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Monday, 13 June 2016

Healthy Eating With Slendertox Superfoods | First Impressions

Happy Monday guys!!

I hope you had a lovely weekend.

Mine was actually pretty boring and chilled really. I have just been watching films and doing my makeup!

I am in a good mood today because a couple of my favourite brands followed me on Twitter which is freaking awesome! Liz Earle, Lush and Collection followed me. A lot of people I love have followed me back recently and I have almost 30,000 readers on my blog.

Happy little bee! :)

Okay, so it's meant to be Summer now and since I have been job searching I haven't been as active or healthy as I would of like to have been. I needed to start eating healthier and gather some energy to start exercising again.

Y'all know what I mean, it seems a lot more appealing to plonk your ass down, eat a pizza and just chill right?! That's what I have been doing for months practically. Ha.

IT HAD TO STOP.

And slowly it has and my body is loving me for it.

If you're looking to get fitter and healthier then look no further and read on as to why the following products are super good for you.

I have worked with Slendertox before where they sent me their detox teas and I LOVED them. I do miss those teas, they made me feel great.

They recently got back in contact with me to see if I wanted to try and review some of their new 'Superfoods' in their collection.

Of course I agreed because I loved their teas so much.

They sent me their Chia Seeds.

They also sent me their raw Maca powder and raw Spirulina.

These superfoods sounded amazing and have sooooo many health benefits to them. I couldn't wait to try them and add them to my diet.

I will give you the lowdown on each of them.

Chia Seeds

. High source of protein

.Growth in muscle mass

.Maintenance of normal blood cholesterol levels

. Can improve exercise performance

.Healthy skin, hair and nails

.Improved digestion

.Feel fuller for longer

Raw Maca Powder

.Helps clear skin blemishes & decrease skin sensitivity

.Helps mood - increases mental energy, focus and balancing hormones

.Boosts libido, increases endurance, increases fertility

.Relieves menstrual cramps, hot flashes and balances mood

Raw Spirulina

. Helps remove toxins from the blood and boost the immune system

. Help digestion

. Reduces inflammation

. Increased energy levels

. Increases fat burning during exercise

All of these properties sound magical, I need them all in my body maaannnnn!

There are so many things that my body could benefit from by taking these superfoods and I was really hoping that I liked them all.

I tried the raw Chia seeds first of all and they literally taste of nothing which means you can add them to most meals and snacks.

These are hands down my favourite out of the three because they add a lovely crunch to your food and are so good for you body.

I have been adding them to salads, yogurts, curries... You name it its been in there.

To create this delicious salad I added Iceberg lettuce, chopped tomatoes, chopped red pepper, cut up white cabbage, finely chopped hot green chillies, sprinkled fresh out of the oven roast chicken and then added the Chia Seeds. I added some Pizza Express house dressing on there too as it's bloody gorgeous.

Love this meal A LOT. All fresh and all clean!

This is another dish that I am obsessed with and it's Jalfrezi, roast chicken curry. With the added Chia seeds it just makes it perfect.

Adding hot chillies helps maintain your metabolism which in turn helps you lose weight!

Next, I wanted to try out the Maca powder mixed into my fruit juice to see what it tasted like and if it worked.

I will be honest, I don't like the smell of this powder and I am not fond of the taste either. Why does healthy always taste like the gates of hell? Ha.

I cannot describe the taste or smell but my pallet doesn't like it at all. I could taste it in the drink slightly but it was bearable.

I really want to like this one as I suffer with my monthlies and this helps a lot so I need to find a way to incorporate this within my diet so I get my daily intake without the feeling of wanting to vomit.

I wonder if there is a natural flavouring that could take the taste away?

Ha, so we are down to the last product. The Spirulina.

What can I say about this product?

IT'S FREAKING DISGUSTING!!!

I am not even over exaggerating it smells like fish food with a hint of pond and it literally made me heave and almost vom when I tried it.

It's the worst tasting thing I have EVER tried. Now this is only because I am not used to 'healthy' products, it's nothing to do with Slendertox it's my own taste buds.

I was an idiot and decided to put a big teaspoon full in to my fruit juice and my yogurt. BIG MISTAKE.

Everything went green and when I tried the drink, it tasted okay at first, so I thought I would down it.

Will I ever learn?

I heaved so badly, it was rank.

If death tasted like anything then it would be that.

N/B - Do not add this to normal fruit juice or yogurt. It doesn't taste that great.

Finally, as a last ditch attempt I decided I would try adding the Spirulina, Maca and Chia seeds into a fresh, homemade smoothie.

I made two whilst my parents were out of the house so they didn't cry about the mess that was about to go down. Ha.

The first one I made was a mango and passion fruit one.

My mango wasn't ripe, typical, so I salvaged what I could from that and added it to the blender, I then added 1 passion fruit, frozen banana, chopped Pink Lady apple, a couple of strawbs, some natural honey, a couple of spoonfuls of natural Greek yogurt and some mango juice. I then added the Maca and Chia seeds and blended it all together.

It wasn't that bad tasting, I just didn't like the texture, it was really frothy and I don't know if it was meant to be like that.

