Dove Shea Butter Indulgence Christmas Gift Set

I have really dry skin so moisturiser is the one product I can never do without! The one brand that I always go back to is Dove. Their products are all always so moisturising, smell luscious and never let me down. So today I'm reviewing Dove's Shea Butter Indulgence Christmas Gift Set.

This gift set comes with three products all inside a gorgeous white washbag. The bag itself is really pretty and elegant. The outside of the bag is made of a quilted faux leather type of fabric which is soft to touch. Inside the bag splits into two compartments on either side with sturdy see through white mesh and zippers to keep everything secure. The bag feels lovely and soft and looks chic too.I will definitely use for weekends away!

Inside you will find these lovely treats from Dove's Shea Butter Indulgence range

Indulgent Nourishment Lotion 250ml
Indulgent Nourishment Hand Lotion 75ml
Purely Pampering Nourishing Body Wash 250ml

As soon as I opened the bag I was hit with that gorgeously rich cocoa chocolately scent of the Shea butter! It's so heavenly...especially for someone with a sweet tooth like me! lol

The body lotion has a slightly lighter texture to the hand lotion as you would expect, both absorb into the skin  quickly without it being oily or greasy but giving me a nice sheen. They both leave my skin feeling really soft, supple and hydrated and the divine scent lingers for hours too :-)

The body wash is also soo lovely! I actually have a little soft spot for Dove body washes...because my skin is so dry I always try to give it as much moisture as possible and I've found Dove body washes to be really creamy and hydrating. I absolutely love those new Go Fresh frangances they introduced last year especially the Plum and Sakura (omg it gorgeous!) anyways back to the Shea Butter! The Shea butter is just as creamy and luxurious as their other body washes with that added cocoa scent. So moisturising and sweetly scented! :-)

This elegant set makes a lovely gift for Christmas or a nice little stocking filler. Dove Shea Butter Indulgence Gift Set retails £12.99 but is currently available at Superdrug for the bargain price of £9.99!

Cherry Lane xoxo

*PR Sample

Dove Winter Care Limited Edition Moisturisers

It is getting sooo cold over here where I live in the UK! We're reaching temps in the minus (I'm talking Celsius). The harsh winter cold and unforgiving wind is makes my already crazy dry skin even worse! Over the past couple weeks I have been trying out Dove's new Winter Care moisturisers and they have really been my saviour!

Winter Care Nourishing Body Lotion is a light formula containing Deep Complex, a blend of skin natural nutrients and rich essential oil to help nourish my skin. I've been using it mainly on my body before I go to bed. It absorbs very quickly and made my skin feel so much softer.

Winter Care Rich Nourishment Cream is a much thicker and richer cream giving me a much more intensive hit of moisture. This has been a saviour for my dry flaky legs! Because its a more rich and intensive cream its perfect for area's like elbows and knees where you need that extra nourishing protection.

Saying all that my favourite thing about Dove Winter Care is its absolutely gorgeous scent! Dove describe it as amber with sweet florals...for me its a beautiful delicate sweet fragrance which smells really clean at the same time. I'm rubbish as describing scents but believe when I say...you have to check it out!

Dove Winter Care Nourishing Body Lotion (250ml) retails at £3.99 and the Rich Nourishment Cream (150ml) retails for £3.29. Both are available exclusively in Boots and are currently on offer at under £3.

Cherry Lane xoxo

* PR Sample

Front Cover True Colours Kit - Christmas Gift Idea

Christmas is definitely all around us! And we all know what that means...shopping! If you are stuck for what to buy for a fashion conscious makeup loving chick then this Front Cover makeup kit could be the one!

Front Cover True Colours Kit is a this magazine style box kit with everything a girl would need to create a very beautiful and sophisticated look. The contains...

6 Baked eyeshadows

5 Satin pressed eyeshadows

5 Lip glosses

2 Nail polishes

1 Retractable lip brush

1 Double ended mascara for upper and lower lashes

1 Eye Mini Blender brush

1 Eye Rounded shader brush

1 Creamy Metallic eye pencil and smudger

Phew thats a lot!!

