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good day good day it is wednesday

and i feel like there's a lot to say in this youtube video

but welcome back to my channel i'm in the middle of making lunch it is it doesn't seem

that dull and dark right now

but i've had to put like the hood lights on the hood the hood the hood lights

because it is it's just dull by me it's also quarter past three the the times

that i'm getting to eat my lunch are getting a bit silly right they're getting a wee bit silly

but i'm doing the usual

i'm making a tofu like a barbecue barbecue tofu wrap is currently pan frying for a bit crisp

i'm not gonna lie i'm kind of off the hair softness of the wrap i need a bit of crunch

but welcome to wednesday let me just check on my children um

so much is happening right now i'm

so excited um for the amount of things

that i am currently working on uh oh god um

i'm actually going to jump back to the start of this day show you breakfast because i've leveled up my oats

by making a chia pudding I'm going to show you actually I made a chocolate chia pudding

because I always put chia seeds on my porridge

but I've been hearing for

so long you're supposed to actually soak them thus I made a chocolate chia pudding

and I'm just putting a big whopping tablespoon on top of my porridge

but let me see if my burrito slash wrap needs a flipping ooh look

that's what I'm after

please don't fall apart i've wrapped it very quickly oh my god see how dull it seems

when that you're not like directly in the light

but anyway welcome to this video i'm going to jump back to breakfast

and show you the delicious concoction using the chia pudding

and then i'm going to jump back to present time okay

we've leveled up the oats with a new normally i put chia seeds on

but i've been told for a very long time we're supposed to soak your chia seeds

so i've made a chocolate chia pudding this is three days in i think i need to try

and get rid of this today

and tomorrow um i will put the recipe in the description box

it's essentially just cacao powder chia seeds oat milk bit of vanilla bit of sea salt

i didn't put any maple syrup in it because i add maple syrup

when i make this so we're just gonna and it's just got a nice

let's just do a big big old tablespoon it's a bit annoying that it's cold and my porridge is hot

But aside from that, what are we going to do?

Chia pudding, chocolate chia pudding.

The almond butter addiction literally is continuing on.

There's no other nut butter that compares to the almond butter.

She is just beautiful and nutty and roasty and just fabulous.

We'll put that this side.

honestly this is such a bougie sounding bowl of oats but it's really not can you even see this,

hold on let me just chop up some some freshly washed strawberries

and I have to say that because Instagram has a thing about double checking

that I have washed every bit of food that I consumed

it's very strange it's like please tell me you washed that broccoli

please tell me you washed this and it's like why do you care I did but why do you care a little

you have to finish the porridge first what have I done

I've not even made the protein coffee but I will get on

that and show you the final result I have a tiny bit of a throat situation

Tiny bit of a throat situation I'm not best pleased

Also I just did my nails the other day I'm trying not to vlog my face

Just did my nails the other day right

Beautiful wonderful cat women vibes

And this whole hand broke off yesterday

Bar one Bar one

You want to lick it?

This is coffee I like the coffee

Coffee's yuck isn't it?

Little do you know well done mommy's making her breakfast you've just had your yummy porridge haven't you

yuck yuck yuck yuck coffee I don't like it I don't like it I know it's yuck

psych

psych anyway the breakfast of champions come on where I nearly dropped my porridge

I'm not actually going to blame you that wasn't your fault

now that that is the sound you want your wrap to make not that soggy softness

I've actually just made a TikTok and Instagram stories telling you guys about a freebie that I've put together for you right,

stay tuned listen up, if you're vegan, vegetarian trying to eat that direction and you are,

you like it eating out or you don't know where to eat out in the UK

and the USA I sat and compiled together

a free pdf guide

that let me just read out what i called it your plant -based guide to the best vegan dairy free

and meat free orders at the uk

and us chains you already love 60 plus chains across the uk

and usa right it's i just feel like sometimes eating out as a vegan

it's a bit of a minefield especially if you're new to it um

so i want to sit and show you what i've made um

and all you need to do is um i put

it in my bio in my description box bio description box

she's like i can't keep up with it all with all different social medias right

but basically I put it together um I'm on a I'm on a high today

because I feel so excited about work I feel so also

I feel so excited about work I feel

so like I'm bringing out I feel like there's a lot of good stuff coming with PlantFit

