Christmas Inspired Nails

It's that time of year again when I can wear green and glittery nail polish and not feel like a drag queen version of the Wicked Witch. Christmas, of course.

Green is predominately my colour, you know how everyone has a colour? What's yours?  I do rock green nails throughout the year but it feels a little bit more acceptable during this season.  It doesn't seem so out there, which is nice sometimes.

My friend Fiona over at The Beauty Fiend  won like a million nail polishes from Models Own a couple of months back and this is one of the ones that she gifted me with - told you green was my colour.

Green Tea: It looks like a teal green shade in the photo above but it really is more of a cross in the middle of teal and emerald. I am working in John Lewis at the moment and it is quite close to the John Lewis green - don't know if I am going to get away with having green nails at work but we will see. It has a matte finish to it, which if I am being honest I don't love, even though I love the colour. The last time I wore this I found the matte finish meant it chipped really easy, so it might not even last until work on Saturday.

I decided this Christmas that gold was going to be my primary nail colour - every year I pick a colour. Last year was reds.  I came up with the following nail creation on a whim and I utterly adore it.  I had planned to buy the Barry M gold glitter polish but I think this might do the job.

Buried Treasure by Collection 2000 with Models Own Ibiza Mix on top: I have been plugging Ibiza Mix since the spring and I'm still not bored of it, it's so versatile. The specs of blue, gold and pinkish glitter are fabulous and really catch the eye.  They also remind me of multicoloured Christmas lights and the typical colours of Christmas baubles - like tiny little baubles on your nails. 

Does anyone know of any other good glitter nail polishes, in warm tones?

Hope everyone is having fun Christmas shopping.

Victoria.

xx

Wild Cherry, I think I Love You: Body Butter VS Body Lotion

Wild cherry I think I love you. But I wanna know for sure.

Ok, I'll stop with the cheesy sing-along. But, seriously the wild cherry products from the Body Shop give the mango products a run for their money.  I won this lovely little set as part of The Beauty Fiends 100 follower give away.  Check out her blog, its wonderful.

As expected the body butter is fabulous - as are all of The Body Shop's Body Butters that I have tried.  It isn't as oily as say the mango one which is for extra dry skin but it does the job, and the smell is soooo good. Unlike typical cherry products that smell sickly sweet and sugary this smells as you would expect wild cherries to smell - just sweet enough but not as if you have dipped yourself like a doughnut into a bag of sugar. 

The shower gel I have reviewed previously on my packing some pink post but I will add that I hope the wild cherry sets get made part of the permanent range in The Body Shop, it would be a real shame for it not to. 

Now on to the Body Lotion, in general body lotion is not something I am a great fan of.  I will always pick a thick body butter over a runny body lotion.  I don't even like the Soap and Glory body lotion, I hate the sticky feeling that lotion leaves on the skin.  However due to how wonderful the cherry body lotion smells I have to give it a try, I can't say I hate it but I don't love it either. It smells great but it is a little sticky feeling on the skin.  This might be because I have dry skin, does body lotion feel nicer for those with more oily skin?

Which do you prefer: lotion or body butter? 

Victoria 

Giveaway Goodies and What Else is Coming Up

Aloha,

I am just getting back into the swing of my normal boring life, after returning from my two week journalism placement at The Wigtown Book Festival and I have lots of blogging to catch up on.

Before I left for Wigtown I won The Beauty Fiend 100 follower give away (Fiona is actually my friend so it was a bit weird for me to have won the prize but she honestly done the giveaway fairly - it must have been fate for me to win).  Fiona (the jammy dodger that she is) also won a chunk of stuff from Models Own that week so she threw in a couple of other goodies that I would like - mainly green things.

There will be a separate blog post reviewing the giveaway prizes.

Other Beauty Reviews:

• Maybelline 24 Hour Super Stay Foundation
• Elf - Fuchsia Fusion Blusher
• Top Shop - Cream to Powder Blusher in High-Five. 
• Superdrug - Dry Shampoo Haul.
• Mac - Marilyn Monroe - Lipstick in Charmed I'm Sure. 
• Ghostly Nails
• Wigtown Soap Company - Peppermint and Pumice Soap

Non- Beauty Related Post's: 

• Tahir Shah - Timbuctu and The Future of Publishing.
• Frankenweenie - Review.
• Good to Films to Watch in the Run up to Halloween.
• A Review of Blink Box.
• An Introduction to Asylum Playing Cards.
• City-living versus Country-living.

I am also on the look out for a new face powder as my beloved Maybelline Dream Matte Powder has been discontinued.  I like a powder that comes in a compact, is no more than £10.00, and is suitable for very pale skin - any suggestions?

Victoria

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.