DISCLAIMER: This blog post is for Nuffnang and Tourism Queensland. This is NOT a paid advertorial, but a competition entry… but who can blame me for wanting the prize LOL. Lots of pretty pics though, beauty advice too!
I’m guessing that all of you readers, if not most, are beauty junkies like me. Therefore we all know that beauty-full vitamins are very important for your health and wellbeing! Take for example some better known vitamins… (time to put on my serious teacher glasses)
Vitamin D, found in sunshine! Produced by our own bodies, it helps with calcium reabsorption, which helps with strong bones and teeth! Also it helps with weight loss so just change your diet a little bit and stay in the sun a little longer and you may lose weight a lot easier and feel better about yourself when at the beach hahaha.
Don’t forget to stay sun safe though and slip slop slap. Sun is bright, put on your sunnies!
Vitamin A, which is found in milk, eggs and dark orange/green fruits and veg (such as carrots of course). It’s a helping hand to cell rejuvenation and your eyesight as well as being great for acne (why didn’t I know about this 5 years ago?)
You can also use your eggs as a ghetto beauty mask to tighten pores! Brush the whites all over your face, or just use your fingers, and let it tighten. While you’re waiting, Google some recipes for using up the egg yolk because that’s where all the good stuff is. Also you’ll get a lot of custard recipes I warn you in advance. Wash off the mask after 10 mins or so.
Vitamin C, where C is for collagen for skin plumping power! Everyone hails oranges and other citrus as the Vitamin C superfood but I much prefer strawberries. Much yummier! Sadly our strawberries have not grown yet so here's lemon and lime. The rest of my family, my dad and brother mainly, seem to like getting their C from chili padi. Why eat something that causes your mouth pain though??? By the way you can also get your daily dose from
this link.
(Just kidding all you get is your daily dose of sad nostalgia if you are roughly my age.)
But even after all these natural vitamin boosts, I find I’m still feeling a little worn out and missing something. And that something is the most important vitamin of all… Vitamin ME!!! The ultimate feelgood vitamin, best attained by experiencing exciting adventures, soaking up some arts and culture, consuming delicious food and wine, or enjoying some beautiful scenery and wildlife… But where can we find it? How would I raise my levels of Vitamin Me?
We have to jet set out of Adelaide of course… right up to the Sunshine State,
Queensland, the richest source of Vitamin Me! Of course by my logic you have to make sure you get your daily dosage, so VM levels are measured in something I will name Q… To find out why I’ve been feeling so blah, I started to analyse and the levels of Q in everything I’ve been doing.
Drinking sad goon-esque mojitos while responding to work emails-
5Q. -______-
Does nothing but leave you feeling very sad and lonely but scored some points because mojitos are my fave. Very busy too!
Drinking real mojitos (and other cocktails!) with my friends at somewhere like Picture Lounge Bar at Surfer’s Paradise-
150Q!!! Swanky right? I love classy décor like this! Get dressed up and everything for maximum girly. Bonus: also upping Vitamin C levels because of lime in drinks LOL
Staying at home with fan on full blast and sticking to unfortunately leather couch- 10Q (gained Q for couch being leather and feeling important, then lost some for gross leather stickiness in hot weather)
How about trade that in for luxury 5 star resort at Hervey Bay? Ideally staying isomewhere with a stunning ocean view with bath spas and gigantic comfy beds. Much nicer right? Surely this would raise you up
600Q, minimum! Power to your beauty sleep!
Repeatedly checking fridge throughout the day and lowering standards every time- 12Q maybe, because eventually something will be eaten. Maybe one day I will find out the frozen apricot chicken is better than I thought.
Compare that to meals made with fresh Queensland produce. I love food and I’m still reading food blogs at 2 am in the morning what the. Just thinking of fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables and tender beef makes me so hungry. I don’t eat seafood but I’m sure that Tom would be more than happy to indulge in my share (as repayment I will take all his beef thank you thank you) Nom nom nom
400Q thank you! Boosting vitamins A and C too!
Speaking of Tom, I decided to give him a quick call. I already thought of ways to up my Vitamin Me, but all this is no fun without him too. (Seeing Tom is already lots of Q, but we have to boost our levels together, right? We’re a package deal now hahaha)
What would he do for his intake of Vitamin Me?
Instead of going down to Glenelg like always (
40Q because now it’s gotten boring… but scenery is ok)
Going UP to Airlie Beach and relaxing all day. Looking at the serene blue waters, drinking more cocktails and going for a refreshing swim is surely at least 700Q. Vitamin D levels also boosted because I’m sure there’s nothing like the Queensland sun!
Rather than driving around town
with the girl I love in his car (
25Q only, if we have no errands to run because there's nowhere we havent seen!)
…driving around in a dune buggy like the adrenaline junkie he is! Vrrrrrrrrrrm vr vrrrrrm
600Q for him (-100Q for me I’d be too scared!)
What have we gotten our Vitamin Me levels up to…?
Average day at home:
5 + 10 + 12 + 40 + 25 =
92Q.
Eh… we can do much better!
Soaking up the scenery, om nom nomming on delicious food and taking it easy (with the occasional adrenaline rush) on holiday in Queensland:
150 + 600 + 400 + 700 + 600 =
2450Q!!!
Maybe I should go shopping too. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of retail therapy, right?
We need to go on holiday! Help us,
Nuffnang and
Queensland! We’re daydreaming of all the things we could do with a $5000 holiday… Help us!
The only problem is that I wanna live the high life while my boy wants adventure… hopefully we can schedule out how to make us both delighted on this trip.
How would YOU boost your Vitamin Me?
