Last Minute Christmas Gifts : For Her

Hullo!

Christmas is nearly here, Just over a week to go! 

I finished my Christmas shopping yesterday but I know some of you may still be out there driving yourself crazy on what your going to buy a certain person. 

These are some Ideas for the women in your life!

Perfume 

At the moment Boots have a few Perfume sets on sale.....

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Oh, Lola! Marc Jacobs

Was £47.00 down to £31.33

Boots

You get a 50ml bottle and a free shower gel and body lotion. It's a beautiful set with a stunning bottle. 

It's a gorgeous scent that has a fruity top note and a womanly dry down. 

Even if like me, you hated the original Lola, it's worth a sniff because I fell in love with it! I made sure my parents new I liked it too ;-) 

You don't usually see these popular Marc Jacobs fragrances on such a good offer, only in the post Christmas sales and they are usually all gone within hours. So you may want to take up this offer while you can!  

Milan By Next 

£12 for a 100ml 

To me this is a great dupe for DKNY Be Delicious. 

It's definitely in the same category. 

Next make some amazing perfumes for great prices. 

Hair

Argos have up to 60% off their Electrical Personal Care items! 

Remington Pearl Hair Straighteners

These are less than half price at the moment and if you look at the reviews on the Argos page they are constantly compared to GHD's!  

Was £84.99 down to £33.49

Argos

Something else from Remington that I put on my own Christmas Wish List this year is the Remington Pearl Curling Wand.

At the moment this is 20% and I've heard some great things about it.

Was £24.99 down to £19.99

Boots

Books

 Cecelia Ahern Novel One Hundred Names

Cecelia Ahern is the author of many best sellers, she does lovely magical and interesting stories. Great for this time of year. 

Something else you could pick up is the Fifty Shades Triliogy. I was obsessed with these books awhile back, just before they hit it big. You may laugh at it but they've sold more than Twilight...that always makes me smile with pleasure for some reason! ;-)

You can get these novels from a few places, e.g Asda, Amazon, WHSmith. 

Have a look around for the cheapest price :-) 

So I hope these gift ideas help someone out!

I'm super excited for Christmas! Are you? 

Linzi xxx 

My Top 5 Christmas Movies

Hi Lovely People!

I'm sitting on the sofa, with a cup of hot chocolate and Elf is on the television!

 It's turning out to be a great Sunday afternoon.

 I've been thinking about doing this post for a few weeks now so I suppose this is the perfect time!

These are just some of the movies I make sure to watch in the festive season :-) 

1) The Muppet Christmas Carol

Image taken from Wikipedia

My Brother and I watch this movie together every year, It's been a favourite since I was a kid. 

It's a great version of the classic Christmas Carol. 

If you haven't seen it yet then your really missing out! 

2) The Grinch 

Image taken from Google

Probably my favourite Jim Carrey movie.

 He's amazing in it. I'm pretty sure I know most of the words to this movie I've watched it so many time :-) 

3) Elf

Image Taken from imdb.com

I went to see this in the cinema when it came out and I'm telling you not a single person in the theatre wasn't smiling when they walked out. It such a funny, festive and unique movie.  

4) The Santa Clause 

Image taken from Google

Tim Allen was a house hold name when I was younger, I remember watching Home Improvement every night.  I love this Christmas movie, they made a few sequels but to me this was the best :-) 

5) The Nightmare Before Christmas

Image taken from Google

I like to watch this at least twice a year, Halloween and Christmas. It's a great movie with lots of wonderful songs to sing along to :-) 

There where a few more movies I could include like Home Alone, The Family Stone and White Christmas but then this post could go on forever.

What is your favourite Christmas Movie? 

Linzi xxx

REVIEW - Andrew Barton - The Straight Answer - Hot Iron Protection Spray

Hi Lovely Ladies!

I've been really busy these last few days, my dog's been ill so we've been back and forth the vets and in between that I'm trying to get all the Christmas shopping done, so It's been awhile since I posted on here. 

I thought I'd start back with something a little different.

I don't usually talk about hair products but recently I've been more interested in them. 

This is one product though that I've been using for years, since my auntie bought me it after she heard that I hadn't been using any heat protection spray when straightening my hair..*gasp* 

The first thing I noticed is the gorgeous smell. It's very tropical. 

I find that it helps to keep my hair smooth and shiny, whist protecting it. 

As I suffer from oily hair I was slightly scared that It was going to make it worse. I haven't noticed that though :-) 

I like to spray this into my hair after I've towel dried it and before I blow dry it. 

The 250ml bottle lasts me for ages as you don't need a lot of product with each use.  

I buy my Andrew Barton Products from Asda and I really love the price for the quality you get. 

Have you tried the Andrew Barton Hair Care Range? 

What do you think of it? 

Linzi xxx

Christmas Cookies

Hi Lovely Ladies. 

Christmas is on its way and it's that time of year that I love to bake. 

I picked up the ingredients in the local supermarket. 

200g of Plain Flour

150g of  Sugar

 1 Egg

200g Butter

1 tsp of Ground Cinnamon - Optional

Some drops of Almond Essence - Optional

Metallic Cake Decorations - Optional 

This recipe makes about 40 cookies depending on how big your cutters are! 

I bought my cookie cutters from Amazon -- Here is the link :-) 

They were very easy to use. 

 When I was in college I did a Childcare course and for a while I helped out at a Primary School. Primary Schools must be the best place to be around Christmas time. It was so much fun seeing all those children get excited about the Holidays. This was one of the cooking recipes we used and it's great to use with children! 

Also...these cookies last a few days more if sealed in a air tight container ..that's if no one eats them all on the first day ;-) 

Just remember to stay safe when cooking and remember that I'm in no way a chef, just a person who likes to bake now and then :-) 

Linzi xxx

Eau My Giddy God - Vera Wang - Princess Night

Hullo Lovely Ladies!

If you read my haul a few weeks back, you would have seen that I recently picked up this Vera Wang perfume from TK Maxx. It was an amazing find. I picked up the 50ml bottle of Vera Wang Princess Night for just £24.99.

I've been meaning to try a Princess perfume for a long time now, as nearly every Perfume Collection I've seen on blogs and Youtube seem to have one included. 

                                     

This is the newest Princess release. 

I remember seeing the advertisement for it earlier in the year and falling in love with the bottle. 

This is a grouped as a floral fruity perfume, all though I don't smell a lot of floral notes. 

The Official notes to this perfume are ;-

Top - Watermelon, Raspberry and Red Berry

Middle - Jasmine, African Orange Flower and Rose

Base - Woodsy Notes, Musk, Sugar and Vanilla

On me I smell berries, sweet vanilla and woods. Giving this a youthful yet mysterious scent. 

For a fruity floral fragrance I find it more interesting than your usual popular teen fragrances, which makes it more wearable for a girl of any age to not feel like they are wearing an immature perfume. 

I adore the packaging and it looks stunning on display. I do find some fall out with the glitter but not enough that Im worried about bald patches very soon. There's just one speck of glitter here and there. 

The thing that does bug my is the cap/crown. Yes it is gorgeous and the fact that you could also wear it as a ring is very appealing but it's just very fussy and mine always seems to fall off, which makes me fear carrying it around for to long in case I lose them. I would feel better about it if it was magnetic or fitted together more sturdily. 

The colour of the glitter looks black in the photo's but when you hold it up to a light you can see that  its just a very dark purple. 

All in all though it's a beautiful perfume and I'm so glad I picked it up when I did because only last week I saw it priced at over £40 in Boot's! 

Hope you all had a great weekend :-) 

Linzi xxx

Christmas Gift Ideas - For Him -£20 or Under

So Christmas can be a stressful time, that's why I try to do most of my shopping in November so that I can relax and enjoy the amazing month that December can be :-) 

I find the males in my family the hardest to buy for so the last few weeks I've been taking my time trying to decide what to get my brother and father. 

Here are a few of my ideas! 

The Godfather DVD Box Set 

Image was taken from Amazon.co.uk

£9 with free P&P  

 HERE

I think it must be programmed into men to love The Godfather films. I've never actually watched one...Opps! 

An Idiot Abroad By Karl Pilkington

Image taken from Amazon.co.uk

 £5.12 with free P&P  

 HERE 

The Further Adventures Of An Idiot Abroad By Karl Pilkington

Image taken from Amazon.co.uk

 £8.54 with free P&P  

 HERE 

I'm a big fan of reading, dyslexia runs in my family and getting my dad and brother to read a novel has been real tough. The last few years my brother has come so far with his reading and I'm extremely proud of him. In all my twenty years though I have never seen my dad read a book but I'm still optimistic and maybe something as crazy funny as the Karl Pilkington books will give him the nudge he needs :-) 

Next Cufflinks

 Image taken from Next.co.uk 

 £13 

 HERE

I find nothing smarter than a man wearing a good shirt and a pair of cufflinks  For the price these are lovely and next have a large range of different cufflinks  Ranging from Looney Toones to Coca Cola Caps. You can also buy a lovely Leather cuff links box to keep them in. 

Topman Fragrance Gift Set

Image Taken From Boots.com

£20 

HERE

I didn't know Boots sold Topman goodies but it was a lovely surprise when I saw this set last week whilst shopping. I think the hat is so cute and I'm really interested on what the fragrance would smell like! 

The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Season One DVD

Image taken from Amazon.co.uk

£5.99 with free P&P

HERE 

For as long as I can remember great shows like Red Dwarf, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air and Blackadder have been a constant presence in my life. I still know all the lyrics to The Fresh Prince but my family have never owned any of the actual DVD's so to be able to have it at hand would be great as I don't see them on repeat that often anymore. Not as much as it used to be anyway.  I know for a fact my brother would love to have this in his DVD collection! 

Well I hope this helps someone who's finding it hard to choose a gift! 

Hope you have all had a great Saturday :-) 

Linzi xxx

REVIEW - Rimmel London - Glam'eyes Eyeshadow - Backstage

Hullo Lovley Ladies! 

A few weeks ago whilst out shopping with my brother I stopped in Poundland. 

I like to step in every so often just to see if they have any good deals on beauty products. 

I managed to pick up the Rimmel London Glam'eyes Eyeshadow in shade 102 "Backstage" 

I remember when these came out and even though I loved the shades I didn't find it necessary to pay the price for just one eye shadow. 

As you can see its a lovely taupe with shimmer. 

It's a beautiful neutral shade. 

It looks lovely on its own with a slick of eyeliner and mascara or with a few over shades to make a dazzling smokey eye. 

I'm so glad I could try this out at such a great price! 

You can't go wrong with £1 for a great quality eye shadow :-) 

Linzi xxx