Countdown to Christmas - Day 18: Ameliorate Transforming Body Lotion

Hey Sparkles!

Ameliorate Transforming Body Lotion
(M&S Beauty Advent Calendar 2017)

Happy Mon-YAY, to everyone whether or not your Christmas holidays have already started for this year...surely there can't be that much work to be done even if you're in the office? Get the Christmas tunes on and sing along at your desk or on the shop floor. Though retail readers might be sick of those tunes by this stage since they've been belted out since Halloween I think!

Anyhoo, today's offering from the calendar is a very scientific looking number, which promises to chemically exfoliate my skin while immediately re-hydrating to optimum levels.

A quick glance online shows me generally positive reviews - particularly for those suffering from keratosis pilaris (bumpy skin) on the upper arms. Key notes of caution are a non-lingering but unpleasant scent and a drying effect on non-impacted skin.

I'll give this a go on my arms first I think, in case it is slightly drying as I tend to get scalier skin on my shins in any case.

The 50ml size can be bought online for £9, with the 100ml tube costing just under £15 on the M&S website for those interested to re-purchase after use. Definitely loving the focus on chemical exfoliation and hydration throughout the calendar this year!

Christmas kisses and wishes

xx Josephine xx

Countdown to Christmas - Day 3: Nuxe Prodigieux shower gel

Morning Sparkles!

Nuxe Prodigieux Huile de Douche
(M&S Beauty Advent Calendar 2017)

Yawn and stretch, for a lazy Sunday morning - the best kind! Keeping with the radiant theme is the second box from the big bottom row today.

This Nuxe Prodigieux shower gel is "precious scented with golden shimmer". I'm a fan of Nuxe's honey shower gel and cleanser which I've had before, and generally of their Huile Prodigieux range. This 30ml travel size will be a generous size for any pre-Christmas trips you're planning or just as a treat at home.

I'm liking the idea of getting sparkly in the shower and finishing off with the Huile and matching EdT which I already have, just because it's Sunday and I'm off for some festive fun with my Auntie who's up in London for the day.

Scrum-diddly-umptious Christmas kisses and wishes

xx Josephine xx

Countdown to Christmas - Day 1: Rosie Amazing Radiance Body Glow

Rosie for Autograph - Amazing Radiance Body Glow
(M&S Beauty Advent Calendar 2017)

Morning Sparkles!!

The first day of official Christmas season, even though I've had my decorations up for almost two weeks at this point, I just couldn't resist as I'm majorly feeling the season this year! 

There's five sizes of boxes in this year's advent calendar, and I'm loving the little Christmas town theme to the calendar this year.  First up is a sizeable bottom row box, containing this party treat from the Rosie for Autograph range, which you'll all know I'm a fan of on the scent side of things. 

Lightly tinted, this smells amazing and blends in well. You pale and interesting readers won't be able to use this in place of any instant tanner, but it definitely leaves your skin feeling silky soft and with a very subtle shimmer which will be a great base for party skin or for feeling indulgent on Christmas Day itself. 

The 50ml tube is generously sized and will likely give a few applications even on curvy sized shins and arms!

What did you get in your calendar? If it's the M&S one, what are your thoughts on the Rosie offering? 

Christmas kisses and wishes

xx Josephine xx 

Smooth skin ritual: Ro's Argan Skin Conditioner by Lush Cosmetics

Hello readers!

I've recently jumped on the celebrity bandwagon of Epsom salts baths. Sounds odd (and I don't quite see the alleged slimming benefits) but they're really softening to skin and any excuse for a warm lie down is good in my book!

After my most recent I slathered on some of the Ro's Argan Skin Conditioner by Lush. This stuff had all manner of oils in it and smells of roses - completely luxurious and feels very decadent for a reasonable £16.50 for 225g.

Blogmas 2014 - #1 Body Shop Vanilla Brûlée range

Happy Monday beauty addicts!

A scrumptious selection of bakery scented goodies
suitable for any sweet-toothed lady in your life!

The first day of Blogmas is sprung (I only discovered the existence of this term for my personal challenge last night on Twitter!)

Now it's a lovely, fairy light-lit, twinkling adventure to the funnest family day of all on the 25th. All very exciting, but as a gal with an aversion to all things cinnamon and clove scented, I can find the Christmas season somewhat nauseating with a profusion of such scented candles, pot pourri and oil burners.

How delightful then that the Body Shop has come up with some other festive scents. There are three scents in the range - glazed apple, frosted cranberry and vanilla brûlée.

While slightly saccharine the VB range is very much of that the ilk of the Laura Mercier bath and body products I adore but tend to hoard rather than using them as wantonly as I might with these beauties.