Failed Projects and A Star Studded Life

Hi All!

Sometimes, I really want to blog but just don't know what to write about. Which is why my posts are kindof sporadic.

Today is one of those days. I knew I wanted to blog from the moment I woke up, so I thought "I'll do something from a Pinterest board then share it with everyone!"

So I did. I did this hair mask which was egg whites, olive oil and water. You massage into your scalp and let sit for 20 minutes then rinse out and wash your hair as usual. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for me... Even after rinsing and repeating. Then letting my hair dry and washing it again. The mask was supposed to leave my hair shiny and healthy but it just looks oily. Good thing I had the day off work! And got to try a new hairstyle... Looking back at the 'recipe' I realize I was actually supposed to use egg yolks instead of whites... Haha oops! Maybe that was my problem?

Anyways... Next I tried a new mug recipe for a s'more mug cake. And because I couldn't imagine putting almost FOUR TABLESPOONS of butter into a single mug cake, I cut that down. Then the cake was a little dry sooo there will be a little tweaking of the recipe before I share that one.

I did do my nails pretty but I don't feel that's worth sharing haha and in the meantime watched some movies: Peter Pan because I don't want to grow up, Legally Blonde because it's just a great movie, and now When In Rome because it has Angelica Huston in it and one of my friends here teaches her Pilates. Which is really cool :)

In other celeb news, one of my girlfriends and I went out for coffee with a movie director/screen writer and his marketing guy over the weekend! We'd both met these guys on different days while at work and they promised to get us into a screening of the movie they're working on (starring Alexis Bledel!!) at one of the colleges here in NYC. And I know all of that sounds crazy and sketchy BUT it's actually legit. First, I have a pretty good sense of people when meeting them, second, we were very careful about the whole meeting and we ended up grabbing coffee at Birch Coffee and having a great time!

The movie, Violet & Daisy, doesn't have a trailer yet (they're working on it now) so I can't really vouch for it but I'll let ya know how that screening goes ;) if it goes.

Love from New York!
Ashley

Egg On My Face--Literally!

Remember those super delicious mug chocolate chip cookies that I shared the recipe for in one of my first posts? Yeah, I love those things. And by that I mean that I have one at the very least once a week. There's a problem with them though, they use one egg yolk. Leaving at least one abandoned egg white a week!

I hate to waste and living frugally on my own has reinforced that. But what do you do with one egg white? I usually just put it in a little container and mix it in with scrambled eggs in the morning. I know that there are recipes out there that use just egg whites but are they the type of recipes I would make here for myself? If you know of some please share! Or suggest ideas and I'll look into it.

In the meantime, I was browsing through my Beauty Tips board on Pinterest and found this DIY Peel-Off Mask recipe, using just one egg white!! How perfect! So tonight I made a chocolate chip cookie in the microwave (while making Rice-A-Roni and hard boiling eggs on my hot plate, which is apparently an overload on the power strip all those things are plugged into, as it kept flipping off... maybe because the power strip is then  plugged into an extension cord which is finally plugged into the outlet) and gave the mask a try!

You just take an egg white, whip it a little and spread it on your face with a brush. Then press a tissue onto the wet egg and spread more yolk onto that! I didn't use all of the egg either, so I could use it again later in the week.

I think the mask worked well, my face looks and feels soft and smooth. Plus it was so simple! Just an egg white, a tissue, and a brush (the original site says to use a face pack brush but... I don't have one of those so I just used a regular little paint brush because I have plenty of those). The mask could have doubled as a Halloween costume too! Haha and it's fun to be able to peel it off at the end.

It took about half an hour for mine to harden completely. It didn't do as much for removing black heads as I'd hoped but if you're looking for a simple mask to tighten, brighten, and soften skin I would definitely recommend this one :)