The Best Gift Sets From This Month!

Here are a few of the gift sets I received this month for my birthday. I love raiding the shelves in Boots for gift sets in January. You can get some great deals!

I love Impulse. I have had these minis a few times before in gift sets. I love the design of the tin. True Love is my favourite of the three scents. The mini sprays are really handy for travelling or smaller handbags. I carry the full size 75ml Impulse spray in my normal handbag as it is huge.

How amazing is this Hidden Gems gift set. It has a miniature Versace Bright Crystal perfume. I have the full size bottle which has featured in my favourites posts in the past. I love the Tangle Teezer as well and I was considering buying one with a lid just before Christmas. The nail polishes are great. The Nails Inc polish is clear. I look forward to trying the make-up items as well! I find this set has such a great variety of items.

I love this Ted Baker gift set. It comes with 2 body lotions, 2 body washes, a hand lotion and 2 bubble baths. I also have the body sprays to match. They are really nice. I love the rose gold detail on the packaging. 

I love Soap and Glory. Their original scent is gorgeous and I'm impressed with the variety in this gift set. The Scrub Of Your Life is my favourite Soap And Glory product.

September Favourites!

These are the items I've been loving in September!

I love my cobalt blue dress from boohoo.com. The colour and the fit are gorgeous and it can easily be dressed up or down.

I find that Avon lipsticks can often be too shimmery and I recently went through all my lipsticks and found this one had never been used. The shade is called Divine Wine and there is no shimmer in it. It is a dark purple colour, but it doesn't look unnatural. I love it!

I've been loving my new handbag from H&M. It is a good size and it looks really smart. I have had large handbags before, but not with such a rigid shape to them so I am still getting used to this one.

I have rediscovered my MUA Undressed palette and I love it. I have been using my matte eyeshadows a lot recently so it's good to bring some shimmer back and I love the golds and browns in this palette.

I finally bought Garnier's oil-infused Micellar water this month and it is great for removing, even waterproof, make-up with no rubbing or scrubbing. I'm really pleased with this.

I have been using Sanctuary Spa's body scrub this month. I love the scent of it and it leaves my skin feeling lovely and soft.

My favourite Impulse body spray currently available is Sweet Smile. It has a scent of pear and jasmine and this has been my body spray of choice for September.

May Favourites 2016

In May I have been loving my Figs & Rouge pomegranate lip balm. It is really soft and balmy, but not as shiny as a lot of my other lip balms.

I have also fallen in love with DKNY's Red Delicious eau de parfum again. It is such a nice, clean, fresh scent.

I received a tin of mini Impulse sprays for Christmas and I have been using True Love this month. The scent is freesia and tangerine and it is one of my favourite scents by Impulse. My sister-in-law got a gift set for me with the eau de toilette version of this scent which I also love.

I splashed out recently and bought myself a beautiful 18ct gold diamond necklace. The chain is different to the picture, but the pendant is the same. I absolutely love square set diamonds. I think they look beautiful and the diamond is 1/3 of a carat. I absolutely love this necklace. I need to wear it more!

I have been using this I Love... Mango and Papaya hand wash this month and the scent is gorgeous; sweet and fruity and right up my street.

I rediscovered my favourite Elizabeth Arden lipstick this month. I have a few colours from this range but my favourite is Barely There. It is a gorgeous colour and glides on perfectly.

Finally I wore my ASOS boots again this month. I got them last summer and I have never been more in love with a pair of boots in my entire life! I have only worn them two or three times because I want to keep these until the day I die so wearing them out in their first year would just be stupid. I wish I'd bought two pairs the same. I can't say how much I love these. They go with everything too. I wore them with nude tights and a black dress.

April Favourites 2016!

Here are a few of my favourite items that I have been using in April 2016. I can't believe April is almost over already.

I have found myself reaching for Jimmy Choo Flash London Club a lot this month. The original Flash fragrance is one of my favourite fragrances and Flash London Club has a similar scent.

I have been wearing my diamond cluster ring a lot this month. I absolutely love the design and I prefer yellow gold jewellery.

