Baking: Halloween Themed Candy Bark (No Heat)

After browsing Pintrest this week I came across possibly the easiest sweet treat to make ever which can easily be themed to suit any occassion. As Halloween is just around the corner - how depressing is it that the clocks go back tonight, cold dark evenings? no thanks! - and the shops are stocked full of pumpkins, bats and anything else slightly scary I thought it would be good to embrace the coming season and create some 'candy bark'.
If you have tried any of the new Cadbury's marvellous creation bars I find these very similar to them, melted chocolate poured into a baking tray and different chocolate and jellies put in to create anything to your own taste! It can then be shared by being smashed or cut up once stored in the fridge to harden :)

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Baking: Simple Cupcakes

With the weather turning, coupled with a lot of free time recently I have been trying and experimenting with my baking. I'm probably most experienced with the standard fairy cake as they never seem to stay around long in my house! but inspired by programmes such as the great british bake off, cake boss and various pin boards on Pintrest I'm really enjoying testing different types of decorating at the moment :)
For these cakes I was planning on using a standard cupcake recipe from the BBC food website but at the time I could not find the weighing scales anywhere in the kitchen and no one was going to be home for a while so I just guessed the amount which is probably not recommended but fortunately it gave an even better result than usual so maybe all wasn't lost!
Whilst browsing the cake decorating aisle in Asda I picked up piping bags and tips and some Betty Crocker icing which happened to be on offer, perfect. After watching a couple of demonstrations online about how to use piping bags properly (it's actually so much simpler than what I thought!) I was off and away and here are the results :)

I'm looking forward to making some more seasonal baking treats in the next week, Pintrest is becoming a slight obsession......send help

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Makeup: Everyday eye look with the Urban Decay Naked palette ♡

After owning this palette for about a year I've no word of a lie used it probably every single day. It just has every neutral colour you could ever want to use and is versatile enough to use for both day & night occasions. Recently I've been loving using just two colours to enhance the size of my eyes using a shadowing technique. Firstly I use Virgin all over and up to my brow bone, focusing a lot on the inner corner to help with the 'wide awake' look, then using a blending brush (Sigma E25 is a current favourite!) I concentrate half-baked across the top of my crease, intense blending is essential in creating a natural look. Then as usual I just add my usual line of liquid eyeliner, then my holy grail bright eye pencil from Benefit on the water line - with added lashings of mascara, my eyes appear more wide awake than usual, no matter the amount of sleep.

What's your favourite eyeshadow from Urban Decay? Do you think all the hype is worth it?

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