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  • I Treated Myself To Beauty Products That Cost Under £20.00

    The months of November and December can be very expensive. As much as Christmas can be a joyful and fun filled holiday it also isn’t the cheapest! I love giving gifts to my nearest and dearest but I also like to treat myself too. But what did I manage to buy myself with £20.00?

    My affordable gifts to myself!
    Escentuals Body Mist White Musk & Vanilla

    A body mist or five is a must in my household. Not only do I use them daily as a cheap form of fragrance but my daughter uses them as well. So I always need a decent stash of mists and sprays. I bought Escentuals Body Mist in White Musk and Vanilla from Boots. They were on a special price promotion for £2.50 each instead of £3.99 which I thought was a good deal. This was a totally new range to me that I wanted to try and thought I would enjoy the fragrances.

    Escentuals Body Mists
    Ecotools Gua Sha Kit

    I grabbed Ecotools Gua Sha Kit from Home Bargains because I’ve never seen a set like this before. Facial gua sha’s are available in many different stores and shops, but mainly are just for the face. This collection included not only a facial tool but one for the hair and body, which is why I bought it. Made from real jade, great packaging and only cost £3.49.

    Ectools Gua Sha Kit
    Glow’s Time To Glow Eye Serum

    I’ve been on the look out for an affordable eye serum for awhile now and found this in Home Bargains for £2.99. It’s easy to grab an eye cream but not a serum so I thought I would give this a go. Designed to brighten the under eye area, it has a pipette applicator for hygienic and ease of use.

    Glow’s Eye Serum
    Revolution Skincare Vibrating Rose Quartz Face Roller

    If you love skincare it would be hard to be immune to buying the occasional facial tool. Although I’m not the most consistent in using them if I’m honest, they at least provide a pampering few moments when I do use them. Revolution Skincare Vibrating Rose Quartz Face Roller caught my eye on ASOS because of ease of use as it’s battery operated not manual. And of the course the price swayed me. It originally was £20.00 and went on sale for £5.36.

    Revolution Skincare Vibrating Rose Quartz Face Roller

    For under £20.00 I managed to buy myself products that were incredibly priced, perfect for my needs and didn’t send my credit card into meltdown! It just proves you can always treat yourself if needed, even on a budget!

  • Glow’s Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar Day 15 to 21

    While my children get stuck in daily with their chocolate advent calendar, I’ve been enjoying the various products that have been included in my Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar from Glow. So far I’ve enjoyed wax melts and bath products from Day’s 1 to 7 and Day’s 8 to 14, but what did I find ‘behind’ Day’s 15 to 22?

    Glow’s Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar
    Day 15 Keys To The Kingdom Wax Melt

    Think of bubble gum, cotton candy, those types of fragrances and this is what Keys To The Kingdom smells like. Sweet, sugary, fruity, gorgeous!

    Day 16 Positivity Wax Melt

    A slighter cool, minty fragrance with strawberries mixed in. This reminds me of how candy canes smell like but even better. Great fragrance to melt over Christmas.

    Day 16 Positivity Wax Melt
    Day 17 Bah Hum Bug Bubble Bath

    The packaging of Bah Hum Bug Bubble Bath is just adorable! It’s housed in a small plastic bottle shaped like a bauble/Christmas light. This has an almost herbal, medicinal mint smell to it which is fresh and very different to any of the other minty scented products in this advent.

    Day 18 Oat, Milk & Honey Bath Soak

    A very relaxing and soothing bath soak which was the perfect way to end a stressful and busy day when I used this. Not an ordinary bath soak, but one filled with magnesium and dried flowers giving it a holistic and botanical feel.

    Day 18 Oat, Milk & Honey Bath Soak
    Day 19 A Trick Amongst The Treats Wax Melt

    A brilliant and unusual citrus based wax melt. A Trick Amongst The Treats has a more lemongrass smell to it rather than lemon itself because it’s not particularly zesty. There’s definitely a hint of mint in this and overall a great fragrance with a herbal scent to it.

    Day 20 The Perfect Christmas Room Spray

    A fruity, berry based home fragrance product, possible cranberries or cherries, with a frosted wintery scent to it rather than sugary and obviously fruit based, if that makes sense?

