Absolutely loving ...

... this high Fragrance Low Price candle. Hands up if you have been disappointed many times before with candles which smells nice, but don't smell strong enough and which end up being more of a decorative lighting rather a room fragrance. Is the price of a candle relative to its fragrance strength? How much do you need to spend to have a decently fragranced candle? I don't know but I'm dying to show you a candle I’ve found ... from Sainsbury's from all places.



Sainsbury's doesn't call it a candle. For them, it's a 'spa wax filled jar' but for me it's a candle which finally smells strong enough and which I don't need to burn for hours on end to leave the room with fragrance.


Obviously, the coconut nutty that I am had to to get the coconut one.
The best thing about it is its price. It retails at £5, but at the moment, the whole range is at half price.








I am so crazy about coconut that I am a bit narrow minded and can't even imagine why anyone wouldn't like coconut. But fear not, if you wanted to make the most of the half price offer and discover the high fragrance range in the process, they also do it in mango and in dark vanilla.







I don't think that a screw lid top jar makes the candle look very luxurious and next time, I'll probably buy a pillar one but I must admit that the jar one is very handy to tuck away when the candle is not in use. I am in love





What: High Fragrance ‘TU’ Spa Wax Filled Jars (candles)
How much: RRP: £5.00. On special offer at £2.50
Where: Sainsbury's Supermarkets nationwide


p.s oh and if you’re a fan of tea lights, they have the ‘waterlily’ candle holder also on offer at the moment and you can get it for just a quid! This would make a great Christmas stocker. What? You gotta buy things when you see them :)

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Absolutely loving ... Wella High Hair 'Leave it Long'

Once upon a time, I chucked a mini sample of a hair product, along with other bits and bobs, in a parcel to my lovely American friend, Ashleigh. Ashleigh and I met on youtube. She is incredibly talented in makeup, make easy to follow make up tutorials on YouTube and puts my writing to shame on her blog. Coming back to this sample, little that I knew, when sending her this sample that she was going to be going obsessed with it, and become restless until she gets her hands on a full size product.

Here’s what she had to say about it:





Hey guys!  It’s Ashleigh (otherwise known as AdmiralKathryn on both twitter and YouTube!)…and as BestBrushForward here on Blogspot!

I’m so excited to be invited by one of my dear friends Liloo to do a guest post in her petit jardin and about a product that she inadvertently hooked me on.

I had been sent a package of goodies from Liloo (we had been trading and sending back and forth for a while at this point) and as a bonus she had tucked in the cutest little sample of a hair product that I had never heard of!

What is this product? Get on with it! Enough rambling!!!!  I can hear you all now! Haha.  The product I’m talking about is Wella Professional High Hair Leave It Long Cream.





Now here’s my luck – it’s a product I’ve never been able to find since receiving it.  This would be because...it's not available in the US.  So with it not being available here, I’ve had to do a lot of digging around to find any information about this cream as the sample size doesn’t really have any information of the product on it…here’s what I’ve found:

Wella High Hair Leave It Long is a weightless, natural control cream especially for longer hair.  This lightweight cream creates a beautiful, smooth groomed look with moveable, light hold and a non sticky feel. Hair is soft, natural looking and flowing even the day after washing. Enriched with pro-vitamin B5 and UV filters it also works to fortify and protect hair.

This cream is a dream for my hair!  It is extremely lightweight (feels almost watery when I emulsify it in my palms) and I scrunch it into my damp hair to activate my curls.  Due to the lightweight hold, they stay all day and I don’t need to use any extra hairspray (BONUS! as a little backstory, I absolutely despise most styling products – mostly due to my history with theater and performing)

I have medium length, thin (but ample) hair that frizzes at the slightest notice and it’s very picky about what goes into it – this cream leaves it soft and silky with a natural bounce and here’s my favorite part – the next day it’s not disgusting so I don’t have to wash my hair every day!  I mist with a little water to take some of the flyaways down and let it go!




(this photo is of my hair 2nd day with the Wella cream – you can see that it still looks nice and fresh and not like second day hair normally can look with my particular hair type...which is scary if you're not aware haha.)

I like that it has pro-vitamin B5 in it, which means that it doesn’t leave hair crispy (B5 is an ingredient that you may be familiar with in your mascaras nowadays…it can be on the ingredients list as Panthenol and it’s a conditioner – no crunchy hair and no crunchy lashes!) and it helps to repair damage leaving your hair shiny and manageable. (If you're a science nerd like myself, here's the link to the wikipedia article about Panthenol)  Having the UV filters are also a plus because the sun won’t bleach out your color…so I love it for it’s protective nature as well.

Do any of you UK readers use this product?  What do you think of it?!  What is your favorite product for your hair (and if you tell us, tell us your hair type too!)

Bisous!
Ashleigh



Product:  Wella High Hair Leave It Long Cream, 100ml
Availability:  Amazon.co.uk is where I finally found it
Price: £6.00

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Guest Bloggers Wanted: Mascara Special

Being a massive fan of false lashes and trying to avoid mascara when I wear falsies, I have accumulated a fair amount of new mascaras which I have not been using. This is a waste, when one of you my readers could try if for free. I have 6 brand new mascaras, never been opened, never been swatched/tried and I am looking for 3 beauty bloggers who would be happy to try them for free, in exchange of a guest blog post on my blog.  Anybody can put themselves forward (it doesn't matter where in the world you live) all you need is to have a blog, and to be happy to write a guest blog post to appear on my blog.


Interested? I am looking for 3 bloggers and each blogger will be sent 2 mascaras. Let me know which ones you would prefer to try, or which ones you have already tried and not interested in. I will be closing this post on Thursday so if you could let me know by Wednesday, 14 March, midnight, that's would be awesome possum :)


The mascaras are:







1. VaVaVoom (Boots 17 Cosmetics)
2. Volume Million Lashes Luminizer for Hazel Eyes (L'Oreal)
3. Lash-Fx (BeautyUK)
4. Exceptional Definition (Boots no.7)
5. Lash Mania (Essence)
6. Wild Curls (Boots 17 Cosmetics)


So, if you are interested, let me know, in the comments below,
by Wednesday, 14 March, 2012 23:59 GMT:

- Your name
- The name and address of your blog
- Email address
- Your country
- The 2 mascaras of your choice, or the ones you've already tried and don't need
- Link to a mascara review you've already done (totally optional)

   
I am looking for a honest review. I am not representing any brand and not affiliated with any of the brands, so if the mascaras is doing anything for your lashes, then you must feel free to say so, ok? The mascaras have either been bought by myself, won at giveaways, or gifted.


Yay

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