KIKO Christmas - Digital Emotion

KIKO have got some fantastic, and super-affordable gifts on offer for this Christmas in their new, limited edition Digital Emotion range - when I saw the prices I had to look twice! If you need impressive gifts for girls, have a look at these...

The packaging is a shiny iridescent cardboard which is really eye catching, but it's what's inside that really got me going!

The Satin Nail Laquer set opens like a book to reveal eight gorgeous, limited edition nail polishes. They are really intense, glossy colours with names that match the shades beautifully. The polishes look sleek and really expensive, and give the finish of an expensive polish, yet this set is only £19.90! That is just under £2.50 a polish - can't really argue with that!

The colour range is really good - going from nudes with Rose Taupe to classic reds with True Red, and the crazy side with Light Tiffany. I think it's a nice colour palette for anyone.

The smaller box in the first photo, opens to reveal 5 lipsticks...

Again, this is a really pretty colour palette for someone. Although the colours may look a little shocking in the bullet, they're really wearable and less intense on the lip. They pack a lot of pigment, but go on like a balm to give a wet look finish. These are limited edition shades and contain SPF15. Guess how much!? £16.90!!!! Told you I couldn't believe the prices!

There are loads of other sets on offer too. Check out www.kikocosmetics.com or KIKO Stores to shop, and see the rest of the range.

Label.M Jean-Pierre Braganza Colour Stay Shampoo & Conditioner

As part of their Christmas collection, Label.M have teamed up with Jean-Pierre Braganza to release some specially designed products.

I've just finished up the Colour Stay Shampoo and Conditioner which comes in a lovely box with a Jean-Pierre Braganza design and festive ribbon at the top. The shampoo and conditioner come in gorgeous long, sleek bottles which are easy-squeezy (my pet hate is when you can't get the product out!).

I have ombréd hair, and I'm aware that bleach can leave hair not looking all that great so I try my best to use moisturising products for it. The Colour Stay range is ideal, as it's formulated for coloured and chemically treated hair to keep it strong, moisturised and shiny. The shampoo contains soy and wheat proteins which strengthen, Enviroshield Complex which protects against heat styling and UV rays, and amino acids to enhance shine and add moisture. The conditioner contains aloe, echinacea and currant extract which softens, detangles and hydrates your hair. I can say that everything it's claimed it would do - it's done! My hair has felt soft and manageable, and my ends haven't looked straw-like!

The shampoo and conditioner and both fairly thin in consistency and smell of watermelon - I've really enjoyed using them. The set costs £18.50 (worth £23) at HQhair, and they have a special offer of a free Label.M clutch bag when you spend £25 too!

WIN a pair of tickets to Clothes Show Live!

Marking their 25th anniversary, Clothes Show Live 2013 is set to be the hottest ticket on the fashion
calendar this year! Over 500 leading fashion and beauty brands, non-stop catwalk shows, gorgeous 
celebrities, tempting bars, and inspirational fashion demonstrations will all be spread over five 
exciting days. There’s something for everyone so whatever your style, it’s time to make space in your 
wardrobe. This fashion festival is not to be missed! 

Take your seat in the spectacular ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fashion Theatre and watch in awe as more than 40 models and dancers showcase the latest high-street, designer, boutique and couture fashion collections on the world’s largest catwalk. Hosted by fashion icon and designer Henry Holland, you’ll be immersed in the ultimate fashion frenzy. 

Why not recreate your favourite catwalk styles with the help of our industry experts? Find the tools 
and techniques to shimmer, shine and gloss with make-overs, style transformations and inspirational 
trend reports all under one roof. Shop ‘til you drop and discover your perfect party outfit from the 
top fashion and beauty brands on offer. 

Keep your eyes peeled for some familiar faces at the show for a chance to get snapped with all your 
favourite celebs. The star-studded event will also see the launch of Take Me Out Live, hosted by the 
king of dating, Paddy McGuinness. A selection of bachelors will aim to impress a line-up of 30 singles 
girls all in search of Mr Right, with 10 girls being chosen at the show each day. 

Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model will also bring TV to the stage as this year’s contestants will be 
giving the inside scoop on model life, holding exclusive autograph sessions, and strutting their stuff 
on the catwalk in their first public appearance since the show. Fancy a modelling future for yourself? 

Learn the tips and tricks of the industry in a Model Masterclass and look out for casting 
opportunities as the big names in fashion scout the crowds for emerging talent. 

Super Gorgeous has teamed up with Clothes Show Live to offer one lucky reader and their ‘plus 
one’ the chance to attend the year’s most prestigious fashion event, absolutely free! 

To be in with a chance of winning these fabulous tickets, leave a comment below telling me why you'd like to go and how to get in touch with you if you're the winner. For an extra entry, tweet about the giveaway tagging @Super_Gorgeous in your tweet.