As soon as I opened the box the shimmering purple nail polish called out at me! I remember thinking it looks just like Fantasy Fire! On closer inspection is it slighter different, it has a gorgeous pinky purple and blue micoglitters on a clear base.

All the colours in this kit are very classic and elegant with neutral tones of creams, nudes, silvers and browns this kit will suit all skin tones. The colours are so easy to wear during the day as well  a few darker shades giving you abit of glam for the evening. 

I accidently nicked one...oopsie!

I'm really impressed that this kit literally contains everything you would need...lip brush, eyeshadow brushes, mascara and eye liner! The mini eyeshadow blender feels so lovely and soft and is perfect for applying colour precisely where you want it. I don't have a brush like this so I know I'll being using this again and again lol.

This Front Cover True Colours Kit retails for £25 and is available from Front Cover's website and QVC.

Cherry Lane xoxo

*PR sample

Christmas in Covent Garden, London

Christmas is here and its beautiful!! While I was in London after checking out the Revlon Exhibition I had a little wander around Covent Garden. One of my favourite parts of Christmas is all the beautiful lights! Totally brings everything alive and they're so magical! This post is more pictures than words....I hope you enjoy :-)

I love this Valentino poster in the tube station too...isnt it beautiful!

Cherry Lane xoxo

Revlon Enamoured - Celebrating 80 Years of Revlon

Last weekend whilst I was in London I popped by Revlon's 'EnamouRED' exhibition in the underground depths of the London Film Museum in Covent Garden.

The exhibition was a celebration of Revlon's 80th Anniversary highlighting its history and featuring their ad campaigns over the decades whilst also commissioning some interesting art. 

It was really fun walking around and seeing their vintage lipstick cases, old nail polish bottle displays, magazine adverts and they even had TV screens showing old school TV ads from the 60s/70s. I really couldn't help but admire the glamorous beauty of Revlon's marketing.

This huge bottle is made of 2500 regular bottles of Revlon Polish

A couple weeks before the exhibition Revlon asked people on Twitter to post a photo of their lips on Instagram so I posted one of me wearing their Lip Butter in Peach Parfait and when I went to the event I noticed they had turned the photo's in lots of collages! And guess what...mine was there too!! Mine lips are the ones on the top right hand side...I couldn't believe it when I saw my pouty chops up there! I actually wanted to jump with joy but I had to contain myself in front of all the cool people lol

I have a couple more posts on my London adventure coming up, I hope you will enjoy them!

Cherry Lane xoxo

Review: myface Slinky Liquid Liners in Paint It Black (Matte) & Gilt-y

I'm always on the look out for a good matte black liquid liner so when I came across myface Cosmetics 40% off Black Friday sale I had a look around their website and noticed they had one. 

If you don't recognise the name myface...they are the brand behind the Blingtone eyeshadows and nail polishes in Boots.

As I was browsing around their website I noticed they had 15 different shades of liquid liner..yes 15! Thats a pretty impressive range of colours! I ended up going for the matte black shade I had my eye on called Paint it Black and also a metalic gold shade called Gilt-y. I chose the gold because I had seen a photo on Pinterest and had been admiring it for quite a while so I thought I would use the gold to try and recreate it...you can see the photo I'm talking about here.

The next morning I was pretty surprised to see that my liners had arrived already...within 24 hours of placing my order! I was pretty excited so I whipped them out of their packaging immediately and got swatching. My first impression was really good...the matte black swatch looked great on my hand. Very strong black colour with the super matte finish I wanted. The gold also looked good but slightly sheerer than I was expecting. The black takes about 20 seconds to dry and the gold takes much longer to set at around 1 min.

After wearing the black shade all week I began to get more and more disappointed with the liner.

The tip of the brush on both shades are quite blunt. They aren't feathered into a fine pointed tip so its difficult to get a very thin line and create the small precise flick I wanted.

But this is what disappointed me the most...Paint it Black is turns into a crazy hot mess as soon as it touches any water! I was watching a Channel 4 documentary (The Curious Case of the Clarke Brothers) which brought tears to my eyes and when I wiped away my tears I noticed that the liner had run so badly it was aweful! I even noticed that I would smudge quite alot even when my eyes watered slightly. I'm not sure if this is the same for the gold because I haven't worn it for a whole day yet. If you want a matte black for a night out or some event where you will be indoors mainly then this is great but if you know its going to rain or you are going to watch a sad movie...do not wear this!! It's such a shame because I really love the intensity of the black and the finish but my search for the perfect matte black liquid liner continues...

myface eyeliners are priced at £10.99 each and are available from their website here and I think they are also available in Boots stores.

