Crabtree & Evelyn

Whether you have been preparing the garden for spring or simply admiring flowers in bloom, our Gardeners collection will help restore, soothe and protect your hands. Blended with natural ingredients and botanical extracts inspired by an English herb garden, our hand therapy, soap, body butter and more, are fragranced with notes of rosemary, lavender, sage, thyme and oak moss.

Spring has officially sprung! To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Crabtree & Evelyn’s cult classic Gardeners range, we’ve partnered with London-based designer Cleo Ferin Mercury, who’s playful updates on the traditional caught our eye. Our Gardeners range is inspired by an English herb garden – it’s eclectic and unique. Cleo’s take on our iconic signature range is quirky and modern whilst still giving attention to detail, quality and heritage – all the things we treasure. 

Gardeners Exfoliating Soap

Our Gardeners Exfoliating Soap is a triple milled pumice soap, which cleans and gently exfoliates over-worked hands. A parcel of garden goodness awaits you upon unwrapping this gentle buffing bar, enriched with conditioning herbal extracts. Formulated with ultra-fine pumice, this soap bar cleans and gently exfoliates overworked hands while the herbal extracts leave hands infused with vibrant, horticultural notes of fresh rosemary, sage and thyme. Skin is left soothed and moisturised.

• Exfoliating with ultra fine pumice
• Triple milled soap
• Skin is left feeling nourished

Gently lather onto wet skin and rinse thoroughly.

Fragrance: Fresh Green Clover, Lavender, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme

The exfoliating soap is perfect for these hot sticky nights, when used in the morning it gently infuses your skin with a fresh scent. It exfoliates the dead skin and the clammy clogged pore feeling you have during humid nights. I felt so fresh after my showers with this soap plus the scent revitalises the senses for the day. Its calming when Ive used the soap in the evening. Beautifully presented and amazing soap for anyone wanting that extra clean feeling especially if you have dry areas of skin.

Gardeners All purpose Balm

Our Gardeners All-Purpose Balm is a rich formula of beeswax and shea butter, for chapped and dehydrated skin. Soothe outdoor roughened or weathered skin with this botanical infused balm. Fresh from the garden, herbaceous and botanical notes of clover leaf, eucalyptus and rosemary lift the senses.

• Rich formula of beeswax and shea butter
• Perfect to soothe dry hands
• Uplifting aromas from fresh herbs

Apply to rough or dry areas and massage.

Fragrance: Fresh Green Clover, Lavender, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme

The gardeners balm is a multipurpose light almost wax textured balm. It reacts to body heat and can be used for any dry areas of skin, that need an on the go travel friendly remedy. The scent is again a fresh mixture of the garden in summer. If you enjoy the scent then it can be used as a solid fragrance for your handbag. Im not usually a fan of solid balms but this little tin became a useful handbag must have item for me. 

Gardeners Hand cream

After a long day of handling thorny situations, our Gardeners Hand Therapy is just the help you need. Containing a blend of nutrient-rich shea butter, moisturising glyercin, deodorising clover and soothing bisabolol from camomile our hand therapy will help nourish and condition work-roughened hands. Combine the Hand Therapy with our Conditioning Hand Wash and Exfoliating Hand Scrub for the complete 3 steps to beautifully silky soft hands.

• Shea butter rich formula
• Soothes
• Conditions
• Restores softness
• New durable polylaminate tube

Fragrance: Fresh green clover, lavender, sage, rosemary and thyme.

Shop more Hand Cream and discover more from our Gardeners collection.

The gardeners hand therapy cream is rich yet light on application. A radiant scent as the cream is rubbed into your warm hands. Again this cream is a handbag travel friendly size. The cream leaves your skin feeling hydrated and soft. If you have sore hands with dry area's, then this hand therapy will soothe.

It is an essential for for your everyday handbag must have's, as i love how soft my hands feel and smell so fresh. 

Also anyone whom has hands that need added moisture, especially if your constantly washing them then this is a saviour. 

The new gardening collection is a beautiful set of products. They are fresh and radiate the incoming scent of summer. 

I love this set as they tackle everything for all skin types, plus being made from natural ingredients the quality is outstanding. I must confess I'm not a floral type of girl and stick to mostly fruity or sweet scents. I however think the gardeners range reminds me of opening my window at the start of summer's day and smelling nature in full bloom. It could be freshly cut blooms and grass all mixed in with the dawn fresh scent together. Is the best way I can describe this collection. 

MAC - Brooke Candy collection

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I admit I dont know much about Brooke candy, other then this her second MAC collection. I loved the gothic colour and packaging when I saw the pre-release and knew it had to make my collection. 

About : 

Fiercely independent digital sensation Brooke Candy returns to M·A·C with her feisty colour collection uniting the past, present and future of her creative spirit. Shades for eyes, lips and nails dare you to stand up and stand out. Bold, brave, unusual, unstoppable.

- Lipstick - Witching hour

Four hues of Lipstick make a boldly confident statement – two, Mind Control and Witching Hour, return for an encore performance. Formulated to shade, define and showcase the lips. Unique chrome packaging featuring a graphic black splatter with Brooke Candy’s signature.

* Amplified: cream finish

* Apply directly to lips.

