My favourite blogs

I love to blog and I love to read good blogs. As a blogger, I can really see and appreciate the work behind a site, behind a post, because I also know all what it takes. (check out my fashion blog – in hungarian) It didn’t take a long time for me to find my favourite ones here in the Middle East as well. My interests became  wider – not only fashion – so my selection here covers fashion, beauty, lifestyle, travel and food blogs as well.

I am still exploring, so please write a comment which one is your favourite blog, maybe they will have a new follower 😉 !

The best in food

My absolutely number one is Samantha Wood’s FOODIVA. Her reviews are priceless, and every time when we want to try a new place, or find something special I just look up on her blog, and I always get nice ideas where to go, and what to expect there.

Also from the food blogger universe, there is another masterpiece; its from Sarah Walton called THE HEDONISTA. I love how she writes, I can feel the taste and the smell of the food what she describes, or the sunlight when she talking about her travels (It has a part which mixes the characters of a travel blog and a food blog called Culinary Travel). It also has amazing pictures on it….look at those tomatoes!

The best in fashion

I found most of the Dubai based fashion blogs too luxurious for me. Sure, everyone loves to dream about Dior, Chanel, Gucci and Prada, but after a time, you start to have this bad feeling, that you will never reach that “level”. I don’t mind…really. What should I do with a bag which cost my half year salary? I’d rather go on holiday from that money. So for me the style is the matter, the inspiration part, not the “staring what we can never have” type blogs.

In the style & inspiration part definitely LYLA LOVES FASHION won for me. Zahra Lyla Pedram the editor of the blog, has a perfect taste. She mixes luxury elements with more affordable pieces (like TOPSHOP, ASOS or H&M) in her outfits. Even if she has everything, what we can only dream about, she is so down to earth.

But my ultimate style icon in Dubai is absolutely Teresa Karpinska the editor of Styledrifter. I had the chance once to met and work with her ( when I worked for a fashion company here, and she borrowed some dresses from us). She is the nicest person I met in this industry. Fashion scene can make people so uppish and superficial, but she is an exception (based on that half an hour what she spent in our showroom). Her style is perfect, I wish one day I can go on a shopping spree with her, to get an idea how she builds up her flawless wardrobe. She also posting about her workouts, restaurant visits, styling projects etc. so next to fashion tips and outfit posts you can get a bit of lifestyle of Teresa Karpinska as well.

The best in beauty

I’m a huge huge fan of beauty products, I think I already mentioned this fact several times, but I have to repeat because that’s the truth. I rely on 3 bloggers/professional and their tips, reviews, & opinion.

When it comes to product suggestions, tests, or reviews my choice is Carine Chamekh’s THE GLAMCRUSH CHRONICLE. She always gave honest feedback about the products and fortunately she often prefers the budget friendly items. Next to beauty you can find fashion, food, event or travel themed posts too, but the main emphasis is always on beauty and make-up crushes.

Since I started my Make Up Artist studies, I am a huge fan of the VICTORIA LOVES BEAUTY blog, of Victoria Hands. For me her posts are so easy to understand; she describes helpful techniques, gives really useful tips and I was never dissapointed in products what she suggested. This blog is a must for all beauty enthusiasts!

And at the end; the queen of the beauty scene at the ME. ; Huda Kattan. Her blog HUDA BEAUTY is a daily No. 1 destination for all beauty fanatics. She is sooooo active on all platforms, facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram, (and she also has her own brand for glorious false lashes). She shows her make-up looks, reviews products, provides tips&tricks, and I can continue until sunset.

So these are my favourite blogs, don’t forget to share yours!  🙂

The “use what you have in the fridge” project

In the past few month, I realized that we lived way too “luxurious” when it comes to food. Both of us -my Husband and I- love to eat and try new cuisines & restaurants, and it means that minimum twice a week we had lunch or dinner at a restaurant somewhere. When we sat down and roughly calculated how much we spent on this kind of culinary joys, we were shocked. It’s easy to get lost in Dubai’s gourmet scene, and sooner than you expect you get used to going out for eating every other day. 150 dirhams here, another 200 there, and in a few days you ate the amount of your DEWA bill…

Since Dubai is mostly about work and earn MONEY, you rarely have time for cleaning and cooking during the weekdays. So the fastfood “restaurants” and the foodcourts at the malls became your friend very easily. The portions are huge,the menus are full with unhealthy (but tasty) items. Once we got very sick after an ordinary Thursday night dinner, we decided to fully change our habits. I try my best to reserve some time -and power- after my working hours during the week, but most of the time I only cook properly at the weekends.

I love the fast and easy recipes, and we both prefer the italian style. Also it’s a very important point for me, to use ingridients as much as we can from our fridge, without doing an extra shopping round. That’s why I call my entry post in the cooking/baking section (what’s in the pot?) the “use what you have in the fridge” project.

I will share all my low-budget, but tasty and healthy recipes with you in the future! Keep following!