My flower box : April edition

My little box UK

So its that part of the month where "My little box" arrives. I get very excited and always wonder what french influenced goodies will be inside. Its called My flower box, so the obvious influence of Spring and waving goodbye to winter for another year. 

About : My Little Box is a hand-picked and beautifully designed box of fashion, beauty and lifestyle surprises. With accessories, products and other goodies created exclusively for you and based around a different theme every month, each box promises to delight the lucky recipient.

Content's : 

- My beauty bag : L'occtaine : Cherry Blossom shower gel, Nail's Inc: Kensington Caviar base, Rosee du matin: Masque detoxifiant

- Flower magazine 

- Pop up garden

- Travel bag for lingerie 

My beauty bag 

L'occtaine: Cherry Blossom Shower gel

Our Cherry Blossom collection celebrates the poetic beauty of the cherry blossom, its delicate feminine flowers during the first days of spring. This shower gel gently cleanses the skin, leaving it delicately perfumed.

Nail's Inc: Kensington Caviar base 

Enriched with caviar extract to help nourish nails and provide a longer lasting manicure.

How to apply: Apply one coat of Base Coat of Kensington Caviar to clean dry nails. Apply 2 coats of your chosen nail polish shade. Finish with one coat of Top Coat with Kensington Caviar

(Top Tip : If you suffer from weak or peeling nails, the caviar extract will help provide nourishment.) 

Rosee du matin: Masque detoxifiant

Each Box includes a brand new product by My Little Beauty. Our in-house beauty range. In creating our collection of products, we've used the best formulas, 

the most sought-after scents and the most brilliant colours.

- Pop up garden

This little box contains a surprise and be it a lovely presentation, i think this would be more suited for mothers with children to do. 

As it open's up into a miniature setting with a spongey material and packet of cress seed's. The end look will be the cress looks like grass and the lady will be riding her bike through. I think il gift this to a mini my little box lover.

- Travel bag for lingerie 

This is beautiful and just scream's french chic. Travelling or going anywhere you need to keep clean away from dirty or delicate's, then this soft well made bag is just the item you need. I was using plastic bags for this when i went into hospital, so it will be nice to have this little added luxury to keep my clean away from my dirty item's. 

- Flower issue magazine 

As always the feature magazine from my little box. This has the spring theme for the flower edition. 

I have to say the packaging for this month is beautiful and unique to any beauty box ive seen. Its a flip open book and inside are your item's. It seem's such a shame to have such beautiful packaging and then be so disappointed with the content's.

Firstly the mini flip up book garden to grow cress, which maybe great for all those green fingered ladies. However its not something id use and i was very disappointed this was one of the item's. The lingerie bag is beautiful and I know I will get so much use out of this when im in hospital. Also at home it can be kept to keep my silk dressing gown in to protect from damage. So this is a great item I really love.

The beauty bag was good in one way that l'occtaine cherry blossom shower gel is my favourite product. I love to try new item's and brand's, yet its a quality brand so I shouldn't complain much. The  Nail's inc. polish a base coat that help's nourish. It's not a product I would use as i have a base and top coat already. The last item is from my little beauty's own brand of products. It is a facial exfoliating mask, something we seem to be getting alot of. The beauty bags seem to be following the same pattern, it would be nice to see more french brands plus makeup. Im not sure if its because ive been subscribed from the begining that I expect more, as Ive seen my little box at its best. Other then the boxes exterior, this month was not very wow for me. 

Nails Inc. - Breast cancer Polish in Pinky pink / Wear it Pink dayOctober 2013 !!

So as October has drawn in and quite to my surprise we all are on the topic of breast cancer awareness. Now having known and the most amazing figure of a woman to look up too in my life, whom has suffered from this deadly form of cancer. She never fails to inspire me to be as strong as she is and that's why I'm so passionate about raising awareness. 

So this month : 

wear it pink day 2013 will take place on Friday 25 October and registration is open !

Find out more and register on the wear it pink website. Whether you take part at work, at home or at school - we've got lots of ideas to make your day fun.When you take part in wear it pink, you join forces with scientists, researchers, supporters and people affected by breast cancer. Together, we can make real progress in research that saves lives. It's easy to join in, simply get together with your colleagues, friends and family, pull on something pink and raise money for breast cancer research. We believe everyone who joins the fight is a hero, from people affected by breast cancer, to our scientists and all our amazing fundraisers. In the last ten years, these people have raised more than £23 million to help save lives and you can join them by signing up to be a hero and wear pink to help us make this year's event the biggest and pinkest yet! Please check out the many ways you can get involved with wear it pink here.

Last year, hundreds of thousands of you got together, put on something pink and raised over £2.1 million to fund breast cancer research. But sadly, one in eight women will still be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. That’s why we need you and your colleagues to leap into action once again, wear pink and raise as much as possible to fund research that saves lives. October might seem a long way off but there’s one easy thing we’d really like you to do now. This year when you register, you’ll receive a personalised poster for your office and entry into a prize draw! Then in September we’ll then send you a fundraising pack full of ideas of how to have fun whilst raising money for breast cancer research. Together we are a force more powerful than breast cancer. 

