Yesterday I have been to my face mask workshop in Lush.

The mask we did (and got to take home) was Catastrophe Cosmetic, as it suits most skin type and is packed with antioxydants (like green tea, hence the link to Clippers).

Dubbed your best mate in a pot, Catastrophe contains blueberries (yum), Irish moss gel, almond oil, rose absolute and chamomile oil. It is a deep cleansing mask that can be used on a regular basis.

Making the mask was pretty simple, and all 4 of us taking part in the workshop got to do it. It was kind of therapeutic to knead the paste.

While the misture was setting, we all got to have a facial massage using Lush products, and of course, the mask! Every one of us was so relaxed afterwards that when our Lush hosts were asking us questions, we were totally zoned out!


We also got to chose a few samples of the products we wanted to try home. Since I saw one fof Amarixe's monthly favourite videos, I wanted to try the Lovely Jubblies cream. I was also tempted to try the Angels on Bare Skin cleanser and I Love Juicy shampoo.


It was all good fun and I recommend it to anyone who likes Lush products! You can find more details on my Lush Face Mask Workshop with Clippers post.

Let me know if you go, or intend to go!

If you love tea and Lush products, you're going to be spoilt! I just found this offer on Clippers green tea boxes (about £2). With promotional packet, you can book a blueberry facemask workshop at Lush (selected stores).

From what I have seen on forums, all the Lush store should run promotional workshops, but you have to book an appointment on Lush's website in order to go. You also have to bring the promotionnal packaging on the day.

This workshop and mask is worth £15. A good deal if you are drinking green tea!

Have you been to a Lush workshop before?

Follow my blog with BloglovinI'm glad good magazines freebies are back! It seems like ages ago that we weren't spoilt on the freebie front.

This month, Glamour is offering a choice of 4 Percy & Reed hair products: Splendidly Silky Shampoo and Conditioner, Quite Frankly Flawless Finishing Polish , or Totally TLC Rehydrating Mask.

I got the conditionner with my subscriber copy and picked up a shampoo with another one. I have tried the conditioner a few times and like it, but only tried the shampoo once yet. I like the fact that both have the same fragrance, I find it weird when matching shampoo and condition don't have matching scents!

Each product is worth on average £10.

Other freebies to look out for this month is Cosmopolitan offering 2 sample size Clinique products and Marie Claire giving away Neal's Yard Rehydrating Rose Daily Moisture.

What magazines (and freebies) have you picked up lately?

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Starting today, you can get a free mini mascara at Clinique! All you have to do is take any old mascara 9can be empty) and exchange it for the Clinique one at any of their Boots counter!

Two different mascaras are up for grabs, High Impact (4 ml) and High Lengths (5 ml). Those are about half the size of the regular size ones! A good bargain (especially as mascaras are drying fast anyway)! Based on the full-size versions, MSE estimates the High Lengths mascara to be worth £11.42 and the High Impact £8.

While stock lasts.

High impact is one of the mascaras I regularly use. Have you tried Clinique's mascara yet? What do you think?

Hi everyone!

Happy New Year! I hope you had a great time during the holidays. I was in Germany at one of my boyfriend's friends and we had a good time. Let me know what you have been up to!

If you grab a copy of Glamour this month (cover girl is Kelly Brook) you will find a voucher giving you a lip gloss at L'Occitane! You can chose between Delice des Fruits Lip Balm worth £8.50 and a Delice des Fleurs Lip Gloss in either Rose or Violette (worth £8 each)

I love a Nails Inc freebie!

Nails Inc have teamed up with Dove for the second time to bring us two exclusive shades, Mulled Wine and Pink Fizz. For a limited time, when you buy £6 on Dove Hand and Body Lotion or deodorant in Boots stores, you will receive both nail polishes (worth £10).

Do you like Nails Inc offers?

A few days ago, Diet Coke and Models Own launched a collaboration named Chistmas Kiss. This collection is made up of 4 lipglosses: Pure Plum, Lacque Red, Glossy Pink, Golden Nude.

You can get yours free when you buy two 500ml bottles of Diet Coke in selected Boots. Each gloss is worth £6.

