Healthy & Delicious Breakfast

Below is the recipe for my delicious banana mashed potatoes.  I eat this for breakfast a few times a week and have also brought it to dinners as a side dish.  All of the ingredients below are great to incorporate into your healthy diet.  This meal will not only keep you full and satisfied but provides you with a good source of antioxidants and potassium.

Banana Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients for one serving:

• 1/2 sweet potato
• 1/2 banana
• handful of blueberries
• 1/4 cup of soymilk or almond milk
• drizzle of honey

Stab the sweet potato with your fork a few times and put it into the microwave for 3-5 minutes.  Wait a few minutes for the potato to cool and peel off the skin.  Take your banana and the sweet potato and mash it up in a bowl.  Add in your soy milk/almond milk and stir.  Put on your toppings and enjoy!

*Sometimes I put walnuts on top for an extra crunch

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Get Long Lashes and Locks the Natural Way!

Do you want longer eyelashes and hair without paying for extensions?  Try my all natural method below.

What you will need:
- 100% avacado oil (available at any health food stores or online)
- 100% olive oil

In a bowl mix 1/4 of a cup of olive oil and 1/4 of a cup avacado oil together.  Stir up the mixture and put it all over your detangled hair.  With clean hands scoop whatever is left in the bowl and swipe oil across your lashes.  WARNING: do not get this in your eyes!  I have gotten it in my eyes before and it doesn't bug me but as a disclaimer I warned you.

Leave on for 5 minutes to an hour before you hop in the shower and rinse. 

Not only will this promote hair growth but it will also leave your hair looking and feeling shiny.  You can also use this to moisturize your hands.


For more hair tips check out my post GET LONG HEALTHY HAIR!

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Snack Right!

If you are trying to eat healthy but really are in need of a packaged salty snack make sure you look for these words on the bag:

• All natural
• Non GMO
• preservative free
• zero trans fat
• cholesterol free

My favorite salty snack at the moment is SKINNY POP POPCORN.  It tastes so much better than that buttered down greasy crap from the movie theaters. 

If you have any guilty pleasure snacks you love please share them with me!!

Thanks!

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Help Fight Acne While Applying Make-Up

As we all know, acne sucks!  Isn't that the reason for make-up?  To hide our blemished skin and imperfections?

I have an easy and effective tip to keep your skin acne free while applying your foundation.  Spritz some tea tree oil on your make-up applicator before applying the foundation to your skin.

Tea tree oil kills bacteria and fungus so it is cleaning your applicator plus fighting off any bacteria on your skin.  This quick tip is just another fast and simple way to ensure your skin stays fabulous!!

XOXO gorgeous!!

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Cheap Make-up Setting Spray Tip

If you want your make-up to last all night or for a special occasion, I recommend using a make-up setting spray.  The only down side of using setting sprays is that they are pretty pricey.  

When I was a cheerleader in high school I would set my hair with hairspray and after I was done I'd close my eyes and hairspray my face.  My make-up would stay forever!  

All you do is hold the can about 10 inches away from you, close your eyes, and spray.  Keep your eyes closed for a few seconds after you're done so you don't get any extra hairspray in your eye.  Voilà I just save you $30 on something you would have bought at Sephora.

Have a Fabulous Friday loves!!

XO

Make-up stayed all day without me having to touch up!

Get Long, Healthy Hair

I love seeing women with long, healthy hair.  Pictured below is one of my besties and I enjoying a concert and here are some of our tips on having strong, healthy hair.

• Brush/detangle your hair before you hop in the shower.  This will make it easy to comb out after your shower and you'll spread the oils from the root of your hair all over.
• Use products without sulfate.  Sulfate damages your hair and removes the color.
• Use hair clips or hair ribbons to put your hair up.  They wont damage your hair like normal hair ties will. 
• Eat spinach and kale.  They are full of vitamins that speed up hair growth.
• Get a trim regularly.  Even though your growing out your hair its important to get a trim to take care of split ends.
• Before you hop in the shower apply coconut oil all over your hair.  You can leave it for a few minutes to half an hour depending on how much time you have.  The results will leave you with shiny, more manageable hair.  Check out what else you can use coconut oil for with some of my previous posts: Cleanse With Coconut Oil, Cocoa Eyebrows and Facial Recipe, and The Best Way To Clean Your Beauty Blender.

XOXO fabulous!!

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Health Tip: Don't wait until it's too late

It's the time of year for sore throats and sniffles.  Grocery store lines are getting longer and more crowded.  Before you get sick head to the grocery store and stock up on juice, vitamin C, and medicine.  One of the worst things is waiting in line to buy your soup and orange juice when your sick.

Plan in advance and pick up your necessities before you get sick.

XO

Make-up Tip: Getting Liquid Liner to Stay Put

Ever try directly using liquid liner to do that sexy cat eye or just your eye liner in general?  It can be extremely messy and any time I attempt it, I'll blink and my eyeliner will be in the crease of my eyelid.  

An easy simple trick is to first line your eyes with a pencil eyeliner.  This will be your guide for whatever look you want to do.  Then apply the liquid liner.  The liquid liner stays put and it looks darker.


XOXO fabulous!!

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