Lets Get Lippie

Finally, a make-up related post!

Here's a few photos (yes, four of the same thing, but there's different lighting and different ones are in focus in each pic... I tried to narrow it down!) of my most favourite lip products.

There's definitely a brand assortment and a texture/type assortment. If I had to pick one out of the lot, it would definitely be the Givenchy. Shit is amazing!! Read on down below for an in depth review of each.

Back row left to right: MAC Tendertone in Hush Hush (and Sephora retractable lip brush), YSL Rouge Volupte in Opera Rose (#29), Nude Beige (#1) and Faubourg Peach (#30), Dior Addict Ultra Gloss in #576, NARS Lipstick in Pago Pago, Revlon Lip Butters in Strawberry Shortcake and Peach Parfait.
Front row left to right: MAC Lipglass in Utterly Discrete and PRR, MAC Cremesheen Glass in Deelight, Make-Up Forever Rouge Artist Intense in 44, Lancome Color Design in Sugared Maple and Ooh La La, Givenchy Rouge Interdit Satin Lipstick in Enchanting Beige, and Dior Addict Lipstick in Beige Perfection (#322)

MAC Tendertone:Amazing. Colours look pretty bright and bold when you first view them, but they go on fairly sheer with a hint of colour. Incredibly moisturizing. Sometimes I'll swipe some on before bed just so I can wake up with lovely lips! Only crap part is that they come in a pot so unless you have super clean hands all the time, you need a lip brush.

YSL Rouge Volupte: Creamiest lipstick, ever. Almost too much so. Crazy to say, but if your lips aren't super smooth, they can sometimes pick up all the lines and creases. They smell amazing (apparently it's YSL's signature mango scent) and the colour payoff is fantastic. Highly recommend.

Dior Addict Ultra Gloss: Quite pigmented but sometimes slightly gritty. Not something I would buy again, but I do like the colour and it is quite glossy.

NARS: Love this colour (it's quite close to my natural colour, but slightly beige-er!), but I find it does have a gritty feel.

Revlon Lip Butters: Smooth, hydrating and really pigmented. I love wearing these and I also love their price point. Peach Parfait is a really lovely colour, and I think it's almost pinker than peachier.

MAC Lipglass: Rarely wear the Utterly Discrete as I am not a huge fan of the formula or the colour. It was given to me at some point, and I only pull it out every now and again. The PRR colour on the other hand is awesome over a number of different lipsticks. It adds a gloss and often I'll take it with me to reapply during the night as I can swipe it on easy without a mirror... lipsticks tend to require a mirror in my case!

MAC Cremesheen (Deelight): I take this with me everywhere. It lives in my Carhartt pocket at work, and then in my wallet back home. It is pigmented, but close to my natural colour. It adds a bit of a gloss and evens out my lip colour. I usually swipe this on over top of my Givenchy Interdit.

Make-Up Forever Rouge Artist Intense: Love this for an intense lipstick. Colour is highly pigmented, and texture is smooth. Also, the colour lasts on your lips for ages!

Lancome Color Design: Both these colours are really lovely. They are pretty similar, with the Sugared Maple being ever so slightly towards the "orange" (but seriously, not orange at all) side and Ooh La La being ever so slightly towards the "redder" side. Both are great go-to's.

Givenchy Rouge Interdit: Best. Lipstick. Ever. David at Sephora in Kelowna turned me on to this. I highly believed I had been converted to YSL for lipstick, but as the Kelowna Sephora doesn't carry any YSL lipsticks (I buy my YSL online after reading reviews and looking at swatches such as these), David recommened I try the Givenchy. And holy smokes is it ever amazing. Smooth as glass, great colour (this is so close to my natural colour, I can wear it every day... even to work... as an electrician...)

Dior Lipstick: I bought this on a recommendation for a girl at the Dior counter at The Bay. We had massive half hour chat, and after trying on about 10 different Dior/Chanel lipsticks, I ended up with this one. It was kind of one of those purchases I wasn't super keen on, but felt I should buy something as the girls were so helpful. I don't often do this, but sometimes I just get pulled in. It's a nice enough lipstick, but so similar to some of the others that it really isn't necessary. I bought the Givenchy after this though, so that speaks to Givenchys awesomeness (as the colours are so close... it's just that Givenchy formula wins HANDS. DOWN.)