and I just absolutely love it and I just wish every single person out there

that was vegan or vegetarian and just trying to look

and feel their best would just come and join us come

and join us um because it's in my opinion the best thing ever

so oh my god

this needs cleaned right eating out guide basically um how to use a guide

i will tell you it's not just like what's vegan in these places

but also maybe like what the highest options are they have

20 plus grams of protein right um a couple of tips to be better rules not rules

but like if you're trying to stay on track whilst eating out you know

and it's just things like this it's nothing

it's not a big massive hoo -ha guide i try to make it as simple as possible

so for example in the uk the mcdonald's

you can get the fries hash browns apple pie the melon fruit bag

and obviously the main thing to order is your like mcplant um watch

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it out for things you know just tips and tricks

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and advice this this is gold guys um it's gold could have sold it

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but i'm not i'm just deciding

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that just a free guide to give back to you guys

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and help you out over the festive period especially

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because i mean you're probably hitting up weatherspoons for a christmas

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lunch like day out maybe some maybe some snacks with your work folks maybe you want to go back to

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Wagamama's

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while you're out shopping for your Christmas stuff I don't know whatever

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it is you want to do maybe you're jumping on a plane Pret

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if it's at the airport Pret is my absolute favorite it's

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so good um

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but yeah there's um a lot of stuff in here obviously

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I'm talking about my app for a wee bit just to just to show you um

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but then the USA obviously we've got things I've never heard of

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but I had to do a bit of research a bit of research

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and we found out this place called sweet green chipotle

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i miss you however i do think tortilla in the uk is possibly better

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um but yeah this is just this is that so

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if you want it i'll link it down below right i think i'm too hyper today

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that that my lunch was not enough food and did

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that ever happen that you're just on a roll um

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so i need a snack

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and i made a batch of chocolate orange baked oats 20 grams of protein right literally tastes like some dessert

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i'm actually gonna put a bit of custard on it

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because that's the kind of mood i'm feeling right now can you even see this hmm let me see um hello

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hello hello this is why i'm

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so excited right i've been on it with the work

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and on it to bring you guys some stuff um

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so this is actually part of my new meal plan wait a minute

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i'm gonna show you this my new meal plan for my festive challenge

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which i'll tell you about real quick i don't want to bore you with the details

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if you're not interested in it but let's just do a bit of food

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goodness right now can you see no you can't right

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this is what I'm talking about chocolate orange baked oats 20 grams of protein

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I made a batch of them I filmed it

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and had to take a chunk out right bit of alpro custard yep

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that is my snack like cake like dessert

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but it is part of my eight week challenge that's coming out over the festive period it's already launched

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but we start on October 26th and it is a full eight week program gym

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and home available it's only three workouts per week

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because realistically it's asking for feedback

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and over the festive period a lot of people feel like they fall off track

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they're too busy with their social life they think I'll just wait till January

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and you actually set yourself back so far

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so the consensus was please can we just have three workouts

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a week to keep on top of things keep consistent

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and actually still make progress without it being any more than

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that and then seasonal recipes they're all meal print friendly at least 30 grams of protein per meal make it

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so simple so easy a private whatsapp group

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full spang full spang it's called sleigh season

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but spelt like sleigh like santa sleigh i know genius um

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it's available now for early bird price the price will go up tomorrow on friday the 16th

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um and then we start on the 26th

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and we're all going to start together and we're just going to run

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and it finishes the 20th of December

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so a full week before Christmas just really just give it your all for the next eight weeks

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it's not even your all it's three workouts a week just really try

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and stay consistent over the next eight weeks so

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that by the time it comes to Christmas time not you have to earn Christmas dinner

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or anything like that but with social events and obviously eating out more

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and Christmas dinner

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and all the rest of it sometimes it's nice to just

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have a bit of a plan in place to still stay somewhat consistent make some progress um and

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And.. you know the week before Christmas

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you can then be like do you know what I locked in I did what needed to be done

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now I'm gonna chill out I'm gonna enjoy the festive period

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and not feel like oh I kind of wish

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I'd done a bit more you know like I get like I said

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you don't have to do anything over the festive period but

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if you want to I will leave the link to

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that down below as well

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so down below you'll have the early bird sign -up price for the sleigh season

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and you'll also have the link for the free guide to eating out over the festive season

