Soap and Glory's 2019 Christmas Collection!

Hey beaut's!

You'll probably all know by now that I'm a HUGE Soap and Glory fan and every year when their Christmas collection launches in Boot's I cant wait to go in and see it all and this year's offerings certainly don't disappoint! This has got to be the biggest and best Soap & Glory Christmas range to date, as you can see there's absolutely loads of choice this year and I for one am very excited! Theres everything from bath and body sets that range from big to small in all of the popular Soap and Glory scents, theres skincare sets containing the amazing Soap and Glory face masks, makeup gifts and mega cute stocking fillers and beauty baubles! Prices range from £5.00 all the way up to £60.00 for the huge set that Soap and Glory do every year, and the entire collection is in Boots popular Christmas 3 for 2 mix and match promotion which we always love don't we?!

I've noticed that this year theres quite a few gift sets that we haven't seen Soap and Glory delve into before, theres the Brush Up Your Act set containing four makeup brushes and a little brush bag, I've never known Soap and Glory to release brushes before so that's exiting! The Brow Sweet gift set look amazing too, theres also a bath bomb gift and bath salts which again are brand new for Soap and Glory! Oh my - it all looks so good doesn't it!

Do you have your eye on anything from Soap and Glory's Christmas collection beaut's? I'd love to know!

April Favourites!

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I cant believe we are at the end of April already, this year is whizzing by so fast! April has been a pretty good month to be fair, we've had Easter where I gorged on so much chocolate until I felt rather queasy, we also had some pretty epic weather, I'm talking an entire long bank holiday weekend of bright blue skies and temperatures in the low-mid 20's, which was incredible! We have also had our new bathroom started which is actually nearly finished now and is looking soooo nice and of course the final season of Game Of Thrones started.....

That brings me onto my first favourite this month...Game Of Thrones! My goodness I knew the final season would be epic but after watching the third episode last night I'm completely blown away! I'd actually say that - that episode was up there with the best, most intense episodes of a TV series/show I've ever watched in my entire life, it was incredible!

As for the beauty products I've loved...I have to mention the AMAZING Naturally Radiant Brightening Hot Cloth Cleanser from Superdrug! This stuff is basically the same as the Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish but a fraction of the price, it works the exact same way, the ingredients are pretty much the same and the results are the same, it gives such a deep cleanse and removes all traces of makeup, I love it! Something else that's been a complete game changer for me is the Elf Flawless Finish Foundation, this stuff has become my new holy grail foundation because it's bloody brilliant, the coverage is great, the shade range is immense, it looks and feels so light on the skin and it's a bargain too, it's actually cheaper than Makeup Revolutions foundation and in my opinion it's much better!

For nails my go to polish has been the Essence Shine Last & Go in the shade Legally Pink, I'd say it's more of a coral-pink perfect for the Spring/Summer and the gel like formula is incredible considering it's so affordable! I've also been obsessed with the Barry M Unicorn Primer Drops, it creates such a gorgeous base for your foundation to blend and sit on top of and lets face it, we all want unicorn skin don't we. I've actually used my entire bottle up already, I love it so much! Finally this month I need to praise the makeup gods and Laura Mericier (lol) for creating the translucent setting powder, this powder is the best I've used, it's sets my makeup all day without my face looking powdery and it helps blur in perfections too, it's fab!

What have you been loving this month beaut's? I'd love to know!



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Yankee Candle Grilled Peaches & Vanilla Review

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The crazy candle lady is back he he, if you know me then you'll know that theres always a candle burning in my house, and recently I fell completely in love with Yankee Candles new Spring range 'Sunday Brunch', this collection is mainly made up of sweet, floral scents with a couple of foodie scents thrown in for good measure - which are my absolute favourite! I actually reviewed the Belgian Waffles scent from this collection a little while ago which quickly became a new favourite of mine, however Yankee Candle have just added three new scents to the Sunday Brunch collection, one of which is Grilled Peaches & Vanilla, I mean doesn't that just sound like a mouth watering scent!

Grilled Peaches & Vanilla* is described as 'Caramelized brown sugar and golden honey drizzled over juicy grilled peaches and garnished with vanilla cream' I mean it does literally sound like a candle you'd want to eat doesn't it, wowza! The candle itself has top notes of grapefruit, brown sugar and blackcurrant, middle notes of grilled peaches and ripe apricot and finally base notes of drizzled honey and vanilla cream and my goodness it's DIVINE! I get the peach, apricot and vanilla notes come through almost instantly when I light this, it's almost like I could be sat eating a bowl of peaches with the most amazing vanilla ice cream, it's quite sweet too and the caramelised brown sugar really comes through with the sweetness of the fruits, despite it's sweetness I never find it sickly which is good! I also think it's such a perfect scent for Spring/Summer, for some reason it instantly makes me think of all things Summer when I get a whiff of it! As for the scent throw...it was very good and managed to fill the entire house very quickly and still lingered when it had been blown out, it isn't over powering, and everyone that walks into my house loves the scent and instantly asked me what it was which is always a good indication of a bloody good candle isn't it!