I have had a lot of wear from my brown New Look belt this month. I tend to go for quite wide, chunky belts. I'm very happy with this one.

I received my Burt's Bees lip balm in a gift set from my sister and since I used up my favourite EOS lip balm I have been using this one. It has a peppermint flavour and feels very cooling when applied.

I love this Studio MakeUp eyeliner pen. The tip goes to a fine point so it is very precise and easy to apply.

My sister bought me a gift set of mini Impulse sprays a while ago and I have been using this miniature Impulse in True Love which has a scent of fressia and tangerine. It is one of the better Impulse sprays.

I have mentioned my black jeans from The Collection at Debenhams before. I have some new ones exactly the same on order as I love these and have worn them loads.

I have only worn these light blue shoes once but I love them. The colour actually leans slightly more towards green than the stock picture shows, but I can't pick it up on my camera very well either. They are the perfect height; not too high but not too low and they look great with jeans. 

A Few Goodies From My Birthday!

It was my birthday recently so I'm going to share with you a few of the goodies that I received from my family and friends.


I got this amazing Beauticology gift set, which is really cute. It has a strawberry macaron scented body wash and a raspberry cream macaron scented body lotion both of which smell gorgeous.

I got an Along Came Betty gift set with peach and apricot scented hand wash and hand lotion in it. I have already had plenty of use out of the hand lotion. The scent is amazing.

I also got an Impulse gift set with 5 different body sprays in it. I love Impulse. The one in the middle is my favourite, Sweet Smile. It is pear and jasmine scented.

I also got some perfumes.
I got two new fragrances from Avon. Cherish and Mesmerize Black. Cherish is a beautiful, floral scent and Mesmerize Black is a creamy, woody fragrance, which is quite heavy.
I also got the matching purse sprays which are really handy to throw in your handbag or to travel with.
I also got a new bottle of Vera Wang Princess, which I was really pleased with as my current bottle is running low. I really love this fragrance. It is very unique.

I was also spoilt when it comes to jewellery and I got a really pretty Sekonda watch, a ruby ring, a lovely gold necklace and some earrings.

 I got some other bits and pieces too including Jelly Belly earphones, a shoe design notepad and a lovely light pink nail polish.
I was also given a book of postcards with covers from the New Yorker magazine on them. There are hundreds of postcards to look through and the designs are really interesting. I visited New York last year and I absolutely love the place. I definitely want to go back some day!

I also got a very relevant tin to keep receipts in.

I can always feel a shop coming on! Haha! It is the perfect gift for a shopaholic like myself!

I did get a few other gift sets not shown because I have already broken into them and started using them and I also got some cash so I was very lucky and spoilt by my family and friends.

Stocking fillers haul for £1.00 or less!!

My sisters and I agreed we wouldn't spend too much on each other this Christmas.
I really enjoy buying for them so I haven't exactly stuck to my word. I have bought them each a perfume, a top, a scarf and some jewellery and I have bought one of my sisters some Lush goodies, which I mentioned in a previous post and the other will be getting a new handbag.

I wanted to get them a few more little treats for them to open and I have found that you can get some fabulous treats for just £1.00!

For chocolates I raided the Poundland for the smallest box of Milk Tray known to man and a box of orange Matchmakers (they also had mint ones).

The Thornton's Classics bags are lovely too without so much unnecessary packaging and they only cost £0.99 from Home Bargains.

Poundland also had Herbal Essences hair masks, which smell amazing. I couldn't resist getting one for myself as well. £1.00 is amazing for a hair mask.

Superdrug are currently selling Impulse for £0.98 for a full size 75ml can. Sweet Smile and Secret Smile are my two favourites so I got them for my sisters to try.

In the other pound shop, Poundworld I picked up a can of Sure deodorant for just £1.00, which I think is great as, in my opinion, it is the best deodorant on the market and you will pay more than double for the same can in Boots!

