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Have you tried Booja Booja ice cream? It’s heaven in a tub, actual divine deliciousness on your tastebuds, but, it’s £6 a tub. Six freaking quid and it’s never on offer, I should know because I check all the time, and now we’ve moved 20 miles away from a Waitrose it’s probably a thing of the past… no, I’m not weeping, YOU are.
So anyway, the ingredients list of Booja Booja chocolate ice cream is pretty simple; water, cashews, agave nectar and cacao powder. Easy to replicate, right? So off I went to buy some agave nectar to make my own. I don’t own an ice cream maker (yet, it’s definitely on the list now) but if you do, yay for you because tastebud heaven is right around the corner. If not, prepare yourself for many treks to the freezer to stir, but I promise, it’s worth it, because GUYS, guys, guys! this. is. it.
A blender
3/4 cup cashews, soaked for 3 hours
1 cup water
1 cup ice
3 tbsp cacao powder
3-4 tbsp agave nectar
Soak your cashews in water for a minimum of 3 hours and a maximum of 6 hours (so that they don’t go slimy).
Then drain and pour your softened cashew nuts into a blender with 1 cup of water and blend for 2-3 minutes until you have a smooth milk. Then add the ice, cacao and agave nectar and blend again, taste and adjust the sweetness or chocolate taste to your liking before pouring into your ice cream maker or a suitable bowl for the freezer!
Then it’s just a case of following your ice cream makers’ instructions or stirring up your ice cream in the freezer every 20 minutes or so until almost completely frozen to break up the ice crystals, the texture without an ice cream maker won’t be quite as smooth as Booja Booja, but the taste is there. That agave nectar is the secret ingredient and the taste is spot on when compared to BB, so make sure you have it.
All in all, buying the cashews is about £2.50 for a bag, £2.50 for the agave and £5 for a big bag of cacao powder. Roughly it works out to be about £1 for the cashews, 50p for the agave and 20p for the cacao per batch. That’s £1.70 for around 400ml of deliciousness, you’re welcome. *sassy emoji*
I’ve been going a bit russety around the eyes for this year’s Autumn Makeup Look. (I say this year’s look as though I do a different look every year, but as we all know, all of my “looks” tend to be a subtle variation on “natural” or “smokey eye”!) I always expect myself to be uninspired by Autumn makeup collections, preferring the shimmery bronzes and hot orange-reds of summer, but actually the warm, reddish tones and browns and beiges that Autumn kicks up year-on-year are often quite universally flattering.
I used the Chanel eye quad from the Le Rouge Collection for this look – it has the most wonderful matte, brickish red that looks great washed over brown tones. It’s sold out, but I think that a possible dupe for the reddish shade could be Pearly Copper from KIKO (a snip at £1.90 here) or the Red Ochre in the Renaissance palette from Anastasia here.
One thing that hasn’t sold out is the delectable Eros eyeliner, also from Chanel and also from the Rouge No1 Collection; it’s a vibrant red-brown that could be so, so wrong but just looks incredibly right. If you didn’t want to wash red over the lids then a little of this, smoked into the lashline or just applied at the corners and smudged (as I do in the video below) adds more of an autumnal vibe to your face than anything else can. It’s gorgeous.
I’ve given two lip options in the video – a shimmery, gold-flecked nude and a flatter, more opaque beige-nude. I thought that the flatter option would be more popular, but a quick browse through the comments shows that the gold-flecked nude from l’Oreal’s Gold Obsession collection is the one that seems to have caught more attention…
Anyway, I could bang on all day – the best thing to do is to have a look at all of these bits and bobs in action. If you can’t see the video below then please click here. All of the products used are listed further down the page.
Products Used:
YSL Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation Shade 40: http://tidd.ly/916134ba
Bourjois Sculpt Light Highlighter: http://bit.ly/2ftOcGq
Max Factor Creme Puff Blush in Alluring Rose: http://tidd.ly/3e56602a
Chanel Eye Quad from Rouge Collection, Candeur et Experience: sold out I THINK, sorry. http://tidd.ly/6d661cdf
Chanel Eye Pencil in Eros: http://tidd.ly/a240794
Armani Eyes To Kill Shade 9: http://tidd.ly/d38530fc
Clarins Supra Volume Mascara Shade 2: http://tidd.ly/fd7b53d8
Benefit Gimme Brow Shade 1: http://bit.ly/2e1EYfr
L’Oreal Nude Gold Lipstick*: http://bit.ly/2e1GMoz
MAC Liptensity Lipstick in Doe: http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product…
Dior Nail Polish in Abstract: http://tidd.ly/922f4494
Maternity Dress with Leaf Print: http://www.next.co.uk/go22504s7#422091
*please note that I have been recently announced as being part of the new L’Oreal Beauty Squad, creating skincare content for the next year. Any work I do in relation to that role will be clearly marked “AD”, otherwise the inclusion of a product – as in this video – is purely editorial, unsponsored and unpaid.
Are you ready for possibly one of the most exciting Christmas gifts of 2019? If you love skincare (and who doesn’t) then the arrival of the Drunk Elephant Trunk 3.0 for the Holiday season 2019 will have you writing your letter to Santa Claus a little earlier than usual.
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I’m a long-term fan of Pai’s Echium Organic Eye Cream. I get terribly sore skin around my eyes after beauty shoots and I find it instantly calming and soothing – I often use it in a thicker layer as a leave-on mask during the day as well as a normal eye cream at night. If you have very sensitive or easily irritated eyes (mine seem to react badly to certain black eyeliners and kohl pencils and black shadow pigments) then this is your dream cream. It’s incredibly gentle.
Gentle, but not in a sappy and useless way; the cream is rich in powerful forms of Omega 3 & 6 to keep the delicate skin around the eyes feeling soft and looking plump and fresh. Alcohol free, sensible packaging and a completely transparent list of ingredients, which you can find right here.
Pai are offering readers of A Model Recommends a free full-size Echium Organic Eye Cream, worth £30, with every spend of £45 and over. If I could be so bold as to make a suggestion: pick up one of the gorgeous Christmas gift sets (£20 here)…
…which include travel sizes of the calming or balancing skincare routine, and then a Copaiba AHA Mask (review here, mask is £30 here) and you’ve got a full-on sensitive skin beauty set! (Or if you’re in the giving mood, a mask for yourself and a really lovely present for someone special. Whatever floats your boat.)
Every order of £45 or over will receive a free eye cream and this offer will run from now until midnight on the 9th December. The code you need to use is AMREYES. If you’d like to read my original eye cream review (I think it was about three years ago now) then you can find that here.
