Yankee Candle Haul!

Hey all!

Sorry I haven't been updating as much as I maybe should have! I've been very emotionally ill the last couple days and to be honest the last thing I wanted to do was dress up and take pictures so I was a little low on content!

Anyway, I went to my local garden centre specifically to buy some Yankee Candle products. I went mainly for some tealights for my tart burner and I came away with a few bargains.

First off, the tealights were on sale along with a selection of wax tarts (I only got one of the on sale wax tarts) so I took advantage and bought two packs.

They were £4.99 each and considering that you get 12 delicious smelling, rather decent-sized tealights, I would say they were a steal! I got Camomile Tea and Red Velvet. Red Velvet, of course, smells absolutely delightful and Camomile Tea smells alright. I wasn't too keen on the tea one just because it is a bit of a bizarre smell. NOTE: I've never actually drank, nor smelt, Camomile Tea in my life!

I got an array of wax tarts next. First was November Rain which smells really zingy and fresh. I'm excited to burn this one, but feel obliged to wait until November!

Blissful Autumn is gorgeous and has a real "fall" scent to it. Definitely next on my list of burns. 

River Valley was the only tart on sale at 89p. I think they are normally around £1.25 a tart but I can't really remember in all honesty. It smells nice and that's about all I can say about this one.

This is amazing apart from one thing: it smells like cupcake instead of cookie. But it's still very pleasant on the nose nonetheless. And it's pretty looking! SnowFlake Cookie!

Season Of Peace was my shock of the day, it smells amazing! I thought it would be bland and horrible but it smells so good! In fact, it was my favourite purchase of the day and probably my new fave scent by Yankee Candle. May just have to stock up before the spring!

So I hope you enjoyed this post.

Sorry about not doing more, I have been ill though and not just skiving! ;)

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When Shadows Remain

Bridget Nicole

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Perfume Review: Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday.

                                                                   

Hello and welcome to my very first blog post. This is my new blog "When Shadows Remain". I really wanted to start a blog because it looks like so much fun. I would really like to take a second to say hi and I hope you like the content on this blog :) 

Onto the review. 

I bought this perfume as both an impulse buy and a gift. It was a gift for my little sister but I bought it a bit randomly. As it is for my sister I probably won't end up wearing it as often but I will definitely be allowed to share it as we share quite a lot, if not all, of our perfumes. I really don't like most celebrity made perfumes as I feel they are all quite the same smelling and sometimes a bit too tryhard. That being said, I do actually own quite a few celebrity perfumes. This is definitely a surprise to me! 

I really thought that it wouldn't smell very nice considering that it was a Nicki Minaj perfume. I really wasn't sure what to make of the scent. I bought this from "The Perfume Shop" kiosk at my local shopping centre and they didn't have any testers (boohoo perfume shop! You need to sort that out!) and they wouldn't let you return it if you had opened it. So to be honest I was rather skeptical. I had no idea about the smell and was just going by the packaging and most probably the fact that my sister was a Nicki Minaj fan!

The Bottle:

The bottle to me is absolutely beautiful. I really like the body and head design! I think it's really unique and fun. The only thing I don't like is that the 30ml bottle DIDN'T come with the head as the bottle cap! It only came with the 50ml! 

The Fragrance:

It smells AMAZING! Very nice scent. It's very fruity and fresh and flowery and definitely more of a light day, summer scent! 

Top notes include Boysenberry, Starfruit and Italian Mandarin. And there is definitely an undertone of flowery goodness.

The Packaging:

The box is typical "Celeb" perfume box. Of course it is PINK and has a big picture of Nicki Minaj on the back of the box. It's very much expected for this perfume.

Price: 30ml (smalll)- £23.50 

50ml (bigger)- £28.50

(It came with a free laptop case which was actually really pretty but didn't actually fit my laptop)

I would overall rate this perfume a 4.5/5.

It also lasts pretty long! I would definitely recommend this perfume for the summer. Definitely check this one out!

So that concludes my review (and first blog post) hope you enjoyed it and I will try and improve!

When Shadows Remain.

Bridget Nicole.

xoxo