You all know those moments, when you are excited as a kid (well, if you don’t, I feel sorry for you), and those moments, slightly embarrassing, when you are excited more than that… That’s me right now! And back then on the picture (Bahamas).
Starting 2017 I have decided to live and enjoy my life consciously. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’ve never been a child of sadness, definitely not… but during the last year, which was very intense physically and emotionally, something has broken or rather got fixed in me and I began to invest into and enjoy my life on the other level. But everything step by step…
Having once left my hometown for studies in London at the age of 18, I have been only visiting it for pits stops ever after. I’ve never wanted to escape Russia as some people might think, I do love my hometown St. Petersburg and my family, which is still living there but once having opened that Pandora box… Right, I was excited more than that! Just a month after coming back from the UK I was already in Mikkeli, Finland, then jumped to Sweden, then to Germany and so on and so on. I have changed 5 countries of residence and some more cities (St. Petersburg, London, Mikkeli, Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna) and occasionally lived in Stockholm, Bergamo, Paris and NYC. I speak 4 languages, 3 of them fluently. People often can’t identify my country of origin falsely guessing that I’m American when in Paris, Brazilian (yeah, not joking), Italian or Swedish when in the USA, my Italian friends keep saying I’m more Italian than them and Russians approached me many times in English or German (thanks to my Russian-Ukrainian-Greek-Finnish-Swedish parents!). I realized that many of my friends in NYC firmly believe/-d I’m Austrian not only because I live in Vienna but because, as my friends say, I’m the least Russian girl they ever knew. I consider myself a person of the world and don’t like to be put into any category or even worse, a box – I am claustrophobic from this point of view.
I travel as much as I can and people in Vienna usually greet me with words “Oh! You are back!” and others message me “Are you in Vienna?” “Where are you now?” trying to get in touch with me. Once my dear bright and wise friend sent me a song and said “IT IS ALL ABOUT YOU!” It was the ABBA song “Head over heels” and everything fell into place. It doesn’t make much sense to ask me, if I’m going to be in Vienna in the next month or so because you know… I don’t know it myself, unless I really put it on my agenda.
Like most of the girls, I like fashion, well maybe slightly more than most of them. This passion led to creating looks, jewelry and clothes I’ve been always asked about on streets wherever I am. I’ve been called “best dressed” (in Vienna) by some websites and some of the looks were featured in fashion magazines and fashion brand sites (I will share them with you #15minutesoffame). I’ve been asked over and over again, why I don’t start a line by myself. Maybe, one day, when I have slightly more time and clearer idea about it )
I’m a girl with a taste for the world with a globetrotter and fashionista syndrome, who is always smiling and has, I believe, positive energy attracting a lot of great people. I’m blessed to be able to claim to have the most amazing friends. For people around it seems that I have friends everywhere in the world, and you know what? It is true. My friends are laughing that one day I have to write a book about all those incredible stories that happened to me (and never happen to others). Maybe, one day, under another name )))
However after numerous countless a$$ kicks by friends, acquaintances and random people I’ve met all over the world motivating me to start to write a blog in the last, let’s say almost 10 years, I put all my will together and did it! Special thanks to my dearest friend who left the most motivational bruises on my restless body and mind, A Girl with Geo, who’s often my partner in crime 🙂
Most people can’t even assume/guess my professional occupation, which is … wait-for-it… finance, including 3 degrees and quite impressive work experience. So here I am! Managing a split between the part of me that has been working in finance for more than 10 years and the one who’s been a fashion freak traveling the world and meeting incredible people.
Head over heels is a blog about my travel adventures #wanderlust, fashion experiments and inspirations #fashionista, my incredible friends, who inspire and motivate me and with whom I’m head-over-heels #headoverheels and yeah, I’m a girl who traveled a lot and met even more people, part of whom are men (incredible, right?!) so I definitely won’t be able to resist some sassy comments about that… #bitchinaround.
Since I’m a total lamer it will take some time till I’ve figured out how to organize my blog the best way, sorry for that. I promise to work on that and I really hope you will find interesting and inspiring content or at least my posts will make you smile!
Head Over Heels 