Elena-Raluca Zeeb

Blythe, CA, USA

I'm currently living in Southern California, enjoying the winter weather and dreading the summer one; I'm a 30 year old with a regular job and an intrest in fashion, shoes, makeup, books, computers, gaming, cats and music. I particularly like nu-metal and metal, stuff like Korn, Soad, Deftones, Static X, Coal Chamber, Kittie or girl power stuff like Garbage, Skunk Anansie or Portishead. An issue close to my heart is cat protection and I write about it a lot. I live with my two babies, Monkey and Fruggles, the cats that exasperate me and make me laugh every single day. I hate work and I wish I had more friends and a better social life.

I come from Romania - I followed my husband to the US but that fell apart a few years ago and I've pretty much been a recluse ever since, just work and home. I am all for womens' rights, pro choice, separation of church and state, gay equality and marriage, live and let live, accepting everyone's right to do whatever they want in their house as long as it involves consenting adults; I'm as much of a social liberal as they get.

I'm also intrested in art, painting especially and my favorite artists are the modernists and post-modernists, the cubists, abstracts and dadaists. I have a deep respect for the budhists and the Dalai Lama; loud, self-entitled bible thumping idiots who want the world to conform to them irritate me violently. I love reading and I'm pretty sure I've studied and read a good chunk of Western literature since the beginning (Beowulf gah :)

I love exploring the wonderful world of design and I dream to one day be an interior decorator - my TV is always on HGTV. Second choice of job when I grow up would be fashion designer - I avidly peruse the fashion shows for the latest trends and I like to keep my wardrobe classical but chic, quirky and original.

I experiment a lot with makeup and I'd venture as far as to say that I'm a bit of an expert; I read up on every product I come across from face creams to finishing powders. I love to practice application techniques and find out the latest insider tips and tricks. Nail art is also a thing - my 50 + bottles of nail polish will testify to that. I keep current partially with beauty product subscription services like Birchbox and TestTube (the latter has several versions from the original website and QVC) as well as subscriptions to all major magazines. Peace!

  • Work
    • State of California
  • Education
    • University of Bucharest, BA in Foreign Languages - English and French