Find Me A Gift Christmas Guide feat. Bomb Cosmetics

Last year I featured Find Me A Gift (my review here) as a place to source unique gifts for loved ones, secret Santas at work or even for the cat and dog.  Describing themselves as being a site which has an extensive range of unique gifts make finding the perfect gift a piece of cake! From the fun and novelty to the cool and quirky, we've got all sorts of awesome gifts that are sure to light up someone's face.  

As soon as I mentioned the Bogey Man Egg Separator, my feed went slightly insane with a mixture of laughter, hysterics and some accepting it is a little bit genius, so here he is again and he is still £6.99.

Whenever I look on Find Me a Gift, I naturally gravitate towards the beauty section because ultimately that is where my interests lie (along with looking at what to buy the cats) and this Bomb Cosmetics Mistletoe Kisses Gift Set jumped out at me because I love the brand but find getting hold of anything locally quite the challenge.

Make bath time even more relaxing than usual with this fabulously cute and extra special Mistletoe Kisses Gift Set from Bomb Cosmetics - even the name sounds delicious! This festive treat is full of goodies to make a peaceful soak in the tub your number one priority when it's nice and frosty outside.

What I love about Bomb Cosmetics is that whilst everything is handmade and not factory produced, a lot of effort goes into making the product look aesthetically pleasing as well as smelling amazing. Scents such as vanilla, cinnamon and orange within the Mistletoe Kisses gift set are very much those I associate with Christmas, be it looking around a Christmas Market whilst drinking mulled wine or walking down Oxford Street as the food stalls roast nuts.

Inside this lovingly packaged box, you will find 6 handmade bath bombs and soaps and each one of them is Christmas themed.

1 x Christmas Wonderland Soap - This soap screams Christmas. Not only is it bright red in colour it uses the essential oils of Cinnamon Bark and Myrrh and as soon as you open the box, the first scent that hits you are both of these.  Once used in water, it lathers and the scent intensifies and is just divine.

1 x Snowtime Like the Present Soap - Again, Christmas in soap this one has the Gold of Pleasure Oil which is high in Omega 3 and is perfect for helping to protect the skin. Also included is Frankincense Oil, which I love the scent of and it is perfect for aiding relaxation and on the skin it helps heal.

1 x Ho Ho Holly Bath Blaster - I love how festive this bath blaster looks and it is the one which fizzed the fastest in water! It contains Black Pepper Oil which is a warming oil and it helps to boost your body’s natural defences and is perfect for aching muscles. Plus there is Cinnamon Bark Oil which has properties to help relieve stress and is incredibly calming.

1 x Santa's Baby Bath Blaster - With the image of Santa's face looking back at you as you chuck it in the bath to fizz away, the essential oils of Frankincense and Myrrh comes to live and create a wonderful aroma which works it way through the house. Frankincense is great for relaxation and Myrrh is helpful to those with dry and chapped skin, as well as having beneficial properties for other skin ailments.

1 x Chilly Willy Bath Blaster - As soon as you drop Chilly Willy into a warm bath and watch him fizz away, the essential oils come to life.  Alongside Cocoa butter, you will find the pure essential oils including Sweet Almond, Sandalwood, Orange and Cinnamon.

1 x We Three Kings Creamer - This is the most luxurious product within the box and I absolutely loved using it. Packed full of incredible ingredients such as Cocoa and Shea Butters to help moisturise the skin, Geranium Oil which helps to create a balance between oily and dry skin and it also helps to relieve feelings of stress and anxiety and Ylang-Ylang which has a whole host of beneficial properties on the senses, scalp and skin.

I adore this set and love that it is so Christmassy. It isn't overly expensive and is currently on offer for just £8.99 right here.

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Pure Style of London - Happiness At Home

At this time of year, I have candles burning the whole time I am home sitting in the lounge, I love the atmosphere they help create and I find the flickering flame oddly relaxing to watch.  I am also a huge fan of Reed Diffusers and have one in every room of this house, even the kitchen and again, I love to smell the fresh scented aroma, usually a different one in each room, that I am greeted with.

Purestyle of London kindly sent me a gift set from the Home Fragrance Collection which contains a reed diffuser and a candle.  Founded in London, PureStyle of London sells locally sourced, hand poured Reed Diffusers and Scented Candles. They launched in 2018 and have gone on to sell many of their premium products into the UK and beyond.

At PureStyle of London our aim is to add a little bit of extra happiness to you. Our products have been carefully selected and are being hand made in the UK.

PureStyle of London has recently launched the first ever ‘Home Fragrance Club’, offering consumers a new and convenient approach to having personalised home fragrance products delivered all year round and prices start at just £14.50 per month raising in price depending on your preference in need, plus there is also the option to try a one-off option too. So if candles and home scents are something that is an absolute must-have for you, then this service could be invaluable. It is fully flexible means that the consumer can change their fragrance or reeds and can pause or cancel at any time.

