21 Benefits of Avocado

Recently I bought an avocado, which after hearing lots of reviews about it, I used as a face mask! The results were amazing, and so I thought I'd share with all of you the benefits of putting pure avocado onto your face and letting it sit for 20-40 minutes.

Avocados are well known for being one of the words most healthiest foods and are recommended in a babies diet, with loads of health and beauty benefits. In some countries it's also known as a butter fruit or alligator pear! This fruit is full of natural and essential nutrients and this is why it's commonly used for treating health and skincare problems across the world, as well as being consumed as food.

1. Avocados reduce the appearance of lines, wrinkles and dark ageing spots. As well as scars and stretch marks.

2. They treat Brights disease and often psoriasis.

3. Avocados instantly hydrate and brighten the skins complexion, this fruit is often used in moisturizers for it's moisturizing properties.

4. Works amazingly as a sunscreen, this fruit prevents burning in the sun and can also be used as a treatments for burns. Win win both ways!

5. Butter fruits such as the avocado contain antioxidants which help to protect the skin from environmental and sun damage.

6. Medical experts recommend drinking avocado juice to help those who struggle with dull skin.

7. Not only are avocados known for their healing benefits but they are also great for clearing your skin from spots and preventing break outs.

8. It helps keep the water in your skin which helps keeps it glowing.

9. Avocado oils are great for deeply penetrating and nourishing the skin.

10. If you have dry or damaged hair, avocado is great for repairing the split ends, adding shine and keeping the frizzyness under control.

11. Avocado butter also protects the hair from heat and chemicals that may be put in during styling.

12. And it contains omega 3 which is essential for beautiful shiny hair!

13. The fruit is known for stopping hair loss and stimulating hair growth.

14. Avocados are full of vitamins such as vitamin E and B6.

15. It's also great for preventing such cancers and other diseases.

16. Avocado reduces indigestion and lowers blood pressure levels.

17. Butter fruits contain high fiber and carotenoid lutien which protects the eyes from cataracts. Improving eyesight upon consumption.

18. Controls bad breath.

19. Baby food!

20. Avocados aid insomnia, constipation and nervous system problems.

21. Helps weight management.

After using this as a face mask, with no other ingredients included, my face was extremely glowy and soft to touch. It's defiantly something i'll be doing again!

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Rimmel Primer

Disclaimer: Rimmel London DO NOT test on animals, yet products from them sent to china are.

This may be the new holy grail of primers... no more than £6.50 a tube and works so so well for the price.
I picked this up today after having to get rid of my other primer (baby skin) because it was tested on animals.
I've just applied it underneath all of my make up that I usually wear, and holy cow it's perfect. I have really dry skin so most of the time my primers and foundation make my skin look flaky, however with this product I didn't even put moisturiser on before hand and it's extremely smooth and glowy like it says and I don't feel like I have anything on my face at all!
The primer itself isn't tinted, it's more of a moisturiser consistency and colour. I feel like I could wear this alone if I didn't feel like applying all of my make up. Great product, great price.

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Golden Egg & Hoppity Poppity

 Hoppity Poppity and Golden Egg are two of my favourites from the Lush Cosmetics Easter range.

This adorable little bunny is only £2.50 yet I would put this on my list of favourite products probably coming in second or fourth! I've heard a lot of different reviews on this product, most of them saying it's rubbish for the price and smells awful. I totally disagree. It's an extremely cheap price for a Lush bath bomb and the smell is made up of violets, lavender and lime. A really refreshing yet relaxing smell. The popping candy helps it fizz away and it's gone within a minute so you have to watch it closely until it's gone, but other than that it turns the water the prettiest pastel purple/pink colour and I just overall really enjoy this bath bomb and would definatley buy it again and again.

This sparkly golden egg is also from the Lush Easter range, which means it's only out for a short amount of time before it's gone for another year. But luckily I picked it up this year and the appearance blew me away, the gold dust will stick to everything and is really hard to rub off... Which I learnt after putting my hand onto my face after holding it... This one takes a lot longer to fizz away compared to the hoppity poppity, roughly 3-5 minutes or more depending on how hot the water is. It smells strongly of sweet toffee/caramel and leaves the water a bright yellow colour with lots of glitter.

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Top 10 Favourite Lush Products

 Here I'm going to be listing my top 10 favourite products from Lush based on the ones I have tried so far.

 1. Christmas Exclusive - So White bath bomb. This was one of the first christmas items I ever picked up and it smells absolutely beautiful. It's outside is plain but the inside is a pale pink. The whole bath bomb smells like subtle fresh apples. This bath bomb is really fresh and uplifting.

 2. Twilight bath bomb, my absolute favourite. This one is all year round and is often described to smell of lavender and blackcurrant. It has lavender oil, tonka and ylang ylang oil all packed in to make it smell beautiful and leaving your skin soft and scented ready for bed.
This bath bomb is best used in the evening as the lavender relaxs you and makes you drowsy.

 3. This one is also a product available all year round and is called Shoot For The Stars.
The smell is very similar to the twilight as it's based around night time bathing. Yet this one is much more colourful and glittery in comparison to the twilight bath bomb. When fizzing this will legit look like the night sky with glitter, dark blue and yellow swirls.

 4. Big Blue bath bomb, a product available all year and is full of seaweed and fine sea salts from the deepest oceans in the world. This has a citrus smells with a hint of lavender and turns the bath water into what looks like the ocean, quite literally.

