Wednesday 28 January 2015

Cream of Carrot Soup. THE BEST.

Ahhh. A traditional cream of carrot soup. Straight from the family recipe book. There is nothing better than this and it is so healthy! 
This recipe serves 4-6 people but obviously can be increased for larger/smaller servings. But this even freezes great so you can never make too much! And even better it's only 119 calories per serving.

Cooking time 30mins.

Ingredients:
45g butter
1 medium diced onion
6 thinly sliced carrots 
1 celery stick sliced 
1/2 teaspoon of basil
1tablespoon chopped parsley 
3 tablespoons of plain flour
2 1/4 pints of heated chicken stock (vegetable stock if your vegetarian) 
Salt and pepper to taste.

Method:
1. Heat butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat. 
2.Add onion, cover and cook on a low heat. 
3. Add carrots, celery, basil and season well with salt and pepper and mix, cook for a further 6 minutes, partly covered over a medium heat. 
4. Mix in flour until well incorporated. 
5. Pour in chicken stock. Season to taste and bring to the boil, leave the lid ajar so steam can rise. 
6. Reduce the heat to low and cook stock for a further 20 minutes. 
7. Blend and serve with hot bread. 


Monday 26 January 2015

January 2015 Makeup Wishlist


Mac baby don't go blush
-I've heard that this is AMAZINGLY for contouring. It's a deep grey shade giving the illusion of a shadow rather than brown so it really makes your cheekbones look chizzled! It's also a prolongwear blush so lasts for ages! 

Mac honey love lipstick - one for the nude collection but a golden warm toned nude unlike anything I have!

Mac velvet teddy lipstick- ive been trying to get my hands on this baby for a while now! Ive swatched it instore and I am in love. Would love to pair it with my MAC spice lipliner.

Mac soft brown eyeshadow- i just can't get my hands on this!! I've head it's the perfect crease colour for girls ranging from nc15-nc35 or nw15-nw25 and I'm nc25 normally or at my very palest I'm nw18. So this should be perfect.
 
Mac Mylar eyeshadow- my collection needs a matte white!

Mac soar lipliner - the perfect mauve pink. Lipliners have been a big thing this year and they can change any look. I currently have Mac spice, deverish and whirl. And I love them to change up any lip look or wear on their own! I want them all! 

Mac prep and prime highlight pen- I want this to combine with my Mac concealer, to give an extra highlight and I want the yellow toned one to combat dark circles! 

Mac prep and prime - I've wanted this face primer for a long time after using my friends on holiday last year, even in humid climates your makeup stays put and doesn't become greasy! It's just so pricey!

Nars orgasm blush- I need a pretty blush with sparkles of glitter to save me highlighting on an everyday basis. 

Nars Elagua lip pencil- Again, this is a gorgeous pinky purpley mauve, I've seen Jaclyn hill use this a few times and I'm in love. Unfortunately the closest Nars store is about an hour away and online shipping is so expensive!

Nars sheer glow foundation- I want this for a WINTER foundation for when my skin is dry due to harsh weather and pale.

Nars sheer matte foundation- this I want for my summer foundation when my skin is more tanned and my t zone becomes oiler throughout the day! 

UD chill makeup setting spray- I want this for the perfect dewy finish on my cheeks! 
 
Maybelliene age rewind concealer- I've heard this works miracles! I've recently been struggling to cover my dark circles so was hoping this would help to cover them! 

Anastasia Beverly Hills liquid lipstick in pure hollywood- I NEED THIS SHADE IN MY LIFE. I follow Kim K's makeup artist on Instagram (my Instagram is _montanax3 if anyone wants to follow me!) and he used this on her for a recent event and oh my it is sensational and long wearing! 

Anastasia Beverly Hills liquid lipstick in milkshake - this pale pinky nude is perfect for a cool toned face this winter! The liquid lipsticks from her new range apply like a gloss and dry super matte like a lipstick and last all day! Amazing formula. 

And finally a Z palette- I need a Z palette in my life for when I travel. I just want to be able to pop my eyeshadows, blushes, and face powders from my anistasia Beverly Hills contour kit into one palette rather than taking loads of palettes in my suitcase! This is a great space saver and I just need to bite the bullet and fork out to buy one!

Thanks for reading everyone and please comment and follow me! :) also if anyone has these products or any other amazing products please comment and let me know what you think! Thankyou xxxx

Sunday 11 January 2015

Outfit of the day #OOTD

Hey guys, 

just thought I would share with you Saturday's outfit that I wore to work. I work for a fashion clothes shop so I usually make an effort with what I wear and try to look fashionable when I go.



