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Here comes another hotel review for all you keen travellers! This weekend we stayed at the Risley Hall Hotel & Spa as part of a Red Letter Days gift that we received for Christmas and the hotel was so pretty I thought I’d write a little review as it’s a great location for the East Midlands.
The hot weather and summer time usually always means switching up your skincare and beauty routine. It definitely does for me anyway, it’s time for less makeup, mattifying skincare and a lot of moisturisation without feeling weighed down and greasy.
I’ve been trying some exciting Clarins products recently and wanted to share what I thought about them. First up, I’ve recently finished a face scrub so the One-Step Gentle Exfoliating Cleanser is a welcome addition to my regime. This is a physical exfoliator which is a subtle amount of ‘scrubby’, it’s not too harsh, smells really good and is a great every-other-day cleanser. My skin feels super fresh after using this and it’s great for removing dead skin cells and a build up of sweat, suncream and other summer gunk build up!
I know, I know, peonies are such a blogger cliche but they’re just so beautiful, how can they not be Instagrammed within an inch of their pretty pink life? This gorgeous Peony Perfection bouquet from Blossoming Gifts is amazing and it arrived in great condition. Sometimes I think that flowers through the post can be risky and I’ve had bouquets in the past that have turned up a little bit bashed but Blossoming Gifts are always spot on as their packaging is super secure.
If you’ve been following me on Instagram you’ll know I’ve just come back from a week long Greek escape on the island of Corfu. Specifically, we stayed in Kassiopi, a tiny little harbour town on the East side of the island. We visited here last year and decided to venture back as it’s such a beautiful place and we wanted a surefire amazing holiday location.
What better way to spend Bank Holiday Monday than with your favourite people eating some awesome food? That’s exactly how we spent our bonus day off at Jamie’s Italian Nottingham! They have a crazy good value new Super Lunch offer on at the moment which is £10.95 for two courses or a ridiculous £12.95 for three courses. An absolute steal for some seriously tasty food.
You’ve heard of Birchbox and Glossybox, right? The monthly beauty subscription boxes that have inspired interior design subscription boxes, snack boxes such as Graze and even stationery (breathe!) monthly boxes. A monthly box is like Christmas every 4 weeks! You get a present, yeah, that you’ve bought yourself, but it’s still a surprise what’s in your box every time it pops through the letterbox.
Every few weeks it’s time for a little girl time. Sometimes we stay in and watch the Great British Bake-Off and eat cake, sometimes we get dressed up and have cocktails and sometimes we like to do something in between and eat some tasty food, drink wine and have a gossip in a relaxed setting. The latter was the theme for our most recent girl’s date night. We headed to Veeno on Friday night, situated at the top of Middle Pavement in Nottingham, a stones throw from our office for a little wine tasting.
The Sian Roll-Neck Jumper in Lime is the most recent addition to my (capsule, we’ll get on to this later) wardrobe and it’s definitely brightened up December for me! This super-soft oversized knit has been the answer to so many days where you either don’t know what to wear or the contents of you wardrobe doesn’t inspire you. The quality is fab so it feels really well-made and high end and so makes your outfit feel way more expensive than it is, even when you’re just in your favourite jeans and trainers like I was.
I’ve got some brand new additions to my make-up bag, these beautiful Clarins Joli Rouge Lipsticks are their latest drop of beauty goodness. Clarins have had a packaging revamp with these babies and I absolutely love it. I really like metallic packaging, it gives a really luxe and a tiny bit of a festive feel to the product.
Check out my latest beauty regime edition – this is a serious bit of kit. The Personal Microderm is, exactly as it says, a handheld personal microdermabrasion device. It comes with three different heads for your face as well as the ‘training’ head and three for your body (it’s great for dead skin on feet in need of a pedicure!).
