Cult Beauty More Glam Beauty Box

As we await the arrival of the Cult Beauty Advent Calendar, one of the most wanted and wished for from all of my Advent Calendar Posts, Cult Beauty have revealed a whole host of beauty boxes online and I am sharing them all with you over a series of posts. The first one I am sharing is the More Glam Box.

Said to be worth over £181/€205, it can be yours for just £42/€48.30 which, Cult Beauty state is a saving of over 75%. The More Glam Edit unites 12 Holy Grail heroes that are all about being able to to overhaul and revolutionise your routine for the better.

Inside the More Glam edit you will find eight full sizes alongside four sized-to-try must-haves that are said make up an impressive 12-piece routine. Housed inside a pretty illustrated gift box you will find:

Contents

• Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze (8g) Full Size, 
• bareMinerals Gen Nude Pressed Powder Blush in 'Call My Blush' (6g) Full Size, Danessa Myricks Beauty Colorfix 24 Hour Cream Colour - Foil in 'Nebula' (10ml) Full Size, 
• Honest Beauty Lip Crayon Demi-Matte in 'Fig' (3g) Full Size, 
• Jouer Cosmetics Essential Lip Enhancer (10ml) Full Size, 
• Spectrum Collections Marbellous Large Fluffy Shader Full Size, 
• Sweed X By Terry Tête à Tête in 'Black' Full Size, 
• Tower 8 Beauty Superdew Highlighting Balm (28ml) Full Size, 
• 19/99 Beauty Precision Colour Pencil Duo (2x 0.5g) Mini, 
• BY TERRY Mascara Terrybly (4g) Mini, 
• Urban Decay All Nighter Longwear Primer (5ml) Deluxe Size 
• Laura Mercier Veil Translucent Setting Powder (2g) Travel Size

As you can see, this is quite an impressive list of products to be found all in one box and for just £42!

There is a waiting list to sign up too, this alerts you to the box going on sale!

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Fenwick Beauty Advent Calendar 2021

This year, Fenwick is said to be launching a number of different advent calendars and today I am sharing their beauty one which is filled with luxurious products.

It goes on sale on 5 October and will be available to buy in all Fenwick stores and online for £150. Worth £360 inside you will find brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, ByTerry and Laura Mercier. 

Contents

• Benefit: They’re Real Magnet Mascara
• Bobbi Brown: Vitamin Enriched Face Base
• By Terry: Baume de Rose Flaconnette
• Charlotte Tilbury: Charlotte’s Magic Serum Crystal Elixir
• Clarins: Tonic Bath & Shower Concentrate
• Clinique: All About Clean Rinse-off Foaming Cleanser
• Dermalogica: Multivitamin Power Recovery Masque
• Escentric Molecules: Molecule 04
• Espa: Regenerating Moisture Complex
• Fenwick: Ice Roller Face Tool
• Guerlain: Abeille Royale Advanced Youth Watery Oil
• Laura Mercier: Translucent Setting Powder
• MAC: Powder Kiss Liquid Lipcolour – Mull it Over
• Molton Brown: Bath & Shower Gel – Suede Orris
• Nails INC: Gel Effect Nail Polish – St James
• Nars: Blush – Taj Mahal
• Neom: Real Luxury Scented Candle
• Oribe: Invisible Defense Universal Protection Spray
• Oskia: Isotonic Hydra-Serum
• Philip Kingsley: Daily Damage Defense Leave-In Conditioner
• Polaar: Eternal Snow Cream
• Ren: Evercalm Cleansing Milk
• Salvatore Ferragamo: Amo Per lei EDP
• This works: Sleep Plus Pillow Spray

For Fenwick, as with 2020, this is a really impressive line up and with the contents worth £360, this Advent Calendar goes on sale on 5 October and will be available to buy in all Fenwick stores and online for £150.

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The Body Shop Vanilla Pumpkin Range

The only form of Pumpkin I want to see at this time of the year comes from The Body Shop with their Vanilla Pumpkin Range. I was first introduced to this collection last year and absolutely loved it, much more than I had been expecting too, so I am absolutely chuffed to see it back for 2021.

This year, the Vanilla Pumpkin Range has a host of new products being launched and I've been lucky enough to try them over the last week or so and they are just as delightful as I had hoped.  So here is what you can expect to find!

