Carrot Cupcake with Cream Cheese

Hellloooo! So my mom bought a whole bag of carrots and I thought, what's a better way to use them than making some carrot cupcakes! It was a pain shredding them, but once that was done I was off to baking. I made a couple dozen of them and topped it off with what else? Cream cheese!! I don't know if you've noticed, but all the desserts I've posted so far consists of cream cheese. Anyways. I had some frozen cranberries left over from Christmas so I put a few on top of the frosting. It made the cupcakes look soo cute! Unfortunately, just like Christmas, the cranberries were really sour that I had to spit them out, realizing I never really like cranberries...to me, they're only good for decorations. So here are the cupcakes I made! They were pretty yummy!

Valentine Nails

Happy Valentine's Day again, this time coming back with nail designs. Here are the designs and what I used:

 

 

PINKY: I'll start with the design on the pinky. Using Sally Hansen White Tip, I made a diagonal tip then with my dotting tool with the smallest tip, I used OPI's The Thrill of Brazil to make hearts along the line of the white tip. The way I made the hearts were by putting two dots closely together then connected them together below the dots. On the rest of the white tip I made pink hearts with NYC's Polyester Pink Creme. If you want, you can just use all pink hearts or all red. 

RING FINGER: On the ring finger, as a background, I used Love & Beauty's Light Grey. Again using the same red, I took the made dots all over the nail using a dotting tool. As soon as they dried, I used the Polyester Pink Creme to make a big heart in the middle of the nail.

MIDDLE FINGER: The background on the middle finger is Sparitual's Hypnotic, which is a very nice color by itself. Once that dried, I used Art Deco's Gold to make hearts all over the nail. I wanted somewhat big hearts, so I could only fit four hearts on my nails. I think it's cuter if the hearts on the nails are facing different directions. With these gold hearts, a black background would also look nice.

INDEX FINGER: The design on the index finger looks so simple looking, and easy to do, but looks really cute. The background is the same pink I used on the other nails, Polyester Pink Creme. It dried pretty quickly so I used The Thrill of Brazil to make red hearts all over the nail. I wanted the hearts to be aligned, but if you don't want them aligned, then you can make them randomly.

I hope you guys like the designs and the picture is clear enough for you guys to see the designs.

Sweet Valentine

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I wanted to make something for my boyfriend. So I made him some red velvet cookies with cream cheese icing. I started off making the cake and after taking it out of the oven I let it cool. While the cake was cooling, I made the cream cheese icing. I recently bought a box full of cookie cutters and they had a variety of heart shaped cookie cutters. The cookie cutters I used were a heart having an arrow go through it, a big and small heart, and two hearts that were stuck together. As soon as the cake cooled off, I used the cookie cutters and it was kind of hard just because the cookie cutters didn't go all the way down. After cutting each one, I iced each one differently. Finally topped it off with some red sprinkles. I hope he likes it!

Spring Nails: Yellow French Tip with Black Flower

Wow I haven't even touched my blog in a month. So I'm returning with a nail design that is a yellow tip with black flowers and dots following the flower. The nail design also has a yellow rhinestone making it cuter! 

 Starting off the manicure, I used Sally Hansen's Flawless as a base coat (I'm more into using clear coats as bases when doing a French Manicure). Once the base dried, I used N.Y.C.'s Taxi Yellow Creme for the tip. After waiting about 3-5 minutes of drying, I used Rimmel's Black Satin for the flower and dots. To make the flowers, I used my biggest dotting tool and made a flower with four medals. As you can see in the picture below, I tried a flower with five pedals on my middle finger, but I thought it didn't look that great so I tried four pedals. After doing the flower, I used a medium sized dotting tool to make the dots that follow the flower. As soon as I was done with my last finger, I moved on to using Flawless again as a top coat and before the top coat dried, I used yellow rhinestones as the center of the flower. Finishes the look, but makes most of the flowers small, but still cute! 

To the left is the finished product. I know I smeared the flower on the index finger, but I don't think it looks that bad.