So there you have it. My personal take on my favourite lip products. What are yours?

Remember These for Next Year?

So. Darn. Tasty.


You can't see it, because I forgot to take a darn photo, but they are totally filled with this. Which tastes just like the inside of a Twinkie.

Vanilla bean cupcake found here (DYI the vanilla beans). DIY chocolate buttercream, dye your coconut green and add a few Mini Eggs!

Oh! Found a phone pic of the inside :)

Cupcakes x3 (A bit picture heavy...)

It's been awhile, yes.

But I've been busy. Kind of. Working up north, etc etc.

Being up there gave me plenty of time to search the web for delicious treats to make when I got home. And so far I have spent a quite a bit of time in the kitchen!

Last night I made up these delicious cupcakes, but mixed them up a bit so that I had three kinds. Ten Cookie Dough, five Andes and five Rolo.

First, the cookie dough recipe. Make these babies up and freeze them. They need to be totally frozen before you can use them. I left mine in the freezer for about six hours and that was good. Also, I halved the original recipe as I wasn't going to make all my cupcakes cookie dough. Even though I halved it, I was left with ten extra cookie dough balls to use next time! (The recipe below has already been halved)

For the cookie dough:
(found at this blog, Kevin & Amanda)
1 stick softened butter (1 stick= 1/2 cup for us Non-Americans!)
1/4 + 1/8 cup sugar
1/4 + 1/8 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp milk
1/2 tbsp vanilla
1 1/4cups all purpose flour
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

To make the cookie dough:
Combine the butter and sugars in a mixing bowl and cream on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in milk and vanilla until incorporated and smooth. Beat in the flour and salt until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Using a 1.5 tbsp scoop, shape the dough into balls or tubes. Freeze on a parchment lined baking sheet overnight.

Second, the cupcake recipe. This, I doubled. (The recipe below has already been doubled from the original)

For the chocolate cupcakes:
(found at this blog, Ericas Sweet Tooth)

9 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups cake flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 1/4 cups sugar

2 egg, at room temperature

1/2 cup brewed coffee

1/2 cup whole milk

- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line 10 muffin tins with cupcake liners.

- In a medium bowl, sift together the cocoa powder, cake flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.

- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the butter and sugar for 3-4 minutes, until light and fluffy.

- Add the egg and beat until fully incorporated, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.

- Combine the coffee and milk in a small bowl.

- With the mixer on low, add half of the dry ingredients into the butter mixture, then add the water and milk. Add the other half of the dry ingredients and beat until just combined.

- Divide batter among muffin tins, filling liners 2/3 of the way full.
- Now is the time to add the delicious extras to your cupcakes. For the cookie dough, place on frozen cookie dough ball on top of the batter. Do not do this until just before you put them in the oven (no sitting on the counter as cookie dough will start to thaw!). It manages to sink down while its baking and yet doesn't bake itself. It's amazing! So, right, I did this for ten of the cupcakes, then in five I pushed in two Jr Mints (yes, even though they are Andes cupcakes!) and a Rolo in to each of the last five. That said, I only ended up getting nine cookie dough as I thought my batter looked a little scant and I surrendered a cookie dough for the greater goodness of fuller cupcakes!
-Bake for 20-22 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.

Last, the frosting. This took a bit longer as I decided to make three different kinds. I also didn't use a recipe, but just kind of "wung" it and loosely based the cookie dough recipe on this one. Most buttercream recipes follow along this route. Sub for your favourite if you wish!

Cookie Dough Buttercream:
1/2 cup butter, softened
A few pinches of salt
2 tsp vanilla
1/4 brown sugar
3 cups powdered sugar
1-2 tbsp milk/whipping cream/half and half/etc

Directions:
Cream brown sugar and butter together until fluffy. Add vanilla and salt. Slowly add 1 cup of powdered sugar, and then 1-2 tablespoons of cream/milk/whatever you have. Add more powdered sugar a half cup at a time until it reaches your desired consistency. You might want more milk as well, totally a personal preference. (And I don't quite remember exactly how much I used... oops!).

Rolo Buttercream
1/4 cup butter room temp (remember I only had five of these so adjust accordingly)
Caramel flavouring (I used 4 pumps of our Starbucks caramel syrup. You could use anything with a caramel taste though. Use as much or as little as you like!).
Couple pinches of salt (salt+caramel=amazing)
2 cups(ish) powdered sugar
1(ish) tbsp milk/cream (this depends on how liquidy your caramel is, mine was pretty thin so I didn't add too much extra liquid).

