May 23rd 2012, when everything began...

A new chapter of my life...

A life-changing journey...

A new adventure...

A never-ending discovery...

A personal enrichment...

Wow, that sounds a tiny little bit dramatic! Haha. But this is actually what today's post is about. About something I want to share with you all! :)
Well... today 2 years ago, I started to use a blogging platform that literally changed my life. Literally!

TODAY IS THE 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF MY TUMBLR BLOG!

 LET'S CELEBRATE THIS SPECIAL DAY!

I'm not quite sure what to write or how to structure this post, since I want to tell you a lot about my personal experience with tumblr!
I'm just going to tell you how awesome tumblr is and what changes my blog has gone through so far. So if you use tumblr yourself or if you are interested, keep reading! :)

Let's start with 2012!

May 23rd:
The beginning of everything. On that sunny and very special day, somewhen in the afternoon after school, I decided to join tumblr and created my very first tumblr blog. At first, I didn't really know how to use it, how to change things on the blog, what blogs to follow... I had no idea at all. I actually even wanted to give up, because I got the wrong template, and it just looked boring, nothing special. But I asked my friends, the ones who told me about tumblr, for some tips and advice. And they were really helpful! After some time I more or less understood how things worked on tumblr. Sooo...

...about first the template I used:
It's called Syndex by Marc Kremers (Here's a preview of the theme).

And that's how my blog would look like if I kept this theme. Really cool, huh?







I used this one for quite a long time, but then I started to try out other themes that I unfortunately don't remember.
But the Syndex theme was probably the one I liked the most because I remember how I changed the blog back to it! Haha





...next, URL:
I can still remember how I thought about taking the best URL for my tumblr. I thought about it days before I created the blog. I wrote down ideas in my notebook at school...Yes, I don't really pay attention in class.
But eventually I came up with the name vnpthao. My name is Thao and the other letters are the initials of the other parts of my full name, so thought it was cool and easy to remember....haha
I've changed the URL, but I have another blog with the same name: here

...the title of the blog:
Back then, my title used to be "Love it or you would regret it". Sounds nice, right? Haha
My intention of that title was to directly address the viewers to like my blog, or else they would regret it. Actually now that's what I want to tell everyone, too, but just not that openly, haha.

...the posts:

Well, I'm sure you would notice the difference between the posts I used to reblog/post and the current pictures.

My posts used to be more... hmm "hipster" is what some of my friends would say. Haha

And I think they're right. The posts were more like #yolo and #swag (when those two were actually cool).

So, that's all about my beginning with awesome tumblr. (I have a feeling this will be a very long post)

Let's go on with 2013: 

By that time, a lot has changed. Editing blog themes and everything wasn't that difficult anymore. And tumblr became a huge part of my daily and nightly routine. Maybe even the biggest part haha. Basically I was on tumblr every free minute, I always wanted to have access to internet, just to scroll through the dashboard and then maybe reblog some posts.
Yeah, you can say my internet and tumblr addiction was to the max (it is still though, haha).

But now to the blog changes.

...theme:
As I mentioned above, I don't quite remember what templates I used because I was trying out so many of them. If I do remember them some time, I'll add them to this post.
Also, I tried to use a plain black and white theme, which I actually liked to, but mostly I used the colour shades of pink for the templates, haha.

...URL:
I don't know, over the time I didn't find vnpthao that interesting anymore. And I don't know where I got the "inspiration" from, but I changed the URL to dollalive. (doll alive, not dolla live, it has nothing to do with money, haha)
I just wanted to have an URL that was catchy and one that makes people think about it when they read it. And dolliave seemed to be perfect, that's why I use it for almost everything.

...title:
If you already took a look at my tumblr, you can see that my title has changed, too!
"Reality is just an illusion" and as you can see, it's the title I really use everywhere.

Now is reality really just an illusion? I don't have the answer to that because no one can know. What if it's just a thought that reality is reality. What if you're just sleeping and dreaming about "reality". What if there is another reality, so what's real or not? Now we're getting a little bit philosophical here... And you can answer these questions yourself! :)

...posts:
Sometimes I think I can see a change in the posts I make, I think I even had a black and white phase. But all in all, they are similar to the posts I have now. Or they're just the same. Basically I reblog and post everything that is cool, so you can expect that my blog is cool, haha.