If you are picked you will receive a FREE pair of tickets for your choice of Friday (6th December) or Monday (9th December).  So what are you waiting for? Send your entry today! Good luck!

 The winner will be picked at random and notified on Wednesday 5th December.

Latest in Beauty - The Glamour Beauty Edit

Latest in Beauty is a beauty-box company with a difference. Each box has a different theme, and you always know what you'll be getting. There's no subscription fee - a new box launches, you like it, you buy it! One of the boxes they have at the moment is The Glamour Beauty Edit, featuring products handpicked by the Beauty Director of Glamour magazine, Alessandra Steinherr as her ultimate party musts.

It's one of the best beauty boxes I've had, because everything seems so relevant and will 100% get used rather than tossed into the ever growing 'samples for beauty boxes I have no use for' pile.

Inside the box are (L-R)

Toni & Guy Glamour - Firm Hold Hair Spray - 75ml (RRP £6.39 for 250ml)
Alex chose this hairspray because it keeps hair in place without stickiness or dullness. I love that it's the perfect size to put in your handbag or overnight bag, and doesn't have that old-lady hairspray smell!

Eyeko Lash Curlers (RRP £12)
Eyelash curlers are an essential in my book - using them will help to open up your eye and give you a full on fluttery look. I'd never tried the Eyeko ones before - the combo of the big gap to fit your lashes and the big velvety handles makes them easy to use. Plus they come with two spare rubber pieces so these will really last you a while.

Maybelline Baby Lips - Mint Fresh (RRP £2.99)
These are *the* thing for softening your lips at the moment, I've done a whole blog post on them (here) - in this weather a lip balm in essential, and this will do the job nicely.

HD Brows - Eye & Brow Palette - Foxy (RRP £19.96)
I already own one of these and use it in my makeup kit - it's a great little brow palette that you can also use as an eyeshadow palette. Its really versatile and can be used for auburn to light brown to dark haired people as a brow palette, or really lovely neutral browns as eyeshadow, perfect for daytime and smokey eyed looks.

Balance Me - Extra Care - Radiance Face Oil - 10ml (RRP £15)
Another great sized product for whipping in your bag, Alex says this is the "perfect rescue and repair for partied-out, sleep-deprived skin" that will leave your skin nourished, conditioned and glowy. It's 100% natural and comes with a rollerball applicator so you don't get oil all over the place. A really genius product for radiant skin.

Philip Kingsley - One More Day 50ml 
This is a life saver when getting in late from parties straight to work the next day and need that extra time in bed without having to do your hair.... a quick spritz from this dry shampoo and you go from limp to lovely. It can also be used to add texture to your hair when you want to create volume or backcomb. It's one of Alex's desert island essentials - that's good enough for me!

Benefit - They're Real Mascara - 3g (RRP £18.50 for 19.5g)

This is a best selling mascara, which in tests 90% saw dramatic length and volume, 90% saw base-to-tip curl, 94% saw visible lift and 100% saw long-wearing results. I bought this when it first came out, and remember the lady in Boots demo-ing it over the mascara I already had on, and I was amazed at how much fuller my lashes looked! I hadn't tried it again since that first tube, so this is a really nice way to try out a mascara with the mini version.

As you can see, the box contents are worth a lot of money - they are really generously sized samples, many being full sized, and was nice to see the box so tightly packed when I opened it! The box is for sale for £14.95, but you are getting a whopping £65 worth of products in there. You even get codes for 10% off Benefit, 20% off HD Brows and Philip Kingsley, and 15% off Balance Me. It would make a great, thoughtful present for Christmas.... or a nice present to yourself, let's be honest here!

Get yours now before they all sell out, at Latest in Beauty

Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette

Shhhh... can you hear that? It's the sound of the halo of light that the Naked 3 palette is emitting... for the launch of Urban Decay's Naked 3 Palette is something that a lot of people (me included) are very excited about.

They kicked off the Naked range with the origal Naked palette (check out my review here) - a velvet cased twelvesome of gorgeous warm toned neutral bronzey shades. Soon followed Naked 2 - a metal cased palette along the same kind of lines, but cool toned neutrals. Since then there have been an array of others added into the Naked line... Naked Basics (check out my review here), Naked Flushed (review here) and a variety of Naked skin products such as foundations.

The latest addition to the family is Naked 3 - jam packed with warm toned pink to brown hues, with a rippled metallic rose gold case. One of the founders of Urban Decay saw a beautiful sunset one night, which led her onto the decision to create a palette of these colours (God bless that sunset).

Inside the mirrored case you will find 12 shadows ranging in finishes, and a double ended synthetic eyeshadow brush. One end is for packing on colour or using for liner, and the other is great for blending or for using on the lid for a soft wash of colour into the crease. When you purchase Naked3 you also get a Primer Potion sampler which has about a weeks worth of original, Sin, Eden and the new anti-ageing formulas.

