A few Little Purchases...

Here is four items which I thought I should tell you about;

Tanya Burr Lip Gloss in Afternoon Tea;
Recently I have been loving wearing nude lips and when I came across the Tanya Burr Lips and Nails stand in my local Superdrug I automatically grabbed the nudest pinkest colour there was and without any deliberation it was purchased straight away. The lip gloss smells like sweets which I love and it has great pigmentation. it is not sticky so your hair doesn't get stuck in it on a windy day or you don't have it joining your lips together in a sticky mess. It is one of my new favourite lip glosses and hey it is by the wonderful Tanya Burr.

Seventeen Ultimate Guide to Beauty;
for the past two years I have loved reading the seventeen magazine as I can get it in my local Easons and when I found out that they had a book about beauty I wanted to own it. For a long time I have been loathing over this book thinking is it worth buying but with my new funds that I have I decided "fudge it I'll buy it". I love this book it has make-up, hair, nails and anything else you may need to know about beauty with handy tips and tricks. I have nearly read it front to back and I feel like it is possibly my beauty bible when I am in a sticky situation.

Soap & Glory, The Ultimelt and Face Soap and Clarity Face Wash;
At this moment in time my face has been going out of control with break outs and I am trying to reign it back in but it is a very hard job as new pesky little spots keep re-appearing. A few days back my sister let me use her face washes and I fell in love as there was a great difference in my skin. Unfortunately she is not going to let me use them every day, therefore I decided to buy them myself. The Ultimelt is a hot cloth cleanser which is great at taking off your make-up and taking any impurities out of your skin. The face soap is great at getting rid of spots and preventing them from coming back. I have not yet used my own as I am trying to use up some other of my products before I open new ones. However in the next week I should have used up my other face washes and then I can take a good go at these new washes and see how they effect my skin in a long term effect.

There was some of the new things I have bought, I hope you enjoyed this blog post!

Grainne

xoxo

New Job!

Its Summer, this means no school and excessive shopping. when you are a teenager and you love make-up and clothes money can be quite a problem. I will be 16 in August which means that right now I am able to work. So obviously I have decided to get a summer job (my mother wants me out of the house) for a few hours a week. Now that I know that I will have my own income without having to spread out any money that I may get at my Birthday and Christmas, I can splurge (reasonably) on some beauty and fashion items which I get very excited about.
"What is your actual job?" you may ask, basically I work in a local hairdressers where I wash hair, sweep the floor, take appointments and make a substantial amount of tea and coffee. It probably sounds quite boring to many people but the thing is when you are doing them few jobs you don't stop from 9 to 5 (cue Dolly Parton song) and there fore the time flies by. I am very appreciative of my job and I cant wait to go on some shopping sprees and share some reviews and hauls with you!

Grainne

xoxo

Vintage Rose Cupcakes

As I am now off for the Summer Holidays I have went on a baking overdrive as I am obsessed. The other day I had been to the dentist and I was in terrible pain therefore I decided to go on YouTube. I found this great tutorial on icing roses so later on in the day I decided I would have a go at creating them. To be honest I was very proud of myself as this was my first try and they tasted great!

Ingredients;

Makes 12

Cupcake

• 110g/4oz butter or margarine,
  110g/4oz caster sugar
  2 free-range eggs,
  1 tsp vanilla extract
  110g/4oz self-raising flour
  1-2 tbsp milk

Icing

175g unsalted butter
350g icing sugar, sifted
a couple of drops of vanilla extract (optional)

Method

• First you preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• To make the cupcakes you can use the all in one method where you basically just add all of the ingredients at once and just mix it with a mixer or with a spoon however sometimes I like to add the ingredients one at a time to make sure the mixture is smooth with no lumps.
• When the mixture is smooth you then evenly distribute the mixture into the cupcake cases on the tray.
• Bake the cupcakes in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
• when the cupcakes are springy to touch take them out of the oven and place them on a cooling rack.

Icing

• first cream the butter until it is smooth and then gradually add in the icing sugar mixing every time.
• if you are using the vanilla extract you would then add it in to the butter cream icing.
• fill your piping bag and you are ready.
• Instead of myself typing out the method of the roses I am going to link you to the YouTube video as it is easier to show than write and probably if I wrote out how to do it your cupcakes would turn out to be a catastrophe. Here is the link to the YouTube video.

If you decide to make these cupcakes tag me in your pictures on instagram and twitter so I can have a look at them!

Grainne

xox