This heavy darkened mix of purple and black with that beautiful sheen and cream finish, well it just called to me. I love unique bold colours, this is something I love to set my looks alive. I will either have a bold lip or bold eye's, this lipstick is for that neutral natural day to bring some life to it. It's creamy, applied like a dream with maximum opaqueness. Definitely lined with a clear wax pencil to keep sharp the definition, I must admit its really a unique shade. Perfect for a dark and light ombre lip if you need dark colours to work with.

- Bronzing powder - Golden 

A subtly tinted powder that gives skin sheer colour and highlights. Perfect for enhancing skin tone for a natural, sun-kissed look or accentuating a tan. Formulated to provide smooth, even application on all skin types. Unique chrome packaging featuring a graphic black splatter with Brooke Candy’s signature.

* Contains light-reflecting bronzing pigments

* Provides a natural, sun-kissed look

* For a wide variety of skin tones

* Dermatologist tested

* Ophthalmologist tested

* Non-acnegenic

* Apply to face using a brush as desired.

Golden is one of those shade's that always gets repromoted over and over again. Its amazing for me as im so pale, however I do feel that they need to expand to cater for all skin tones. This was the only compact available in Brooke candy collection. 

I do feel they could have made a beautiful deep rich purple powder blush or a duo powder with something rich to cater for the palest of us and women of colour. Im saying that I must admit the quality is so good, I'm so tempted to purchase the lipgloss as its beautiful (I never reach for gloss) and unique. 

I definitely will be purchasing the lip pencil and may obtain the gloss also. So if you love the compact and dont have golden, then its perfect for a light and not to heavy bronzer. Witching hour is unique and im so happy I was able to snap it up. I will have a look via my Instagram, showing off "witching hour" and also how subtle "Golden" as a bronzer is. 

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MAC - Philip Treacy collection

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This has been the long awaited collection i've been waiting for. The powder's are visually stunning and unique. Another beautiful collaboration. 

They say : 

M∙A∙C Philip Treacy represents a unique partnership – London’s leading couture hat designer collaborating with the world’s boldest makeup brand. Going back through his extraordinary career, Treacy culled inspiration from his work to create a trio of sensational headpieces that showcase the structure of the face. Paired with each hat, a collection of products that enhances the face’s most evocative features.

So the two highlight powder's i picked are a true work of art. The shade's of peach and pink, then the silver overspray. Now im not a big fan of overspray, as i'd love too see the pattern all the way through. It was like some other powder's i have and they just are too beautiful. 

Blush pink highligher 

Nude pink & Blush pink 

High-Light Powder dusts the face in luminous champagne and light pink, each infused with a shimmer of silver that impart a subtle glow. Features an extremely blendable and velvety texture with a sheer finish.

Blush pink is a lovely pink with relfects of lilac almost running through it. The colour is amazing and the formula is very buttery, so it can leave give a powdery apperence. However using a soft brush with a light touch can help application. I really like this shade and it really is a work of art highlighter. 

Nude pink highlighter

Nude pink is a more golden shade with a rosey hint to it. Beautiful for the up coming summer period. Too add when you cheeks are rosey, plus your skin is most radiant. This highlight will give a warmth and highlight to those bronze tones we love to have in the summer. Again the same buttery formula. 

Beautiful collection and although they are not heavily pigmented. They give the right amount of payoff, plus colour for the lighter months of the year. The design is stunning, I openly admit I am a sucker for unique compacts too add to my collection.  

MAC - Julia Petit collection

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This collection is limited edition. Inspired from the well known beauty blogger and tv personality Julia petit. It was a small collection and i bought only 2 lipstick's from it. I did want to purchase the blush but it was sold out. The lipstick's are unique, one shade is not a colour i would usually go for. 

Julia's blog link http://www.juliapetit.com/home/

They say :

Whether fearless and exotic or classically demure. Julia Petit’s brazen approach to style and makeup artistry, has transformed her into one of South America’s most revered lifestyle bloggers and a cult beauty icon. In her  MAC collaboration she brings the alluring women, a fantastical urban landscape of São Paulo to life with sizzling sun-kissed hues.

So the lipstick's i picked are called Boca and Aqai. Below are swatches and also me wearing Boca, which has become a firm favourite. 

The packaging is the glossy black bullet with the MAC logo, then Julia's name is in gold with her signature. The less is more on a packaging i feel is best and it looks more classy. 

Lipstick's in Boca and Aqai

Lipstick : Lips go from day to night and matte to satin in three modern hues. Formulated to shade, define and showcase the lips. The iconic product that made M?A?C famous. Glossy black packaging with Julia Petit’s signature in copper.

Swatches 

So above are the swatches for Boca and Acai. Boca is a nude shade, that is on the light pink/coral side. It can look darker in the bullet but when applied its alot more wearable. Acai is a lipstick alot of people shy from, as it is a rich bright berry shade. It tend's to be a shade mostly seen, also used more in the autumn/winter. I find this colour will be a vibrant summer colour shade, I will love to show off. 

Wearing the shade Boca

So above i am wearing the shade "Boca". As you can see its a lovely pink nude shade on my lips. I love this shade as i can never find a nude that i like or suit's me. Its creamy on my lips and last's a long time before needing reapplication. Im so impressed and cant wait to wear Acai and see how that shade looks.