Natural Skincare Routine

Its amazing how good Lauren's skin looks in the video, its certainly worth trying out some of her tips and homemade cosmetic recipes.

I tried out her almond meal scrub and it totally made my skin soft and dewy. It was a little bit tricky to apply, but if you make sure to do it over a sink or something, it will be fine. I added a little bit of neroli water to make a paste, which was gorgeous.

Homemade Sugar Scrub

A great way to save money, time and keep your skin exfoliated and moisturised at the same time.

Simply mix a tablespoonful of olive oil with 2 tablespoons of caster sugar.

Apply it on each part of your body whilst in the shower, it leaves your skin sooo smooth. Take your time massaging it into your skin, until your hand tingles.

You'll soon work out if you need more or less of it per shower/bath to properly exfoliate your whole body.

At the end of the shower, whilst your pores are open, use the final small amount on your face, remove with a warm wet flannel, and then rinse your face with cold water. Finish by moisturising your face with your favourite moisturiser, then your knees and elbows with a super moisturiser (I love Skin Food by Weleda for this! It smells divine!)

Living Nature, Dr Hauschka, Neals Yard Remedies

Here is a piece of advice from me to you, the best in natural skincare products to try out:

Living Nature (New Zealand)
They do send little tester packs for you to try, and once you do you will be addicted, beware!!

Dr Hauschka
This stuff is so nice, it is definitely worth buying the trial/travel packs. You must love the smell of essential oils before even contemplating putting these on your face! The one to try from this range is the Quince Day Cream.

Neals Yard Remedies
By far the most chic packaging, and most environmentally friendly. These products are amazing, especially the Palmarosa Facial Wash.

These people really understand skin and there are commited teams waiting to talk to you about how you can treat your sking properly. What these people offer is great skin in the future, because you never know what is in most of the products, and how these will affect your sin in the future.

Superfood Diet

The superfood diet is a new diet that advises each person to eat a little of these 'superfoods' each week/day. The superfood diet focuses on losing weight through eating healthily, and recommends frequent exercise as part of living a healthy lifestyle.

After having done some research into superfoods I have come to know that there are many 'superfoods', which come from all different food groups. I have found it really interesting researching the superfoods and learning more about what is good for you.

The superfoods include: Broccoli, Pomegranates, Green Tea, Salmon, Tomatoes, Olive Oil, Spinach and Apples.

The numbers of superfoods that are found in different lists vary from 8-27 so have a look at the different ones and see what is found on all of them.

These superfoods are full of anti-aging ingredients, anti-oxidants and vitamins that will detox and revitalize your system and make you beautiful inside and out.

Colour Me Beautiful

I recently went to a Colour Me Beautiful consultant to have a colour analysis.

I would absolutely recommend this to anyone that hasn't already had their colours done. Even if you think your know what colours best suit you, you could be totally wrong, I know my mum, my aunt and me were totally wrong! I was pleasantly surprised at all the new colours I could wear, and I don't miss buying the colours I can't. I still wear most of the colours I used to have, but wear a scarf or necklace in the right colours so as to compliment my colours. I would definetely say that if you have the money (roughly £75 for a 1 hour 30 mins session) then go for it!

In the colour consultation you get a make-up lesson, a free 42 colour swatch booklet, total colour and style analysis. It was really great to take home with me the swatch book, now I can pop it out when I am in a shop to make sure that I am buying the right colour for me. It was also great to have my make-up done professionally (although I used to do this for Body Shop) as each different firm has their own way of looking at make-up this can change the look of your overall look immediately.

Go to www.cmb.co.uk for a further look into where your nearest consultant is. And all the other services that they provide.

Colour Me Beautiful

Eye Make Up

One of the great ways to make your eye make up look stunning is to uase something similar to the Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat pen. It is a light concealer with light reflecting particles that is really easy to apply undwer your eyes for a great glow. It is a known fact that most celebrities and models have one in their bags for when they haven't been getting enough sleep. Your eye make up will look ten times better without those bags under your eyes, and at only £14.60 at www.islandcosmetics.com or from $24.45 on www.ebay.com, it is assuredly something that you should keep in your bag always.

Eye Make Up

Free Beauty Tip

One of the best and free beauty tips that I can give is this:

Do NOT wear foundation every day - from great experience I can say that this blocks pores, not allowing them to breathe and causing them to age much, much quicker.

Instead, why not try a tinted moisturiser or just a very, very tiny layer of foundation over some moisturiser. Or create your own tinted moisturiser by mixing your daily moisturiser with your foundation. (But be careful, because some of these mixtures won't mix depending on their base!) Just to say again, make sure to moisturise day and night, and exfoliate 2-3 times a week, this will leave your skin in such great condition that you won't have to wear a foundation to hide it.

Free Beauty Tip