An essential and 2 pretties

Had a bit of a magpie moment and couldn't help myself.

The first thing that lured me in was a Pink Maybelline New York lipstick (Color Sensation Popstick in Pink Lollipop £7.19) that I had had my eye on for a while. It's silky not sticky and adds a soft sheer layer of colour to your lips, perfect for brightening your look up in the morning and throughout the day.. plus it smells yummy!

Second thing I caved to was a gold and pearl ear hanger from Miss Selfridge (£7.50). With an ever growing collection of earrings and an obsession with pearls it was inevitable that this would have to be mine! It is 6.5 inches in length and hooks onto the back of your ear, looks nice with hair up or down and is a lovely mix of classic pearls with a new and different accessory.

Lastly I bought a hair doughnut from Claire's (£3) which is both cheap and very effective. I really should have bought one of these sooner, really enjoying being able to have a bun bigger than a grape (okay, slight exaggeration) and it was really easy to put in. Just put a ponytail wherever you want the bun, pop the doughnut onto the ponytail, wrap your hair around and over the mesh and push a few hair pins in, sorted.

I'd thouroughly recommend them all and have to say that writing about them has made them feel like even more justified purchases :) haha.

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A post not toast

So i know my posts do/will mainly be about makeup related things because that's just my fave but i want to include other things that i love too.. and somehow this mornings breakfast became something i felt i needed to share with the world! Being half polish means that there are lots of family recipes of various delicious polish things in our house, including a recipe for a Polish Omelette, don't be put off by the word omelette if you don't like them because it doesn't taste or feel the same as a typical omelette, here's the recipe...

You'll need:

2 or 3 eggs     1 tbsp milk

pinch of salt    1 tbsp flour (level tbsp)

bit of butter                                  

1 tsp sugar

You'll need to:

Crack the eggs into two separate bowls so one bowl has the yolks in it and the other has the whites in it. Put the salt, milk, flour and sugar into the bowl with the egg yolks and mix them all together, smoothing out any lumps. Next whisk the egg whites until they can form peaks, spoon by spoon fold in the yolk mixture until it is all added. Put a bit of butter in a fairly large frying pan, pour in the egg mix and level out. let it cook until it is golden on the bottom and then flip over and do the same on the other side, turn out onto a plate and cover with apricot jam or another jam of your choice.

It's so yum, try it if you like and tell me what you think :) 

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Wrap/Unwrap

Our Last project was called wrap/unwrap, this could be interpreted it in various ways so it was very interesting and inspiring to see everyone in the groups ideas. 

   Throughout the project I did lots of research, development work and planning in my sketchbook to reach my 3 final outcomes: 

Model - Ash Kaur

Photographer - Catherine Dunthorne 

For my first final look I was inspired by the way flowers open/unwrap and decided to do something similar to the petals on the Lancome advert. I cut the petals from a white fabric flower  and stuck them around the eye using eyelash glue, for or highlight colours I used a bit of MAC Impassioned lipstick, Bed Head - 4 play -Drama Queen eyeshadow in Shimmering Pink.

Model: Catherine Dunthorne

Photographer: Me 

My two other final looks were based around the idea of painting on clothes/accessories onto the face/body, for the first one the use a airbrush to spray through some lace into a mask type shape  and for the other I sprayed a background with the same lace pattern as a background and sprayed the lace onto the face and shoulders to camouflage the model into the background.

I love how these turned out and I'm excited to expand these ideas onto more of the body in final major project!  

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