My Favourite Christmas 2015 Collections:

The Body Shop, Essence and Clarins

Hi Divas!

It is the most wonderful time of the year!!! The festive season is surely upon us and I am super excited. I just love the holidays and all the happiness and joy that it brings. I hope you have all completed your Santa shoe boxes or gifts for those less fortunate than yourself. You know it is more blessed to give than to receive. This year I teamed up with my local church and we made some Santa shoe boxes filled with goodies for an orphanage close by to our area. I cannot wait to see the surprise and happiness on the children's faces. Speaking of giving, are you done with you Christmas shopping yet? I sure am! I hate leaving Christmas shopping to the last minute. It really stresses me out. I thought I would do a post on my favourite beauty Christmas collections for those of you who are still struggling to find the perfect gift. Hope you enjoy!

The Body Shop Frosted Plum, Glazed Apple and Frosted Cranberry Collection:

Each Christmas season The Body Shop comes out with a limited edition scent filled with body washes, body butters, room sprays and candles. For the past two years I really enjoyed the Glazed Apple (fruity, sweet and fresh scent) and Frosted Cranberry (fruity and spicy scent) range. These two scents are my absolute favourite and I cannot resist buying a few items when the festive season comes along. This year I bought body washes, body butters and a delicious Glazed Apple candle that just delights all my senses. It seriously smells like heaven! The Body Shop added a new scent to their 2015 Christmas collection too called Frosted Plum. I am not a huge fan of this scent so I only bought the shower gel. If you love deep plum scents then you will surely love this range. These products would make excellent gifts for your best friend, sister, mom and granny. You can buy them individually or in a lovely gift set.

The Essence Merry Berry Collection:

I reviewed this collection last week. You can read it here. These products would make perfect stocking stuffers for the beauty and makeup lover in our life. Or you can be like me and just buy the collection as a Christmas present to yourself. After all you know you deserve it! Hahaha ;-) My favourite products from the Merry Berry collection are the lipsticks, nail polishes and the gorgeous starry highlighter powder. Don't you just love the packaging? It is so pretty and everything is under a R100 ($11). Score!!!

Clarins Christmas Collection: 

Clarins is my holy grail skincare brand. Every year they come out with various Christmas gifts packaged according to your skin care needs and age. Each gift comes with a free toiletry/ makeup bag along with two or more skincare samples. I bought the Clarins Multi-Active range as I am not getting any younger and need some anti wrinkle ingredients in my life. These gifts are on the higher end side of your beauty budget. They would make excellent gifts for the ladies in your life who appreciate skin care products and love to pamper themselves. You can visit the Clarins website here for more information of the gifts on offer.




Thank you so much for reading Beauties.
Happy Shopping!!!
Xxxx

Hi Divas!

This week I want to share my Bath and Body Works haul and some mini reviews on the products with you. This post is long overdue as I have had these products for almost a whole year now and have been using them religiously. I have acquired some empty bottles in my stash too. Bath and Body Works are not available in South Africa unfortunately. When I travel overseas I love trying out new products that are not available in my country. I wanted to share this haul with you to share my favourites from the brand so that you can have a clue of what is good at a Bath and Body Works in case you travel overseas and shop at a store or the brand miraculously decides to come to South Africa. Now wouldn't that be wonderful?!  ;-)

My first impressions of a Bath and Body Works store is pure amazement. There are so many different kinds of scents, bath products, fragrances and candles on offer. I really felt like a kid at a candy store smelling and testing out all the different products. The shop is visually appealing too as everything looks so pretty and girly. I absolutely love Bath and Body works packaging. It reminds me of Christmas time when everything in store comes beautifully wrapped. On my trip I bought candles, shower gels and some body mists. I was especially excited to try the Bath and Body Works candle range has they are raved about by many YouTube Beauty bloggers. I shopped so much at the Bath and Body Works store in Qatar, they even gave me a free pink tote bag. I will put the photo up on Instagram page. Besides Sephora, this is one of my favourite stores to shop at in the Middle East.

Bath and Body Works Shower Gels

Beautiful Day: The Beautiful Day range is my absolute favourite range from the Bath and Body Works store. This shower gel has a fruity sweet scent that lingers on your skin long after you have taken a shower. It smells like Spring and Summer all rolled into one. It is truly a beautiful scent that uplifts your mood when you use it. The shower gel is very gentle and lathers well. A little goes a long way. I swear I want 10 bottles of these.

Sweet Pea: The Sweet Pea scent in the body wash does not smell anything like the fragrance mist. To me it wasn't sweet enough and smelt a little off centre. I really don't know how to explain it, but it felt like there was a fragrance note missing. It did a good job in the shower but it is nothing to go crazy about. I wouldn't purchase this shower gel again as I feel there are better scents out there in the range.



Bath and Body Works Fragrance Mists

Beautiful Day: This is my favourite fragrance of life! It has a much deeper scent than the shower gel but it  still has a fruity and sweet fragrance. The top notes are apple, pear and blackcurrant. It has a warm fruity inviting smell. It reminds me of fun summer nights. I bought a bottle for my mom too and she loves it as well. These bottles come in 236 ml, so they will last a long time.

Sweet Pea: I absolutely love this scent just as much as the Beautiful Day fragrance. It is such a pity that the Sweet Pea shower gel doesn't smell anything like this. The fragrance is light, fruity and smells like spring time. The top notes are sweet pea, water pear and black current. I got a lot of compliments when I would wear this body mist to work. These last on me all day too. They are body mists packed with a lot of punch.

Bath and Body Works Candles

Paris Amour: This is a sweet and very light floral fragrance. Top notes are strawberry, tulips and apple blossom. When I burn it, it reminds me of white open spaces with a touch of pink. It is a very clean,  feminin and pretty scent.

Dark Kiss: This is a deep and warm black current candle scent. Top notes are bergamot, blackberry, Incense and Mirabelle. It has a smokey, sweet and fruity scent to it. This would be great to burn at night in your bedroom.

Warm Vanilla Sugar: I love all things vanilla as some of you may know. This candle is beautiful, warm and very inviting. The vanilla scent is soft and not overbearing. It has just the right amount of floral and vanilla notes mixed for a perfect candle fragrance. This one is great to burn any time of the day too.








Thank you so much for reading.
Divalicious Kisses
Xxxx