Time waster of the week

I spend a lot of time on the internet. A LOT. And I thank my lucky stars I don't pay the bills yet. I also get very easily distracted. Here is what's holding my attention this week:

You get to create cute sweaters and vote on them. I think there is a prize but to be honest I'm too busy making sweaters to care!

Vote for me!

Loving - Smashbox

The kind ladies at Fashion Week gave me a Smashbox make-up voucher recently as another thank you for the work I did for them. Thank YOU Fashion Week :)

Photo Op Eye Shadow Trio & Halo Hydrating Perfecting Powder

The powder is lovely and light, but layers nicely. The eye shadows are the best I own by far, great quality and awesome colours. 

Coveting right now - Kimonos

I've always had a soft spot for Japan. I fell in love with it in high school where I learnt Japanese for 5 years and every so often something will happen that brings back that obsession. At the moment it is the Kimono jacket/cardi that is coming into style. 

At NZFW I saw this COOP Kimono by Trelise Cooper and since then have been scouring the internet for one that I like and can wear.

Here's my top 5 from around the net:

Somedays Lovin' Cobra Kimono, $92

Topshop Floral Print Kimono, 55 GBP

Lookbook Store Vintage Chiffon Kimono, $36

Nasty Gal Baroque Burnout Kimono, $58

ASOS Love Kimono in Floral Print, $67.63

adidas Auckland Half Marathon

So on the weekend I did the Auckland adidas half marathon. People keep asking me how it was. Here's how it was:

Terrible. Bloody terrible! I ran...for ages...literally ran for hours! Who actually likes running? Just plain running? It's boring, repetitive and painful. You literally just put one foot in front of the other....lots of times. So running (and a bit of walking) for 2 hours & 24 minutes, after waking up at 5am, is just awful! 

But the weirdest thing is that I'm totally doing it again next year! As difficult as it was, and even though I didn't train as much as I wanted to (my final final University assignments were due two days before so I'd been at Uni for 12 hours a day for about 2 weeks), I'm super stoked at myself for persevering and doing it. I can be a real quitter, so the fact that I did it is so cool *self five*.

Me, Lydia and Isaac at 6am, pre-marathon

Some of the highlights :

People along the whole course were cheering us on, including my mum

I got to run over the Auckland Harbour Bridge (there's no pedestrians crossing normally)

My boyfriend, Isaac, and I crossed the finish line with our hands held

I get to say I ran a half marathon XD

I'll definitely do it again but I don't know if I'll ever do the full marathon. 

My tip for anyone aspiring to do a half marathon is to do a 21km run before the actual event. I wish I had. I did 16kms about a week before, thinking that I'd be fine, just wing the last 5 kms, but it killed me. The bit at the end is the hardest and I felt totally unprepared. But don't do it too close to the event because you need to re-cooperate.