How To: Rocky Road

Hi lovelies!

Today's post is a How To on Rocky Road. It is one of my favourite deserts, so I hope you enjoy it.

You want your Rocky Road to be quite thick, you don't want to end up with a thin Rocky Road.

I say this because this is exactly what happened to me. I am going to give you the recipe, doubled - just to insure you have a thick Rocky Road.

All you need is...

250g butter

600g milk chocolate

6 tablespoons of golden syrup

400g digestive biscuits

200 grams marshmallows (or however many you want really!)

Cranberries (however many you want)

Glace cherries - Around 9 

Icing sugar to dust (optional)

I did the method in two lots because you have to melt the chocolate and butter, this would take a long time because there is a lot of chocolate and butter.

So I advise halving the mixture and doing the method in two lots.

Method:

1. Melt the butter, chocolate and golden syrup in a saucepan over a low heat, you do not want to burn the chocolate. Put aside around 125ml of the chocolate mixture.

2. Put the biscuits into a freezer bag and using a rolling pin you need to bash the biscuits making crumbs and small chunks of biscuits. 

3. Fold the biscuit pieces into the chocolate mixture, try not to break down the bigger parts of biscuit.

4. Add most of the marshmallows into the mixture and then pour into a tray, lined with grease-proof paper. 

5. Chop the glace cherries and add them to the mixture. Also add the Cranberries

 6. Sprinkle the rest of the marshmallows and drizzle the left over chocolate.

7. Refrigerate overnight

So I hope you have enjoyed this food tutorial. I love Rocky Road and I hope you enjoy making the Rocky Road and if you do make it, maybe you could Instagram it and tag me - @imlozza

Bye bye lovelies! 

How To Thursday - Make Your Nails Look Neat

I  love having long nails, unfortunately, my nails are very weak therefore they break whenever the get long.

So, I had to come up with a solution to make my nails look neat without being odd lengths and badly shaped.

First, wash your hands with warm, clean water. This will make your nails soft which is makes it easier to file them. You could also do this after a bath or a shower because it does the same job.

Next, you need to get a cuticle pusher/orange nail stick, and push the skin at the top of your nails away from you, this will make your nails look longer and neater.

The next step is to use a good nail file. I find the nail files from Boots are the best, the black ones, they're amazing! All I do is file my nails to make them all have curved edges, I also make sure they are all the same size, otherwise they don't look neat. My thumbnails are quite long, and it looks neater when they are curved all the way around the nail.

Using the pointed edge of the cuticle pusher, I then clean under my nails. This just gets all the grime from under your nails. 

Now I just go wash my hands under hot running water and soap.

I now use OPI's Nail Envy Original to strengthen my nails, it also helps them to grow a little, however, when they grow they tend to break extreamly short and it hurts a lot, so, I just use the nail envy to strengthen my nails. So, I just file my nails everyday so they don't grow as much.

I put two coats of this varnish on, and everyday for a week I top it up with one coat. Then at the end of the week I take it all off and repeat the process.

I hope you all enjoyed this post and find it useful c:

I'm going to be doing BLOGMAS this year, which is basically VLOGMAS. If you don't know wha that is, it is where you post a vlog, everyday leading up to Christmas. I'm going to be doing the blog version  and I am really excited to do it :)

Bye bye lovelies x 

Review - Everyday Products

Hello everyone!

Maybe the title doesn't make sense, but this post will explain everything. One note, every Friday (or every Friday I can post) I am going to do a review on something! Today, I am going to give you a quick review on products I use daily!

I am going to write this in the order I use the products in.

The first 'product' I use is water. It's hardly a product, but it is a great way to start the day. I simply wash/splash my face a couple of times with the water. I then just dry my face on a dry towel/flannel. I do this after I have breakfast and before I've brushed my teeth. 

Now I brush my teeth, I use a Colgate toothpaste, but you don't really need to know about that...

I then use Nivea day moisturiser, I massage the moisturiser into my T-Zone (forehead, nose & chin) and then use circular motions to moisturise my cheeks. 

Make up time! (Now I only use these make up products if I'm going out, for school or filming a video.)

The first make up item is Rimmel London Wake Me Up Concealer. I just pop this under my eyes and on any red patches on my skin. I DO NOT put it on spots or dry skin, because the concealer will just dry out the skin/spot even more. This concealer is amazing, it covers my sleepy eyes in the morning and covers up any redness very quickly. So I totally recommend this product!

The next make up product I use is Maybelline Rocket Volume Express in the colour black. I don't curl my lashes, i just put the mascara straight on. This mascara is amazing! It has a really nice brush and even though I have brownish lashes, it doesn't look false or un natural.

I'll then pop on some lip balm, now in the spring/summer and beginning of autumn I'll use a babylips, usually a clear one because its the morning. In the late autumn and winter I just use plain old Vaseline. It really helps my lips out, making sure they don't begin to crack.

If I need to, I'll just spray in some dry shampoo.

Last but definitely not least I put on a drop of hand gel and spray some scent on mah boddyyyy :D


Then I'm done!

I hope you have a very lovely day/night/evening whatever :)

Lauren x