Rose Gold Beauty Buys for Mother's Day

Mother's Day is this Sunday people! Are you prepared? I am definitely not. I am going to have to go shopping on Saturday but I'm feeling very uninspired! I did pop up a little gift guide last week so if you're struggling too, that might help you or continue reading here!

I personally don't think rose gold is going away anytime soon so I've put together a fab little gifr guide of rose gold or rose-themed beauties you could buy Mum (or yourself!)

Zoeva Powder Polish Brush (107) and Zoeva Cream Shader Brush (233)
Zoeva's rose gold make-up brushes are absolutely stunning. They're so soft and just super pretty, almost too pretty to mess them up with make-up if you ask me! They make really lovely gifts as they look much more expensive than they actually are! You could pick up a nice set or just pick and mix a few different ones to give your Mum.

Pixi Rose Oil Blend Face Oil
Pixi Beauty is a more recent discovery for me. I'm currently trialling some of its skincare, which also makes a lovely gift for your Mum, alongside this really lovely face oil. It contains sweet almond, rosehip, jojoba, pomegranate seed, and rose geranium oils that nourish the skin leaving it super soft and smooth. It comes in bottle form with a cap or you can use the pipette. It's paraben free and not tested animals!

Monu Rosewood Reviving Mist
Monu is another brand I'm loving at the moment and its reviving mist makes a lovely gift on its own or with a few other products. You could even put together a rose/rose gold themed gift box if you fancied! The mist is perfect for setting make-up or to just spritz all over as the lemon, rosewood, sandalwood and geranium essential oils will leave your skin feeling super refreshed in warm weather.

What do you think of these rose and rose gold-themed beauty ideas for Mother's Day? Will you be picking any up for your mum or for yourself? Let me know in the comments.

*This post contains PR samples.

Mother's Day Gift Guide

Last week I put together this gift guide but I have so many products that would make nice gifts that I thought I'd do another one - after all the more ideas you have for gifts the better right?

AEOS Optimal Essentials (Blue) Kit
This AEOS kit is a great little gift for any Mum wanting to take her skincare regime up a gear. I think a lot of Mums tend to find their skincare routine in their younger years and stick to it but it's always good to shake things up a bit. This handy little kit comes with 10 miniature products that are designed to introduce hydration and nourishment to the skin. It comes with 10 miniature products, which makes it the perfect kit for travelling with too. I'll be featuring a full review of it later on in the year!

DermaTx Microdermabrasion Tool
Continuing with the idea of shaking up her skincare regime, this Microderbabrasion Tool from DermaTx is another great gift for Mother's Day. We've all seen the popular cleansing brushes but this brush focuses more on exfoliating the skin to improve skin tone and texture and ultimately leave your Mum's face glowing! The microdermabrasion treatment exfoliates dead skin cells to help reduce the appearance of fines lines and wrinkles, open pores, pigmentation and acne scarring so is quite an investment gift but ultimately one that I think a lot of Mum's would appreciate.

There are three different systems to choose from, Brighten, which helps uneven skin tone, sun-damaged and ageing skin, Clarify, which is designed to tackle acne, oily skin and enlarged pores and Rejuvenate, which is designed for normal to sensitive skin.

At £70 this is quite a big spend but Mum is definitely worth it, right? I'll be reviewing this in full soon so please keep an eye out for it on the blog!

Argan Springs 100% Pure Organic Argan Oil
I promise I didn't mean for this gift guide to take a skincare theme! The Argan Spring Argan Oil is possibly a bit more of a purse-friendly gift at £12.99 and is a beautifully packaged, frosted glass bottle of pure Moroccan oil, which can be used on skin, hair, nails and face to target any conditions. The oil is packed full of unsaturated fatty acids and rich vitamins helping to boost cellular regeneration, it also has anti-inflammatory properties too. It's one of those products that all Mum's have, that they whip out when you have any kind of skin complaint. Great for rubbing into dry skin or just use a luxury oil for your face and body!

Aura-Soma Pegasus Perfumes
If you're mum is a fan of perfumes then the Aura-Soma Pegasus Perfumes make a great gift idea. I've featured samples in the photos above but the full size versions demonstrate the visual and non-visual energies of colour. The entire range is created with natural and organic essential oils extracted from plants and flowers and the alcohol, which carries the fragrance, is certified Organic by the Soil Association.

There is such a huge range of scents available and looking at the full size bottles, it's so hard to choose just one. They're all so eyecatching and fun and they make fab gifts as each colour bottle has it's own traits linked with it meaning you can select one that matches your Mum's personality. At £85 for a full size bottle this is another pricey one but it's a really interesting way to choose a perfume and I think it will really show that a lot of thought has gone into the selection.

Vichy Dermablend Corrective Foundation and Vichy Dermablend Setting Powder
Finally I have two make-up products that would make great gifts for Mother's Day. Vichy's Corrective Foundation targets uneven skin tone, dark circles, spots, scars, redness, which are common concerns that Mum's might be facing and wanting to tackle. You can also pair it with the setting powder to hold it in place longer. The powder comes with a really cute face puff that you can use to apply too. These are definitely more purse-friendly pressies that are perfect for Mums!

What are you buying your Mum for Mother's Day this year? Has this gift guide inspired you? Let me know in the comments.

*This post contains PR samples

Mother's Day Gift Guide

Ahh that time of year again...Mother's Day! I find Mother's Day one of the easier occasions to shop for mainly because Mum's are very appreciative of whatever you buy them, even when you're five years old and buy some dodgy looking plant. Speaking of Mother's Day has reminded me that I need to get my own mum a present. Usually I can't go wrong with a book, although I think I may have bought her one last year - eek! If you're struggling for gift ideas then hopefully this little guide will help!

