Showing posts with label selfridges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label selfridges. Show all posts
I decided to combine these to posts today because I seem to have too many posts left and not enough weeks as I wanted to get these done at least a couple of weeks before Christmas so that if you spotted anything you would still have chance to get it!
Today I want to talk both ends of the scale - gifts for the young en's and gifts for the oldies. First up lets do the young ones.
Today I want to talk both ends of the scale - gifts for the young en's and gifts for the oldies. First up lets do the young ones.
- Personalised Disney Princess Book - £9.99 - Buy a gift - Buy a gift have a load of different types of books which can be personalised for your little prince or princess. Perfect for those little ones who love to read.
- 50 things to do before your 11 3/4 - £9.99 - Hawkins Bazaar - I love the idea of this book! It would be a really fun book to try and get all of the things done!
- Make your own lip balm kit - £15 - Not on the high Street - Not just a good ones for teens I would be quite happy to find this in my christmas pile but I thought this would be a good one for those teens who love to get a bit creative!
- Puppies and Kittens Nursery Set - £12 - Cath Kidston - I think this is so cute and a perfect little present for those younger ones.
- Toy Story Aqua Blaster - £4 - Superdrugs - I know this would be a popular one with boys! Its a game of blaster you play in the bath.
- The bear who had never seen christmas - £7.99 - John Lewis - This book is the book version of the John Lewis advert (which I can not watch without crying - come on it can not just be me)
- Make your own pencil case - £12.99 - Selfridges - Again another good one for those creative little people. I would love the idea of being able to design my own pencil case when I was younger! This set is awesome!
- One Direction personalised mug - £12.99 - Gone digging - For all those directioners out there - a 1D mug that can be personalised
- Minnie must have fashion nail art set - £10 - Boots - For your little lady who loves to paint her nails.
- Make your own Monster - £8 - Next - Because who doesnt want to make their own monster! I love this awesome gift from Next.
- Glass Photo Coasters - £4 each - Next - Cute coasters that you can add your own photos too! Because everyone needs somewhere stylish to stick their cup of tea!
- Family Tree Photograph Print - £28 - Not on the high street - I really love this photo frame! Not on the high street have some fantastic gifts and even have a gifts for grandparents section.
- All butter shortbread - £9 - Marks and Spencer - What is it with Christmas and biscuits?? Marks and Spencer do some fantastic biscuits. They quite often have a half price offer on them too so if you want some keep your peepers peeled!
- Grow you own tea and coffee - £13 - Buy a gift - I really like this gift! Perfect for those who love a cup of tea or coffee.. even better if your grandparents like a cup of tea in the garden! Combine 2 loves!
- Build your own hamper - £15 - John Lewis - If you really cant think of anything to get then building your own hamper is a great idea because it means you can make it more personal to whoever your giving it to and put their exact favourites.
- Walkers Slab Toffee - £6 - BHS - This just reminds me of a really vintage toffee and is SO cute!
- Seed Packet Organiser - £19.99 - Strawberry Fool - This is the perfect gift for organising packets of seeds if they love to Garden! Heads up though - Thrifty Mrs posted a picture of practically the same one as this from Home Bargains for £2.99
- Lavendon Manor Preserve Collection - £8 - Boots - A little mix of Jams which come in perfect little pots!
And those are my top gifts for Kids and Teens and the Oldies! Hope you have some good ideas there!
Remember the good old days when you used to go down Woolworths and get a cadburys advent calendar?? Well those days are long gone!
It appears something was started last year... you may remember me and everyone else going on about the Ciate advent calendar that was exclusive to selfridges. A couple of other brands scattered offerings across the market but come December they were nearly impossible to get hold of.
This year I was determined not to miss out. Part of my brain was telling me that £42 was a lot to pay for an 'advent calendar' and the other half told it to shut up and that since I wanted one and couldnt get one last year that I should get one if I could this year. This debate all happened as the Ciate advent calendar fell into my basket at Selfridges when I went to Birmingham and since then there have been a few other brands offering up there own little 24 door beauties and so I thought I would share them with you!!!
Oh look at it!!! How could I leave that sitting on the shelf?? It has my name written allll over it! At £42 this isnt a cheap advent calendar isnt cheap but it is worth over £200. As I said these were all over the beauty-sphere last year and I really wanted one then so I decided to have one this year! I love the look of some of these polishes and can not wait to paint my nails with these - it also has some of the caviar beads which I am interested to try as Ciate were the leaders in this type of manicure - I tried the MUA version but I wasnt impressed so I am interested to see how these ones measure up.
It appears something was started last year... you may remember me and everyone else going on about the Ciate advent calendar that was exclusive to selfridges. A couple of other brands scattered offerings across the market but come December they were nearly impossible to get hold of.