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this is why I'm on high i'm on it absolutely high

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because i just feel like i'm just i'm on it i'm on it with plant

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but i'm like come on give the people what they need give the people what they need and with

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that being said i need to eat this i'm gonna have to share

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it with blake let's be real she's gonna see it she's ate half my wrap um

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and then my baby needs to go to sleep so

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let's eat it i'm not gonna lie that's one of my favorite recipes i've ever made in my life

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and it meal prepped so well like i made this yesterday

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and i needed a bit more custard there

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because it was too delicious um can we see it like a cake for breakfast yes please it's so good

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sorry it's actually delicious there's like melted chocolate in it it's really strong on the orange zest

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it took five minutes to make by the way too well five minutes to make half an hour to bake

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but then you can make three for like the next few

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hours ah don't pull my pajamas down freddie don't pull my

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trousers down oh good morning good morning happy friday um yes with the covers okay

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you aren't tucked in it's 10 in the morning break it's not bedtime anyway um let's just have a quick

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check in at where we're at um feeling

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so good with work right won't lie oh my gosh right you leave

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that alone please um feeling productive feeling good loving all the stuff

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that's coming out motherhood has taken a toll on this aesthetic um

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Blake is an angel child and has been since day one I've always

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when she's been in presence of other children been like wow

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your child is feral mine is an angel um not to point fingers

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but now mine is feral

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and no longer an angel I don't know what has happened

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we missed the terrible twos literally never happened never had terrible twos

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and whenever people said it i was like can't relate you know will a painting for me no don't be

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so ridiculous um we went from not terrible twos to traumatic

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threes like it's like she has a black personality like one minute she's the usual angel self

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and then the next minute she's screaming at me it's no everything's no it's she's now waking up during the night

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Blake has slept through the night for like two years well

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and and now all of a sudden during the night she's up

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and she's out and she's just not she's not having it

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so the tantrums have started there she's acting like a teenager it's weird it's tantrums

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and it's we recently toilet trained as well and

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that was a whole

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that took a toll on me man toilet training is not for the week it is not for the week

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and we left it quite kind of later on

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because we did try

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it about six months ago wasn't the time um as you can tell freddie's trying to climb all over me

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but anyway pointing

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that scene i feel like i've had a bit of a shock to my system lately

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and it's my birthday tomorrow it's my birthday it's my birthday it's my birthday um

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and i need to i need to fix myself you know i will not succumb to the trials

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and tribulations of motherhood

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and let them show up on my face thus let's spend

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the next half of this video doing a bit of a how to glow up in your 30s

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because i truly believe whoa

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that your 30s are the best time ever 20s were fun 20s were trial 20s were whatever

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but the 30s is where it's at the 30s is where

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it's at okay step one of this pre -birthy glue up is well actually

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I've got a blog post about this yesterday

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if you guys break my new obsession is sub stack sub stack

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it's basically it's a blog forum type thing um wow it is actually saving my brain

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because i am i'm a sucker as we all are doing scrolling on tiktok on reels blah blah blah

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i've now tried to switch my brain right excuse me i now try

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and use social media like instagram

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and tiktok to scroll to look for things to relate back to my work

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you know i'm like oh what's what's kind of trending what

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are other people doing let's kind of get inspiration blah blah blah

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I'm trying to associate social media with only work other than

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you know when i check up on my friends here

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and there um i'm trying not to just like scroll mindlessly

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i'm trying to relate it back to what i am personally also doing obviously that's not all the time

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but i'm trying to do

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that like 80 percent of the time um however sub stack

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i it's like reading it's not just a blog like to me blogs are kind of like whatever like

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when you read like oh my god speak words

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i used to have a like a recipe blog nobody wants to read a recipe blog.

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You want the recipe and that's it.

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You don't want all the chat around it.

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He's playing with his xylophone.

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But Substack it's more like...

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I don't want to say like a gossip column.

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That's not it.

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Do you know what's given?

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It's given Sex and the City.

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I've never even seen

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Sex and the City right.

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I've never watched it.

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However the whole...

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I know what the premise is behind it and I know like

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that girl Carrie like writes a blog or whatever or a news article or a journalist.

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I don't know.

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Something like that.

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That's what's given.

