Christmas means gift sets to me, and not just any old gift set, but the sort of stuff you don't generally buy for yourself - you want fancy, luxury stuff in a gorgeous shiny box.
No doubt advertisers will start rolling out those TV ads for 'All Mums want for Christmas is Olay'. Yeah right. Mums definitely want something that costs €9 that they buy when they're in the supermarket anyway. Oh yeah, for sure. They don't want their kids to stop squabbling, someone else to make the Christmas dinner and a couple of hours of peace and quiet - no, they want a crappy bottle of moisturiser, according to whoever dreamt up that ridiculous ad. A man, I bet.
Much as I like Olay and all that, if someone gave me a bottle of it for Christmas, I'd descend into a homicidal rage and stab them with a sharpened Christmas cracker. So what do us women want? Well, we'll be doing a ton of posts in the run up to Christmas on gift ideas for everyone - sisters, mums, dads, brothers, girlfriends and boyfriends, so stay posted.
To kick us off, I've gone all swoony over Bliss's Christmas gift sets - now this is the sort of thing I want to see in my stocking - delicious expensive products that I didn't have to pay for - truly THIS is the spirit of Christmas.
From left to right: This is great - the Best of Bliss contains small sizes of bliss high intensity hand cream, bliss lemon + sage soapy sap, bliss lemon + sage body scrub, bliss vanilla + bergamot bubbling bath + shower gel, bliss vanilla + bergamot body butter and a mini bliss herban jungle exfoliating soap. AND a lovely little bag to hold them all. It costs $45.
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Also high on my wish-list is the Slim Pickings Set According to Bliss, "One can never be too thin or too rich in flab-fighting formulas. So give that pudge the proverbial nudge with travel ready renditions of our most popular "bare necessities"." OK! The set includes their renowned fatgirlslim cream, bliss high thighs cellulite fighting serum, bliss high thighs slimmer scrub and bliss serious seaweed cellulite soap. $40 for dimple free thighs? Sold!
I wouldn't turn my nose up at this Carrot+Sesame Body Buff set either. It's based on their carrot and sesame body buff spa treatment, and it's a DIY home version. You get a jar of skin-smoothing, sea-salt-infused carrot and sesame spa scrub and a bottle of body-quenching, milk and honey-hinted carrot and sesame finishing foam. Yum! Sounds good enough to eat. That set will cost you $48.
Lastly, lets pay a little attention to hair. Bliss have a fab range of hair products and this would make a great treat - it's their The 'lock' Star Gift Box which contains a bliss lemon + sage supershine shampoo and bliss lemon + sage conditioning rinse, bundled in a Bliss gift box. It costs $28, which is a $10 saving on buying them individually.
In case you're balking about ordering from the States, here's a few sweetners - the Dollar is weak against the Euro so that will mostly take care of the shipping costs, you get free samples with every order, and until the 15th of December, to get you on the Bliss bandwagon they'll give you a FREE full-sized lemon+sage body butter ($32 value) with any $75 purchase! To get your free gift enter code 116403 during checkout.
What are you waiting for? Get shoppin'!