I wanted to grab either Glossy Pink or Golden Nude yesterday, but by the time I make it to Boots, the store was closed! So stay tuned!

Any colour you fancy?

Another great offer today!

French brand Klorane Laboratories is currently offering a free shampoo and conditionner to those who register on their website! The whole process takes about 2 minutes and you will receive £12 + of products (full size)!

You can chose both products between theranges suiting your needs: Mango Butter for dry hair, Pomegranate for coloured hair and Oatmeal for frequent use. That's the one I am currently using (more on that later)!

This offer is only valid for UK residents.

Here is a selection of what you can get free along some of the British magazines for this month!

Marie Claire (August 2011)

Get a Ciaté Lipgloss, worth £9. You can chose between a hot pink or a nude. Audrey Tautou is the cover girl! Magazine is £3.60, but I saw the travel size for £2.50 at Morrisons.

Glamour (August 2011)

Your August copy of Glamour comes with "Your Personnal Horoscope Book 2012". Jesse J is on the cover of the mag, which is £2.


Shout (Until 19th July 2011)

In this Shout edition (Emma Watson on the cover), you will find a lipgloss! Magazine costs £2.50

InStyle (August 2011)

When you grab this month's edition of InStyle (featuring Nicole Scherzinger), you can choose between a The Body Shop Mascara or 2 Eyeliners (Black and Navy). InStyle is £3.70


Cosmopolitan (August 2011)

Cosmo also offers a beauty freebie this month! You have the choice between three Miss Guided nail polish shades (orange, electric blue and bright pink). Perfect for this summer's colour-blocking trend! The magazine is £3.50

I found this in my Sunday News of the World. Starting next Sunday, News of the World will publish tokens in their supplement, Fabulous. Those tokens can then be redeem for a free hairdryer, which is worth £15!

I don't have much more info than than, but if you are familiar with NOTW promos, they usually require you to collect 3-4 tokens in different editions (the paper costs £1). You then redeem the tokens at a selected location, which will be specified in the Fabulous mag. (Click here and here for other NOTW beauty promos!)

I don't think I'm going to grab this one as I have a hairdryer already, but I think it's a good promo if you need one.

Will you get this promo?

P.S: Yesterday I grabed my Fabulous Nails Inc set at Tesco, I will try to post swatches, but my Internet connection is down at the moment, so please bare with me!

UPDATE: As you might know, NOTW will release its last edition on Sunday, so probably the hairdryer offer will not happen. (I don't know how they will honor that or not).

This is the best freebie in a while!

Origins is giving away free face wash and cleanser to celebrate Earth Day!

When you go to an Origins counter on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd April, you can get a free Checks & Balances face wash or A perfect World Cleanser. All you have to do trade a skincare beauty product for it! Now, the best part is that the product you them could be any brand, any size, new, empty, ANY!! Isn't that beautiful?

More details can be found on Money Saving Expert's Beauty Deals page.

Origins counters can be found in Boots, Debenhams, John Lewis and House of Fraser stores.

To find your nearest counter, go to Origins.

Here are a few recent magazine freebies that could be interresting for you! It's not the most interresting month (Well, last month Glamour was OTT!, so it's hard to beat that!)

Top of the Pops (Until April 26th)
Free Naturals Make-Up by Technic and Free Moshi Bandz

Marie Claire (April 2011)
Get a Cowshed Luxury Body Lotion (worth £10 each!) Those are regulars in magazine freebiland!


Cosmopolitan (May 2011)
Get a free book: Can you keep a secret? by Sophie Kinsella or The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell. (They are worth about £7.99 on Amazon)



InStyle (May 2011)
Free Essential Murad Cleanser (they say is worth £10) Another regular!

Are you planning on getting anything? Personally I might get Cosmo, but I'm not sure yet, as I have lots of books to read!

N.B: These are all UK editions.

This is a great deal, but it's also a giveaway, on a first come first serve basis! Be quick!

