SMOOOOOOOOTHIE TIME!

So these are my thick berry smoothies, i usually have them as an after uni as a snack or a quick breakfast if i'm on the go.. i have had a few people asking for the recipe so here it is! 

Firstly you need a smoothie blender then to add about a cup of frozen mixed berries in the first picture i used more blue and black berries and in the second picture i used more strawberries and raspberries hence the different colours! But the key to how thick it is are that the berries should be frozen! Then i add 2-3 spoons of yogurt, if its flavored yogurt i don't add honey but if its plain i do and then add the milk so its cover the berries till about half way! When you turn the blender on it may sound really bad but thats just the berries being chopped up by the blender, then add a tad more milk! 

I usually eat it with a spoon or give it 5 mins so it starts to melt! And bam you have a yummy healthy berry smoothie perfect for a hot day!

Hope you enjoy and are able to use this recipie!

Ruby xxx

    

FORMAL X2

I've had heaps of messages about where to shop for formals in the past few months so i thought i would answer a few questions.

Most of the questions have been about where to shop online and I'm not a big online shopper. This is because I'm really tall i have to be careful about the sizing as sometimes they are either to big or small and i think for a formal you want something that fits perfectly! But if you have bought heaps of things from a certain store and find your dream formal dress then of course get it! I would also recommend if you are going to get your dress online so get it at least a week before the actual formal date and express delivered. This means that you will have time to try it on and if it doesn't fit or you decide you don't like it gives you time to find something else.Looking online first is what i did, it give you a great idea of what celebrities have done in the past and also what hairstyle and even makeup is in!

Hair styles that are always in are:

• Having your hair out with soft curls or waves, it works for both middle and side parts. Having this hair style is good for a more simple dress as having too much detail on your dress and a statement jewelery piece then your hair out as well can look a bit much.
• I love a messy braid or plat to the side, i think it works really well with someone with long hair and looks great with a strapless dress!
• Buns are also very popular at formals and i've done both a messy and slick bun, i loved my messy bun it was low with lots of volume i had a middle part and soft curls in the front. I sometimes find a slick bun a bit boring so what i did was have a plat at the back of my head that worked up into the bun at the top. It looked sick and added a little something to a plain slick bun!
•  I think that side swept soft curls are a beautiful look but are so overused, especially on the red carpet this year! If you wanted to change it up but why not change it to a side pony. Your already half way there and with a side pony it can even out your face 
• And of course there is the slick of messy high pony tail which always looks great and is so simple.

 Smoky eye adds a really dramatic effect!

I'm also loving this dark lipstick at the moment especially on girls with brown hair!

Red Lippy has always been a personal favorite 

 

Above were some of the celebrities hair and makeup styles that i love! I hope it can inspire you and give you a few more ideas of what goes well with what and also about the range of different looks you can go for which is especially good if you are going to multiple formals. I would also recommend that if you are going to a range of different formals to change it up with hair and make up because there are so many different looks out there. I changed form a natural make up to a full on smokey eye, i also did brown shades with a red lip and a few more! I also jumped online and looked at a few stores and here are some of the links i found:

http://www.theiconic.com.au/all-products/?sort=popularity&dir=desc&q=maxi\\\\\\\%20dress&page=1

http://www.shopbop.com/dresses-maxi/br/v=1/2534374302063654.htm

http://www.asos.com/au/search/maxi-dress?hrd=1&q=maxi+dress

Hope is helps out! Always love getting feedback 

Ruby xxx

 

INSTAAAAA 

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So majority of my instagram posts consist of food, selfies, going out, quotes and fashion so i thought id do a post on my favorite food pics which have also been a hit on my tumblr page (they are under the tag 'me'). They are a mix of cooking, breakfast, lunch and snacks. I think going out for food is such a great way to get to know someone and my ideal date is going out for breakfast. I think its more chill than going out for dinner and breakfast is just soooo yum! These are just a collection of my favorite meals which i have shared with some great company.

 

Hope this didn't make you as hungry as it made me! I mean how good is food! Yum yum yum im going to make a cake now, hope you all have a lovely day!

xxx Ruby

Instagram: http://web.stagram.com/n/rubymackenzie/

Tumblr:http://rubymackenzie.tumblr.com/

THIS IS AMAZING PLEASE READ!
Cant believe how much of a coincidence this is after i posted about this issue under a week ago, so happy people are talking about this issue and action is being taken!! 

Shut down: Instragram closes pro-anorexia loophole

POPULAR photo-sharing app Instagram has cracked down on an 'exploding' pro-eating disorder culture on the social network - closing a major loophole young women and men have used to worship starved bodies. 
 
In response to a swelling pro-anorexia community which posted photos with captions such as 'I plan to sleep all day so I don't eat' on the social network, Instagram last year announced it would censor accounts or ban search terms promoting eating disorders.

While search terms such as 'thinspo', 'probulimia' and 'proanorexia' were shut down, a community flourished around the hashtag '#thynspo' and others with similar spelling. Instagram blocked the 'thynspo' hashtag at the weekend, prompted by questions from news.com.au. 'Thynspo' was a growing host to more than 100,000 images. The pictures tended to be 'selfies' by skin-and-bones young women accompanied with messages including 'hunger hurts, but starving works' and 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'.

