#the missing bride

Bonus : Sherlock’s reaction.

You guys I’m so glad I’ve decided to give this show a shot!

Episode 5 of Miss Sherlock (The Missing Bride) features Sherlock handmaking a cucumber toner, which made my inner DIY skincare nerd very excited. I’m not sure what Sherlock adds to her recipe and I’m sure I don’t have the know how to make it as good as hers. However, it’s still very easy to make a simpler version even without Sherlock’s genius.

1. The Simplest: blend up a chunk of cucumber and either use the slurry as is as a cucumber mask (use within 4 days), or strain and bottle for a toner. Refrigerate to extend the shelf life to about 10 days. Actually its even simpler if you have a juicer — just juice the cucumber. Cucumber toners are more or less just juice with stuff added in. The base recipe is quick and easy and works just as well.

2. Slightly more complex: take a handful of rose petals or some rose water and add this when you are blending your cucumbers. Maybe bruise the petals and let them steep in your toner container, if you’re concerned about aesthetics and presentation. Full disclosure: I can never get any good roses so I’ve only done it with rose water. You can also bring your rose petals/rose water and cucumber cocktail to a very low heat for a few minutes in a pan to infuse the two better. Use a VERY low heat! Treat it more gently than you would choux pastry or custard. This one also smells nice.

3. What I Use Personally: Juice a chunk of cucumber, then add half as much in volume very strongly brewed green tea that has cooled to room temperature. When I say very strongly brewed I mean 1-2 tea bags in half a glass of water. Refrigerate and use twice daily. Reduces redness, clears the skin, and is mildly antibacterial. It moisturises well, and yes, it does help a bit with scarring.

THE Roses

Since the series begun, I don’t remember much discusion being done over the roses in the promo pics… (apart from the first two weeks or so)

At first, most of us thought about the roses representing the cases that would be made in the series. But what if we where wrong?

New theory: the fate of Little Dipper’s members

Quick note:

Yes, I know I cut off Wato and Sherlock from the original picture, but they are not roses in this theory. Maybe their fate would be Sherlock as THE detective and Wato as the WRITER/DOCTOR; their growth towards their canon equivalents. Or maybe the fate of two of Little Dipper’s members being in Sherlock and Wato’s hands? I don’t know.

Back to the point…

In my idea of things we have six roses helping the seventh or seven roses protecting the eighth. Either way, we already have two down (from left to right, and from top to bottom in the first picture):

Yuma Shiina = hanged Akiko Mizuno = “exploded”

In my opinion, next episode (Stella Maris) will bring the second rose (we see a dead man bound to a chair in the trailers). I was hoping for the big reveal with an episode’s name like that, but maybe it’s a bit too early to show the face of the big schemer. (Specially considering that both Moriya and Mariko will show up at 221B, we saw them on the trailer.)

BTW, I think Mrs. Hatano’s photo shoot was done in 221B as well, is that right? (I mean Hatano’s side of the building)