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Keep your skin, hair and body hydrated this winter.

  Its hard with central heating being on full blast everywhere you go, and the wing blowing crazy to keep your body and hair at a level of happy hydration! so i've been testing out products for the past few weeks to try and source the up-most best hydration products to see you through winter. Don't wind up all shrivelled like my beautiful rose. Enjoy the colour on this post, i'll start to hate bright things again soon..

Left inwards:

1- Cowshed is one of my favourite cosmetic cream brands, i love their packaging and brand ethos. This product is quirkily named 'cow pat'. It feels lovely on the hands, absorbs in minutes and doesn't leave a greasy residue the size of the product is really handy as well and supplies an easy application. 

2- This limited edition tub of 'aloe vera' vaseline was almost made for the winter season, its cute little tin fits perfectly inside any purse, and stands out inside of a massive handbag for easy grabbing. Aloe vera is one of my favourite natural remedies its lovely to sooth the skin and heal little scratches and scars, the smell raw is a little off-putting but when the plant has been treated its divine. 

3- Last but not least is my favourite of the bunch, I bought this on a whim and I'm never going to stop using it (unless i run out of money then ill have too) it cost six pounds which is pricey for a low brand heat defence product but it works wonders. I have really long naturally strait hair, that can friz under heat and windy weather. I smooth this from the middle to ends of my hair and comb through just before blowdrying. If I'm doing poker strait hair, it makes it shine and look thick and full. It also helps to create a smoother wave or curl. I love it so much. 

I hope this helps you survive your winter.

Jessie
xx

Cao Hui | Visual Temperature

Despite this making me feel terribly ill, I couldn't stop looking at. Maybe that was the intention of Hui when he created this exhibition. To me this says gluttony, greed and highlights the amount we personify solid objects. It puts into perspective how we place material things above the understanding of humanity. 

Looking at these spilling sculptures embarrasses onlookers.. they look unusual and make us feel mortal. I interpret it as a 3D representation of how much power and humility we give to things we buy, as if they have internal functioning organs. 

The pieces show how uncomfortable we are with our functioning bodies, and how we would much rather cover it under a lovely leather arm chair, or fancy statue. Seeing whats actually inside of us reminds us of mortality and in a sense frightens us. This shouldn't be the case, which I 'think' is the artists point. Foreign objects created from un-natural things should have more of an impact, as a human race we are uncomfortable with our bodies and organs. I feel Hui is trying to tackle this, however gory the format. 

 These were created using various wax's and resins, no actual blood or animal parts were used. The artists technique is amazing, he manages to make the internal organs look sickly, and angry as if they are screaming to us for not paying them enough attention.

 'Ordinary objects spilling their guts out'

 Jessie

Hi callum

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Beef steak with greens and goats cheese | Five minutes to make!

This tasted absolutely divine and surprisingly took me only five minutes to make! (depending on how you like your steak) I cooked this rare. 

What you will need:

1. Piece of frying beef or steak (can be any cut you like fillet, sirloin etc....) as a student this was my budget
2. Rocket salad leaves 
3. Salt and pepper for seasoning 
4. Goats cheese 
5. 1X chopped tomato 
6. Fresh spinach 
7. Oil 

Make this in five minutes by following these easy steps :)

1) 

Fry steak in hot pan with oil, season with salt and pepper.. this varies in time depending on how you take your steak. I normally just sear both sides and serve. 

2) 

Prepare salad bed. Mix rocket and diced tomato on plate. Once steak is ready place on top of salad bed so juices can soak through.

3) 

Wash spinach and fry in hot oily pan for a few minutes, not enough time for the spinach to shrivel, optionally season with salt and pepper. 

4) 

Place spinach next to steak etc... and sprinkle the whole dish with crumbs of goats cheese. 

Enjoy because its fuckigdfd divine. 

Jessie 

xx 

thai curry with curly kale

Make this for under a fiver... being a student is no excuse guys. 

For reasons un- be known to me recently i've caught the cooking bug and seeing as I don't have anything else to put up on here I thought why not share the things Im making on my blog. 

Im constantly trying to be healthy trying out new foods to help with weight loss, and a better generally more healthy life style (contradicted by the alcohol consumption sadly) this is tonights conquest made with real chicken (although I tend to use quorn) because its a little bit quicker. Im going to try to post some more food things on here (excuse the horrible kitchen I'm a student) all of the recipes will be bought within my student budget and won't take too much time to product because sadly... I'm a busy girl..

What you will need:

1. Chicken breast cut into pieces 
2. A thai curry cooking sauce / coconut milk (optional) 
3. Curly Kale 
4. Green beans 
5. 1 Onion 
6. Pepper/ chosen spices etc...
7. 1 Lime
8. 1 Green pepper
9. Spinich

The final result....

1.

Dice onions thinly and green pepper. Remove both ends from green beans and rinse under cold water.

2.

                           Add chicken, onions and sliced green pepper to a hot frying pan.

3.

             Add thai curry sauce and green beans to pan, stir through and leave to simmer. Continue to season throughout pan frying process. 

4. 

        Add spinach to the pan and stir through. Spinich will shrivel and fold into curry. Leave to simmer.

5. 

                      Grate lime zest and add to mixture, then squeeze lime into curry until dry. 

6.

                       Put curly Kale in pan with bolding water and leave to boil for three to five minutes 

7.

                    Drain and leave to sit for a few minutes. (Again so sorry for the gross kitchen) 

8. 

      Place curry on top of the kale and enjoy! 

Enjoy 

Jessie! 

xx

A home time surprise | future bedroom tour

Since going back to university to finish off my first semester (second year) my mum has been LOUDLY decorating the house, we've had a crazy decorator that drank tea like a fish and sang to our dogs, and big radiator leaks but It's safe to say since coming home this weekend for a few days its all worth it and the house looks lovely. A surprise for me and entire reason for this blog post is my lovely new bed room that I didn't know would be finished and look this lovely, especially as I spent the majority of the year living away from home.

I am going to do a longer blog post showing all of the bits in the room as this isn't the best picture, Im also going to be doing a list of where everything is from etc... and price, availability. Just wanted to share it with you... as it was such a lovely surprise. Have a beautiful weekend.

Enjoy

Jessie 

xx

A case of writers block

Im not sure if I have writers block, flu or exhaustion from all my uni work, but I'm really struggling to think of what I want to write about on here, if anyone has an idea of what they'd like to read about let me know! I'd be really grateful and hopefully be able to shift my frozen brain! 

New post will be up soon, fingers crossed..

Enjoy 

Jessie 

xx