All of the Yankee Candle large jars have a burn time of between 110 – 150 hours and Grilled Peaches & Vanilla is certainly lasting me well, I think because I find that the scent really lingers and fills the entire house I don't have to keep it alight four hours on end which is a bonus. For me this is the perfect Spring/Summer candle, juicy fruits and sugary sweetness, whats not to love!

You can find the Grilled Peaches & Vanilla Large Jar for £23.99 on Yankee Candle website, it also comes in wax tarts, votive's and small and medium jars too.

*This post contain a gifted item, all opinions are my own!

New In From Essence Cosmetics!

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If you've been reading my blog for a while now you'll know that I'm a bit of a Essence Cosmetics addict, I absolutely love their products because not only are they all so affordable but the quality is actually very good too - I literally cant get enough of their lip products and nail polishes, their so so good! Anyway...recently Essence launched some fab new bit's for Spring/Summer and I've been testing a few out over the last month or so and I'm actually pretty shook!!

Let's start with the Shine Last & Go nail polishes, now as I said before I love the Essence nail polishes but this range has a new quick dry gel formula which is literally to die for, the gel finish gives you that hard wearing, glossy 'salon-esk' finish and the fact their quick drying is heaven for me because I hate waiting for my nail polish to dry! Theres also a whopping 50 shades to choose from which is literally insane, and at £1.60 a bottle you really cant go wrong!

Essence now have a Lip Ritual Collection to keep our pouts looking and feeling fresh, three products within this collection are the Ritual Balms, theres a Nourishing Balm with Rice Oil which nourishes and pampers the lips intensively, a Moisturising Balm with Cherry Blossom Extract which revitalises and provides a huge dose of moisture and theres a Repairing Balm with Ginkgo Leaf Extract which regenerates the lips and makes them feel supple. My favourite is the Moisturising Balm because it makes my lips look and feel so juicy, it smells lush and it's pink which is always a winner for me, and at £2.00 they really are a bargain!

I'm a sucker for eyeshadow palettes so I was so excited when I saw Essence had some new ones I could play with. The City of Palettes collection features four stunning eyeshadow palettes which are just £7.00 each, I have the G'Day Sydney Palette which contains nine warm toned shades with a pop of blue and green thrown in for good measure and the Hello New York Palette which again contains nine shades but this one has more cool-toned shades to play with! Both eyeshadow palettes have a mixture of matte and shimmer shades, the pigmentation is good for budget eyeshadow palettes, but I will say some shade do need a bit of building up but overall I really like them! 

Theres also a new face palette called 'Hey Cheeks' (£6.00) which contains 6 shades - theres 1 highlighter, 3 blushes and 2 bronzer's. Now this palette I absolutely love, all 3 of the blushes are gorgeous and blend out beautifully, the matte bronzer is lush and really warms up my pasty face and I actually like to use the glittery bronzer as an eyeshadow - I do love a muilt-use product! The only shade that's a little lack-luster for me is the highlighter, it's quite subtle which is great if you don't like something super bright but I like my highlighter to really glow, that being said I LOVE this palette and it's not left my makeup bag since I got it!

Now you know how much I love a winged liner look so it didn't take me long to put the Essence Dip Eyeliner (£2.50) through it's paces, this one has a super firm tip making it so easy to create precise line and wings with the sharpest flick at the end, arhhh it's amazing! It's super inky black, dries down matte and because it has a waterproof formula it lasts all day long!

The final product I've been putting to the test is the Insta Perfect Liquid Highlighter in the shade Gold Addiction. I love a liquid highlighter because their so versatile, you can use it as a glowy primer before foundation, you can mix it in with your foundation for a dewy finish, you can mix it with body butters or you can just use it as a regular highlighter to make your cheekbones pop! 

All Essence products are available from Wilko stores or online HERE

*This post contains gifted items, all opinions are my own!

Yankee Candle Belgian Waffles Review

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If you know me then you'll know I'm a bit of a crazy candle lady, theres always a candle burning in my house, so when I saw Yankee Candle had a new collection out for Spring called Sunday Brunch I had to check it out and give the collection a whiff! The scents in this collection are mainly sweet and floral but one is a real foodie scent - which are my absolute favourite....all hail to the Belgian Waffles candle, she's a beauty!

Belgian Waffles is described as 'Light and airy, warm and golden brown – a crisp lattice cradling melted butter - the classic brunch favourite', I mean a candle that smells of belgian waffles...I'll have a lorry load please! The candle itself has top notes of toasted pecans and vanilla, middle notes of waffle batter, a dash of cinnamon and melted butter and a base note of whipped cream and oh my god it's immense, it's deliciously sweet with an ever so slight nutty vibe to it, it's almost quite caramel like too. It ticks all the sweet boxes for me and gives me cookie batter vibes sometimes, if you like Yankee's Christmas Cookie or Snowflake Cookie then your going to love Belgian Waffles as it's kind of down the same sweet lane of those! As for the scent throw...it was very good and managed to fill the entire house very quickly and still lingered when it had been blown out, it isn't over powering or sickly for me though which I thought it might be, but like I said before I'm a huge fan of sweet, foodie scents so I never find them too much for me. I bloody love this scent so much though, in fact I'd say it's up there with my all time favourites from Yankee Candle, I need to buy the large jar pretty sharpish!

