Food | Yummy Breakfast: Banana Porridge

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but I skip it all the time. I’d rather sleep for ten more minutes. Every morning I realize it is too late to eat, so I just grab a banana or a granola bar for on the go.

When I am free and at home I always make a nice dish. I put in a little bit more effort since I do really like making and eating breakfast.

This morning I decided to make porridge. I also added some muesli. I wanted some nuts on top of my porridge, but I couldn’t find any. So muesli was the closest I could find. Normally I also put in flaxseeds, but my sister used them all up. So no flaxseeds for me this time.

Porridge is very plain so you can spice it up to your preference. Put berries and chia seeds on top and sprinkle it with honey or add apple, cinnamon and raisins in to your porridge.

I decided to keep it very simple with just some banana, raisins, cinnamon and honey. If you want to make this yummy porridge then keep on reading.

Ingredients

    Oats (I did not really use a quantity, just put in how much you want)

     Muesli (or nuts)

         One glass of water

        A pinch of cinnamon

        Two tablespoons of honey
        One banana
Raisins

You start with putting your oats (and muesli) in a pan. Add in the water and turn up the heat. Keep stirring and wait till its boiling, than turn the heat to its lowest.  You already see it is becoming ticker.

Keep stirring till your oatmeal is ready and add the cinnamon and the honey.

Put the porridge in a bowl and add the banana and raisins.

As you can see this recipe is quick and easy, so no more excuses for not eating a healthy and yummy breakfast. Grab a spoon and enjoy this bowl of happiness.

Review | MAC Cranberry Eyeshadow

Last year I bought my MAC pallet. It is an eye-catcher in my make-up stash and I am very happy with it. The only problem: I need to fill it up. At the time I bought two eyeshadows: Naked Lunch and Satin Taupe. Two beautiful colours that work great together. I wear Naked Lunch alone or with a little bit of Satin Taupe threw the crease. It is the most beautiful and simple combination ever.

Every season there is a hype about an eyeshadow. In autumn everyone is blown away by MAC Cranberry. I have seen this eyeshadow before and thought it looked very scary. It is a dark reddish colour and I would have never thought in a million years I would wear something like that. I am more a nude-eye kind of girl, but Cranberry has always been on my wishlist.  My friend bought it for me as a present, since she knew how much I would like it. I went a bit crazy when I unpacked a MAC bag and found out this little pan was inside. I was a bit enthusiastic, and that is very underrated.

MAC Cranberry, as the name says, is a cranberry colour. It has a frost finish, just like Naked Lunch and Satin Taupe.

The photo's don't do this colour its justice. It looks like a reddish metallic when you swatch it. Very pretty!

It is very pigmented and you don’t have any fall-out when you apply it. This is nice since you don’t want to have red powder on your freshly applied face make-up.

I see myself wearing this in the crease of a brown smokey eye. I also saw someone using it as a crease colour in combination with a dark blue eye pencil and a brown eyeshadow. It looked very pretty.

I will experiment with the eyeshadow and find out which way I would use it and share my thoughts with you. Normally I don’t tend to go for heavy eye make-up, but since the festive days are coming up I have to give it a try.

How would you use MAC Cranberry?

Review | Essie After School Boy Blazer

I have been eyeing this one for a while now. I love Essie nail polishes. The colour range is lovely, the names are just too cute and the staying power is amazing. Although I do think that €9,99 is bit expensive for a nail polish. That is why I sometimes buy on as a cheeky present for myself. This one however was 30% off (BARGAIN ALERT), so I decided it was now or never.

What Essie says:

‘It’s back to cool when you're back in blue-black. This academy blue lacquer is the prep-school chic must of the season’.

As you expect from Essie nail polishes the colour payoff is amazing. After one coat my nails have a gorgeous dark blue colour. You can go for a second coat, but this is not necessary. Because of the wide brush, that all the Essie nail polishes have, the application is very easy. Even for me, I always struggle with getting a nice application and this brush just makes that very easy.

I have been wearing this colour nonstop since I got it. This has been two weeks ago and I only needed to redo my nail polish once. Normally my nail polish always chips after three to four days. But not with this one! I have just put a base coat underneath and layered it with two coats of the nail polish.

I also love the fact that it is really dark. You need to look close to see that it is a dark blue. I have had dark blue’s before, but they do not compare to this one.

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I love the way a manicure can give a total different look to your outfit. I always feel more fashionable when I wear nail polish, I know this is weird but I just do.

This nail polish will be perfect for fall and winter time. Even though winter has just begun I feel like I am going to wear this one a lot.

What is your favourite nail polish?