Winter Must Haves

December is my absolute favourite month. I love the build up to Christmas and the excitement for the new year. I thought I'd share my winter/Christmas must haves that I've been loving so far.

Red lipstick is my best friend in the lead up to Christmas, whether that be a bright red or a more berry tone. My 3 favourites for this time of year are Kiko's Velvet Mat lipstick in 606 Fire Red, MAC's lipstick in Sin and Rimmel's Kate Moss lipstick in 107. All of these have a matte finish because I personally believe that suits me the best. I'd definitely recommend you check these lipsticks out for the festive season.

Now for perfume, the scent I've been loving recently is 'gingerbread' from The Library Of Fragrance. This smells just like gingerbread but in a good way, you don't smell like a walking gingerbread man, even though I'd probably quite enjoy that. It smells warm and wintery, the perfect Christmas day scent.

I love being able to wear super glittery nails at this time of year. Glitter looks amazing over a dark colour and the glitter topcoat I've been loving is Essie's summit of style. Recently I've been putting this on top of Barry M's Watermelon, which is a lovely dark forest green colour, or Raspberry, which is a gorgeous berry red.

Taking care of yourself and your skin is especially important during the winter months. I love having a bubble bath using this Beauticology body wash in the scent gingerbread, it's not great as a body wash but works perfectly if you use it as a bubble bath. After getting out the bath, I enjoy using  the Body Shop chocomania body butter. Being a bit of a choco-holic, I looooove the scent of this. Finally, it's important to keep your lips moisturised during winter, especially if you're going to be wearing dark/matte lipsticks. The lip balm I've been using the most is the Body Shop's born lippy in Passion Fruit.

Obviously, Christmas music is a massive part of December. I popped into HMV about a month ago and found this Christmas vinyl from Frank Sinatra and had to pick it up because I'm an old lady and adore Frank Sinatra. The vinyl has 12 tracks, including 'have yourself a merry little christmas' and 'the first noel'. If you have a record player and find this, I'd highly recommend it.

Obviously hats and scarf's become increasingly important as the temperature gets colder. I've been wearing this tartan blanket scarf from Matalan which is huge, so perfect for the colder weather. The hat I've been loving is this cream bobble hat from Peacocks. I like this because it sits on my head really well, which is something a lot of hats don't do on me.

Thanks for reading, I hope you have a fantastic December!