Going ultra-bright with Sleek's Ultra Mattes palette

If you're thinking of experimenting with bright colours (and I hope you do) get your hands on the Sleek Ultra Mattes V1 palette. 

The 3-Product Glam Look

The inspiration behind this look was simply, 'how can I transform my face using the minimum number of products?' 

Orange You Looking Good?

I thought I was living a fulfilling makeup life until I stepped into the warm, glowing light and saw the truth: orange is amazing. 

Friday Favourites

Burt's Bees Lemon and Vitamin E Bath and Body Oil is light, lemony and perfect for summer.

Veggie Feasts #4

Quesadillas and Super-quick Guacamole

Sorry for the picture quality, I was really hungry.

Hiding Tiredness

AKA 'the hangover face'. This is the failsafe makeup look I use when I look and feel awful, but can't lie around in bed binge-watching cartoons and drowning my sorrows in Ben and Jerry's.

Due to a combination of less sleep than usual and not enough water, I look and feel like a decrepit crone today. Happy Monday, everyone! 

Optional accompaniments to this post: a cooked breakfast, a coffee the size of your head, about five chocolate croissants. 

The Weekly Update

Long time, no post! After a really productive week-and-a-half where I blogged every day, things went a bit pear-shaped with the arrival of my 26th birthday. I'll be qualifying for a senior discount before I know it.  

My 7-step routine for beautiful nails

I once read, from a very wise person no doubt, that it's far more difficult to feel sad when your nails look pretty. I completely agree.

Veggie Feasts #3

Wholewheat fusili | Mint and almond pesto | Pan-fried courgettes 

My blogging tips

I've learnt so much since starting 'On the face of it'!

Rediscovering old favourites: MAC Quarry and Plumful

I really love this combination of MAC's Quarry eyeshadow and Plumful lipstick. I went through phases of wearing both shades individually - goodness knows why I didn't put them together until now!

Veggie feasts #2

Last night's leftovers got all sexed up with South Indian flavours.

This is a variation on the potato and onion filling of a masala dosa, which is one of my favourite things to eat.

Potatoes | onion | green beans | cumin seeds | black mustard seeds | turmeric | asafoetida | lemon

Veggie feasts #1

My diet has been a bit haphazard recently so when I decided to really put the effort back into cooking and eating healthy, regular meals, blogging about it seemed an obvious way to motivate myself. 

This is what I made tonight:

New potatoes | green beans with mustard seeds and garlic | halloumi

Serves 2

Language learning resources

As promised in 'Why you should learn a language', here's the follow-up post of some useful resources.