Maybelline BabyLips Cherry Velvet - Limited Edition

If something is 'limited edition' there is every chance that I am going to want it at some stage.  Maybelline Baby Lips hits the shops here in the UK a few months ago and they created quite a frenzy across the bloggersphere and like many people, I bought the hype and have them all and in all fairness I do like and use them.

At the weekend I happened to be in Boots looking for a few gifts and one in particular for a giveaway I was doing when I came across a limited edition Baby Lips product called Cherry Velvet which wasn't for sale and was only available if you bought two other Maybelline products, well as it happened I needed two products anyway, so this was an added bonus.

The description from Maybelline for this lip balm is as follows:

Maybelline SPF20 Lip Balm, Cherry Velvet has a Lip renew formula and 8-hr hydration for visibly renewed lips in 4 weeks. It is highly moisturizing and nourishing, repairing damaged lips with each application. It can soothe and condition your lips, preventing it from suffering from chapping, formation of wrinkles. Your lips look healthy and soft throughout the year, even under the very dry climate in winter!

I love the two tone pink packaging for this lip balm and as soon as you remove the lid, the cherry scent is very noticeable.  The lip balm itself is white in colour, though if you look close enough you can see a hint of pink and as you apply it to your lips it is so lovely and smooth and gives the very slightest sheen, but is really moisturising and is perfect for going over the top if lipstick, lip crayons and so on.

Do you have any of these Baby Lips Lip Balm? Do you have a favourite?

Competitions for Christmas!

Like many people I love to enter a good competition and at Christmas time there are no end of brilliant competitions to enter to win fabulous prizes.  I tend to enter more at this time of the year than at any other time, though I am no 'comper' to use the term affectionately given to those who enter quite a lot.

That said, I thought I would share with you some of the advent competitions that I am entering this year and they are in no particular order:

Fragrance Direct - not quite a competition but they do have  a different offer everyday and as some of us are always on the look out for bargains!

Superdrug - a chance to win a different prize everyday right up until 25th December

She Said Beauty with Feelunique - the chance to win a beauty related prize everyday

Glossybox - A chance to win a different prize everyday

Stella Big Beauty with Telegraph - 14,000 prizes to be won from brands such as REN, label.m, Yardley, Stila and many more

Soap and Glory - A chance to win a different product/products everyday

YouBeauty - A Chance to win a prize everyday, an online virtual advetn calendar

Neom - A chance to win different prizes each day plus an exclusive offer

Origins - A prize everyday and an entry into the grand final to win £500 worth of products

Benefit - Different prizes everyday to be won - this is a Facebook competition

Neals Yard Remedies - a Facebook daily competition to win a variety of prizes

So? Fragrance - Different So? prize everyday

BaByliss UK -  a Facebook competition with a chance to win a variety of prizes from hairdryers, to hair stylers

Steamcream - daily advent competition on Facebook to win a variety of prizes

Aqua PR Beauty - A Facebook Advent Calender competition to win lots of prizes from the lovely people are Aqua PR

Grace Cole - A Facebook competition Advent to win a hos of beauty prizes

Glamour - A Chance to win a prize from Lush every day

Other competitions I enter daily

Shoes -  Everyday behind each door will be a fabulous prize such as vouchers from our fabulous brands, Amazon, i-tunes etc...

Joshua James Jewellery - Another Facebook competition page to win a piece of jewellery everyday including Thomas Sabo and Pandora.

Westfield London - Instant win advent calender to win a daily prize

Accessorize - Lots of different prizes on offer daily

ASOS - a chance to win a different prize each day

Pandora - A daily Facebook Competition to win a whole host of Pandora products

I am sure there are many hundreds of other advent competitions out there which people are entering, so please do feel free to leave the link in a comment below and I will update this post with them.

Have you won anything so far? Do you enter many competitions?

BBBBox 2 - What Was In My Box?

I was unlucky not to get my hands on the first BBBox which Jane, the lovely lady behing the British Beauty Blogger Blog put together and when I saw how fantastic it was, I was slighty gutted.  I was therefore delighted that there was going to be a second BBBox and there was no chance I was going to miss out on it.  It cost just £22 with P&P very reasonably priced at £5.95 and for your money there was a box packed full of lovely products to get excited about, all of which Jane herself picked and chose.

In my box was the following:

• Alterna Bamboo Range 48 Hour Sustainable Volume Spray
• Bourjois Eyeliner
• CND Vinylux Nail Polish & Top Coat
• Indeed Labs Hydraluron
• L'Occitane Angelica Cleansing Gel
• L'Occitane Angelica Face Toner
• L'Occitane Cherry Blossom Hand Cream
• La Roche-Possay Redermic Dermatological Anti-Wrinkle Treatment
• Mandara Spa Tropical Blooms Softening Bath Milk
• Maybelline Rocket Mascara
• Rituals Car Fragrance
• REN Glycolactic Radiance Renewal Mask and Invisable Pores Detox Mask
• Rouge Bunny Lip Gloss Gleaming Temptation in Uncaged Tigress
• Urban Decay Moondust Eye Shadow in Zodiac
• Roger & Gallet Bois d'Orange Huile Sublime
• Vichy Idealia Smoothing and Illuminating Cream
• Washi Hot Cloth 

And a lovely little Union Jack stocking which can be used to house some of your products, perhaps to give them as a gift to someone (you will not get that from me).

I was really excited to find the Indeed Labs Hydraluron and Washi Hot Cloth, both of which are nestled quite nicely on my 'Want To Try' list and I was also chuffed to see the two REN products and La Roche-Posay which also feature on the 'Want To Try List'.

Did you get your hands on this box? 

Does this box contain any product that you would love to try?