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But it's given that because of the people i'm following on it i'm following the women

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that are posting about like wellness and being in their 30s 30s

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and 30s came out at the same time there basically girls

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that are like i don't really like referring to myself as a woman i like to see girls um girls

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that are like in their 30s posting about wellness

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but posting about like realistic things posting about things they love

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and what actually is worth your money and all this kind of chat i'm for it i'm for all of that

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um and I've kind of related mine into somewhat that

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but also kind of keeping

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it in with what I already talk about on social media um I will link it down below as well

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but yesterday I wrote a huge big post I sat for ages

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and just wrote a post about how I'm going to glow

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up harder in my 30s than I did in my 20s

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and we're applying it to this part of this video um

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and I was talking about how the real to have a real glow up

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it's not about wearing fancy clothes it's not about what makeup

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you're buying it's not about like design of stuff blah blah

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it's like internal a glow up is internal a glow up is you know the saying

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that people say on instagram they're like oh

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and having a fit body is the fit like you could you don't have to wear a fancy outfit

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when your body is buying you know

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when you are in like tip -top shape

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when you just look great why would you need external things

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my child um to glow up no the glow up is internal thus

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your skin your hair and your body shape

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but also your mentality all these things go and read it

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if you're like interested it's honestly i really enjoyed writing it um

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but yes we're going to do an internal glow up a my chia pudding is the start of

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that the chia pudding i'm putting on my oats is a whole level of like antioxidants

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and like omega -3s and goodness in the body to help the glow up i'll chat through

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that more as we kind of go through it

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so number one i need to shower because i don't know what this hair is

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this is not birthday here i really hope my god my voice i really hope this weather improves tomorrow

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because i my plans to go out

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and a speed drive go a wee walk get a wee coffee coffee somewhere

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and that's just doing it oh the weather's calling why you're always raining

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there are three things that i have changed about my shower routine that i think are 110

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necessary for leveling up your shower routine i know that sounds

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so silly but

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when i was writing my slip stack yesterday like what i

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was talking about was like your glow up is literally internal right

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you can dye your hair all you want

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you can wear designer clothes all you want you can buy the fancies to have creams

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and makeups whatever all you want but they act as band -aids

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and cover up problems

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if you feel like you have things

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you don't love about yourself for example thus trying to emphasize

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your like natural state in my opinion is the best way to like have a glow up

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or that's what I'm after anyway right

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I don't do any like cosmetic things other than I do I have been dying my hair

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but I'm actually going to stop dying it for a while

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and let the natural color grow out

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but it's like i don't do like botox

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or i don't know whatever skin things people do right

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i don't even know what they are this is how far behind i am um

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but i have noticed lately

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this smile line is trying its best to oh my god

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decide to see they're trying their best to really make an imprint on my face

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and i'm like calm down just just don't just don't bother but at the same time

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a smile line in my opinion is from smiling it's like crow's feet are from smiling

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so it's my face just a really happy face that's what i'm looking at it as um

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and like all my like my mom my aunties and all

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that they all look so good my gran is literally like 86 right

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and none of them have ever touched their face

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and i would love to look like them when i'm like 60 and 80 so i'm in no

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and this is the thing as well i think i also spoke about this recently is see when i'm like

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60 70 and i think back to like the good old days

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or think back to when i think

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when i think back to like what my kind of golden years are going to be.

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I do think it's going to be in

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my 30s I think it's going to be when my children are young

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and I think it's going to be

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when I look this state I don't think it's going to be

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when I'm like 21 or 25 why would it be

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that my children didn't exist then so I don't think I'm going to think about

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that I think I'm literally going to think about my early 30s

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which is now thus I'm going to look back at 60

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and look at this face

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and think wow she was beautiful wow like she thought she looked old um you know

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so I don't think I look old

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I just think some things are starting to happen anyway

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I digress um this is the message

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I want to give to to you ladies like just whatever um sorry I keep looking over

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but Freddie is inside my wardrobe

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and there's a lot of things he's not allowed to have

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anyway leveling up your shower routine a as much as I

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don't really feel like you have to rely on external factors obviously looking after your hair

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and your skin comes from within right

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that comes from within from your food mainly

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but obviously good products on top of

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that help i have always for the past few years used mona money whatever

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it is for my hair absolutely love them 10 out of 10

