"Would You Rather" Beauty Edition // Tag

Last week, I was tagged by the lovely Lauren to do this tag so a big thank you to her. I will leave the links of the people I tag to do this below but feel free to join in anyway! 

Would you rather lose all of your mascaras, eyeliners, lipsticks, and lip glosses or lose all of your palettes and eye shadows?

I would much rather lose all of my palettes and eye shadows. I don't use them on a daily basis anyway but mascara is a must for me. 

Would you rather chop all of your hair off or never be able to cut it again?

To be honest, I'd probably prefer to chop it all off. I've toyed with this idea for a few years anyway because I really want my natural hair colour back as I've ruined it with dye. I also feel like if I was to never cut it again the ends would be awful.

Would you rather have coral cheek or pink cheek? 

Pink cheek for me. My cheeks are naturally rosy majority of the time anyway so I never over do it with blush.

If you had $1000 to spend, would you rather buy clothes or make up? 

This is a difficult one, I think it would be clothes though. I feel for me there is such a thing as having too much make up. I know that I wouldn't use half it, I'd find the bits I really like and then put the rest in a box never to be seen or heard of again. Where as I get a lot of mileage out of all of my clothes.

Would you rather apply lipstick as eyeliner, or eyeliner as lipstick?

Hmm, after careful consideration, I think eyeliner as lipstick. A purple eyeliner if I had to choose, maybe I could pull it off....probably not.

Would you rather only shop at MAC or Sephora?

I've never shopped at either (shock horror) but I would have to say the same as Lauren for this one, Sephora. As she said, Sephora has lots of brands to choose from but if you choose MAC, you would be restricted to one.

Would you rather only use one eye-shadow colour or one lip colour for the rest of your life? 

Eye shadow colour, definitely. As I said above, I don't wear eye shadow all that often and when I do it's generally the same ones. I absolutely love trying out different lip products though.

Would you rather wear winter clothes in summer or summer clothes in winter?

Winter clothes in summer. I would rather be too hot than too cold!

Would you rather have dark nails or bright nails all year round?

I wear bright nails majority of the year anyway, they make me happy. So I would have to say, bright nails! 

Would you rather give up your favourite lip colour or favourite eye product?

I would rather give up my favourite lip colour. I cannot wear make up without wearing mascara. I look terrifying.

Would you rather only be able to wear your hair in a ponytail or a messy bun?
With my hair the way it is at the moment, a messy bun. I love ponytails but when I wear my hair in one the boy says it looks like a fox's tail. He's charming, I know.

Would you rather never be able to paint your nails again or never use lip gloss?

I never use lip gloss anyway. I think I own one lip gloss. I do however, always have my nails painted. I had a bad experience with acrylic nails a couple of years ago and my nails haven't been the same since so I always keep them painted.

Would you rather shave your eyebrows and have none at all or sharpie them in everyday?

After seeing all the pictures of celebrities without eyebrows, I'm going to say I would rather sharpie them in everyday. I'm not particularly fond of the thought of either though, if I'm being honest. 

Would you rather live without make up or nail polish?

Even though I previously said that I always need to have my nails painted, I think I could hide the disaster that is my nails. I really enjoy trying out new make up though, and I enjoy applying it. Also, there are some days when I need make up to make myself feel a bit better. So I would much prefer to live without nail polish.

Phew, that seemed like a lot of questions. I had lots of fun answering them though, so thank you again to Lauren for tagging me and I am going to go ahead and tag Kirsty, Cait and Jemma! 

Doggie Day Out #2

I have made one of these "Doggie Day Out" posts before, which you can find here. I was hoping to have made more of these by now but alas, that did not happen. I'm sure we'll be taking the pup lots of fun places of the summer so I should able to share those trips with you. Last week we took Max to The Gearagh, which is about 40 minutes outside Cork City Centre. We gave him a travel sickness tablet again three hours before we left and he was perfectly fine, maybe you guys don't care about this but you know, just in case any of your dogs aren't too good with travelling, this might help someone! It was a really warm day and for some reason I decided to wear a jumper, I do not know what possessed me to do that, or the thought process behind it. I let Max off of his lead, he walked beside or in front of us, the whole walk. There weren't any other people or dogs around, if there were I would have put him back on his lead while the came by. Not because he's vicious or anything like that, he just likes to go up and sniff everyone, say hello but you don't know how people feel about dogs and I don't want to make anyone nervous. This is a very picture heavy post so I hope you guys enjoy looking through pictures of our day! 

I love this picture, I wish he wasn't kind of blurry but he was running towards me.

Excuse his puppy butt, his tail was cut off when he was a young. :(

We found that he liked to walk on the path and not on the grass.

Still following the path..

So that was our day. On the way home we brought Max to Brian's house for the first time. I was very proud of him for being so good off the lead and really good in a new house. I probably sound crazy but he's my pup. As I'm writing this it is currently pouring down with rain, which is meant to continue into the weekend so our plans of going somewhere this weekend have been put on hold until we get back from Paris. I hope you guys have a fantastic weekend though, whatever you're doing!

