Teenage Dirtbag

Hello Dears,
It's been raining for what seems like a week here... So I figured a simple and warm outfit would be better than something too summer-y!
I feel stuck in the nineties with this one, love this feeling : I can pretend I'm one of the "oldest" at this time, but of course in the 90s I had some random clothes chosen by my parents...

I'm still in a very good mood I think I finally found some good balance between therapy and medication, and social life... And work, finally !
I will start working again at Dr Martens next week I'm very happy it's all I've been waiting for lately.

such a Willow from Buffy, necklace and sweater right ?

Outfit:

Sweater from Freep'star
Levis 501 from Mad Vintage Clothing
Vans Sk8-High
Bag back from H&M

Necklace from Brandy Melville

Speak soon

xxx

Lorna

All pics by Lara Guffroy 

Boxing Day, le lendemain de Noël.

Happy BoxingDay everyone...
This may be a bit cliché but I had to show some stunning presies I received !

I had two Amazing Christmas, With the ones I love and that s What matters most.
The first "à la francaise" and the next more british like. But the two were great, I was so delighted!

But first some hors doeuvres...

J'ai eu deux fabuleux Noël, avec les personnes que j'aime c'est sans doute ce qui m'importe le plus.
Le premier fut traditionnel un 24 décembre au soir, et le second plus à "l'anglaise" comme j'en avais l'habitude. Mais les deux furent fabuleux, j'étais très contente !

Pour vous montrer quelques hors doeuvres, voici la recette familiale des sablés.

113 g de beurre (1/2 cup of butter)
390 g de farine (3 cup of flour)
Un oeuf/1egg
1 demi cuillérée à café de sel/Half tea spoon of salt
3/4 d'une cuillère à café de levure chimique/ nearly a spoon of baking powder
1 cuillère à café de cannelle en poudre/1 tea spoon of cinnamon
1/4 cuillerée à café de muscade en poudre/ a pinch of muscade
2 cuillerée à café de gingembre en poudre/2 ginger tea spoon
1/4 de cuillère à café de clou de girofle moulu/ I'd rather put some but not necessarily
100 g de sucre / 1/2 cup of sugar (we put brown not white sugar for the look)
Des raisins secs/ currants

Mélangez la levure, les épices en poudre, la farine et le sel/
Mix baking powder, spices, flour and salt
A part, mélangez le beurre transformé en pommade et le sucre
Transform butter in something slightly creamy, and apart from the rest mix it with sugar
Ajoutez l'oeuf/ Add the egg
Intégrez le mélange des aliments en poudre
Add the first mix
Mélangez tout/ mix it all well !
Préchauffez le four à 180°C (th 6, 350° F)
Etalez la pâte sur un plan de travail, et découpez les bonhommes soit avec un emporte pièce, soit avec un couteau, soit dans in moule comme le mien en silicone de la mort qui tue avec des bonhommes formes
Spread the paste on special mold or cut it with a knife or something nicely shaped
Placez sur la plaque du four, recouverte de papier sulfurisé
Put in the oven, for like 9 minutes as I did
Faites cuire entre 8 et 12 minutes minutes
Sortez le plat et ajouter de suite la deco.
Placez des raisins pour faire les yeux, les boutons de la chemise... Nous avons mis du miel pour faire tenir le tout car nous n'avons pas voulu faire de glaçage spécial mais utiliser les décors rigolotes qu'on avait déjà...
We put some honey to place the eyes and buttons, so it crystallizes a bit after with the decorations added.

Okay mince pies were only here to help concentration...

Yummy!

These are my homemade cosmonauts ... Hahaha we laughed when we had a look at them. Don't pretend they re cute.

But tadam!! It looked great on the table snowsleigh ;)

Fluffy coats for the season#1

(French translation underneath)

Winter definitely makes it coming up, and it's a common trend in fashion clothing store these days...

We want MOUMOUTTE!
Haha, for the non-speaking French it's a term for fluffy, faux-furred cloath( also 'toupet'but no worry I'm not speaking of this).
No , seriously guys. I love this trend.

I've been fond of it, starting from last December when I saw my Grandma on Skype and told my auntie  that I wanted the same fluffy hairy jumper!

L'hiver nous pousse à l'arborer et c'est une tendance de la saison. On veut de la MOUMOUTTE!
Non sérieux, j'adore le look que cela apporte. Je crois que je l'ai aimé depuis que j'ai vu ma Grandma sur Skype, et j'ai de suite dit à ma tante que je voulais le même pull tout fluffly et à poil.

I bought this pastel light blue in a vintage shop it's all made of Angora and is really nice to wear.

There'll be a following to this post of course... To explain MOUMOUTTE on coats ! ;)
This are the kind of jacket I love, a nice brooch on it and it's lo-ve-Ly .

J'ai acheté ce pull dans un magasin vintage de Paris, enfin plutôt une fripe. Mais à mon avis le gars ne savait pas tellement ce qu'il vendait vu la qualité du poil Angora, et le prix peu cher que j'ai payé.
Ce gilet MOUMOUTTE rose pastel est lui de chez H&M, mais avec une belle broche il perd l'aspect commercial de sa provenance et devient juste trop mignon.

First base

Hi dears,
Today I was in the mood of posting you some tutorial about make up.
Well, it's late in Paris but actually you're all spread around the world so anyway it'll be useful if you read this by night, thus you know what to do in the morning !

Step by step

First, I'll let you notice I am mad of Kiko Cosmetics which brand I talked to you earlier in posts. Some people say it's rubbish, but I actually wear it really softly, it's easy to use and not expensive at all. Even, make up artists, friends of mine, are fond of this brand so why not try if you want to !

I am not narrow-minded , and if you have other cosmetic brands to mention , don't hesitate !

Well let's go ;)

Concealer

(Hi, I've got a real tired face without m-u)

So basically you only tiptoe where you need to, with the concealer, you don't paint with it lol, it's with some slight touching that you do the best work! For my part I don't have any spots, so I'll only put it on the rings, and to give some light under my eyebrows.

(Then I'm a funny panda)

With the foundation, unify the skin , beginning on the cheeks to bond with the part you cover before. I'll tiptoe again, making some bigger moves to reach each part(forehead, over the ears, chin and neck!)

(Don't put too much, a little is just enough;)

I'll reckon I have to tell you, that you obviously use one tone lighter than your skin , which means in my opinion using some really pale color if you could wear it without having a ghost resemblance, of course.

This is mine: 

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(The sponge should be white, don't forget to change it it's not expensive if you're not in the clouds as I am...)

Powder puff everywhere with a sponge, drawing to the extremities(neck and borders even the eyebrows if you do them later!)

And blush out !

(Yes I have a strong arm...)

This is the kinda brush you should use, so much easier to apply when you know you shouldn't use this big puffy one you used to call your blush brush...

The shade depends in what impression you want to give, if I want something really soft and romantic I use more of pinky one.

But I usually rather use a darker peach one, so it's more intense and bring some "joy" in my pale skin !

(Always put some powder light base on the eyes before any make up !)

I prefer using some yellow brush (an estompe type we call it in France) so it differs with my "estompe" black brush, that I use for color shade and everything.

Then do what you want ! I do my usual , but this was the idea of the first base of your skin shade ;)

Hope it will help!