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Low Cal Comfort Food: Shepard’s Pie

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Who doesn’t love comfort food on a cold Winter’s day? There is nothing better then coming home to a steaming hot meal of meat & potatoes (at least in my opinion).  Yesterday I made Shepard’s Pie–completely home made, everything from scratch. If you’re unfamiliar with what Shepard’s Pie is, it’s a meat pie with a crust of mashed potato. I believe it’s usually made with Lamb however…I refuse to eat anything I think is cute. My version is low in calories and fat. Virtually no fat, low in carbs!

Literally you can eat your meat & potaoes and stay slim too!!

The recipe for this fabulous figure friendly dish as well as many others can be found in my eCookbook, The Figure Friendly Foodie’s Guide to Eating.

Twenty-Two Days of Taupe: Day 10

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So sorry for the lack of decent hair in recent makeup of the day post! I’ve been short on time & throwing my hair in a big coconut (what I call the hairstyle) has been convenient.

Today is Day 10 of the Taupe series and here is the look I came up with.

EYES:
-MAC Painterly Paint Pot
-A Silver Base
-LA Splash Heavy Metal Smokey Duo
-NYX Cottage Cheese Jumbo Eye Shadow Pencil
-MAC Feline Kohl Power
-L’Oreal Carbon Black Mascara
-Cover Girl French Vanilla eye shadow
-MAC Wedge eye shadow

FACE:
-MAC Cream Colour Base in Luna & Pearl
-NARS Laguna Bronzer
-Coty Airspun

LIPS:
MAC Fleshpot Lipstick

 

Today was so dreary out so I went all black and added a gray scarf–nothing fancy :)

Twenty-Two Days of Taupe: Day 8 & OOTD

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Today’s taupe look is a bit more on the warmer side. Most of the colors used were from the Urban Decay Naked Palette. Believe it or not, this is my first time doing a taupe look with my Naked palette and I’ve owned this palette since July 2010!!!! Shame on me!

On a side note, I can’t tell you how much I’ve been diggin’ my berets! I only own three–very typical neural colors (to go with everything) but I think I may venture into different color ones–they are simply fabulous. Ugh–I can’t get enough!

And here is a breakdown of the look:

EYES-
-MAC Painterly Paint Pot
-UD Sidecar
-UD Virgin
-MAC Carbon
-UD Creep
-UD Sin
-MAC Wedge (You could use UD Naked)
-Urban Decay Zero Eye Liner
-MUFE Smoky Lash
-L’Oreal Carbon Black Mascara

FACE-
-NARS Laguna Bronzer
-MAC Cream Colour Base in Luna
-MAC Lightscapade Mineralize Skinfinish
-Finishing Powder

LIPS-
-NYX Strawberry Milk
-MAC Fashion Scoop

Quick outfit of the day–I’ve been into rockin’ a sweater and jeans lately–my comfy glam look-lol! It’s been so cold–who feels like dressing to the nines in this weather? Spring, where are you? O_o

The beret is from Forever 21, sweater is from Old Navy, jeans are from Forever 21.

My necklaces are from Charlotte Russe & my boots are from eBay. (*insert cheesy pose & smile in*) *lol* I LOVE these boots and need to get a new heel since I’ve worn these heels out.

Twenty-Two Days of Taupe: Day 7

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Today today’s taupe look is a little more on the “dirty” side. Dirrrrty Taupe! *lol*
The colors were a little muddy but I still think it was a nice look–and it matched my sweater! See? *lol* Please don’t mind the messy updo. It’s been in the low 30′s and completely dreary out–I haven’t felt much like “dressing” up–it’s been comfy with a touch of glam for me :)

Here is a breakdown of today’s look:
EYES-
-MAC Painterly Paint Pot
-NYX Cottage Cheese Jumbo e/s Pencil
-Urban Decay Mushroom
-Urban Decay Skimp
-Urban Decay Spotlight
-Urban Decay Stray Dog Eye Liner
-Cover Girl French Vanilla e/s
-MAC Feline Kohl Power
-L’Oreal Carbon Black Mascara
-MUFE Smoky Lash
-MAC Brun e/s
FACE-
-NARS Laguna Bronzer
-Cover Girl Champagne e/s (to highlight)
-Hard Candy Blush in Pin Up
LIPS-
-ELF Lipstick in Natural Nymph
-NYX Lipgloss in Salsa

My Everyday MAC Essentials

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As you can tell from the last few blog posts, I’ve been LOVING MAC products lately. No particular reason…I’ve just found a particular everyday eye look that’s I’m completely smitten with. Here is a video with all of my MAC must haves at the moment! :)

PS-Earrings are vintage and blog post for these beauties will be up tomorrow :)

Twenty-Two Days of Taupe: Day 5

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Two words-Taupe overload! In a tasteful way that is :)

I recently bought this shirt from Forever 21–it’s a cook toned taupe shirt with silvery sequins on it. For some reason I think this shirt looks fabulous with brown knee high boots.

Here is a breakdown of day 5 in the taupe series:

EYES:
-MAC Painterly Paint Pot
-Silver Eye Shadow Base
-Bare Minerals Glisten Pigment
-MAC Concrete e/s
-MAC Show Stopper e/s
-NYX Black Bean Jumbo e/s Pencil
-MAC Carbon e/s
-MUFE Smokey Lash
-Cover Girl Lash Blast
-MAC Vanilla e/s (to highlight inner corner)
-Cover Girl French Vanilla e/s (brow highlight)
-MAC Feline Kohl Power

FACE:
-NARS Laguna Bronzer
-MAC Cream Colour Base in Luna
-NARS New Order Blush
-Mally Finishing Powder

LIPS:
-MAC Playing Koi Lipstick
-Sleek Baby Doll Lipstick

Clothing & Earring Haul

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Happy New Year!

These are some new goodies I picked up last month. You may have seen certain things in a previous blog post….thanks for watching! In the next few days, I’ll be working on Day 5 of Twenty-Two Days of Taupe :)