Hey beautiful people. I really hope you all had an amazing Christmas. I certainly did.
Today I wanted to do a What I Got For Christmas video. Now, I was in a bit of a debate whether
or not to do this, because I didn't wanna come across as being showy offy. But I know
quite a lot of you guys like those kind of videos. I like watching them myself anyway.
And I just thought it might be interesting for you guys to see what I got for Christmas.
But also just as a way to express my gratitude to the people who've given me some really
lovely presents. Because I did get spoilt rotten this year, which I'm really grateful for.
So I just really wanted to show you guys what I was given, and just show you
what I got for Christmas.
As you'll notice, I'm wearing a Christmas headband and a Christmas jumper. Because
this is the last festive video I'm gonna do before I wave goodbye to Christmas for good.
So why not be a little bit festive whilst it's here? You know, New Year's around the corner.
So anyway, I'm gonna get straight into it, and I really hope you enjoy it.
So I'm gonna start off with what I got from my parents. Now, this is not everything that
my parents got me. They did get me a lot of other stuff, but I just picked the things
that I liked the most, and things that are beauty related, and things that I really,
really wanted and was really excited to get. So let's start with what they got me.
So the first thing they got me was this... [strains] oh my god!... ginormous Lush set. It's absolutely
massive. I don't even know if I can show you it all in the camera, it's so big. This is
the Winter Wonderland Lush set, and it's just one of their mega big ones, and it's got
20 different bath products in there.
It's got things like... obviously I won't read them all out to you now... but it's got
Frozen Bath Bomb, Holly Golightly, Cinders Bath Ballistic, Ceridwen's Cauldron, which
is one of my favourite ones anyway. So it's just got a ton of bath products in it. And
I was just like "Oh my god!" when I saw it. So I won't need to go to Lush for
a very, very, very long time!
But it's massive, look at it. And the smells that are coming out of this thing,
you wouldn't believe how good it smells. It's just amazing.
It smells like a Lush shop in my room at the moment.
The next thing I got, I was not expecting in the slightest. When I opened it I was like
"Oh my fricking god, what the hell?" And it is the GHD Professional Styler Max. And these
are the big GHDs. Now, I do have the smaller size ones, which I do like. But I've been
told that the big GHDs are better for more wavy, bouncier, natural curls. Especially
because I've got long hair, it takes me a millennium to curl my hair. I mean, I do curl
my hair quite a lot, but it takes me ages with the little ones.
So my mum got me these big ones, so it will hopefully not take me as long. So I was so
chuffed when i got these, because I really, really wanted them. But I didn't even know
she was getting me them, so it was a lovely surprise to find these in the morning.
So, moving on, my parents also got me this Too Faced Le Grand Chateau Set. Now, I had
said I really want this, if they're able to get me it, because it was one of the main
things I wanted for Christmas. I absolutely fell in love with it. You'll kind of see why.
It's basically a cardboard pink chateau style French house. When you open it up, you get
3 palettes inside here, and you also get a little sample size of the
Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara.
I'll show you one of the palettes actually. This is what they look like on the inside.
This is one of them, and this is one of the lighter ones. And it's just got a beautiful
assortment of pinks and beigey nude taupey tone colours. It's really pretty, and there's
3 of them inside here. So I was so happy to get this, because I really wanted it so bad.
And when I opened it I was like "Ohhh my god! You get me my set that I wanted!"
So super grateful to get this.
My parents also got me a Polaroid camera. Because I had wanted one of these ever since
I saw my best friend Alice had one. And don't ask me why, I just think they're really cool.
But also I wanna get into scrapbooking, and I really wanted a Polaroid camera.
So they got me one, and it is the blue Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 Camera, and it's in the light blue
colour. And I just love it. So the idea of it is you put film in it, you take a picture,
and it prints off automatically. You don't have to print them off online.
And I just really like it. I got some film with it too. So I'm gonna be using this,
and I just love it. I just think it's so cute. And everyone's been raving about these, and
I've seen them for ages, and I've finally, finally, finally, FINALLY got one.
So I'm so happy! Finally got my Polaroid camera.
Alice, you're not the only one who's got a Polaroid camera!