I was given the gift set option and having never tried anything like this before I was engrossed in making selections for the products I really wanted to try.  Starting with which colour glass you want your reed diffuser bottle to be - Black, Clear or White and from there you select the colour Reeds you would like and again there is a choice of six to choose from before finally choosing your fragrance and at this point you have a choice of 9 scents to decide between and I did struggle between which one I thought I would prefer.  In the end I opted for Neroli Rose based on the notes. 

Once you have selected your reed diffuser, it is then time to select your candle and again you get to choose between black, white or clear glass followed by which lid you would like your candle to have - the choice being silver or copper. The final choice is to select the fragrance of your candle and if you struggled with the first task, this one is equally hard because they all sound just incredible.  I opted for Lemongrass and lime in the end in black glass with a silver lid and it looks just amazing.

I have had both of these products within my possession for almost 6 weeks now and I wanted to really give them a try before saying whether or not they are worth the money. Hands up, they are!  I think for all of the Reed diffusers I have ever bought or have been sent, this one is the strongest and longest scent I have had. I placed the diffuser in the lounge below the TV, so being next to the kitchen and the hallway, there is always an abundance of smells which make their way around the house and every time I have entered the lounge, the first thing I can smell is Neroli Rose.  Both Neroli and Rose are quite strong scents and together they work so well, described as being a delicate, sweet Orange Blossom and calming, soothing Rose to intoxicate the senses, what you get is a fresh scent, as though you have just walked into a florist. 

The candle is also an incredible scent. Described as being a fresh fragrance with squeezed lemons, ripe limes and twisted with aromatic lemongrass and eucalyptus, if you want an uplifting fragrance when you feel a bit out of sorts, then this one ticks all of those boxes. The addition of eucalyptus is genius because it brings this scent to a whole new level.

Once your order has been made, everything arrives so incredibly well packaged, nothing gets broken. The two cylindrical tubes which house the products are a really nice way to show off the brand and the whole concept would make an incredible gift for someone, whether you sign them up for a subscription service, or opt for a one time try.

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Bradbury’s The Jewellers

When it comes to buying Jewellery for someone, be it a loved one, a friend, a work colleague or even for yourself, for me, there are elements of that experience which matter and that is whether you are buying someone online or in person in a shop.  Bradbury's The Jewellers can be found in the West Yorkshire town of Halifax, it is an independent family run business who take pride in everything they do and that includes bringing traditional values in customer service, honesty and value.  The store is home to some of the most premier brands that you will have come across - Links of London, Michael Kors, Thomas Sabo, Folie Folie and many more.  

I was kindly gifted a beautiful Coeur De Lion Peach Crystal Bangle and the wow factor began as soon as I had opened the outer packaging.  As I said, there are elements of that shopping experience which matter and Bradbury's have all of that -  the eye for detail, the thought process and the love and care that goes into ensuring a gift looks as good on the outside as it does on the inside.  Beautifully wrapped in rose gold paper with an accompanying ribbon, neatly bowed, there was no giveaway as to what was inside, there was no view of any cellotape or other fastenings and someone had clearly taken the time and effort to ensure everything was just right.

Coeur De Lion jewellery is handmade in Germany and it is a brand I know a little about through a relative of mine who adores the Geocube design on some of the jewellery pieces. Behind the brand, which has just celebrated 30 years in the business, we have Carola Eckrodt and it is her love of materials that must be versatile, hard wearing and enduring which brings to life a whole host of beautiful statement pieces of jewellery, all of which is made by hand.

Putting together both Coeur de Lion and Bradbury's the Jewellers, you have two brands that complement and match each with the love for what they do, the love that goes into the process of ensuring the end result is perfect and one to whom the little details matter.

The Coeur de Lion Peach Crystal Pave Stone Set Bangle is made of stainless steel with crystals in a pavé setting and an integrated click closure.  opening the box, you find the bangle sitting on a pure white silk cushion. This modern bangle has a highly polished finish and is enhanced by two glistening rows of peach coloured crystals which add a glamorous sparkle.

I am a big fan of shopping online, the ease of everything being in front of me, the lack of queuing and no tripping over baskets winning me over. That said, a website has to be easy to navigate around and thankfully the website for Bradbury's Jewellery is incredibly crisp and clean. There aren't a billion pop-ups to interfere with browsing, there is also the ability to look closely at individual pieces of jewellery is amazing, the detail is there to see, the images are clean and of high resolution, this is down below with the photograph of the bracelet I have.

Every page loads quickly, the important points are visible - price, what the item is, when it will be dispatched and whether or not you would like gift wrapping.  I have spent quite some time looking around the website whilst writing this review and might have already put one or two things in my shopping basket!  If you are looking for jewellery gifts, then I would recommend having at a look at what Bradbury's have to offer, there are so many beautiful items.

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