Top - Primark £6- it reads 'Too glam to give a damn' I liked it! I've been really liking slogan t shirts recently and just been getting cheap ones to dress up. The material of this top is really good and it doesn't feel cheap at all. This was only recently bought so it will still be in stores if anyone's interested! 

Jeans- originally a £50 pair of plain river island jeans from about 5 years ago! -  this week I decided to have a wardrobe clear out and I put these in a bin liner! Because I've started really hating light jeans! But I decided to rip them myself on Friday night (I had nothing better to do) and I'm now really pleased with them. If anyone wants to know how I ripped them leave a comment below and I can do a blog post for you :) 

Boots - next- I've been loving over the knee boots this season and as I'm quite skinny I tried loads on and found it hard to get some that was tight on my leg, these was from next last month and I think they are priced at £56 but I got them for £48 as I know someone who works for the company. I have quite long legs aswell and these come to the exact middle of my knee cap! So for someone with regular length legs these would come just over the knee which would be perfect. 

Obviously it's cold outside so I just put this with a leather jacket with a black faux fur gilet on top! 

Thanks for reading, if anyone wants me to do a post on how to rip your own jeans then please comment and let me know, and please follow my blog! 

Bye xxx

Thursday 8 January 2015

My top 8 Lip Products of 2014

2014, The year of the lip liner.. Hello Kylie Jenner!
So, since Kylie Jenner appeared with those big fake lips and claimed she drew them on EVERYONES been drawing them on "I saw Kylie Jenner with Big Lips, so i want big lips" (It reminds me of everyone wanting to be like Regina George in mean girls) She's become such an icon this year, more than her big sister Kendall in my opinion. Kylies lips just seem to look so much better than when everyone else draws them on! so i'm definitely not buying that hers are all lipliner because i mean c'mon, from the side they even look plump and theres no way you can do that with a pencil!
Nevertheless, I have been loving the COLOURS K-Jenner wears, so i had to get my hands on these 3 lip liners, from left to right ..

1. DERVISH - the most perfect mauve pink you will ever meet in yo' life! it also goes amazing with the lipliner please me on top! i love it and i don't tend to overdraw my lips, but if i was going to do it this would be the shade to do it in, a more natural colour rather than a brown.

2. SPICE - This colour is also amazing, The perfect warm cinnamony brown that K-J represents! everyone claims whirl is her most famous but I swear i think in her instagram pics this looks like the lip product she uses the most! I love wearing this on its own but lipsticks that go well with it are MAC Velvet Teddy and Faux.

3. WHIRL- the most famous mac lipliner of 2014 because of all the rumours that this is the one kylie uses! this was sold out from the mac website in Autumn for so long that i can't even remember! i love just to wear this on its own! to me this is a purply plumy deep brown and its so versatile because of all the lipsticks you can wear with it!


Moving onto lipstick, (Sorry everything is mostly MAC but i just love the brand so much). However, i have broadened my horizons and purchased one lime crime lipstick! 



1. This lime crime lipstick is BABETTE, and I'm in LOVE. This is the most beautiful pinky nude EVER, and i don't even know how they got the colour its so different to everything i have ever seen before i can't even think of an appropriate dupe! if your a nude gal then you NEEEED this. Trust me! I am never going to stop buying from this beautiful brand!

2. Up the amp - This is the most perfectly formulated and coloured summery bright purple, there is more info about this on my previous post!

3.Faux- When i bought this from mac, it was because velvet teddy was out of stock! but i was not disappointed in this colour, its a beautiful, easy wearing, long lasting, mauve pinky brown, i would highly recommend it to go with the spice lipliner.

4. Pretty Please - so i only got this lipstick for chirstmas but i have been in love with it ever since, this is the most perfect everyday, easy wearing pink, and it even looks amazing with a dark smokey eye, because sometimes i feel that a dark lip and a dark eye can start to look like drag makeup, so i have a rule that i go for one or the other, if i have a dark eye i have a nude lip, but sometimes a nude lip can wash you out, especially in pictures, so i have been hunting for a shade like this and its perfect! It also compliments Dervish lipliner so well!

5. Lady Danger - Another recent purchase, i have been hunting for that bright red lip for so long, i have wanted a colour similar to Gerard Cosmetics fire engine which is hard to get in the UK, (especially seeing as i am too impatient for shipping) and this is it! but it is matte so its VERY drying, make sure to wear lip balm whilst doing your makeup so that your lips are moist before you apply!





I hope you have found this post interesting, out of all makeup and beauty products lip products are my number 1 so i love sharing this! Please let me know what you think and if you have any lip recommendations for me, or if anyone knows where you can get Gerard Cosmetics in the UK or shipped to the UK for cheap then please comment and let me know. Please follow my blog! 