Continuing with what I was saying about scrapbooking, my mum actually got me this really cool set.
And it's a scrapbook set, and it comes with a scrapbook that you can use, and scissors
and lots of little 3D things you can use to make your scrapbook.
So I was super chuffed to get this. Because like I said, I wanna get into scrapbooking.
I just think it's really therapeutic. And I do creative writing sessions now, and our
tutor was actually saying you should do scrapbooking if you're a creative writer, because it helps
you to get inspiration, and it's really good for your writing. So I wanna get into it.
So that's why I got that. So I'm really happy with this, and I can't wait to get into scrapbooking.
My parents also got me this really amazing Diptyque candle set for Christmas. And inside
you get 5 miniature candles in their most famous fragrances, like the Ambre one and
the Vanille and the Pomander. And when I opened this I was like "Oooh, my god, this is amazing!"
Because I do love my candles, and I like to try new brands of candles. And I've never
tried a Diptyque one before. So when I got this, I was like "Yes!" So I've got 5 ones
to try here, and they're cute little miniature sizes of each one. And I just think it's a
really lovely present. And it's in this lovely black box, and I'm really happy with that.
Oh god, it smells so good!
Another candle I got, again from my parents, is the Sanctuary Spa Unwind Candle. And,
oh my god, this smells heavenly. It's a sweet, relaxing fragrance, but it just smells so lovely,
and I just think it's great. And I love the packaging of this as well, I just think
it looks really pretty. And all of Sanctuary Spa candles just smell like you're in the spa,
so I love it. And it's in this little red box. So I'm gonna be spoilt for choice
with my candles this Christmas. You can never have too many candles after all, can you?
So my family know how much I love beauty, and another present I got was this bag of
Kiko wonders. So it's just got loads of amazing things that I picked out. And I'm not actually
gonna feature them all in this video. I'm gonna do a separate Kiko haul, which you can see.
But it's just got so many lovely Kiko products.
And if you don't know Kiko, they are a makeup brand, and they do really amazing eyeshadows
and things. And they've just opened in my local shopping centre in Bromley. So, my god,
makeup porn. If you have never been into Kiko, #MakeupPorn, that's legit what it's like in there,
it's just amazing. Especially their eyeshadows.
My grandparents gave me money for Christmas to do whatever I pleased with. So with it
I actually went out in the sales and bought this lovely Swarovski Crystal Bracelet.
And it is one of their Stardust Bracelets, which is a wraparound bracelet with all crystals on it.
I've got one in gold. And I'd seen this one in this cranberry red colour,
and I really wanted it. And it was reduced in the sales to £34, and I was like
"Well, while it's that price, I might as well go ahead and buy it."
So that was what I got with my grandparents' money. And I just think it's super pretty,
it's absolutely stunning. And it just looks really nice on, and it's really nice for the
winter period. So thanks Nan and Grandad.
Another present I got was from one of my favourite Etsy stores called Zingara Creativa. And basically
she's an Italian lady, and she makes custom made necklaces in little whimsical fairy designs
and characters, but she can also make ones that are replicas of people or caricatures
of people. And my mum actually got me one, and it is me, and it's been designed with
my little guide dog Unity sitting next to me.
So I just really love it, because it's me, and I've got little autumnal flowers in my hair,
and my guide dog Unity's next to me, a little labrador. And I just think it's so
super cute. It's a long pendant, and I just frickin' love it. It's so cute, and I'm just
so grateful to have got a piece of personalised jewellery with me on it!
Sticking with jewellery, another jewellery item I got was this brooch from Erstwilder.
Now, I'm a big fan of Erstwilder, I have been for quite a few years now. And I saw that
they'd brought this range out called The Beauty School, and I've mentioned it a few times.
And this was a present from my mum again.
And it's a little makeup bag, and inside of the makeup bag you can see little lipsticks
and little makeup applicator items in there. And I just think it's so cute. My mum said
"You're a beauty blogger, this is just so you Emily."
I got some slippers. They're pink with little white bows on them, they're boot slippers.
I love slippers, I live in them, I just think they're amazing. They keep my feet warm, and
they're pink, what can I say? Gotta love them, I can't wait to wear them. They feel so soft!