Same directions as above, add a bit of colour if you want to. I tried to get a caramel colour (as my syrup didn't really add much) but ended up with just an orangey colour! Need to buy brown... If you really wanted to up the ante, (or don't have caramel flavouring) you could add some Rolos to the frosting and mix them up. That would actually be super neat! I just topped mine with a Rolo instead.

Andes Buttercream
1/4 cup butter, room temp
1 tbsp Peppermint Schnapps (if you have it and want to!)
Dash of salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar (or so depending on the consistency you want)
Mint extract (1-2 drops)
Green food gel

Enjoy! And play around with as you wish :)

Swoon.

WHAT THE WHAT.

Just watch it.

Winner Time!

Hey guys,

So I used random.org's list generator and put everyone (excluding Ash and my Pa!) in by name in the order the comment was received.

And the winner is....




My Aunt Laura! Congrats missy and I will contact you shortly :)

Stay tuned as I will be having more giveaways soon... It becomes rather addicting and when I happen to find a deal for myself I think, Hey I could give this away on YSD!

Chloe

Hey guys,

I just wanted to mention on here about about my friend Chloe.

As those of you on my Facebook know, Chloe recently passed away.

She had cancer.

A tumor in her brain.

I met Chloe and her Mom Kathy one day before Christmas while we were both waiting to have blood work done. Chloe went on in and I noticed that her Mom was holding one of the Cancer Clinic cards in her hand.

At first I wasn't going to say anything, but the Debbie Thompson in me came out and I started talking to Kathy.

Shortly after I was called in to have my blood work done. Chloe and her Mom left to go back to the Cancer center and I went on in.

I then realized that I really should have gotten Chloe's contact info. It really isn't very often that you find someone younger in Kelowna that you can chat freely with about having cancer.

So, I headed on over to the Cancer Center hoping to find them and get Chloe's phone number. I found her Mom and asked her where Chloe was. Turns out we were thinking the same thing as Chloe had run back to the lab to try and find me!

We swapped details and started texting. We had some pretty good and long text convos. We talked about a lot of things; our beliefs, our interests, and death.

We went for coffee one time and I figured we'd have a coffee and a little chat. Turns out we didn't have any coffee but had a two and a half hour chat. Sorry Starbucks, but thanks for the table :)

Ash and me took off for Seattle on Wednesday and I turned my phone off. I had it turned off until Thursday afternoon when I was trying to find the address to glassybaby. When I turned it on I found I had three texts from a number I didn't recognize. They were from Kathy, telling me about Chloe.

A hundred thoughts rushed in to my head. I was texting her a few weeks back, how could she have taken a turn so quick (a naive thought given that cancer is a cold heartless fast acting bitch, but still a thought I had)? Why Chloe? Why not someone who deserved it? Why now? Why couldn't someone have figured out how to make her inoperable brain tumor operable?

There's no answer to these questions. There's nowhere to lay blame or person to be mad at.

There's really just seems like there's nothing that can be done. Nothing will bring her back. So I'm not going to keep harboring these useless thoughts.

Instead I'm going to do something that I can actually do, that will make a difference, at least to me.

I can share with you the Chloe that I knew. I can tell you about her so that she will live on. So she will become part of your thoughts and so that every now and then you will think of her and remember her.

So let me tell you about the Chloe I knew.

I think if I had to sum her up in two words, it would be optimistic and positive. She told me a number of times how hopeful she was about beating this. She had big plans, and she was not about to let her cancer or diabetes stop her. She had plans on becoming a tattoo artist, and I have no doubt she would have excelled immensely at this as her artwork is amazing.

She had researched and read books on all sorts of different options and possibilities. She had gone through radiation and was going through chemo when I met her. You wouldn't have known it at all by looking at her though. She looked great and seriously had one of the best attitudes and outlooks on life. She told me that she looked at her cancer and diabetes as a positive experience because it made her a lot more knowledgeable than an average 18 year old, and a lot stronger.

I certainly agree with her. Amazingly knowledgeable. Amazing strong. And amazingly smart.

Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments down below, as I am going to pass this page link along to Kathy.

