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How Lockdown Has Taught Us How To Accept The Way We Look

Claire James
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How Lockdown Has Taught Us How To Accept The Way We Look

Lockdown has been a strange time unlike any other, and the effects have spilt over into a lot of different areas of our life. Ranging from socialising and work to how we spend our money and time, many of us have turned to our own personal #glowup to remedy the effects of putting our lives on hold.

After a long period of time slumped around the house with not much to do and even fewer reasons to leave the house, many of us have felt demotivated and not our best selves. We’re breaking out—dubbed lockdown skin—we’ve got fewer reasons to groom our appearances, and lockdown loungewear is becoming tedious.

Lockdown has mixed up how we consume beauty. According to data reported in Vogue, there have been four beauty trends that have gained momentum during the pandemic. These are:

  • Innovative beauty hacks
  • Purple haircare products that preserve hair colour
  • Skin serums
  • Blue-light-blocking skincare

It seems that we’re becoming more knowledgeable about what we need to look good naturally. After all, there is less need for make-up with our plans dwindling in uncertainty due to ever-changing lockdown restrictions.

Here are some of the most popular beauty trends that have emerged during lockdown.

At home beauty hacks

TikTok has not only provided us with hours of entertainment when we’re climbing the walls with boredom. It has also offered a wealth of knowledge, ranging from cooking and cleaning to interior decoration and beauty hacks. TikTok has given the creative people of the world a platform to innovate simple tasks to keep us feeling good and in high spirits, like the perfect instant tan routine. For example, Isle of Paradise’s self-tan drops broke the internet during lockdown, with users discovering a low-maintenance, effortless, and easy way to achieve a natural glowing tan with the ability to customise the intensity of the colour.

After all, when we look good, we often feel good too! So much so that even those of us with poor make-up and hairstyling skills have been getting involved. Now’s the time, if any, to try some new beauty hacks to make our lives easier when things eventually return to normal.

Dressing gown robe curls for bouncy hair

This is a hack that works especially well for the men and women with long and thick hair who are looking for heat-free ways to curl their locks. It keeps hair in healthy condition while simultaneously being able to style it flawlessly.

Simply take your robe belt and split your hair in half. Split the two halves into another two sections, so you have four in total. Then, wrap your hair around the belt in criss-crosses. Secure it at both ends and sleep in it overnight. Check out the video below for a full demonstration

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The robe hair hack!!! 🤭 #robehair #hair #hairstyles #robehaircurl #fyp #xyzbca

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You can ditch that heat protectant spray now!

Feathery eyebrows

Beauty trends certainly change dramatically — remember pencil thin eyebrows? For those of us—and there are a lot—who overplucked our brows, we’re constantly looking for ways to give the illusion of full-bodied and natural brows.

A great top tip for fuller brows when you’re not quite willing to splash out a couple of hundred pounds on microblading is soaping your brows. All you need is a bar of soap and a spoolie brush. We highly recommend using a soap for sensitive skin when giving it a go—this is perfect for protecting the sensitive skin on your face and around your eyes.

To achieve the soap brow look: dampen the soap with setting spray and rub the spoolie on the bar to coat all sides of the brush. Then, run it through your eyebrows to get the desired shape and style you want. Once you have applied this, press down with your finger to hold the shape, and when dried, if you want to, fill in any gaps in upward feathery strokes.

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Trying soap brows for the first time 🤔🤍 #foryoupage #fyp #viral #makeup #brows

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Purple shampoo proves an old faithful

Securing appointments at hair salons is still proving difficult, with lower capacity limiting how many people can be in at once, as well as everyone trying to freshen up their colour after five months of roots and dead ends. We’ve been looking for the perfect solution to get salon results from the comfort of your home…

As well as finding a way to effortlessly curl our hair, we’ve found the perfect way to escape those brassy blonde tones without the need for bleach or toner. Blonde-enhancing purple hair products have soared in popularity—if they weren’t popular enough already! According to Google Trend data, searches peaked for ‘purple shampoo’ in April and then again in July, showing a growth of 173% from April 2019 to April 2020.

