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?

Dr Lipp Nipple Balm for your lips!

Part of my night time skincare routine does involve my lips. Lips for me are an important feature and I like to do as much as I can to ensure they look and feel soft, smooth and supple rather than dry and cracked with bits of skin hanging off all over the place.

Dr Lipp Nipple Balm was a product I had only heard of but had never used, then I got a sample in my Glossybox and I put it to one side for quite a while until I read a few blog posts about how good it was with some people referring to it as their Holy Grail Lip Balm, curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it for myself.

According to the website: Dr.Lipp was originally developed as a nipple balm for breastfeeding women because of its ultra hydrating & hypoallergenic multipurpose properties. Dr.Lipp has many benefits both medical and for beauty and is ideal for dry cuticles, dry skin patches, burns and abrasions, severely chapped lips, sore nipples, split ends, eczema, babies’ bottoms, and much much more.

The tube that I have is quite a small one and it contains just a 3ml tube and the product inside is like a thick gel, similar in consistency to Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream (which I dislike a lot) only it is totally without any scent or odour.  I always apply this to my lips every night before I go to bed and you only need a really small amount.  when I used this for the very first time, I was expecting to get that horrible greasy feel that Vaseline leaves on my lips, but instead it felt nothing like that and more natural, as though I had applied a normal lip balm and on my lips was a lovely sheen.

If like me you suffer with dry lips, this product is wonderful, for me it is a miracle worker and I am glad I had the chance to try a smaller version as a full 15ml tube costs £11.95 which although pricey, for me is worth every single penny.  

Naturally this product does have more than one use and for us Beauty Bloggers it is a multi-purpose products and these are just some of its uses:

• Use as a long lasting lip-gloss
• Prep dry skin before applying foundation for a more even look.
• Cheek shine
• Eye gloss for a dewy look
• Shaping eyebrows
• Lip primer to help prevent blotching
• As a mixer for pigments
• Perfect for ‘glitter lips’, ‘eye glitter’ & diamantes
• Last minute shoe polish!

Alongside used for us Beauty Bloggers there are some other uses and these are:

• Helps soothe and soften chapped lips
• Help prevent dry cuticles
• Helps soothe dry skin patches
• Helps reduce fine lines under the eyes
• Helps moisturise & nourish split ends
• Helps nourish eye lashes
• As a healer for nipple tape rash
• Helps with small cuts, burns and abrasions
• Helps sore noses from blowing
• Helps soothe Nappy rash
• Helps with itchy skin and eczema
• Helps soothe sore nipples from breastfeeding

As a product, Dr.Lipp is 100% pure and natural, hyper allergenic, tasteless and odourless and it contains no parabens or fragrance and is approved by Ecocert France. Dr Lipp is made from 100% ultra pure medical grade Lanolin which is harvested during the summer from natural Sheep’s wool and cleansed of all impurities to make our ultra pure ‘Queen’ of Lanolin.

Finally, Dr Lipp is:

• Proven to help reduce skin roughness by 40% in one hour.
• Considered by dermatologists and scientists to be one of the safest ways to care for your skin as the Lanolin lipids (oils) are so similar to your skin’s natural oils that they easily penetrate & absorb deeply into your skin.

For me this is a brilliant product and I absolutely love it, it does everything that it states it will do for the ways in which I use it.

Have you tried Dr Lipp? Do you like it?

Rituals Jasmine Dream Candle

I love candles, they create such a relaxing atmosphere for me that I tend to have a few dotted about the house (though I never leave them to burn unattended).  

At the minute I am burning Jasmine Dream, a candle from Rituals which was a gift from someone that I work with.  I love the packaging on this candle, once you remove the lid, the part which encases the candle opens out to reveal more information about the scent.

It retails for £19.50 which you can see HERE and for your money you get 50 hours of burn time and the most amazing scent comes to life just a few minutes after the wick has been lit.  The glass jar that the candle is housed in also lights up once the candle is alright adding to the look.

Rituals describe this candle as follows:

Jasmine Dream combines the relaxing and harmonising power of Jasmine blossoms with the calming properties of Ylang Ylang, the ‘flower of flowers’.

This candle smells totally divine and whilst I normally associate being able to relax with a Lavender scent, this candle does just a good a job at creating a relaxing environment with the most amazing scent to go with it.

I would definitely buy more candles from the Rituals range and I wouldn't hesitate to purchase this candle again.

Have you ever used a candle from Rituals?  

What candle do you burn to help relax?