Gift Sets for Mom on Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is almost upon us and for sure some of you are on the lookout for some nice gifts for moms. Mom’s day is one of the perfect days to give something to pamper moms. A nice little spa package voucher would be a heaven sent gift, if you ask me. Give something that a lady would appreciate like beauty products, accessories, flowers…stuff like that. The choices are actually great as long you don’t pick out a weighing scale or a zipcloud account. Lol.
I hopped about several sites looking for some skin care and cosmetic gift sets that could get us started.
Philosophy with Gratitude (Lord & Taylor)- perfect little gift. And it won’t break the bank either.
Show gratitude with grace. infused with philosophy’s best-selling fragrance, amazing grace perfumed shampoo, bath & shower gel cleanses, conditions and lightly scents skin and hair, leaving you feeling amazingly clean and beautifully feminine from head to toe. with gratitude is the perfect gift for anyone when you wish to share a “thank you.”
Estée Lauder ‘Sensuous Nude’ Set (Nordstrom)- for the ultra feminine mom.
Modern. Intimate. Feminine. Wrap yourself in sensuality.
Estée Lauder Sensuous Nude has a warm core surrounded by notes that inspire feelings of femininity and intimacy. The limited-edition collection includes an eau de parfum spray (1.7 oz.), body veil (2.5 oz.) and rollerball (0.2 oz.).
Body Shop Body Butter Collection (Ulta) – Who doesn’t love body butters? And Body Shop’s collection is a totally awesome gift idea.
The Body Shop difference: Deliciously scented, extra creamy body butters are formulated to moisturize skin for up to 24 hours. Set includes:Satsuma Body Butter, Coconut Body Butter, Shea Body Butter, Mango Body Butter, Olive Body Butter, Strawberry Body Butter 1.7 oz
VS Fantasies™Must-have Mist & Lotion Gift Set (Victoria’s Secret)
Surrender to Secret Craving™, a rich desire of black currant embraced by vanilla absolute; hypnotize in Love Spell®, a vibrant, irresistible blend of lush cherry blossom and juicy peach; and entice in Pure Seduction®, a passionate romance of succulent red plum and sweet freesia.
Simple Pleasures 6-pc. Tulip & Sweet Pea Foot Care Gift Set (Kohls)- love Simple Pleasures and this foot care set is just LOVE!
Soothe your tired feet with this Simple Pleasures foot care gift set. The tulip and sweet pea-scented boxed set features cozy slippers, foot wash, foot lotion and numerous other accessories. Get your pampering needs covered with this gift set.
Ahava Natural Blossoms Set (Lord & Taylor)
Pamper your hands and feet with AHAVA’s Dead Sea treatment products. Formulated with the exclusive Osmoter concentrate, a blend of 21 Dead Sea minerals to instantly soften dry hands and feet. Natural Blossoms Gift Set includes; Natural Mineral Bath Salt (8 oz.), Mineral Foot Cream (3.4 oz.), Mineral Hand Cream (3.4 oz.) and hydration mitts for a deeper, more intensive treatment.
The Fresh Florals Deluxe Fragrance Sampler For Her (Sephora)
A captivating five-piece collection of Sephora’s favorite floral fragrances
L’Occitane -A Delicate Peony Treat (L’Occitane) – classic gift for moms. So feminine. This is actually one of my favorite L’Occitane collection.
A Delicate Peony Treat includes three highlights from our Pivoine Delicate collection:
- Pivoine Délicate Eau de Toilette
- Pivoine Délicate Hand Cream
- Pivoine Flora Beauty Milk
- Bonne Mère Soap in Milk
The set is packaged in a special peony gift box, with a Mother’s Day card included.
There you go. These picks should get you started and do check out the shop links. There are lots more choices out there.
Read MoreVOV Daily Fresh Mask Pack Volcanic Ash
I’ve got tons of beauty products just waiting to be reviewed. You know, its one of my personal indulgences, collecting beauty and skin care products. Not much make-ups but more into skin care stuff. I don’t usually use it haha, I just like trying which works for me or not, and I must also confess to usually falling head over heels in love with their packaging. So let’s say I collect beauty product, the same way some men collect sport trophies or some folks collect stamps.
Currently, I’m ‘in love’ with Korean and Japanese skin care products. They do have some wonderfully effective, not to mention gorgeously packaged beauty products. Also, you can find some very very interesting lines or let’s say ‘flavors’ in their products. After trying them out, I have also found out that Korean and Japanese skin care products is more effective for me compared to ‘Western’ skin care products, mainly because, hello! I’m Asian.
And owing to this ‘beauty products‘ collecting hobby, I’ll be writing some beauty product reviews every now and then.
Just recently I bought a couple of VOV Facial Masks online and among the items I picked out, here’s what I tried out first coz I was so intrigued. VOV Daily Fresh Wash Off Pack – Volcanic Ash. I know some swear to the skin enhancing properties of volcanic soil/ash but I have yet to try slathering them on my face.
I love love the packaging. It’s so appealing.
The wash off mask have grayish tones and no it doesn’t smell like sulfur like I was expecting. It has a mild grass like scent and since it was mild it didn’t really bother me. It has a thick consistency but it was not soo sticky which I appreciated.
trying it on my wrist to see its consistency..
Applying it all over the face was easy enough. Then just let it stay for a couple of minutes and wash it off.
Results: my skin was noticeably dewy and softer to touch. Although the first time I applied it, I felt a teeny weeny bit of itch but no rashes or redness at all. The second time, I didn’t feel anything at all.
I liked this wash off pack and I use it a few times per month. Although truth is, I still prefer the regular mask sheets as opposed to wash off or peel off face masks.