Enough about 2013.

And now, let's look at 2014:

Tumblr is the only thing that supports me to procrastinate. Instead of doing the things I have to do, I just do the things I want to do, and that mostly includes, reblogging stuff on tumblr! Haha
And I'm sure tumblr made me see things in life differently.
Moreover, tumblr teaches me useful things, like life hacks... and of course, German words I didn't know before!
One example:
"Backpfeifengesicht" - a face that needs to be slapped
I've never heard of this word and it's German!.There are also other examples, but this is the best one haha.
Awesome word!!!

Now... let's have a look at my tumblr blog:

TADAAA! dollalive | tumblr

The current theme I've been using for quite a longer time now is by classy-lovely.com and I totally love it!

I like the 4 column, but you can change that also into 3 column, if you want.

My favourite thing about the theme is the font for the title. It just looks so elegant. I also added that Rainbow-hover effect to it.

Again, I'm using the pink shades for the background colour and text and links and everything.

I don't know... I just like pink. It's not my favourite, but I like it!

Another effect I'm using is the sparkle cursor (in pink, obviously). Here is the site where you can find other effects, too.

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2 years:

20,191 posts (oh shit, haha)

267 posts saved as draft

219 posts added to queue

428 liked posts and

282 great blogs I follow

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Over the time I have talked to a lot of people from different countries, which is absolutely awesome. Finding friends that share the same interests as you is great!

Oh yeah, I nearly forgot...
I made other blogs, too.
The vnpthao | tumblr blog is basically just a blog for posts I want to reblog later or that I don't want in my main blog, but I don't want to leave unreblogged (hope you can understand what I mean haha)

And another blog I have now is the one I like more:

The inspiration for the URL like-thecoolkids | tumblr is from the song "Cool Kids" by Echosmith, my current favourite band. Please take your time, to take a look at my third blog, that would be great! :)




And listen to this cool song!

So, that's about my tumblr. Now to my some of favourite blogs:

thereisnothingforever | tumblr

Please take your time and check out my best friend's tumblr blog! :)

senseofreality | tumblr
onlyforashortmoment | tumblr 
victoria-yo | tumblr    

letsthenightsparkling | tumblr
sobadlypessimistic | tumblr

zemmmennn | tumblr 

lucitide | tumblr
late--summer--rain | tumblr
lovelyshininggirls | tumblr
lalokhez | tumblr 

These are just few of my favourites, I could go on with the list!

(order of the blogs doesn't matter at all, they are all awesome)
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Tumblr is something really great. You can just create your blog how you want it to be. And it's so damn addicting!!! I'm supposed to sleep more hours, I should study indstead of scrolling down my dashboard!!!

Buuuut I love it! :)

Customizing your blog is easy peasy.

It's a great way to effortlessly share great posts (text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, video)

You can follow your own interest with the simple tagging system.

Endless scrolling on your dashborad!

And the most important thing, you can just let your creativity make the work. Create your blog as simple as you want or as fancy as you want. You decide!

Okay, I'm surprised I managed to finish this post on time.

Anway, this is a very long post now. I was aware of that from the beginning, and honestly I could have just shorten some aspects, but I didn't want to, haha.

I hope you still liked it. And well maybe, those of you who don't have tumblr should think about joining it, or not... :)

Hope this post about my love for tumblr was interesting!

Thank you for reading!
MUCH LOVE ♥

"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions, that can change your life forever." - Keri Russel

Totally nailed it!

This post is about something I just discovered and absolutely love. So I decided to share it with you.

Saturday morning I was in the city to get some things, and as always I ended up buying more than I actually wanted. Well, after hours of looking through the shelves and buying more stuff, I found these two.

My two current favourite nail lacquer colours!!!!!

