How & Why Your Bedroom Directly Influences Your Wellbeing
Monday, July 19th, 2021
It might not seem so on the surface, but it’s quite incredible to realise just how much our home can contribute to our wellbeing and stability. That’s not to say that a tidy house should take the place of visiting a health professional should you need further help or wish to talk about an issue that’s been bothering you. Read More
How To Make Exercise More Fun
Friday, July 2nd, 2021
If you don’t already know that exercise is good for you, you must be living on the dark side of the moon. All the time, we hear how we should be spending at least 20 minutes a day on physical exercise. But unfortunately for many of us, exercise is simply not a priority. Many of us have busy lives, can’t find time to exercise, and, let’s face it, do not enjoy working up a sweat. Exercise is seen as boring, despite the benefits it can offer. Not only can it help you keep your weight down, but it can help fight illnesses such as diabetes and can flood your body with happy hormones, which can make you happier and stabilize your mood. Exercise is also a excellent way to build self-confidence. Nevertheless, exercises can be a chore. So, with that in mind, we have come up with a few ways to help you put the fun into exercise. Read More
3 bad skincare habits to kick in 2021
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
Bad lifestyle habits you should end in 2021 and how to reverse the damage
Everyone has habits that they wish they could just kick, whether it is not drinking enough water, picking at your spots, or spending too long staring at your phone screen. Me, me & me on a bad day! Of course, being inside the house all the time means that you might have spent more time than usual picking faults with yourself. What can you do to change your habits up in 2021? These skincare specific ones could leave you glowing if you take the time to kick these habits. Read More
What are the Differences Between Yoga Mats and Exercise Mats?
Thursday, February 18th, 2021
Have you been thinking about taking up the art of yoga? If so, you are not alone. It is currently estimated that there are incredible 300 million yoga practitioners around the world. Due to the numerous benefits associated with this lifestyle, these numbers will undoubtedly increase well into the future. I really miss my in-person yoga and pilates classes at the moment, online is not the same! Read More
3 ways to prevent festive burnout (and relax more!)
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019
The festive season is definitely on it’s way – Halloween is well and truly over, Bonfire Night is a second away and it’s time to start thinking about Christmas shopping, socialising and parties! As exciting as all of these things are, they can be stressful, expensive and draining unless you make the effort to do Christmas your way. If Christmas makes you a little stressed, as it can me, these are my top tips for preventing burnout. Read More
6 podcasts to make you think, laugh and learn
Sunday, August 5th, 2018
Podcasts are something that I’m either super into at one time or I don’t listen to for ages! It usually depends on what’s happening to whether I’m on a listening spree or not. If I’m travelling a lot, on trains or in the car or even when I’m on holiday just relaxing, I listen much more and I remember how much I love them. I’ve discovered a few new favourites and a series that I love has just come back so I wanted to share!
1. Ian Stirling – Not Ready to Adult Yet Read More
5 things making me happy in June
Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
June has been a pretty stressful month so far with trying to buy a house and everything that comes with it so it’s been all about finding the little things to make me happy! Ya know, those little things that aren’t really important in the grand scheme of life and the world but those little things that make you feel good.
1. Beauty deliveries
Products arriving on my doorstep almost always make me happy because who doesn’t love the treat of a new lipstick or mascara? This month I was sent the
Cohorted Beauty Box and it was packed with gorgeous products from
Doucce (prounounced Doh-Seh), a brand that I hadn’t heard of before but I’m super impressed from first impressions of the products. They’re a New York brand with a French name that means soft and elegant. It’s all about having Parisian elegance with a New York attitude which is pretty cool. In the beautiful box was their Freematic Combo Pro Palette with 4 eyeshadows, two blush and a highlighter which is gorgeous. And, this palette is weighty, let me tell you! Plus, it came with cute little covers for all of the shades in it to keep the mirror clean which is smart. There was also a matte lipstick, a liquid eyeliner pen, mascara, lip liner and eyebrow pencil. I’ve shared all of the products on my
Instagram stories and saved it as a Highlight if you fancy checking out what else was in the box. I’ll also be posting the makeup look I create with these products on Insta too so stay tuned there!
Aaaand, If you use the code
#COHORTEDGIFTME first time subscribers receive a free Huda Beauty lip strobe in shade angelic RRP £17.00 with their first box! Pretty sweet. These boxes are the most luxurious beauty boxes I’ve seen. Birchbox and Glossybox are cute but this one is seriously grown up, minimalist packaging, no gimmicks – just great products.
