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Product Review: Exposed Skincare, The Cure For Acne?

♥ Exposed Skincare Range


Clean and clear – that’s all I ask. And as someone who has suffered from acne since the age of 13, I don’t think it’s too much to ask, now that I’m 36 and still categorise myself as ‘blemish prone’. Possibly like many others, I thought I’d grow out of it, and there have been times when no-one would ever suspect I battle with problem skin – particularly when I was pregnant, but since staying constantly pregnant is not an option – I’ve had to search far and wide for assistance to keep the zits at bay for many years.

Yes, I am one of those people who has literally tried everything on the market, topical and medical, including two courses of the strongest dermatologist prescribed treatment there is – Roaccutane at the ages of 17 and 30. Great when you’re on it – not so great when you’re not – and once again, not something you can take forever.

So what next? Enter Exposed Skincare!

Never heard of it? Well neither had I until one day when google searching for ‘acne treatments that actually work’.

Of course I was skeptical, as someone who had seen and heard all the sales pitches before – the perfect balance of science and nature, clear skin in 30 days guaranteed, special introductory offer etc etc, plus hello, you can only get it in America – got to be a farce, right?

So what made me try it – and love it, to the point that I felt the need to write this article and share my experience?

♥ Picture from the Exposed Skincare website!

♥ Firstly, no celebrity endorsements, but real success stories – I did the research on the people they promote as their ‘Exposed users.’

♥ Secondly they told me if I sent them my empty bottles of any other acne products I’d tried, I’d get $25 dollars off the next purchase,

♥ And thirdly they offered a one year money back guarantee. Now I’ve heard of 30 day or 60 day money back offers, but one year was quite persuasive!

So clearly I took the plunge and signed up for the ‘Exposed Advantage’ and have kept my purchasing account going for just over two years.

But what about the results I hear you screaming! Well I can’t claim to be completely blemish-free and every monthly cycle still presents those hormonal spots – but I can absolutely say that Exposed does do what it says it will do.

♥ Just one of the natural ingredients in the range – green tea!

It does treat active acne and prevent bumps from coming up in the first place. It combines those active ingredients (salicylic acid) and a range of natural botanical ingredients like sage extract, green tea, tea tree oil, licorice root and passion flower, that work well enough to do the job, without drying or irritating your skin.

It does unclog your pores, regulate oil production and calm redness – fast! And yes I did indeed see a difference in my skin in just 30 days.

So if you’ve got a similar story to mine and feel like you’ve tried everything – I’d say try this. For me it’s worth the $49.95 plus $19.95 shipping charges, to be sent out from the USA by Fed Ex direct to my door, every three to four months. I’ve spent a lot more on other products and medications that don’t last as long and have done a lot less.

Hope it works for you too.

Available online at: http://www.exposedskincare.com/

Review by Carrie, complete Exposed convert!

One Week Wholefoods Challenge – Feb 2012!

Roll up, roll up! It’s time for a bite sized challenge that will kick-start your wellbeing and have you equal parts zinging with energy and cruising with calm. Sound good? Then read on.

So here’s the deal:

♥ For one week from Monday 13th of February – Sunday 19th December I am going to be doing my darnedest to eat only wholefoods. This means no junk food like: chips, chocolate, burgers, icecream, candy, biscuits etc. I would like you to join me if you feel so inspired!

What can we have instead?

Instead we will feast like Kings, Queens & other noble folk on everything that is GOOD FOR US! 🙂 This means wholefoods and herbal teas, smoothies and lean sources of protein – I would encourage you to cut out as much meat as possible for this one week, if you eat it, otherwise try and get free range! You can get all your protein needs met from vegetable sources such as lentils, chickpeas, beans, avocados and, my favourite, quinoa!

How do I keep track?

Commenting on this post! I’ll be coming back and updating my diet day-by-day so you can check out what I’ve been eating, I’d love you to share your daily menus (and how you’re feeling) in the comments section below and ask any questions you need answered + check out what other healthy delights participants have been tucking into.

