Bean's mum's blog

These have been delayed and I am sorry it is 2016 but here are the remaining advent calendar days.  

It has been a long and odd month and this month my boxes are a little out of order so although this was one of my first boxes to arrive it will be one of the last unboxed fr you. Lovelula is a box that concentrates on organic and natural brands and for me I always enjoy and look forward to this box. Although this months isn't amazing I have still enjoyed the products.

My March Souksouk box was collected from the post office today after a few issues with Royal Mail. I have seen other people's boxes and really looked forward to receiving it as it was mine kind of box as I like a good mix of my products and this one has a good mix.

I can't believe that January is almost already gone. Last year flew by and it looks like this will be the same if January is any indication. Sometimes I worry about that. My son is so little at the moment but he is growing ever so fast and every day he gets more language or learns new skill.  Anyway, off I drift off again. I apologise for lapses of attention but my momma head is on at the moment. It's January 2014 (wow 2014) empties. The first of my empties this month is a product the company has discontinued as it was limited edition and this has made me very sad. This is the Yves Rocher Collection cacao Cocoa & raspberry perfumed shower gel.  Both scents are equally represented, with the chocolate being a definite undertone to me. This makes me hungry for chocolate, potentially dangerous if, like me, you are trying to lose weight. I have been using this for Edward's baths and one of the best ways to get him into the bath, if he is be...

This is my January 2014 Youbeauty box and it arrived yesterday (09/01/2014) To say I was underwhelmed by this months choices would be an understatement. The choices this month were: Sanctuary Spa Active Reverse Body Resurface & Refine Ultra Polish Melvita Fresh Moisturizing Body Milk Ginvera Green Tea Exfoliating Marvel Gel The Organic Pharmacy Masks Thalgo Cocooning Cleansing Milk Goldwell Kerasilk Duo Essie Repstyle Magnetic Nail Polish. All of these were in small samples sizes except the nail varnish and I am hoping this doesn't mark a shift in a box that was mostly full sized until now. Additionally we got a 11g bag of popchips Barbecue Potato Chips and a sample of Green People Age Defy+ 24 hour brightening cream. The magazine this month (and the box) had a theme of Detox SOS. These are the contents of my box. I chose the Essie and the Goldwell Kerasilk Duo. This is the Essie Repstyle Nail Varnish I received. I tried it out last night and th...

On the fourteenth day of advent my Ciate calendar gave to me: A 5ml nail varnish in 'party shoes. This is opaque with gold and silver glitter in it and would be great over a coloured nail varnish to make it look extra special. On the fourteenth day of advent my youbeauty advent calendar gave to me: A Green People Organic Lifestyle Pencil Anti Age Eyeliner in City Grey. It contains Vitamin E, Shea butter and Jojoba oil and it has a soft nib and is blendable. I don't wear eye liner often but the application would be nicer than one with a harder nib in my opinion it would also be good for a smudgey smoky eye as it is blendable. The rrp of the product is £10.95 and it is 100% natural. I swatched this on my hand to show you the shade of it. It is black on initial application but smudges slightly to be a slightly more muted and less severe colour, showing shades of grey and brown within it.