As I mentioned, smellies and beauty products are my first port of call and being a beauty blogger, this should be pretty easy! L'Occitane have such a cute range of gifts that are perfect for Mother's Day. You can go big with a nice gift set collection such as the Cherry Blossom one I've chosen here or you can go a bit more purse friendly with a little hand cream/hand care Shea Butter tin. The illustrations on this one are really cute.

Another item that pretty much all mum's love is perfume. The YSL Black Opium perfume is really popular at the moment. I actually had a quick spritz of it while I was in Boots at the weekend and it is delicious. I'm contemplating spending my Boots points on a bottle as I've almost reached enough! The Dolce & Gabanna Dolce Rosa perfume is also another really nice, feminine scent and the bottle is gorgeous too, pretty ideal for Mother's Day.

I don't know about your mum but mine is a big fan of Yankee Candles. I am too, a bit of an addict actually...my lounge currently has 11 candles in it, which is just ridiculous I know. Anyway, these little tealights always make great gifts and there's so many scents to choose from too. You could always splash out on a bigger candle too if you know there's a scent your mum particularly likes.

Lastly I thought I'd throw a bag into the mix as I know my own mum has a huge handbag collection. I'm not sure she'd necessarily like this particular one but the idea of getting your mum a special handbag is really sweet I think. You can get some really affordable bags that look much more expensive than they are. If you wanted to spend a bit more you could even fill the bag with other little bits and pieces for mum too.

Has this gift guide inspired your Mother's Day gift buying? Let me know in the comments what you're buying your mum this Mother's Day.

*This post is written in collaboration with L'Occitane.

Make-up and Mum

Let me just start off by saying my mum is probably going to kill me for posting these pictures of her, haha!

I was recently contacted by Fragrance Direct and asked if I wanted to take part in its Mother's Day campaign and of course I said yes, so I spent the weekend rifling through family photos trying to find one of my mum and I together. The only ones are from when I was quite young as neither of us like having our photos taken, so please do enjoy my mum's perm and my pink t-shirt and yellow shorts, how stylish!

When it comes to all things beauty, makeup and skin related, none of us would be where we are today if it wasn't for our mums or other significant female role model in our lives. They're the ones that teach us where to put lipstick and that bright blue and pink eyeshadow isn't a good look after all. It's strange how we pick these things up. Obviously I don't really remember myself but I am already seeing my niece become interested in nail polish and makeup after she's been seeing my sister apply it. It's like she's a natural already, she knows what goes where but maybe she doesn't have the knack of applying it just yet!

When I was younger, as well as makeup, I did have a real interest in nail polish and dyeing my hair, so it was really handy that my mum was a hairdresser and would spend hours painting the stuff onto my head for me. I tried a range of colours including black, purple, red and pink tips! I used to see mum's hair colour charts and enjoyed playing with the little fake bits of coloured hair. Then I'd go with her to work at the hairdressing cash and carry and see all the different colours!

In my teens I was introduced to skincare and it was always mum who I'd ask about it. What sort of products should I use, how do I get rid of this huge spot and quickly?! These days she's a regular reader of my blog and has even got her hands on a few bits after I've reviewed them in the past. Her and my sister are always the ones to get first dibs on things when I have a clear out.

I kind of know what I'm doing when it comes to makeup and skincare now or so I like to think, although I could use a hand with hair dyeing at some point. What I'm trying to say is whether it's makeup and skincare advice or something a bit more serious, I still count on my mum for absolutely everything, despite being 26 and living in my own place.

Makeup/skincare and hair dye might be trivial things to some people but sharing something/an interest with your mum growing up and then into your twenties and beyond is great. It's important to have something to bond over and talk about so when special days such as Mother's Day come around you can really appreciate having your mum in your life. Mother's Day might be one of those holidays created by higher beings than us just to make money and I do believe that you should appreciate your mum all year round but it doesn't hurt to take one day out of the year to really treat her and show her how much you care!

What makeup tips and tricks did your mum teach you? Let me know in the comments.

*This post contains PR samples.

Mother's Day treat: Thierry Mugler Angel Eau de Parfum

When these two products dropped through my letter box (ok they didn't really as they're too big but I like the saying!) I instantly knew that one person in particular would be very jealous…my mum! Angel by Thierry Mugler* is one of her favourite scents to wear. It's one that she re-purchases every time and while I would like to keep it for myself, I can't help feeling that I smell like her everytime I spray it on myself. Not that that's a bad thing!

I have actually decided to give this to my mum instead of keeping it myself due to it being one of her faves and it being Mother's Day soon. I do think perfumes make such a lovely present for mum's as they're usually someone you know extremely well so know what sort of scents she likes if she hasn't already told you.

The Angel scent is a lovely blend of bergamot, sweet red fruits, vanilla, caramel and patchouli. It's got base notes of vanilla, chocolate and caramel so there's a very sweet/chocolatey twist and is great when you get a bit of a whiff of it on yourself a little later in the day after spritzing.

Usually when you get a fragrance set it comes with some kind of body lotion, that I never usually bother using but the Angel body lotion is an absolutely huge size and although it's a lotion, it still holds the trademark Angel scent really well, leaving you smelling great for absolutely hours.

I'd definitely recommend treating mum to the new Angel scent, you can't really go wrong with perfume. I expect my mum will be very happy to receive this one!

*This post contains PR samples.