Recipes & resources:

These links should help you on your way! Remember, if you have any questions or need support then post a comment below, lets try and help each other out 🙂

Recipes

Fresh & Easy Summer Quinoa Salad – a staple of mine.
Stove cooked porridge, plus roasted almond snack
The Amazing Epic Salad of Goodness / Life (TM) – !
Mango, Avocado & Butter Bean Salad
Amazing looking superfood salad
A Basic Green Smoothie Recipe
Green smoothie #1
Avocado, apple & berry smoothie – a fun twist on the regular green smoothie.
Blueberry, banana & cashew butter smoothie
Healthy, snacky, fruity balls
Superfood Raw Fudge Balls – perfect for dessert, or when you just want something sweet!

Resources

List of whole foods from WH Foods – this website is the BEST resource! They have tonnes of recipes, all super healthy and tasty. Make good friends with this page!
Teresa Cutter – healthy Aus chef with incredible whole foods recipes.

PS. If you have any fantastique links to recipes etc please mention in the comments and I will add to the resources list!

SO LETS GET STARTED! Kick off monday morning with a healthy bang, personally I’ll be having a green smoothie to start my day. Comment below to get started! XOXOX

Monday

Breakfast

Green smoothie consisting of – frozen banana, 2 handfuls of baby spinach, large glass of water, 1 cup of frozen blueberries, 1 tbsp pepitas, 1 tbsp organic beauty oil, 1 tbsp liquid vitamin b, 1 tsp floradix (mega smoothie!)

Lunch

Chickpea, avocado, cucumber, pineapple & black sesame seed salad (so good)

Snack

Bowl of Anskos brown rice porridge w/plum, apple & cinnamon

Dinner

2 x avocado on rye toast w/salt, mashed chick peas & sweet potato.

Breakfast

1 x Nudie Orange, Pineapple & Mango Smoothie (Had a crazy morning and was in a giant rush!)

Lunch

Mashed sweet potato and chickpeas

Dinner

Salad – 4 bean mix, dried cranberries, avocado, tomato.
Salad – cucumber, tomato & lettuce
Coconut water
Hummus & healthy crackers
Strawberries

(Valentines picnic!!)

Snacks

Sicilian herb & garlic roasted chick peas

&hearts (Wednesday, if you didn’t guess!)

Breakfast

Quinoa, pepitas & banana mixup
1 x Reboot Your Life Very Berry Good juice – and wow, was it good! More to come on this…

Lunch

Leftover four bean salad with quinoa & diced yellow capsicum and tomato
Green juice from PAWS Cafe

Dinner

A large corn cob, quinoa w/pepitas & lightly steamed zucchini

Snacks

Raw apple crumble with cashew cream from the PAWS Cafe (ahhh-mazing!)

Disclaimer: I’m no doctor, if you have a medical condition or are currently undergoing any form of medical treatment or taking medication, please check with your general practitioner before commencing any new program of eating.

Big Day Out Gets LUSH!

Yours truly isn’t the biggest fan of music festivals, despite being a huge fan of music, the crowds, the craziness, the dirt, the heat and the standing for hours on end between bands you don’t-actually-want-to-see all leave me a grumpy mess about an hour in. But when you get to watch the band you came to see, then oh is it worth it.

I’ve long wished there was a way to make the bits I don’t like about festivals disappear… maybe get a massage or facial in between bands? A bit of a spruce up? Well kids this year Big Day Out goers are in luck because they’ve teamed up with the sweet smelling sugar doves at Lush and gone and made this happen!!!

Think free face masks, massages, cool-down treatments and even bottles of their earthy smelling “Grass” shower gel for the washrooms. Pretty good. Even better is that these pamper sessions are FREE!!

So in between rocking out, jive on down (wrong era?) to the LUSH tent to chill out and get a little wellness into you while waiting for your fave band to play!