These products are giving the luscious locks we’ve been dreaming of in between our salon appointments as well as saving a bit of money too.

Skincare over makeup

Probably one of the most interesting shifts in beauty trends is from makeup to skincare. People are staying at home more, wearing less makeup, and paying more attention to the health of their skin. This has caused avid make-up lovers to ditch foundation for skincare, embracing a much more low-maintenance and natural look.

Last year, Britons spent around £27.2 billion on beauty products and services. However, 2020 is expected to look very different in comparison—dependent on our ‘new normal’. ‘Maskne’, acne caused by wearing face masks, is also causing us to assess the needs of our skin and how we can minimise unpleasant breakouts from warm and humid masks.

Facial serums are skyrocketing in popularity, particularly those containing active ingredients. With brands such as The Ordinary and Revolution gaining momentum and often being sold out, more and more brands are branching out into skincare designed by chemists with simple packaging, ingredients, and outcomes. The global personal care active ingredients market is expected to reach $4.85bn by 2025, with male customers driving the demand for this growth as skincare is marketed more gender-neutral than ever before.

Vitamin C, retinol, hyaluronic acid, squalene, salicylic acid, niacinamide, and ceramides are among some of the most searched active ingredients according to Harper’s Bazaar.

Screen time

While we scroll for hours on Facebook or sit in front of a desktop screen all day for work, screen time has increased significantly over lockdown. This is raising concerns of the effect of blue light on our skin, issues beyond disrupting our sleeping pattern and eyesight. Protecting our skin against UVA and UVB rays is the key to preventing premature ageing, as evolving research finds that the blue light emitted from the sun, as well as our devices, is bad for our skin. That’s bad news for millennials who are checking their phones an average of 150 times a day, as well as those of us spending around three hours in front of our phones.

We’re getting much more blue light than we usually would from sun alone due to exposure to our digital screens, so products containing blue light protection—topical antioxidants—are rising in popularity. Ingredients such as vitamin C and vitamin E are great for preventing this long-term and irreversible damage.

The future of beauty and wellness post-COVID is sure to rock up the beauty industry. We’re no less interested in makeup and beauty than we were before, we’re just indulging in it differently, with our changing needs forcing global brands and formulators to innovate their products and do better to serve our ‘new normal’.

Next-gen credit card payment: get your business ready

Claire James
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Next-gen credit card payment: get your business ready

Payments have long been a necessity in business. Without a transaction, there is no profit to gain from a deal. However, these transactions often came with vast costs. For example, credit card payment providers charge processing and cancellation fees. This makes it impossible for payments to be conducted for small amounts. However, with new technology players entering the market, new opportunities have emerged.

Credit card payment with limited fees

By using new technologies, challengers in the market can offer transactions at very low fees. Besides that, they offer their hardware at the fraction of the price. The trick? Leveraging the existing technologies that are present in smartphones and tablets. You can easily connect a card reader to a smartphone, allowing you to add products to your store and start selling. You can scan barcodes as well as select products in an overview. Once the order is captured, the client can scan his card using the terminal.

Full suite of analytics capabilities

Once a credit card payment is conducted it will become available in the overview. Here you can find all transactions that are conducted, both online and offline. Analytical capabilities make it possible to analyse the behaviour of customers and act accordingly. In this way, you will get to know customers better and create effective segmentation to target customers. This will increase customer loyalty and profit by simply conducting payments with credit cards.

Online transactions

Do you have a webshop for your customers? These transactions can also be incorporated into the system, reducing your online fees. You do not have a webshop yet? No worries! With the introduction of payment links, you can also conduct online transactions without the need for a webshop. These transactions are completed by sending a link to the customer. The customer can click on the link and conduct the payment with their credit card provider.

Social media and other channels

The payment links are very useful for merchants that do not have their own store. They can share the links with their clients via e.g. social media to conduct transactions. In the current state of a pandemic, it can be used in stores as well. Since contactless payment terminals sometimes still require the user to enter a pin, this is not considered desirable. Instead of a terminal, the user can scan the QR code and conduct the payment instead. This is a more hygienic way to conduct transactions while retaining the ease-of-use.