    Day 20 The Perfect Christmas Room Spray
    Day 21 Mai Tai Hand Cream

    Mai Tai Hand Cream is a rich, but not thick hand cream. Very nourishing on the hands and the scent is to die for! Zesty, citrus, lemon and very invigorating. Love this and love how it smells and moisturises my hands.

    Day 21 Mai Tai Hand Cream

    Although I’ve enjoyed every day of this advent calendar, Day’s 15 to 21 possibly more so. The different types of products for each day have been so varied from home fragrance, bath products and body products. All top quality.

  • Ted Baker London’s Raspberry & Orange Blossom Body Spray

    I love a fragrance! Body mist, spray, eau de toilette or eau de parfum. Whatever form it comes in I enjoy using them. A good fragrance is also a good gift idea and that’s why they are such popular presents all year round but especially for Christmas. For my birthday, I received from a friend Ted Baker London’s Raspberry & Orange Blossom Body Spray 50ml. So what is it like?

    Ted Baker London’s Raspberry & Orange Blossom Body Spray
    Packaging

    The fragrance itself comes in a red, tinted spray bottle. It has faceted sides so gives it an interesting shape, transparent with a gold logo and text on the front. This comes in a dimpled burgundy coloured boxed. Overall the look of this is quite appealing.

    Fragrance

    This is a slightly fruity fragrance mixed in with white florals, but more floral based than fruit. There’s a slight powdery element to this so it’s quite a clean scent. Personally, I think this isn’t the most modern of fragrances but it is nice.

    Strength & Longevity

    Ted Baker London’s Raspberry & Orange Blossom Body Spray is medium in strength. When it’s first applied it’s very noticeable but does ease off as time goes on. Although it doesn’t totally disappear and I can still smell it on myself, the strength does get considerably weaker. So I would say the longevity is fair but not amazing on me ( applied on clothes not on skin).

    Recommended?

    I quite like how this smells. It’s not my favourite body spray of all time but it’s very different to what I’ve ever used before. This has a more old fashioned feel and smell to it so this might be suitable for an older person. But someone who likes their fragrances in a mix of floral and fruit I think they would appreciate it as well. Would I buy this for myself? Probably not. Would I buy this for a more traditional person or less adventurous fragrance lover? Yes.

    Ted Baker London’s Raspberry & Orange Blossom Body Spray can be purchased from various places such as Boots, who currently have this fragrance on a special promotion. It’s on a 3 for 2 on Ted Baker products and comes in two different sizes. 50ml is £4.00 and the 150ml normally is £8.00 but down to £5.00.

  • The Best Advent This Year! Glow’s Christmas Advent Calendar 2023

    I make no secret of how much I love small business Glow. It started off with my discovery of their wax melts. Then I tried out their other home fragrance products. To make my addiction even worse they started to make and sell bath and body products too (which of course I’ve tried). One way I keep my Glow habit going is through their monthly subscription boxes. The biggest and best one so far has got to be their Christmas Advent Calendar for 2023, and guess who has it? ME!

    Glow’s 2023 Advent Calendar
    What is this?

    Glow’s 2023 Christmas Advent Calendar includes 25 products labelled 1 to 25. These are a mix of wax melts, home fragrance products and bath and body products.

    Bath soak
    What’s included?

    16 tubs of fragranced wax.

    1 candle.

    1 foaming hand wash.

    1 bubble bath.

    1 bath soak.

    1 foaming bath salts.

    1 hand cream.

    1 massage oil.

    1 room spray.

    1 perfume.

    2 Christmas decorations.

    Perfume
    First impressions?

    My first thought when I opened this was WOW! The box was so heavy it was overflowing with products! The variety and sizes of these items was impressive. The wax wasn’t tiny chunks of wax, or the bath and body product were in sample sizes. The wax melts easily could be 60g plus in weight. The candle is a really good, medium size and products such as the hand cream, room spray and massage oil are in full sizes. Very generous amounts of product.

    Some of the packaging is super cute and festive too. The bubble bath, bath salts and bath soak all are housed in Christmas inspired shaped containers. The look, the sizes, the fragrances (ALL SMELL AMAZING!) blew me away and worth every penny of the £30.00 spent on this!

    This possibly could be my favourite box from Glow yet!