What’s baking?
No, I am not trying to tease your sweet tooth…but yes, you are staring at cupcakes for a reason. In

That reason would be this: I started a new job this week! At a bakery!

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I know, it’s out of my lane, but with Connor going to preschool five days a week now, and me having been working at home for eons, I’ve been going a little stir crazy. then one day a couple weeks ago, an opportunity arose to bake for a local bakery, and I took it.

If you’ve followed MBB for a while, then you probably know that I love to bake at home, and I’d love to get better at it. I want to learn to make all teh things! and I want to be surrounded by sugar and gluten and chocolate and frosting ALL. TAG. LANG.

Look who’s baking now.
I’ll try to temper/limit the amount of baking-related pics and info I share on MBB (unless you really want to see more, in which case lemme know), but I’ve been doing MBB for practically 13 (!) years now. I love it too much to stop, but mama needs some other interests too. way I see it, I’ll still be wearing makeup to work at the bakery, so I’ll still have plenty of makeup and skincare to test and talk about. So…you won’t be getting rid of me yet. LOL!

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The new new gig is “back of the house,” which implies that my primary responsibilities will be the actual baking…of all the delicious things.

Mmm…

First thing I discovered this week in the kitchen for training was that it gets really hot when the ovens are cranking, and even HOTTER when it’s also hot outside, like it has been the past few days.

I wore the littlest amount of stick foundation on my first day (and I also happened to skip powder), so my base had all but slid off my face by the end of my shift.

So, for my second day at work, I busted out the long-wearing guns…

When you’ve only got 15 minutes…
Base

Estée Lauder double wear Stay-in-Place foundation (my shade is Honey Bronze) and Maybelline instant Age Rewind Concealer (I wear Golden). Both of these base products last a long while, and neither one looks or feels heavy. I set them with a light dusting of Chanel loose powder, which has a beautiful natural finish.

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A liquid bronze eyeshadow base (Wander charm Amber Wave! Layer it under your bronze eyeshadows for added intensity and staying power) with a dusting of a shimmery warm bronze from the new urban Decay On the Run small palette in highway Queen. I also went with a long-wearing purple liner on the upper lash line (UD Ether, which pairs well with bronze shades and doesn’t look *too* certainly purple. Unfortunately, it’s discontinued.). Next, I used a long-lasting curling mascara on my lashes (MAC extended Play Perm Me Up Lashes).

Eyebrows

I was blown away by how well my brows made it through the second day, because — no joke — it was hot ? in der Küche. I’d assumed they would disappear, but THEY DIDN’T! Anyway, I wore NARS Komo brow pencil and MAC clear Brow Set.

Note to self: this combo frickin’ lasts.

Cheeks and lips

Charlotte Tilbury Ecstasy blush on my cheeks, along with a couple of shades from the wander charm Cloud9 small Lipstick kit (the lipsticks are very creamy, so they don’t really last much more than two hours) mixed together.

My hair is crazy, I know.
Isn’t that purple liner all kinds of amazing?
It took me 15 minutes to do this look, which I put on at 6:45 in the morning.

I’m writing this post a full 12 hours later, and after five hours in a hot kitchen, all of the makeup I used in the morning still looks pretty good, if I do say so myself…with the exception of the creamy lipstick.

Oh, and just in case you’re wondering, I don’t eat cupcakes all day long now, HA HA HA!

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I certainly want to though. ?

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