• 242 Coral Heat* from the new Maybelline Collection "Color Show Bleached Neons"
• 254 Latte* from the Maybelline Collection "Color Show"

PASTEL MEETS NEON
As the name already says, the first nail lacquer you see has a bleached neon colour - coral - and I absolutely love it.

It's not too neon, and that looks great. It still glows though, and that is what I like about this bleached neon coral colour - kinda pastel and light.

Perfect for spring and summer! :)

The lacquer is a little bit thick, which might leave some streaks on the first coat. But the second coat should fix it and make it look perfect (as you can see in the photo. Totally nailed it, or not...haha)

A LATTE MACCHIATO TO PASTEL

Concerning the colour, the Latte lacquer is the total opposite from the Bleached Neon. I haven't tried it out yet, but my sister has. The colour is very light and that means, you need at least two coats. But I like the way it doesn't "attract attention" like the coral colour.

And now I want a Latte Macchiato...in the middle of the night.

Even though I'm not a person who is into painting nails and manicures and all, I feel happy now that I have these two. Both are great nail lacquers for summer! :)

And again I feel happier because it will be summer tomorrow!!! Well, at least, that's what the weather forecast says. The following week should be really warm and I'm really looking forward to that one summer week in May. Even though it's not real summer yet, everything is so much better when the weather is good, right?

Now it's just too cold and rainy. And I'm sick of this kind of weather. I mean, who isn't...

Oh and I've been trying to find a song of the day. And I found an awesome kpop video:

So happy I can listen to it again! Much happiness today!!! Haha

The song is called I got a boy by the Girls' Generation (SNSD). It's one of my all-time favourites!

And well...it's just great to watch the video, with so much girl power! The dance choreography is really cool and I love their style, it's so different and colourful and all!

At first I was a bit confused by the text, actually I thought it was one if the weirdest songs, but now I understand that the perspectives change in that song.

First one is from a girl who doesn't understand why another girl changes herself for a guy, and the other point of view is from a girl who is hopelessly in love with a guy.
The more I listen to it, the more I like it (and that rarely happens). It really enlightens my mood!
What do you think?

All in all, great video and great song! Hope you like it! :)

And thank you for taking a look at my blog!
DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A LOOK AT MY TUMBLR, TOO!
dollalive|tumblr

MUCH LOVE

♥

Time, please go by fast

Hello everyone!

Sooo, I've been thinking a lot about July today. July 2014.. What do you think of when you read about July?

I think of summer, sunny hot weathers, good mood, happiness... and the most important thing: another school year ending! Yes, I really can't wait for July to come. Right now, it's Friday evening, it's cold outside, it has been raining and I'm getting sick of this weather.

Summmmeeer, where are you?!?!!

But there is another reason, why I'm dreading for summer! I can't wait... because....

I'LL BE IN PARIS THIS YEAR!!! YEEEAH!

I'm so excited, even though I still have 2 months until then. I'm visiting Paris because of the study trip at our school. "Study trip"...haha. Well actually, in German it's called "Abitur-Fahrt" or just "Abifahrt". Basically, it's a school tradition in Germany that senior students go on a trip together before they take their exams for their Abitur (A-Levels). It's a chance for the students to get away from the stress at school, have fun and enjoy the amazing time during the trip before the horrible time of exams starts.
My school offers 4 trips. Paris, London, Vienna and a hiking tour around the Königssee. I'm very happy with Paris, and I'm even in the organisation seminar, which makes me be more excited about the trip every time we have to do something for it.

But honestly, I didn't want to go to Paris at first... I actually wanted to be in the seminar that organises the trip to London! Unfortunately there were already too many people in that project seminar, so the other choice I had was Paris.

And now, I'm super happy!!! Really, nothing to complain (so far). My friends will be on the same trip, too. Paris is a wonderful and amazing city and I will make sure I'll write a lot about my awesome experience there!

Also, this is my very first post, actually, just a really random thought. I want to try to post more things about my life, and thoughts, and I hope I can make the posts more interesting.
My posts will mostly be about things and events in my life, but also they way I handle some certain issues, therefore trying to suggest some advice for you!
If you have any questions, please contact me! :)

I would be really happy to get more people reading my posts!

THANK YOU

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