Category: 2016
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#LookFantastic BLOOMs: April Beauty Box
Just as nature is in full bloom, it’s time to open up, feel refreshed and embrace your beauty inside and out. The products in this month’s box are kind to nature and contain an abundance of beautiful, natural floral scents and items to set you up for Summer too. April is Earth Month, so take…
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Simple Springtime Superfood Salad
To make a salad super, throw together some refrigerator staples like spinach, peppers and cucumber with a few special ingredients like kiwi, gogi berries, parsley, seeds and hemp oil, and you’ve got yourself a salad to be proud of. Serve this as a side salad when friends and family start coming round for warm…
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*NEWS* August Ibiza Getaway
Where: Samskara Ibiza, the island’s Yoga hub. When: 14th – 19th August 2016 Why?: Read on…. This August I will be heading out to Samskara Ibiza, a wonderful luxurious retreat situated on the beautiful island of Ibiza! Owned by my good friend Jo Youle, Samskara was created with the intention to help everyone unwind, re-set…
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Beauty-Boosting Recipe: Rose-Tinted Pancakes
‘Antioxidants’……. It’s probably a word we all hear a lot, but don’t necessarily understand what it actually means. We know they’re apparently good for us, but why? Antioxidant compounds work to destroy ‘free radicals’, which are chemicals that are created in the body as a result of toxins from the environment or foods and drinks…
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Abundance, Enough-Ness & Becoming Yourself
Spring is very much a season of abundance. Plants come into bloom, nature emerges from hibernation, and the lushness and light of life returns after a rather long, dark Winter. In the sacred text the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna even likens himself to the season of Spring, which is known in ancient Ayurveda as the ‘King…
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Two Minute Tahini Bliss Balls
Tahini is an underestimated superfood. It’s packed with iron, potassium and magnesium (three things many people are deficient in due to the modern standard Western diet) and is also one of the best sources of calcium we can consume. Made from ground sesame seeds, the golden coloured paste also contains methionine, which aids in…
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4 Ways To Truly Detox
When the season of Spring rolls around, we’re often confronted with the fact that Summer isn’t far away, and subsequently faced with articles about ‘detoxing’, ‘cleansing’, and getting a ‘Summer body’. FYI – a Summer body doesn’t mean anything. It’s just your body, in the Summer….. It’s true that we feel a whole lot better when…
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Secretly Simple Raspberry Infused Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar comes with a host of health benefits; it aids digestion, detoxification and Hippocrates used it for wound-cleaning and healing years ago. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~ Hippocrates Infusing vinegars not only makes them look more fancy – and let’s face it, sometimes it’s just nice to…
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#LFexplorer: LookFantastic’s March Beauty Box
#LFEXPLORER With Spring officially here and Summer not far off, it’s that time of year when we start thinking about where we’ll be travelling this year, and what new lands we might explore. This month’s LookFantastic Beauty Box is inspired by Fashion Week, and a host of luxury products from London, New York and Paris.…
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Springtime Sustenance: Courgette ‘Spaghetti’ With Avocado-Matcha-Moringa Sauce
A totally raw, vegan superfood recipe, helping you to spring into action this season as the sunshine emerges! Recently featured in the Brighton Yoga Festival newsletter, click here to find out more about the UK’s only free one-day Yoga and wellbeing festival on July 23rd 2016! I’m very excited to be managing the festival this…