Check out www.bigdayout.com for more info on the event and let us know if you’re keen to check to get some festival style pampering!

Be well,

Annette

xoxo

Certified Organic Skincare Giveaway: Serenade Organic Restore Eye Cream!

If you want to start your year off in the best way possible (and who doesn’t?!) then you’ll be thrilled with our latest competition to win 1 of 3 ultra-luxurious certified organic eye creams from Serenade Organic!

Serenade Organic is a WA owned company, and their products are 100% certified organic, free from toxic chemicals, synthetic ingredients and artificial preservatives. They’re also 100% dreamy!

The Restore Eye Cream is a nutrient rich blend of nourishing Shea Butter, anti-aging Organic Rosehip Oil and cooling Cucumber Oil, which all work together to help keep the delicate skin around the eye supple, nourished and youthful. It also reduces minimises the appearance of fine lines AND puffiness – does this sound like a wonder product or what?

The other great bonus is that you only need a really small amount, as it’s such a gorgeous product packed full of active ingredients, a teeny bit will still do you wonders!

To celebrate this amazing find, we are giving away 3 pots valued at $54.95 each to you, our devoted readers!

All you have to do to be in it to win it is:

♥ Leave a comment below with why you’d like to win…
♥ And then like Serenade Organic on Facebook, so simple!

Good luck 🙂 The competition will be drawn on the 30th of January…til then, if you’re keen on checking out Serenade then they have a fab little 10 day travel pamper pack for $29.95 with their three products (all 100% certified organic) which you can get into!

Be well,

Annette

xoxo

Perth Online Beauty Media (POBM!) Event Wrap-Up and Reviews!

♥ POBM Gals ♥

This Sunday just passed was the culmination of months of organising and planning, the result? The first Perth Online Beauty Media event! So what exactly is POBM? Well it’s a group of girls (no guys…yet!) from Perth / WA who blog and write online content related to beauty and wellbeing. There’s plenty of us, and it was high time that we all stepped out from behind our respective computer screens and got together for an afternoon of networking and strengthening of the online beauty media industry in WA.

It was an amazing day, held at the gorgeous Djurra Day Spa in Fremantle, with healthy raw food pizza and sweets provided by The Raw Kitchen and beautifying drinks by Emma & Toms. A host of other generous sponsors supplied items for the goodie bags (links below)!

I’ve decided to share some of the less formal photos, scroll down and check out the behind the scenes action, as well as a whole heap of blog posts from our attendees which go into a bit more detail! Enjoy!

Bloggers arriving at the lovely Djurra Day Spa!

Online beauty media girls receiving their amazing Aveda blue oil treatments

Yumm!

3 of my writer gals, Kelly, Jacqui & Adriane, chowing down on some raw food 🙂

Megan from Beauty in the Sky trying some raw pizza, and looking very cute!

Adele (our naturopath for the day), Rebecca from Bride in White & Ali from Creatures of Commonplace trying some of the ‘Radical Action’ juices!

Jane from Flourish Magazine and I about to find out if we’re zinc deficient with a zinc test!

Adriane checking out which goodies to pick in the beauty product swap!

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Find out what everyone else though with this amazing array of blog posts below!

Dempeaux – Perth Online Beauty Media #POBM
Amgoorie – Perth Online Beauty Media #POBM & haul post!
Creatures of Commonplace – POBM, way better than CHOGM
Beautifully Glossy – Perth Online Beauty Media Event – POBM!
Don’t you know April Rose? – Perth Online Beauty Media Event
Dont they know who I am? – Perth Online Beauty Media Event – watch us creep out from behind our computers!
Beauty in the Sky – POBM girls are doing it for themselves!
Beauty Down Under – POBM – Perth’s Online Beauty Meet Up
Coveted Canvas – Perth Online Beauty Media Event
Bride in White – POBM

Hope you enjoyed checking them out! 🙂 Can’t wait for the next event.

Be well,

Annette

xoxo