Jess In Retrospect: April 2016

April Favourites | 2016

How is April almost over already? Wasn't it April fools only a couple of days ago? And my birthday still feels like it was yesterday! Crazy how time flies when you have fun eh? :) April really was a good month. Lots of good things happened in the last 30 days, I spent lots of time with my loved ones and the weather actually began to feel like spring (until it started snowing earlier this week but let's not talk about that shall we?). I've also been loving an uncharacteristically high amount of things this April, which is most likely due to all the lovely presents I got for my birthday. So let's talk favourites :)

Thursday, April 28, 2016
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4 little Things to Healthify your Everyday Life

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Eating healthily and staying fit 24/7 is quite a task for most of us. There's fast food cravings and days that are hard to get through without chocolate. There's busy days where we just cannot face a salad but need all the comfort food in the world. And you know what, that's ok. Because there's a few tiny little things we can all incorporate into our daily routines that make life a little healthier and us feel a lot better about ourselves! It definitely helped me :)

Tuesday, April 26, 2016
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Take Me Home, Country Roads

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Spring has finally sprung for good! Ok it's still kinda freezing when I leave for work in the morning so I can't quite pack away my winter coats yet but there's hope! All the blossoms are blossoming and the sun's shining and the birds are tweeting and oh it's just beautiful outside! I love getting out and walking the nearby country roads in my home town especially now that the weather is so nice. You guys all know that I love big city life, I feel so calm and at home when I'm in a big busy city like London and I love all the opportunities you get there. But there's just something magical about being in the countryside. About being able to just go out and breathe fresh air, the only sounds surrounding you being the birds and the wind whistling through the leaves on the trees. It kind of makes you stop and think for a while, about what's really important in life and about who you truly are.

I read recently that only 30 minutes of walking outside and breathing fresh air decreases your risk of heart problems and generally aids your wellbeing as well as your fitness of course! And that's just leisurely walking, not even working out!

Lots of Love,
Jess xx

Thursday, April 21, 2016
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Turning 26 | My Birthday in Words & Pictures

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I had the best birthday this year celebrating with all my family and friends! More so it was like an elongated birthday period of 4 days with lots of food and cake and drinks and fun. I was off work on my actual birthday on Thursday so I had a slow start to the day, sleeping in, having a bath and decorating my previously baked cakes with as many strawberries as they could hold. My day then constituted of having cake and a good old chinwag with my best friend followed by having more cake and more chats with my family and finally a cosy evening in front of the telly! I loved it!

Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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26 Pictures to summarise year 26 | The Birthday Edit

Lifestyle

Soooo.. it's the 14th of April and therefore officially my birthday!!! :-) I'm turning 26 today which is just as scary as it sounds! I still remember making a big fuss about turning 20, you know what with my teenage years being over and entering real adulthood. I don't know what I was thinking! I'm now well into my 'mid-twenties', new famous singers and rising Hollywood stars are increasingly younger than me and yeah.. I can't say I like it all that much. But then again, looking at my life and all the things I've done and experienced and worked for so far have been great and I wouldn't wanna miss a moment of that time so far, so really I'm being ridiculous moaning about turning a year older. I'm grateful for everything that I got to do and all the people I met along the way so really it's been 26 kinda great years! And so to celebrate my birthday with you today I wanted to share 26 photos of memorable moments of the last year - because a picture as we all know is worth a thousand words.

Thursday, April 14, 2016
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RhuBarbie - Birthday Cocktail

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It's my birthday this week and I'm having friends over to celebrate so naturally there will be one or two drinks involved. I absolutely love cocktails and wanted to make a special Jess' birthday cocktail for the occasion, I came up with a rhubarb one that is not only seasonal but also damn delicious! You only need to prep the rhubarb juice/ syrup beforehand so that mixing the actual cocktail won't take no time at all when you're throwing that party. Let's get started!

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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DIY Foot Mask | Getting Ready For Spring

DIY

I'm coming at you with another beauty DIY today. I don't know about you guys but I just love trying to make my own beauty products at the moment. Many are incredibly easy to make and use only ingredients that are super easy to get hold of. This one here for example uses only 3 ingredients that every corner shop will have in stock and buying them won't break the bank either. I'm pretty sure buying a foot mask is more expensive then simply making one yourself.

Sunday, April 10, 2016
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Spicy Morrocan Couscous Salad | The Healthy Life

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After indulging in a few too many chocolate eggs and hot cross buns and carrot cakes and all sorts of not so healthy snacks lately I really needed to get back to more healthy meals, eating well and keeping fit. So one BIG healthy food shop later I had everything I needed for a week of clean eats! One of my favourite foods of all time (simply because it's so easy to prep and take to work/ uni/ school with you) is a couscous salad. Usually I just throw in whatever veggies I've got lying around the house but this time I decided to follow a recipe from one of my cook books, only slightly altering it to my taste. It was super easy to make and incredibly delicious! So here's what I did.

Thursday, April 07, 2016
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Lips for Spring | Favourite Lipsticks

Beauty

I'm typing this while the sun's shining through my window and the bird's are tweeting and it feels sooooo good to finally welcome spring! With the new season come new favourite colours as well as lipstick shades. I'm really into anything rosé coloured, subtle pink shades and blushed tones at the moment so expect to see a lot of that in this post. Not all of these are new purchases, on the contrary, most of these have been in my makeup stash for quite a while now and I only just rediscovered them last week when I had a big old makeup spring clean. So here's my favourite spring lip products: