The Limited Edition LOOKFANTASTIC Glam Bundle

As well as dropping the Limited Edition Haircare Bundle, Lookfantastic has also released the Glam Bundle Limited Edition Box.

Once again at this time of year, many of us are in the midst of attending drinks events and seeing friends and this box has landed at a great time.

Looking good and feeling GLAMOROUS. Our limited edition Glam Bundle Beauty Box is here and we’re ready to revamp our routine. Featuring 9 of the best in cosmetics worth over £99, get ready in style for the Christmas parties with Beauty Box.

So, worth over £99, this box is on sale for just £40 and it is said to be the box to help you update your makeup bag and feel glamorous from the inside to the outside with this limited-edition bundle.

What’s in the box:

• Eyeko Black Magic Mascara – Worth £19
• Urban Decay All Nighter Spray – Worth £12
• Illamasqua Hydra Veil Primer 6ml – Worth £12
• Real Techniques NEW Miracle Airblend sponge – Worth £5.99
• By Terry Baume de Rose Flaconnette 2.3g – Worth £14
• luvia Berry Brush – Worth £12.70
• 3INA lipstick – Worth £12.95
• Eylure 3/4 length 011 – Worth £5.95
• Lottie London Retractable Eyeliner (Black) – Worth £4.95

Again, some really lovely brands have been included in this brush and it is pretty much everything you need to have in your makeup bag to get you ready for that night out.

Once again, if you are subscribed to the LOOKFANTASTIC Beauty Box, you should have had an early access email which gives you the chance to shop the Glam Bundle for just £35!  If you are not subscribed yet, you can still Subscribe today and get £5 off when you use code GLAMBB

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The Limited Edition LOOKFANTASTIC Haircare Bundle

A new Beauty Box from Lookfantastic has just dropped online and it is the Limited Edition Lookfantastic Haircare Bundle and it has arrived at quite a good time!

In recent months, Lookfantastic has released the Festive Edit alongside an array of Gift Guide boxes too, all themed really well for this time of year, especially if you have frizzy, wavy or curly hair!

… let frizz and flyaways be a thing of the past, our haircare bundle is here! Shop 8 essential haircare products for curly hair in this essential haircare bundle worth over £81. This is the ultimate haircare box for those with frizzy, curly or wavy hair. Accentuate your natural style and embrace your new, healthier hair with these nourishing formulas.

This Haircare Bundle is on sale right now for just £30 which is a great saving considering the box is worth just over £80 and here is what you will find inside.

What’s in the box:

• Boucleme Curl Defining Gel 100ml – worth £8
• Colour WOW Dream Coat for Curly Hair 200ml – worth £25
• Bedhead Curls Rock Amplifier 150ml – worth £14.90
• Umberto Giannini Curl Scrunching Jelly 200ml – worth £7.25
• Imbue Curl Energising Hydration Serum 100ml – worth £7.99
• Kérastase Elixir Ultime Bain 50ml – worth £6.60
• Invisibobble Waver – worth £1.66
• Christophe Robin Regenerating Mask – worth £9.77

So this is quite the box, featuring everything from  serums and masks to a jelly and and gel!

If you are already subscribed to the monthly Lookfantastic Beauty Box, then you should have been sent an email with a code giving you access to grab this Haircare Bundle at a discounted price. If you have not yet subscribed, you can still Subscribe today and get £5 off when you use code HCBB

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The Body Shop Body and Skincare Gift Sets

Having shared quite a few products from The Body Shop in the shape of different gift guides - makeup, season fragrances and bath time, today is the turn of skincare and I have chosen particular gift sets which are priced at £35 and under.

Starting with one of my favourite gift sets of the entire collection The Body Shop has to offer and it is the Calm & Chamomile Cleansing Gift (£18). Cleansing has always been the favourite part of my skincare routine, especially of an evening. 

There is something relaxing about removing the entire day off your skin and just thinking about nothing.

