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The Courthouse Hotel London celebrates Afternoon Tea Week… KIKO Milano launches limited edition collection Rebel Romantic… KISS Cosmetics launch Mini’s…

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The Courthouse Hotel London is celebrating Afternoon Tea Week from August 10-16 with two exotic afternoon teas. The hotel’s in house Asian restaurant will be offering a unique Japanese Afternoon Tea, complete with Tamago, a Japanese sweet omelette and an Inari Pocket, a honey-marinated tofu fillet with rice. For that week only guests will also be able to sample a complimentary plum wine. Also available at Silk, will be an Asian Afternoon Tea, featuring Kutchi Dabeli, a sweet potato filling in steamed buns and Sev Aloo Papdi Chaat, savoury puffed pocked lined with potato, sweet tamarind and mint sauce which will be served with a complimentary glass of champagne. The Courthouse Hotel was once the notorious Great Marlborough Street Magistrates Court where the likes of Oscar Wilde, Mick Jagger and John Lennon were tried, but has since been transformed into a luxury hotel.

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Beauty brand KIKO Milano has announced the launch of Rebel Romantic, a limited edition collection inspired by Pre-Raphaelite heroines. The collection consists of a variety of products for the eyes, lips and face. Featuring Art Nouveau-inspired packaging, the range of 12 products includes the Perfecting Bronzer (£12.90) which combines a powder with a bronzer and boasts exclusive Atomization Technology; Contouring Pencil Set (£9.90); and Reckless Spirit Eyeshadow Palette (£12.90); Rebel Romantic Mirror (£5.90); and Pochette (£7.90). The Rebel Romantic collection will be available to buy in KIKO Milano stores and online from the end of August 2015.

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E-commerce beauty brand KISS Cosmetics has announced the launch of Mini’s: mini versions of their colour products which will enable customers to try before they buy. The Mini’s will be available for the following products – KISStick, Lip Vinyl and SheerStick and are priced at £2 each including packaging.

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How To Cook in High Heels Cocktail & Dessert Recipes

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strawberry cocktailFrost loves cocktails and apps. So an app that gives you cocktail recipes? Our cup runneth over. Hot on the heels of Summer is Tequila Rose’s Strawberry Kiss, a new and decadent way to enjoy strawberries and cream – and now the recipe is available on new app, How to Cook in High Heels.

 

A mix of luxurious strawberry cream liquor, Tequila Rose, white rum and chocolate liquor, this indulgent Strawberry Kiss cocktail is an ideal treat while catching up with friends. The natural strawberry flavour of Tequila Rose, makes this cocktail utterly irresistible.

 

Tested (and devoured!) by the savvy cookery authors and TV presenters, Sacha and Korin at How to Cook in High Heels, Strawberry Kiss and Tequila Rose recipes, are super easy to make by downloading the new How to Cook in High Heels app, free to download on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch via iTunes from July 12th 2013.  If you can’t wait until then, here’s the recipe!

 

Tequila Rose Strawberry Kiss

50ml Tequila Rose

15ml White Rum

25ml Chocolate Liquor

Shake all the ingredients together and strain into a chilled Martini Glass garnished with chocolate sprinkles. Serve with fresh strawberries.

 

Strawberry Jewel

50ml Tequila Rose

15ml Cream

Garnish with red sprinkles

You won’t fail to impress friends by serving up Strawberry Jewel, sipping this creamy cocktail is an indulgent way to catch up over drinks.

 

Strawberry Kiss

50ml Tequila Rose

15ml White Rum

25ml Chocolate Liqueur

Shake, Strain into Martini Glass garnished with chocolate sprinkles

 

Strawberry Kiss is one to be savoured, this elegant cocktail is the perfect party drink – it looks amazing and tastes even better – everyone will want to toast with this in hand.

 

Strawberry Split

50ml Tequila Rose

15ml Banana liqueur

15ml Coffee liqueur

Layer in a shot glass

Get your retro summer fix with this vibrant Strawberry Split number – fruity, creamy and all together delicious!

Tequila Rose Yogurt Dessert

Ingredients (For 4 People):

50g Digestives

4 Tbl Spoons golden syrup

200g Set Greek yogurt

15g Pectin

50g Good quality strawberry conserve

100ml Tequila Rose liqueur

 

 What a way to end a dinner party, you won’t fail to impress by serving this Tequila Rose Yogurt Dessert – cool and refreshing with a cheeky shot of Tequila Rose.

 

1.        Crush digestives with a rolling pin.  Spoon into a ramekin and press down firmly

2.        Gently warm the golden syrup and spoon a thin layer over the digestives – this will create a barrier for the liquid layer.

3.        Heat the pectin in 20mls of boiling water add to a combination of Tequila Rose and Greek Yogurt.  Blend together until the resulting mixture is smooth in texture. Add to the ramekin.

4.        Allow to set in the fridge for 6-8 hours.

5.        Very gently warm the Strawberry Conserve and lightly spoon over the set yogurt mix.

6.       Allow to cool in the fridge for 10 mins.

7.       Serve when requires.

 

Alternatively serve as a frozen sweet.