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but this vinegar rinse leaves my hair the shiniest ever

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and i have dry hair like from bleaching it

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and all the rest of it dry hair

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and dry skin it's not it's not a vibe

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but this vinegar rinse i basically wash my hair with the shampoo

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and conditioner no i wash it with the shampoo then i rinse it with vinegar rinse

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and then i do the hair mask um all from the same brand

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and it is chef's kiss amazing

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then step two swap out your shower gel for a bar of soap a bar of soap

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it's amazing see shower gel it just smells of stuff

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it does i don't feel like it actually cleans you a proper bar of soap i think the one

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that we got it was from tesco

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it's called like is it something naturals oh i might have to google it um

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because it is so good it just feels so much like cleaner.

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Bar of Soap Tesco.

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No, not Dove.

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No, no. It's some Naturals.

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Oh, this one.

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The Little Soap Company Naturals.

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So this right here.

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They have a bunch of different ones.

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That's an olive oil one.

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The one I have is like a lemon one.

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Oh, it's so nice.

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And it lasts ages and it's so cheap compared to shower gel

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because I feel like shower gel you just like squish it out

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and it's gone anyway number one vinegar rinse your hair get good quality good quality shampoo

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and conditioner bar of soap not shower gel and number three use oil

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when you're finished washing yourself coat your body in oil to make it soft

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because I can't be bothered coming out and body lotion

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and just CBA body oil and I either just use coconut oil

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or right now I'm using Freddy's baby bath oil

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because I ran out of coconut oil come out silky soft

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and then your fake tan sips it's so nice like

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so nice so that's my shower glow up routine um i'm gonna go dry my hair

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and then move on to skincare

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because i'm getting a bit crusty right skincare wise the most simple skincare routine i have nailed right

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and i feel like i've used pretty much the same skincare routine for years like

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if you literally go back five years my old house everything you'll see me use these products

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but i've actually just made it even less because time time

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so the essence um so i use a vitamin c i use this one by gurney

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and vitamin c brightening serum it already has niacinamide in it

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but i do also use niacinamide by the ordinary

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and i also use hyaluronic acid by the ordinary now those three things i try using in the morning

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and then finish it with a moisturizer

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if i can't do all three like literally don't have the extra 20 seconds i will just do vitamin c

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and the moisturizer then at night time i'll do the hyaluronic acid

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and the moisturizer because night time you can have like more on

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and let it all soak in type of thing

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i do enjoy a wee mist by disciple is it disciple london something like

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that um i've had these for years i actually think they might be off

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and i need to get new ones you can tell how long i've had it look

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because i got sent loads of them years ago

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and i've never made my way through them all enough

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that they might have went off um right

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i have found a new moisturizer moisturizer is something i change up just depending on

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if i'm out

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and i just grab one this one i found in tiki max right

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it's a korean skincare brand it's called bonnie hill it's an ultra moisture oh my god ultra moisturizing

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rice niacinamide cream eliminating and hydrating now it needs to say ultra moisturizing

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because like it's oh my god ultra moisturizing

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because i get quite dry skin so i googled it i looked it up

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and i was like is this vegan is this cruelty free according to google yes

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it is um six pound 99 right like all these things

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these are all like less than a tenner right oh oh budget friendly

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i would say skincare i don't do fancy skincare fancy hair care yes

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because i feel like i need it like my hair needs it my skin does much

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£6 .99 from Tiki Maxx I don't think it's that price

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if you buy it like as is made in Korea um

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the soft like let me get in let me have this on like oh my god

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it's a bit bright Edward Cullen

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like look at it it's glowy like I feel like it's I can't actually even see

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if it's glowy

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and I'm blind um it is just I don't know

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I sent it to my sister I sent it to my friends I was like please go

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and buy this it's the best moisturizer ever and this is not an ad I I literally saw it on TQ Maxx,

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it was between that and another one and then I revealed it

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and that was the winner

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but for £6 .99 it is huge like it is a huge tub

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but put it this way I'm going back to TQ Maxx on Sunday to see

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if I can get more

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because I just personally feel like it's it is super hydrating

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like it feels like my skin feels like it's being moisturise and

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but it just has a bit of a what would it go um

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it is a bit glowy anyway I'm trying to decide

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if I'm doing makeup today or not do I just do like the everything shower and everything