Inside this gift set is three products from the cleansing range that The Body Shop offers and they include:

• Camomile Gentle Eye Make-Up Remover 250ml - Designed for all skin types and gentle enough to be used for those with sensitive skin plus for those who wore contact lenses. This make-up remover is enriched with camomile extract, this removes every last trace of eye make-up to leave your skin feeling incredible smooth and hydrated as well as freshly cleansed. This is one of my all time favourite eye make-up removing products.
• Camomile Sumptuous Cleansing Butter 90ml - This buttery cleanser is amazing at removing pretty much everything that it comes into contact with when cleansing your skin, even that hard to budge mascara that everyone raves about! Again, this cleansing butter, which feels like butter on your skin, though without the greasy feeling, is enriched with camomile extract which soothes and smooths the skin as well as removes everything in its path and I love that you use it on dry skin before washing off using warm water.
• Camomile Muslin Cloth - This cloth is designed to be paired with your favourite cleanser and it helps to gently remove make-up and cleanse your skin with our super-fine muslin cloth, for skin that feels softer and smoother.

You can find this gift set for just £18 from The Body Shop

The second gift set within this section of my gift guide is the Kindness & Pears Essentials Gift Collection (£22).  I have already shared some of the products from this seasonal fragrance collection and am delighted to see that it also comes as a gift set too.

This entire collection is enriched with pear extract from Italy and notes of juicy pear, strawberry and with it we also have the addition of warm tonka bean. This sweet, vibrant and fruity scent is said to guarantee to leave you feeling that Christmas kindness. Inside this kit you will find four products:

• Kindness & Pears Shower Gel 250ml - As a shower gel, this one has a fairly thick texture, so you only need a small drop to create a lot of lather.  As it comes into contact with warm water to create that lather, the scent of juicy pear comes to live and mixed with it is the warmness of the Tonka Bean.
• Kindness & Pears Body Butter 50ml - If you love this scent and want some real luxury, then this Body Butter offers you just that. It is thick and luxurious without being too heavy on the skin and as well as being non-sticky, it has that wonderful fragrance which lightly scents the skin.
• Kindness & Pears Body Yoghurt 200ml - I have been using this for a few weeks and I love how light the formula is and more so when it absorbs with minimal contact on the skin. Again that fresh scent of pears with the hint of strawberry comes through and leaves your skin lightly fragranced.
• Kindness & Pears Hand Cream 30ml - One of the nicest hand creams ive used from The Body Shop and it is in part due to the wonderful scent. On the skin it absorbs quickly without being greasy or tacky and it is perfect for using in your cuticles too.

You can find this gift set for just £22 from The Body Shop

The third gift set that I am sharing with you in this part of my Gift Guide series is the Clean & Comfort Hemp Gift (£22) and if you want a hydrating treat for ultra-dry skin from top-to-toe, then this is the gift that needs adding to your list.

I have friends and family who rave about this collection, particularly those who suffer from Eczema and whilst it isn't something I suffer from, seeing the changes it has made to them is amazing. Hemp, also known as c annabis sativa oil, is known for its high levels of hydration thanks to those essential fatty acids like omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and vitamins A and E, which skin loves.

Inside the hessian bag you will find

• Hemp Shower Oil 250ml - This softening shower oil which has quite the earthy scent to it, is designed to cleanse the skin without dry it out, this in turn helps to relieve very dry skin and help protect skin’s natural moisture barrier.
• Hemp Nourishing & Protecting Dry Body Oil 125ml - A body oil which comes in a bottle with a spritz is always going to get the thumbs up from me! This one is fast-absorbing, non-greasy and uses less than 10 ingredients to create it. The main ingredient obviously being hemp seed oil for its nourishing and protective properties.
• Hemp Hand Protector 30ml - Perhaps the best known Hemp product, this hand cream is known as the grafter and is said to be used by gardeners and carpenters to mechanics and everyone in between. Using hemp oil to protect and hydrate, this hand cream gives 24 hour protection.

This Gift Collection, like others on offer from The Body Shop, offers a routine in one bag, from stepping into the shower with the oil, to adding further nourishment and protection with both the dry body oil and hand cream.

You can find this gift set for just £22 from The Body Shop

Finally we have If you prefer a gift set which is juicy and fresh, then Sweetness & Sunshine (£35) might just be the one to catch your attention. This is the kind of product whose scent you can smell before it has been removed from the box, it that is good.

