Introjuicing in Leeds - a detoxing blogger event

I recently attended the Joe Blogs blogger network event ‘Introjuicing’ for Currys, where the focus was to kick-start a healthier life with the help of an electric juicer.

The event took place at Lambert’s Yard in central Leeds on a quiet Sunday afternoon, and there were 60 or so local bloggers attending the event – an impressive crowd!

Just look at all the beautiful and colourful fruit!

We were divided up into 5 different groups – one for each station. I got to start at the ‘play station’, where we simply got to experiment with different fruit and vegetables to create delicious juices.

I was in the same group as my friend Dash from Mode Lily, and we made a juice with apples, raspberries, cucumber, strawberries, coconut water, and probably something else that I can’t remember…

It looks like grey slush, but it was actually really yummy!

At another station we learnt about green juices and nutritional supplements.
There are so many health benefits from drinking fresh juice. Cause do you know what happens to your body when drinking sugary fruit juice made from concentrate? 
You don't want to know!

The nutritionist Shakela made us a green juice including broccoli (weird but nice), which she then topped up with pineapple juice to make it even nicer. She also put a few drops of some special oil in there as it was supposed to make our skin glow.

Broccoli juice, anyone?

My favourite part of the day was the Rocket Yoga class. I’ve never tried proper Yoga before, so this was an experience! Especially since Rocket Yoga is a lot faster and more energetic than standard Yoga. The instructor Amanda from Yoga Elementz was really good, and we all got a little relaxing session at the end where lavender scented pouches were placed on our faces.

Namasté!

At the bar station we learnt how to mix appealing looking juices that can get away with being mocktails. The bartender Nick started off my mixing us a delicious juice consisting of apples, carrots, beetroot, cucumber and ginger. Again, sounds really weird, but it was oh so yummy!

Looks even better served in a wine glass! No one would have a clue that you weren’t drinking a Mai Tai at the bar ;)

It was a great Sunday afternoon spent mingling with other bloggers, and we all really enjoyed it.

Thank you so much to Joe Blogs and Currys for arranging this and for inviting me.

Winter nails

February has just arrived, and we’re in the middle of Winter.

We actually had a bit of snow last week, with a blizzard and everything! Not very common for England.

With me being from Sweden I always laugh at people’s reaction to snow, as I wouldn’t call an inch of snow “a lot”.

Anyway, this inspired me to create some Wintery nail art with snowflakes!

This is what you’ll need for this nail art look:

Light blue nail polish

Dark blue nail polish

Beige or golden glitter polish (I’m using Zoya Pixie dust)

Nail art precision brush in silver or gold

Top coat
 Makeup sponge

Start off by painting your nails in your chosen base colour. I’ve opted for the light blue polish for this, but chose to have an accent nail in the golden glitter polish.

Once dry, get your makeup sponge out, and paint 2 lines of polish on it – one light blue and one dark blue. Get to work straight away and don’t let the polish dry on your sponge!

Carefully dab the sponge on the tip of your nail, with the dark blue at the tip and the light blue towards the base. By painting both colours on the sponge you get a nice gradual blend on your nails. Keep dabbing until you’re happy with the result, and paint more polish on the sponge if needed.

Don’t worry if you end up with nail polish on your skin – you can easily remove this with a cotton stick afterwards.

Before you add your decorative snowflakes, paint a layer of top coat on your ombré nails as this will make the colours blend even better, and you’ll get an even surface.

Once dry, take your nail art brush and carefully paint on your snowflakes. I found it the easiest to start off with 3 straight lines crossing each other, almost like a star, followed by the little details on the snowflakes. But do it based on your own taste. If you want simple X’es, then go for it! I’ve added a bit of both. It also looks quite cool if the snowflake comes in from the side of the nail, so that you can’t see all of it.

And this is the result. Let me know if you decided to try this ombré snowflake nail art look, and how you got on.

For more nail art tutorials, look under the Beauty tab.