Bean's mum's blog

It's the fifth of December today and I am seriously wondering where the time is going in the last few years. My baby boy is three now and for me it was only just last Christmas. Christmas feels too soon but I suppose at least Christmas means advent calendars and today I am really happy about that as today's products are amazing.

Birchbox have really been on the ball the last few months and I was worried that my box this month wouldn't be good to balance these boxes out but how wrong was I. This is my June box and I am in a love affair with Birchbox following this box.

This is the newest collection from the company Latest in Beauty and it contains only Caudalie Paris products as well as a beautiful pink stocking. It can be found  here  and is really great value in my opinion. Since receiving my hand cream in my advent calendar here  I have been curious about the brand as the hand cream was great and was really moisturing. So what did I get for my £8.95 plus p & p. The pink stocking is really great as a freebie and will contains my products nicely and it is really pretty and has a little pink hoop to hang it next to the latest in beauty logo. Such a special touch. So what was in my stocking and what is the approx. value of these samples? 14ml of the Nourishing Body Lotion (2 sachets). Sample worth about £1.06. 14ml of the Vine Body Butter (2 sachets). Sample worth about £1.40. 3ml of the Divine Oil. Sample worth about £1.08. 10ml of Vinoperfect Radiance Serum. This is worth about £15. 2ml of Premier Cru The Cr...

On the second day of advent Ciate gave to me: A  Ciate 5ml nail varnish in Boudoir. This colour is a dark red colour and would be a nice classic colour to wear. Sadly as my nail wraps are holding up well I can't show you how the colour looks on but on my toe it looks really good. On the second day of Advent my youbeautydiscovery box gave to me: A 30ml Caudalie Paris Feuille De Cassis Hand and Nail cream. This is a blackcurrent leaf hand and nail cream. These creams are a limited edition item and the cream really sinks into the skin and has a lovely texture on my skin and I particularly look forward to trying it on my nails as they are quite brittle and are breaking a lot after a long history of nail biting. I will report back if this is a good product. You can buy this product at feelunique.com for £6 for 30ml.