Can you smell autumn approaching? Time to cosy up and pamper that body with our scrumptious Vanilla Pumpkin range. Treat your end-of-summer limbs to several cuddly dollops of our Whipped Body Butter, the light fluffy texture melts into a luxurious butter, leaving even the sulkiest skin feeling softer, smoother and nourished with 72hrs of moisture. Lather up with our creamy Shower Cream, or drop our fizzing Bath Bomb in the tub and take in that fragrance. Enriched with vanilla extract from Madagascar, your nose will twitch as it discovers the sweet, warm, baked pumpkin scent with hints of hazelnut caramel, maple syrup and almond milk. There’s seasonal glow on tap with all our Vanilla Pumpkin products.

As you can see, there is 6 products within the range and as far as I can see, The Body Shop has thought of pretty much everything you need to have that good old pamper session in your bathroom as you light some candles, drink your hot chocolate, grab your fleecy PJ's and get ready to settle down under a blanket to watch Hocus Pocus!

The first product that you need to try is the Vanilla Pumpkin Shower Cream (£6.50). Again, this Shower Cream is infused with handpicked vanilla from Madagascar and scented with a cosy, autumnal pumpkin fragrance. 

Alongside that vanilla, this Shower Cream also has notes of caramel, maple syrup and almond milk, a hug in a bottle if you will. This for me, gives a sweet almost toffee like scent which you can't help but just adore. In the shower, the scent lingers in the air as it is dispersed with the steam from my hot shower and it is such a cosy scent that it is perfect for Autumn, though I would happily use it all year round.

New to the Vanilla Pumpkin range is the Pumpkin Instant Radiance In-Shower Mask (£18) and it is designed to be used just before you hop into the shower and left on your face, whilst you shower and removed in the shower - clever right! 

This In-Shower Mask has been designed to cleanse and exfoliate the skin and I love the mousse-like texture, which I hadn't expected.  If you are familiar with face masks from The Body Shop, they have a really thick texture and this one is much lighter.  It is enriched with natural pumpkin enzymes and cranberry fruit powder, all of which are known for their exfoliating properties. I have used this mask a few times now and I love that it is easy to use in a morning if you are short on time, or in an evening if you want to really have a pamper.

If spending time in the bath is more your way of relaxing, then you will love the new Vanilla Pumpkin Fragranced Bath Bomb (£5) which looks just like a mini pumpkin. 

As with most bath bombs, once you have a few inches of water in your bath, drop this bath bomb into the water and it begins to fizz around immediately, turning your bath water into a delightful bright peachy orange colour. The fragrance is exactly the same as the Shower Gel, though to me, slightly stronger and it is really quite comforting to lay back and enjoy.  I have already ordered a few more of these!

Once out of the shower or the bath with your face mask done and your skin smelling incredible, the next new product to the range is the Vanilla Pumpkin Whipped Body Butter (£18) and it is a great partner to the Shower Cream or even the bath bomb, which leave the sweet vanilla pumpkin scent lingering on your skin. 

Light and airy, this Whipped Body Butter sinks into the skin as soon as it comes into contact and it not only intensifies the already lovely fragrance, but it softens, smooths and moisturises the skin without being greasy or leaving a a tacky feeling behind. Again you have that sweet baked pumpkin and notes of caramel, maple syrup and almond milk scent which is just divine.

Not leaving the hands out, once again the Body Shop has released a special edition Vanilla Pumpkin Hand Cream (£5.50).  

This hand cream is nourishing, non-greasy, it doesn't leave the hands feeling sticky and its as luxurious as you would expect with that, by now, much loved Vanilla Pumpkin fragrance which runs throughout the collection.  With it being a 30ml, it is a hand cream that is perfect for your hand bag, I have mine sat on my desk in the office and if im not using it, I am constantly checking it still smells delightful!

Finally within this collection is another new product and admittedly, not one that I would have ever expected to find! The Pumpkin Spice Lip Juicer (£7) is not only an incredible name for a product, but one that is also really effective at what it is supposed to do! 

With its chunky cone applicator, it is one of those shaped products that you can always find in your handbag. On the lips, the Lip Juicer is enriched with Community Fair Trade organic olive oil and Shea Butter, so when applied, it glides across the skin leaving a subtle coppery tint in its path and it is neither sticky or tacky, but what it does is really moisturise the lips and smells delightful as it does so.