This year I was determined not to miss out. Part of my brain was telling me that £42 was a lot to pay for an 'advent calendar' and the other half told it to shut up and that since I wanted one and couldnt get one last year that I should get one if I could this year. This debate all happened as the Ciate advent calendar fell into my basket at Selfridges when I went to Birmingham and since then there have been a few other brands offering up there own little 24 door beauties and so I thought I would share them with you!!!
Ciate
Boots
I am not surprised that Boots jumped on the band wagon of the beauty advent calendars. At £30 theirs is one of the cheaper beauty ones I have seen out there which is also readily available on practically every high street. This contains a mixture of brands including Soap and Glory, Nails Inc, Rimmel and Mavala. It has a mixture of high end brands and high street brands as well as offering a mixture of make up, hair care, skin care and nails.
I am not going to lie. I picked this one up too. Me and mum went halves on this one (and then my dad gave me some towards it too - bless him) so we are going to share this between us! I am excited to see Boots doing this and cant wait to open this!!!
It looks like this is sold out online but may still be available in your local boots store.
Benefit
Now if you have been reading my blog for a while, you will know how much I have developed a love for benefit! Ever since the first purchase I made around this time last year and sold my soul to them! So imagine my excitment when I saw they too were joining the advent calendar craze! However by this point I already had the 2 above and at £50 I could not justify a third! I do love the look of this though and to be honest, advent or not, it is a great way to get an introduction to some of Benefits best products! I think one thing which did put me off this is that all these are small versions - which is understandable because benefit is obviously a high end brand - like I say it is great if you want to try lots of new products. Included in this advent calendar are benefavourites such as the hoola bronzer, high and sun beam, stay dont stray eyeshadow primer and BADgal lash and liner.
I have also seen offerings from the body shop knocking around on the blogsphere but I cant seem to find anything on the Body Shop website so I cant give you any more details on this one. Also I know that YOU beauty have an offering of an advent calendar available on their website here which retails are £49.95 but to be honest I havent really heard much about this one.
Have you picked up any beauty advent calendars this year??? Which is your favourite???
Have you picked up any beauty advent calendars this year??? Which is your favourite???
I am SO excited to be going off for a girlie weekend with my bestie to Birmingham this weekend!!! It is going to be a complete weekend of shoppingness and girly chatting! And of course in my head I have a little list of things I really want to pick up!
These are just a few things I picked off my head - obviously I may or may not get these exact things or but you know...
I am sooooo desperate for some new jumpers as all my ones from last year are miles too big! These ones are from H&M and are £7.99 which I think is an awesome price. I am thinking a lot of layering with some of my sleeveless summer shirts.
I have included the Forever 21 and Selfridge logos because we have neither here in Stoke. I loved Forever 21 when I was in the states and I am interested to see how the one here measures up! I also love walking round big department stores such as selfridges and am looking forward to the beauty hall mostly! Tied in with this you will see 2 mac products peeking in here. I really want to try out some mac eyeshadows and really fancy building myself a palette - maybe just a 2 or 4 one as again we dont have a mac in Stoke and I like to swatch colours when buying eyeshadows. I also fancy trying a mac lipstick. I really love my Bourjois one Rouge edition one but it is almost gone. I would quite like a look at how the mac lipsticks measure up and what colours they do.
Peeking on the right you will see a pair of patterned tights. I am loving tights at the moment as the more I have lost weight I have got a bit more body confident to get my legs out a bit and I love patterned tights for the autumn!
I spotted both the Cath Kidston and the Zara office city bag mini online. I lusted after the Office city bag for a while and was going to buy it but then decided against it. However I LOVE this mini version. I also love the Cath Kidston Everyday bag which is part of their Anniversary collection. I am interested to have a look at both of these and am sure one of them will be coming home with me!
And lastly I am really lusting over a pair of ankle boots. I love these ones from H&M which are (I think £25 or £30) - I really want some ankle boots that are not too high so I can wear them for work but also look great with skirts as well as trousers and dresses.
I am looking forward to going to some of the shops which we dont have here. In fact there are quite a few shops we dont have! I love H&M and really wish there was a local one but I am looking forward to a good mooch in there as both me and my friend have a love of H&M so I can see us spending plenty of time wandering around there.
I wil be doing a haul of what I buy from Brum when I get back so keep your eyes for that :)
I am sooooo desperate for some new jumpers as all my ones from last year are miles too big! These ones are from H&M and are £7.99 which I think is an awesome price. I am thinking a lot of layering with some of my sleeveless summer shirts.
