Lipstick and Luxury: Fall Makeup Tutorial

Winter Makeup
So i found this beautiful lipstick shade from Color Studio and it's exactly what i wanted for winters! Its bold and beautiful. Simply luxurious look with bold eyeliner. I mean who doesn't like eyeliner? In winters it's a must for me.

Things you need:

- NAKED 2 urban decay

- ARTDECO 15 eye shade

- color studio eye stylist liquid eyeliner

- essence I<3EXTREME mascara

- Bourjois waterproof contour clubbing golden eye pencil

- MAC eye shadow brushes

- Bobbi brown eye shadow brushes

- color studio PURE MATT wicked 117 lipstick 

- Bourjois depuis 1863 blush

- Loreal paris infallible long lasting 16h foundation (15 porcelaine, for my skin color, fair)

Step #1

Cover you entire face with foundation, specially under eye area. You can use primer before this if you want. But this foundation feels very light and gives a matt fresh look.

Step #2

 Apply ARTDECO's 15 on the entire eye lid. As much as you can. The shade is very light and natural. I'm using MAC's eye shadow applicator brush for this.

Step #3

 Use NAKED 2's busted shade on the outer eye lids and as well as in the inner deep area of your eye, I'm using the brush that comes with Naked 2 for this.

Step #4

Then comes eyeliner, apply and thick line of eye liner and if you like, make a cat eye.

Than comes the golden eye pencil.

Apply golden eye pencil in the inner lower eye lid. 

Than:

Apply mascara and your eye make is done! 

Step #6

My favourite part! LIPS! Apply color studio's Wicked 117 and voila! you're ready!

Grilled Chicken Cheese Tacos

Tacos
This traditional Mexican dish, full of flavor, come together easily making them perfect for busy nights and get-together! With caramelized onions and BBQ chicken breast, this dish is classy and easy to make. It hardly takes 60 minutes and its ready!

Ingredients:

- Chicken breasts, chopped in bite sized pieces

- Butter, room temperature

- Olive oil

- BBQ sauce (i used American Garden honey BBQ)

- 2 Tomatoes, chopped

- 1 onion, sliced

- 1 Capsicum, sliced

- ground Paprika 

- salt and pepper to taste

- El Sabor wraps tortillas 

- Cheese slices

DIRECTIONS:

Step #1:

Marinate chicken pieces by covering chicken in bbq sauce and refrigerating it for about 2 hours. 

Step #2: Meanwhile, in a pan, heat 1 tblspn butter. Throw sliced onions and cook till they are soft and caramelized.

Step #3: In a frying pan, heat oil and add marinated chicken, grill it for about 6 minutes, add tomatoes, salt and pepper, paprika and 1 tablespoon bbq sauce. Cook till chicken is ready.

Add capsicum and cover the pan for about 5 minutes.

Step#4: Heat tortillas on low heat till ready to use.

Step #5: 

Put cheese slices on tortilla.

Add chicken filling on top of the cheese covering half of the tortilla.

Top with caramelized onions. And fold tortillas.

And enjoy!

Cake Alaska

Cake Alaska with Chocolate Ganache
Some recipes are your all time favourite, and this is mine! Its my midnight treat. Cake Alaska is a must in summers, and if you haven't ever tried it, well then, you're missing a lot. I'm not completely following the traditional recipe of flaming Alaska cake or baking ice cream filled chocolate cake at 300degrees, my recipe is very simple yet classic. I skipped the meringue and added ganache to the recipe, so here's it.

Ingredients:

- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar (icing sugar for best results)

- 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

- 3/4 plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

- 2 large eggs

- 1 cup milk

- 1/2 cup vegetable oil

- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons boiling water

DIRECTIONS:

Step #1: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Step #2: Whisk all the dry ingredients of the cake, in a large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla and beat with an electric mixture on low speed for about 2 minutes, and on high speed for about 3 minutes.

Step #3: Whisk in the boiling water. Batter must be very thin and runny so do not worry. That's exactly what it's suppose to be like.

Step #4: pour in two equal sized round cake pans and bake for about 45 minutes, or more if needed.

Step#5: When baked, take the cake out and leave to cool for about 5 minutes. Take the cake out of the pans and on two cake plates. Let cool.

Step #6: Cut out a smaller circle from the middle of one cake, you can use a round cookie shape to cut the cake out.

Step #7: fill the empty round space with ice cream, vanilla. 

Step #8: Layer this cake with the other one and cover your cake with Chocolate ganache.

Step #9: You can make your ganache with heating one cup heavy cream over low heat and melting 400 grams of chocolate (milk or dark) in it till the mixture is smooth and shiny. Put it in the refrigerator till its cool and thick enough. You can beat the ganache on max speed to get the desired thickness.

Cover the cake with ganache, i like to keep my ganache messy and more like an old fashioned home made style. My ganache is not really thick, its shiny and smooth. You can use Chocolate Buttercream instead of the ganache, but i prefer ganache, it give more luxury feel to the cake. 

Enjoy!

Wild smokey eyes

She's a killer from the gang!
One of my beloved summer look is Smokey eyes! They add a bit of sophisticated drama to your look. They are perfect for night parties and dinners, concerts and gala! So let me just share with you, my secret summer look which never goes out of style!

Things you need:

- Essence night club glamour to go eyeshadow 

- Essence i<3extreme crazy volume mascara

- Kryolan aqua color black

- Essence 3D eyeshadow light

- essence shadow applicators by zeena

- Bourjois waterproof blue contour clubbing

- bourjois depuis 1863 blush

- Essence mattifying compact powder

- Bobby Brown blush on brush

- Bobby Brown eye shadow applicators 

- Maybelline Dream liquid mousse

- Mybelline FIT me (optional)

- essence nude colour lipstick

Start with your face!

You can use a brush to apply foundation, i used my hand cause that's the way i like it.

And because its summers, mattifying compact powder is a must for me!

Apply it all over your face.

Next comes the eyes!

Start with the blue shade in essence night club kit.

Apply blue shade in the inner corner of your eyes, covering half the eye lid.

Once it's done, pick a dark blue or purple shade from the kit.

Cover the outer corners of your eyes and make a V shaped corner. Don't forget to blend the dark shade with blue shade.

You've got to be very careful with the V shaped corner!

Once you're done with this, wet your eye shadow brush and apply Kryolan Aqua black color to the outer corner.

Use the dark purple shade again to shade your upper inner eye lid and lower outer lash line. This part is the tricky part.

Make it as darker as you want, remember, its a wild look.

Cover you lower, inner lash line with Bourjois contour clubbing.

Next comes the eye liner and mascara!

I used essence superfine eye liner and essence i<3extreme mascara

For the cheeks!

Bourjois depuis 1863 is my all time favourite blushon! Though for this look you need to apply a very little of it.

For the lips!

essence nude lipstick does the trick for this chic look!

And you're ready to go!