So there you have the entire collection of The Body Shop Vanilla Pumpkin Range for 2021 and it is on sale right here!

 

 

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Bringing life to my kitchen with Poster Store + giveaway

Aside from beauty, cats, books and the odd Instagram post on plants, all of which are important to me, I am very much a home bird, I like being at home in my own space amongst my own things, possibly the Cancerian trait, of which I most definitely am. Lockdown for me, was possibly not as hard or wearing as it has been for others, but we did decide to redecorate our home, having now completed the bathroom, hallway and the lounge we turned out attention to the kitchen - a room that has definitely needed some TLC.

The Poster Store kindly got in touch and asked if I would like to work with them and selected some prints for my wall, which worked really well with timing because I had been looking for something for a wall on my kitchen and spookily it was with Poster Store! Poster Store if you have never come across them is an online shop which sells an incredible selection of wall art in a variety of sizes with accompanying frames, should you want them. Keep reading for your chance to win a voucher worth £80 to spend with Poster Store plus, for the entire month of October, if you use the code beautyqueen35, you can also get 35% off posters - terms and conditions below. 

Our kitchen has been transformed from being the brightest yellow shade of paint you can ever imagine when we first moved in, to a shade called Chinese Jade which I absolutely loved and now it is called Polished Pebble, a light chalky grey shade which has really brightened the space up, it works with the existing tiles we have and thankfully with the posters that I chose for the wall.

With Poster Store, there is a lot of choose. The posters themselves are sized in a variety of ways to suit your needs and you can choose my category, by room, by colour or even get some help looking at other inspired Gallery Walls - this is where I think I inspected every single idea someone else had come up with and immediately wanted to change every picture I have up on my wall in other rooms! As I was looking for a few pictures for my kitchen, after a few hours of playing around with ideas, I settled on a handful of prints which I thought would work.

Make your kitchen shine with the perfect posters! We offer beautiful wall art with guides to wine and coffee, as well as vegetables and meats. Perfect to combine with our charming quotes and funny and tasteful photography. We have fitting posters for your kitchen in both colour and black and white.

The first poster I chose was the Coffee Shades Poster, perfect for my colour scheme and always a talking point with friends, family and colleagues as to what is an acceptable shade to have your coffee and this poster which was 30 x 40 is priced at just £8.42 and then you get to choose whether or not you want a matching frame to display your art work in, again this comes with a great deal of choice with regards to the colour of your frame and the material you prefer - wood, metal or even a hanger.  Keeping with a similar theme to the Coffee Shades Poster is the Toasts poster and again, another issue we discuss a lot in this house is 'how burnt is too burnt' when it comes to using the eating it. For this poster I chose a slightly smaller size of 21 x 30 so it can sit beside the Coffee Shades poster and then keeping with same size I went on to choose the Blue Wall Pineapple Poster, Wine O'clock followed by two posters which are based on words rather than prints.

The first worded poster is the Cocktails poster, anyone who knows me will know I do love a good Strawberry Daiquiri or a Sidecar so this one really appealed and it looks incredible in its frame.  The second option I chose is coffee related and it is a Coffee Guide Poster which details how to make different coffee from an Espresso to an Americano.

All of the Poster prints I choose are printed with top quality inks on a FSC certified 200g/m2 premium design paper with matte finish and smooth surface and they look just absolutely stunning.

Competition

The lovely people over at Poster Store are giving one of you the chance to win a voucher worth £80 to spend with them.

The conditions of the blog competition would be as follows:

• You must follow Poster Store on Instagram
• All entrants must comment on this blog post, using more than 8 words, to the following question: Which is your favourite poster at Poster Store and where would you display it? Please leave your Instagram name on your comment.
• Follow Beautyqueenuk on Instagram

The winner of the competition will be chosen 5 days after this post goes live and will be contacted by Poster Store.  The conditions of the competition laid out above must be followed or your entry will be null and void and there is no cash alternative to this prize.

Terms and Conditions for use of the code

Code: BEAUTYQUEEN35
- 35% on all posters (except Selection Posters and frames)
- Not combinable with other discount campaigns.
- Valid from 3rd October until 3rd November.

This competition has now ended and the winner has been contacted! Stay tuned for another one coming soon!

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