BEAUTY: Vanilla BodyShop collection

Hey, how was your week? Mine was good, thanks for mentally asking! Today i will be writing a blog post on the body shops vanilla collection. Now i will have to admit first that i did not purchase this myself, it was a gift, for my birthday. And a mighty fine gift it was! I adore it; i had to snap pictures before it had all disappeared. The collection consists of a shower gel, a Body polish, a Body butter and a soap and i love them all dearly.

The body wash looks wet in the photos, its not i promise. As i said before, I really love this set i think its such a lovely sent and it very calming and not too strong(I cant stand too strong sweet sents) they have it perfect.
Im not really one for going into the body shop usually but have actually seen lots of blog posts on several different blogs that i follow and so think i will be going in the soon to see if i can find some goodies to give as presents to people. My brother is on my list. So if anyone has any recommendations for a good product they sell please comment or DM me on twitter or instagram, links are in the sidebar.
Have a lovely week! Cheerio
Bella xxx

LIFESTYLE: Teenage Girls Gift Guide

I'm very happy to say that this blog post will be entirely dedicated to 'teenage girls stocking stuffers' something I know a lot about. I've put together a list of things you could get your daughter, sister, probably not you mum, grandchild or friend to make their Christmas special.

So without further ado lets get shopping(or reading).

1. Chocolates, this present is probably the most versatile gift you could possibly give someone. Big it's always nice to unwrap a big box of chocolates. Maybe get a slightly more expensive brand of chocolates for the older generation and save the £2 chocolate boxes for your siblings or children in your life. Hotel chocolat has some cool things on offer this year.
ON MY LIST:Hotel chocolat chocolates

2. Something for pamper time, this is a very obvious one, especially for teenage girls. If you know the person you buying for likes a nice bath, you need to make your way to lush or the bodyshop.
ON MY LIST: Zoellas fizz bar on my list along side a big long list of lush products.

3. Beauty related; Something high end, it so nice to unwrap a Chanel or Bobbi brown little box on Christmas day *secretly praying for the bobbi brown warm glow eye palette*. Treat them, buy something they might not be wanting to spend their pay day money on but you know secretly want.
ON MY LIST:Too many...

4. Underwear; You may think this is weird to buy pants but they are very useful and helpful in today's world(strange i know) and something that you don't actually want to spend your money on through out the year(think of all those galaxy bars you'd rather have instead). Personally Pants is a good gift.
ON MY LIST:Jack wills Hartford boy pants

5. A book, something educational under the tree. Well that is if you count reading about fashion and Alexa Chungs biography as education... I've wanted to read it by alexa Chung for so long now and it is not making its way off my Christmas list!!
ON MY LIST: It by Alexa Chung

6. A nice perfume; And last but certainly not least is a perfume, I've opted for Chanel because it's every girls dream, but of course swap it for a fragrance that your Customer would like. I actually don't want to the one shown in the image, I like the Coco noir.
ON MY LIST:Chanel Coco Noir spray 50ml

Now you've spent all this money on your gifts you need to get some bloody awesome gift wrap just to live up to the presents inside. My favourite place to buy gift wrap is definitely paper chase. It's got
everything you need to make your gifts look absolutely fabulous underneath the tree.
Christmas pudding present toppers// Metallic raffia- Gold, White and Silver// Silver craft wrapping paper // Wild stags wrapping paper //Multicoloured sequins //

BEAUTY: Lush haul

 Oops i did it again, i went into lush, got lost with the sent. Wow, i can be the new brittany. Hello all, how has your week been. My week so far has been lovely, went to lush which made it 10x better than an average week.
This post, i'd like to think is quite self explanatory? So there will not be much writing involved... All products will be linked at the end. If you do want me too review one of the products please comment which one you'd like to see.

Agnes approved of candy mountain.

Snow Fairy body wash
Butter Bear Bath bomb
Candy Mountain Bubble Bar
Lush Charity Pot 
Tea-Tree Toner Tab

LIFESTYLE: Holly jolly Christmas TAG

December December December where have you been all year?I've decided as tomorrow is the first of December to do the holly jolly Christmas Tag because I thourght it would be fun and funny...
Holly Jolly Holiday Tag Questions:
-Favorite Christmas movie? If I was to say elf I would just be a cliche so Im going to have to go for either family stone or home alone 1 because the are very good. Family stone has a great cast and an amazing story line, defiantly watch it if you haven't!! Home alone i don't really think needs a lot of explaining. Macaulay Culkin fits the bill very well.

-Are you on the Naughty list or the Nice list? I wouldn't be the one to awnser this one but I guess the naughty, oops.

-Have you ever had a White Christmas? Yes a few, we've had more white Christmas eves which have been very fun, once me and my brother went out in our pjs to have a snowball fight because we where just so excited that it's was snowing, normal children.

-Where do you usually spend your holiday? At home, we usually will go out to relatives for new year.

-Play or sing your favorite Christmas song! You want me too pick one, I have a 100 song playlist on spotify and I can only pick one? Well my fave Christmas song would then have too be, baby it's cold outside, the original. Or driving home for Christmas by Chris Rhea.

-Do you open any presents on Christmas Eve? Yes we get to open one present that we pick. Lots of people open pjs on christmas eve but we just chose a present to open, like a lucky dip...

-Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? 
Without googles help(I'm going to fail): rudolf, dasher, dancer, prancer, blixon, is there one called comet? Cupid and I think there's donner... silently singing the song.

-What holiday tradition are you looking forward to most this year? Making new ones, we don't really have any.

-Is your Christmas tree real or fake? Real, of course, they just smell so so good!!!

-Hands down, what's your all-time favorite holiday food and holiday sweet treat? Hands down it's has to be candy canes. Snuggling on the sofa watching a Christmas movie whilst holding the guineas and drinking a hot chocolate using the candy cane as a soon. That Is winter in a nutshell. 

-Be honest: do you like giving gifts or receiving gifts better? Both, I love planning the gifts I will be giving and doing late night Christmas shopping and I love to wrap the gifts. I think I should work at Lapland gift wrapping all the toys...

-What would be your dream place to visit for the holiday season? New yoooooork!! Do I need to say anymore!?

-Does your family have a special holiday recipe you like to help make? My mum makes a pretty good Yorkshire puddin'. They blow up like balloons in the oven and go a little crazy. 

-Are you a pro-present wrapper, or do you fail miserably? I love gift wrapping but I do have to pace myself because I will get frustrated that the paper won't go the way I intended it to go.

-Most memorable Holiday moment? Has to be when I was about 5 or 6 and I got a white Nintendo ds for Christmas, I was over the moon with this present, litterally the best thing ever. I loved mario cart so much that I didn't look where I was walking and walked strait into the kitchen cupboards, still remember thy moment to this day.

-What made you realize the truth about Santa? My silly brother told me one day.

-Do you make New Years resolutions? Do you stick to them? I do make them but there usually broken within the first week of January.

-What makes the Holidays special for you? The atmosphere of it all, the jollyness of everyone and how joyful people get. And the presents, well there just an extra layer of happiness for everyone.

Have a nice week, cheerio
Bella xxx