Saturday, 28 February 2015

Pink Sugar Perfume Review.




I absolutely love this perfume! I'm now on my fourth bottle of this which I find quite amazing as I've never re-purchased a perfume that many times before.

  When wearing Pink Sugar, I get complimented by people so much, and I don't know about you, but it boosts my confidence quite a lot knowing that people think I smell nice as I'm very self aware and paranoid about how I look and smell.

Everyone that's complimented it has said that it smells really sweet like candy floss and sugary but not in a sickly childlike way. 
 Now I don't know whether it's just me but when I spray this I can't smell candy floss what so ever, I smell a sweet scent but it's quite a clean, fresh, mature, mega-sweet smell rather than something that would be aimed for kids.



Lasting power: It's a very strong scent and out of all of my perfumes that I own it has the best lasting power. It's also one of the only perfumes that I've ever used which I don't have to keep reapplying a million times throughout the day, though I do tend to over apply as I have a habit of just spraying perfume whenever I get the chance, even though it makes it way too strong haha. 
Packaging: It comes in a stripy (pink and white) cardboard tube which is a similar size to the perfume so it doesn't take up much room in your bag and it's a lot sturdier than the flimsy cardboard boxes that most other perfumes come in.

Price: There's a slight vary in price depending on where you get it but at the moment from Amazon it costs £19.24 for a 100ml bottle which is a bargain!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugar-Aquolina-Toilette-Spray-100ml/dp/B000C1Z1HE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425127367&sr=8-1&keywords=pink+sugar

Negatives: As it's a very sweet perfume it's not something that's suitable for everyone and a lot of people may find it a bit overwhelming.

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Friday, 27 February 2015

Quinoa Salad Recipe.



For the past few weeks I've been trying to include more healthy food in my diet, though if I'm honest I've had quite a few days of junk food binges.

I've been into quinoa for a few months now and at first I thought it tasted really bland, but after experimenting with different ways of cooking it, I've found it to now be one of my favorite healthy foods.

It's really simple and easy to cook so I thought I'd share my salad recipe!

Feel free to change it up using your favorite things, these are just what I like to use.

Depending how much salad you use this recipe makes enough for roughly 2 people or enough for you to have leftovers for lunch the next day. :)


To make the salad I used: 
1/2 a cup of quinoa
1/2 a red onion
A couple handfuls of baby spinach
2 beetroots
1/2 an orange pepper
1/4 of a cucumber
7 cherry tomatoes
Garlic powder and salt
1/2 a lemon


1. Pour the quinoa into a sieve to rinse it just like you would with rice.
After rinsing, add it to a saucepan and add double the amount of boiling water (Always keep it at the ratio of  2:1) so if you use 1/2 a cup of quinoa then use 1 cup of boiling water.

I also added salt and garlic powder to the water to give the quinoa lots of flavor.
Cook following the instructions on the back of your pack as they all vary... Mine took about 20 minutes.


2. Once the quinoa's on the boil, carefully dice the onion and put it into a big plastic bowl and add lemon juice which takes away some of the strong taste of the onion.



3. Chop the rest of the salad up into small pieces and mix everything together in the bowl.



4. Once the quinoa is cooked you can either leave it to cool down or leave it warm depending on how you like it and then add it to the bowl of salad.
Mix everything together thoroughly and add any extra herbs or lemon if needed.




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