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Thursday, 4 December 2014

Favourite Festive Scent...

No one wants to smell gross, especially not during the holidays when you have to see your family and friends, that's how horrible nicknames are birthed. But if you know me, you'll know that I'm not all that fond of perfume. I have about two that I switch between and I'm good (NO! You cannot take my girl card away!).


Although I don't often wear perfume, I do like to smell nice. One of my most favourite scents is....



I'd like to introduce you to the yummiest smelling trio you will ever meet, Woolworths Vanilla and Brown Sugar range! I absolutely love love love the scent of these three, let me try give you an idea. 

Cast your mind back to when you were a wee little lady, you'd arrive at your granny's house and the first thing you smell as you rush through that door is the magical heavenly scent of freshly backed cookies. The warm, cozy, rich glorious smell of fresh-out-the-oven cookies....aaaaaaaaah....

Now who wouldn't want to smell like a fresh-out-the-oven cookie?? Ok I know there are probably a lot of people who don't want to, and that's cool, but I'm not one of them!

It's not only the scent that makes me love these products. The foam bath contains Wheat Protein, this is a brilliant ingredient that helps to retain the moisture in your skin. I sometimes get out of the bath and feel like my skin has been sucked dry, which is weird after lying in a huge tub of water, but not with this foam bath. The Wheat Protein leaves my skin feeling soft and hydrated.

For a little extra hyrdation-ness I like to slap on some of the body butter. This little jar contains one of my most favourite miracle oils...Argan Oil. Another brilliant way to keep your skin hydrated and smooth. 

Lastly in my lovely trio is the hand cream. I carry this with me where ever I go to keep my paws pretty and smelling edible :)

So if you want to join me in the cookie smell gang, head over to Woolworths and give these guys a little try. The foam bath and body butter retail for R 65 and the hand lotion is R 45.

I'd love to hear if you give this a try, so let me know!

Until tomorrow....







Wednesday, 3 December 2014

All I Want For Christmas...

It's been a good 15 years since the last time I made a Christmas wish list...and now I feel old! Usually Christmas creeps up on me and by the time Christmas day actually comes, I haven't given any thought to what I would've asked for. I'm very lucky to have the people in my life that I do, they know me better than I know myself half the time, so they have this down.

I'm not going to be one of those people who say that all I want for Christmas is to be with family, don't get me wrong, I do want to be with family and I want them happy. But come on, who doesn't want to open gifts ;)

So today I will be showing you a few of the things that I would like for Christmas. My birthday is 10 days after Christmas, so I combined my Christmas List, Birthday List and Work-Your-Butt-For-It-List all into one :) So lets dive into this...


As you can see, there is a stong "minty" theme, as usual ;)

I have categorized everything into where you can get them, prices as well as links to the stores.

1. Urban Decay Naked 3 Pallette
    PRICE: R 1250
    SHOP: Hashtag Awesome

2. Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge
    PRICE: R 100
    SHOP: MYMAKEUP_ESSENTIALS. To shop you will need to contact them via email, if you                        click the link it will take you straight to their instagram page where you can get more                  details:)

3. Brushegg
    PRICE: R110
    SHOP: MYMAKEUP_ESSENTIALS

4. Toy Minty Sparrow
     PRICE: R 99
     SHOP: Toy 

5. Luxury Acrylic Organizer
    PRICE: R 1800
    SHOP: Pink27x

6. GHD Soft Curl Tong Set
     PRICE: R1899
     SHOP: Retail Box

7. Nescafe Dulce Gusto
    PRICE: R 1799
    SHOP: Takealot.com

8. Arrow Adventure Temporary Tattoo
    PRICE: R 70
    SHOP: Oh One One

9. Lush Festive Funtimes
    PRICE: R435
    SHOP: Lush South Africa

10. Sigmax 5 Piece Precision Kit for Eyes
      PRICE: R 420 a set
      SHOP: MYMAKEUP_ESSENTIALS


I had so much fun compiling this list, hopefully Santa will pick his favourite and get the elves on it ;)

Did any of these make your Christmas list?

Until tomorrow....


Tuesday, 2 December 2014

A Merry Manicure...

One of the best things about the festive season is that you can bring out ll of your glittery, shiney, sparkly over the top nail polishes...and just go wild!! Well that's what I do any way :)

My first festive mani is something a little more subtle so that I can ease my fingers into the festivities. 



Aaaaaa...the glittery goodness. 

As my main colour, I used a regular favourite here on the blog. Yes you guessed it, Morgan Taylor's Water Baby. I love how versatile this little colour is. I painted 4 of my 5 fingers with two coats of this wonderful pale blue.



On the tips of 4 of my nails, I swept this pretty silver and blue glitter polish.I also used this as my accent nail. Now the polish has no name and the company that makes it, I'm guessing, is called Passion Nail Lacquer. I found this pretty polish in the nail bin at Dischem. I'm hoping there are more because this polish actually works brilliantly and it only cost me R 19.99, what a bargain!



Christmas to me is all about the glittery sprakly wonder, and this mani makes me think of snow flakes and white Christmases.

Tomorrow I'll be showing you my Christmas list, in the hopes that Santa will send me a few little treats ;)

Until tomorrow....


Monday, 1 December 2014

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year...

I couldn't be more happy that it's December :) I am shocked at how quickly this year has gone, so much has changed for me this year and I am in need of a little time off.


For Ben and I, this is the first year that we are celebrating Christmas in our first home together. We lived in a commune situation for the first couple years of our relationship, so now that we have our own space, I have gone a little Christmas crazy :)


I have also decided to hop on another photo-a-day challenge on Instagram, I absolutely LOVE these challenges and the lovely Chicara from lipglosskisses.com has created such an awesome one for the December month.



How cute is it? If you would like to get involved it's so simple! You post when you can, you can interpret the subject how you would like and just have fun :) Don't forget to tag @lipglosskissesdotcom and use the hashtag #lipglosskissmas. I can't wait to see everyones's posts.

So for today I am going to show you one of my favourite ornaments. My mom received this ornament from a friend years ago and I have always been in love with this little lady.


Obviously she only comes out in December, although I would love to see her all year round :)

Make sure to pop in tomorrow to see one of my many merry mani's!

Until tomorrow....