Waiting Game

I love ordering things online, but I hate when they seem to take forever to arrive. I'm incredibly impatient. Currently I'm waiting for 2 ASOS orders - the one I posted about before, and also another order (I'm hopeless) of a skirt and a pair of earrings, and 2 Sigma Beauty orders (yes, I made another one). I want to have them right away!

I haven't ordered any cosmetics (or purchased in store) since I blogged about my ACW order. That is such an achievement for me, because usually I get the urge to buy something at least once a week. Most days I make up mock orders, but then once I get the guilts I close my browser and do something else to distract myself. I think I am getting to the stage now where I have found products that I am happy with and know how to apply them properlyish.

The Chevron City to Surf is on again in about 5 months time. I have already started to train for it, and by train I mean only doing a mere 3.5km run per day. The weather in Perth has been atrociously hot and HUMID the last 19 days. It's still been 32C when I've gone for a run at 7:30pm. I'd love to run in the mornings but I am a grump in the mornings and won't get out of bed if my life depends on it. I will increase my distance when it cools down a bit, but my fitness is already a little better.

Bedtime!

ASOS etc

I bought this off asos.com today:

It cost 21GBP but I had a 10% off code. And there's FREE SHIPPING! That eases the pain somewhat.

I also bought these: (top - Sigma E30, bottom Sigma E10)

 

pictures ripped from sigmabeauty.com 

I wanted to get the pencil brush as I've been wanting the MAC one for a while but couldn't justify the price, and got the fine liner brush because I've heard it's an excellent dupe for the MAC 210.

Today I had a lovely fish and chip lunch in Fremantle. Then a gigantic icecream at Baskin Robins. I swear that Baskin Robins serves you so much more than any other BR! So I was feeling pretty fat after that, which made me decide to go for a brisk hour long walk along the river in South Perth.

Our city is beautiful.

Just a Boring Tuesday

Today was extremely uneventful. I went to work and that's about it. My makeup today was...


Eyes:
- Foundation base
- Stila Launey e/s (lovely shimmery pale peach with gold flecks)
- MAC B&G Fluidline
- White shade from the Bobbi Brown Shimmerbrick in Bronze in corner
- Maybelline Great Lash Blackest Black (people are either lovers or haters)


Base:
- Revlon Colourstay Sand Beige


Face:
- Stila Sun Bronze in hollows
- NARS Orgasm Illuminator on apples


Lips:
- Stila Lip Glaze Stick in Peach

I never wear black eyeliner. It does nothing for me, and I've never quite been able to master getting both eyes even. However, today I really wanted to wear a sharp, fine, dark line over a peachy/gold base. I was craving the clean look, and I think it worked really well. I wish I had a peachier e/s but Launey did the job well enough. I had no time for photos before I was rushing out the door so you'll just have to use your imagination! I got a few compliments from my colleagues so it must have looked okay.

Adding the following to the list of my current lemmings:



Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner in Chocolate Brown

A new one of these:

picture ripped from allcosmeticswholesale.com

MAC Studio Fix Powder plus Foundation (will stalk StrawberryNet for this, my shade occasionally appears)

Studio Fix Powder plus Foundation is amazing. I use it over a tinted moisturiser, buff it in with my 187 and there it stays until I take off my makeup. And I am very oily, so for this to hold up is brilliant. Unfortunately mine has only a small amount left, so I am using sparingly.

Hump day tomorrow! Yippee.

Back to It!

When I started this blog I thought I'd be mainly blogging about makeup, however I've had a few 'what I'm doing' 'baking' etc posts as well, so basically Emma-Me is now my online diary to which my 8 (at current) followers are privy.

Yesterday I wore this out to Leederville.

I went to dinner at Jus Burgers, and then enjoyed a nice pint of Becks at The Garden.

My recent purchases include:

From thebookdepository.co.uk. Exciting. It's for uni. I wanted to order all of my books there but the other two I need were out of stock. Who knew HR books were so popular?

Happy Monday.

It's Been A While

Since I last blogged.

As promised here is my cake / ganache / fondant attempt. First ever.

Ganache:



I put it into the fridge to set, and then got started on the fondant. I made a marshmallow fondant because I've heard that most fondants aren't very tasty. Plus this one was easy (in fondant terms...)

Melted the white marshmallows with 1Tbs water for about 20 seconds, until they went all puffy:



Sifted in this until it formed a dough texture:

Then I did the same with the pink marshmallows, only I added a touch of food colouring to make it look even pinker:

I made this ghastly mess:

The fondant had to set, so I whipped up a lasagna for dinner:

Here is the cake ganache-d:

I did smooth it off much nicer than it looks here, I just didn't get around to taking a photo. The cake is actually two cakes, a white chocolate mud on the bottom, and a chocolate mud on the top. I just made White Wings cakes, because I didn't want to put in a lot of effort to just fail miserably (same with the Select chocolate you might have noticed that I used!).

Here is is fondant-ed:

Excuse the lumps and bumps. I tried my best!



I now have 7/8 of a fully ganached/fondanted mudcake in my freezer. It ended up weighing over 4kg all up.