Have you managed to find a good matte black liquid liner? I'd love to know your suggestions!

Cherry Lane xoxo

#XmasBloggersLunch Meet-Up in London

I ♥ London! Sooooooo much!!!! lol This weekend I went to London to meet up with a friend coming from the US (more on that in the next post) and to attend my very first beauty blogger event!! Woohoo!! Man I had such a good time!!

 Two beautiful chica's...Safira from Miss Stylicious and Julie from Sweets Are My Weakness (a girl after my own heart lol) organised a fab blogger Chistmas get together in Kensington at a lovely little pub! I've been chatting to Safira for quite a while over Twitter so when she told me she was organising this event I jumped at the chance to meet her!

I was a little nervous going to my first blogger event, not really knowing many other bloggers. Overestimating how long it would take me to get there I actually arrived 15 mins early to an empty pub! I was the first one there but luckily 5 mins later the lovely Grace from All That Slap arrived greeting me with such a warm welcome and big hug!! She was the only other person apart from Safira who I had chatted to over Twitter beforehand so it was so great to meet her! After that the party got started and lots of fun bloggers came rolling in.

It was so lovely to meet so many wonderful people! Everyone was so incredibly friendly and genuinely wanted to meet everyone else so it was a great vibe! There are two chicks I wana give a special shout out to....April from A Pretty Wardrobe and Sophie from Sophee.co.uk who were just super sweet! And also LiLi from Lets Get Lippy...for some reason we only got a chance to speak briefly but she sent me such a cute email afterwards to say hi :-)

Julie, Aysh, Safira, LiLi, ??, Sophie, Jo, Chelsea, ?? and Hayley in the hat :-)

Me and Safira

We were also lucky enough to be joined the beautiful and inspiring Brooklyn Stylist Hilary Rushford who started her own business Dean Street Society and offered us some interesting advice on how to create a long term focus/aim for our blogs and also how important branding can be to getting noticed and potential opportunities it could lead to. Thanks Hilary, I really enjoyed your talk!

We were also treated by the lovely Slendertone ladies who kindly spent the whole day speaking to each of us on a one-to-one basis explaining how their Slendertone Face (here) product works and generously gave us all one to take home and try.

Safira and Julie managed to snag us some awesome goodies too! Check this lot out!!

 

Thank you so much Safira and Julie for organising a fab event! I hope you guys do one again soon! :-)

#XmasBloggerLunch love...

Jo from Madamoiselle Lala

Aysh from Truly, Madly, Beauty

Chelsea from Fashionista on a Budget

Mona from Chipped and Chapped

Banx from Glitter's Wall of Fame

Grace from All That Slap

Sophie from Sophee.co.uk

Marie from Miss Drifted Snow White

April from A Pretty Wardrobe

Tolu from Fashinate Me

LiLi from Lets Get Lippy

Hayley from Fashion and Me

Safira from Miss Stylicious

Julie from Sweets Are My Weakness

Hilary from Dean Street Society 

Cherry Lane xoxo

Rimmel's Kate Moss Matte Lipstick in Shade 107 Review

After swatching the new Kate Moss matte lipsticks in my local Boots I really loved shade 107, its such a gorgeous rich deep red berry colour..so perfect for winter!

 

Rimmel are marketing this as a Matte lipstick but actually its not a true matte. It does have a slight sheen finish but I really like the formula because it doesn't dry my lips out like some true matte lipsticks can. The lipstick glides on smoothly and feels really comfortable...my lips feel moisturised but at the same time the colour is set enough so that I don't feel like I need to keep checking if the colour has rubbed off on my teeth! It lasts around 3-4 hours on me but even longer when I do the old powder layering trick. 

This lippie is such good value at just £5.49 and Rimmel's Facebook shop (here) are also offering it for £4.39 including delivery.

Cherry Lane xoxo