Quick 'n dirty Valentine's look.

I hate Valentine's Day. Seriously, my best friend and I used to sit there and watch horror movie reruns on Valentine's day. Our ideal Valentine's date was Freddy Kruger xD

The Pook, however, insists on celebrating Valentine's day >_> I got him to compromise after last year's dinner disaster, and since this year's February 14th also happens to be Lunar/Chinese New Year, there's even more excuse to stay at home xD.
This one is for you ladies who will be dolling up. A pink based look, keeping it simple and sweet.

Products used:

• MAC Fafi Eyes Quad 1 
• MAC Mineralised Skin Finish in Light Medium
• L'Oreal Lineur Intense liquid liner in Black
• NYX eye/eyebrown pencil in Dark Brown
• MAC lipstick in Myself
• Daiso lashes the criss cross kind
• The Body Shop blush in Roseflower
• Formula D concealer (Thanks Dao!!)

Not pictured: Estee Lauder More Than Mascara mascara; The Body Shop Matte & Prime; Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin; MAC Studio Sculpt foundation in NC20.

Directions:

• Prime skin, apply foundation, conceal if necessary and set foundation with MAC MSF;
• Prime eyelids with UDPP;
• Line a winged cat eye;
• Curl natural lashes, and apply false lashes;
• Fill in brows;
• Using a flat brush, pat Hey! (golden beige pearl) over the entire lid area up to your crease;
• Using a pencil brush, apply Pink Venus (pink shimmer) onto crease and bring down into outer corner;
• Highlight highest point under brow with Vanilla (off white matte);
• Using a fluffy brush, lightly blend the edges of the shadows using an upward motion;
• Line outer1/2 of lower lash line with a dark brown pencil;
• Apply mascara to lower lashes only;
• Apply Roseflower blush (light pink) to apples of cheeks;
• Apply Myself, or a similar "My Lips But Better" lippy.

Close up:

In warmer lighting

Hope you girls have a fabby Vday!!! Mwah!

A belated makeup post...

It's about bloody time I did a FOTD.
I know I'd previously said that I'm paranoid about posting my mug up on the internet, but since this blog has nothing to do with my work, I don't think anyone would have a problem with it *shrugs*.
It was a miserable day of rain and I really wanted to do a summer look!

Go from this:

To this: (btw why does my head look disjointed?)

Using these:

• MAC MSF Natural in Light Medium
• Dior Shimmer powder in Rose Diamond
• MAC Fafi Eyes Quad 1 (I only used the gray shade to draw in my brows...yeah I'm ghetto like that)
• Urban Decay Get Baked quad (I <3 u Sooji!)
• MAC Shape & Sculpt in Lightsweep & Shadester
• MAC mineralise blush in Nuance
• NYX eye/eyebrow pencil in Black
• MAC lipstick in Hue
• MAC lipglass in Underage
• Shisem lashes XOG (Mwah Sooji)

Not pictured: MAC studio fix fluid in NC20; Estee Lauder More than Mascara mascara; The Body Shop Prime & Matte; UDPP in Sin.

Directions:

• Prime skin, apply foundation and set foundation using MAC MSF.
• Line eyes, curl natural lashes, apply eyeliner and false lashes (I always mess up when I apply falsies, so I need to apply them before applying any other eye makeup xD. Tsk tsk I'm such a sorry excuse for a beauty blogger. Btw...ALIENMAN WHERE IS MY FALSIE TUTORIAL?!?)
• Cover any visible eyelash glue with eyeliner.
• Apply eyeshadow primer.
• Apply Half Baked to inner lid, Baked to outer lid and Twice Baked to outer V and crease. Blend away any harsh lines using a fluffy blending brush.
• Using an angled liner brush, apply Flipside to your lower lash line and water line.
• As a last thought I applied MAC Vanilla to my brow bone as a highlighter xD
• Apply mascara to lower lashes only.
• Suck in your cheeks, make a fish face and apply the darker shade of the Shape & Sculpt duo to the hollows areas on your cheek to contour. Blend up, down and out using fluffy face brush.
• Apply Nuance to apples of cheeks, sweep upwards towards temples.
• Highlight cheeks using Rose Diamond.
• Apply Hue lipstick and Underage gloss on top!

Ok...I can kinda see why my mom told me to go get a nose job...

Maybe I should get that laser peel while I'm at it... Hahahaha! and check out that horrendous falsie job!

And once more for the cam whore in me!

While I was taking these photos, people walking by outside our house were giving me weird looks...they were probably thinking "look at this vain girl taking photos of herself" T.T

I need a "Blogging in progress" sign!

BTW..

Yes!!! Alice is finally mine!!!! The Pookie got it as part of my "Not a Valentines gift gift" lol. He even put himself on Sephora's waiting list for it xD.

Awwwww!

I lub you!

Now the question is, what do I get him? @.@

Nunu's Kitchen - Fusilli pasta with ham & mushroom cream sauce

Food I make!


After all that ranting, it's time for some yummies for my tummy. No witty opening paragraph. This was just something I made for dinner the other night to eat with the Borscht I'd made earlier. I was originally just gonna do a simple pesto sauce but then I found ham and mushrooms in the fridge...

Fusilli Pasta with Ham & Mushroom cream sauce for two

You will need:

• Fusilli pasta
• 2-3 slices of cooked ham - thinly sliced;
• 2-3 medium portabello mushrooms - sliced;
• Approx 2 tbsp Flour;
• Approx 2 tbsp Milk;
• 1 stick of butter;
• 1 handful cheese of your choice;
• 1 clove Garlic - chopped;
• 2 tsp basil paste/pesto sauce
• Approx 1.5 tbsp chicken broth;
• Salt & pepper;

La Methode:

• Cook and drain pasta. Remember to mix some olive oil into the drained pasta so that it doesn't stick together.
• Using half the butter, saute together the mushroom, ham and garlic. Set aside.

• All cream style pasta sauces start with a roux, a mixture of melted butter, flour, and milk, also known simply as "white sauce". To make your roux, turn heat to lowest setting, and melt the remaining butter in your pan. Once butter is melted, add your flour a little at a time, stir furiously.

• To your butter and flour mixture, slowly add the milk and chicken broth. It should look like this:

• Add your cheese to the roux. If the sauce looks too runny, add some more flour, if the sauce is too thick add some more milk. 
• Add the sauted ham and mushrooms to your roux.

• Add basil paste or pesto sauce.

• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Add drained pasta to pan and mix throughly with the sauce.
• Sprinkle with Parmesan if desired.
• Eat.