Pink Eton mess

A couple of weeks ago the weather was a lot more summery, Wimbledon was on and I saw these delicious looking meringues over on the lovely Olivia's blog. It seemed like the perfect excuse to consume a whole lot of calories and to use my pretty baking bowls (any excuse to use these!) So here is how to make pretty pink meringues to put in your Eton mess.

- 3 x egg whites
- 150g caster sugar
- Pinch of salt
- Pink food colouring 

- Single cream
- A selection of fresh summer berries
- Greaseproof paper

Yummy free range eggs, fresh from our little chickens in the garden!

Preheat the over to 150c. Start by whisking together your egg whites and salt until they form soft peaks, it's probably best to use an electric whisk for this or you might be whisking until next years Wimbledon!

Gradually add in the sugar, a spoonful at a time and whisk as you go, then add in your pink food colouring. I added in 1 teaspoon full and they looked more of a peachy colour when baked, so I would go for about 2-3 teaspoons. Whisk until you get stiff peaks when you lift the whisk.

Gently places spoonfuls of meringue mixture onto your lined baking tray and make a well in the middle for your fruit to sit in later! Bake for 30 minutes untill slightly golden, but make sure you don't get too impatient and open the oven door too soon or they won't work.

Silly me forgot to take the last photos of my finished Eton mess off my memory card before formatting it... woops! But you can see the cooked meringues in the top picture. They are really delicious broken up into a bowl, sprinkled with fresh summer berries and topped with single cream, enjoy!

Soap and Glory Review

I absolutely love Soap and Glory products, especially the body butters, Hand food and all of the creams in general! These are my three favourite products that I use on a regular basis, so I thought I would share them with you (not literally of course - they are all miney mine mine!)

The Righteous Butter - This a body moisturizer to get rid of and prevent dry skin. I think anybody who has smelt this will agree that it smells amazing! I am a bit rubbish at describing scents, but I would say it is very fresh, floral and extremely sweet smelling. You smooth it onto damp skin after a bath or shower, it sinks in pretty quickly and doesn't make your skin feel slimy at all, but I would advise that you just stay where you are until it sinks in, otherwise you will look like you have grown fur as all fluff seems to stick too it! The scent also lasts a while on your skin so you can smell nice all day.

Heel Genius - This is a foot cream (obviously) that is also designed to prevent dry skin. Now I think most people get dry skin on their feet, especially around the sides, toes and heels, and I would really recommend this to help it. Now unlike most of the Soap and Glory products that smell very similar, this has a much stronger smell but it isn't as sweet, (sorry I really a not good at describing scents). The cream itself is actually a blue-ish colour, but once you rub it in you can't see it at all. It takes a little while to soak in but overall it is really good and is apparently very good for your cuticules and nails aswell.

Hand Food - The hand food is my favourite product of them all. It is a hand cream that contains Shea butter, macadamia oi and... Marshmallow! Who would have thought you would find marshmallow in hand cream eyy? This has the well know Soap and Glory smell to it, very sweet and similar to the body butter. This also soaks in pretty quickly, however I personally find it leaves my hands feeling  little bit sticky, but non of my friends say it does this to them so perhaps it is because I have had this one a while now? Despite it being a little sticky though it does make my hands feel really soft (at least I think it does, but It's quite hard to feel what your own hands feel like)

 I really do love Soap and Glory, as well as the lovely smell of the products, It's the packaging that also sells it to me! I am drawn to anything vintage, pink, a little bit retro etc so I love this!

New Bracelet

This morning I went to a craft fair with my Mum, I had a great time and we looked around all the lovely little stalls selling card, jewellery making items and more! I bought this bracelet, which I think is a copy of the Links London friendship bracelets, for £4. There were loads of different colours and I was stuck between this one, a multicolored neon one or a black one, but I decided on this mixed pink bracelet in the end.
 I have also been having a play around with my blogs HTML and finally found out how to get a smaller space between my photos, I have been trying to find out how to do that for SO long! I have also tried to change the font, but I'm not so keen on many of the choices blogger gives you, so I I copied and paster some text into my new post box, and when I deleted it the font stays the same, even though it's not available on blogger. I did a bit of research and apparently if you use a font thats not available on blogger without embedding it then the font will automatically change. So I was wondering if you could all let me know whether the font is the same as in this screen shot? 

 

Bed Head - Tigi products review

I don't know how often I mention this on my blog, but I absolutely love Bed head products! I have a few other products, such as the 'control freak' serum which I also highly recommend! But these 3 are by far my favourite products that I have tried so far, and a included them in a hair of the day post a bit ago and was asked if I could do a review of them, so here you go... I get round to everything eventually ;)

Ego Boost - This product is a life (well hair) saver for me! It's a leave in conditioner and split end mender that leaves my hair feeling so soft and it smells amazing. (I hope I don't sound like an advert hehe) I apply 1-2 pumps to the ends of my hair after I have towel dried it and brushed it through. I really have noticed that my split ends look nowhere near as bad as they did and it has also prevented anymore from appearing, which is just amazing as I hate to get my hair cut. It doesn't make me my hair feel sticky in the slightest, it just leaves it so soft and smelling delicious!

After Party - I love to use this product after I have just dried my hair or after I have straightened it. I aplly about a pea sized amount, which sounds very little but it really is all you need, because a little goes a long way.  It is a smoothing cream that adds shine, and again smells amazing! It basically gets rid off all of the little fly away hairs that are suddenly oh so noticeable when you stand under a bright light. This again is a product that I would highly recommend, especially if the ends of your hair feel quite dry and damaged. It makes my ends feel so much softer and silkier.

Headrush - This spray smells like heaven, if it came in perfume form... I would buy it! It is a shine spray that gets rid of static hair and makes it super shiny and according to Tigi 'adds depth to colour and highlights'. Now I haven't noticed that it adds depth to my colour, but maybe that works better for different hair types? But I definitely agree that it gets rid of static and makes my hair look really shiny and people have even told me that my hair smells nice, a slightly fruity but sweet scent, so it must work!

Overall I would highly recommend Tigi's Bedhead products as they have done wonders for my hair and are definitely worth the price! I know that you can buy sets of the products off ebay, perhaps if you didn't want to pay the full price. The bottles also last such a long time, and you get a good amount for the price.