Players in the market

There are multiple players in the market of innovative credit card payment providers. SumUp is one of the players that has been pioneering in the market and offers several payment solutions. All these solutions are integrated into a single platform that allows businesses to analyse transactions. Want to learn more about the products that SumUp is providing? You can visit their website, SumUp.co.uk, for more information.

3 Realities to Consider Before Investing in CBD

Sam Allcock
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3 Realities to Consider Before Investing in CBD

The constant talk about CBD in the news may have you thinking that this market is a good investment opportunity, and it is. However, just like any other investment, there are realities and risks you need to consider before you invest large sums of money in CBD. Here are some of the factors you should take into account before you decide to invest in the market.

1 – The legal status of CBD is flimsy

The odds that CBD will be illegal worldwide within ten years are low, but not zero. In many areas of the world, including here in the UK, there was never a conscious effort by legislators to make CBD use as we know it legal. Instead, legislators legalized hemp and its byproducts due in large part to pressure from the textile industry, which also had the side-effect of legalizing CBD.

And while most of the world seems to agree that legal CBD is not a problem, some European nations have gone on to limit who can access CBD within their borders, which greatly limited the reach of the market in those regions.

The flimsy nature of CBD’s legal status also leads to sudden changes in the market. Not long ago, the state of New York banned CBD edibles overnight, forcing baffled shop owners to pull thousands of dollars of products off their shelves. A similar problem happened in France, where a decision by the Supreme Court left the entire CBD market in a gray area, with many shop owners not sure if they could continue to sell the substance or not.

2 – The long-term safety of CBD is uncertain

CBD does have potential side effects, but the substance is relatively safe. In the short term, that is. As of now, there are no studies that look into the effects that CBD use has on the human body over a period of several years. How could there be? Using the substance only became a health trend in 2018. And while there were studies surrounding CBD before that, most of them involved observing how the substance acted alongside THC. We don’t know if the results of those studies will repeat themselves when CBD is used in isolation.

As soon as 2018 the USA’s Food and Drugs Administration was already raising concerns over the long-term safety of CBD. As in the previous year, an anti-seizure medication containing synthetic CBD had shown the potential to cause liver damage during clinical trials.

If studies show that long-term use of CBD in isolation can cause serious damage to the body, the CBD market may cease to exist overnight. Or at least it’ll be greatly scaled back.

3 – The CBD market is constantly in flux

Today consumers mostly enjoy vaping CBD and using CBD oils like the ones provided by Cibdol. But who knows what tomorrow will bring? This is a new market that is constantly in flux, and if you start making a big push to open your own CBD store today specializing in oils and vape juices, you may find out that the market has pivoted towards preferring edibles and CBD pillowcases before you’re done.

This doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth investing in CBD. It only means that you should be wary of entering this market if you aren’t ready to adapt to the rapid changes in this market.

Creative Marketing – 3 Must-Do’s For Marketing Success by Sofiya Machulskaya

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Creative Marketing – 3 Must-Do’s For Marketing Success by Sofiya Machulskaya

When I talk about “creative marketing,” I mean figuring out how to bring the power of your own personality and passions into your marketing and public relations. Your “creative” may not match your industry’s standard of promotion, but it may be what drives your company’s booking rate. Or, your “creative” may say that you are creating new out-of-the-box ways of communicating with your clients.

 belt, China makers are innovating everything from food packing, marketing or even telephone way calling.

How can you be more creative within your marketing? Here are three tips:

1. Keep it simple yet effective.

The multi-million-dollar question asked by Sofiya Machulskaya is: “What’s the smallest, most cost-effective way to promote assurance trademark and service?”

Answer: Just be as effective as your clients want.

 soared theKillResultintegrating 60makers site in Bway’s site guidelines. “Don’t create a mile-high tower when a small tower will do,” it advises. To make your article work harder for you, be creative in the image, color, text, including and most of all photos. Avoid using too many complicated marketing language to break up the article.

Make it easy for your clients to figure out you, too. Keep your paragraphs short, simple and direct. Keep them to one to six sentences, no more than one or two paragraphs at the most. 90 percent of readers will pick up your article and go looking for information elsewhere.

