Lauren + Lisa’s Spring Beauty Picks

photoSprings most dynamic trend: Pop of color!

Winter weather is daunting on everything, particularly the skin and with this year’s Polar Vortex hitting new heights, Spring beauty could not be more exciting! Every year we transition our closets, hair color and beauty cabinet for the warmer weather, warm weather vacations and the music festivals that pop up all over the country.

Being the beauty-crazed girls that we are, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite Spring beauty products that we can’t wait to get our hands on.

Add an instant glow to any look with Kevyn Aucoin’s new Celestial Skin Liquid Highlighter – it awakens your look instantly!

These bright hues go on lighter than you think which makes them ideal to layer and build upon. Plus, they last all day long which is key to our busy schedules. ByTerry Liquid Blushes, Rose de Rose is our favorite. These liquid blushes with built in highlighters add an extra sparkle to your glowing complexion.

Everything from Illamasqua is on our list. Their pigments are beautiful and true to color and all the eye shadows are long wear, which makes a huge impact on our decision. PSSST….they just opened in select Bloomingdales in the US and their collection is also sold at Sephora nationwide.

While we constantly wear SPF on our skin, we need to take extra care leading up to the Summer months to protect our skin from Sun Damage. Our newest product to hit our collection, Light Treatment, helps to lighten existing pigmentation, while preventing the skin from additional hyper pigmentation – duo in one may we say! Plus, the lightweight texture makes this product an ideal lightweight moisturizer going into the Summer months. It is best to use a regular exfoliator and brightening product to help remove dead skin cells (and take of that Winterized skin) allowing for the treatment to penetrate deeper into the skin which increases overall treatment.

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Meatless Monday Recipe: Coco Lime Quinoa Salad

This post was written by Angela Simpson on Eat Spin Run Repeat

How do I know if I’m getting the right vitamins and minerals?

It’s one of the most common questions I get asked as a health coach, and one that has so many complicated answers. Of course, the best answer varies depending on the individual, their gender, activity level, current diet, lifestyle, etc. My favourite answer however, is the most simple one: Aim to put as much colour on your plate at each meal as possible.

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Here’s why it works. Fruits and vegetables come in all shapes, sizes, and colours, and their pigment says something about they type of micronutrients inside – that’s your vitamins and minerals. For example…

  • Red produce is typically high in lycopene, which protects our skin from cancer and decreases risk of heart disease.
  • Orange is associated with vitamin C and beta carotene which can help to strengthen our immune systems and decrease inflammation.
  • My favourite of them all, green, means that the veggie is packed with chlorella, a green pigment that plants use as energy for photosynthesis. What’s in it for you? Green produce items are high in a huge range of goodies, including calcium, plant-based protein, omega-3 fatty acids, folate, and antioxidants.

By eating the rainbow (or at least part of it) at each meal, you’re ensuring that a wide range of micronutrients are nourishing your body. So next time you find yourself worrying about whether or not you’re getting enough of this or that vitamin, chill out and enjoy a big, colourful salad like the one below. Your body will love you for it!

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Coco-Lime Quinoa Salad

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

  • ½ cup uncooked red quinoa
  • 1 cup shelled edamame
  • ½ cup diced mango
  • 1 ½ cups total mixed red, yellow and orange bell pepper
  • ¼ cup finely diced red onion
  • 2 radishes, sliced thinly and quartered
  • 1/4 cup roughly chopped unsalted almonds
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
  • ¼ cup raisins
  • ¼ cup unsalted sunflower seeds
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 tbsp white balsamic vinegar

Instructions:

  • Boil quinoa in a small saucepan with about 2/3 cup of water for 15 minutes. Discard any remaining water and set aside in a strainer to drain completely.
  • Meanwhile, mix all remaining ingredients in a large bowl.
  • Once quinoa has drained thoroughly and cooled, add it to the remaining ingredients. Toss well to combine and let the salad to sit for 15-30 minutes in order to allow flavours to intensify. Serve at room temperature.
  • Makes about 4 ½ cups.

Angela is an avid runner, fitness instructor, foodie, healthy living blogger, and owner of her business, Spin 360 Health Coaching. Having been overweight, unhappy and insecure as a teenager, Angela took control, changed her unhealthy habits, and adopted a clean eating lifestyle that she continues to maintain today. Her goal is to support, inspire, and motivate others to improve their health and be their best. You can learn more about her on her blog, Eat-Spin-Run-Repeat.com.

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Workouts For When You Travel

By Kate Hiipakka of The Four Percent

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Like many of you I work upwards of 50-60 hours a week in a field that requires some travel and time on the road. It’s hard enough as it is to keep up with a fitness routine at home let alone throwing in the wrench that is the hotel gym. Usually it’s small; it’s outdated; it’s poorly lit – so yea it sucks. In my five(ish) years as a professional I’ve developed a pretty decent system for killer workout outside of the gym and while the below elements as my playground.

Parking Lot: Wake up early when the lot is usually quiet and make the blacktop of your hotel prime real estate for squats, walking lunges, high knees, ski jumps, and short sprints. Whip out your NTC app for a structured workout that is guaranteed to make you sweat (my go-to is the “Get Focused: Cardio Killer.”) Be careful though! Watch out for traffic and don’t wear your ear buds so you can hear what is going on around you.

Stair Well: Either indoors or in the parking garage make these stairs your equipment for when you travel. Run up and down and turn the landings into stations. Example, at the foot of one set of stairs do 15 squat jumps, run up the flight of stairs and when you get to the next landing do 15 push-ups. Run up the next flight and then complete 15 plank walks. You get where I’m going with this. And you only really need one flight of stairs, change up what you do at the top or the bottom with each run. Your heart rate will go through the roof

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and you’ll build strength too. But, you know, if you have knee or lower back pain, this might not be for you. Also, if you do this indoors, make sure the stairwell doors don’t lock behind you and there is re-entry at each level. Again, use some common sense here, if it feels unsafe stay clear.

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Your Room: Duh. Push the coffee table, arm chair, and whatever else is taking up space to the perimeter of the room and go to town. Your body is the machine – a powerful one!

Quick Example:

Give yourself some room to move in your hotel room, treat yourself to an overpriced water bottle from the minibar and kill this:

Do these three sets twice. Each drill should be performed at 60 second intervals.

Set #1

  • Squat jumps
  • Push-ups
  • Alternating forward lunges
  • Triceps dips (using a chair, the bed, or the coffee table)
  • Bicycle crunches
  • Recover

Set#2

  • Burpees
  • Alternating froggers
  • Squat hold
  • Single leg dead lifts
  • Forearm plank
  • Recover

Set #3

  • Tricep push-ups
  • Jump wood chops
  • Ski jumps
  • Push-away balance
  • V-ups
  • Recover

Of course, you can always run outside or on that hotel treadmill from 1987. Get creative, think outside the box and use what you have. Even small and lame hotel gyms have potential – calories are calories you’ll burn them as long as you do the work.

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