My Pandora Win

For Christmas I did a blog post on all of the things I was very lucky to receive from Santa which you can see HERE and as part of that those Christmas gifts I had obviously been a very good girl because I got this beautiful item:

Yes, I joined the Pandora club and even now I absolutely love it and cannot wait to add charms to it, the urge to run into Pandora and buy everything is overwhelming.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a Pandora Charm as part of a mother day giveaway and whilst I never did expect to win, I was so when it arrived you can only imagine the huge smile on my face, I mean who doesn't want a package from Pandora?  Inside my package was this beautiful charm which is called Abundance of Love and it is described as follows:

An enchanting new Sterling Silver charm filled with Lots of Tiny Love Pink Enamel Hearts, two of which are 14K Gold. New for Mother's Day 2014.

Here is that amazing charm, on my bracelet with my other one:

So there you have my very own Pandora bracelet and now I have two beautiful charms.

Do you have a Pandora Bracelet? Do you have a charm which is special to you?

Rare London | Clothes I Simply Can’t Live Without

When I was tagged to take part in this competition by Kate whose entry you can see here  - Clothes I simply cannot live without, it really did give me something to think about.  I am sure you all have clothes that you cannot live without and I would love you all to tell me what they are in the comment section below. 

Rare London have this fabulous competition which you can enter to showcase your favourite piece, and in doing so, you could be in with a chance of winning a £200.00 voucher!  with that in mind, this is my favourite dress

I am sure most of you will agree that every wardrobe needs a black dress, and I found this extract on the birth of the LBD facinating

Perhaps more than any other piece of clothing, the little black dress is, women have been told, the essential, the one that will take you practically anywhere. And perhaps more than any other designer, Coco Chanel was the one who made it ubiquitous. She did not invent the concept, of course, but according to Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life (by Justine Picardine, $40, amazon.com), “the little black dress was not formally identified as the shape of the future until 1926, when American Vogue published a drawing of a Chanel design.… It was an apparently simple yet elegant sheath, in black crêpe de Chine, with long, narrow sleeves, worn with a string of white pearls; and Vogue proved to be correct in the prediction that it would become a uniform.…”  and you can read more about this HERE

So, for me a LDB is simply a must have item of clothing and one I couldn't live without.   I do happen to have 4 or 5 differently styled ones as you can see from the photograph below

From that selection there is one of them that I wear more than any other which is this one:

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It comes from the Junarose collection on ASOS and I got it in the sale for just £13 reduced from £22 and the reason why I love it so much is because it is just one of those items that I can dress down and wear it daily when I am going to work or if I have a meeting I can add a jacket to it to make it look a little bit smarter.  

Then if I am going out in an evening I can accessorise it a lot more and make it look really fabulous be it with jewellery, my going out bag and a variety of other items of clothing that I own, including my favourite pair of shoes, shown below.

I am not one of those people who keeps up very well with the latest fashion trend, I envy those of you who do and continue to look fabulous, but for me, being comfortable in what I am wearing matters a lot more and it gives me confidence knowing that I actually look really good in something that to the naked eye might look a bit plain, but with a little bit of effort can look totally fabulous.

If you would like to enter this great competition with Rare London, you can do here and you will also find all guidelines too.

As this competition states that I need to tag three of you, I nominate

Kimberley @kimberleyj77

Keeley @phatcupcake

and finally Louise @Staceysmum84

This competition Ends April 30th and if you have entered, please let me know in the comments so I can come and have a look.

Yves Rocher Comme une Evidence Eau de parfum

Perfume is one of the things I love in life and I am quite choosy about what I like and what I don't like, so when I was sent some Yves Rocher Comme Une Evidence Eau De Parfum** to review I was initially quite nervous that it wouldn't be something I liked.

Packaged inside a dusty pink coloured box, The bottle looks to be slightly plain until you look a little more closely whereupon which it is made of quite chunky glass and when the sun shines on it, you can see just hows pink the bottle is and one of the first things I noticed was the solidness of the bottom of the bottle where the pink colour is more evident.  

This perfume features two of my favourite scents -  Rose and Jasmine and for me these are the two most detectable scents within the perfume.  Working with:

• Top notes of both bergamot and violet leaves. 
• Heart notes: rose, jasmine, wild lily of the valley
• Base note: patchouli

All these come together to create a lovely perfume. Once it has been spritzed onto the skin, the rose and jasmine for me really come to life to make it a wonderful spring and summer scent and the fragrance itself on the skin lasts pretty much all day when I am wearing it.  

So from a perfume I initially didn't think I would like, it has become one that I absolutely love and I would definitely want to check out more perfumes from this range.

What's your perfect Spring/Summer scent? 

You Beauty Discovery Box - April Edition

For the past few months I have been getting the You Beauty Discovery Box which you can see here and here with previous box contents.  This month my third box has arrived and I have said I am just as impressed.

This months box is themed "Organic and Natural" and when I got my email to let me know my options for selection was now ready, I logged straight in with excitement to make my choices and I am so chuffed I got the products I really really wanted to try.

As I have said before, I love is how the box fits through my letterbox, it is packed really delicately and the box really study:

Within the magazine which comes with the box we are told that the April shortlist (of products) has been inspired by the arrival of a new season and the prospect of the first glimpses of sunshine.   So with the theme of Organic and Natural the choices between the products included Steamcream Moisturiser, Melvita Moisture-replenishing Night Nectar, Melvita ultra-nourshing Cream, Inka Mineral Eyeshadow, Green People Vita Min Fix 24 hour Cream, Fom London Body Contouring Cream, Essential Care Creamy Coconut Cream, Dr Organic Dead Sea Mineral Eye Rescue Rollerball, Clayspray Glow Red Clay with Cacao Masque and Clayspray Brightening White Clay with Ginseng Masque.

Again as with previous boxes, with this subscription you get some extra treats and mine came in the form of a 9Bar fruity bar which is said to be a delicious blend of dried fruits and seeds and is both gluten and wheat free.  The second little extra is an Antioxident face cream from The Organic Pharmacy and it comes in a little sachet containing 3mls, the other options members might have got is a Gel or a serum.

Then comes my actual selections.  

As soon as I saw one of them there was no doubt it was going to go in my box and it starts with Clayspray Glow Red Clay with Cacao Masque for glowing, healthy and radiant looking skin it comes with the following description:

"The Glow Red Clay Masque instantly adds a boost of radiance to dull skin. The mineral rich formula includes iron to activate circulation, silica to boost collagen, alongsidenourishing cacao, which is rich in anti-oxidants to rejuvenate. The restoring clay exfoliates and repairs the skin’s surface revealing a glowing and healthy looking complexion".

This can is a 30ml can which you can see HERE on the Feelunique website and it has an RRP of £15.

The second choice of mine was Clayspray Brightening White Clay with Ginseng Masque which comes with the follow description:

"For crystal clear, brightened, and renewed complexion. Exfoliates, repairs and renews. Removes dead skin cells, revealing a fresh new skin surface with energising ginseng to brighten, for an immediate replenished and healthy look.

Formulated with a pure blend of white clay, it has an almost whitening effect, and also contains energizing ginseng and natural spring water".

This can is a 30ml can which you can see HERE on the Feelunique website and it has an RRP of £15.

So for a £6.95 subscription, my box has a value of around £32 which is amazing value for money!

What do you think to do this? Do you subscribe to these boxes?

Next month the attention will be dedicated to the CEW(UK) Beauty Awards and I am already looking forward to seeing the options already!