Be clear about how your company is different from others in your field. Don’t say you stand “out” (if that makes sense for you) when you’re making the statement. Make your promise crystal clear. That’s where “how” comes in. Wherever you’re confident that you can give your audiences and clients something new, tell them. For example, if you are a licensed real estate agent, “How” would be to say before, “With Now” and “After.” If you are a designer, “How” would be “Below,” “Above,” or “Through”: this is your gift to them.

“But what exactly does that mean?” you wonder.

Here’s a bulleted list of several creative separators you put into your marketing copy created by Sofiya Machulskaya.

* one that makes it difficult (or impossible) for clients to tell what they’re going to get to know and what they’re going to have to pay for,

* one that is just quirky, and not stuffy, or run-of-the-mill, or something that’s going to make few people notice,

* something that is fun and funny and unlikely to irritate your audience.

I personal real estate agency, we not only feel very good about what we do, but love everything about our business.* ( Sharing what we do comes naturally. We allow our passion to influence our message and sharing our “secret recipe” is part of that “secret recipe”)

2. Be believable, if you feel you’re holding up a ” Mendel” of your own to the point that the statement sounds believable; you’re on your way to “creatively marketing” your business, your web site or your website. Let me give you an example. Below are two examples side-by-side.

Example A: Says a client is prohibited from selling his due-procession information to the third party: “These terms can be verified when our customers submit those forms. Our client no longer has to hire a third party to verify the information which may take forever to distribute it to the media!”

Example B: To me, the real point of this is to say what is honest, open and honest, yet at the same time, offer a quick path to dissemination and substance, and a guarantee. It is truth-telling yet avoid “chasing the tail.”

Warning: This doesn’t mean you have to “foolish theks.” It simply means don’t be dramatic. The key is to avoid saying or saying it with a bunch of “fools.” That just “doesn’t work” or “typically doesn’t” or “usually wouldn’t.” That is both end of the statement from the client’s point of view. When you can’t say it logically, most parties YET be able to understand what you are saying.

3. Be an Taiwan, Jet Blue, and Zappos.

Read on these masters of “creativity marketing” and consider the following. At Zappos.com, their main motto is “it’s gone over. Make it right”. They think the right thing is to make it right factory care and customer awareness, but not delivering the product how it is supposed to be. They are also listening to their customers.

How to Get Your Start in Business Coaching

Claire James
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How to Get Your Start in Business Coaching

When you want to get into business coaching, it’s probably because you often feel that you can make a real difference to business executives. Many have been promoted into the position or applied for it but have fresh challenges to resolve or have never led an entire company before. Either way, sensible guidance is going to be paramount to their success.

How do you get started as a business coach in the UK? That’s what this article is all about.

What Experience Do You Have in Business?

It will be a common question that may prospective clients will ask. It’s all very well that you say you are a ‘business coach’ but what actual business experience do you have?

Obviously, it’s useful to have worked in business first. Sure, some millennials have branded themselves as coaches in one form or another, but business is different. It’s where the rubber meets the road. It’s not possible to fake it. The advice will be incorrect and the executive you’re training will either know this immediately or try to put the advice into action and find it falls flat.

So, do get some well-rounded business experience first. Managing a team of people is better. Running a company – your own and someone else’s is better still. Are you then ready to run a business coaching company? Not quite yet…

Now You Need Business Coaching Training

Knowing that you wish to be a business trainer and armed with relevant business know-how, the experience puts you in the driving seat. Great! But have you ever trained people who aren’t your subordinates on how to run a business, a start-up, or their own department?

The answer is probably not.

This is where business coaching courses come in. They’re structured, organised, and take you step-by-step through what you need to know and how to think.

Armed with appropriate business coaching qualifications, not only will you have a newfound confidence that you can be a persuasive and helpful coach, but that you’ll have the credentials to back that up. And once you have completed excellent business coaching courses from the BCF Group – a leader in the field – you’re ready to proceed to the next step.

Thoughts on Finding Your First Clients

It might be useful to take the approach of being a business consultant at first, rather than a full-blown executive coach where much is expected from someone who’s only just started out in this fresh new direction.

