Valentines Baking | Blueberry Macarons

Happy Valentines day! 

If you follow my Instagram you'll have seen a piccy of mine and Craig's lovely macarons the other day! I thought I'd save this recipe for today so that if you have forgotten to buy your Valentine a present you can make some, or if you want to make a big batch and eat them all at once whilst watching chick flicks you can do that too!

I followed this recipe which  is the most straightforward one I could find but added blueberry to the butter icing and purple food colouring to make the look pretty!

I'll re-write the instructions under the pictures for you so you know what's going on step by step. Enjoy!

Valentines Nails

It's Valentines day tomorrow and I don't think I know many people who actually love Valentines day (apart from my friend Dani who once gave out little Thorntons chocolate hearts to everyone in our seminar at uni!) A lot of people dread it because they haven't got a 'date' and a lot of couples don't enjoy the whole mushy teddy bears and lovey dovey cards thing so I've found it's usually not a day many people look forward to. Although in recent years I've found myself liking it not because of my boyfriend (sorry Craig) but because of everything that surrounds it. Valentines Fashion, Valentines Make-up, Valentines Food and Alcohol, Valentines Television! All the things I like right there so what's not to look forward to! So who cares if you've got someone to spend it with or not, Enjoy all that the commercialisation of Valentines day has to offer! And if you really hate it then don't worry, Easter is soon and you can stuff your face with chocolate.

I thought I'd contribute to the Valentines nail art I've seen taking over Instagram and show you mine! I love this shade of pink by Essie called Cute as a Button. This was super easy to do as well because the nail polish brush is rounded at the end, so I did a diagonal left sweep and a diagonal right sweep and it was done! This look may be improved if my nails were more pointy or even rounder but hey ho what you do. I used Soap and Glory Pink Soda for the base (Which I got in this set that is now out of stock but you can use any pinky base) and sealed it with Sally Hansen Insta-dry Topcoat.

If you've created any Valentines themed nail art do link me to it here or on twitter (georgiabeeee) or Instagram (xgeorgia) I'd love to see it!

What's your fave or least fave thing about Valentines day?

What are you getting up to tomorrow?

Georgia x

If you want to see my Valentines Wishlist click here

or you could click here to see what I was loving for Valentines last year!

Valentines Wishlist

Lulu Guinness Coin Purse

Nars Gift set

VW bag

Charlotte Olympia Heels

Kate Spade Earrings

What would you love for Valentines?

Georgia x

Lush, Clinique, Boots, Motel and Primark haul!

Hello!! How are you?

I've been naughty and spent money I shouldn't have been spending! oops, but the plus side is, I bought some lovely bits and I get to show them to you allllll...

Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer

I think this is my fourth tube, this stuff is amazing.

The Comforter Bubble Bar

This is my all time favourite thing from Lush! It smells amazing, it's like blackcurrant and sugar and all sweet things AND it lasts five baths!

Veganese Conditioner

I needed a new conditioner and I thought I'd give a Lush one a go because I don't think I've been disappointed by a product yet! I just got the 100g bottle to test it out before I commit to a big one, so I'll let you know how it goes!

9 to 5 cleansing lotion

I am trying to edge away from my Liz Earle cleanse and polish slowly but surely, I'm not as big of a fan as everyone else tends to be! It's lovely but if I forget to use it for one day my skin goes mad... I think it's got a terrible addiction. Not ideal and rather pricey, so I bought this gentle cleansing lotion from Lush to try instead.

Mask of Magnaminty

Like I said my skin needs to seriously CALM DOWN, so I'm trying everything going! My sister uses this and loves it.

Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara
I haven't actually ran out of my other tube of this yet but I saw it for £7 in The Cosmetics Company in Gunwharf and thought I'd stock up while it's cheap!

Barry M Gelly High Shine Nail Paint

I've seen lots of people talking about this and thought I'd see what all the fuss was about! Isn't it a lovely lilac :)

Motel Catalina Off Shoulder Dress
I ordered this a few weeks ago and wore it out on Valentines day, it's such a lovely colour and really comfortable! 

Primark Super Skinny Jeans

These are amazing, my cheaper double of my Topshop Leigh jeans! More about this here...

That's all for my irresponsible spending!

Have you bought anything nice recently?

Thanks for reading!

Georgia xx

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