TAG: Festive Favourites.

TAG: Festive Favourites. 

As soon as I spotted this tag on Aimee's blog I had to do it! I spend all year getting excited for Christmas, I've been counting it down on my phone since last year. I tag anybody reading this that adores Christmas to do this tag!

What is your favourite Christmas song? I think for this year, the Frozen songs are going to fit so well for Christmas time. As far as the classic Christmas songs go, my favourites are; Jingle bell rock (I have to try to learn the dance from Mean Girls!), Santa baby, Walking in a winter wonderland and Rudolph the red nose reindeer. 

Favourite Christmas advert? For sure, my favourite Christmas advert this year is the John Lewis penguins in love advert. It is too adorable for me not to love. I also love the Coca Cola advert because you know when you see that, Christmas is coming!

Best Christmas present you have ever received as a kid? I had so many presents I loved when I was little. The toys I can remember were the Sylvanian families, fairy tale books, these dolls my mum made for me and Bratz dolls!

At Christmas, which Christmas drink are you mostly likely to have? I'm not big for alcoholic drinks so I would probably say Cranberry juice. I am forever drinking that around Christmas time.

Chocolate for breakfast on Christmas day? Of course! Who has time for a normal breakfast on Christmas day!?

Festive food? We usually have roast chicken or turkey with bacon wrapped around it which is lush. Also mum always does lots of baking like sausage rolls and fairy cakes. And you're sure to always get at least one box of chocolates for Christmas!

Christmas traditions? Our family don't really have any Christmas traditions I would say. We usually just open all the presents in the morning, have lunch, watch lots of Christmas programmes and movies on the television. Then later on we will have our Christmas dinner and open crackers. On Boxing day we usually either go to look around the sales or play board games. Just a nice cosy, family Christmas hehe I cannot wait for it!

Christmas presents you would like to receive? I love receiving gift cards so that I can pick out things I really like. This year I would love loads of Lush stuff.. is that obvious? I love receiving sweets and jewellery and I also love getting Christmas cards. 

Best Christmas cracker toy? I actually get more excited for the shiny hats inside! But I would say maybe plastic rings or pens?

Favourite Christmas decoration? The Christmas tree is my favourite decoration. I just wish it was socially acceptable to keep it out all year long, it's so beautiful. I love putting the angel on top. I also love fairy light decorations and the lights that you can buy to put outside.

Favourite festive candle scent? I love the sweet Christmas smells such as gingerbread and cookies.

One thing that is always left on your plate after you have had your Christmas dinner/lunch? Nothing!! Unless my mum tries to give me too much vegetables.


Mince Pies or Apple Pies? Don't hate me but neither, I hate pies!

Christmas film? Home Alone, Love actually, The holiday and I love watching Disney movies at Christmas time. I have bought Lady and the Tramp to watch this year with my family.

- Kat Melladay x

My night time routine.

My night time routine.

For todays post, I thought I would show you everything I do and all of the products I use in my night time routine! Before I start to run my bath I would first remove my make-up. I didn't photograph this part as I just use standard make-up wipes from Primark. £1 for two packs of wipes to do the job you can't really go wrong!

For this evenings bath I was going to start using my Christmas hedgehog bubble bar from Lush. This means that you would break a small bit of him off and crumble it under your warm, running water to create a blue bubbly bath. This bit made me a little sad because he is too adorable. He has a very strong smell I would say, but it is great! He smells fresh and has a bit of a citrus hint to me. I tend to use a Lush product every time I have a bath now. Just because it makes me feel ever relaxed after a rough day or even happier after a wonderful day!

After I have ran my bath, I will then go on to wash my hands. When I went in Lush the other day, one of the lovely ladies working there gave me some freebies to try. One of them was a chunk of the Mangnificent soap. It works like any other soap but the smell is simply lovely. This soap smells like mango! Now I will lay back in the bath, day dream a little, then start to wash my hair. Currently I am using the L'Oreal Elvive Extraordinary Oil shampoo and conditioner combination. This was another product that I have seen positive reviews for and it claims to nourish your dry, damaged hair. When I am sure that I have rinsed out all of the shampoo from my hair, I will go onto lather it in the conditioner. If I have really damaged my hair during the day, such as using loads of hairspray or back combed it within an inch of its life I will probably use an Aussie conditioner instead. Because that is the best conditioner EVER! My hair savoir. However on a regular day, I will use quite a bit L'Oreal conditioner on the very ends of my hair and on my scalp. I like to leave the conditioner in my hair for at least ten minutes so I will go onto washing myself whilst I wait.

 

To wash my body I like to use one of these two products. The Flying Fox shower gel was actually another freebie from the lovely lady working in Lush. It is safe to say I will most definitely repurchasing this one. Absolutely love the smell of this, it is the best shower I have ever used! Beware: if you don't like either honey or golden syrup this isn't the shower gel for you. There are four different honeys contained into this shower gel. It is such a pleasure to wash yourself with, I just want to drink it out of the bottle! But I will stay calm. The smell is sweetly delicious and you can also use it in your hair which is brilliant. The other product I would choose is the Soap & Glory Scrub of your life body scrub. I know that this bottle is quite small, but I have already used it many of times you get a lot for your money! I use this when I want a scrub to wash myself with rather than a gel. I use a sponge that has a rough side on it anyway to remove any dead/flaking skin.

Once I have got out of the bath and dried myself down, I will get changed into a cute pair of pajamas! I purchase all of my pajamas from Primark, and they are mostly Disney. I love the leggings style of pajama bottoms like these ones above. Just paired with a plain tee and my new mouse slipper socks from the Christmas section in Boots.

I like to wait a little while before putting my moisturizer on myself after my bath, just so that I am fully dry. I usually just choose between these two products. Soap & Glory's body buttercream in the Sugar Crush scent is my favourite moisturizer that I have ever used so far. I wrote a review on it on another blog post but the cream is so thick and soothing. If I want to make my milk bottle, white skin a bit more tanned I like to use the Dove lotion in the shade Medium to Dark. I found that the pale to medium lotion didn't do anything at all on my skin. Whereas this shade after using it about twice or three times, makes me look natural just a bit more tanned. I also find it doesn't go patchy either!

Lastly, usually before I go to bed, I like to make my face feel nice by using a moisturizer. Recently I have been using the Nivea Q10 day cream in the morning and night cream.. well at night time! I know it is anti-wrinkle cream, but my mums advice was "you have to start using moisturizer on your face whilst your young, so that you don't wait until you get the wrinkles to start". And I think that is pretty good advice! It also just feels really nice on your skin. If you don't want to use an anti-wrinkle cream, I would probably recommend the Garnier Moisture Match cream. This one I have is meant to be for oily skin, which I wouldn't really say it is that much. But I just liked it because it smells nice. I also like to use the Boots Botanics eye wrinkle cream every night too as I have noticed some fine lines coming under neath my eyes.




Hope you enjoyed reading about my night time routine. It's nice to feel relaxed and to use lovely products on yourself after a long day! Here are a list of the products mentioned down below:

- The Christmas Hedgehog.
- Mangnificent Soap.
- L'Oreal Elvive Extraordinary shampoo and conditioner.
- Flying Fox shower gel.
- Soap & Glory buttercream.
- Dove Summer Glow lotion.
- Nivea Q10 night cream.
- Garnier Moisture Match lotion.

- Kat Melladay x