Dollibox Beauty Box

Dollibox is a new online subscription service for UK based beauty lovers and I have featured a past box here. With a Dollibox subscription you'’ll receive five personalised beauty samples, sometimes full-sized every month, tailored to your beauty profile. Your beauty profile consists of some quite specific questions to answer such as where you get your beauty news from, what do you splurge on and how comfortable you are applying make-up. There are also questions about hair and eye colour as well as ethnicity and it takes just a couple of minutes to complete and the content of each box you receive will be based on this profile. 

I was kindly gifted the Christmas Dollibox to review and it is said to have a combined content worth of £30 which includes some premium quality and cult beauty products. This is my box:

Anubis Barcelona Cleansing Mousse - Full sized £12

This is the third Anubis product that I have encountered and the cleansing mousse contains both Vitamin C and Ascorbic Acid. Vitamin C is one of the most hardworking ingredients and is a powerful antioxident which helps reduce uneven skintones, minimise fine lines and wrinkles plus it helps to improve elasticity. The foam is silky soft and smells absolutely divine of fresh ripe oranges, once on the skin it is quite moisturising and does remind me of Ole Henriksen african red tea foaming cleanser which I adore.

Osmo Intensive Deep Repair Mask - £3

If your hair is feeling stressed, dry and damaged, then this mask by Osmo might just be what you are looking for. It is described as being a deeply nourishing treatment which helps to restore moisture, elasticity and smoothness and to do that it uses an extract of Jojoba to add shine, Patchouli Oil to tame that frizz and Ylang Ylang to soothe and control excess sebum.

Barefoot Lavender and Mint Foot Cream - £1.50

One part of my body which is my least favourite is my feet, I hate feet per se but I do my best to look after them so noone else has to touch them. This foot cream includes relaxing and antiseptic lavender, uplifting mint and with a spalsh of tea tree oil it smells even more divine than you can imagine. One on the feet, it is instantly cooling and soothing as well as moisturising.

Model Co. Highlighting Trio - £14

Model Co is one brand I don't know that much about and this highlighting trio palette is really beautiful, compact and easy to use. This trio contains a luminizer in shade champagne for highlighting cheekbones, a satin-finish blush in shade peach for cheeks and a glowing bronzer in shade bronze that helps contour and define. Each shade is said to be universal and they blend really well with enough pigmentation to allow you to build up more colour if you feel the need.

Barenaturals Pomegranate & Pink Grapefruit Soap - £3.65

This soap is 100% Vegan, 100% Natural and 100% eco friendly and it smells just absolutely amazing. It features shots of organic pomegranate and pink grapefruit essential oils which makes the soap smell as fresh as freshly squeezed fruit. This soap is ideal for dry, sensitive or mature skintypes and it leaves your skin feeling nourished, moisturised and cleansed.

If this sounds like something you wish to try then there are three subscription options and postage and packaging is £3.25 per delivery and it is a tracked package.

• A monthly subscription costs £10 per month (plus P&P). This is a rolling subscription, but you can cancel anytime.
• A 6 month subscription consists of a one-off payment of £54 (plus P&P), which is £9 per box.
• A 12 month subscription consists of a one-off payment of £102 (plus P&P), which is £8.50 per box,

So there you have Dollibox, a cute little box which I have thoroughly enjoyed using to discover some new brands whilst giving myself some little extra pampering.

What do you think to the box?

Sophie La Girafe Cosmetics

I think regardless of whether or not you have children, you will have heard of Sophie the Giraffe, the giraffe shaped teether which every child I know owns and this is unsurprising when an estimated 50million have been sold. Well alongside said teether is an entire skincare range which is just too cute and actually rather good!

Sophie la Girafe skincare is Ecocert-certified natural and organic skincare range for babies and is said to be tolerated by those who have sensitive skin. Within the range there are 6 different products - Hair & Body Wash, Body Oil, Face Cream, Bubble Bath, Protection Cream and a Body Lotion. Each Bottle or tube features Sophie la Girafe and can be found in places such as Harrods and Boots.

I was kindly sent the Hair & Body wash which I wasn't too sure about to begin with but it grew on my very quickly. It has a mild Lavender scent which I really like and find quite soothing and once it comes into contact with water, it forms a gentle. On the skin it is so gentle and after washing my skin felt so soft and smooth and incredibly moisturised. There are four main ingredients which are:

• Oat Milk to gently cleanse the skin and hair. This mild ingredient is well tolerated, even by babies with sensitive, allergy-prone skin.
• Cotton which moisturizes and conditions the hair, as well as helping untangle knots.
• White Tea which protects the skin during washing – it provides antioxidant protection to the skin and hair
• Lavender Water to provide gentle cleansing of even sensitive and allergy-prone skin

As you might expect, being Ecocert-Certified you won't find any of the following within any products from the range - GMO (Genetically modified organisms), nano-particles, synthetic perfumes or dyes, animal components, lanolin, phthalates, parabens, chlorine, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), sodium laureth sulfate (SLES), MIT, triclosan, propylene glycol, benzobarbital, phenoxiethenol or petrochemicals.  Even I am pretty impressed with all of this and more so for a product which smells absolutely amazing and leaves the skin so soft and smooth with no irritations, no stinging, no pinkness and no drying.