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prep I'm not even going anywhere exciting tomorrow in terms of like out anywhere to dress up

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but I just want to feel something oh led mask

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that's what I'm going to do I'm going to do my LED mask

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and then I think tonight I'll do a face mask but right now I think I'll just LED mask

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and blow dry my hair

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so I blow dry my hair with the Dyson my hair is still in the postpartum phase right

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and that's another thing I find it quite hard to have a proper glow up

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and really feel your best when you're still postpartum

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and postpartum can last as long as you want

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it to last right for me I don't feel postpartum like in my body

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but I feel postpartum because I'm breastfeeding and lack of sleep

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so when you're not sleeping and you're breastfeeding i .e your boobs are north south east

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and west from each other they are leaking all day long

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and they are a food source for another human being your body's still not 100 % yours again thus

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I don't feel like a true blow up is necessary it is it's not necessary it's possible

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because I still don't feel like

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me is for me does that make sense I still feel like I'm still giving

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and still giving myself to the children

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but also the lack of sleep my god my god

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you don't function like a normal human being you're not optimally up

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there hormone wise positive wise all the rest of it

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and same with breastfeeding your hormones are obviously everywhere

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so i feel like this is the best version of a lot

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we can do whilst we're still in this stage of life bring on 34 next year

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just saying but i also feel like you can't fully build the body you want either

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when you're breastfeeding you can definitely get close like i definitely feel happy with my goals

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but i feel like obviously breastfeeding takes so much nutrient wise it takes

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so much of your food all the rest of it

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that you can't fully build the muscle mass you want

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or you can't fully get as lean as you want

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because obviously you need to give up the milk supply and then that milk supply takes your food

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so we're kind of in a we're doing the best we can right we're doing as best we can

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but anyway i'm gonna dry my hair i think i'm just gonna blow dry it straight with the dyson and then

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that way tomorrow i can curl it the way i want it's it's not looking it's not looking great

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that i've just washed it

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but my hair does not dry nice naturally thus i need to go

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and blow dry it because it just goes very just not nice

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so we're going to blow dry okay final aesthetic touch

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that we're going to do is am nails i hate to get my nails done right

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and i'm not someone that's like oh i got my nails done look look look

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and i just don't enjoy it i don't enjoy oh my god i need to shave my big toe.

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That's too much for the internet is it?

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I'm sorry girls who else just all of a sudden like randomly gets peridose.

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Anyway I had laser hair removal.

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Do you know why I noticed these things?

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Because I had laser hair removal.

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I actually had laser hair removal before I was pregnant with Blake so like four years ago maybe.

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Best thing I've ever done.

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Best thing I've ever done.

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I went to a place in Silverburn.

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What was it even called?

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Don't know what it's called but Silverburn shopping centre just outside of Glasgow.

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There's a laser clinic in there and And I got like everywhere, I mean everywhere from, did I do a moustache?

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No, I don't think I did.

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But armpits, Brazilian, full leg,

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bum holo, full champagne, lasered, gone.

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And I tell you something, that was more humbling than giving birth.

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Because giving birth, there's a purpose, there's no option than to just like lie there with everything out and get a baby out of you.

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Laser hair removal.

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Do you really need to be on all fours getting a bum hole lizard?

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No. You don't.

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Anyway, I digress.

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Candy claws.

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Best nails there are.

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I'm just going to pop them on.

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This hand is fine.

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This hand don't know what happened.

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Died a horrible death.

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Did she just hit me?

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Yes, Blake?

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yes queen come here all right and i'm just gonna do these nails as well

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and i will show you the final result this is before painful

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done um lazy girl

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or busy girl hack to have nails done is just bye stick on to home

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because sorry i'm not about to spend two hours traveling get

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my nails done traveling back not happening not happening um

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i've got it honestly i must have had 10 different packs of these love them love them

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i was sent them ages ago and i'm gonna rant about them

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and not paid not an ad i just think it's great

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you can probably buy them like regular acrylic what they called press -ons stick -ons i don't know boots

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or something i don't know but i got sent these ones

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and i really like them i like the colors i think the fit is absolutely perfect um

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so here we are final step is going to be fake tan i'm not going to video it

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because i think i've literally done it my last three videos loving tan fake tan self tan lotion