The last smoothie I made was to include the Spirulina and I wanted to try and disguise the taste.

I have never made smoothies before so I didn't really know what I was doing. You can tell from the ingredients that I use in this smoothie. Ha ha.

I used frozen banana, Pink Lady apple, cucumber, strawberries, natural honey, Greek yogurt and apple juice.

Okay, so this hid the taste of the Spirulina and I think the cucumber was the one to blame because that's all I could taste and it started to make me feel sick.

Safe to say... Smoothie fail.

After all of the experimenting I will 100% keep adding the Chia Seeds to my food and as far as the Maca & Spirulina go I think I might try buying pre-made smoothies to add it to them and see if that works.

I am not a faffer so doing fresh smoothies every day will kill me.

Other than that, if anyone has any tips or sure ways of getting rid of the Spirulina taste that would be spiffing. Ha. AND if you have any awesome recipes I can try please let me know.

All in all I think these are really amazing products and are key to staying healthy. I want to carry on trying them because I want all the health benefits.

They are amazingly priced too which is a bonus and you can get them here if you fancy trying them.

Please bare in mind that I am a fussy eater and there a lot of tastes and textures I don't like so just because I don't like something doesn't mean that you won't. So give them a go because I love the brand and their products!

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Beauty Bay Haul & Experience | FT Morphe, Zoeva, Lit Cosmetics, Makeup Geek & LA Girl

Evening beauties!!

I hope y'all are fine and dandy.

I am a little fed up today. Ha.

Trying to stay positive though as good things come to those who wait and all that. :)

Yeah right! Ha, does anyone ever believe that?!

Is anyone in the UK suffering with this disgusting, muggy heat that we are experiencing at night?! 4 nights in a row now I haven't been able to sleep because of the suffocating warmth. Literally it has gotten to the point where you have removed every item of clothing and you're contemplating taking your skin off as well.

Ha.

I JUST WANT TO SLEEP DAMN IT.

I have been back and forth on whether I should order from Beauty Bay for a while now, if you don't know they are an online beauty retailer who stocks a lot of items in which you can't always get in the UK. I had placed many things in my basket but being jobless at the moment they kind of stayed there. I recently sold a lot of new makeup that I had and wasn't going to use so I thought I would buy the things in my basket at some point. I was in no rush.

I saw on Twitter that they were having a buy one get one free offer on the Makeup Geek eyeshadow pans and I was on that shit like a kid on cake. I was there.

They were selling out MEGA QUICK but I managed to get the pans I wanted bar 2 which were - Creme Brulee and Roulette and I think there was actually a foiled one that disappeared too. They all ended up being half price because I think the day before the BOGOF offer wasn't working for people.

I ordered 5 of the Makeup Geek eyeshadow pans, one of the Morphe pans, the rose gold Zoeva eye brush set, the Morphe 35B palette and blending crease brush, Lit Cosmetics glitter kit and LA Girls HD lose powder to bake with. I got a free gift with that too.

I had to order the Morphe palette and brush separately as I was trying to keep my order to £100 but I put the others on my credit card.

Whoops.

My order went through and I went off to the Busted gig and didn't think about it again... Until I hit social media that is.

EVERYONE was kicking off about the Makeup Geek offer, I mean everyone. I wasn't too bothered as I got some that I wanted. Now what put the fear of God into me was that everyone was complaining that they hadn't received shipping confirmation for their next day deliveries. I hadn't either.

I did panic a bit because some people were getting theirs the next day and mine still kept saying 'processing'. I ordered on the Saturday, I phoned them on the Monday as my order statuses hadn't changed at all. I was told I would receive my things on Tuesday.

I was cool with that.

I do think however the problem was the lack of communication from Beauty Bay in regards to deliveries and confirmations as I wouldn't of been worried if it wasn't for everyone else. It did put me off.

I did feel for Beauty Bay though because everyone was kicking off at them and I don't think they realised how popular Makeup Geek was and a lot of people tried order but the site wouldn't let them and then they sold out.

I am sure it will all be sorted.

I was so excited when my parcels came on Tuesday and this is what I bought.

A lot of the items were on my b'day wishlist in which I posted the other week.

Enjoy :)

I cannot wait to use this pallet. I think I may do so tomorrow!! I love bright colours on the eyes A LOT!!! I want the much sort after 350 palette when it comes back into stock.

If it ever does that is!

I have wanted these brushes for years now and have always been on a wishlist of some sort. So, seeing as I never got them I bought them as an early birthday present from me to me.

Ha. As you do.

I thought I would see what all the hype was about with the Makeup Geek shadows. Can't wait to use these either! From top left to bottom right; Duochrome - Backlight, Peach Smoothie, foiled - Starry Eyed, Cocoa Bear and Bitten. I also got a single Morphe eyeshadow pan too.

And there you have it. My quite expensive haul.

I cannot wait to start using it all. Had to wait so I could take the pics for this post.

It has killed me!! Ha.

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Busted Pigs Can Fly Tour | My Two Night Stand With The Busted Boys | They're On Fire!