Inside the box there is six products to take you through an entire Mango experience in the shower, said to 'lather up and transport yourself to tropical paradise'.  Within this box you have a complete bathing ritual for the shower, starting with a Mango Shower Gel which is enriched with Mango Extract which gives it that amazing scent and to create lots of lather there is a Body Shop Ramie Lily to help.     Once you have completed your shower routine, to enhance that scent, there is the fast-absorbing Body Butter which just feels so good on the skin, it is creamy and luxurious but lightweight and alongside that mango juice is the inclusion of Community Fair Trade organic almond milk  and the best thing about the product is that you can use it on damp skin and it absorbs really quickly.  The next product within this set is the Mango Hand cream and these products are another that The Body Shops incredibly well, this version uses Mango Seed Oil and Shea Butter to hydrate and nourish your hands. Not forgetting the importance of still having to wash your hands, you will also find a Mango Soap. Vegetable based, this soap creates an impressive lather when it comes into contact with the water and it smells delicious too, using Mango seed oil from India and Certified sustainable palm oil to keep your hands clean, beautifully scented and moisturised.  Then finally there is the Mango Body Mist which is designed to leave you feeling refreshed and smelling delightfully mango.

The contents of this Gift Set are

• Mango Shower Gel 250ml
• Mango Body Butter 200ml
• Mango Hand Cream 30ml
• Mango Body Mist 100ml
• Mango Soap 100g

Plus the Mini Ramie Bath Lily which is a shade of creamy white.  

You can find this gift set for £35 with The Body Shop.

So there you have some amazing gift sets which are so reasonably priced and each one of the products is also available individually, so you could even create your own gift package for a friend, work colleague, family member or for your Secret Santa!

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Laser Hair Removal - Why is it so popular?

We all have hair on our bodies, some say that it has occurred through the evolving process and others like to come up with far more weird and wonderful reasons as to why.  Whatever that reason is, we all have it and some wish they didn't have it in certain parts and others wish they did.  For me, hair is hair, some I choose to remove and other bits I don't. It is a personal choice.

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Now I have tried using an epilator, waxing, creams, gels, sugar waxing and a whole lot more besides when it comes to hair removal and like many things, I start off using devices and having a routine for a while, then I forget and I am back to square one and have to re-start the process all over again.  

A few friends of mine are currently having laser hair removal in various clinics for varying reasons and some of the results are simply incredible, so as it is becoming so popular as a treatment within my group of friends.  Having done my own research I found that laser hair removal works thanks to pulses of highly concentrated light which are emitted from the laser, which by the way come in all different shapes and sizes, directly into the hair follicles. The pigment in those follicles absorbs the light and that destroys the hair - sounds simple enough, but I wanted to know more as to why that is and also what the benefits are, in their words and there were a few similar comments to stand out.

• Quickness - One friend of mine said it has proven to be the quickest route to get rid of unwanted hair.  She had a course of 4 treatments on her arms and it was quick, painless and had no down time.

• Pain - We all know that waxing can be quite painful especially around those more sensitive parts and whilst there is a varying degree of pain, depending on your tolerance threshold, the one comment two friends made was it being like an elastic band hitting your skin - that I can handle, waxing round the ankles - no!

• Precise - Have you ever found that when shaving or waxing your legs, there is always a bit that you miss? Well with laser hair removal, because it targets direct areas, it doesn't miss, plus those much smaller areas including the upper lip, chin, bikini line are much better dealt with.

• Long Term Results - With one friend having completed her treatment, her results have been permanent for as long as I've known her, no longer does she need to worry about whether or not she shaved her legs before a big night out.  Another friend is part-way through her treatment and the results for her are just incredible and it has really helped with her insecurities.

• Cost - If you weigh up how much it costs for razors, shaving gel, blades or even the price of your at home device and all those associated costs, the price is in some times a whole lot less and in others slightly similar.  Depending on your goal, it is worth working out a rough idea as to what you think you spend in a year v's the cost of the treatment you want.

Some of the reasons given by friends are the ones I have thought about when it comes to laser hair removal, the whole faff of removing hair, the ingrown hairs, the pain when you slightly nick yourself with a razor, remembering to buy them or new blades, it is a continuous process.  So if you do find that you are bored of tweezing, tired of waxing and like me, always forgetting to buy razor blades, Laser hair removal could just be the answer.

Have you had laser hair removal? is it something you have thought about? I would love to know.

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