A Vlog and a Giveaway

**Giveaway is now closed**

My first video! It's wretched quality with terrible lighting/sound and I'm slightly spastic... Really, it can only go up from here.



Giveaway: Open to everyone, where ever you might be in the world. Contest closes Sunday March 18th at 9:00pm PST. Comment on this post with your most prized makeup related possession. One entry per person. Winner will be chosen through random.org. Feel free to be lovely and subscribe to YoureSuperDelightful on YouTube (if you're on YouTube) and follow me on here. Although I don't particularly care about either of those things...

Oh. Right. I feel like everyone always throws in a "I wasn't paid to do this or for this" or a "This giveaway is sponsored by ____". On that note, this post is entirely sponsored by me and maybe we can give an assist to the oilsands :) Yea. That's right. If you win this you will no longer be able to nag me with your hippie "stop the oilsands" ways :D Nah, but really... I love this stuff and I love sharing it. I would love to share it with everyone, but as this isn't quite possible, I wanted to give everyone a chance to partake in it!

Lets Change It Up!

Hey guys!

So yes, once again it's been ages. I will once again blame this on working up north. It's not that I have absolutely no time, it's just that I'm lazy as sin.

This blog has gone through many phases. It started off being kind of crafty and DIY, then turned in to a cooking/baking and cancer-ish.l blog. I would now like to change it up once again.

I am going to start doing some haul-ish/review type posts. Aside from working a bunch, I'm also spending money. I am a fan of nice things and I enjoy sharing these purchases. I thought about this a bit and wondered whether it would just come off as me bragging about things. I sincerely hope it doesn't, but then again, if this is how you see it, you don't have to continue reading! I tend to try lots of different, fun things but before doing so I usually search the shit out of them. I spend lots of times reading reviews and watching YouTube vids on them. I feel this helps me in making informed purchases. Even though there will probably be 1,000 other blogs reviewing these things, I figure why not add my two cents. You guys know me and that gives a bit more insight.

These reviews and hauls will cover a wide variety of things. Books, makeup, kitchen lovelies, etc... even hotels and such things.

I will be posting a video shortly, and announcing something neat and exciting and also new for the blog... :)

Right then...

My Little Project

We have a somewhat excessive and random amount of liquor bottles. We needed a place to store them that also looked neat. I made this happen with a bit of thrifting, DIY and sales!

"Bar" (More like cabinet of sorts): Castanet, $80
Blue flower knobs: Anthropolgie, $2 each (down from $10 each!)
Cake stand: 'Merica (somewhere at the outlet store), $14
German beer stein: Um.. $0.. ;)
Heart shaped pottery: Gifted to me from H Roy
Cow creamer: Hospital gift shop (weird, I know!) $8
Burlap table runner: DIY'd, $0
Art work: Jash (Ashennelyn?) original, supplies from Michaels/on hand, $15ish

I have a bit of a pile of things that I can add to this area to switch it up when I feel like it. I will post some photos of said things within the next few days (ie, when I bumble up the effort to take the photos). I got a great green pepper on a recent Lois Lane trip that looks amazing up there. And a super neat Mexican bowl that has all the colours of the art work....

The end photo of all of it together looks a little bland. Shows much nicer in person than in a terrible photographers photos. Also looks a bit more filled out now. Lets just use that last picture as a bland little reference...

Oh Hey There

I realize my last post was titled "The End", and then I didn't post for ages.

So no, not the end of You're Super Delightful. Just the end of cancer. Kinda. Still have that dang port hanging out in me... maybe one day someone will decided to schedule a surgery date for me to have it removed... maybe.

It's been a little while since I've posted as I am back at work. Up north. In the oil sands. Ugh. But yay. But ugh.

It's a two weeks in/one week out shift, and so far it's been half decent. The camp, the job, etc, is all decent. The SHIT part is that the site is right next to/part of a major live site (the first site oil sand site in Alberta, Suncor Main). The part we are working at, "Upgrader", is a new part of the plant and it is right next to where the cokers (tall stacks that do... something..) are, and right beside us are massive mountains of coke dust. Yes, quite the name. This dust is super fine and super black and after reading the MSDS sheet, I have found out that it is also carcinogenic. Awesome! It turns EVERYTHING black, gets in your clothes/hair/nose, and is quite frankly disgusting.

So, hopefully I will be getting on to another site!

I will post more soon, but as for right now, it's bed time.