2. Reading a magazine
Just a little luxury that I’ve been trying to use as relaxation instead of scrolling through Insta, because, let’s face it, that’s not really that relaxing a lot of the time. Women’s Health is always interesting to me and I love their recipes, I’ve already made the sweet potato falafels from this issue and they were delicious! What do you do when you don’t want to go on your phone? I love to read whatever book I’ve got out of the library at the moment, a magazine or try and concentrate on a series on Amazon Prime.
3. Glowing skin
Following on from beauty deliveries is a new brand that I’ve recently tried. Erborian is a brand that I’ve spotted in magazines and online over the years but I’ve never tried so I’d love to get to know these guys better after trialling their
Bamboo Glow Dewy Effect Cream. This is a 2 in 1 moisturiser and primer and it gives awesome glow. I’ve also used it as just a highlighter over makeup to give a little extra life to my face when I’ve been travelling on trains for work and generally bobbing about the country! I love the feel of this on the skin because it sinks straight in and doesn’t feel heavy or too glittery or shiny. I also love that it’s a moisturiser and a primer in one because it saves me taking two products when I travel.
4. Nice pants
Let’s be honest, when you’ve got matching bra and pants on you feel like you’ve got your shit together and I’ve been putting off getting some new underwear for a while. Because, I want nice pants but it’s just not something I like to splurge that much on. I’m usually a M&S basics gal and that suits my minimalist mind just fine. When Beija London got in touch I thought their products looks so gorgeous. Still minimalist and simple without being fussy and lacy and blah like a lot of ‘nice’ underwear. And, I love their system of having three types of bra (the X is unpadded, the Y is a little bit padded and wired for B-D cups and the Z is a fully supportive bra for DD+) and then different styles.
I went for the
Y Bra in the For Keeps Style and the
For Keeps brief. The Y bra has a half pad is wired and has a teeny 3mm of foam in the bottom cup. I love the silver hardware and the fact that it also has a J hook that adapts the straps to make a racer back – so handy! These are perfect for me as they’re fancy, well made and luxurious but I don’t feel like I’ve walked out of Ann Summers – that’s just not my style. Whatcha, waiting for? Treat yourself!
5. My cute new bag
I’ve been after a straw or basket bag for ages after obviously seeing them take over Insta-style recently. They just give any outfit a little summery update and I love that. I like the tiny circular basket ones and the handheld ones but they’re just not practical for me. I’ve learnt over the years not to just buy something because I think it’s cute on Instagram. I now think about whether I’m actually going to use it in my daily life and I settled on the
Miss Selfridge Natural Circle Tote Bag because it’s got those summery vibes but it’s a great size and I can use it everyday for work and not just have to save it for the weekends! I have already spilled strawberry and blueberry juice on it though so I wouldn’t recommend carrying your berries in it unless they’re in a clip lock tub. Oops.
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Self-care is trendy and I’m very OK with it.
Sunday, April 15th, 2018
Personally, I don’t think I’ve ever been as thankful for a trend than I have for self care. I’m going to put it out there and say that I do think it is a trend but that I definitely hope that it moulds its way into our lives. Relaxing has, fortunately for all of our sanities, become really popular and much more of a ‘thing’ that we all focus on. Brands are encouraging it, we’re buying more products that are helping us to indulge and we’re not feeling guilty about taking time off anymore. Read More
4 ways to boost your self care routine this January
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
Self-care is getting so much air time these days and it’s so great that it is. We’re all starting to realise how great it is to treat yourself, be Hygge at home, chill out, relax, stop beating ourselves up about eating chocolate biscuits and just generally be nice to ourselves. It’s all about relaxing, your wellbeing, your health, sleep quality, the list goes on. But, at the end of the day it’s all things that we should care SO much about but in this crazy modern age (lol how old am I?), we can forget about because we’re just “too busy”. Here are four of the ways that I’m trying to use to look after myself a little bit more. After all, we only gots one body and one mind, guys, might as well treat them right! Read More
5 diet trends to watch out for in 2018
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
In the UK in 2015, it was found that 68% of men and 58% of women were either obese or overweight – this is way too high,isn’t it? It shouldn’t be too surprising to hear that 2/3rds of Brits admitted to either being on a diet all or for most of the time. Of course, the topics of healthy eating and weight loss are massively popular talking points at the moment! They’re on every channel and in every magazine, aren’t they? According to The Telegraph, 33% of resolution makers want to lose weight, and 32% want to eat more healthily. With this in mind, MaxiMuscle investigate what the biggest diet trends could be in 2018: Read More