Perfect Pairings: Scents and Lips

We have a new video for you all tonight...a brand new series here on Her Late Night Cravings.  Please allow us to introduce:  Perfect Pairings!!  Our idea of two unlikely things (could be anything) that you might not expect to go together, but somehow it just works.  We hope you enjoy!

Let us know if you have two things that go exceptionally well together.  Maybe you'll inspire us to put two and two together!

Work With What You've Got

When you find a recipe that piques your interest, sometimes you have to take it and tweak it a little to (in the words of Tim Gunn) "make it work" with what you have in your pantry.  I stumbled across a recipe in an advertisement from Mrs Dash in my October issue of Food Network magazine that sounded like something that I wanted to try, so I ventured into the depths of my kitchen pantry to see what I had on hand.  A couple of the ingredients, the chicken breasts and the mozzarella balls, did require a quick trip to the grocery store.

Here are the ingredients according to Mrs Dash:
2 Tbsp Mrs Dash Tomato Basil Garlic Blend
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
8 cherry tomatoes, cut in quarters
4 low fat tiny mozzarella balls, cut in quarters
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 tsp red wine vinegar
cooking spray

Using what I had in my pantry, I substituted Mrs Dash for a Chop House Blend of spices from The Fresh Market, two chicken breasts instead of four (they were massively huge breasts...hahaha) and the only mozzarella balls that I could find at my grocery store were herb-marinated.

First thing you want to do is preheat your oven to 350 degrees and spray a baking dish with cooking spray.

Then toss your tomatoes with 1 Tbsp of your blend of spices...

Lightly flatten each breast to 1/4" thickness and place some tomatoes and four quarters of mozzarella balls on each chicken breast...

Then roll them up and secure them with a toothpick.  Place the breasts in your baking dish, drizzle with olive oil, vinegar and the remaining 1 Tbsp of spice blend...

Bake for 30 minutes, then remove from the oven and cover lightly with foil to let rest for 10 minutes.

Now pour a glass of Pinot, grab yourself some greens and call it a meal.  What do you think?  Is this something you can work with??

Mendi

Beauty Battle - "False Impressions"

As we've mentioned before, the purpose of these videos is for each of us to try out the same product, then keep our opinions to ourselves until we can share our thoughts with each other while the camera is rolling.  Here's our fourth installment featuring Revlon Fantasy Lengths Maximum Wear Self-Adhesive Eyelashes in Intensifying (on Jayme) and Flirty (on Mendi)...

This Beauty Battle was quite interesting!  We're totally chalking it up to user error, so let us know if you've tried these and had success.  Or if you have another favorite brand of falsies, let us know that too.

We absolutely love doing Beauty Battles!  And we hope you guys enjoy watching them.  We love receiving your recommendations, so keep them coming!

Piperlime Giveaway Winner!!

The winner of our $50 Piperlime E-Giftcard giveaway is...

Tracy D of My Best Beauty Buys

Congratulations, Tracy!!  We are so excited for you and can't wait to hear what you order from Piperlime (which also includes Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta)!  We'll be sending you an e-mail momentarily.  Also be sure to watch your inbox later today for the $50 E-Giftcard to arrive!  Happy shopping!!!



Thank so much to everyone who entered!  We love and appreciate each and every one of you for supporting Her Late Night Cravings.  There are many more milestones still to come, which means more giveaways...YAY!!


Have a wonderful Thursday!

Urban Decay Mariposa Palette

You guys know how much we adore eyeshadow palettes from Urban Decay.  We got so excited over the Naked palette and the 15th Anniversary palette that we literally lost sleep!  Nope, we have never claimed to be "sane".  :-)

We recently discovered the Mariposa eyeshadow palette that is a limited edition new release and only available at Sephora. Now you might be wondering why we think this is a fab palette being that some of the colors are similar to shadows we have in the Naked and the 15th Anniversary palettes.  But for us it's the combo of the slimline size (4.5 x 4.5 and 1/2 inch deep) and the wide range of shades.  This palette is so easy to pack when you're traveling and contains both neutrals and bright colors, so that you can play without having to pack the the larger palettes or multiple ones.

Jayme recently purchased this palette for her trip to Vegas because she didn't want to take a ton of products, but didn't want to limit her shadow options.  This palette worked perfectly to suit all of her eye makeup needs.  It makes it so easy to go from casual to a fun night out.

Mariposa contains:
10 x .03 Shadows
Shadows are: Rockstar (deep purple), Gunmetal (gunmetal gray with silver glitter- also found in the Naked), Skimp (ivory peach sheen), Infamous (magenta sheen), Wreckage (taupe shimmer), Haight (dark teal with shimmer), Money (pale silvery green shimmer), Mushroom (steel gray shimmer), Spotlight (golden tan shimmer) and Limelight (gold shimmer)


Plus a travel size eyeshadow brush that is the same great quality as the brush that came with the Naked Palette

TRAVEL APPROVED!  And the best part is that this palette retails for $39.00, so it can be an affordable option if you don't want to splurge on the Naked palette ($48.00) or the 15th Anniversary palette ($55.00).

Let us know what you guys think!  Will you add Mariposa to your collection?  Do you have any upcoming trips planned?  We'd love to hear from you.

Also, today is the last day to enter our Piperlime giveaway...if you haven't entered yet, check out the details here.