Floozie Cupcake Kisses Collection

I have heard all about Floozie the designer range by Frost/French at Debenhams from my Dad's girlfriend who is a bit of a fan of theirs but I have never owned anything of theirs before.  Their underwear range has been lusted over in the past though.

"Frostfrench is a London based design studio founded by Sadie Frost and Jemima French in 1999.

From the early days of the girls dyeing smelly knickers in their back garden,it grew quickly into a fashion label selling its clothes all over the world. Kate Moss stripped for them, as Mario Testino clapped from the balcony at the Duke of York theatre. Helena Christensen, Jerry Hall and Liberty Ross flew for them in ‘Enchantment‘ their circus inspired film. They won an Elle Style award in 2004 and had a period of running their sassy boutiques in the centre of London".  

The packaging is utterly gorgeous, especially the hand cream which actually looks and smells like strawberry icing.   The lip balm is not as sugary as I had expected it, the scent is a lot more subtle than the hand cream.  It is sticky in texture but not the sort of sticky where your hair ends up covered in it. I also expected the balm to be quite natural in colour but it as pink as it looks, it is great for every day use as although it is pink it is not in your face pink. 

The hand lotion is pink, looks like icing, strawberry scented and non-sticky - to me that is good on all counts. Those who are not so much into pink and sickly might not enjoy this as much, but girly stereotypes aside it is a good hand cream.

What is in My Handbag - Three Body Shop Lip Products.

Any girl worth her jazzy handbag with have a ton of stuff in there that she doesn't really need but it stays in there anyway's. For my personally my handbag just accumulates stuff from half empty packets of mento's to used train tickets but it also seems to harbour lip products.

At the moment I have three different lip products from the bodyshop. Obviously there is no reason to have all three products in the one bag but they don't take up too  much room so to me this validates it.

1. Mango Lip Butter: this is an old favourite of mine and I have went through a fair amount of tubs throughout the years - why? Because it leaves the lips super soft and smells/tastes great.

2. Natural Lip Roll On in Berry - My flatmate gave me a £2 off voucher for the Body Shop and being a poor student at the time I went in with the intentions of getting the watermelon lip-gloss but on being advised that the lip rolls were better for penetrating dry lips I went for this. I like that it comes in a roll since it means not having to touch the product which is great for the gal on the go. It is made with 100% natural ingredients and is not sticky. It is more like a lip oil if anything.

3. Candied Ginger Lip Balm - I reviewed the accompanying set here. This is different from anything I have ever had from The Body Shop and I was unaware that they actually done lip balms until I received this as a gift.  It is a Vaseline texture which I am a fan off even though I do not actually like normal Vaseline - I find it boring and a little drying on my lips.  This leaves the lips feeling pampered and protected from the outside world.

The Body Shop - Candied Ginger - Graduation Haul

I received this lovely set as a graduation present from my friend over at: The Beauty Fiend back in July and this is me just getting around to blogging about it but it is not due to being unsatisfied with the set.

The set includes a Body butter, Hand Cream, Shower Gel and a Lip Balm.

As you can see in the close up photo the packaging is super cute with little ginger bread men on it. Once of my favourite scents happens to be ginger so I was delighted to receive this as a gift.  It smells very richly of ginger but it is not overly sweet - which is a good thing -because lets face it after a certain age you cannot afford to be going out smelling too much like a sweet shop.

The body butter is as good as all the rest of The Body Shop butter but in texture is more akin to the shea butter or stawberry body butter than the mango one but this does not make it any less great a body butter.  I have been trying not to use this too much at the moment along with the shower gel (which I am failing on) as I feel it will be a fabulous scent for the coming autumn and winter. Ginger is quite a warm spice and it is associated with Christmas in the form of gingerbread men so come the latter seasons this will be keeping my skin nice and soft against the bitter cold. I will have no doubt used all the shower gel by then though because I cannot stop using it.

I have not used the hand cream very much since I am saving it for when I eventually getting a job - so that I actually have a reason to be moisturising my hands - it's the novelty of having something else to stick in your handbag. From testing it out a couple of times it is nice though - not too greasy and smells as divine as the body butter and shower gel.

The lip balm is my favourite though and it is my first lip balm like this from the body shop.  It is like Vaseline in texture and leaves the lips truly moisturised - if you can stop yourself from licking it off, that is. 

All in all another great set from The Body Shop.

What is everyone's favourite body shop scent?  I'm a fan of raspberry and mango.