with the song: you gonna keep your head up!!!!

Ilford is a overdue city, not very special.

Thursday, first LONDON DAYYYY! Seen so much and walked our leggs off:

London eye, Tower of London, Tower bridge, Big Ben, House of Parliaments, Oxford street, Leicester square, Trafalgar square, Piccadilly circus, Buckingham palace, Hamleys, The shard, City hall, Victoria Station, Knightsbridge, Harrods (big big department store where I bought some bonbons and tea for 10 pounds, where we touched new fake snow, where I saw the most beautiful dresses from top designers and where I hold an incredible realistic baby born) and Westminster Abbey. So just in case you wanna visit London, these are must-sees haha.

Friday, last day LONDON! Not as hot as the day before. Little children playing in the water at the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert museum, really made me smile. Also the squirrels in High Park who ate walnuts out of my hand were cute. This day we planned to see the rest: Saint Pauls cathedral, Milennium bridge, London Bridge Experience where I got hurt by a chainsaw. LBE is number one’s scariest attraction in London, well it was! Mennnnn.. Borough Market, The Monument, Southwark cathedral, Kings Cross, Kensington Gardens are must-sees too and at the Leadenhall market you can have a great dinner a friend of mine told me and you can!

After cramming our stuff into our panniers again we made up for our trip back to Harwich on Saturday. Well we did this in 6 hours, 3 hours too early to check in. Better too early than too late right. Wind in the back helped a lot and we drove on the left side of the A12 highway… This highway is one straight line from Harwich to London. Scary it was sometimes! Especially honking drivers.

Lovely hot shower on the Stenaline boat and it has tasty muffins as well. Yeahhh my addiction for muffins, ice creams, mcflurrys, stroopwafels and tea got fulfilled this summer.

I also went to Loveland with my boyfriend and great people. On techno partys as these I really feel the love. When you smile to someone, he/she will smile back. Happiness inside you’ll feel J

I hope we get the opportunity to enjoy the sun once again on the beach ! Ofcourse everyone wants to be called ‘tanned’ at school, work and university when normal life gets started again.

Lots of love ,

XOXOX Kirsten 

Amsterdam Fashionweek July 2013 is over

Hellooooo,

That’s it, Amsterdam fashionweek July 2013 is over. I hope all the fashionlovers enjoyed the beautiful creations livestream or in real. I’m already looking forward for AFW January 2014!

I had the beautiful luck that I could be at the final day frontstage and backstage thanks to a photographer/blogger/fashionjournalist/modelscout . This day was Tuesday the 16th of July, I’ve watched all the shows and collections: ByDanie, Allan Vos, Cold Method, Winde Rienstra and Lichting 2013.

ByDanie was really a fun show! The beautiful and sexy Sylvia Geersen was opening the show and the walk was kind of Victoria Secret’s style: fun, kisses, loud live music.. I LOVED it!

Danie Bles (the owner of this label ByDanie) made a FW ’13 collection and a Party ’13 colecction. Maybelline New York, who invited Danie to work with, made the eyes look very big, because ‘Big Eyes it is!’ for the next season.

What I really liked about her collection were the shimmering aspects with the fur coats.

Left up/leftmid: Allan Vos Midup: ByDanie Rightup: interview Down: backstage ByDanie en Lichting 2013

Then Allan Vos was having his collection showed at the Transformatorhouse. I was really excited for this one, because I had seen most of his outfits in Michelangelo Winklaars and Allan Vos’ their atelier in The Hague. But on really nice male models it looked even better.

Backstage there was a really nice atmosphere, it seemed like there was no stress at all. And as Allan said: ‘Well, all the outfits are ready so only some adjustments has to be made and then it’s showtime!’

While I was backstage my friend/designer Michelangelo Winklaar got me in one of his sexy Mangel Ichelo dresses, in which I felt very fashionable :) MW was helping his man Allan with the choreography and cue for the models. The show was amazing: the beautiful pants with pleats were really great and outstanding to me.

The third show was the Cold Method show, a really busy one because of all the audience. Very casual/wearable, I loved the blocked aspects. Especially the blue suit!

 Midup: Winde Rienstra Leftup/Rightup: Lichting 2013 Leftdown: Cold Method and just loved this woman in color <3

Then the show from Winde Rienstra. Many people were looking forward to this one. Winde is known as an artist with great use of special fabrics and a designer with an artistic vision. Before the show there were already some rumours about the shoes.

I was really holding my breath when the first model came up and I saw the shoes. How bad I felt for them. They were accompanied by male hosts of AFW which wasn’t the plan in the beginning  people told me. Well the collection was beautiful, some artistic pieces of art and some beautiful flattering dresses with flower prints, wearable as well.

The last show of this fashionweek was one which is held every year and as always everyone was looking forward for the new generation of designers from fashion schools. Lichting 2013 sponsored by G-star Raw is a competition where the two best graduated designers from different schools as WDKA, KABK, AMFI, HKU, artEZ, Gerrit Rietveld were showing four pieces of their collection. In the end 150 fashion specialists are voting for their favorite and then there is a winner. Henriëtte Tilanus won this edition, a student from artEZ and she was my favorite as well. I also really loved the collection of Loekie Mulder which I had seen before when I walked for the KABK as well. Well done ex-students!

I recommend you to the official site of Amsterdam Fashionweek. There you can find an great overview of all shows http://www.amsterdamfashionweek.com/en/shows

Enjoy the sun beauties!

Next post will probably be about music / festivals! Stay tuned and enjoy holiday!

Love XOX Kirsten