Latest Eats

Hello, Everyone :)
I started writing this post and uploaded the pictures and realised, most of my food is pretty orange :D Lately...not always, but it seems like I have a lot of orange and yellow food. It's all been very delicious though. The one common thing with most of these meals has been avocado...I feel like I'm a bit obsessed with avocados at the moment and I've been really lucky to get get the just ripe ones. I also blended some up with some broccoli and cauliflower for Oscar and even he seemed to enjoy it. He loves food though...it takes him one mouthful to get use to it, but then he really gets into it and can't get enough...I need to start putting some portion control into place with him :D With Oscars food I tend to use Ellas Kitchen or Hipp Organic pouches of fruit/joghurt for breakfast and then I cook something myself for him for dinner :)

Leftover chilli chicken stir fry with cous cous and avocado

Toast with ham, avocado, tomato and poached egg

Chicken, cous cous, corn, avocado and feta cheese

Sweet potato fries, corn, mushrooms and onions, guacamole and a bunless beef burger with cheese and bacon ...yummm

Salmon and salad with avocado, pepper and lettuce, potato wedges and corn :) and some tomatoes I didn't actually eat :D

These meals all look the same :D I think I'm in a food rot :D hahah ... anyway, they were all still really delicios, but I do think I need to mix it up a bit :)

Stay tuned everyone :)

xoxo

Morning and Night Time Skincare Routine

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After a lifetime (it felt like it) of not buying anything for myself or really not even doing anything for myself, my skin went and broke out in a way only a teenagers could :D SO I decided to treat myself to some new skincare products. The Simple kind to skin, didn't do the trick any more. 

I had heard many good things about Vichy brand so I decided to give it a try. The price range is somewhere in the middle of high street and high end products. I found them all 10% off on this website. The funny part of it is, that I put a completely wrong address as a delivery address, it consisted of my new address, my old one and my billing address :D The Escentual team was too efficient in packing and dispatching it, that when I finally realised 2 hours later, it was already too late.

I thought I'd have to wait for 3 weeks until the package goes back to the shop and they can send it to my right address, but the lovely people in my local post office figured it out all by themselves, they changed the postcode and sent it to me :) I got it 5 days after I ordered it :) And let me tell you, I was super happy, as I did pay quite a bit of money for all of these products.

Enough of the chit chat. This is the skincare routine I do now every morning and night without fail, and already after 5 days I can see a big improvement and not just with breakouts but with my skin texture  as well. It just seems so much more elastic and soft and luminous :) I chose the Vichy Normaderm range for the cleansing as it's perfect for skin prone to blemishes and spots :) And a night time detox cream and a daytime illuminating cream :) I'll leave the links for all of these products down below :)

Morning:

I tend to have my shower in the morning now, which means I do the face washing in the shower. But for you guys I skipped that part today so I can show what I do :)

I'm sorry about the pervy face :D

I brush my teeth and then wet my face. I use the Normaderm 3 in 1 cleanser to wash my face. It has little tiny particals in the creme, which makes it also a daily scrub. The scrubbing action is super gentle though :) 

And then I wash it off and dab my face dry with a clean towel. 

I then apply the Normaderm pore-tightening lotion with cotton wool in upwards motion so not to drag my skin down :)

I let it dry off for a bit, until I apply the cream

This was meant to be a cinemgraph, but it's not working :(

I use the Vichy Idealia illuminating cream. And I would compare it with the Estee Lauder Idealist cream, but it's just fraction of the price at around 20 pounds :)

It leaves my skin so nice, moisturised and soft. Before I put my make up on, I leave the cream on my face for at least 20 minutes...I just feel if I do it any sooner, I just brush the cream off.

And that is it for the morning. I do wear a bit more make up these days just because my skin looks awful to me, but I try to let my skin rest a couple of days a week...the days when I don't have anywhere to go :D

Evening:

This is when I still use my Simple product. I rub the cream cleanser on my dry face and around the eyes, to get the make up off, I then use a hot damp towel to get the product off my face. I leave the towel on my face for a few moment to get the pores open and then rub off the make up :)

I then wet my face and to get the pores squecky clean, I use the Normaderm wash (no picture...it looks the same as in the morning picture...I mean how many pictures of my face can you have in one post :D...I dab my face dry with a clean towel and then I don't use the toner :D I just think the detox cream needs to get IN MY PORES :D please correct me if I'm wrong in this  :)

I then apply the Normaderm Night Detox cream.

And I don't tend to go straight to bed after the night time cleansing, which is good I think, as if I would bury my face in the pillow right after applying the cream it will just end up in my pillow :D

And that is it...my morning and night time skincare routine. 

Hope you enjoyed the post, If you are interested in seeing what I have been eating lately, come back tomorrow :)

Stay tuned, everyone

xoxo

Products I used :

3 in 1 Cleanser+scrub+mask

Purifying Pore-tightening Toner

Idealia soothing and illuminating cream

Simple purifying lotion

Night Detox Cream

Little snippets from the house

Hello, Everyone :)
My dear oh me, I feel like it has been years since I last took out my laptop and wrote a blog post. I must say, I really miss it. The lack of your comments makes me feel a bit like I am actually only writing to myself :D but I still have missed it. Just sharing little snippets of my life to all you guys :) So here they are....my little snippets from the new house.
I'm sorry they are not really whole pictures of the rooms, but it takes time to get everything to the point where I am happy with it...little bit at a time :)

The Bedroom. I use to keep my make up in the acrylic drawers, but when I packed I put all the jewellery from my drawers and plates in there and really liked it, so I kept it like that.
O still sleeps in his co-sleeper next to us for a little longer.

Oscars Bedroom...this is a work in progress, but his clothes are in the dresser and I love that there is a room just for him now. I forgot to take a photo :D hahah

The Dining Room...We still don't have a dining table :D but we do have a shelf for all the extra plates, glasses and of course alcohol...and I love it :) I still need to get some legs for it, as I think It would look a lot better if it's slightly above ground :) Pardon the boxes, we are still in the middle of putting everything in its right place.

The living room :)

We got the sofa from Ikea and it was a nightmare to put together :D the cushions needed to go in the covers and it was really hard :D I do like it though, it's super comfy.

We got a plant :D I don't know why, it will die in a week or so in our house :D but I think it looks really good :)

And our fireplace...it's not a working fireplace so I've out some candles in there instead. The tray they are on was made by my mother :) and I put a mirror in the back to reflect the candle light :) It's so cozy in the night :)

Hope you guys enjoyed this little update.
I will do an updated skin care morning and night time routine tomorrow, so if you are interested in that kind of thing pop back :)
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xoxo