100% Safe Crayon Based Homemade Lipstick

Hi, this is Julia. This blog isn't only about food! It's called the laboratory, after all, and it's about trying new things. 

I was doing some research, and I found out that there is 400 popular lipsticks... that have traces of LEAD IN THEM! [Here's the website! http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/productandingredientsafety/productinformation/ucm137224.htm]

Lead is REALLY dangerous, and even in small amounts can seriously harm someone. Then I thought, why put something on my lips that can harm me? Why can't I find something that will be less dangerous and look good? It was hard finding colors that I liked without any traces of lead in it. So, I looked on YouTube, and there was a link to a video about making lipstick out of Crayons!

It's really easy, 100% safe, and it works well. Better yet, there's unlimited colors you can use to make lipstick! Try using outrageous colors, like blue or green to make lipstick. It's so far from now, and you'll look totally ahead of your time. Besides, if you have it now, when it becomes popular, you'll already have it. PLUS, you'll know how to make it yourself!

Here's the recipe:

1/2 teaspoon of 100% pure shea butter

1/2 teaspoon of castor oil. [You cannot use a sub for this!]

1/2 crayon of your choice.

You'll need a double boiler for this. If you don't have one, just put a metal bowl on top of the pot and you're fine. 

Fill the base pot halfway full of water, and then put the bowl on top. Put the ingredients in the bowl. Flame up your stove to high and watch it melt, mixing it around so the pigments and oils mix together. Then, spoon the mixture into a container. Ezri and I used empty lipstick tubes. You can also use small containers from The Container Store. My suggestion is buying cheap, crappy lipsticks from CVS or something and chopping the lipstick part off. 

After you put it in, and it can be messy, put it in the fridge for about 20 minutes. It will come on smoothly and it's very moisturizing. We made 6 colors tonight, and here's a picture of the ones we made. We named our collection, Krayola Kollection. Please don't steal our names or anything <3

The colors are called:

Red - The Scarlet Letter

Black - Hot Tar

Burnt Orange/Sunset Orange - Sunset

Berry Purple - Eat Me Up

Ocean Blue - Ariel

Yolk Yellow - Egg-ilicious

Here's a quick collage of me showing off The Scarlet Letter on my lips. It's a bit silly, so don't judge me :D

A note from Ezri: Hey hey hey guys!!! Wazzup?? Next time I'll get to write the blog post Yay'z!!!! This was super fun and hilarious to make. Especially the crazy colors like blue and black. These are actually really good colors with nice pigmentation for being made out of crayons...... also a really good way to use up those old broken crayons at the bottom of your craft box no one will use anymore. Those are the peasant crayons. Now make them into something everyone will envy! Those peasants will feel so wanted. You will fulfill the crayons mission in life. But seriously, these lipsticks work really well, and are very luxurious...... I love that word. I don't know why. ANYWAYS Try this with a friend, it was super fun, and only minimally messy. Unless you're a friendless alien. Then I can't help you there. Have fun, and don't burn yourself! (*cough* I did. Don't laugh, it hurts :D)

A note from Julia: This recipe is the perfect example of the the three R's. Reusing, recycling and reduce. Reducing the amount of random crayons you have laying around, recycling them into lipstick, and reusing them after all those years into something that interests you now! Clean up is easy, prep is easy, overall, it's easy! You'll have interesting lipstick no one can buy! 

Anyways guys, please recommend our blog to your friends and family if you liked it. Please give us comments, (nice comments, please!) and other stuff. We love you!!

~Julia & Ezri

Spring Themed, Pastel Colored, Sour Blue Raspberry Cupcakes and Cranberry Frosting!

Hellooo! Julia here. Ezri is making frosting but, whatever. 

So, we had this super duper amazing idea! We bought this blue raspberry Formula Sour from the Omniplex in OKC, and I drank some and it was deliciousss. So, we found a simple vanilla cupcake recipe and added our little twist!

[Here's the link to the original cupcake recipe, we tweaked it a bit, though]

http://www.food.com/recipe/simple-vanilla-cupcakes-178370

Recipe:

2 cups of flour

1/2 teaspoon of salt

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 stick of softened butter

3/4 cup of sugar 

2 eggs

3/4 cup kefir (look it up, the cupcakes will be super moist. The only reason we used it, though, is because I'm out of milk. Oops.)

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1 formula sour. You can use whatever flavor you want, we decided to use blue raspberry

Instuctions:

1) Preheat the oven to 375f, line muffin tin with papers

2) cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. beat in eggs one at a time.

3) add flour (mixed with baking powder and salt) alternating with kefir. beat well; stir in vanilla.

4) dump in the whole tube of formula sour.

5) divide evenly among pans and bake for 18 minutes. let cool. 

THIS WILL MAKE 20 MINT GREEN CUPCAKES.

now, pictures!

Formula Sour:

The Cupcakes without Frosting: (the green color is a lot more prominent in real life)

The Cupcakes after being frosted:

Frosting: (the pink color is a lot more prominent in real life)

Frosting the Cupcakes:

Julia eating frosting:

USE WHATEVER FROSTING YOU WANT!! We added pink food coloring and cranberry juice to our condensed milk based frosting. 

Hey guys, Ezri here!! Sorry I was making our supah delicious frosting earlier ( IT WAS MY IDEA!!) these were so fun to make, (nevermind the mess, oh well. Sorry Julia's mom!) These are super cute pastel colors for spring time!! Easter is over now but...... you know Russian Easter is oming for Julia soo.......... that's what counts. Well chat later peo-pley!

I hope you enjoyed, we sure did. The cupcakes were amazing!

~Julia & Ezri