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Blogmas #26 | Christmas Haul 2013

I am doing my annual Christmas haul and this year, I got a lot more beauty related items.

I got the Soap & Glory The Yule Monty™ Gift Set, which includes, Hand Food, The Scrub of Your Life, The Righteous Butter, Sugar Crush Body Wash, Butter Yourself Lotion, Heel Genius, Peaches and Clean, Thick & Fast Mascara, Sexy Mother Pucker Extreme-Plump XL Lipgloss and three sample sachets of Make Yourself Youthful Serum. The Sanctuary Mini Must-Haves Gift Set, which includes, Body Wash, Body Lotion, Foaming Bath Soak and a Body Polisher. The So...? Mini Galore Set, which includes four body sprays, Kiss Me, SuperStar, Sinful and Brit. The Nivea Luscious Lips Set, which includes. Two lip balms in Essential Care and Pearly Shine and two lip butters in Raspberry Rosé and Original. The Vaseline Vintage Lips Set, which includes, the Lip Therapy Balm Tin in Rosy Lips and Healthy Hand + Stronger Nails Hand Cream. The little added extras include, O.P.I Nail Envy Maximum-Strength, O.P.I Nail Envy, Soap & Glory Clean, Girls Body Wash (travel size), Bath Microfibre Animal Print Hair Wrap (turban) and a Goody Tanglefix Brush.

I got a lot of other gifts, such as, jewellery, accessories, money, clothes and stationary, but I just wanted to share the beauty related items with you.

The sales started on Christmas Eve this year, so I purchased a few items and I am just waiting for them to be delivered and then I can share them with you. But since today is Boxing Day, I was going to do a little bit of shopping but I caught the flu Christmas Eve and didn’t really feel like going out today. Hopefully I will be better by New Year!

What did you receive/buy this Christmas?

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