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and mousse best things ever i'm gonna put a wee bit on my face

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so i wake up in the morning all bronzed and glowy

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and nice um i don't think i'm going to curl my hair today i think i'll just leave it so

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that i can do it fresh tomorrow even though i think

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i'm literally going on a walk what i asked for for my birthday was a pair of jeans

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because my pre -partum pre -partum pre -pregnancy jeans are too tight

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they do not fit me they're too tight they're also not the style

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i like anymore they're just not fitting right

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i'm kind of off the high waisties

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i wanted low rise loose straight legged nothing fancy we got a pair of jeans um

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that was the one thing i requested

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and then i want to go out for breakfast

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i want to go out for breakfast even though breakfast is my favorite part of the day

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so that's bold um i want to go out for breakfast

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and i want to go out for the day just like

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drive for an hour somewhere the weather's hopefully to be nice it's ought to me I kind of

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so I think a few maybe two years ago we did a Harry Potter tour in Scotland right

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which is a one day effort we planned it out went to three different places went to Glenfin

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and Viaduct where the train goes went to Dumbledore's like resting place

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and then went to the Black Lake no absurd

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and we also went to like Hagrid's hut like where Hagrid's hut used to be the hut is no longer

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there but you can get the hill that they run down in Prisoner of Azkaban

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is there um the actual spot where haggard's hut was is there

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and then like the view behind it

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that they used to film we're harry porter fans like we are we are die hard love it um

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and it was

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so fun it was a full day thing we got

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we went out like six in the morning

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we drove with blake in the car she was only a baby at the time

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and we just like drove to all these spots and it was so fun

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and i actually kept saying this is such a fun day this is like the best thing ever loved it however

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however I thought

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so we went to the Glenfinnan viaduct the train was not in season thus

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we stood there for like an hour um waiting on this train

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and it never appeared because it wasn't um actually running so

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that was funny um kind of wanted to go there again but it's three hours away

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there's not going to be time for going somewhere for breakfast like actually stopping

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and sitting in and eating breakfast for like an hour

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and then driving for three hours

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and then driving three hours back that's a lot to do

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if you're only going to one spot

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if we were doing all the different spots that's different

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because then you're stopping you're getting out you're doing one thing

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and you're getting back in you're moving on that's different do

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i want to be in a car for a total of

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six hours of my birthday with freddie who hates the car

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so i have to sit in the back between two car seats probably not probably not

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so that was option one um option two is Loch Lomond, Lass, somewhere, I don't know, somewhere to just adventure around.

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Don't want to do anything fancy.

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I want to just dress comfy.

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I want to go, okay, and I want to go in the autumn weather, and I want to prance around with a beanie hat on,

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out in the fresh air, in the sunshine.

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That's what I want to do.

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Pancakes and coffee, gallivant in the fresh air, and then I want to watch the new

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Spider -Man movie when I come home, and then I'm seeing all my family on Sunday.

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Oh my god, and my sister got engaged.

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My sister got engaged in dubai a few days ago happiest

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time ever like love her now fiance excuse my boyfriend fiance uh love him coyote is great

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and um i'm so happy for them oh my god i forgot not forgot about

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that but for those of you that followed me for a

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while and i've seen my sister in the past can't believe it i actually can't believe

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that my sister is engaged to be married like she is five she's not five

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but in my eyes maybe she's 12 but no she is going to be

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so her birthday is a couple of weeks after me

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i'll be 33 she'll be 31 where's where is life going guys where's

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it going enjoy it that's what i'm gonna say um let's all just stop being negative

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we're all gonna just literally turn into dust one day so let's just go and live our life um anyway

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um that is that so yeah we'll celebrate her engagement

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and my birthday on sunday just a nice wee a wee fam afternoon

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but anyway i do guys let's move on i'm gonna go

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and take tan and then i'll probably close out this video this has been a bit random

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but also a bit not also a bit not

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i don't know what i'm gonna say next

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i honestly feel like i could have done actually getting my hair cut um

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i'm trying to grow out my color because i'm still

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so torn with it oh my god i like a vampire right now um I'm very very torn

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because it's actually my natural color's darker than I remember it being I don't know

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if it's just getting darker like on its own like with age

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um but like normally like I said before like I do dye my hair quite blonde

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but it's literally been snapping it off

