I’m certainly seeing the beauty in the new Rouge Dior Baume collection.. whisper-soft slivers of colour in a balmy texture and perfect for approaching autumn (or now, since we seem to have entirely lost our summer).
Rouge Dior Baume
Colours from left to right are: Star (no colour, just a little bit of shimmer), Diorette, Spring and Lili????
Rouge Dior Baume
As you can see, there is a gentle sheen – and they feel all kinds of balmy with no stickiness and all the comfort you’d hope for with any lip balm. To take it down to the minutae, it leaves a fine film rather than a thick or waxy feeling on. Mine has lasted well on my lips in terms of feeling and looking like it’s still there after a couple of hours. It’s not entirely clear what’s in it other than the mysterious sounding Cristal Oil, developed at the Dior Labs.
Launch date for the Rouge Dior Baume is October and the balms will be £26 each.
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The sweet limited edition Bourjois Little Round Pots have arrived on ASOS – there are three colours, but I love the white shade, Blanc Diaphane, for a shimmery topcoat over any other lid colour. They’re a snip at £6.99 HERE and are good for any season, so if you don’t use it all up in the summer, winter frosting is right there!
Givenchy Le Croisiere
The years most beautiful bronzer has hit the shelves! Givenchy Limited Edition Croisiere Terre Exotique Bronzer is in Debenhams for £39.50 HERE. I still haven’t even swatched mine.. I can’t, I can’t! But if you do want it, don’t delay because it’s a limited edition product and I think will sell out pretty quickly.
Thalgo Bronzing Activator
I’m using Thalgo Bronzing Activator at the moment because I have a few days in the sun coming up; it’s a product I’ve used on and off for years and it really does help to tan more quickly. I can hardly remember the time that I had a two week holiday where I could let a tan gradually build over the days, so tan activators have been my staple speed-holiday product for years. You will still need to use an SPF and be sensible in the sun, but tan activators bring melanin to the surface of the skin so when the sun hits it, you’re ready! Tan activators won’t work for you if you have hardly any natural melanin, though, so if you never tan, even in sun, this is unlikely to help. It’s £24.50 at Feel Unique HERE.
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I completely forgot to post up the Day In My Life videos I made; one of them follows an entire day “with baby” and the other one, to offer some contrast, is a work day. And by work, I mean working from my home office, tied to the computer and not even glancing up for about nine hours! (Lies: I spend a good proportion of time in the morning faffing about.)
I have a nanny for two days a week, now, and so I try to get all of my work done in that space of time. It doesn’t work out that way at all, because social media is a round-the-clock-never-stop sort of thing and so invariably I do work every day, whether it’s during the baby’s nap times or late at night. I’ve tried to calculate how many hours I spend on my various endeavours (A Model Recommends, The Uphill, writing fiction, Colab dry shampoo) and I reckon it to be around 35 hours per week. Pre-baby, it was 70. I think (think) that I get more done now and I hope that what I do is of a better quality, which goes to show what can happen if I focus and stop reading the Mail Online. Ha!
I should mention that Mr AMR is also freelance and is at home more than the average working person. Which is brilliant. We split the childcare thing pretty well, I’d say – some weeks he has a lot on, and I stay at home on my own with the baby and go slightly mad and start crawling the walls, and other weeks it might be that I have to go away, or have a lot of content to produce or deadlines to meet, and he takes over the lion’s share. It works very well and I am eternally grateful that we have this set-up. We’ve both always been freelance, so I suppose we went into the parenthood game knowing that this would be the case, but still – I feel very lucky. Especially as a lot of the time we try to get our work done in the evenings so that we can do nice family things in the day.
Anyway, I’ve totally digressed and given you a breakdown of our domestic situation, which wasn’t intentional – if you’re not bored to tears then do watch the Day In My Life vlogs. I’ve embedded the work one below, the baby one is on my Youtube channel here.
If anyone has any questions about being freelance, balancing work and home life, how I go about organising my features for the websites or more obscure subjects then please do leave them in the comments – I’m thinking about doing a little Q&A video, depending on interest levels…
Read more Sunday Tittle Tattles here…
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Banana Bread? Yes, love it. Superfoods? Yep! Love them too. Combining them to create some deliciously healthy cake? Count me in.
The lovely folks over at VITL recently sent me a cute parcel to celebrate the launch of their newest product; VITL Greens, handy sachets of superfoods and nutrients to boost your inner health. What makes them more unique, however, is that these sachets actually taste good. Like, really, really good. Sweet, vanilla-ry, fruity and with no green aftertaste. I’d have no problems adding these to plain water or porridge instead of trying to conceal the taste in a smoothie, though I did actually add mine to smoothies because they improved the taste so much! ha.
Each 6g sachet is made up of 19 super ingredients. It’s protein rich, contains greens to alkalise and contains a host of minerals and vitamins. I haven’t taken a superfood blend like VITL Greens before, preferring to stick to just one or two powders (I like maca and wheatgrass) in my smoothies. I’m wary of how beneficial these ingredients could really be when you are consuming just 6g (about a heaped teaspoon) at a time of so many ingredients. There must only be micro amounts of the ingredients listed at the bottom of the ingredients list. Are they really beneficial?
Then again, there are studies that show we don’t get enough trace minerals these days thanks to gmo crops, pesticides, processed foods and the depletion of natural minerals in our soil, so I see how having a handy nutritional boost like this every day can really help keep everything ticking over nicely. It may only be a subtle change, like not waking up feeling so sluggish or realising you haven’t had a headache in awhile, but hey those are good things and signs your body is working just great. There certainly isn’t anything bad for you in these sachets so even if you are only consuming tiny amounts of the good stuff, at least you’re getting something. What do you think? Ingredients: Organic Whole Spirulina, Flaxseed, Maca Root, Coconut Sugar, Date Fruit, Organic Wheatgrass, Barley Grass, Organic Broken Cell Wall Chlorella, Dried Goji Berry, Natural Vanilla Flavouring , Strawberry, Blueberry, Kale Leaf, Broccoli, Florets and Stalk, Seagreens® Arctic Seaweed, Beetroot Juice, Green Tea Leaf Extract, Turmeric Root Powder, Corn Maltodextrin Now onto a lovely recipe. My parcel from VITL contained the ingredients needed to make their Supergreens Protein Banana Bread and I couldn’t wait to get baking. I decided to make mine as mini muffins though, as I’ve never had good luck when baking anything in a loaf tin.
Ingredients:
100g Ground almonds
50g Hemp protein
50g Ground oats
1tsp Cinnamon
4 Sachets VITL Greens
1 & 1/2 tsp Baking powder
4 Eggs
3 Ripe Bananas (mashed)
Method:
Blend together the mashed banana and eggs. Mix all the dry ingredients separately. Then combine the wet ingredients with the dry. Pour into bread tin (or muffin cases!) lined with baking paper and greased with coconut oil. Bake at 180 for 40-45 minutes for bread and 20-25 for muffins until cooked right through. Allow to cool and enjoy!
I completely forgot to post up the Day In My Life videos I made; one of them follows an entire day “with baby” and the other one, to offer some contrast, is a work day. And by work, I mean working from my home office, tied to the computer and not even glancing up for about nine hours! (Lies: I spend a good proportion of time in the morning faffing about.)