I got a stocking for Christmas, and it's absolutely full of lovely delights, like chocolates and
little candles and Primark nails and face masks and shower gels, yadda yadda yadda.
It's got loads of little things in it.
But one of the things I wanted to show you was this little set I got from Charlotte Tilbury.
And it's a little miniature set full of her famous lipsticks. So there's a trio of her
Kissing Lipsticks in here, and they're little miniature sizes. There's one in Bitch Perfect,
there's a red tone one and a pink tone one, I can't actually remember what they're called.
And I just opened this and I was like [gasps] "Charlotte Tilbury!" And it's just so cute!
I mean, look at the lipsticks. They're just little dinky ones, they're absolutely adorable,
I love it. So that was one of my favourite presents I got in my stocking actually.
But I love everything in my stocking, because it's so me. And it's really personalised,
which I love. I love when people get me really personal gifts, and this stocking's just got
everything that I love, and everything I'm about, which is amazing. So I love it.
From my other nan, I also got a few other things. She always does give me a cheque as
my main present, because she's quite old-fashioned that way, and she likes to do it. So she gave
me as a cheque as my main present to go and do with what I wanted.
But then she also got me this lovely little trio of Yankee Candles, and inside there's
Christmas Cookie, the Sparkling Cinnamon, and the Balsam And Cedar Candle. And it's
got a little Father Christmas decoration sitting on the top. And I love Yankee Candles, and
I just think this is a really lovely gift, because I do like them.
And then she got me this really pretty bracelet, and it is a lilac colour bracelet with little
rose gold colour sparkly beads on it. I don't actually know where it's from, it doesn't
actually have a name. But I just like it anyway, and it's really pretty. And I just like the
detail on it. So I do really like that.
So I wanna show you also what my friend Charlotte Eades here on Youtube got me, who is one of
my best friends here on Youtube. I'll link her down below. I love her channel,
I think she's amazing. And we sent each other gifts this year.
And she sent me this really cute little photo frame. And it is yellow, and it's been designed
to look like a beehive, with all these little serrated edges, which are like beehive openings,
and then there's a little bee on the corner here. And I'm actually gonna get a picture
of me and Charlotte inside this picture frame. I've actually ordered it, so I'm waiting for
it to come now. But I just think this is super cute, and I love bees. This is my sort of thing,
so I love that.
She also got me a little set from Autograph. And it is a nail varnish and hand cream set.
So there's one little hand cream, and then there's 4 different nail varnishes, all in
pinkish tones, and there's a raspberry in there. And I love it, because these are all
the kind of colours that I actually like to wear. I wear all these sorts of colours.
So I thought that was a really lovely gift. And I do like to manicure my nails and stuff.
So another gift she got me was this really pretty brooch, which is like a little flower.
And it's got little crystals on it, and it's got a big pearlish stone in the centre.
Pearls are my birthstone actually, I don't know if she knew that. But I think that's really cute.
And I really love it, and I think it will look lovely with a black coat or something,
or a plain black jacket or something. So I really like that, so thank you so much
for that Charlotte.
So the last thing I wanted to show you are these lovely pyjamas that I got. They are
grey and they've got brown little deers on them. And they cuff at the bottom, and these
are more like leggingy type jobbies, or jogging bottom kind of things. And then the top is
in the same pattern, and it's a long sleeved top.
And I think these are more like loungewear pyjamas. So you don't look as if you're wearing
pyjamas when you open the door to the postman, which I quite like. Because I am often in
my pyjamas when I'm at home, and the postman always comments like "Ooh, in your pyjamas
again!" But really, why should he comment? I like pyjamas, what's the big deal?
But I love these, and I just think they're really cosy, and they look really nice.
So I'm really super chuffed with those too.
So that concludes my What I Got For Christmas this year guys. I really hope you enjoyed it.
And I really hope you had a lovely Christmas as well, and that you really enjoyed it.
Have a super duper New Year, I hope you have a really good one. Enjoy yourself, be merry.
Eat, drink and just have a really good time. And I hope 2016 is a fantastic year for you all.
And I will see you guys in my next video. Bye everybody!
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