 5. Melting Snow Man bath melt. Bath melts are neither a bath bomb or a bubble bar but more of a lump full of essential oils and ingredients to soften your skin. I've only had this one once and it's unfortunately a Christmas exclusive, but it smells amazing, like gingerbread men and Christmas all in one.

 6. The new valentines exclusive Unicorn Horn. The most popular bubble bar at the moment that creates mountains of colourful sparkly bubbles. I can't quite describe the smell of this one but it definatley has something relaxing like lavender maybe. But the whole outside is covered in lustre dust and real candy stars - I don't recommend eating them though.

 7. Brightside bubble bar. Crumble this under running water for heaps of bubbles in the bath tub! This one is by far the best smell in Lush personally. It smells of freshly juiced oranges and even the smallest amount in the bath makes the whole house smell fruity.

 8. Bubblegum Lip Scrub. These small pots may only be 25g but they last ages (if you don't eat it all as soon as you get it), it's 100% edible ingredients and used to scrub the dead skin off your lips and leave them smooth and polished. Plus is tastes amazing.

 9. Snow Fairy Shower Gel, is a Christmas exclusive yet is the most popular smell along with Karma. This is my favourite shower gel EVER and I use it every time I take a bath, I'm really dreading running out of it. It's full of sparkles which sometimes stay on your skin afterwards and smells like candyfloss.

10. I'm not fond of many perfumes from Lush however this one is great. It reminds me of what full on hippies would smell like! It quite a heady smell with notes of orange and lemon so defiantly smell it before buying.

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Hair Growth Tips

Ever wanted to know how to make you hair grow faster than normal? Or maybe you're stuck in the growing out stage of your hair like me.

I've gathered some tips to help kick start your hair growth.

1. Don't ever brush your hair when it's wet, it'll just rip it out.

2. Give it regular trims, mostly on the tips of your hair and split ends. When people say this helps hair growth and you reply that hair grows from your roots. You're correct but when you hair grows and you have split ends, it'll just split straight off.

3. Hair masks keep your hair in good condition and will also make your hair look shinier and healthier. You can find different hair mask recipes online.

4. Eat lots of protein foods such as eggs, red meat, nuts, fish and seeds.

5. Massage or brush your hair gently everyday for 1-2 minutes simulating the scalp and the movement of blood which is essential for the follicles of your hair.

6. Never apply conditioner to the roots of your hair, it will make it greasy quicker and stop the skin on your head from breathing and clogs the pores and follicles.

7. Try using silk pillow cases instead of cotton and don't wear your hair in a tight pony tail while sleeping, this will pull out hairs and cause pain in your scalp.

8. I've not tried this one, but apparently rinsing your hair with apple cider viniger works too.

9. Take vitamins and supplements. You can buy ones specifically for your hair but to me, these don't work and are a complete waste of time and money.

10. Foods that help hair growth -
Avacado
Eggs
Oysters
Salmon
Blueberries
Kiwis
Limes
Strawberries
Lemons
Oranges
Sweet Potatoes
Lean red meat
Spinich
Kale
Cashews
Walnuts
Almonds
Duck
Chicken


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Blogging Tips

I have recently seen a lot of people on instagram who want to be ''bloggers'' but don't know how and their pages are pretty awfully set up with no tabs etc. So here I'm going to be giving you tips on how to run your own blog and be successful at it.

1. Firstly you need to make the blog. You can use whichever website you like, blogspot/blogger and wordpress are the most common websites and the easiest to use. However you can use other ones such as Weebly or Wix.

2. Once you've made your blog you need to research tips and youtube videos on how to improve your blog. I did this for the layout and appearance of my blog to make it more presentable.

3. Use light colours for pictures and backgrounds etc. Black is often associated with hacking website.

4. When writing your first blog post you can either write about yourself and why you've set up the blog or go straight into what you're blogging about.

5. Write about positive things. This makes all the difference, writing about things that are negative or depressing won't make people want to come back.

Now you might want to know how to get lots of followers and views?

1. Make sure you have some kind of other social media website such as instagram, start following other bloggers and people that have the same interests as you. Mention your blog frequently and offer to check theirs out too.

2. On instagram put lots of different hashtags on your photos especially if they're screenshots of your blog, this way more people who look at these hashtags will come across your photo.

3. You CAN download apps if you're really desperate for likes or followers such as ''get followers'' where you like or follow other people and they return it instantly, just look on the app store.

4. Share your blog with friends and family! You can add the share button onto your blog so people who view it can share it with other people too.

5. Post something daily, don't over do it and write loads every day. People will get bored of scrolling through the pages to find recent posts and you won't get many views.

6. Make sure you write in your fluent language and add the translate feature to your blog so people from every culture can read and understand your blog, this will boost your followers and views significantly!

7. Get ideas for blog posts from your audience! Ask them what they want.

8. Understand your audience, what they want to see and what they don't want to see.

9. At first write things for yourself, don't think about the fact other people are seeing it (if they are) just write what comes to mind and be open.

10. Finish all blog posts with contact details, people can be blind to contact details on the side of your blog!

11. Host legit giveaways. This literally draws in loads of people.

12. You must be consistent and push for what you're trying to achieve. Promote your blog everyday.

13. Show your knowledge! Don't be afraid to express the things you know and your intellect.

14. And lastly, give it time. Blog views and comments won't appear from no where, you have to work for it, promote it and let people know it exists. ''Good things come to those who wait''.

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