Beauty With Lala: Trip to Turkey + Giveaway

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Trip to Turkey + Giveaway

Thank you all who entered! :)

Hi Beauties! Some of you may know already that I went to Turkey for a vacation and I was thinking it would be fun to share it with you guys. Also I'm going to have a giveaway :) but first lets talk about beautiful Turkey. Its a gorgeous place to have vacation or to live.

I was staying in Akyaka, which is in the south west of Turkey, where Aegean Sea and The Mediterranean sea meet. The water there was bit colder and not that salty. I only tipped my toes in the water :)

On the picture above you can see the first beach we visited. Its from Akyaka 40 min drive on mountain road, which means it was narrow and zigzag. It was worth the drive even though we didn't stay there. The nature was beautiful there and the water was so clear and clean.

We ended up going to the beach what was 5 min drive from where we lived when we where there. It was lovely there too, but I would have liked to stay in the first beach we visited and look at the mountains all day :)

Both of the beaches where unfortunately not sandy, but it didn't seem to stop people from swimming. The water was cold and I wasn't very eager to go swimming there and then there was the orange sea monster (not really a monster, just 10 cm long sea creature with lots of little legs). I refused to be in the same space with it and my family was laugh at me. I'm too much of a city girl I guess. All this didn't stop me from enjoying the sun :)

These 2 pictures you see above are made in Marmaris. It wasn't far where we stayed. Its very touristic city with lots of restaurants where you can eat fresh fish. We didn't stay there long, because the weather was just too hot for me :( I don't know how I lived in Turkey before, its so hot there. I have spend too much time in Europe, I guess. As much as I saw the city I liked it. Hopefully next time when I go there I can spend more time there.

This is typical Turkish breakfast, minus the avocado :) There is Turkish tea (which is a must have), olives, cheese and simit (its a round bred with a hole in the middle and its covered with sesame), tomatoes, cucumbers, honey and jam. I myself am not fan of Turkish breakfast I went with the watermelon :)

I didn't do many tourist things when I was there I just read books and enjoyed the sun and watermelon :) and the pool.

Now lets talk about the giveaway :) I'll be giving away 8 items all together and one of the items is not beauty related, its a book :) I picked up Elif Shafak (Turkish author) book "The Bastard of Istanbul". I did read it myself before and liked it, so I got another copy to give away :)

I tried to find Turkish makeup brand Flormar, but I manage to find only their nail polishes. So I'll be giving away 2 of their nail polishes in shade 095 (11 ml) and 408 (11 ml).

I also be giving away 3 items from Essence. Their Beauty Beats Shimmer Powder in shade 01 Swaaaag! (9 g), eyeshadow in shade 02 (2.5 g) and another eyeshadow from the 3D eyeshadow range in shade 11 (2,8 g)

The last 2 items are Victoria's Secret Shiny Kiss flavored gloss in shade Vanillahh (13 g) and a Dior Addict makeup bag.

The giveaway is opened internationally and it will last 4 weeks. Good luck everybody! :)

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Thanks for reading! :)