This way, you can tinker with other business ideas for start-ups or side hustles. These are something to talk about when you’ve already left your previous employment or taken a sabbatical. It allows for the fact that you are splitting your time and covers for the reality that you haven’t had any business coaching clients previously.

It’s a useful approach that’s still being honest while not giving the first potential client serious misgivings about hiring you.

Be Ready to Prove Yourself to Get the Gig

It’s difficult to prove yourself if you haven’t provided coaching to clients before.

In which case, then it’s the time to call on business contacts, friends with companies, and anyone else who’ll trust you to come in and lend them your ear. Depending on how widely you’ve been developing your network towards the long-term goal of being a business coach, it should have become wide enough that you can call upon it now.

Also, still, be prepared to prove yourself. This includes sharing information on successful projects, mentoring of work colleagues and their future growth, and other points of interest. While you cannot yet show video and/or written testimonials from business coaching clients, this is the next best thing.

Overinvest in Your First Few Clients

It’s necessary to overinvest in the people that you coach.

What you don’t want is to create the impression from them that:

“Well… yes, they did come in and talk to me. They gave me a few ideas to play around with. I tried a couple of their suggestions. I eventually got promoted. But I’m not sure how much they contributed to that.”

Instead, it needs to be much more of a hands-on approach. Something more akin to a life coach for a business executive, which involves:

  1. Listening to the client
  2. Strategizing workable solutions to business problems
  3. Making practical suggestions for empowering teams
  4. Following up to adjust the approach based on the initial feedback

By using this kind of coaching strategy with various touchpoints and updated with further discussion and feedback on how to best proceed, a client can feel that you’re really listening. But more than that, there’s genuine interest, concern shown, and a desire to see them succeed.

Rather than paying lip service and making a few bland, obvious business suggestions, you’re delivering a tailored, more personal business coaching service that has a meaningful impact on their results going forward.

Get Testimonials & Referrals to Bolster Your Client Roster

When you’ve taken the approach discussed above with your first clients, it shouldn’t be a matter of needing to ask for a testimonial. Often, delighted executives seeing greater success than they’ve had in the past will be suggesting it.

In fact, not only will they be willing to recommend your services, but they’ll likely already be suggesting the coaching to their friends and colleagues.

Often, these referrals flow naturally by extension of the previous investment of your time and expertise. Beyond that, sure, it’s possible to advertise in business periodicals, look to get booked on business podcasts, and to speak at conferences (virtually or in-person, depending on what circumstances permit). But all that comes much later. In years two or three, when there’s enough validation, the good word will be spreading quickly in the business community, and bookings will become far easier. Getting your start in business coaching isn’t easy. Oddly, it’s a little like acting in that you want to get that part in your first play or TV role, but no one wants to risk it and you don’t have a body of work to prove yourself. Similarly, to enter the coaching world, it’s necessary to find ways to bridge this obvious gap initially and work to establish yourself as a sought-after name. It won’t happen overnight but if you pre-plan it, get credentialed, and work your plan, it can happen in a relatively short space of time.

7 key Strategies for Beginner Day Traders

Claire James
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7 key Strategies for Beginner Day Traders

Day trading is described as buying and selling financial instruments within a single day, or several times in the same day. If played well and a trader knows how to take advantage of tiny price moves, there is money to be made. However, for a newbie, day trading can be dangerous without a strategy.

Here are some helpful strategies for the new day trader that are guaranteed to make you some profits.

1.    Seek Knowledge

Knowledge holds a lot of power, and alongside knowing the basic trading processes, a day trader needs to keep updated on the current stock market news that might affect the stock trade, the latest interest rate plans, the state of the economy, etc.

Ensure you do due diligence and make a list of the stocks you wish to trade and keep yourself updated about these companies and the general market as well. Visit financial websites and scan the business news throughout the day.

2.    Set aside some funds

Decide how much capital you are willing to put down for each trade. Most successful day traders do not risk more than 1 to 2% of their account for every trade. If you have a $50,000 trading account and are willing to risk 0.5% of the capital per trade, your maximum loss for each trade will be $250 (0.5% *$50,000).