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so I'm just trying to like grow it all out get it super super healthy

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which i definitely feel like it's getting there like this looks this looks healthier um

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and it's definitely not like snapping but then we're also like postpartum phase

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and it's just a lot right there's a lot going on too with the the hair situation um

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but i feel like i could have done with getting it just cut at least

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because there's like no shape to it like these are my face framing layers

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and my face does not end down here um so there's

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that but anyway that's what it's don't need a haircut for your birthday um third thing

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that was on the list

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so number one on my sub stack I wrote about food being like the be all

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and end all right

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if you want to have a glow up

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you need to start eating well you need to a fuel your body with things like

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that are full of antioxidants like fruit vegetables

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that literally comes out through your skin people that are really into wellness and drink

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and eat well like their skin normally looks great unless you've got some kind other issues going on normally

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you have that glow already it also then helps your physique

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so that's point two but moving past food there was then the section i spoke about exercise

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and how having a fat body is the fit you know

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it is literally the fit um lifting weights sculpting your body

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is 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 um you will never look at someone

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that is in really good shape that is like got muscle mass

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and lean and has abs

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and all the rest of it you're never going to look at them

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and think that they don't look good you know like they do they tend to look great

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but then point three was about mindset um

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and i just i personally think

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if you're trying to have a glow up you're someone that's positive it shows

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that your mentality your attitude like your whole persona your aura whatever

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it is your vibe shows on your external it absolutely does

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if you are a grumpy miserable person you look like one let's be honest um

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and i just think mentality is everything especially in postpartum

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if you're right now in a phase where you're just like not 100 % feeling like yourself

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or like motherhood is the law

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or there's just other things going on trying to be positive about things

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and reframe things and look at things differently makes a whole difference in the world

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and I think pouring into yourself in this kind of way in some kind of glow up way

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or just looking after yourself in some way whether it's through your food whether it's through exercise

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or whether it is do you know what I've done a skincare routine oh

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I've upped my hair care routine I've really taken time for my everything shower and I'm using I

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don't know body oils and whatever like

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if those things make you feel good then absolutely

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that's how you personally go up I think

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this video is probably long enough I think I'm going to edit

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it together about like the sub stack down below I will link my chia seeds recipe down below

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that I got it I think it was from minimalist

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Baker I will link the free eating out guide down below

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and I'll also link down below my eight week festive challenge

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because that in early bird price ends tonight at midnight on the friday the 16th it ends

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and it goes up by i think 10 pound um so

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if you want to join it i would go on it today

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and i highly suggest you do

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because it's eight weeks you can have a glow up in eight weeks

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you can focus on yourself for eight weeks

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and yes you can get results in eight weeks

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but guys thank you so much for watching it's my last day of being 32

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and i will see you next week

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “glowing up in our 30's”. This video has 658 sentences and 7738 words to shadow. The speech runs for 38:54. The speaker talks fast, about 199 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
glow verb	/ɡloʊ/	To emit heat and light without a flame.
nail noun	/neɪl/	The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human).
pudding noun	/ˈpʊdɪŋ/	Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
routine noun	/ɹuˈtin/	A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
festive adjective	/ˈfɛstɪv/	Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
recipe noun	/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/	Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
wash verb	/wɑʃ/	To clean with water.
fancy noun	/ˈfæn.si/	The imagination.
wrap verb	/ɹæp/	To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
soap noun	/soʊp/	A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
stack noun	/stæk/	A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
vegan noun	/ˈviːɡən/	A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products
meal noun	/ˈmiːl/	Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
seed noun	/siːd/	Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
mask noun	/mæsk/	A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
go up verb		To move upwards.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
grow out verb		To allow (something, often hair) to grow unimpeded.
blow up verb		To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
break off verb		To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping.
bring out verb		To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
calm down verb		To become less excited, intense, or angry.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

We'll put that this side.
You want to lick it?
Do you know what's given?
Do you know why I noticed these things?
Did she just hit me?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you want it i'll link · if you want to I will leave
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to have · used to be · used to film
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been hearing · have been dying
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've had · i've leveled · i've wrapped

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 301 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, bath /bɑːθ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, motherhood /ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: wash /wɑʃ/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, shock /ʃɔk/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
Long words — get the stress right: mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, vegetarian /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like glow, nail, pudding.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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