Thursday 19 June 2014

♥Home made iced coffee♥

If you're anything like me, you love a trip to Starbucks for an iced coffee of some sort. But did you ever think it was so easy you could just make it at home? Maybe you were put off by the price tag or if you don't have an expresso machine you thought it wouldn't tase the same. Well my friends, i'm here to put younout of your missery and tell you how I make a simple iced coffee! 

Step 1 - Heat a glass in hot water to prevent cracking when you make the coffee.
Step 2 - Brew some coffee. I either use instant or sometimes when i'm feeling fancy i'll use my coffee press or my Dolche Gusto machine but for the sake of this we'll use instant. Fill your glass about 1/4 of the way with the coffee and water.
Step 3 - When brewing your coffee, add your desired sugar, sweetener or syrup now because it needs to mix when the coffee is hot.
Step 4 - Add loads of ice. I mean loads.
Step 5 - Lastly, add your desired amount of milk and you're done!

How easy was that? 
You can do the same with chai powder or tea too (which is my all time fave).
Get fancy by adding some whipped cream to the top or seperartely froth some milk if you can, if not it's still delicious the way it is. If you want to know where to buy some syrups you can get them in local supermarkets, online or Costa Coffee sell mini ones.

Enjoy making these bad boys!

Thursday 5 June 2014

♡ Wet n Wild ♡

I've never seen a display for Wet n Wild in Ireland and I haven't really looked for it in the UK when I visited but I saw it today in Spain and had a look at the products and saw a few things i'd seen beauty bloggers and youtubers mention so I decided it was time to pick up a couple of things. A girl can never have enough lipsticks right? Well that's what I told myself.
 There weren't many testers available so I just went by eye. My personal favourite colours are a true red and violet toned colour and that's what I gravitated towards. The colours I chose are Red Velvet and Smokin' Hot Pink. The names are funny because I don't think they really resemble the colours. Smokin' Hot Pink isn't a hot pink, it's more of a purple pink and Red Velvet isn't really a true red it has an orange undertone to it. I think these products are great. They're a long lasting, moisturising lipstick and they're not too shiny and not too matte which I think is great. For €2.99 can you really refuse to buy them? Red Velvet is a nice dupe for MAC Ruby Woo but less matte (which I think is better because that retro matte is annoying).
 
The top colour is Red Velvet and the bottom is Smokin' Hot Pink.

I might be back tomorrow with a post on more Wet n Wild products!