Set aside some extra money you can use for trading and that you are ready to lose. Remember this is might or might not happen situation.

3.    Dedicate Time

Day trading needs time, thus its name. You need to dedicate most of your day to trading, and if you have another job and cannot spare the time, do not try to juggle the two. This process needs a trader who has time to track the markets and catch opportunities as soon as they arise, which could be any moment during trading hours. Moving fast is key and seizing these opportunities will make you some profits.

4.    Put Limit Orders

Choose which orders between market and limit to use for entering and exiting trades.  When a market order is placed, its execution is at the best available price at that point, so you have no price guarantees. A limit order guarantees you the price, but no execution guarantee. A limit order assists you to trade with more accuracy, where you set an executable price for buying and selling.

5.    Download MT4

Before you start trading, either look for a reputable stock broker or download Metatrader4 or MT4. Metatrader4 is an online platform used by millions of traders and brokers to effectively trade and keep track of trends and indicators in the market.

6.    Start Small

As a newbie, you need to focus on not more than two stocks in a single session. Tracking and spotting opportunities are easier with fewer stocks. Nowadays, you can trade fractional shares, which allows you to specify smaller amounts you would like to invest in. This means if you wish to purchase shares going for $250, and you only wish to invest $50, most brokers will allow you to buy one-fifth of the share.

7.    Be Realistic

Your strategy does not have to profit all the time to be considered profitable. Most traders only win between 59 and 60% of their total trades. The trick is to make more on the winning trades that they lose on the losing trades. Ensure you limit the risk per trade to a percentage of your account, and that you have set down your entry ad exit methods in writing.

Conclusion

Day trading is a time-consuming process because you need to keep track of any new changes in the market and capitalize on them. As a newbie, you have to have a strategy that will help you win more than you lose. Look for a reputable broker or a veteran who will guide you as you trade. Remember it is not a guarantee that you will make money, but with patience and diligence, it will pay off eventually.

Donations from UK car-dealership to children’s charity exceed £67,000!

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Donations from UK car-dealership to children’s charity exceed £67,000!

Circus Starr, a social operations children’s charity have received over £67,000 in donations in total from family-run car dealership company.

A further £5,460 have been added to the total support based donations. Swansway has, like many others, faced a harsh financial year due to the current global crisis, but are thrilled to have kept their head above the water and continue their support for the local community. 

Director of the the Swansway Group, David Smyth explains: “The recent crisis has proved to be incredibly difficult for us but we have been able to assist Circus Starr for a long time now and we will always be amazed by what the non-profit organisation achieves so we were so happy to be able to continue working with and assisting the charity. It’s the children who benefit and it’s well deserved after the year we have faced so far. Being able to assist is a huge honour for our company.”

The donations started in 2016 and have now exceeded over £67,000, an achievement reached via the sales of the company’s Motability cars. The group donates £20 through each vehicle within the scheme which, in turn, facilitates both child and carer with the opportunity to watch a Circus Starr show.

The mobility scheme is available to members of the public who are in possession of high tier mobility allowance. The buyer can therefore exchange their funds to enable them to lease an SUV or hatchback within the Mobility range.

The donations are greatly appreciated by the charity including Communications Manager Sarah Hill who stated: “The support and donations that Swansway Motor Group give to us are a real boost during these trying times and we are extremely grateful. Our main objective is to get back on the road for our 2021 tour, with our signature tent, and get our audiences beaming again.”

Send a Covid-19 care package straight to your employee’s door with brand new UK subscription boxes

Sam Allcock
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Send a Covid-19 care package straight to your employee’s door with brand new UK subscription boxes

Business owners across the UK have been given the opportunity to support and thank their team members, who are currently working from home. The credit goes to brand new prescription box launch, Curakit.

This monthly subscription kit is the first of it’s kind and offers both personal protection and care to its subscribers. For those employers who have lost the presence of their staff within the work environment, it’s both a thoughtful and economically friendly way to deliver care packages straight to their team’s desk or door. 

The boxes were founded and created in the UK after a study exposed the fact that 91% of people currently working in the UK would prefer to work from home. Of those surveyed, over a third now consider their home to be not only their place of residence but also their place of work. This means that employers nationwide may have to get used to caring  for their staff beyond the workplace. 