 

 STRAWBERRY JEWEL

What are the ‘red sprinkles’ made of (this is probably covered in the video or a stupid question)? They are the type of sprinkles you would put on ice cream

Any comment on type of cream? It would be double cream

Is “50ml” ‘one’ serving as jt were? Yes

 

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Is there a particular technique or skill to the ‘garnishing’? You could wet the rim with Tequila Rose then dip the glass into the sprinkles

I have put the step in as garnish before pouring – did you film this one?  Is this how you did it?

Is “50ml” ‘one’ serving as jt were? Yes

 

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In what order should they be layered?  This is important to the steps – and again they would need to match the video? The order to match the image

Is “50ml” ‘one’ serving as jt were? Yes

 

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What is the garnish in the picture?  Will add this as a recommended 6th step for completeness… Lime zest

 

Kiss offers Aspiring Presenters a once in a lifetime opportunity {Radio}

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Kiss and Blackberry are on the hunt for a new presenter and this time around, it’s not about who you know, but all about personality. The open auditions will tour shopping centres to find their “Chosen One”

Aspiring broadcasters will be given the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of current Kiss talent and former listeners Rickie, Melvin and Charlie, and get their voice heard by millions of listeners on the UK’s number one youth station.

Live auditions will be taking place in various shopping centres around London, kicking off at the Westfield complex on Saturday 15 January. It’s not about having DJ skills, a BRIT Award-winning singing voice or dance moves to put Diversity to shame to enter. All you need is the charisma and confidence to entertain the nation alongside some of the country’s leading radio personalities.

The Kiss Chosen One, Sponsored by BlackBerry will be the first time Kiss have held live, open auditions where members of the public will be able to win a hallowed spot on the award-winning Kiss presenting team.

Audition Dates:

Saturday 15 January: Westfield, White City
Saturday 22 January: Lakeside, Thurrock
Saturday 29 January: Whitgift Centre, Croydon
Saturday 5 February: Central London

As well as these live auditions, entrants will be able to upload their audition online, for the chance to be seen by the judges.

The judging panel will comprise of Kiss Group Programme Director Andy Roberts and a Kiss presenter at each event, including Manny Norté, Rickie, Melvin and Charlie who will shortlist the five best entrants from each heat. From there, a gauntlet of trials and challenges will be set, where the most successful contestant will be crowned The Kiss Chosen One.

Click this link for more information on The Kiss Chosen One, Sponsored by BlackBerry.

And the video below has some handy tips and advice for this competition…

Britain's Next Top Model Live. {Fashion}

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If anything if going to bring out my girlie side it’s Britain’s Next Top Model. From the 22nd-24th of October. The hugely successful reality TV show comes to the ExCel centre in London’s Docklands.The Ultimate weekend shopping extravagance has everything a budding model or fashionista would ever need.

I start by walking around all of the stalls, and check out the fashion and beauty products on offer. I get a free Tia Maria cocktail, but, amusingly, only after being asked for ID. I pop by the powder room where they are giving free make overs, manicures and massages, but decide the queue is too long. So I head to the Kiss catwalk to catch Diana Vickers sing. Her voice is amazing and you can tell that the entire audience love her. Her clothes are rocking too. Despite the fact she can’t tell presenter Emma Willis where she got them because, endearingly, she can’t pronounce the designers name.

Later on Alesha Dixon comes on the stage to promote her jewellery line. Dressed in jeans and a top, she comes on stage with a cup of tea that has some chewing gum stuck to the bottom – she says she didn’t have anywhere else to put it, she confessed she is still feeling rough from the MOBO’s the night before and went to bed at 7am. Alesha comes across as incredibly down to earth and shakes a number of the audiences hand’s after they ask her.

There is no sign of Elle McPherson but Charley Speed is here and brilliant designer Melissa Odabash is on hand to give style advice.

Later on, Molly Smitten Downes and Joey Bevan do a fusion of music and fashion. Molly sings her heart out and Joey’s clothes are beautiful. Very enjoyable.

One of the most exciting things from Britain’s Next Top Model is Global Cool. ‘Turn up the style, turn down the heat.’ I interviewed Gemma Cairney about her involvement with the company that let’s you restyle jumpers they way you want and helps the environment.

Gemma says: “Global Cool have given me even more of an incentive to encourage, big, snuggly jumper wearing.. Perfect! I like my jumpers big, often primary coloured and with a motif that’ll make others smile, so I’m more than happy to put my gob behind a campaign that can eventually help this important thing called the Earth smile a bit too.”

Wannabe models could also attend casting couch sessions from Rebecca, Elle magazine, Becca Cosmetics, Tia Maria, Models 1 and Wonderbra. So if you want to be spotted, hurry down to Excel.

Also scheduled to sing is Eliza Doolittle, Eliza told Frost this: ‘I love Britain’s Next top model so I’m very excited to be involved in the live event – I’m looking forward to having a sneaky look at all of the cloths and products too.’

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