Clinique 'Week of Beauty Treats' - Monday 5th to Friday 9th December 2011!

From Monday 5th December until Friday 9th, Clinique will be giving you a surprise treat with each online purchase on www.clinique.co.uk. The offer will change each day, and will be a secret until its unveiling on the day, however(!) I have a few little teasers to get you going!

Monday  - A treat to make the eyes flutter during the party season!
Tuesday - A treat full of girly glamour.
Wednesday - Banish the winter blues.
Thursday - Treats all round!
Friday - Hurry! Get it... whenever you choose!

I really like this idea, it's a perfect way to get a little bit extra for your money when spending on gifts for Christmas, or just treating yourself!

Beauty Deals Updates!

Hello my lovelies, I have some new beauty deals for you that I'm going to run down very quickly!

Boots.com are offering:

£10 of Advantage card points for every £75 you spend online in a single transaction!

Gift of the Week: FCUK the Women Has it All Overnight Bag - Was £45, Now £22, Save £23.

£5 off ENRAPTURE hair styling range (I can thoroughly recommend these) using code ENRAPTURE5 until 24.12.2011.


Cheap Smells are offering an extra 10% off their Decléor selection:

QVC are offering a couple of beauty TSV's over the next couple of days. The link for the TSV always stays the same, so it will show as a different TSV if you click it on a different day!

Saturday 3rd December (today) - Decleor 6pc Anti Ageing Radiance Collection £37.92 instead of £45.50)
Monday 5th December - Laura Geller 5pc Bake Sale Beauty Collection

Happy Shopping! x

Competition: Win Elemis FreshSkin Goodies Worth £100!

The Elemis FreshSkin range is a complete skincare reigime/range dedicated to young skin from teens to twenties because Elemis know just how important it is to look after your skin, even when you're young and (relatively) care free!

The FreshSkin range will nurture your skin, preventing premature ageing and brightening tired and dull skin in the process. My mum always taught me that it's never too soon to start looking after your skin, and with Elemis, you know you're getting quality skincare from an uber knowlegeable brand that creates amazing products for all skintypes at all ages; you might say they're experts in skincare!

This prize is the entire Elemis FreshSkin range, (minus the exfoliating face wash which unfortunately met its death at the hands of Royal Mail on its way to me) which is worth £100. The range includes:

• Elemis FreshSkin Peachy Perfect Gentle Face Wash (£12)
• Elemis FreshSkin Softly Softly Daily Moisturiser (£20)
• Elemis FreshSkin Dreamy Sleep Night-Time Moisturiser (£22)
• Elemis FreshSkin Tired Eyes Soothing Eye Rescue (£15)
• Elemis FreshSkin Loving Lips Quenching Lip Balm (£8)
• Elemis FreshSkin Make-Up Away Cleansing Wipes (£8)
• Elemis FreshSkin Face Mask Duo (£15)

The prize is fantastic and you can get your hands on it simply by following me via GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT and filling out the form below!

Competition closes at 11:59pm on Monday, January 2nd 2012!

Good luck!

Urban Decay's Naked Palette 2!

Yep that's right, a sibling palette to the massively successful Naked palette is on its way to our shores (I believe it's already available in the USA - lucky things) and it looks like a stunner! I got a few photographs from Urban Decay's Facebook page to show you, in case you had completely missed all talk of this before now!

Available in January 2012 from Debenhams, and other retailers from February!

Please Nominate Me in the Marie Claire Blog Awards?

I know that there are a myriad of beauty blogs out there, but I'd absolutely love it if you might consider nominating me as 'best beauty blogger of the year' in the Marie Claire Blog Awards. The nominations are open until 31st December and I'd be over the moon if 2012 started with being told I had been nominated!

xx

A Few New Beauty Deals!

I am being a naughty enabler again and giving you more shopping discount codes and deals - but at this time of year, people generally are shopping more anyway and any chance to save a bit of money (or be able to buy more for less) should always be shared with the masses!