This is the first time they have released 12 shades entirely for this palette - there are no repeats from other palettes - all fresh and new and gorgeous.

The story beings at Strange - a very pale pink in a satin-matte finish - this colour would be good for a delicate daytime look, to use as a base to creating others, or to add to the inner corners of your eyes. Dust is a pale metallic pink shimmer with iridescent micro-glitter. Burnout is a beautiful pink with a hint of frost, and Limit is a stunning matte muted rose shade.

Buzz is a beautiful cranberry/rosey colour with iridescent microglitter, Trick another metallic pinky copper shade, with a hint of a sparkle. Nooner is a gorgeous purpley matte brown, and Liar a metallic milk chocolate brown shimmer.

Then we reach the darker shades. Great for adding in a bit of definition, or for a full on smokey-eye.  Factory is a pinky-brown satin shade, Mugshot a pinky-taupe shimmer, Darkside a deep purpley brown satin, and Blackheart a gorgeous matt black with pink micro-sparkle.

I quickly threw together four looks using the palette.

As the inspiration behind the palette was a sunset, that's where I was trying to go with this. I used Burnout all over the lid, then added Liar in the crease, then blended it out with Trick. I then added some Buzz to the middle of my lid. I used Urban Decay's Perversion liner on a smudger brush along the lashline.

For this look I added Blackheart all over my lid and underneath my lower lash line, then blended the edges using Nooner. I used MAC Prunella on my waterline.

I used Dust all over my eyelid then added Darkside into the crease of my eye and under my lower lash line. I added L'Oreal Superliner to my upper lid, and Urban Decay Perversion to my waterline.

I used Liar all over my lid, then Mugshot in the outer corner. I used Factory under my lower lash line, and added Urban Decay Perversion to my tightline and waterline.

The big question is.... when!? When does this go on sale? Well I've been told "mid December" and will retail for £37.... I've spotted them on lookfantastic.com for pre-order for delivery by 21st December.

*UPDATE!* The official launch date in the UK is 16th December, but if you go to House of Fraser on Oxford Street from 12th-19th December you can preview and purchase there, plus have a makeover by an Urban Decay makeup artist.

Win a Month's Supply of Innocent Smoothies!

To celebrate 10 years of Innocent's Big Knit, Innocent have teamed up with Lily Cole's The North Circular to design a collection of life-sized bobble hats, hand-knitted by grannies in the UK, and will donate all sale profits to Age UK, helping keep older people warm this winter. 

The limited edition hats are available now, at www.thenorthcircular.com costing £85 each - they are made with 100% British wool and feature the identity of the granny that knitted the hat. What a cute touch! They are in a gorgeous slouchy pulled back style available in grey or blue dip-dye.

They've also decided to give one lucky Super Gorgeous reader the chance to win a month's supply of free Innocent Smoothies! If you'd like to be in with a chance of getting your hands on this lovely prize fill in your details in the box below!

If you'd like to find out any more about the project check out www.thebigknit.co.uk

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The giveaway ends on Wednesday 27th November - the winner will be picked at random and notified by email.

Neom Scents of Christmas Candles

Once again, Neom have pulled it out of the bag. They are the name behind some of my favourite candles, and the Scents of Christmas Travel Candle Collection (£42) doesn't disappoint.

Inside are three travel-sized versions of their festive scented candles, each in a beautiful glass jar - and with 20 hours burn time each.

The candles, which are also all available as full sized 3-wicked badboys, or individually as travel-sized are in Christmas Wish (gold glass), Harmonise (silver glass) and Comforting (rose gold glass).

My favourite of the trio, and I'm sad to say, now all burned, is definitely Comforting. It's the first time I'd smelled this one, but definitely won't be the last time as I'm now putting the large size on my Christmas list. If my house could smell like this forever, I would be a very happy girl. Although it does fit within the festive theme, I wouldn't restrict it to that alone, as it's a gorgeous, sweet and woody smell which really does leave the room smelling cosy and delicious. The scents in all the candles are made from pure natural extracts and aromatherapy oils with nothing synthetic about them, which results in a really clean smooth, pure smell. The scents in Comforting are Cedarwood, Vetiver and Star Anise. It's a caramelley, smokey, citrusey, manly, gorgeous aroma.

Harmonise's scents are Pine, Eucalyptus and Cedarwood which are definitely apparent when burning this candle. It's a really fresh smell, with the pine definitely coming through. It's the perfect fit to christmas, and if you have an artificial tree this would help bringing the smell of real Christmas trees to your home.

Christmas Wish, I could nearly eat. It reminds me of Lebkuchen - every time I have this candle burning I want to eat Lebkuchen arghhhh! It's scents are Mandarin, Cinnamon and Tonka Bean. It is full of Christmasseyness and the one I'm saving the last few hours of to accompany my Christmas day.

These are available from www.NeomOrganics.com