Fallon Rachelle: January 2016

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Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Hi guys! So on Sunday I finally had a day off work and decided to spend my day in my pj's baking some cupcakes. My favourite kind of cake has got to be carrot cake, hands down. Luckily for me whilst shopping at ALDI I found a carrot cake mix for 79p (bargain much?!) and thought i'de give it a try. Literally, I never need to buy ingredients again. This is SO good, all you need to add is water and vegetable oil, it is so quick and they taste amazing. For those who don't like carrot cake (like my sister) they also do Ginger cake and Madeira cake, also 79p each. Alongside the cake mix I also bought some walnut pieces to throw in and some Betty Crocker vanilla icing. Yes I know that's kind of cheating, but it tastes so yummy and I just cannot make butter-crème icing no matter now many times I try. I also recommend maybe throwing in an extra dash of cinnamon and maybe even some raisins.

As the mix makes so many cupcakes I opted to only put half in, this still made 10 cupcakes! I put in 100ml of water (as the packet says 200, so I halved it) and 30ml of vegetable oil (again, halved 60). I mixed it all in together and sprinkled a pinch of baking powder to help them rise more. I then spooned the mixture evenly throughout 10 cupcake cases - whilst spilling it everywhere - and popped them in the oven on Gas Mark 5 for 20/25 minutes (pre-heated beforehand ofc).

When the house was filled with a scent of the carrot cake I took them out the oven, make sure they are golden brown and check that the inside isn't gooey with a knife/skewer. They had risen so much, with a little baking powder help. Also, can you see how smooth and rounded they are?! My baking never goes right, but for some reason this cake mix just works perfectly every time. I then left them to cool by the window for about 10 minutes. After they where cold I put my vanilla icing into a piping tube and iced them. By the way, the icing tube is ridiculously hard so I would absolutely recommend a bag instead. As you can see, my icing is absolutely crazy! I just sprinkled some walnuts on the top and they were finished.

Literally, the quickest baking session ever. Will you be trying these mix's? What are your favourite treats to try?

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Hi guys! So I know i'm a bit late to the party, but I got paid a bit more than usual after Christmas (retail perks) so I decided to treat myself to some new MAC products. I'm not usually a high-end makeup person, but after years of complaining about every concealer I owned I thought it's time to bite the bullet and just buy the pro-longwear. It's not that expensive so it wasn't to much of a splurge.
Whilst browsing the MAC website I decided I may as well go for Velvet Teddy whilst i'm already buying something, I have seen so many people wearing it and loved the colour, so why not?

Not going to lie, when the products finally arrived I was less than happy about the size of the concealer. However, after trying it out I now know why its so small. Firstly, the consistency is SO thick. I was so careful with my pumps so I wouldn't waste to much product, a little really does go a long way. I firstly primed my eyes with my Fix and Perfect primer and then applied the concealer with my concealer brush under my eyes in a triangular shape. I then proceeded to blend it out with my beauty blender and was in awe at the coverage. I hadn't applied no colour corrector and my dark circles where almost unrecognisable! I use the colour NC15, I was wondering whether NW would be better for my dark circles in terms of colour correcting but the colour is perfect for my skin tone.
The reason I was so excited to try this concealer was the amount of people who claimed it was "creaseless". At first in the excitement of the moment I definitely thought it was a creaseless concealer sent from the gods, however after wearing it for around half an hour I did notice slight creasing. My eyes are naturally creased and I was expecting a bit much for it to be able to remove them, but the concealer didn't gather inside the creases which I was happy about! All in all the concealer is definitely high/buildable coverage, is very long-wearing and almost-creaseless. As far as first impressions go, I am very happy and unless my opinion changes I will probably be re-purchasing.

Moving onto velvet teddy, I liked it. I'm usually sceptical about matte lipsticks (hense me taking a year to try it out) but its definitely more moisturising than I expected. The colour is a muted brown mixed with pink/red. As with all MAC lipsticks, it didn't stay put all day, or even for a couple of hours and I had to re-apply it, but I was already expecting that to happen. For the price point it's not all that impressive, I still feel like I prefer my cheaper Maybelline and Rimmel lipsticks. The thing that cause this hype was probably the fact the colour is actually rather unique, if I could purchase this exact colour in Maybelline/Rimmel it would probably be a constant favourite! It definitely reminds me of my 2014 fave "Velvet Beige" from Maybelline which I can no longer find in superdrug, so I will definitely wear it out!