Here is what Money Saving Experts have to say about this deal:

How: To get it, vote online on Sun 17 April 2011, in the News Of The World's Fabulous magazine's Beauty Awards (link goes live Sun). There will be 15 categories in which you can vote for your favourite mascara/blusher and then six questions such as who your fave celeb icon is. You'll need to enter your details too incl. postal address.

Restrictions: There are 3,000 mascaras available on a first come first served basis, so there's no guarantee you'll get one and they're likely to run out fast. They'll be sent out within a month and unfortunately winners aren't notified. There will be no update on the Fabulous site when the mascaras run out.

I am 95% sure this will be for UK residents only.

Yesterday I received my copy of April's Glamour UK! In celebration of their 10th Anniversary, they are offering a Clinique goodie with every copy! Mine is the Superbalm Moisturizing gloss in 10Grapefruit, a nice sheer pink lipgloss. Perfect for spring!

Other goodies are:

• Take The Day Off Makeup Remover
• High Impact Lip Colour SPF 15
• 7 Day Scrub Cream Rinse-Off Formula
• Liquide Facial Soap Mild
• Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief
• Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion
• Long Last Glosswear SPF15
• High Impact Mascara
• All About Eyes

So in total, 10 goodies! I have tried a few of them already, such as the glosses, the High Impact lip Colour, the High Impact Mascara and All About Eyes cream. I really like them, Clinique has nice quality products!

Glamour is only £2 and also a nice read! It will be on sale later this week (around march 3rd). Fearne Cotton is the cover girl.

Do you read Glamour UK? Will you pick up a copy? Which freebie would you like?

It's not easy to have a foot in a cast when there are new magazines coming out with nice freebies! I wanted to get to the supermarket this weekend in order to buy the new magazines, but couldn't make it in the rainy weather, plus it's a little far away for little old crutch-walking me!

So my boyfriend offered to go and get me some. I wanted Marie Claire and InStyle. Both had a selection of gifts with them, and I wanted to chose a nice one. It's always easier when you're at the store and chosing it yourself!

Anyway, I am really pleased with the ones my boyfriend got me! I got InStyle with a L'Occitane en Provence hand cream in Fleur Chérie. I would have prefered the Cherry Blossom one, but Nick couldn't find it.

The hand cream smells like orange blosom, it is really an uplifting smell!

I also got Marie Claire with a Ciaté Paint Pot in Dangerous Affair, a deep red. There is also a purple one on offer.

I am glad to have that deep red nail polish, as I wanted one for this autumn! The real colour is a little darker than the one in the picture. I really hope the colour pay-off will be the same as in the bottle, or a little darker!

My boyfriend has good taste, I'm glad I can trust him! :)

Have you got any interresting magazine freebies lately?

In this week's Grazia there is a voucher to exchange for a New Cid shimmer stick, worth 17 pounds. I got one called Toffee, a golden bronze color. Some colors can also be used as an eye pencil, higlighter or blusher. I heard that they are sold out in London, but if you are living in another city, you might be lucky to grab one! There is also a sample of TRESemmé Colour Revitalise Colour Protection shampoo and conditionner.

Hello! I picked up this week's Grazia magazine "5 July 2010", the one with Jennifer Aniston on it. Apparently she wants a baby... And this news is shocking Hollywood (whatever)!

Anyway, if you go to page 117, you get a voucher for 3 sample sized Giorgio Armani products. Those products are Luminous Silk Foundation, Face Fabric (kind of an illuminator) and a blusher.

Well today I popped into Selfridges to get them! Oh! They also do a counsultation. I skipped that part, I was hungry. Well, the pots are about the size I expected, so it's not that bad. But i thought they would also fill the blusher pot, but they didn't.


That is the sad part because of all the product, I thought this one would be worth it as a trial size... And, it is a nice product. Anyway, I am glad of having yet another magazine freebie!

Left to right: Blushing Fabric in 1, Face Fabric in 7 and Luminous Silk Foundation in 5.5.

I have just tried the Foundation now, and it has good coverage without being too heavy.

I kinda want to wait to have those MAC Duo Fibre brush to use the foundation, so a little goes a long way...

Downside, I think the products smell like paint.

Have you picked your Armani goodie yet?