Read MoreSulwhasoo’s Hydro-aid Lifting Eye Serum
There are days that I am so enamored with all girly things, and that includes cosmetics. When this hits me, I the nerd in me takes a backseat, so instead of looking at computer carts and collecting gadgets, I turn into collecting skin care products. I’ve just recently discovered Gmarket and has been dipping my fingers now on Asian skin care products for the past few months. And I’m loving it and it also makes sense to me that Asian skin care products work really well for me coz I am Asian! Hahaha..
Most of the products I buy though goes to some other people. A lot of them don’t work for me so they make really good gifts or giveaways. Also most of the time, I find myself buying something because I got so attracted by the packaging. And I love looking at it displayed on my dressing table. Yes, I’m weird like that.
One of the first things I looked for when I was buying sample sets of Korean skin care products were eye serums. I have really bad looking eye bags, perhaps this is genetic? and also compounded by me not sleeping as much as I need to. So I hauled some Sulwhasoo and O Hui eye creams and serums. I just bought sample sets because I wanted to try which one would work best for me. For the past few months I had been trying Sulwhasoo Hydro-aid Moisturizing Lifting Eye Serum.
- image credit: Sulwhasoo
This is not my first time to try a Sulwhasoo product. An aunt gifted me with a face serum a few years ago, and I loved it to bits. But once I finished it all, I couldn’t afford to buy the full size. These products are really pricey, usually on the $50 up range.
So how was the eye serum? The serum itself is almost translucent and very very mildly scented. It’s not thick at all and easily absorbed by the skin. The lifting effect was noticeable after about two weeks of use. I can hardly believe that my eye bags actually got lighter and the skin around the eye a bit firmer. At least now I don’t resemble a raccoon!
You also got to love the packaging. Even in the sample satchets. It has that luxurious look and I’m just a sucker for elegant and understated packaging. I would definitely be buying a full sized bottle of this one. And this would be a regular for me now. Learn more about Sulwhasoo Hydro-aid Moisturizing Lifting Eye Serum.
Honey for Skin
I rarely ever swear but this time I would wanna swear. At least to the benefits of honey on my skin. I’ve been having a really rough time, I have breakouts all over my face, I guess hormones aren’t really very fond of me right now. Instead of panicking and stressing too much about it, I decided to just let it be and get some home-cure. It was actually my husband who introduced me to using honey as skin care solution a few years ago. Whenever I have really bad pimples or lots of black heads, I use honey on my face. I guess this is my equivalent luxury top rehab centers for skin.
I know that there are a lot of skin care products with honey as ingredient so I would deduce a lot of people get benefits from these. I just usually lather my face with pure honey or sometimes mixed with milk after cleansing, then let it sit for a while. Then I rinse off. I dunno but I find my skin really supple and dewy soft afterwards. I’ve also taken to making my own oatmeal-milk-honey scrub and I use it once a week and its really effective in peeling of dead skin and leaving my skin glowing.
And oh, aside from its benefits to my skin, I discovered taking a spoon of it daily or mixed with warm water and lemon is really great in keeping cough and colds away.
Read MoreReview: Kurstie Kiwi Fruit + Aloe Gel Mask
Yikes, I almost forgot I promised a review on the stuff I purchased last time {see my mini drug store haul}. Blame it on Twitter, house chores and my constant Illustrator doodling for some invitations project I was working on. Anyway, I’ve tried using the Kurstie Kiwi Fruit + Aloe Gel Mask for several times already.
And here’s what I have to say about it:
- The Gel Mask: Clear looking, sticky like most gel masks. I’m not a big fan of its fragrance I find it too masculine and I feel like someone is dangling a bunch of grass on my nose when I put on the mask. The application is easy enough though.
- Skin Reaction: Not much. Some masks leave my skin dewy and really supple. But this one, aside from the slight tightening effect, had nada effect on me. Then on my third use, my face felt really itchy I had to remove the whole thing from my face and rinse my face for the itch to come off.
- Packaging: Ugh. Can’t this company get a better package designer?
- Price: I guess that’s the only thing I like about this. Lol. I got this for just $3.90.
Mini Drugstore Skincare Haul #1
A few days ago I mentioned streamlining this blog and making some changes. Well, apart from changing the whole new look of the site, I will also be cutting down some of my now ‘bewildering’ categories. I’ve decided to focus on three main things on this blog – Beauty, Fashion, Health and Fitness. For the most part I’ve been so focused on fashion and I don’t plan to cut back on that coz I enjoy scouring for fashion finds and trend watching. But I’ll be cleaning up my categories about Fashion. And since I’m also on a constant diet, then health and fitness category would be more prominent. So do bear with me if the site appears glitchy in the next few days or so, I’ll be having some door kick plates overhauling so to speak .
One big thing I’ll be adding on the blog is the Beauty section. Mainly skin care products, tips and my newbie foray into makeup. I am crazy about skin care. It’s a passion for me so its just natural that I hoard skin care products and it suddenly occurred to me why the heck I’m not doing any posts or reviews about products I tested? So I’ll be adding skin care product reviews and since I’ll be trying out make up soon, that will be occasionally added as well.
I love trying out new products particularly skin care stuff. And its actually a bad thing to drag me into a drug store or a cosmetics store coz I usually end up buying one or two {sometimes more!} products to try out. Just recently I was jogging and passed by a drugstore. Well, I got sidetracked and came home with this:
These stuff were on sale. Kurstie Kiwi and Aloe Gel Mask ($5.90 got it for $3.90) , Kurstie Mosquito repellent lotion ($5.90 got it for $3.90) and Bello Facial Mask in Pearl ($.95).
First impressions? The Kurstie stuff were just cheap for $3.90, I find the packaging to be off. Like this company could hire a better package designer don’t you think? I haven’t tried all yet but for sure I’ll be reviewing each here.
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