It is now 2021 and the world has more than 100 self-made female billionaires. And we are on a roll. Being self-made means reaching a certain level of money comfort without inheriting it. This is true for men, as well as women with the only one sad difference.Women are normally visually not believed to be self-made. There is a horrific amount of slut shaming women who rock expensive bags, beautiful cars. Even us women tend to wonder “how many dicks did she suck for this?” and this is horrible. I have been money shamed for owning certain things, not once and not twice. Its either the belief tha ..read more

I was born a big, well fed 3.6 kilo baby. From that moment on I was never big ever again. My mom could not produce enough milk for me and after a while I ended up being so thin the doctor called it a certain stage of “dystrophia”. That was fixed with milk powders, but as a few year old I ended up having rubella that got me so weak and thin, that to this day my mother remembers how we went out for our first walk after I was feeling better and the wind literally blew me away and I started to move away from her because I could not resist it.  Most of my life I have been thin, but I have bee ..read more

The existence of money is there to improve our lives. (It is also there to control our lives as much as possible, but that’s for another time…) Money helps us achieve our social and personal goals with the amount of salary we get and we can nip and tuck it to the extend we find preferable. So should we concentrate on spending money to achieve goals or saving money to do just that? I can easily say that people in first world countries can be categorised in two piles. The spenders and the savers. I for one am part of the first category. I spend 99% of my money on living the day. I travel, I go ..read more

Most people (that did not go through crazy trauma like war in their countries and similar really bad things) would agree that 2020-covid year removed us from our comfort zones completely like probably never before. No way to meet people, no way to hug and love, no way to travel to see the world and loved ones and no way to PLAN. We do not know how long it will last, we can only hope that it will end one day. We have no idea how the world will turn out to be and how the breaking economy will change our lives. A lot of people lost their jobs and even their loved ones. Its a scary time to live r ..read more

The other day my father told me in a very hopeful and very kind way: “I pray for you to find a good husband and have children. Children are the most important thing”. And I exploded. I love my parents, they are good people, they respect my business and never get into it, but sometimes these things happen and they make me think babies. I do agree that children can be totally fantastic. I am not the biggest fan of random kids though. I can appreciate some that are genuinely cool and nice to hang around with, those I can spend hours with playing (I love kids toys), but in general they are tiny a ..read more

So what is influencer marketing. It is a collaboration between a brand and a person of interest with a certain amount of followers. Think cash, think product, think publicity both ways. Before it all kicked off, we had celebrities advertise stuff. Pridzcts were shoved into movies for us to notice, they appeared on the internet and similar places where famous people would brag about it. We believed them, they were celebrities, VIPs, and we ate each of their words. And they were also such a different world, that even owning the same goodies, using the same moisturiser did not feel like we were ..read more

I am really sorry for disappearing for such a long time, but life is hectic and I was moving and settling in a new home and I feel like now is the time to retuuurn. So lets start. Is it possible to stop overthinking? A very short answer would be “YES”. The longer answer is the long answer below: Overthinging does not start from one day to another, it grows up with you. That is the reason why you can not switch it off from one day to another either. The same way you train your body to do longer squats or stand on your head at a yoga class, is the exact same way our brains get trained. Just th ..read more

Living as young adults we are reckless. Well, most of us. Our bodies are capable of surviving A LOT and our metabolisms are at their finest. Except then the time comes when none of it is true anymore. I was always a thin kid, with quick metabolism and a good appetite. I was raised in a Russian family where we had a lot of fish, salads and soups and half of my family is vegetarian. We never really drank alcohol together, and my mom tried to hide her smoking habits for as long as she could to not influence us by it. She didnt. I was a huge ass smoker as a teen and my sister never touched a cig ..read more

Many years ago, what feels like a century ago, when instagram exploded into our faces, there were some of us who decided to jump on the like train and enjoyed steadily growing accounts. It was the perfect time. I was writing my fashion blog and was doing stylist jobs. It made total sense to ride that #instahorse. And it worked. Instagram was driving more readers to my blog, and my blog was driving new Instagram followers. Random people wrote, asked fashion related questions and it was lots of fun. I was getting constant requests to feature stuff for money and free goodies, and those jobs gave ..read more

We all know the feeling after rubbing all that cream on and having this velvety amazing skin happening all of a sudden. I always loved that, except it is not a feeling, it is just loads of silicone. And silicone is used A LOT in beauty products for being non-irritating and non-allergenic and cheap (apparently 80% of beauty products are filled with it). Even really expensive brands that would sell their products for $400+ have silicone, as the FIRST ingredient..(I am looking at you Tom Ford).  Most people applying a moisturizer and feeling the silkiness, will never ever question where it ..read more