Winter Essentials

As winter goes by, you will realise that there are some essentials needed to help your skin survive the cold winter weather. These are just a few of my winter beauty essentials.

Ginger Sparkle Body Butter (Body Shop)
Pink Grapefruit Body Butter (Body Shop)
Garnier Intensive 7 Days Body Lotion 

In the winter your skin tends to get dryer. So you need to keep your skin healthy and hydrated. I find the the body butter form The Body Shop is great for keeping your skin hydrated and isn't one of those body butters that make you stand around waiting for it to soak in. It soaks into your skin fast and makes your skin extremely soft. The Garnier body lotion is another one that soaks into your skin fast and leaves your skin feeling moisturised and nourished for 7 days..just like it says on the bottle, except I like to moisturise each time I shower which is every day.

Vaseline Essential Moisture Hand Cream
Vaseline Healthy Hands and Stronger Nails
Ginger Sparkle Hand Cream (The Body Shop)

I don't know about you but my hands get extremely dry during the colder weather. I feel as if I am constantly putting ion hand cream. The Vaseline hand cream leaves your hands feeling soft and hydrated, which means I don't need to keep applying it every 10 minutes. The Body Shop hand cream, not only has an incredible scent of ginger, but also leaves your hands feeling nourished and hydrated. 

Nivea Pearl Shine
Nivea Essential Care
Baby Lips Intense Care

Soft, hydrated and plump lips are the best lips. I find that the cold weather makes my lips chapped and dry, which I hate and probably mostly everyone else out there too. I apply lip balm at least 7 times a day including before I go to bed. I like for my lips to feel soft and not dry. Babylips do a fantastic job of keeping your lips hydrated and healthy. As do Nivea. I have tried out so many lip balms over the years and I always seem to forget about them and buy new ones. It's ridiculous. But I've narrowed it down to using these three. 

So I hope this gives you and idea of what I find essential for winter to keep my skin hydrated. I would also recommend making yourself the best cup of tea ever, in order to keep your insides warm. I like my tea milky with 2 sugars:) Make sure to wrap up warm when going out: woolly hat, gloves, scarf and a coat to keep all the warm in your body. 

Hope the winter days have been good to your skin,

Loullabella <3

Perfume | Reviews

Perfume is something that can say a lot about a person. It can tell someone what kind of mood you're in, or if you like a certain scent. I have quite a few perfumes laying around my bedroom so I thought I would give a review on each of them to tell you a bit about them from my experience using them. Excuse my description about scents, I haven't quite got the art of doing that yet:)

Rihanna-Nude

I got this perfume for Christmas 2013, and I'm really enjoying it. It is quite a warm scent, very feminine however it isn't too overpowering. It is a soft, floral kind of scent with big hints of vanilla but it isn't too sweet and is great to wear all year round.

Lady Gaga-Fame

Lady Gaga Fame is one I've had for about a year now and it is one of my favourites. It is a sort of floral, fruity scent. With honey, saffron and apricot notes. It is a black liquid which makes the perfume unique, the packaging is quite dramatic also, with the gold lid and glass bottles in which you can see the black liquid. It does spray out black on your skin if you spray quite close to your skin but it dries completely clear. Definitely recommended.

 DKNY Be Delicious

This fragrance is an everyday, fresh scent. It is a very light perfume and isn't too overwhelming. The scent lasts a long time on your skin, so you don't need to top up throughout the day. It is a very slightly florally scent but you can definitely smell the apples.

From left: Diamonds-Next, Enchanted-Accessorize, Curious-Britney Spears, Very Red-Next

So in this picture, are a collection of perfumes I've had for a long while but don't use as much as some of the others. Starting from the left, the first one is Diamonds by Next. This is a subtle scent and smells slightly like Soap&Glory products. Its not too heavy and isn't too overwhelming.

Next is Enchanted by Accessorize. This quite a sweet scent and is great for young women and teens. It's a perfect fragrance for Spring and Summer. Its not too heavy and has slight floral notes along with some fruity ones. 

Curious by Britney Spears is next in line. I would say this is quite a lively scent, bright, fruity and floral. There are hints of fresh flowers such as jasmine, tuberose. You can also detect a slight scent of vanilla and musk.

Last in my collection is Very Red by Next. I believe they have discontinued this perfume, either that of they've made it very hard to find. I have the roll on version and once it has ran out I'm going to try and find a bottle version as it really is one of my favourite scents. It is a warm, fruity fragrance with hints of red fruit blossoms, jasmine, rose petals. It is a long lasting scent so it will take quite a while to use up. All I ever wan to do when I'm wearing it, is smell my wrists because it smells so good! Definitely would recommend this to anyone.

I hope this has given you a bit of information and my opinions have been useful. Let me know what your favourite fragrances are..

Loullabella<3

Lush

If you live in the UK(I do not think the US have it), you would of heard of a store named Lush. A store in which you can purchase bath ballistics(aka bath bombs), bubble bars, shower gel, hand creams etc... For Christmas I received a Lush Gift Box and decided to share with you what was inside.

This is what the box looks like, it is extremely glittery, which means glitter gets everywhere! It's red, gold and green glitter with a gold polka dot ribbon on top.

 As you can read on the label, five products came within this gift box. However I did not think to do this blog post before I used the Father Christmas Bath Ballistic. I can describe it for you the best I can though. First when you drop it into the bath it fizzes a slight pink colour, then it will turn slightly green and before you know it your bath is almost a neon green. I also have used part of the bubble bar, but not enough that I couldn't take a picture for you so I do have a picture of that.

From left: Lord of Misrules(bath ballistic), Cinders(bath ballistic), Christmas Eve(bath ballistic) and Golden Wonder(bath ballistic)

Lord of Misrules (bath ballistic)

Cinders (bath ballistic)

Christmas Eve (bubble bar)

The Christmas Eve bubble bar is one that I can describe for you as I have used some already, unlike the two bath ballistics above as I haven't before used them. A bubble bar if you aren't sure, is a bar which you crumble under running water. You can get multiple uses out of these which makes it a definite run for your money! As you crumble it under the water, bubbles will appear and give of a wonderful scent, slightly florally (I'm rubbish at describing scents). Once you get out the bath and dry yourself off, you will be able to notice how soft your skin is. Its a definite Christmas must have.

Golden Wonder (bath ballistic)

 Again Golden Wonder is a bath bomb I can describe to you as I've had it before. Even when you pick it up you get golden fingers from the gold dust coating the bath bomb. It is a present shaped bath bomb (very relevant for Christmas) and if you shake it, something inside makes a sound, which I've yet to find out what it is, as my previous one didn't rattle but I believe is supposed to. After dropping your bath bomb into the water, you will soon see why it is called Golden Wonder. Your bath water becomes a vibrant turquoise and specs of golden shimmer surround you enveloping you in its scent.

Blackberry (bath ballistic)

This bath ballistic was not in the gift box, but thought I may as well add it in. Its a bath bomb I was going to give as a Christmas Gift but I forgot I had it until after Christmas (oops). It smells very good, a bit like Palmer Violets, which is a kind of sweet/candy, and is quite a soft scent but I do like it. Its one I've never had so I'm excited to see what its like.

I hope this post was somewhat interesting or useful and fun to read..

Loullabella <3