Miracle Tablets | Lifestyle

I have been dying my hair for about 18years now and will be the first to say that I don't take great care of my hair in between. I can go months without haircuts, get easily bored with the colour and have used more home dyes that I can count. With my wedding being next year, I realised I needed to buck my ideas up.

I have stopped using heat on my hair unless necessary (sometimes you need to dry your hair if you're like me and your washing days don't align with plans you have made!)

I am still on the look out for a decent hair mask as so far the ones I've tried haven't done much...

My hair is in the best condition it's been in ages... bearing in mind it's bleached... and I think it is all down to these tablets!

 Now, I've always been a massive skeptic when it comes to things like this, but after hearing about them from a friend after they had done wonders for her hair, I thought I'd give them a go. After all, what did I have to lose?

I ordered mine from Amazon but I'm sure you can pick them up in other places too and the ones I chose are the Solgar North Atlantic Kelp Tablets.

                                           

Apologies for the stock photo, but where I am now getting to the end of my pot, the label has peeled so much that you wouldn't be able to tell what they are! 

You get 250 tablets in a pot and take one a day. I'm not brilliant at remembering I won't lie... so I try and take them in the morning with my other pills.

Since taking these; my hair is healthier, longer and looks in such better condition.

The below picture was about 2 months before I started taking them.

   

This next picture is my hair now - I have also started bleaching my hair again as you can see, but my hair is no where near as elasticated as it has been in the past when bleaching and I can only think it is down to these miracle tablets!

I love them and tell everyone I can to get them because I truly believe they are a miracle. Have I said miracle enough times?

Now that the countdown is on for my wedding, I want my hair in the best condition possible. 

Do you have any wonders like these? I may be a true convert...

Much Love as Always,

New Stationery

As you all know I have a massive love for stationery in all shapes and sizes, so I get very excited when I get new bits and bobs to add to my ever growing collection.

A few weekends ago we went to see my best friend, her husband and her little girl in Bristol. We don't get to see each other that often so it's amazing when we do, plus Jack and I love Bristol a lot. 

As we don't get to see each other often, we generally have birthday's and Christmas' to catch up on. 

We were very spoilt and extremely grateful. I have packed most of our stuff away as they gave us some gorgeous house bits, but until we move back out I don't really have anywhere for them. 

So here is the stationery that I was given, which I obviously can utilise whilst here. 

First up is a gorgeous Flamingo writing set which I love. Although It's almost too pretty to use, but I can't wait to use it soon. Until then it's making my desk look pretty!

Next time is this gorgeous flowery pen which I'm going to take to work as I can never find a pen when I need one. 

I also got some cute pastel post its to use at work. One set is pastel clouds and the other is pastel rainbows, super cute. 

Lastly, some awesome rubbers! There is a fricking dinosaur! I love them. 

Thank you again to my gorgeous friend and her family for these fab pressies as well as all the others. 

Much Love, 

Scentsy Joy | Home & Lifestyle

When Jack and I moved into our last place, my gorgeous friend Emma gave us this gorgeous Scentsy set as a house warming gift.

It's amazing and in rose gold which is my favourite, she knows me well!

What I love about Scentsy is that the melts come in numerous different scents, so you would be hard pushed to not find at least one, two or twenty that you didn't like. 

She gave it to me with various melts to use and my favourite scents are below. Currently, I'm loving Ice hotel, Clothesline and Coconut Lemongrass. 

Plus, it burns at a temperature that does not burn or scald if you accidentally spill it. Which means when you have pets, children or if you are just super clumsy like I am, you don't need to worry. 

Also, as much as I love scented candles... which I do! With my burner, if I fall asleep when it's on it doesn't matter, as it is not a fire hazard. 

I can not wait until we get our own house so I can have many more burners around the house... maybe in every room. 

Do any of you use Scentsy? What are your favourite scents?

Much Love, 

Nail Varnish | Sort Through

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You may or may not have seen that I'm currently not very well. Being signed off might be the best thing for some people, but I hate being ill, missing out on things I need to be doing at work and not being able to even do anything here.

Today... day two, I decided to sort through my nail varnishes as I was so bored and have been putting it off for a good few years.

Knowing when we move back to Jack's parents we won't have masses of space has clearly kicked my butt into gear.

So I decided to try and do some stuff from my sick bed.

I had this rather large box to get through...

I really thought about colours I actually wear. I get my nails done with acrylic quite regularly so it's very rare that I actually paint my nails, so I wanted to keep colours I would actually use on these occasions rather than the puke hello that has been hiding at the bottom for probably 3 years...

