Easter Treats

Wether you are pretty orthodox or atheist, Easter is always the perfect time to spend a beautiful day with your closest people, eating way too much chocolate, and treating yourself a bit more. And so it was my Easter Sunday this year, with a lovely sun in the sky, my family visiting our place and bringing chocolate to celebrate. And after filling up that belly of mine, I actually treated myself to some beauty stuff, because, well, you know me...

Holiday to me is pampering time, so I had a lovely and relaxing shower with a good old homemade coffee scrub (sharing this later next week) and a face mask time immediately after. I went for two of my most loved face masks, the Antipodes Aura Manuka Honey Mask (£21,50) on the dry areas of my face, and the Soap and Glory No Cloggs Allowed Mask (£11,50) all over my chin, forehead and nose where I'm getting very spotty recently. Those two make the world of good for my skin and I always feel regenerated right after, with a fresh new skin replacing my usual dull one. And of course I went for the L'Oreal EverRiche Absolute Oil Precieux (£7,99) all over my hair, as this lovely product not only is amazing in giving a subtle shine and making your hair so soft, but it also smells heavenly with that jasmine aroma.

Throw on my favorite lace blouse, an oldie but a goodie which actually looks pretty similar to this Oasis top, and went for my minimal makeup routine for lazy days including only foundation, concealer (and I'm so happy I can now wear the NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer again as my skin is a bit less pale) and eyeliner, I decided to go for my new favorite shimmery pink lip shade, the Maria Galland Color Pencil in 200 Pamplemousse Rosé*, which not only has the cutest name, but is also lovely as an everyday basic since it's the most flattering color on me with a tun of gorgeous golden shimmers in it, and you know how I feel about shimmers recently.

I actually decided to treat myself to some Cult Beauty products and placed a little order there as they are having one of their free worldwide shipping on every order until Tuesday. I'm not revealing what I purchased yet but I've just written a Mini Cult Beauty Wishlist, so you can definitely guess, and if not, I'm sure I'm going to talk about them super soon. But for the rest I just had a good time with my family and ate my chocolate eggs, and now I'm super excited for tonight's episode of Game of Thrones, my new addiction!

What about your Easter Sunday?

Pampering Routine #1 | Winter Edition

As I already said once, I prefer showers to baths, but wintertime is the perfect excuse to make an exception and relax in your bathtube with a good amount of bubble and a big portion of lovely scents sorrounding you for an aromatherapy session. Also, I recently did a big Lush order online, since I just couldn't resist to the Christmas collection's beauty, and had to have all those cute bath ballistic. I think this year I could actually rediscover the pleasure of having a warm bath when it's damn cold outside; it immediately took a place in my Sunday pampering routine.

Come ho già accennato in passato, di solito preferisco la doccia alla vasca da bagno, ma il freddo invernale è la perfetta scusa per fare un'eccezione e rilassarsi nella vasca con un bel po' di schiuma e una grande quantità di profumi a circondarti per una perfetta sessione di aromaterapia. Inoltre di recente ho fatto un "piccolo" ordine Lush online, perché proprio non potevo resistere alla collezione natalizia, e dovevo avere tutte quelle adorabili ballistiche. Penso che quest'anno potrei anche riscoprire il piacere di fare un bagno caldo quando fuori fa dannatamente freddo; la vasca si è immediatamente accaparrata un posto nella mia pampering routine della domenica.