First up is Boots who are offering:

 £50 off the new Philips Lumea Precision IPL device, so you'll be paying £399, rather than £450! I am about to embark on a trial of this and I'm very excited as it uses NO GEL and is CORDLESS which should make for an easier experience than some other IPL machines! It gets great reviews and is obviously a lot cheaper than going to have IPL done professionally. I think it would make a great gift, that you could either ask for, or buy for somebody else if your budgets allow!

Code: LUMEA50 Ends: 6/12/2011

Superdrug are offering:

25% off selected fragrances - Everybody loves getting a gorgeous perfume (or aftershave) for Christmas, and whilst I know it's a personal thing - some people have signature scents, and/or types of scents that they like so this could be a great gift idea. Alternatively, treat yourself... well it is party season!

Debenhams have new codes valid between today and 4th December:

Code: BTFV
Offer: 5% off Beauty and Fragrance (there is already 10% off right now, so this extra 5% is even better)

Code: DX49
Offer: 10% off fashion & home at Debenhams

John Lewis are running a price match promotion where you can save up to 20% across besuty, women's/men's fashion and accessories, kitchenware and more!

I'll keep posting as and when I get emails informing me of new offers! Happy shopping! x

Competitions - WIN With Urban Retreat!

I have found out about a couple of fabulous competitions that Urban Retreat are running and thought that you might like to enter too! I'm just going to copy and paste the details in so that everything you need to know is definitely there!

WIN!! An Urban Retreat Make-Over & A Dress From Maria Grachvogal

"We have teamed up with glamorous British designer Maria Grachvogel to offer one lucky winner the ultimate, head to toe make-over prize. This incredible prize, worth up to £2,000, includes a day of pampering at Urban Retreat’s flagship Super Salon on the fifth floor or Harrods followed by an afternoon chooising the dress of your dreams from Maria Grachvogel’s coveted collection.


The competition will run until midnight on Tuesday 20th December 2011 and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is answer one simple question, http://www.urbanretreat.co.uk/beautique/competitions/Grachvogel.aspx"

What a fabulous prize, it sounds like the perfect day going from being pampered to shopping for the dress of your dreams - bliss.

Christmas Treasure Hunt at THE URBAN RETREAT BEAUTIQUE!!

Every Friday up until Christmas we will be spreading the Christmas cheer with our very own treasure hunt, players will be in with a chance of winning some top prizes worth up to £100!

WHEN TO PLAY

Our Christmas treasure hunt will take place every Friday up until Christmas at 1pm

Friday December 2nd / Friday December 9th / Friday December 16th / Friday December 23rd

HOW TO PLAY

Players simply need to search through our brand and product pages to find the special prizes which can be identified by one of the pictures above. When the gift is found players must follow the normal ordering process and purchase the prize for just 1p (P&P is included) as quickly as possible before someone else gets it! Be warned- just because it is in your basket does not mean you have won the prize, it’s the person who processes the order first who will win!

HOUSE RULES

Players are only allowed to redeem one 1p gift per order- players trying to process orders with more than one ‘1p gift’ will be eliminated. This competition will expire once all of the gifts have been found.

http://www.urbanretreat.co.uk/beautique/competitions/festiveFridays.aspx 

So, this one requires a little more effort, but it should get you into the festive spirit at the same time. I'll definitely be giving it a go!

Good luck!

The Christmas Countdown Begins...

I can't believe it, it's actually December already(!), and that to me means that panic can now set in as Christmas is officially here (almost) and I need to get my skates on and get my gifts for people chosen, bought and then wrapped... the countdown is ON!

I'm sure many of you are also in the same predickydoodah* as me, especially if you also don't have a clue what to buy for your nearest and dearest. So with that in mind, I'll be doing a series of posts to try to help you pick some fabulous gifts for the special people in your life.

Another part of Christmas that I look forward to is partying and with that thought in mind, I'll also be showing you my favourite party season make-up, accessories and skincare to help get you through the festive season in style.

Finally, I'll also be throwing a couple of competitions into the mix, so don't forget to come back and check the site for those too!

*Mr Beauty Scoop insisted that I wrote this, instead of the more widely used word 'predicament' that I originally had typed out!