St Ives Apricot Scrub Review| Favourite Face Scrub

I believe it is absolutely essential to use a scrub 2 times a week, especially those who are prone to blackheads or milia (More on milia later), like me, as a scrub will definitely help reduce these blemishes, and even get rid of them is you use it regularly in your skin care regime. A scrub will exfoliate your face, and get rid of dead skin cells built up on your skin, which could cause blemishes.

My favourite face scrub is St Ives Apricot Scrub for Blemished Skin. Other variations of the same brand work just as well, I just use Blemished skin as it is most appropriate for my own. The price is very reasonable, at around £5, and it is available at most high street cosmetic stores, or supermarkets.

The scrub is quite thick, and very grainy, meaning only a little amount is required. Due to it's coarseness you do not need to scrub to hard on your skin for it to wok effectively. Straight after applying my face is instantly significantly smoother, and after apply a light moisturiser I am literally glowing!

A few pointers and warnings about facial scrubs and exfoliating.

1. Do not apply scrubs around your eyes. This area of skin is significantly thinner, and more delicate than the rest of your skin, so does not need to be scrubbed. If it is it increases signs of aging for sure, and no one wants that. 
2. Do not scrub too hard on your skin, you would think this would be better, but it is not, as you could end up taking off healthy skin cells, and consequently damage your skin. Your skin should not be red rare after this treatment.
3. Do not scrub your face every day, again it could take healthy skin cells off your face. 

The golden rule with exfoliation is, you can have too much of a good thing!! Less is more! 

Rachel Bilson's debut shoe collection

We all love shoes, that easy buy, that no matter if you are having a fat day, an ugly day, whatever, new shoes will make you feel fabulous! So recently there have been a lot of these custom websites, that create an "individual profile" of styles that they think you would like, based on a series of questions you have answered. The website normally has a celebrity endorsing them to raise their profile, we have Kim Kardashian and Shoe Dazzle (http://www.shoedazzle.co.uk/) , Cheryl Cole and Stylist Pick (http://www.stylistpick.com/#2) , and now there is Rachel Bilson and ShoeMint (http://www.shoemint.com/showroom).

I have highly anticipated Rachel Bilson's collection, as she is a girl who regularly graces the pages of magazines and "Best Dressed" list, despite her not really doing much apart from looking good.

So I joined the website, answered the questions and got my results. the results were good, as two out of three of the designs I would wear. However in all honestly thought I was disappointed with the lack of results, 3 shoes, in 2 different colours is not much choice. Plus the price is a bit higher that other websites that offer the same service; their prices being around £39.99, ShoeMint's prices are $79.99 (around £50). The bad news for us UK girls is that currently they only ship to addresses within the US, but hopefully that will change as they expand, as this is what happened with ShoeDazzle. Again because this is the first collection, maybe as time goes by with more collections, more styles will be designed, giving us girls more choice.

Have you ever bought any shoes from these new websites? What do you think of their service? 

Twilight wedding dress| Replica from Alfredo Angelo

I imagine all you Twilight fans (Yes that includes myself, no hating please), will have probably already seen the film, ans will be lusting after Kristin Stewart's beautiful wedding, and the dress, but now you can get the dress!

Obviously there is no need for to buy the wedding dress, unless you are in fact getting married soon. If you are a lucky lady who is getting married, Alfredo Angelo have their own bargain version of the Twilight dress, priced at $799.

According to "industry insiders" the original dress, designed by Carolina Herrera, cost an estimated $35,000! This is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a wedding dress so us people in the real world. However the Alfredo Angelo one is a steal!

The replica dress, is very similar to the original, apart from a difference in fabric, the original is silk, and the replica opts for liquid satin. Both dresses are demure, classic and breathtaking. 

Overall I believe it to be a pretty good copy, and you can not argue with the price. However I do believe that because the fabric has been changed to liquid satin, the front of the dress does not fit as well, and looks a bit like sleep wear...very glamorous sleepwear!

Let me know what you think of replica, and if you like the dress at all.

Winter Warmers\ Health Benefits to Soup

I don't know about you, but working all the time, and only having a short lunch break (20-25 minutes) makes finding a suitable, fulfilling and healthily lunch difficult. Especially during the colder months. I never have time to leave work and go to a sandwich shop such as Pret-a-Manager, Boots or Costa Coffee, and I do not like preparing my own cold salads or sandwiches.

So my latest thought has been soup. Home-made soup to be exact.
Yes I agree it easier to buy a can of soup, but it is not as healthy, more expensive and less fun.
So I make batches of soup, then portion them out into freezer bags, and freeze them. When I go to work I use the microwave to defrost them, and hey presto fresh home made soup to warm me up :)

This is a soup I made this evening- Lightly spiced Carrot Soup.
Recipe- http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12276/lightly-spiced-carrot-soup

BBC good food website has a few great recipes, they even have the nutritional value about each dish to help you calorie counters!

A quick, easy, healthy solution to a rushed lunch!

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This blog is going to consist of all things health and fitness, and beauty and fashion. I am an avid fan of all these things, and my posts will generally be me coming across things, sharing my opinions, giving my advice, and maybe even the occasional rant.

I decided to create this blog, as I already have Tumblr based on all things fitness and health, and enjoy regularly posting on it. However I wanted to create a blog where I have this aspect plus other interests of mine. So we'll see how it goes.

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High Blood Pressure Treatment

Blood pressure was very influential on the health of our bodies. Blood pressure in the human body should be normal, not low or high. Abnormal blood pressure would cause people to have heart disease or stroke. This is very dangerous because it causes the death of the sufferer.

The following is a treatment for someone who has high blood pressure.

Someone who has high blood pressure should avoid the following things:

1. Salt

2. Caffeine

3. Drinking alcoholic

4. Calorie foods

5. Foods or drinks that contain glucose

The above matters should be avoided wherever possible people with high blood pressure. if not avoided, blood pressure will actually be higher.

And here are some things you can do to reduce high blood pressure:

1. Always prayed and tried to keep blood pressure down

2. Avoid upset

3. Multiply eat fruits and vegetables

4. Often exercise

Hopefully this article can help those of you who have high blood pressure. Because they have high blood pressure is very harmful to our bodies.

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