So for those of you who want eco friendly skincare for you baby or even yourself, Sophie la Girafe has it covered.


Have you seen the Sophie La Girafe range?

Buzzoole: An Influencer Marketing Platform

There is a new website on the block called Buzzoole, an Influencer Marketing Platform which you might have seen sneaking its way into and onto social media. It sells itself as an ideal tool for anyone who is a social media addict that wants to improve both their presence and their popularity across them. Okay, so I am usually found pinning on Pinterest, posting on Instagram, sometimes on Facebook and Tweeting on Twitter, so I am guessing that makes me slightly addicted.

What Buzzoole does is use its own algorithm, based on your social network sites, to work out how popular and influential you are in certain categories, it then sorts them into this rather scary looking polygon to work out where you stand and mine looks something like this currently. I was surprised to see some topics have a bigger percentage than others and would love a breakdown as to what is covered under each area.

By using this graph, the aim is to help you become more influential with your online presence as well as teach you how to optimize your skills and in doing all of this. As Buzzoole is a completely automatic tool, the matching process is completely automated. A user can be selected when he/she’ll be deemed suitable for one or more campaigns in the platform, this is what Buzzoole say:

"Buzzoole is an influencer marketing platform that allows brands to identify social influencers and brand advocates within any social media channel. Through our platform, you can engage influencers in a fully automated way by providing them special offers or inviting them to exclusive events, thus stimulating the buzz around your products and services".

I signed up within a matter of minutes, linked my active social media accounts and voila, I am a member.  If you are thinking of signing up, then you can do so right here - link. Once you have signed up, there will be opportunities to join campaigns to earn yourself some credits, those credits do vary depending on the brand/company and what it is you are being asked to do, though please be aware that you will not be able to participate in every campaign, this is all determined by your polygon and how influential you are in certain areas.

The credits that you earn, for each campaign you do can be exchanged for an Amazon giftcard and your credit page, which is updated twice a month, will lead you to something like is.

Alongside campaigns, there is a chance to earn credits by referring people to join, completing your profile, taking an introductory survey, sharing your polygon graph and downloading the app onto your phone to name a few.  You can also earn badges, which are shown on your profile. Every badge that you achieve represents your influence and engagement in a particular category: Social, Campaign related, or Referral badges.  So essentially, you are being rewarded for the amount of time and effort you put into helping to and making yourself become more noticeable.

The one addition I would love to see on Buzzoole is that of Pinterest.  I am obsessed with it as a social media tool and spend a good few hours a day randomly pinning pictures to my boards, in doing so it drives quite a lot of traffic to my blog. The same can be said for both Periscope and Snapchat, two sites I also use and again have a growing following on, infact I spend more time on Periscope watching other people than I do on Facebook and youtube.

So, if you think Buzzoole is a site worth trying, then here is a little video that they have made to give you more of an idea as to how Buzzoole works, here it is explained for you.

**This is a collaborative post, but is an honest review of the site as I have experienced it.

L'Occitane Advent Calendar 2015

I am a huge fan of L'Occitane and I cannot wait to see what 2016 has in store for this amazing brand. When I was kindly gifted an Advent Calendar I was ecstatic because I had tried to get one in store to no avail, no sooner were they in stock, they sold out. It cost just £39 which is an absolute bargain to be had.

I adore how this advent calendar has been put together, for me it very much represents the brand I have come to know and love and I love the design and graphics.  As you can imagine, behind the 24 allotted doors is a product or surprise inclusion and again I have shared all of them on my Instagram feed.

Opening like a big A3 book, this advent calendar is really well made and this is what I found:

Day One - Ultra Rich Face Cream with Shea Butter

Day Two - Shampoo containing 5 essential oils

Day Three  -Cute Gift Tags

Day Four - Extra Gentle Milk Soap

Day Five - Rose Scented Hand Cream

Day Six - Almond Shower Gel

Day Seven - A Red Bow to hand on your tree

Day Eight - Pivoine Flora Handcream

Day Nine -  Hair Conditoner containing 5 essential oils

Day Ten - Cherry Blossom Hand Cream

Day Eleven - Festive Nail File

Day twelve - Jasmine Scented Soap

Day Thirteen - Ultra Rich Body Lotion

Day Fourteen - Foot Cream for Dry Skin

Day Fifteen - Verbena Body Lotion

Day Sixteen - Christmas Table Place Cards

Day Seventeen - Almond Hand Cream

Day Eighteen - Star Shaped Cookie Cutter

Day Nineteen - Moisturizing Lip Balm

Day Twenty - Verena Shower Gel

Day Twenty One - Ten Christmas Stickers

Day Twenty Two - Hand Cream for Dry Hands

Day Twenty Three - A bag of gold stars

Day Twenty Four - Pivoine Flora Eau de Toilette

Now that is an amazing haul of products from one calendar and it contains some of my absolute favourite products such as the Jasmine Scented Soap, Almond Shower Gel and the Cherry Blossom Hand Cream.  There are some products which are also new to me and I cannot wait to give them a try.

What do you think to this offering from L'Occitane?