Finally, Wilkinson's Fruits range had a crowd gathered around it last time I went to Wilkinson's so I took a look for myself and made quite a few purchases.

This is kind of cheating because these products cost £1.50 each, but they are permanently on a 3 for 2 deal so if you buy items in multiples of 3 they are only £1.00 each.
I bought more products than are shown in the photo below, but some were duplicates so I didn't want them to be in the photo twice.

The range have soaps, shower gels, scrubs, bath bombs, hand wash, shampoo, conditioner, bath foam, face masks, body butter, lip balm in their unique flavours.
Their flavours are quite unusual. The photo above shows a passion fruit and melon scrub, a strawberry and pomegranate bath bomb, an orange and pomelo soap and a lime and ginger shower gel.
It is difficult to smell the soap through the plastic wrap, but the shower gels and bath bombs smell amazing. They remind me of bath and shower products from the 90's that my friends and I used to buy for each other's birthdays and for Christmas and they had lovely, fruity, quite obscure scents that you don't find a lot of products in such as dewberry.

There are lots more scents from the Wilkinson's range.
I bought all of the different soaps. There is rhubarb and vanilla (amazing), lemon and black pepper, coconut and vanilla and finally blueberry and grape. I think they all sound amazing and I will definitely be trying this range for myself.
I know my niece will love these fruity products so I have reserved some for her as well.

I would be really pleased with any of these gifts and I think most women would be pretty pleased with them, but I think the hair mask is the greatest gift for the price!


Other items that would be nice to receive in your stocking and cost just £1.00 are these novelty products.
Coca-Cola or J20 flavoured lip balms and Tango shower gels and hand washes are nice little novelty ideas. They can usually be picked up from pound stores.

 I noticed that Claire's are selling Kellogg's Rice Krispies lip balm for £3.00. I think the packaging is really cute for these lip balms.

A while ago I picked up this set of 5 Swizzels branded lip balms in the flavours of Refreshers, Double Lollies, Drumstick, Double Dip and Rainbow Drops!
B&M's website, www.bmstores.co.uk shows that you can get this set at B&M's for £2.99.

My March Favourites 2014!

Here are some of my beauty favourites that I've been using recently.

I love The Body Shop's Satsuma soap. It smells delicious. The scent is really intense and it is really creamy and it never leaves my skin feeling dry.

Soap and Glory's The Scrub Of Your Life is my favourite product by Soap and Glory. It has their signature scent, which I find I like in some products more than others. It is lovely in this scrub. The scrub can be used as harsh or as gentle as you like by applying more or less pressure to your skin. It's the best body scrub I have ever used.

I love Avon's Advance Techniques hair masks. I bought a few of them when they were on offer a while ago. I have used the colour protection version and the damage repair version and they are both lovely to use and they smell great.

I have worked my way through all of Impulse's body sprays over the years, but Sweet Smile (in the yellow packaging) and the Limited Edition Secret Smile (the silver and red design) are my favourite scents.
Sweet Smile is pear and jasmine scented. It is really summery and uplifting.
Secret Smile is raspberry and gardenia scented. It is really sweet and fruity. The combination of notes works perfectly.

My favourite face mask to use is this Montagne Jeunesse cucumber peel-off masque. It really does peel off so there's no time wasted rinsing it, which can be quite a chore with some masks that I've used. It leaves my skin feeling lovely and soft.

My sister gave me some Aussie Mega Street Art shampoo. It smells really nice. It has an intense, fruity scent, which lingers on my hair.

I love my Clinique moisturiser. It feels so light and bouncy compared to all of my other creams. It has lasted me a good few months and my pot still looks pretty full.

My Dr Jart BB Cream has lasted me about 9 months so far. The Regenerating BB Cream is quite a light colour, which suits my pale complexion. It makes my skin look moisturised and healthy.

Last, but not least is Baylis and Harding's rose, ylang-ylang and patchouli body cleanser. Baylis and Harding's bath and shower products have a lovely jelly-like feel to them and they literally wobble on your hand.
Dominated by the rose, the scent of this one is amazing. I love it!