One Year!

Easy As Pie

When it comes to dessert, I'm a cheesecake girl.  Plain cheesecake.  No Strawberries, no sour cream sauce, just plain cheesecake.  Muscley arms, on the other hand is a berry guy.  His favorite is berry cobbler {but there's only one recipe he'll eat}, and berry pie. 

 

Even though I'm a lousy cook, I'm a pretty darn good baker!  I wanted to do something special for him for Valentine's day, a cookie bouquet, cupcakes, but nothing seemed to fit the bill.  I was at target the other day, and found a mini heart-shaped pie press, and ding ding ding!!!  I had a winner.  I decided to make him Mini Raspberry Pies to munch on tonight, since he won't be able to munch on my face...

 

 

 

These were so easy to make, and literally took 20 minutes, start to finish!  Here's what you'll need...

 

1 bag of frozen, sweetened raspberries

1 pre-made pie crust {the kind with 2 layers}

Mini Heart Pie Press {Target has them for about $4}

A little sugar

A little flour

 

And here's how to do it...

1.  Unroll your pie crust onto a cutting board
2.  Use the pie press to cut out heart shapes

3.  Thaw your raspberries. 
4.  Make the filling.  I used Sweetened rRaspberries.  I dumped the package into a bowl, added 2 spoons of sugar {regular cereal spoons} , and 1 spoon of flour and mixed it all together so that the raspberries would get all juicy.

5.  Then I put 1 heart crust into the press, added about 2 spoons of filling, covered with another crust and pressed them together. I then cut a few slits into the top crust for ventilation.

6.  Once I finished, I put all of the pies on a cookie sheet and baked at 400 for 25 minutes. 

They were so easy, and he loved them!

 

 

 

Valentine's Day Look #2: Sultry

Today's makeup look is not for the faint of heart.  Ladies it's time to put on your big girl panties and be the gorgeous sex kitten that's deep inside!  This look was inspired by the Victoria's Secret catalogue, because if sexy isn't hot ladies walking around in their skivvies, I don't know what is!

 

Even without a Valentine, a girl needs to feel sexy, and it's UH-MAY-ZING what this look did for my confidence.  Who knew?  Makeup totally changed the way I felt!  For all my single ladies, if you're having a night in, try this makeup look, and take a photo of yourself, you'll thank yourself in 20 years when you look back on it and say, "Dammmnn!"'

 

Dammnn!

Products Used:

Face:
Maybelline Fit Me Concealer
Bare Minerals Faux Tan Bronzer
Bare Minerals Bisque (Highlight)
Milani Brow Fix Highlight Shade
NYX Blush in Natural {or any peach or light pink blush}

Eyes:
MAC eyeshadow in Blanc Type on brow bone {or any skin toned shade}
Urban Decay eyeshadow in Sidecar on eyelid {or any taupe, shimmery shade}
MAC eyeshadow in Texture above crease {or any warm, orangy brown shade}
MAC eyeshadow in Brown Down in crease {or any dark brown shade}
Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Uzi {on upper lashline or any gray eyeliner}
Urban Decay eyeshadow in Gunmetal to set eyeliner {or any gray eyeshadow}
Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Burbon on lower lashline {or any bronze eyeliner}
Urban Decay eyeshadow in Darkhorse to set eyeliner {or any dark bronze eyeshadow}
Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Perversion on waterline {or any black eyeliner}
Urban Decay eyeshadow in Creep to darken outer corner {or any black eyeshadow}
Maybelline The Rocket Mascara in Blackest Black
L'oreal Extra Collegen Mascara in Black Noir

Lips:
NYX Lipliner in Natural {or any natural color lipliner}
NYX Megashine Lipgloss in Sweetheart {or any nude lipgloss}

 

Valentine's Day Look #1: Sweet

I love any reason to play with makeup... especially holidays, with theme colors!  Oh how I love theme colors!!! {for example}.  This year, I can't celebrate Valentine's Day on the actual holiday, so Muscley Arms and I have decided to have a two-day love fest extravaganza!

 

I planned our date tonight!  We are going to be enjoying a sweet, romantic stay-cation, complete with Couple's Massages and dinner!  Tonight, I want to look sweet, and pretty, so I came up with a makeup look inspired by candy hearts. 

 

I do apologize for the video!  It's been a long time, and I'm out of practice... and I still haven't learned how to use this amazing camera Muscley Arms got me for my birthday...  I'll get better, I promise.

 

If you're going for a sweet, girlie look this Valentine's Day, watch the video.  A list of the products used will be listed below.

 

 

 

 

 

Eyes:

MAC from the Caviar Dreams Quad {or any very light shimmery pink}

MAC Playful from the Eyes on Manish Palette {or any medium toned hot pink}

MAC Glamour Check {or any red-brown}

MAC Blanc Type {or any skin tone color}

Milani Brow Fix Kit- the highlight shade {or any shimmery highlight color}

L'oreal Lineur Intense Carbon Black

L'oreal Extra Volume Collegen Mascara

 

Cheeks:

Benefit Boxed Blush: Thrrrob {or any bright pink blush}

 

Lips:

NYX Mega Shine Lipgloss in Beige {or any pigmented pink lipgloss}