Giveaway: Christophe Robin Luxury Regenerating Haircare

Christophe Robin Regenerating Haircare

I’m starting the new week with an incredibly decadent giveaway for you. Do you remember my summer love affair with the Christophe Robin volumising haircare à la rose? Beautiful, bouncifying shampoo and conditioner with the most delicate rose scent? (If you don’t remember then you can remind yourselves here.) Well. There’s something even newer from hair colourist extraordinaire Christophe  – the Regenerating Collection – and I have five whole sets of it to give away!

Christophe Robin Regenerating Haircare

Christophe Robin’s Regenerating Collection has, at its core, the Regnerating Mask with Rare Prickly Pear Seed Oil; a highly concentrated deep conditioning mask that helps to repair and strengthen damaged hair. A bit of a Google on Prickly Pear Seed Oil throws up the fact that it has a record concentration of essential fatty acids and vitamin E – twice as much as argan oil! Bring it on.

I tried this mask in the summer and it was incredibly powerful – I rather overdid it, I think, because you only need the tiniest amount. It’s a total hair treatment – you massage in from roots right down to the tips so that the scalp is stimulated as well as the lengths being cared for. But the result is stronger, healthier-feeling hair – it’s the perfect kind of mask to use when you’re having a long beauty session in the bath. I collect disposable shower caps from hotels for precisely this type of event; I squeeze all the water from my freshly-washed hair, apply a mask and wind my hair up on to the top of my head before putting on the cap. It stops my hair from going into the water when I relax back into the bath.

Christophe Robin Regenerating Haircare

Where was I? The Regenerating Collection. There’s now a rich, creamy shampoo (again, enriched with prickly pear oil) and a multi-use, intense repair balm. The repair balm is brilliant for dry ends, especially if you have your hair coloured on a regular basis and have ends like straw. Just a tiny amount melted between fingertips can be used to add a bit of definition, too – kind of like a styling wax, but massively conditioning at the same time. It’s non-sticky and can also be used on lips as a salve, on dry skin anywhere on the face or body and as a soothing balm post-shave.

Christophe Robin Regenerating Haircare

I have five sets of this gorgeous Regenerating Collection to give away, each comprising a shampoo (worth £30) a mask (worth £51) and a balm (worth £29). The total value of each set is a massive £110 so this is truly the haircare routine of dreams. If your hair is in need of some intensive care then this is the ultimate prize…

To be in with the chance of winning, leave a comment below, making sure that you enter your email address into the form where prompted. (This won’t be visible to anyone else.) If you’re feeling generous then you can share this post, tweet about it or subscribe to my newsletter, but it’s not obligatory.

I’m just trying my luck. Ha.

One entry per person, this is open worldwide and the giveaway closes at noon on Friday (29th January 2016). Winners will be picked at random on Friday and announced in the Sunday Tittle Tattle. Good luck everyone! If you’d like to take a look at the full range from Christophe Robin, it’s on LookFantastic here. My love affair with the rose range is still very much alive – I’m almost through the second lot.

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Rouge Dior Baume

Rouge Dior Baume

Rouge Dior Baume

I’m certainly seeing the beauty in the new Rouge Dior Baume collection.. whisper-soft slivers of colour in a balmy texture and perfect for approaching autumn (or now, since we seem to have entirely lost our summer).

Rouge Dior Baume

Rouge Dior Baume

Colours from left to right are: Star (no colour, just a little bit of shimmer), Diorette, Spring and Lili????

Rouge Dior Baume

Rouge Dior Baume

As you can see, there is a gentle sheen – and they feel all kinds of balmy with no stickiness and all the comfort you’d hope for with any lip balm. To take it down to the minutae, it leaves a fine film rather than a thick or waxy feeling on. Mine has lasted well on my lips in terms of feeling and looking like it’s still there after a couple of hours. It’s not entirely clear what’s in it other than the mysterious sounding Cristal Oil, developed at the Dior Labs.

Launch date for the Rouge Dior Baume is October and the balms will be £26 each.

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Stuff You Can Buy Today

Bourjois Little Round Pot Blanc Diaphane

Bourjois Little Round Pot Blanc Diaphane

The sweet limited edition Bourjois Little Round Pots have arrived on ASOS – there are three colours, but I love the white shade, Blanc Diaphane, for a shimmery topcoat over any other lid colour. They’re a snip at £6.99 HERE and are good for any season, so if you don’t use it all up in the summer, winter frosting is right there!

Givenchy Le Croisiere

Givenchy Le Croisiere

The years most beautiful bronzer has hit the shelves! Givenchy Limited Edition Croisiere Terre Exotique Bronzer is in Debenhams for £39.50 HERE. I still haven’t even swatched mine.. I can’t, I can’t! But if you do want it, don’t delay because it’s a limited edition product and I think will sell out pretty quickly.

Thalgo Bronzing Activator

Thalgo Bronzing Activator

I’m using Thalgo Bronzing Activator at the moment because I have a few days in the sun coming up; it’s a product I’ve used on and off for years and it really does help to tan more quickly. I can hardly remember the time that I had a two week holiday where I could let a tan gradually build over the days, so tan activators have been my staple speed-holiday product for years. You will still need to use an SPF and be sensible in the sun, but tan activators bring melanin to the surface of the skin so when the sun hits it, you’re ready! Tan activators won’t work for you if you have hardly any natural melanin, though, so if you never tan, even in sun, this is unlikely to help. It’s £24.50 at Feel Unique HERE.

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Sunday Tittle Tattle: Day In My Life Vlogs

a day in my lifeI completely forgot to post up the Day In My Life videos I made; one of them follows an entire day “with baby” and the other one, to offer some contrast, is a work day. And by work, I mean working from my home office, tied to the computer and not even glancing up for about nine hours! (Lies: I spend a good proportion of time in the morning faffing about.)

I have a nanny for two days a week, now, and so I try to get all of my work done in that space of time. It doesn’t work out that way at all, because social media is a round-the-clock-never-stop sort of thing and so invariably I do work every day, whether it’s during the baby’s nap times or late at night. I’ve tried to calculate how many hours I spend on my various endeavours (A Model RecommendsThe Uphill, writing fiction, Colab dry shampoo) and I reckon it to be around 35 hours per week. Pre-baby, it was 70. I think (think) that I get more done now and I hope that what I do is of a better quality, which goes to show what can happen if I focus and stop reading the Mail Online. Ha!

I should mention that Mr AMR is also freelance and is at home more than the average working person. Which is brilliant. We split the childcare thing pretty well, I’d say – some weeks he has a lot on, and I stay at home on my own with the baby and go slightly mad and start crawling the walls, and other weeks it might be that I have to go away, or have a lot of content to produce or deadlines to meet, and he takes over the lion’s share. It works very well and I am eternally grateful that we have this set-up. We’ve both always been freelance, so I suppose we went into the parenthood game knowing that this would be the case, but still – I feel very lucky. Especially as a lot of the time we try to get our work done in the evenings so that we can do nice family things in the day.

Anyway, I’ve totally digressed and given you a breakdown of our domestic situation, which wasn’t intentional – if you’re not bored to tears then do watch the Day In My Life vlogs. I’ve embedded the work one below, the baby one is on my Youtube channel here.

If anyone has any questions about being freelance, balancing work and home life, how I go about organising my features for the websites or more obscure subjects then please do leave them in the comments – I’m thinking about doing a little Q&A video, depending on interest levels…

 Read more Sunday Tittle Tattles here…

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