Hellooooooo!!! Welcome back.

These weeks are going SO quickly right now, it's cray cray (yep I just used that wording. Forgive me. Ha.)

The weather in the UK is also crazy right now, it's so freaking hot!! I can never regulate my body temperature, I am either too cold or too hot. Right now I am soooo hot I feel like I am melting from the inside out!!

Woaaahhh man!! Just think of the episode of Friends when the boiler broke at their Christmas party. Yep that's how I am currently.

Now onto the good stuff!!!

Y'all know that Busted are BACK!!!!

If you don't.... Just get out.

Now, lets paint the picture... I was what 16-17 when I was into Busted. I am almost 29 now and my love for the boys never vanished along with their quitting of the band.

I was totally smitten with Matt when I first heard their first song 'What I go to school for'. Then it switched to James then Charlie (in Fightstar). Now after seeing them all these years later... They are all freaking equally hot. They have done a good job of ageing!!

But none of them are single!! "Booo". Ha.

Well played!

I follow their accounts on Twitter, so when I saw that they were making a comeback after performing with McFly as McBusted in the previous months I freaked out!!

Lits freaked out!! They were god damn touring!!!

I never got to see them when I was younger so I had to take this chance and go!! I bought the tickets back in Jan I think and the other week I went to their first concert.

I got seats in the upper tiers, now I prefer to be right at the front of gigs because of my passion for taking awesome gig pics to capture certain moments. At this point I was just happy I was there.

OMFG.

It was AMAZING!!! I am not even exaggerating... IT WAS AWESOME!!

The atmosphere was electric and in a weird way slightly emotional because after 12 years they were back and better than ever. They had new material too which I LOVE. And since then I have learnt that they are bringing out a new album in 2016. I am so happy and I will be the first to buy it!

The way the tour has been set up is fantastic. Such thought had gone into the staging, dramatics and everything about it was exciting.

The tour is obviously called 'Pigs Can Fly' and there was this huge light up pig floating around the arena. Loved it.

Wheatus and Emma Blackberry were support and they were great too.

Leading up to Busted actually coming on stage the lights would flicker and so would the video footage on stage. This was one of my favourite parts. It built up the momentum.

When the concert actually started the video footage would come on with this music theme that gave me goosebumps. The music arrangement to the lead up made it all so dramatic, I literally could of cried. History in the making for me. The screen shot to Matt, James and Charlie taking their pig masks off and then it went dark and the curtains fell to reveal the 'Pig Sty' on stage with fans (they had bought seperate tickets to be there) and their pig masks staring out at us. Just writing this is giving me goosebumps.

* I did try to insert the video but it wouldn't load*

The crowd went wild, me included and then the boys came out of trap doors straight in front of their mics.

They stood still.

I lost my voice. Ha.

And so it began!

They started with their new song 'Coming Home' and I loved it.

The energy was soul grabbing. I don't think I ever got it back. Ha. They played a whole lot of their old stuff which was amazing because they listened to the fans on Twitter when they asked what we wanted to hear and their new songs are really catchy and have some great hooks.

When they sang 'Sleeping With The Lights On' the whole place went dark and each and everyone of us in that stadium had their phone lights on and were waving them the the beat of the song.

This was magical and for me the pinnacle of the whole concert. It just showed a whole lot of love for the boys and that even though they have been out of the game for 12 years it's made no difference to the dedication we all have for the band.

I didn't want the concert to end.

Obviously it did and I was a mixture of happy and sad because I wanted to see them again!

Oh yeah...

I DID!!!

That's right, they were THAT good I had to do it.

They were going to the Barclay Card Arena in Birmingham and I tweeted to say I was really tempted to go. That's when Charlie tweeted me and said "do it".

So I did! Easily persuaded.

I couldn't afford to go but the seats were ground level near the stage. Papa Hutt wasn't best pleased he had to take me again (as there was no way I was driving to Birmingham) but I told him that Charlie told me to "do it" so I have to. :D

It worked.

I was not prepared on Saturday (just gone) to find out where my seats were.

I was a little lost and when I asked a random fan if they knew where I was going she pointed to the seats right in front of the OMFG zone. I was thinking 'this cannot be right' and was worried at any moment someone would tell me to move. Ha.

The main stage was a little further back (not much) and then the OMFG zone was in the middle then the stage again in front of me.

I was stoked man. I was so freaking happy that I could finally get some decent pictures and see them so close up.

James's mic was right in front of me, then Charlie and Matt was furthest away.

Watching them perform this time was even better. I just wish I had got to meet them.

Because I am a singer I always have a little day dream when I'm at a concert, of me singing/performing on the stage with the artist right there and then.

Again, my dreams are bigger than my boobs. :)

All in all it was the best money I have ever spent and yes that is over all the makeup I buy. Ha.

The only thing that could of topped those nights would of been to attend a Michael Jackson concert and that ain't going to happen any time soon.

Although, (I still think he's alive living in Bahrain)but that's another story!

Their vocals were on par, their banter was on point, the love was immense, the songs bought back so many memories for me and all in all I have fallen in love with them all over again.