I have included the Forever 21 and Selfridge logos because we have neither here in Stoke. I loved Forever 21 when I was in the states and I am interested to see how the one here measures up! I also love walking round big department stores such as selfridges and am looking forward to the beauty hall mostly! Tied in with this you will see 2 mac products peeking in here. I really want to try out some mac eyeshadows and really fancy building myself a palette - maybe just a 2 or 4 one as again we dont have a mac in Stoke and I like to swatch colours when buying eyeshadows. I also fancy trying a mac lipstick. I really love my Bourjois one Rouge edition one but it is almost gone. I would quite like a look at how the mac lipsticks measure up and what colours they do.
Peeking on the right you will see a pair of patterned tights. I am loving tights at the moment as the more I have lost weight I have got a bit more body confident to get my legs out a bit and I love patterned tights for the autumn!
I spotted both the Cath Kidston and the Zara office city bag mini online. I lusted after the Office city bag for a while and was going to buy it but then decided against it. However I LOVE this mini version. I also love the Cath Kidston Everyday bag which is part of their Anniversary collection. I am interested to have a look at both of these and am sure one of them will be coming home with me!
And lastly I am really lusting over a pair of ankle boots. I love these ones from H&M which are (I think £25 or £30) - I really want some ankle boots that are not too high so I can wear them for work but also look great with skirts as well as trousers and dresses.
I am looking forward to going to some of the shops which we dont have here. In fact there are quite a few shops we dont have! I love H&M and really wish there was a local one but I am looking forward to a good mooch in there as both me and my friend have a love of H&M so I can see us spending plenty of time wandering around there.
I wil be doing a haul of what I buy from Brum when I get back so keep your eyes for that :)
If you follow me on Instagram then you will already have seen this! When I went to London I was seriously disappointed that I couldnt mooch around the Mac stand is Selfridges because of all the people and also I wasnt really impressed with the attitude of the staff (I think they thought because I was wet and look bedraggled that I wasnt intending on purchasing - they only seemed intrested in the dry, skinny model looking people - I could write a wholllllllle seperate post on this)
Anyway I have been lusting over Mac for a while. Its probably one of the most famous high end beauty brands out there and comes with a hefty price tag. There isnt a Mac stand near where I live and I dont think you get the best idea of purchasing cosmetics online unless you are repurchasing something...
On Monday I went into Manchester to do a spot of Christmas Shopping and I wandered into Selfridges heading for the Illamasqua stand intent on having a look and purchasing Android, one of their pure pigments I had spotted online, I purchased Beguile when I went to London and was in love with it - if I can catch the magic on camera I will, and I fancied the Android for Christmas. You can use this pigments both dry and wet. Head on over to the Illamasqua website as they have great moving swatches of the products HERE.
Right next to the Illamasqua stand in Selfridges in Manchester is the Mac Stand and there was about 2 people mooching around, so I took my chance and had a good look!
I decided to pick up Mac's Mineralize Skin Finish in the shade soft and gentle. I have heard a lot of things about this product across the blogging community, most recently by Zoe at Zoella in one of her videos.
This was £21.50 and is for 10g. It reminds me a little of the Sugar Bomb which I picked up from Benefit a few weeks ago, not so much in the colouring but in the effect it gives, a little bit of colour with a bit of highlight. In fact you get more in the Mac product and it is cheaper as the Benefit product is £23.50 for 8g of product.
When I start using this (and the Illamasqua Android) I will be sure to do a proper review of these but for now I am definately excited to try this and maybe some more Mac products in the future.
For anyone who uses Mac what products can you recommend???
On Monday I went into Manchester to do a spot of Christmas Shopping and I wandered into Selfridges heading for the Illamasqua stand intent on having a look and purchasing Android, one of their pure pigments I had spotted online, I purchased Beguile when I went to London and was in love with it - if I can catch the magic on camera I will, and I fancied the Android for Christmas. You can use this pigments both dry and wet. Head on over to the Illamasqua website as they have great moving swatches of the products HERE.
Right next to the Illamasqua stand in Selfridges in Manchester is the Mac Stand and there was about 2 people mooching around, so I took my chance and had a good look!
This was £21.50 and is for 10g. It reminds me a little of the Sugar Bomb which I picked up from Benefit a few weeks ago, not so much in the colouring but in the effect it gives, a little bit of colour with a bit of highlight. In fact you get more in the Mac product and it is cheaper as the Benefit product is £23.50 for 8g of product.
When I start using this (and the Illamasqua Android) I will be sure to do a proper review of these but for now I am definately excited to try this and maybe some more Mac products in the future.
For anyone who uses Mac what products can you recommend???
I seem to have purchased a lot of things lately which I have not shared with you girlies. I got some of this stuff in London last weekend and some of the stuff this weekend when I went shopping with my mum.
Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish Starter Kit - £14.25 - John Lewis - I have been desperate to try this for ages but was put off by the price. I decided to take the plunge when I went to London and just get it... I am so glad I did as I love it - will post a seperate review on this.
Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen WOW foundation - £ - Benefit @ Debenhams - She used this foundation when I had the make up session yesterday and I loved it... Plus it has 10% off. It seemed like a small amount of this went a long way.
Benefit Bad lash mascara and liner duo - £20.50 - Benefit @ Debenhams - I spotted this yesterday, I have tried the bad gal lash mascara before and really enjoyed it so I thought I would give this a go as it was a bargain!
Lee Stafford Hot Shots 4 Blondes - £ - Boots - I got these when the Lee Stafford products were on 3 for £12 in Boots. I felt like the highlights I had put in my hair were too blonde and brassy so I thought I would give these a try. I have used a whole sachet (you get 4) over 2 weeks and it has knocked the brassy right out of my hair.
Lush Shower Gels - £3.75 - £4.25 - Lush - I know the snowflake is very popular amongst the bloggers of the world and I wanted to give it a whirl. I also thought I would try the Twilight, I am enjoying both of them although I prefer the Snowflake.
Illamasqua Pigmant Eyeshadow in Beguile - £15.50 - Illamasqua @ Selfridges - If you follow sprinkle of glitter (here) you will know how much she loves this product. I have wanted it for ages but I wanted to see it in person and when we went to London last week I got that chance. I havent used it yet but I can already tell I am going to love it!
OPI Polishes - All about minnie & You only live twice - £11.00 - John Lewis - I tried to resist the OPI stand and couldnt. These were so lovely. The All about Minnie is from the Minnie Mouse collection and You only live twice is from the James Bond Skyfall collection.
The bottom left is some boots purchases yesterday. They include the Soap and Glory sexy mother pucker lip pencils in Fuscha and Plum (£8), The soap and Glory under eye concealer (£9) - these are on 3 for 2. L'Oreal super liner (£9.99), a L'Oreal eyeshadow in plum (£5.99) and the purple and gold Maybeline 24 tattoo cream shadows (£4.99). There are some fab offers on in Boots at the moment.
I am excited to try a lot of these products, I have started using some already which I am loving and cant wait to share what I think with you. Look out for them coming up soon.
Toodles
Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen WOW foundation - £ - Benefit @ Debenhams - She used this foundation when I had the make up session yesterday and I loved it... Plus it has 10% off. It seemed like a small amount of this went a long way.
Benefit Bad lash mascara and liner duo - £20.50 - Benefit @ Debenhams - I spotted this yesterday, I have tried the bad gal lash mascara before and really enjoyed it so I thought I would give this a go as it was a bargain!
Lee Stafford Hot Shots 4 Blondes - £ - Boots - I got these when the Lee Stafford products were on 3 for £12 in Boots. I felt like the highlights I had put in my hair were too blonde and brassy so I thought I would give these a try. I have used a whole sachet (you get 4) over 2 weeks and it has knocked the brassy right out of my hair.
Lush Shower Gels - £3.75 - £4.25 - Lush - I know the snowflake is very popular amongst the bloggers of the world and I wanted to give it a whirl. I also thought I would try the Twilight, I am enjoying both of them although I prefer the Snowflake.
Illamasqua Pigmant Eyeshadow in Beguile - £15.50 - Illamasqua @ Selfridges - If you follow sprinkle of glitter (here) you will know how much she loves this product. I have wanted it for ages but I wanted to see it in person and when we went to London last week I got that chance. I havent used it yet but I can already tell I am going to love it!
OPI Polishes - All about minnie & You only live twice - £11.00 - John Lewis - I tried to resist the OPI stand and couldnt. These were so lovely. The All about Minnie is from the Minnie Mouse collection and You only live twice is from the James Bond Skyfall collection.
The bottom left is some boots purchases yesterday. They include the Soap and Glory sexy mother pucker lip pencils in Fuscha and Plum (£8), The soap and Glory under eye concealer (£9) - these are on 3 for 2. L'Oreal super liner (£9.99), a L'Oreal eyeshadow in plum (£5.99) and the purple and gold Maybeline 24 tattoo cream shadows (£4.99). There are some fab offers on in Boots at the moment.
I am excited to try a lot of these products, I have started using some already which I am loving and cant wait to share what I think with you. Look out for them coming up soon.
Toodles
If your big up on reading blogs then you may have seen this beauty knocking around the internet... this is the Ciate Mini Mani Month advent calender.
Now you may already know I have a seriously have a love for nail polish! They are just so pretty! I absolutely LOVE this advent calender.
I am seriously having to wrestle with my will power not to buy this!
Are you in love??
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