Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
During the final week before Christmas weekend, I went to two Xmas parties with Depop and Yahoo Style. For stylish, sassy occasions like these, there was only one thing for it. GLITTER LIPS.
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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO: How to apply Glitter Lips by Beauty Boulevard
December is finally here and it's Xmas Party season! This week, I'm hosting my own xmas party slash housewarming (despite moving into my house in June - see my 'Buying A House, What Have I Learnt? Tips From A First Time Buyer' post here) and today's post is a list of all the GENIUS things that I'll be using at my houseparty!
Being a great host is 25% about what you do on the day and 75% about the preparation! It's not just about providing the snacks and booze y'know, decoration and atmosphere are important too.
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How To Be A Great Host & Throw The Perfect Xmas Party
You know how getting ready is sometimes almost as good as going out? Well, I sort of think that shopping for Christmas is a little bit similar. Y'know, with the exception of the whole RUNNING AROUND IN A PANIC not knowing who to get what and when. Just thinking about it gives me the urge to drown my sorrows in mulled wine.
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Christmas Shopping Made Easy: Handpicked Gifts For Everyone
Whether you like it or not, Christmas is coming. All the TV adverts are out, it's hats and gloves weather - I've even got a tree and negotiated with Mr FV the earliest date I can put it up (29 November - but I'd have it up now if it were up to me!)
With a whole range of Beauty Boxes available, it's really difficult to get the perfect one - there's always one product in the box that you're not keen on right? So why not make your own? I saw this great tip on Boots.com about making a personalised Beauty Box/Hamper and decided to give it a go.
Here are the instructions I followed. Watch my video on YouTube and see how I got on! Keep reading for details on how to win the box!
Stuck on what to get the beauty fan in your life? Here are some classics that always go down well...
My Top Picks For Beauty Box Fillers
My Top Picks For Beauty Box Fillers
And you can WIN this too! Worth £95. Just enter below:
The box contains a Jack Wills Microwavable Hottie, Chloe Eau De Perfume 30ml, No7 Star Bauble, Sanctuary Luxury Bath Float, French Connection Lip Gloss x 3 & Nail Polish x 2, Ghost Perfume Bauble. All available at Boots.
Will post internationally. Competition ends 12 December.
Good luck!
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VIDEO: Forget Beauty Boxes, Make Your Own Personalised Beauty Hamper!
This will sound seriously mental but... I had my first Mince Pie of the year the other day. Yup. Christmas, in October. But the festive season isn't that far away you know. Xmas lights are up on Oxford Street. Christmas gift ranges are in store. Can't escape it, CHRISTMAS 2015 IS COMING.
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Christmas Is Coming: Gifts All Wrapped Up At Lush Cosmetics!
Hi team! I have been fantastically busy this week with work and Xmas festivities and blogging has taken a little breather. Can you believe it's December already?! I have bought zero presents so far and not even put my tree up - so much to do!! How far have you got?!
Today's blog post is a collection of my favourite fragrance bottles, spotted at The Perfume Shop Christmas preview.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm a sucker for picking perfume based on a beautiful bottle. I know it should be about the scent, but sometimes I just want that bottle on my dresser! If only more of them were refillable!
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The Most Beautiful Perfume Bottles For Your Dresser
Last week, I showed you a preview of the Lush Christmas range and this week? I've only gone and opened my Christmas presents early!!
Yup, I took home two Christmas gifts and opened them up straight away. None of this shaking around, guessing and squeezing business. SHOW ME THE GOODS!! THE NATURALLY SOURCED AND UK-MADE GOODS.
Yup, I took home two Christmas gifts and opened them up straight away. None of this shaking around, guessing and squeezing business. SHOW ME THE GOODS!! THE NATURALLY SOURCED AND UK-MADE GOODS.
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Christmas Came Early: Lush Gifts, Unwrapped!
How do you pick your perfume? Do you see an advert, go smell it, and decide whether you like it? Do you just grab the prettiest looking bottle off the shelf? Or do you get recommendations from friends or magazines and then try it?
For me and many others out there, it's basically ALL OF THE ABOVE. But what if you'd like to buy a perfume for someone else? (Being the very generous individuals that you are, you lovely lot) Gifting perfume is normally a no-no unless that person has asked for it or if you know that person really really really well right? Well think again..!
Today's post is about an ingenius little gift box called Vivabox from The Perfume Shop. Basically, the gift box comes with several little samples of perfume for you to try - and then, once you've picked your favourite, there's a gift voucher for you to get the full-size bottle! Perfume gifted, easy.
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How To Pick Perfume: Vivabox Gift Box from The Perfume Shop
Honey, I'M HOME!
I'm fresh back from New York and 'so totes' in the mood for Christmas. A bit of snow and I'm suddenly all festive!! Yes, it snowed in the Big Apple and yes, I did everything on my cliched list of "things to do in New York" - You can tell by my increased use of exclamation marks (as if I could use any more) that I'm having an awesome holiday season so far and I HOPE YOU ARE TOO!
But before I get too excited and start shouting about Christmas, back to the topic at hand. Definitely a jam-packed but wonderful first-time-in-New-York - here's a little snapshot of what I got up to...
What on earth am I doing? Read on, dear reader, read on!
Clockwise from top left:
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Snow, Shopping & Maybe She's Maybelline - Xmas in New York!
It's the weekend and you know what that means? Time for a pamper session! And in this horrible, cold, winter weather there's nothing more satisfying than a nice, steamy, fragrant bath. Aaaaah.
I don't know about you, but I find a bath is ten times more fun and satisfying when you've got a bath bomb involved! It's that feeling you get when you crumble it in, and watch it fizzzzzz around and turn the water into different colours. Like a firework in the water, except much more relaxing and soothing and with no children running around you with sparklers.
And for me, there's only one place to get a bath bomb (or nine, in this case) and that's LUSH! Y'know, that shop which you can smell before you even see it? That shop with the assortment of multi-coloured cheese-wheels of soap?
You may have seen my post about the Lush Christmas Range and now, with those bath bombs in my happy hands, let's take a closer look!
Aren't they adorable??! A great array of shapes, sizes, scents and shimmers. Which one do you like the best?
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Lush Christmas Bath Bomb Blowout - Which is your fave?
The festive adverts are on TV, the department store Christmas windows have been revealed - I know it's only November but I've decided to embrace the fact that Christmas is just around the corner. Hooray!
Obviously you'll know Christmas is here when the Coca Cola advert is on TV but by then Christmas shopping should be in full flow, much like the mulled wine in my house.
So to help you kick off your preparations, I've selected a few frankly awesome gifts from the Boots Christmas range. You know I love presents! Feel free to pass this page onto your chief present buyer and say "JUST GET ME THESE LOVE, THANKS"
So what have we got here then? These are my top presents that I would want - a real mix of essentials and of course, luxuries. You don't want what you actually need at Xmas do you?
Let's take a closer look...
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Boots Christmas - My Top Present Picks!
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