Tesco Beauty Advent Calendar - Day 1

This year I managed to get my hands on the Tesco Beauty Advent Calendar, it looked brilliant from the start when I first saw it advertised and hopefully it will live up to expectations.  it cost £50 and was available online and through some Tesco stores.

The Calendar is said to contain everything you need to complete your Christmas party look, with brands such as Nip+Fab, Korres, Katy Perry, Dr. LeWinns, Baylis & Harding and Tanya Burr behind each door, it is bound to be 24 exciting days.

So every week up until Christmas, I will do a weekly round up as to what has been found within my Advent Calendar and if you follow me on Instagram, you might be lucky enough to see each item as I open it!  As today is December 1st, I thought I would be kind enough to show you what was behind door number one:

So behind door number 1 we have a pair of Eylure naturalites 116 eyelashes which have an RRP £5 from Tesco. Described as follows:

"Add instant glamour to your look with Eylure Naturalite false lashes in 116 Black. The reuseable strip lashes are suitable for all eye shapes and all occasions, even regular wear. Adhesive and instructions are included with the easy to apply, lightweight pair of false lashes".

I might give these a go, though I am not the most patient when it comes to applying them.  That said, I am quite pleased with the content behind door number one.

If you have an advent calendar, please tag me so I can see what you get from your calendar and if you have a Tesco calendar, I would love to see what you get!

Bee Good Bee Pampered - Beauty Gift Set

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will know that I am a huge fan of the brand Bee Good. For those of you who have't heard of them, Bee Good is an independent British skincare company based in rural Hampshire, who have harnessed the centuries-old healing powers of British honey, propolis and beeswax in an innovative skincare range, designed to make a real difference without the use of parabens, synthetic colour, mineral oil, silicone or SLS/SLES. Each and every one of their products are described as being packed with hard-working intensively soothing ingredients, there is nothing better to care for your lips than this nourishing and protective treatment delivered from the flower, to the bee, to you.

For a limited time only, the lovely people over at Bee Good have created a Bee Pampered gift set just for the Christmas and it contains a couple of their best sellers and some gorgeously decorated biscuits. It's all packaged in a recyclable box and priced at just £20.

Inside the box you will find

The Honey, Borage & Echium Intensive Hand Repair 50ml and Vanilla & Honey Lip Balm 10ml along with Three Little Bee Bakery biscuits which are just so cute, I didn't want to eat them - but now have!

The Honey, Borage and Echium Intensive hand Repair is an intensive multi-use repair treatment containing moisturising British wild flower honey and replenishing British echium oil, to bring some TLC to hard-working hands and feet.  The hand lotion is quite rich and has a really good pump dispenser on it to help distribute the cream, one pump is more than enough for hands.

The Vanilla & Honey Lip Balm, which I am a huge fan of, is bursting with a blend of British beeswax and a blend of British crambe, echium and borage oils. Working together they bring some welcome relief and rescue to dry or chapped lips not to mention it has a truly addictive scent!

Have you tried any Bee Good products yet?

15 Festive Favourites

The lovely Louise from Confesstionsofasecretshopper tagged me to do this, so here I am being all festive - the only thing missing is a Christmas Tree, twinkling lights and some mulled wine, but hey ho.

01. Favourite Festive Food

I love a proper Christmas roast and I even like Brussell Sprouts and would quite happily eat them all year round. I also love Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce, Mince Pies but really really detest any Christmas cake which has marzipan on it - rank!

02. Favourite Reindeer

Vixen - Rudolph gets far too much publicity for my liking, so I am choosing Vixen to be my fave!

03. Favourite Day of Christmas

10 Lords are leaping - I always cackle when it gets to that bit meaning I am either drunk, can't remember the words or someone got it wrong!

04. Favourite Christmas Song

The Pogues with Kirsty McColl - Fairytale of New York. Such a classic. Just add into the mix, I cannot stand Mariah Carey, all I want for Christmas is not you Mariah, or your high pitched wailing, thank you!