 "Any account or hashtag found to be encouraging eating disorders is in direct violation of Instagram community guidelines and will be disabled," an Instagram spokeswoman said.

Eating disorder charity the Butterfly Foundation said it was pleased Instagram had clamped down on the 'insidious' practice."We are pleased that Instagram is true to its policy and removing these insidious hashtags that group damaging images," Butterfly CEO Christine Morgan said.

Instagram and other social media sites such as Tumblr and PInterest have policies to delete pro-anorexia content, but the Butterfly Foundation says it has witnessed a big move to the Facebook-owned photo app in the past year.

Last week, Ms Morgan said Butterfly hates sites such as Instagram, particularly because they prey on the most vulnerable young people. A fortnight ago, experts warned teenage girls were being driven to anorexia by the desire to copy the 'thigh gap'. Leanne Thorndyke, of UK eating disorders charity Beat, warned: "Hardly anyone has a 'thigh gap' without being underweight, or not yet fully adult."

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health-fitness/shut-down-instragram-crackdown-on-pro-ana-loophole/story-fneuzlbd-1226615742415#ixzz2Q4AR3Cud

Remember to report any of these accounts that follow you!!

Ruby xxx

BOY FRIEND JEANS

I really cant decide if i like boyfriend jeans.. i have seen some people who look amazing in them but most people dont know how to get it right.. ive done a bit of looking around and here are my tips for pulling off boyfriend jeans..

You need to wear heals with these jeans, either a healed boots, wedges or a sexy colored heal to elongate your legs. These jeans are super baggy and don't always flatter your figure. I would also recommend getting the straight legged jeans as they are the most flattering!

 
I think wearing a plain fitted top and coloured short fitted jack look awesome with boyfriend jeans, adding brown or tanned colored a belt can also look great! The colour of the jeans is also important, there are so many different colours to choose from these days but my fav colours would have to be the light denim and the white wash jeans.I find that it is so hard to pull of a dark denim! The look above is perfect and shows how stylish these jeans can be!

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Jeans are so important in everyone's wardrobe, they can be worn on a night out or just around the house so finding a great pair of jeans is a must.. maybe the boyfriend jeans could be your thing! They are perfect coming into autumn/winter, so yes or no to the boyfriend jeans? I say yes but only if you know how to style them, the pictures above are some other ideas on how to style your jeans!

Over and out



Ruby xxx

 To this day..

 

This was such a powerful video that i watched by a Poet called Shane Koyczan, it highlights the anguish of anyone who grew up feeling different or just a little bit alone. To bring visual life to this performance Koyczan invited artists from around the world to contribute 20-second segments of animation to the project. It was posted on YouTube on Feb. 19, 2013, and by the close of the month the video had been viewed 6 million times.

http://www.ted.com/talks/shane_koyczan_to_this_day_for_the_bullied_and_beautiful.html

(WATCH THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^ )

"If you have time to watch only one video today, it should probably be this one. After being posted to YouTube, animated spoken-word poem 'To This Day,' by Canadian poet Shane Koyczan, has spread like wildfire online ... Slate called the video 'beautiful,' Yahoo! News dubbed it 'powerful' and Mashable promised that it will 'reshape your views on name calling, harassment and pain.'"

The Huffington Post
 

  
 









Above are some of the images from the video. I can get over how moving this is, he is such an amazing speaker and expresses this touchy topic in such an entertaining way.My favorite part of this video is towards the end when Koyczan says:

'If you cant see anything beautiful about yourself.. get a better mirror, look a little closer.. stare a little longer, cause there is something inside you that made you keep trying  despite everyone who told you to quit’  

I recommend you all to watch it and let me know if it impacts on you in any way!

Ruby xxx

ps. reached 10,000 views so thankyou all for taking an interest!

 

rant

 Scared..

Lately i have has some followers on instagram and tumblr that are for anorexia.. the concept of this honestly appalls me, they have names such as 'food is the enemy' 'dying to be thin' 'skinny is everything' and many more. When i went onto these account i felt physically ill as these girl put them self's down so much and post photos of there goal weight and how long they have starved themselves for.. it was sickening, I honestly can not comprehend what motivates people to make such accounts.. they are promoting eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and telling people that they should starve themselves. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! It makes me so angry that anyone would try and influence another person to lose wight let alone want them to become anorexic.. im no doctor but it is common knowledge that having an eating disorder is a mental/psychological disorder. They have a distorted body image and an irrational fear of becoming overweight and there for take extreme attempts to lose weight.

I have seen so many people i know and know of become victim to this mental illness and is scares me that girls epically are promoting it and sharing tips on how to be anorexic or bulimic. People are so caught up on body image these days and are becoming obsessed with the way they look. My mum always told me if you eat healthy and exercise than you will be your best self and its true, i would rather be strong and healthy then being boney, tinny and sick looking. People don't find that attractive. Yes models are skinny but they are also tall which gives them a more elongated figure.. for example everyone goes on about the Victoria Secret models and how amazing they are, those girls are fit, healthy and strong and most definitely not anorexic other wise they wouldn't have the energy to work and be active.

These pro eating disorder accounts are so wrong and disgusting and the people behind them need help! If one of these accounts follows you on any sort of social media please block or report them because everyone is beautiful in there own way and we dont need this negativity in out lives!


Ruby xxx