I also wanted too ensure I had some for my toenails as I paint these a lot more regularly, but tend to only use nude colours unless I'm on holiday, so made a point to remember that too.

After going through them all I now have a box of colours I love as well as being a lot more compact.

I also have a small pile of colours to give away - the rest were old and horrible! I will see if any of my cousins want them.

This is the pile to throw away! To be fair, some of these are about 5 years old if not more... It was time...

I also decided to paint my nails while I was sorting through as, well, why not?! This is the colour Marshmallow and is a rather nice shade of pink.

Next up to be sorted will be my make up and clothes I think - as I can do them from my bed too.

Hope you are all well.

Much Love,

Tk xxx

30 Before 30

So a couple of weeks ago I turned 29 and it started me thinking about all the things I have done so far in my life.

• I am finally in a job that I love and that challenges me every day.
• I have the best family and friends around me who know how to make me laugh and to pick me up when I'm down.
• The biggest challenge in my life so far was when I went travelling to Australia for almost a year on my own. It was the best thing I ever did, and I always advise people to go if they can!

But I feel like I need to do more before the big 3-0.

So I have come up with a list of things I want to do, some small and others rather large!

I do feel like some may be slightly unachievable but I love a challenge.

So here goes... (no specific order)

• Walk over the O2 Arena
• See a show on Broadway 
• Drink a pint of Guinness in Ireland
• Go to Gay Pride in Brighton
• Have a girls holiday                      
• Swim with Sharks/Shark Diving
• Buy a Designer handbag.               
• Take part in a cooking class     
• Spend a day at Spitalfields Market
• Visit Scotland
• Visit an Ice Bar
• Break a world record (this was a suggestion from a work friend...she's finding one for me apparently... !)              
• Start to learn Turkish (I was always horrendously crap at learning languages in school, but I go to Turkey every year at least once and have done for 13 years as my grandma has an apartment there so I figure I should probably learn some!)
• Learn more about cars (I'm seriously crap when it comes to cars and as I use one every day I should learn a bit more!)
• Take more pictures and learn more about photography. 

• Actually get a proper skincare routine in place and stick to it! 
• Go to a Disney Afternoon Tea
• Visit Harry Potter World in Florida
• Finish 100 Books in the year
• Save a deposit for a house
• Sing at an Open Mic Night (Super scary! although I used to do musical theatre, I don't like being able to see the audience!)
• Make more memories with my family and friends. 
  
• Start Pole Dancing (I've heard it's great for fitness!)
• Move up in my job
• Enjoy a Sunrise and Sunset with Jack
• Lose 4 Stone (I have started Slimming World and am on it!)
• Reach 1,000 followers across my Social Media
• Reach 1,500 unique visits a month on here
• Reach 100 subscribes on my Youtube channel
• Be on the radio - (I have actually completed this one- I was on Radio One's 'Whats my age again' last week!)

Did any of you have a list like this? Did you manage to complete it?

Much Love, 

Tk xx

Monzo

Rewind a few months ago, and Jack was raving about this pay as you go card he'd found run by a crowdfunded bank that his mate at work had told him about.

I was extremely skeptical, and also didn't really see the point in all honesty.

I had a bank account already, why did I need more cards clogging up my purse? Especially when I would have to move money over in order to use it, which seemed like a lot of extra hassle that I wasn't keen on.

Eventually he wore me down and I agreed to get one.

To start, you download the Monzo App, and fill in all of your personal details, as you can expect. You also need to send a 15 second video of yourself to confirm your indentity, which I was a bit skeptical about to start with but it's not as bad as it sounds. They confirm your video against pictures from your passport or driving license that you also send pictures of.

Once this is all sent off, you will then see a cute little gif of your card winging it's way to you.


The app shows you when you spend your money, as well as where and also splits your money into categories such as Shopping, Groceries, Eating out and more.
If required, you can change these if they have got it wrong, although I have never had to!

I had to admit defeat and accept that Jack was right, which is super difficult for me to say!

Recently, the company have upgraded many accounts from prepaid to current accounts. So we still have bright orange cards, but we can use them as we would with any other bank account.

The app is also new and improved, still categorising your spends, as well as having saving features called 'pots'.



You are able to name the pots whatever you like and move Money into them super quickly and easily.

We are also to pay for items together, by requesting a split monzo payment. (obviously only available with friends and family who also have Monzo cards)



I would definitely give Monzo 5 stars and if you haven't heard of them and want to know more now, click here for more information.

Any questions, just ask!

Much Love,

Tk,

xx