05. Favourite Present

Well as I got Married on Christmas day in Vegas, I should be saying my husband, I didn't have one before I got married and haven't had another since, so he is quite unique.

06. Favourite Festive Film

Santa Claus the Movie, ELF, Bad Santa, Home Alone and it isn't Christmas without a bit of National Lampoon

07. Favourite Festive Cracker Toy

I once got one of those handy keyrings with a screwdriver, scissors, tweezers and mini corkscrew on it which was quite handy, I haven't got it now, but it was probably the best thing I ever got.

08. Favourite Cracker Joke

How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizzas?


One that's deep pan, crisp and even!

09. Favourite Christmas Decoration

The Angel which sits on our tree, it belonged to my Nanna who sadly passed away a few years ago.

10. Favourite Christmas Candle Scent

I haven't got any Christmas scented candles - that needs to be recified! I do have a bit of a thing for Yankee Candle Midnight Jasmine right now though.

11. Favourite Christmas TV Advert

well it isn't christmas until this advert comes onto the telly! Even now I still get excited when I first see it and then everytime after

12. Favourite Festive Tradition

We always open a present at midnight, more to celebrate our wedding Anniversary than anything else and I really love doing it.

13. Favourite Place to Spend Christmas

As long as I am with Beautykinguk, I am happy wherever I am and doing whatever we do. As we have no small people, we have just ourselves to please, unless we are visiting family.!

14. Favourite Christmas Fact

All the gifts in the Twelve Days of Christmas would equal 364 gifts!

15. Favourite Snowman Accessory

It isn't a snowman unless there is a carrot for a nose - fact!

OOh well that is the end of Louise's tag, I hope you enjoyed reading it and if you have any interesting facts, I would love for you to leave them in the comments below!

I tag the following people to take this next ...

Kimberley - Kimberley's Beauty Blog

Steve - Beautykinguk

Keeley - PhatCupcake

Bex - Futures

Lisahh - Lisahh-Jayne

Sarah - Life In A Breakdown

Introducing Beauty Kitchen

Beauty Kitchen believe in 100% natural, 100% effective and 100% affordable products and that you shouldn't have to compromise on your beauty products to be good to the environment.

I was sent some amazing products from the Chill Me Range** which is described as being "A relaxing and calming blend of some of natures finest chill out ingredients" Those ingredients include Benzoin resinoid, lavender, petitgrain, eucalyptus, clary sage, geranium, ylang ylang, bay and rosemary.

In my lovely little pack I have Chill Me Hand scrub and Chill Me Massage Oil. Both items are suitable for Vegans and 100% natural.  What is more exciting is knowing that someone has stood and made them personally and that they are not simply mass produced.

The Chill Me Hand Scrub is said to be a relaxing and calming blend of some of natures finest chill out ingredients, including Lavender and Geranium.  Using fine sea salt for exfoliation, this hand scrub is absolutely wonderful.  As soon as the lid was removed from the little glass jar, the scent is literally amazing, the fragrant blend of rosemary becomes evident and adds to the whole experience.  Relaxing it most definitely is, especially when I convince the mister that he needs to pamper me.  Once you have finished, simply soak your hands in some warm water for a minute or so, they will feel super soft and smooth.

Chill Me Massage Oil is again added to the stunning list.  As with the hand scrub, the main ingredients are of organic Lavender and Geranium which on their own to smell brings about a feeling of relaxation, but it is whether you use it as an oil or drop a few little drops into the pamper for a full blown pamper session.  I use the lid as my guide as to how much I am using, fill it then drop it slowly into a running hot bath or warm it between my palms in preparation for a massage. The oil is so gentle that if you have any dry skin, it works really well to moisturise and soften the skin.

These two products are absolutely wonderful and would make a great gift for friends and family, especially with Christmas coming up,  cannot recommend them highly enough.