My Winter Essentials!

Hello Everyone.
I hope you're all doing well. Today I have my Winter essentials for you today. I was wondering what to do as a blog post, so I thought well seen as it's getting colder dramatically now in the UK, I thought this post fits the bill quite nicely. I've got a mixture of things from beauty to clothing, and a few Christmas scents, so let's get started.

Clothing-

I think in the winter a definite hat, scarf and gloves are vital. Especially with the freezing winds we are having at the moment, you really want to keep your body warm and prevent yourself from getting colds and flus. I decided on a woolly hat and gloves, I think, from Primark quite a while back and a patterned scarf. I would of said my tartan scarf, however I cannot find it anywhere, I've searched all round my house and I seriously don't know where it is. I love having a big chunky knit hat in the winter as it covers your ears from getting cold and just keeps your head nice a warm too. Sometimes gloves can become a bit of a controversy for me, because if you have a touch screen phone you have to keep taking them off to use your phone to put them back on again, however I heard that Primark do ones with the touch screen bit on the end of the fingers, so I will definitely have to go and get some. As well as keeping your body warm you have to keep your feet warm too, so I thought some chunky knit socks are great in the winter as you can just through them on, grab a hot chocolate and chill.

Beauty-

In the winter I definitely think you need to look after your skin more than you normally would. I never used to moisturise, purely because I couldn't be bothered to sit there and wait for the moisturiser to sink in, but now I totally see the difference. I've been using a mixture of cocoa butter and a body butter purely because they are packed with oil which my skin needs really. To moisturise my hands and face I've been using the soap and glory hand food which works wonders for my hands as I am mostly outside in this weather and for my face, the Garnier moisture match in combination to oily. With me having combination skin I tend to worry about mositurising it, but it has definitely worked. I can see a big difference with my skin and what you have to think about oily skin does need moisturising. My lips are the worst at this time of year, as soon as the cold weather starts they get so dry, so I think every week a good scrub to remove any dead skin and lip balm them every 2-3 hours does the job nicely. I make my own lip scrub which just contains of brown sugar, olive oil, peppermint flavouring and pink food colouring, don't worry the food colouring doesn't stain your lips either! To moisturise my lips I use the Maybelline Baby Lips in mint fresh if you want no colour or in pink punch in want a slight tint.

 

Lastly, I think you really want to fill the house with winter scents and chill in front of the fire, so I suggest the Yankee Candle Tartlets which you put into an oil burner and light a tea light to melt the wax which gives off the fragrance. The one I chose what Christmas Memories which smells of pure cinnamon which if your not a big fan of this isn't for you, but the other ones I like are Christmas Cookie and Snow in Love, which smell gorgeous so I would definitely recommend them!



That's it! I really hope you enjoyed this post today, comment what your favourite thing about Winter is. Next weekend I have a Christening, so it will only be short one. However they're plenty more to come!

Li,X