- See more at: wear-it-pink#

So I was lucky enough to be given a chance to show you the Matthew Williamson contribution in collaboration with Nails inc.

I will of course be making a donation, as to mark my thanks and also so that I can contribute my portion.

Its a lushious pink sparkle that on one coat comes off as opaque as in the bottle, it dries fast and is no less a polish that nails inc. is known for. The quality is outstanding and also can be built up in layers if you want that bling bling but really two coats is all you will need.

It's fairly chip resistant and more has a new formula where it peels off then chips, as I found with glitters they can be a aweful time and as difficult to remove as acrylics at times.

This luckily when you remove just peels off in one and I will use my nail cream and then redo my nails. It's no major issue and ones of the most plesant glitters I have in my collection.

I commend nails inc. and Matthew Williamson for there amazing "pinky pink"

Colour which I will be sporting in the whole of October. So grab your pink and wear it proud.

The Breast Cancer website  

Nails inc. Website 

Glossybox - March 2013

So beauty box time and with the turning of the seasons we are all in waiting to the coming of our spring and summer looks and dust off these winter colours.

So city chic is the theme to this month box, so we have heavy duty products to get you from boardroom to barstool. Now as an extra to the city chic theme there is a cute little travelling book, which has a run- down of the most cosmopolitain of cities and a sheet of stickers.

So with the usual box in all its dusky pink loveliness, black packaging

The contents 

So the contents of the box 

• Elizabeth Arden - Eight hour skin protectant - 7ml sample size
• Nails inc - Bruton street - 4ml sample size 
• L'occitaine - Immortelle Precious cream - 15ml sample size 
• Jelly pong pong - Lip blush - Full size lip chubby
• Tresemme - Salon finish extra hold Hairspray - 100ml sample size 

So on first glance im really happy with this box, i love the Elizabeth arden and Loccitaine brands. The sample sizes are really generous and its all products i would use. So lets go through them one by one shall we.

Elizabeth Arden

So the Elizabeth Arden, 8hr fragrance free gel like balm. Its a lovely light translucent pink colour and rubs into the skin really well. Its been a beauty editors favourite for 7 years as says the information in the leaflet and you can see why. Its not harsh nor does it have a sticky feeling as you can get with some balms which can have a tendency to sit on the skin rather then absorb in so this was lovely and the 7ml size is enough so i can take it in my handbag to appointments. Good all round balm that can be used on the hands,lips and any dry patches. So really impressed.

Nails Inc

Nails inc in Bruton street is a really lovely colour i will defiantly use and its a lovely change to the winter reds that I've been using. Its like a dusky pink and the consistency is really easy to apply plus it also goes on really evenly. Dries quite quickly and the standard of Nails inc which I've always found to be really high, however i will not pay £11 for a nail polish so this mini sizes are perfect. Also the only thing i find a bit off about nails inc polish is its really potent smell of chemical. Now this doesn't last but paint your nails in a well ventilated room.

Jelly pong pong 

Now i know the jelly pong pong brand and have some of the range, i must admit i have a few lip chubby in red but im always on the look for quality lip products as with spring you want blush of colours and sometimes not a full lipstick coverage. Now there is one thing i have noticed with these chubbies on looking at a lot of reviews and thats the product can fall out and if the lid wasn't there i would loose it. So just be aware if you do have these that it could happen. It seems to happen when its colder and when it warms it doesn't happen so much. 

The pigment is really good on this lip blush, i literally used a little application then pursed my lips and let the product melt and spread before i touched up as with these its easy to apply more then needed. With reds if you apply a lot they can be hard to fix if applying to much as i would find that they stain. So that would be a tip to chubbies, little to stain then go back to touch up. Happy this is a full size product and its a twist up, so overall very impressed.

Tresemme

Tresemme is a brand i know well from salon collections to being available in all retailers of your essential products. Feels like a really full long lasting product and with it being a strong hold hairspray it will last me a long time as i don't use much hairspray on my hair. So to volumise it will be fabulous and i love the size of the bottle as i find the massive bottles so cumbersome, i have tiny hands and when i style my hair i like to have a hand free to position the hair where i want it. So I'm so glad this is a travel bottle. I look forward to using this product. 

L'occitane

The imortelle precious is a cream i have used before and i love the Loccitane range. The little glass 15ml sample is lovely and i find it rich and luxurious. Lightly fragranced and absorbs well into the skin, however the tip that is enclosed on the sheet is to cleanse and tone before using this cream.

So all in all i really love my glossybox, its full of brands i love plus will use. Generous sizes and well thought out. I will enjoy using all these products in my looks week plus my empties post as i can see these being included as must have favs, especially the Loccitane and Elizabeth Arden.

Did you get Glossybox this month ? What did yours include ?