B'bye xx


Event Makeup Looks 2014


Hi everyone..
So iv'e been looking through my pics and thought i would do a blog post on my fav makeup looks of 2014! (seems so weird typing 2014 now I've only just got used to saying 2015!!). Anyway, as it says in the 'about me' section of my blog, i do makeup on myself not on others, i am not freelance or anything like that and wouldn't be confident enough to do my makeup on others, at least if i do it on myself and i hate it i can whip out a make up wipe! For me 2014 was the year i started taking an interest in makeup, and what an amazing year for it, some amazing products launched last year. I was so obsessed with makeup i was on holiday in Cannes and spent most of my money in MAC and Sephora (WE NEED ONE IN THE UK WHO AGREES?!?!?!). Thats where the pic below was taken.



You may have seen the look below in my previous post - this is my NYE makeup look, all eye makeup details are on there!




2014- the year of the contour, the Anastasia Beverly Hills contour palette was without a doubt THE product of 2014, and oh how i love a sharp contour and a cut crease! The following look i wore for my year 13 prom! eyeshadow on the lid was stila 'kitten' with wedge on the crease going in with swiss chocolate and darkening with carbon - all MAC shadows! i used a sigma pencil brush to get the cut crease then blended with a MAC 217! if you don't have this eyeshadow blending brush then you NEEEEEED it! Urban decay naked lipgloss in the shade 'lovechild' on the lip with MAC angel lippy underneath.



Another colour that i enjoyed wearing this year was PURPLE, on the lip and on the lid! 


The colour  i used on the lid was parfait amour by mac and then sketch in the outer corner and crease to blend! I also used a purple colour from the BH cosmetics shimmer colour palette but theres no shade name!



Summer 2014 when i was comfortable with makeup was when i started embracing vibrant colours! and this is when i purchased MAC up the amp! and i have to say i love it! it also looks great on top of 'whirl' lipliner. This lipstick has a great formulation and is not at all drying on my lips! if you are poking for a vibrant summery purple then this is for you! for a wintery deep plum purple i would suggest MAC rebel or Topshop beguiled for a cheaper yet similar alternative!

Please comment below what you think to these looks or if you would like any more information :) xx


Wednesday 7 January 2015

My NYE look - outfit and makeup


The outfit- YES the dress was £2.50! (I know right?) One of my uncles works for NEXT and they have a staff shop in the UK near where I live. Where they sell all unwanted/ faulty/ overstock. Fortunately this was over stock so there was nothing wrong with it. I was lucky to find such a bargain. Shoes were a silver sparkly barely there sandal which were also from next. Clutch bag was a gift. Excuse my little doggy. 




Next onto makeup: I did my makeup myself. Eye makeup was Mac Carbon in the crease,which is a matte black shade, I had practiced this look so I just went in with it but usually I wouldn't go for a black straight away as it can be hard to blend! I then went in with Mac black tied which is black with slight reflects of glitter! On the lid was Mac platinum pigment which I applied with a damp brush (I used eye drops as they do the same as fix + and make the colours POP). I then went in with The showstopper! Which was Collection glitter liner in silver (not sure of the exact shade name) it's so amazingly pigmented, long lasting and pretty! And it comes in a ton of other shades to glam up any look! originally, I was just going to apply this in the inner corner and under the eye. But when I saw how beautiful it was I just went mad and put it all over the lid I loved it!!








Let me know what everyone thinks of this look and if anyone wants more details leave me a comment! 

B'bye xx 

Girl Online

Hi everyone,

I know my blog is not aimed to be around books, but i find this book to be inspirational! i would definitely reccomend that everyone gives it a read. i follow Zoe on Youtube and think its great how she has portrayed herself and her fears and panic attacks within her character Penny, who is so Loveable just like Zoe.

At first i was a little hesitant to buy the book, as i heard the target audience was young teenage girls, I'm nearly 19 and can honestly say I love it and wish i'd of bought it sooner!


If theres one thing i really love about this book (Besides the story) its the cover! Infact i loved the cover so much i went to the shops to buy the hardback rather than the kindle edition, because i thought it would look pretty on my shelf (sad, i know). I believe that all the pictures were taken by Zoe herself. I was even talking to my mum about what an achievement this is. I think Zoe should ignore the negativity of her ''fans'' saying she didn't write it herself, she's a Vlogger not an author! YOU GO GIRL! I really struggled to put this book down last night and just got up to the bit where Penny is in NY and takes a quick picture of the 'rocker'. (I can sense this is where it is going to start getting very good) Oh and i LOVE Elliot!! He's my favourite character.

Let me know what everyone else thinks of this book and who all your favourite characters are and your best bits so far! But no spoilers please!

B'Bye xxx