Cooking Dinner

For dinner tonight I've decided to make this:

picture ripped from lifestylefood.com.au

It's a 4 Ingredients Sour Cream and Pumpkin Quiche. It looks bloody delish, and I am a sucker for pumpkin anything. Here's the recipe (taken from lifestylefood.com.au)

1 sheet Puff pastry

3 Eggs

300 ml Sour Cream

½ cooked butternut pumpkin, cut into pieces

1. Line a rubber pie dish with puff pastry.
2. Beat eggs and sour cream.
3. Pour over pumpkin. To taste, add sea salt and pepper in a 180C oven for 30 minutes or until set.

It doesn't get easier than that. I roasted the pumpkin instead of just steaming it because I think it will be yummier. Also I didn't use a rubber pie dish, because I don't have one.

Tomorrow I am going to attempt to make ganache and fondant, a practice run for valentine's day. I've never actioned a fancy cake or frosting before so it should be an experience. I will blog about it. (i've already noted runningincuteheels.blogspot.com for tips!)

See you tomorrow!

It's Monday...

There's a thread on the Vogue at the moment about favourite eyeshadow brands. I just posted about my Chanel quad Nymphea, which is one of my favourite quads.

Here it is:

And here's one I found online, as my picture isn't very true to the colours:

ripped from strawberrynet.com

I like this quad because even though it contains a pink and a green (which IRL is not really like either picture, it looks a lot green-er than in photo), they're still neutral and not super duper bright. I wear this quad by starting off with a wash of the light champagne colour, then wet-line with either the green or the pink, and then smudge the sparkly chocolate brown into the crease.

I also named Stila as some of my favourite shadows, except I think I prefer Chanel, because Stila shadows seem to be very soft and your brush picks up too much colour as the pan seems to crumble when the brush touches them. These Chanel ones are a lot harder, but are still just as lovely to blend.

Today I went into the city to see if the Stella McCartney bag I wanted was there. It was. And at $19 (was $99) it was a bargain. I plan to use it as a uni bag for this semester.

Not a great picture, but you get the idea. The accessories were the only thing I really liked from this collection. I wasn't overly fussed on the clothes. I wanted to get the oversized sparkly knit in the black or nude (not fussy) but every one I saw had pulls in it. No thanks.

I wonder how many people we'll see in the lace camis now that they're all on sale!

Thursday

I have been loving Target recently. I'm a student so I don't have a lot to spend on clothes (what with my makeup addiction!) and lately I've found Target to have reasonably fashionable, good quality pieces. Not to mention the fact that their stock turnover is pretty quick so they always have sales and clearances.

Here's what I picked up today:

It's a Stella McCartney for Target clutch ($19 down from $69) and 2 Grandeur bath towels ($8 something each). Here is the clutch up-close:

It's textured like fish scales. I won't be using it as a clutch, probably a makeup/toiletries bag, or something to chuck all my stuff into when I go to uni. I hope there's nobody out there that forked over $69 for it. I wouldn't have bought it if it was full price.

I bought these yesterday:

They're just draping cardigan things, and yes they were clearance (spot the red sticker!). They were originally $45, then marked to $29.88, and then another 30% off clearance items. I think they will come in handy when I go back to uni and for that awkward change of season time. I was only going to get the grey one, but then I saw the cream one so I decided to get both. I think they were a bargain. The seams have some metallic detail which makes me like them even more.

I also bought a new Revlon Colourstay at Target, as I finished mine yesterday. It is the first foundation that I have ever finished in its entirety. My foundation drawer is depressing. I have a few 99% full foundations in there. A once used NARS Sheer Glow in Deauville (which the MUA in Mecca grossly mismatched me to...) and a Chantecaille Future Skin in Nude, which is far too orange to even have the slightest chance at matching human skin. Also mismatched in Mecca. When will I learn!? I'll have to save the Sheer Glow for winter, and the Chantecaille for if I ever get the desire to be an oopma loompa.

Anyway I noticed that this Colourstay has different labelling, and does not have the soft-flex formula. I wonder if I'll notice a difference.

I went au naturale to work today, with not one scrap of makeup. I got asked if I was sick by about four different people. One person even commented "you don't look like you've been out of bed for long!". It made me feel... unpretty.

Try & Spot The Dolphins

Here are some photos of my walk I went on to watch the sunset on Sunday.