Commenting on Curakit, founder Josh White explains “I noticed a space in the market for subscription boxes earlier this year when Covid-19 spiked so drastically across the UK. It was there when I considered all the employers and businesses trying to make working from home as comfortable and stress free as possible, just as they would do in the workplace. The delivery of these boxes for the majority of workers are a prime example of the ability for businesses to adapt to the Covid19 rules and regulations whilst also showing their appreciation for their employees ongoing work and dedication to their jobs.”

Josh, with his London based company, teamed up with local brands and businesses such as Harley Street Care and On the Lane to help with supplies available to customers through their subscriptions. The box consists of many relevant items such items as;

  • 5 reusable KN95 masks
  • 20 disposable face masks 
  • 50 ml luxury hand cream 
  • Confectionary 
  • 2 x 100 ml antibacterial hand gel bottles
  • 30 antibacterial wipes
  • 10 ml aromatherapy oil blend 
  • Wellbeing booklet 

(Items in italic are changed monthly).

The boxes are currently available for ordering with additional bulk discounts. £20 per box if you order £500. The subscription not only contains health and care products but also includes specifically chosen items to assist with issues such as stress, anxiety and moods. There is also advice to be read by the receivers in regards to their emotional and physical wellbeing whilst staying safe.

“The objective of this kit is to help with confidence, morale and assurance during these trying times, whilst also keeping our products and appearance both fresh and inviting. With our back to work guide, employees throughout the UK can gain the knowledge and understanding of easy ways to keep safe, calm and healthy whilst in their altered working environments until things can start to revert. Of course, we have also added friendlier products to the boxes that are definitely recognisable as treats!” added Josh.

Find out more at www.curakit.com

For further information or interviews, please contact suzi@sistersmithpr.com / 07766522306

How to Decorate a Guest Room on a Budget?

Sam Allcock
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How to Decorate a Guest Room on a Budget?

A guest room might not be actively used in your home, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be paying any attention to it. Well, you can’t hurry up and decorate the room at the last moment when you know that your guests are going to arrive.

When you entertain overnight guests, just think of making it as a relaxing space for them. Now, you don’t really have to buy something fancy to set up a guest room. It doesn’t have to be that expensive.

You can still make it all cozy, relaxed, and convenient with a minimum budget. From having a nice affordable bed to little decor pieces can change the way your overall guest room looks.

Having said that, here are a few incredible ways to decorate a guest room on a budget:

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1. A warm inviting bed

When it comes to creating impressions with guest rooms, bed is something that people will notice first. There’s nothing like the feeling of sleeping on your bed, but a warm and inviting bed act changes everything.

You don’t have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars in buying a king-size bed. No you can invest in a nice folding bed furniture or a portable air bed.

The idea is to make the bed look cozy and inviting. To do this, all you have to do is add a mixture of various sized cushions in order to incorporate textures, colors, and a good throw rug. Never be scared to add that pop of color to a neutral or pastel bed linen.

You can even mix a few velvet or woollen knits to that plain cotton sheet. You can even buy a good sheet set, which feels great to touch—something that’s crisp and clean.

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2. Inexpensive bedside table

A good bedside table is very useful for your guests. Why? Well, it helps them to put stuff like reading glasses, books, phones, or anything that’s practical. Moreover, a nice bedside table will also complement your guest room as a whole.

You really don’t have to break your bank for this. Maybe, just repurpose your old chair and stack a few modish storage boxes on top of it. As simple as that!

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3. Beautify the wall with nice paintings or decor pieces

To make your guest room stand out, a good here is to include some art pieces or maybe a few group pieces. For a uniform look, try using the same frame for every art piece that you want to display. Experiment with simple variations using vintage word art or movie posters.

If you don’t want to do the above trick and would prefer it to be unique, then follow the technique of ‘statement wall’ to set up a beautiful cohesive design where you work with the side walls to reduce the drama.

