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Love Aesthetics is about appreciating the visual aspects of life and seeing the exceptional in the everyday. It is a creative online space covering personal style in the broadest sense of the word through interior, fashion, no-fuss-beauty and design.
Love Aesthetics | Vanity
3y ago
cow printed nails, images & text by Ivania
puffer / Weekday
rings / Inflated
You can tell when I don’t have my shit together by looking at my nails. The lacquer will be chipped off, the index fingernail is probably broken too and if I’m wearing acrylics they should have gotten a refill about a week ago. My nails give away that I have been putting myself on the bottom of my priority list. Which sadly, is not uncommon.
With a fresh manicure however, I feel like my life is completely figured out. Hand gestures get bigger and better too. I will generously extend my hand to shake yours and ev ..read more
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3y ago
images by Ivania
Bobby pins; holding hair in place since the 1920s. Named after the “bobbed-cut”, women who rejected traditional roles chopped off their hair and adopted the bob cut as a sign of modernity.
The pins come in discreet colours and were meant to blend in and hide in the hair. I usually use silver ones, but this time I went for a black pack in the beauty supply store. Sliding a whole bunch of them around my face to keep my bob in place like a headband.
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3y ago
This post was created in collaboration with 27-87
images & words by Ivania
Natural and hand crafted perfumes are a rare thing to come by these days.
Synthetic mass produced scents in sparkly bottles rule the industry.
That’s why I am delighted to introduce you to this independent, super fresh perfume house from Barcelona; 27-87. Who provide a series of hand crated fragrances in beautiful white matte metal bottles. (The reason that their bottles are plain is that they don’t distract from what really matters, the product and scent that is inside).
27-87 works together with o ..read more
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3y ago
image by Ivania
Small action, big effect.
Subtle but not so subtle.
A bit of temporary vulgarity.
Current make-up look is this graphic interrupted brow and not much else. Achieved with a razor, brow pencil and a dash of gloss on the lid.
a graphic make up experiment visually strong, yet subtle two-tone black/white
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3y ago
Image by Romeo & Ivania
I am so thrilled to have partnered up with one of the brands I most admire and my favourite perfumers; Comme des Garçons, who just released a new fragrance titled Black Pepper.
Think: warm, dry Madagascan Pepper cracks against cedarwood, fused with the caramel resin of tonka bean and a hint of musk. A luxe scent that stays pretty constant throughout the day. Gender unspecific (will be battling over this bottle with the boyfriend). So good.
I wish I could spray some onto you guys through the screen. Instead, Comme des Garçons and I will give away a few of the ..read more
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3y ago
lipstick / Limecrime
images by Ivania
Me: Make up is fun
Also me: Who has time for make up?
A busy girl’s make up; two quick strokes of lavender lipstick (also: lidstick) right above the crease of the eye on a clean face. Not too exact or even but a little uncontrolled like a kid with a paintbrush. I imagine this lilac must look incredible on a dark eye too.
I’ve been holding on to this old lipstick from lime crime, it is super saturated and opaque like a crayon but unfortunately it has been discontinued.
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3y ago
mesh turtleneck: self made
dress as skirt: Rag & Bone
images by Romeo
Hair alterations: almost 10 cm chopped off / a seafoam hue / saturated with product for a stringy and wet looking texture. Just-came-out-of-the-swamp-but-changed-into-clean-clothes is the look I’m aiming for.
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3y ago
nails by Claudia
at Flawser Salon
images by Ivania
My first acrylic nail adventure.Besides some occasional fun press on nails for one night (that in reality never make it through the entire night), I’ve never had fake nails. Simply because nails naturally grow out of your fingertips, so I’ve never seen the need. Also the chemical, damaging aspect of acrylic nails made me hesitant towards them. But secretly, for a very long time, I’ve been wanting to get transparent permanent nails. So last week I went over to my cousin Claudia at Flawser Salon in Amsterdam to get me geared up.Happens that Cla ..read more
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3y ago
images by Ivania
this post was made in
collaboration with Alaïa
Scent is one of the few things that you can’t experience through your screen. Though it is such a fantastic sense.
Incoming smells are first processed by the olfactory bulb, which starts inside the nose and runs along the bottom of the brain. The olfactory bulb has direct connections to two brain areas that are strongly implicated in emotion and memory (the amygdala and hippocampus). Interestingly, visual, auditory (sound), and tactile (touch) information do not pass through these brain areas. Thi ..read more
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3y ago
image by Ivania
Taking good care of yourself beats any foundation routine, cream or contouring technique. Skin reflects your well being so much – to me it is like an indicator for my health status. So when it comes to skincare I like to focus on what is good for my skin as opposed to what will make my skin look good for a moment.
This is a requested post, I’ve been getting questions about what my skincare regimen is and what kind of foundation I use – so here it is: my skin care checklist!
1/ eat clean
This is the most important thing for me, great skin is just a s ..read more