Feeling sick and current beauty faves

Hello everyone,

So this is the first of the Sunday uploading now as Thursdays weren't working out and I was putting them up Sunday anyways. 

This week I have had a cold and it sucks, it started headachy and throaty and is now sneezy and wheezy.

•great•

Most nights I've been trying to get an early night and drink lots of water. This isn't always ideal though as I seem to have the tiniest bladder ever. I've now got two days off work and am spending my Sunday in bed with Netflix and a cuppa tea. Heaven.

 

On with the beauty bits. 

the first thing I've been enjoying is Lush's new moisturiser and it's caaalled..

Million Dollar Moisturiser.

'bionic facial moisturiser'

This is an incredibly lovely and hydrating product, it has an SPF of 30 which I love as I am very fair. its super smoothing and softening. I really like how lightweight it as i have combination skin and it doesn't sit heavily on my nose and chin. This is an illuminating cream. Lush has blended it with their Feeling Younger skin tint. This gives your skin a lovely healthy glow.

The next thing I want to talk about is brows. My brows mostly but feel free to wade in with yours in the comments. I'm kinda at an impasse in my brain as to what to do with them. I feel like I want them to be thick, I've had thinner eyebrows  before (when it was more fashionable) but never bad eyebrows. So I guess brows I'm loving at the moment are.

Cara Delevinge, Kelly Osbourne, Lana Del Rey.

 
For me I think Cara's brows are a bit too big but I admire the bold statement they bring to the table, I really like Kellys' and I like the sharpness of Lana's. I have Fair eyebrows so I will always need to fill as i cant get the fullness by going 'Au natural'. I prefer to Pluck mine as I love the idea of threading and have seen the results first hand. I like to control things tough and I don't trust someone else to get the shape perfect.

This I what I like to use to groom my brows. 

I'm going to do another blog post on how I achieve the shape i want and my technique to get the shape I want. I could just waffle on all day about this subject to be honest.

Lastly I want to talk about nails- woooo!

I've gone for something a little bit different this week with a nice rich blue. I used misguided nail polish in 'Splash' and did a top coat with Barry M nail paint in 'teal''. These colours together with a rich colour payoff. 

I likes it. 

That's it for this Sunday, thank you for taking the time to read this blog and if you liked it please add it to your reading list and look out next Sunday for another update.

Lucy.

 

Cupcakes

Hi guys,

So sorry I'm late again with this blog. I might have to change the day to Sunday as that's usually my day off and after a long day on Thursday I'm usually too tired to write the post.

Also I'm thinking I might change my blog caption to 'beauty•fashion•lifestyle' as I have written about things like work and, as you'll see, cupcakes.

So the other day I went to visit my sister, she dosnt live too far from me so there wasn't much travel.

We watched the Malefecent movie, my sister and her partner have a massive 3D tv so we watched it. I really liked it but I would have loved it a Teensy wincey bit more if it was darker. In my head I seem to have it that Disney needs to be growing up with me because it's always been such a massive part of my life. I find that people my age mostly feel like that to be honest. 

After much (much) badgering my sister said we could make cupcakes. 

As my sister doesn't eat dairy we used tho super cool recipe book that has lots of amah-zing cake ideas. We used the basic chocolate cupcake recipe. 

Above I've popped a few pictures of what we put in and it all mixed up. The batter tasted so good my sister had to ban us from eating it all. We used a really nice raw cacao powder and boosted it with a natural chocolate extract from Star Kay White. 

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/16321/Star-Kay-White-Chocolate-Extract

We put then in the oven for about 20-25 minutes and voila! Beautiful moist vegan cupcakes. My sister cut of the tops an added a chocolate frosting and put the lips back on like little hats. 

 

 They were so good and yummy. They also did not last very long.

I hope you liked reading this. If you would like to read more please add me to your reading list and I will try to be more punctual. 

Lucy