Natural Look for a Romantic Dinner

For a romantic dinner with my boyfriend, I put on some beautiful, natural-looking make-up. Also I did my hair a bit different than normal.

For this look I put on a fluid foundation by MAC. I used concealer for the under-eye area and to remove some red spots on my skin. Then I put powder in my skin tone on my face to fix the make-up and to take away any shine. I used a little bit of dark powder underneath the cheekbones to create a nice shadow. Also I put on some blush. 

This eye make-up is very easy and quick, and can be used in your every day make-up. I marked a line along both the top and the bottom eyelid, from the outer corner until about the middle of the eye, with a black kohlpencil. With a eyeliner brush (angled brush) I softened the line, towards the eyes, so that the black will be the most intense close to they eye and is blurred away from the eye. On top of the kohl line I put some black eyeshadow, also with the eyeliner brush. This is to fix the kohl pencil. With a eyeshadow brush I softened and blended the line. On the inner corner of my eye I put a highlight, for a fresh look. I used MAC cream colour base for this in the color 'Hush Frost'. I put this on with a cotton swab. I also put some of this just under my eyebrow to create a highlight there as well. You could use a light color of eyeshadow for this as well.

Last but not least I put on mascara! A little bit of gloss on your lips and you're ready to go!

In my hair I plaited in from the right side of the face downward and to the left to the back of my head. There I just finished the braid, and then rolled it into a knot. The knot I attached wit some bobby pins. I found the first part quite hard to do with my own hair, because I can't see what I'm doing. It became a bit messy, but I still like it!

Proeft Rotterdam

Last Sunday my boyfriend & me went to a brilliant little food-fair in Rotterdam called Proeft.

We had a little walk around first, and then we chose what we wanted to have. At quite a few stalls they had tastings. I love that! :)

We first shared lamb raviolo with rosemary butter from Mangiare (can't remember the price). This was absolutely delicious! I once had dinner at Mangiare, and I would absolutely recommend this place. Delicious Italian food & very good value for money.

Then we had a pizza from Old Scuola. These two youngsters are on many markets and food festivals with their wood oven pizza's. We had the Pizza Pomodorini (€ 8). We found it a bit disappointing. It was plain and simpel, which actually can be a good thing, but in this case it wasn't. The middle of the pizza was very mushy and wet, I think because of the grease from the mozzarella. While the outsides of the pizza were very dry. And, as you can see in the photo, there were only tomatoes on one half of the pizza, so the other half was more like a Pizza Margherita! I must say though that the boys do look great, and it's a pleasure to look at them while they are preparing pizza's.

We also bought some stuff to take home. We bought a bread at Branco's stall. I can't remember what exactly was in the bread, but I know it had cheese and chorizo. It was very good, although I thought it was a little bit expensive (€ 6,95). We also bought a African Bobotie Pie from Pieman (€ 4). Very tasty aswell! And for dessert we shared a piece of dark chocolate brownie from High Tea 4 You (€ 1), which was extremely good!!

Last but not least, I want to give a huge compliment for the great pieces of fabric and flowers that were on the tables in the whole street! I think 's Zomers provided them, but I'm not sure about that. They made the festival look great and made it all fit together very well.