Last weekend it was lovely spring weather and that includes a healthy and easily digestible spring recipe, Spring Rolls with Shrimp. This is a recipe that I always thought looked delicious on, for example Pinterest, but had never made it for myself. It's pretty simple, you just need to gain some skill in filling and rolling up the rice sheets. Spring Rolls with Shrimp Recipe. You can vary endless with the ingredients, I kept this recipe very basic and served it as a lunch but Spring Rolls are also delicious as dinner or as a snack. What do you need. I put no numbers ...
Smashbox Photo Finish Primer Water
I love primers, they provide a natural result, make your skin smooth and makeup stays on much longer. Most primers contain silicone, I've no problem with that I actually like the feeling of it on my skin, but there are skins that don't respond so well on primers with silicone and some women find the feeling of silicone on their skin uncomfortable. Smashbox is a very well known and popular brand when it comes to primers and these contain all silicone. But now Smashbox has a primer on the market based on water instead of silicone, in the form of ...
Institut Esthederm Photo Regul
Almost everyone loves the sun, it gives you energy, is good for the supplementation of Vitamin D in your body and with a beautiful tanned skin you look better and rested. I've a skin that doesn't burn quickly, I've a lot of pigment and get tanned very quick. Unfortunately after my 2nd pregnancy I get troubled by hyperpigmentation on my forehead. Lucky for me, the development of sun protection is also going fast and now there's a product that protects your skin and active offers a solution against pigmentation. Institut Esthederm Photo Regul. The French brand Institut Esthederm is a luxury brand ...
Too Faced Melted Lipstick
A while ago I bought a Too Faced Melted Lipstick online at Sephora, I liked that lipstick so much that I've bought 2 more colors when I was in America. Although the pictures online are almost exactly the real deal, still the benefit of the physical store Sephora remains that you can test the colors out for yourself and see them with your own eyes. Fully named; Too Faced Melted Liquified Long Wear Lipstick is now available in 32 colors. These colors are divided into three categories; Melted Chocolate, Melted and Melted Metal. It's a liquid lipstick that comes in great-looking ...
Book your Beauty Treatment at Treatwell
Photo by Treatwell Did you know you can easily book your beauty and wellness treatments 24/7 online? Treatwell is the largest online beauty booking site of Europe where you can easily make an appointment at a beauty salon, hairdresser and nailstudio, but also offers a lovely day in the sauna or a massage. In the Benelux there are more than 2,500 salons that have joined the beauty platform Treatwell, most of these salons are present in large cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Brussels and Antwerp, but also in the smaller towns there are many salons registered, so ...
L’Occitane Hand Creams
I always have a hand cream in my handbag, I wash my hands quite often every day (it's almost obsessive behavior :)) and my hands feel therefore quite dry. In the winter my hands get dry very quickly, but also in the summer or after a holiday in the sun. L'Occitane is the brand when it comes to taking care of your hands. I immediately tested a trio, including the best-selling Shea Butter Hand Cream which is enriched with 20% shea butter. This hand cream is bought every three seconds somewhere in the world, so yeah it's truly a bestseller! L'Occitane hand creams. How ...
Recipe Coconut Soup with Red Lentils
I thought that it was time again to share a delicious and healthy recipe with you. I love soup and usually I make a pretty standard chicken or vegetable soup where I make small variations in. This recipe is a soup I've never made and that I've come across in the American magazine Clean Eating, it's a vegetarian coconut soup that's delicious for lunch or dinner with some bread from the oven. I take you through it step by step how to make this delicious and refreshing soup. Recipe Coconut Soup with Red Lentils. What do you need. 1 tsp coconut oil 1 onion ...
STARSKIN Bio-Cellulose Second Skin Face Masks
Sheet masks, the hype in beauty land from Asia where they are few steps further in skincare. Sheet masks are individually packed masks infused with serum that you lay on your face like a 2nd skin for about 20 minutes. This works quite nice, very clean and no mess, after the exposure time you take the mask off your face and massage the remaining serum into your skin. Meanwhile I've several sheet masks at home by different brands that I still have to test (Dr. Jart +, Sephora en Karuna), but the first sheet mask that I've tried is of Dutch origin, ...
Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil
As I mentioned in my previous blog post I shopped a lot at Sephora while I was in Florida, with the result that I'm now a VIB (Very Important Beauty) Member. I purchased great beauty products and some of them I will definitely give a review on my blog. The product that I'm showing you today was on my wishlist for a while, I even mentioned it in my Christmas Beauty Wish List 2015 blog post, it's not a cheap product but I had heard so many good things about it and it's worth every penny. This powerful oil for the ...
Paula’s Choice Resist Anti Aging Cleanser
After 2 weeks of celebrating a holiday in sunny Florida with my family, it's time for a blog post again. Of course I've bought quite a lot of beauty products (read; @ Walhalla Sephora) and I became spontaneous a VIB (Very Important Beauty) member so that says enough ha!). There will be a review about some of these beautiful products I've bought on my blog. But first I want to talk today about a product I've tested the last few weeks and that went also into my suitcase of a brand that I've been fan of, Paula's Choice. Paula's Choice Resist Anti Aging ...