Autumnal Favourites

Hello all.  I don't tend to do a favourites every month, but I've not done one for a while, so I thought I'd do my autumn favourites.   Autumn's probably my favourite time of year, and I love the pre-Christmas build-up.

First of all, Tiss Deep Off Oil cleanser by Shiseido.  This is a lovely cleanser that looks good, feels great on my skin and removes makeup.  As it's an oil-based cleanser, it is kind on the skin in the colder weather.  I'm going to do a proper review on this soon.

I found this little tube of No. 7 Revitalising Hand Saviour in my beauty stash and I'm so glad I did!  It's an amazing exfoliator for your hands with an oil base to it that leaves your hands feeling wonderfully soft and moisturised.  This is definitely a wonder product, and I'm also planning to do a review of this soon too.

I'm really loving Peace Be Still Face and Body Balm from Temple Spa at the moment.  I'm using it as a facial moisturiser, and I've already reviewed it here.

I got this full size Clinique Colour Surge eye shadow duo in Beach Plum as a gift with purchase earlier in October.  I have to say I'm loving it more than the duo I'd actually paid for.   It has a lovely sandy shadow colour and a plummy purple crease and contour colour.  It's perfect for the outfits I'm wearing at the moment and has made me remember how much I love Clinique eye shadows.  This might be heresy to some, but I find them better than Mac and almost as good as Urban Decay.  I will do an EOTD with this soon.

I really love this Neals Yard Orange and Geranium shower gel.  I'm not a massive fan of either fragrance, but together they work really well.  This has a lovely, warming smell and is a great shower gel which foams up well.  Also, a little goes a long way - I've been using it for more than a month and I'm only just running out.  It's kind on my skin as well, not stripping it.  This is definitely a favourite.

Finally, Sexy Mother Pucker from Soap & Glory.  I'm not actually sure if I really like this or not, or whether I'm just addicted to it!  It's supposed to make your lips look bigger and poutier, but I'm not convinced about this.  But, it makes your lips fizzle and tingle about 10 minutes after you apply it, and I'm addicted to this feeling!  I don't think it's doing my lips any good in the cold weather, but I can't stop using it!

Anyway, that's my current autumnal favourites.  Thanks for reading! xx

Reminder of my 100 Followers Giveaway - Ending Soon

Hi - just a little reminder that my 100 followers giveaway ends tomorrow night at midnight.  You can enter it here.  Hurry for your chance to win!

Thanks for reading! xx

CLOSED! 100 Follower Giveaway - Nails Inc, Marvala Elle, Soap and Glory, No. 7, NYC

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

Hello peeps!  I have noticed that I now have over 100 followers to my blog!  That's amazing, as I haven't been blogging for very long, so thank you to everyone who reads my blog!

As a little thank you to my followers, I thought I'd have a little giveaway.  I'm pretty skint at the moment, so it's not the most amazing giveaway, more of a token of my appreciation.

Anyway, here are the goodies!

Nails Inc polish in Duke Street

NYC Perfect and Reflect Concealer Palette

Sexy Mother Pucker lip gloss by Soap & Glory

The Essentials Palette by No. 7

And Marvala Nail Polish in Elle (I forgot I had picked up two of these!)

So how do you enter?  Well, firstly, you MUST be a follower.  New followers are of course always welcome, but not if you've only set up an account to enter giveaways.  Then leave me a comment saying 'enter me'.  Please either make sure you leave your email address, or have it easy to find on your blog so that I can contact you if you win.

You can have a second entry by tweeting about my giveaway, making sure you mention @bristolbeauty in your tweet.

The giveaway closes at Midnight on Saturday 23rd October, afterwhich I will pick a winner at random using Random.org.

That's it!  Thank you very much followers!  Mwahhh! xxx

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED 

Elle 25 Year Anniversary Event at Harvey Nichols, Bristol (and haul)

Hello lovelies!  I thought I'd tell you about an event I went to on Tuesday evening at Harvey Nichols in Bristol.  It was an Elle beauty event to celebrate their 25th anniversary.  I paid £15 for the evening, with the promise of demonstrations, goodie bags, cocktails and canapes and the Elle beauty team on hand.  The ticket price was redeemable off the price of purchases.

I'd never been to an event like this before, but from reading other people's blog posts about the previous Elle events in Harvey Nichols in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Edinburgh, I was quite excited.  It's a shame that I left disappointed.  Yes there were cocktails and canapes, but as I'm on a weight loss challenge at the moment I had to stick to a glass of OJ and resist the canapes.  But where were the demonstrations?  I was there for almost 2 out of the 3 hours and in that time there was just one proper demonstration, a makeover by Shu Uemura.  All the counters were offering make-overs, but as I hate other people doing my makeup, I decided to resist.  I did have a hand and arm massage from Jo Malone which was really lovely and has made me really want the orange blossom scent from the range.  But other than that, there was little else going on.  At the Nails Inc counter, you still had to pay for a manicure; I would've thought for a special event like this they would have been free.

If you've ever been to Harvey Nicks in Bristol, you'll know that it is very small.  There isn't a huge number of beauty counters, so it was actually quite difficult to spend two hours looking at all the products, even for a beauty addict like me!  Some of the counters had loads of extra staff who weren't doing a lot, whereas others had only one member of staff who was busy and harried (Chanel).

I eventually couldn't resist the hard sell any longer, and got out my credit card (I know I'm supposed to be on a spending diet...).  I bought 3 Nails Inc polishes for £20, but got £15 off from my ticket price.  I then spotted a little shelf of Butter London polishes.  I'd not seen these in the flesh before, but I'd been craving All Hail McQueen, so I bought that for £10.  I also bought two tubes of Sexy Mother Pucker lip gloss from Soap & Glory.  I then decided to buy Chanel Intimitable Intense Mascara... Whoops!

What I was sorely disappointed in was the lack of swag.  I entered a Laura Mercier competition, but other than that, there were no freebies at all.  Where was the promised goodie bag??!!  That's half the reason for going!  There also didn't seem to be any Elle staff on hand, or if there were, they didn't identify themselves.  When I bought my Chanel mascara, the Chanel lady was busy carrying out another make-over, so a different member of Harvey Nicks staff served me.  She asked me if I wanted a bag for my mascara - come on, it's Chanel!  Of course I want a bag for that!!!  She also didn't give me any free samples.  I'd seen the proper Chanel lady filling up her customers bags with freebies!  So I left with nothing that I hadn't paid for.  It was a poor show from both Harvey Nicks and Elle.

Anyway, after my rant, here's my haul:

Nails Inc polish in St John's Wood

Nails Inc polish in Neal Street

Nails Inc polish in Duke Street

Butter London polish in All Hail McQueen

Sexy Mother Pucker by Soap and Glory

Inimitable Intense Mascara by Chanel.

By the way, one of the Nails Inc polishes (Duke Street) and one of the Soap & Glory glosses will be part of a forthcoming 100 followers giveaway I have planned.

Thanks for reading! xx