I spotted some dolphins in the water right off the shore, but they don't appear for very long. I was snapping away like a mad thing hoping to catch a glimpse of them on 'film', but I don't know if I was successful or not.
Here are the photos. Let me know if you see any dolphins in them. If not, oh well. The photos are lovely anyway. I love Perth beaches. Especially at sunset.

And here is one of the lovely sunset.

I don't think I"ll do a makeup post today, but my FOTD (Face Of The Day) was Revlon Colourstay foundation, NARS Orgasm Illuminator, Full N Soft mascara and a swipe of Smashbox Agent lipgloss. Boring.

Sunday.

Hello.

I have my first follower. I feel very special! Hello lashka_.

Today has been very hot in Perth, 36C. I haven't left the house! Instead I have been actioning tasks such as cleaning and tidying. I'm not a fan of either. My cleaning and tidying involved going through my makeup collection and discarding anything I don't use (I am a self confessed hoarder, so I don't like to part with my makeup - but I was brutal). I decided I probably didn't need those fluoro BYS eyeliners that I bought two years ago. Or that Kryolan foundation that turns orange as soon as it touches skin.

Anyway, whilst I was going through my makeup, I noticed that most of my eyeshadows were either of the 'purple' family, or the 'gold/bronze' family. This is because one source will say that purples are the best colours to bring out green eyes, yet another will say that golds and bronzes are the best colours to bring out green eyes. So, I decided to do a side-by-side comparison to see which works best for me.

Here is what I used:

The bronze colours are Shimmer Cubes #6 from The Body Shop. I used Cover Girl Perfect Blends eyeliner pencil in Black Brown. The purple colours are a Sephora palette which is actually meant for brown eyes (go figure). The eyeliner is Christian Dior waterproof crayon in Precious Violet (or Violet Precieux for those who care). I used Maybelline's Full N Soft mascara for both eyes.

My eyes are not looking particularly green today, instead an off-grey colour. I swear, they are green in natural light!

Here is my bronze eye:

And my purple eye.

And a side-by-side comparison.

You'll have to excuse my unkempt and asymmetrical brows. 

I think that the purples make the green stand out more, and the bronze makes them look slightly blue. 

Right-o. I'm off for a walk at the beach to watch the sunset.

allcosmeticswholesale.com order

Hello.

How devastating are the QLD floods. I'm in WA so feel very helpless. I have donated to the appeal at my local Coles which I hope everybody who can does.

Just 5 minutes ago I placed my first ever allcosmeticswholesale.com order and by god am I excited. I've wanted a MAC 187 for so long, and at USD$41 I couldn't not buy it. I needed to replace my Manicare stippling brush which leaves stray brush hairs all over my face and isn't dense enough to apply liquid foundation, I just wasn't prepared to pay retail (AUD$85). Here it is in all its glory.

picture ripped from maccosmetics.com.au

I noticed they had the new OCC Lip Tar shades as well, so I popped Trick in my cart. I am not a huge 'lips' person, but there's something about Trick that directed me to buy it. So I did. It cost USD$12.50.

picture ripped from allcosmeticswholesale.com

On a slightly less exciting note, I also picked up a Stila Kitten eyeshadow pan (USD$10.99) and an empty Stila 4 pan palette (USD$8.99). I find people either love or hate Kitten. I am a lover.

There are so many things from ACW that I want. I hope my parcel arrives soon!

Bronzer

Somehow I ended up with 6 bronzers in my MU collection and I am completely oblivious to how this happened, because I don't consider bronzer to be a part of my 'staple' look. This just reinforces to me where all my money goes!

Anyway here are swatches of my bronzers without flash and with flash: 

 

L-R: Boots Instant Glow Shimmer Powder in Aztec Gold, Rimmel Natural Bronzer in Sun Glow, Neutrogena Healthy Blends Natural Radiance Bronzer in Sunkissed, NARS Laguna, Stila Sun Shade 1, Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in Bronze.

The shimmery ones which I think look best for evening/night time are Boots Instant Glow, NARS Laguna and BB Shimmer Brick although I know some people swear by Laguna for daytime.

Rimmel Natural Bronzer is a great cheapie, but comparing it to the higher-end bronzers it can look very 'ruddy'.

I find the Neutrogena to be difficult to blend once it's on the skin and often have to put some Studio Fix over it to make it look less noticeable.

Stila Sun would have to be my current go-to for daytime (when I can be bothered with bronzer) because whilst it has a tiny tiny tiny amount of shimmer, it gives the most natural glow.