La Galère

This is one of the most magic places in the world to me. It fills me with a sense of calm, the outside world ceases to exist and I am blissfully happy. Days spent tanning, swimming, eating well, drinking copious cocktails, and always excellent godsisterly company, it's the kind of place you never want to leave. The time spent there always seems to go by much too fast, but at the same time three revitalising days energise you in such a way that it feels like a month. I don't really know how to explain what this place does to me, to my insides, to my heart.

Every hour of the day here holds some kind of magic in the light and the way it hits the water, the rocks, the trees, the island. 

morning

lunch

dusk

sunset

full moon 

In between waxing lyrical on how amazing everything is, and the ridiculousness of whining about irrelevant things like "oh god, it hurts my arms so much to have to hold my book up like this, but I simply cannot roll over- I'm not ready to tan my back yet" - there is the obligatory sillyness and excessive drinking -

our basket of essentials - suncream, tanning lotion, leg knives (pink), underwater camera casing for the waterproofing of certain goods on swimming trips (revitalising kit-kats and such) 

Dermot 'edward cullen from Twilight' Ryan ready for the swim

day time drinking is totes acceptable 

but we also enlighten our minds on global affairs...while drinking and tanning

we make poses in fluorescent tops, like awesomesauce douchebags

D does thoughtful looking day-drinking

We take our baby-foot tournaments very seriously. 

But not as seriously as we take our tanning/intercostals.

' The Triple Cherry'

' Dermot's Disaster ' (actually delicious)

After Cocktail hour we are good children and have communal tooth-brushing and get to bed at respectable hours. 

 Peace&Love&Intercostals

slacker

Sorry for being somewhat of a slack-alice lately, got caught up in wedding-ing, weekend shenanigans and whatnot. But you know, I have to experience things in order to be able to have some sort of excitement to write about, no?
The main highlight of late was being the maid of honour for my lovely ladyfriend Tania. I am no good with churches and priests, and weddings and tears... I'm good at the drinking and dancing portion of the evening so I did ok then... but I was a bit of a nervous mess until the booze started flowing. Especially as I had many awkwardly hilarious tasks to perform that I was unawares of... like dancing round the bride to a room full of people. Yeah I looked like a tit. But it was awesome. I also managed to behave somewhat normalsaucely in the church, which took a great deal of restraint on my part, especially when I was forced to embellish the truth about being baptised to the priest (I thought the church would burst into flames). But all went relatively dramz free, which was awesome. And the party was great- dancing round barefoot like a little child is always fun.

Me dancing round like a tit

The happy couple and parents!

Barefoot dancing like a tit. 

The rest of the weekend was sun-filled and fancy-free, my tan is getting pretty epic already considering it is only May (biggest benefit of living on a sunny island)  

Roof tanning madness

Little ladybird friend that attacked me on the beach!

That would be my posey suntan face. 

And as I haven't actually uploaded many of my finished shoots, but rather just silly behind the scenes shots, here are some of my latest Cosmopolitan editorials -

Cosmopolitan March issue. Photographer- Panagiotis Mina, Styling- Shona Muir. Hair- Marios Neofytou Make up- Ilona Garamvolgyi Model- Janna (Ace Models Greece) 

Cosmopolitan April Issue. Photographer- Panagiotis Mina. Styling- Shona Muir. Hair- Costandinos Manjiokas Make up- Eliana Mandrides Model- Paulina (Ace Models Greece)

Cosmopolitan May Issue. Photographer- Panagiotis Mina. Styling- Shona Muir. Hair- Costandinos Manjiokas Make up- Ilona Garamvolgyi Models- Katie and Toffi (Voch Models Cyprus)


So there you have it, all the running around and organising and sillyness on shoot days all culminates in this- Pretty cool no?

Peace&Love&BadAssStyle!

Blog Fail

Starting something with an apology is never too good, but I feel pretty bad at being such a slacker on the blog front. I have been in full on lazy summer mode. When brain function is at an all time low coupled with the sheer energy it takes to just type, and the fact that my days have been filled with...with... umm.. a lot of nothing... well it leads to an empty blog. So here goes, I am sorry internet world for not being a faithful blogger. I promise to try harder, i'll get better, just give me one more chance. (Wow blogging is really like a relationship, you have to put so much into it to get any results, and unless it's truly great, it inevitably comes to an end. Hmm... I'm no good at relationships, let's hope I'm better at blogging)

Summer is flying by, yet somehow I feel like I'm still waiting for it to actually start. That's going to be a huge disappointment once work picks up again. Last summer I spent a month in NYC and then London, it was beyond amazingly fun times, but it was so active and busy that I got back feeling like I needed another month of lying on the beach doing eff all. And I got back and got thrown in the deep end at work, so I am really enjoying doing a whole lot of nothing, and mentally preparing for going back to work with a fresh mind.

Ok enough of my rambling nothingness. Forgive me again, as throughout all the fun things I have been doing lately, I haven't been snapping any pictures. I suck at this. So here is a little mélange of what has been occupying my days of late...

Skinny Minnie. I seem to be more concerned that she is nourished than myself.  I guess that's what parenthood is like.

VODKA+MONSTER=GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Been watching A LOT of hot vampires...

...see. hot.

Lusting after the MiuMiu trainers

Dreaming of the soon to be released Missoni for target collection.

watching, re-watching and then watching some more Parks and Rec. 

Taken the odd incriminating photo...

Got trashed at a basketball game

Did the occasional photoshoot

got gangstaaa with monkey, NYC style

ate fish at my favourite fish restaurant

beachy beach, hipster style

did some tanning with my lovely mama and sister

and took even more pictures of my freaking adorable dog. 

Peace&love