Strawberry Blondies

It's that time of the week again, that time where I share my favourite recipes with you guys. It's my favourite time of the week and these are definitely my favourite posts to make. So I hope you all enjoy reading them, and hopefully give them a go! I'm always looking for new recipes to try so if you ever have any requests feel free to tweet me or leave a comment and I shall spend my time perfecting and tweaking recipes to make the best one. This week I bring you, the Strawberry Blondie. Now, the name is debatable, I could call them "White Chocolate & Strawberry Brownies" because Blondies aren't always made with white chocolate and generally use brown sugar but when I think of a Brownie I think of rich, dark chocolate so I feel that calling these Blondies is a bit less misleading. Also, you can barely taste the white chocolate, so if you're not a lover of white chocolate, do not worry, you can still try these! 

You can change the recipe to include all different types of berries. If you would like, you could also add some chopped pieces of white chocolate. Feel free to use brown sugar instead of white if you prefer a more "authentic" Blondie taste. These were also super easy to cut which I was really surprised by, I cut mine into 12 bite-size pieces (they may be slightly bigger than bite-size, I'm just greedy/I have a big mouth) and they tasted fantastic, if I may say so myself.  

Ingredients:

120g butter
100g caster sugar
2 eggs 

120g plain flour
200g white chocolate
100g strawberries 

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 and line a square baking tin with baking parchment. 

2. Melt the butter and white chocolate together. (You can do this in a microwave just make sure to keep an eye on it as you go.)

3. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar. Then add the butter and chocolate mixture.

4. Slowly sieve the flour into the bowl, folding it gently into the mix.

5. At this point, add in the strawberries and any other things you would like.

6. Pour into the tin and bake for 30-40 minutes, or until golden brown. (Mine are slightly too brown on some parts as you can see, oops.)

7. Wait until completely cooled to cut into pieces and then all that's left to do is eat them! 

** When I make brownies/blondies, I line the tin so that there are two baking parchment flaps over two sides of the tin, so that when I remove from the oven I can pick it up using them, straight from the tin and transfer onto a wire rack. I hope this made sense, I'll be sure to take a picture next time! 

May Favourites

I have no idea where the first half of the year has gone. I am excited for it to be June though, 11 days 'till Paris! Here are a few bits that I have been loving in the month of May! 

No7 Hot Cloth Cleanser - I picked this up in a No7 gift set at Christmas so it's only 50ml. However, I have used in since then and I'm just now coming close to finishing it. It also came with a muslin cloth which I used to polish of the cleanser. It feels really luxurious and leaves my skin feely squeaky clean. It's already a bargain at €12.95 but if you managed to pick up one of the No7 vouchers that are always floating around, it would be a steal.

SEVENTEEN Gel Colour in Azure Amore - I'm going to have a full review of this nail polish, along side the Rimmel Salon Pro ones (which should be up next week) because I have a lot to say about them. In short, I absolutely love this colour and I have found that it's a great colour for my toes as it has lasted over a full week.

Soap & Glory Clean On Me - I usually wouldn't spend more than a couple of euro on a shower gel but this stuff is just too good. It's the only shower gel I've ever found that you can actually still smell on your skin afterwards. It has the signature Soap & Glory scent, so nothing too crazy and not completely overpowering.

Taylor Swift // Wonderstruck Perfume - I got this for my birthday in November and I don't think I've used any other perfume since. I think it's going to be completely perfect for summer though as it does have a super fruity/sweet smell. Which I adore in a perfume.

Gilmore Girls - Everyone's seen at least one episode of this in their life right? This has been my television show addiction for the month of May. I don't like to describe tv shows because I never do them justice but basically, it's an American Comedy/Drama based around the lives of a Mother and her daughter. It is absolutely hilarious and seriously feel good. I love when a show can give me such strong feelings towards the characters and Gilmore Girls certainly does that for me. The boy also loves this so we spend hours watching it and it never fails to make us laugh or shout at the laptop screen.

So, those are the things I have been enjoying in May! I would love to know what you guys have been loving, do you have any TV show recommendations? 

Seven Happy Things #3

Good Sunday afternoon to you all! I spent the majority of the week with the boy, so that has been my main source of happiness this week. Although, I've been in a strange mood for the past two days and haven't really felt like posting anything, so I didn't. I do have a fun filled week of posts for you all next week though, which I am really happy about.

• My Monday was spent taking lots of blog posts and watching Fawlty Towers, if I remember correctly. Not too shabby. 
  
  
• Late night watching of Shrek happened on Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning and it was great. The film was made twice as funny due to me being extremely over tired.
  
  
• I had the most amazing nap on Wednesday afternoon, after an intense morning of cleaning. 
  
  
• Every Thursday there's a quiz in a bar called the Woolshed, it's free to enter and no limit on team sizes. The boy absolutely loves quizzes (he's also really good at them) so we decided we would head along to that. 
  
  
• After a week away, I came home to the pup on Friday and that made me extremely happy because I missed his squishy little face. 
  
  
• Yesterday, the boy and I decided to take the pup somewhere nice for the day. These are my favourite days. 
  
  
• Sunday has rolled around again and today I am happy because I am going to spend the day with my two favourites. 
  
  

I hope you guys have had a lovely week and the weather has been as nice as it has been here, wherever you are. Tomorrow, I am heading up to Dublin to see McBusted so I am extremely excited for that. Do you guys have anything exciting happening in the week ahead?