Cheesie, Super Kawaii Mama and Violet's Puffy Bun Hair Tutorial Video!

by | Jan 27, 2010 | Beauty, Hair, Hair-Tutorials, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials

Hello it’s hair tutorial time!

Remember how I’ve been promising some big projects lately? Weeeeeell this is one of them! A never-before-been-attempted-triple-hair-tutorial! (Yeah, yeah I know someone else probably did it first but it took a long time to edit this so let me have my moment in the sun damn it!)

Candice, Cheesie and I were up late one night throwing around some fun ideas and this is what popped out ^_^ I’ve been wearing my hair like this lately on days when the heat is just unbearable!

So here is our tutorial on making a pretty side bun. I hope you enjoy it!

What did you think? I’m going to be visiting Candice in a few weeks and Cheesie is coming to visit in a few months, more video collaborations?

P.S. How cute are Cheesie and Candice? Serious love! Let me know if you want to see another video hair tutorial!

Competition Quick Post…

by | Jan 26, 2010 | Competition

Just a super quick post because I’m still working on something big for you guys that is going to be worth the wait!

Anyway in the mean time I just wanted to give you a heads up that the Skin MD moisturiser I did a review of here are having a Valentines Day give away thingy where you can win a bunch of moisturiser and other fun things.

I’m still waiting for a reply from them about the postage charges to Australia and whether we could get a stockist a little closer to home ^_^

Click here to have a look and enter.

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Twist n Roll Bakery Macarons Review

by | Jan 23, 2010 | Baking, Life, Review

Today is a food review for a change, one for the Twist n Roll Bakery!

So the back story to this review is all about how for years and years and years of being teased with Lolita jewelery and dresses with macaron themes without ever tasting one… they were just so damn pretty but living in Brisbane I didn’t think that I would ever get the chance to try one so I stopped looking and tried to put the idea of deliciously cute sweet treats out of my head.
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But I didn’t do a very good job and one day I was complaining on my second twitter account about how much I wanted some and one of my friends Roundragon did some research and found that there was a bakery called Twist n Roll who specialize in macarons! When I found out I almost fell off my chair in shock!!

They have a stall at the New Farm Farmer’s Markets (at the Power House) but it’s only on every 2 weeks so…. today we ventured out to New Farm to find them!

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It felt like it was a million degrees out in the sun today so James and I kept cool with ice green tea with honey and mint and a lemon slushie thing. Yum!

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After we explored for a while we managed to find the stall.

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Cute right? I loved the little Eiffel Tower and the gigantic tree of macarons ^_^

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I decided to be cautious and try a large Raspberry one for $3.50 so I could see if I liked them

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Here is a nice close up…

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And the insides…

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So the verdict? OMG YUMMY!

The shell was crispy and the insides were gooey. It tasted very fresh and packed with raspberry flavor. The man and woman who were running the store were lovely and chatty, they were both French and super bubbly and friendly!

In fact I enjoyed it so much that I went back…

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And bought 6 small ones ($2 each) in each flavor! They had sold out of caramel and pistachio so I got raspberry, chocolate, coconut, lavender, lemon and an orange one which had chocolate filling like a Jaffa.

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They started out like this…

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And very soon turned into this… I have to say that the only reason I didn’t take a bite out the raspberry one is because I took it home for James’ Mum to try!

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James tried the coconut one and loved it and Oh and James got a German hotdog thingy which he greatly enjoyed…

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So my final thought is that macarons are freaking awesome and I’m going to be visiting the Twist ‘n Roll bakery next time I’m over in Rocklea! If you are in Brisbane, you can see all the locations here.
Looking at their website I’ve just found out Twist n Roll Bakery deliver, oh this is going to be so bad for my bank balance!!