For immediate impact, paint two walls (adjoining) in a fresh hue for the color to wrap and prevent the room from being overwhelmed. This actually springs the colors to emerge. Go with pastel tones—perhaps, blush and pinks to pastel greens and rich teals.

Painting two walls (adjoining) is a simpler project, letting you enjoy the overall look while minimizing your work on a whole! Since you are painting your guest room, you don’t have to restrict yourself. Be more daring and bold with colors, as it is usually a small room of the entire home.

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4. Keep it personal and convenient

Your guests are going to admire that little gesture of “care” lifelong if you do this. Here’s a better way to put it—when we spend some time away, we naturally look forward to the same comforts and convenience that we are accustomed to at our homes. Right? And that’s exactly why adding that personal touch makes all the difference.

Besides having a cozy bed and nice bedside table ready for your guests, make sure to keep a few things handy for them. Perhaps, a few books, clean towels, fresh flowers, or sanitary kit. These finer details not just create a big difference but also shows how much you care for them.

5. Have a full length mirror in place

A full length mirror serves two purposes here. One, it makes a small room look big and two, it helps your guests to dress up. Interestingly, they aren’t that expensive. You can easily find them at a store near you or you can buy it online.

Also, purchase a few hooks if possible, as it may be a great add-on to hand coats, towels, and robes.

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6. Create an excellent ambiance with the right lighting

Believe it or not, lighting can make it break the deal when it comes to creating a positive vibe. It can make a strong impression the moment your guests turn it on.

No one is going to like walking around a dim or dull lit room. To make your guests feel super cozy and welcome, just have a good lighting in place. Not anything fancy. But something that can make the room lightened and glowing. Now, this shouldn’t be expensive. Perhaps, you can get a bedside lamp. That should do the trick.

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7. Use fragrance to freshen up the space

Do this 30-45 minutes before your guests arrive. Slightly spritz the towels and bedsheets with a perfumed linen spray. Another inexpensive way to do this is by buying scented candles and soaps for the bathroom segment.

Keep some fresh flowers too. This is not just a way to brighten up the whole space but also sends a message to your guests that you are super excited to have them. But don’t go overboard with flowers, as a few might be suffering from allergies.

Conclusion

A guest room must flow with other rooms in your home but you can break the rule there and tone it down a little for a better stay for your guests. Decorating the guest room is all about striking the right balance between your visitor’s space and space. Interestingly, it comes at a fraction of the price of the other rooms at your home.

Happy Hosting!

Gaps filled as dual flavoured vodka hits the UK market

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Gaps filled as dual flavoured vodka hits the UK market

Jatt Life has just launched a brand new premium vodka as part of its new range this year, perfectly infused twice with zesty orange and smooth pineapple. 

The launch, that went global, saw the company introduce the 5 times distilled spirit despite the ongoing pandemic. Luckily they were able to recognise the success of their newly selected product through substantial sales.

Jatt Life soon followed their own suit with another premium spirit, this time focussing on the darker variety, an irish blend whiskey, aged in sherry oaks casks. However, after the success of their orange and pineapple premium vodka, they are now looking to break through into the spirits market with a range of dual flavoured vodkas. During the coming six months the general public can expect to see 4 extra flavours that are currently undergoing the R&D stage (research and development). 

According to Aman Singh, the Marketing Manager for Jatt Life, “We used the paramount ingredients to ensure that what we were creating really did have the abundance of luxury that a fine spirit within the market deserves. This was crucial for the success of our orange and pineapple vodka. We’ve reached this criteria by not only creating a spirit allowing depth to a vodka based beverage but also a flavour so smooth that our product is perfect poured straight over ice.”

He continues, “Due to the current circumstances surrounding Covid-19 it’s undoubtedly been a struggle to launch this new product whilst also maintaining our turnover but with the help of customer feedback, we have been able to manage and monitor development stages closely to ensure the best possible flavours were produced. We have certainly discovered a market gap alongside this launch as our product is unlike the majority of vodkas, being a dual flavoured variety. Working on our extra 4 flavours now is great as due to our recent success, the team is able to experience the process with additional drive and passion, ensuring our customers receive the highest quality products once more.”

Please visit www.jatt-life.com to purchase yours or find out more.

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