All the Yankee Candle votive/samplers claim to provide up to 15 hours of fragrance and Belgian Waffles certainly always lasts me really well, I think because the scent really lingers and fills the entire house you don't have to keep it alight for so long so you can certainly get a good few uses out of it that's for sure.

Have you tried Belgian Waffles yet beaut's? What did you think?



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March Fashion & Beauty Wishlist!

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It's March which can only mean one thing...it's wishlist time again, and this month I'm switching things up by having a couple of clothing pieces on my wishlist, this makes a change for me because usually it's a mountain of makeup products that I'm lusting after! 

I'm LOVING the leopard print trend still and the midi skirt from New Look is high up on my must buy list along with the fabulous t-shirt which is also from New Look which I thought would look quite nice tucked into the skirt! I've also got to have those leopard print sandals from Topshop ready for the warmer days, I absolutely love them!

Makeup wise I really want to try the Elf  Poreless Putty Primer, unfortunately they don't seem to have it in my Superdrug yet as I've already been on the hunt for it so hopefully they will have it in stock soon! I also really want to try the Urban Decay Naked Reloaded Palette, I collect Urban Decay palettes so I need to add this one to my collection pronto! I also cant wait for the Too Faced Better Than Sex Liquid Liner to launch, if you know me then you know I don't leave the house without my trademark winged liner on so this launch has got me very excited! 

Whats on your beauty wishlist at the moment beaut's?

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January 2019 Beauty Favourites!

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It's the first monthly favourites of the year and my god it's felt like it's taken forever to get here, January just seems to go on and on doesn't it! This month I don't have a huge selection of favourites mainly because I've been obsessed with a select few products starting with my true love....my Huda Beauty New Nude Palette! My boyfriend bought me this palette for Christmas and I can honestly say I've not put any other eyeshadow on my eyeballs since! Not only are the shades absolutely stunning and totally drool worthy but the quality of this palette has me shook...I've never known matte shades to be so intensely pigmented, their not at all chalky but buttery soft, theres minimal fall out in the pan and none of my face at all and they blend so beautifully without any patchiness, not to mention those stunning reflective shades, arhh I just cant cope! 

I've really been enjoying using my Magnitone Blend Up Makeup Brush for the last couple of months, I was always a beauty blender kinda gal but those day's have gone since I starting using this brush! I use the Blend Up to apply ALL of my base makeup everyday and I cant tell you how much time it saves me, it's so quick and easy to use and my skin is left looking airbrushed, I honestly cant recommend it enough! For nails I've literally only been using one nail polish - Barry M's Hi Shine Nail Paint in Rhubarb, I must have re-painted my nails like ten times with this shade over the past month or so, it's gorg!

For lips this month I've used nothing but the Benefit They're Real! Double The Lip in the shade Lusty Rose, this is a lipstick and a lip liner in one so it's so quick and easy to use and the shade is so perfect for everyday, I definitely want to get a few more shades of these as their so convenient! My final favourite this month is my Maybelline Total Temptation Brow Definer Pencil which I actually finished a couple of day's ago and I need to go and repurchase it asap! It's probably the best brow pencil I've found so far on the high street and ticks all the boxes for me in terms of what I look for in a brow pencil, I love it!

What's in your favourites this month beaut's? I'd love to know!

My 2019 Holiday Wishlist!

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After a seriously crappy year this year it's definitely made me realise that you have to live life to the fullest and do all those things you really want to do in life! This got me thinking of places I've always wanted to travel to and holiday's I've always wanted to take but never gone, well those day's are over for me now and I'm going to take life by my lady balls and I'm already planning out things I want to do in 2019 and places I want to visit!

I've been having a peek on www.markwarner.co.uk to get some inspiration and ideas and theres so much choice from ski holidays to your sunny beach holiday! Greece is somewhere I've always wanted to visit for as long as I can remember, theres actually so many places in Greece I'd like to visit but I think the first place on my Greek list would be Kos! My best friend Kate has gone to Kos over the last couple of years now and loves it so I'd love to go there, as well as Mykonos which is actually on my 'lifetime' bucket list so finally going there would be insane!

Paris is definitely somewhere I'd like to visit next year, again its somewhere I've always wanted to visit because of how beautiful it looks and how much there actually is to see there, and of course I'd love to visit some french bakery's. It would be pretty epic to combine the trip of exploring Paris and go to Disney Land Paris too, the Disney lover inside me has always want to go here and Paris seems much more of a realistic option for me, unlike pricey Florida! Sticking with France I've always wanted to go on a snowy ski trip there or to Austria during the autumn/winter time, everything from learning to ski or snowboard to the epic cosy lodges, wood fires, the snow and the endless hot chocolates, it all lures me in, I mean whats not to love!

Next on the destination wish list would have to be Amsterdam, known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses it's definitely a place I want to explore for a few days next year! I would love to go to the Anne Frank House whilst I was there too, and I 100% want to add a padlock on the Love Locks bridge! 

What's places are on your 2019 holiday wish list beaut's! I'd love to know!



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