Android App Gadget and Tips: November 2012

Friday, November 30, 2012

Beauty Lovers Advent Calendars

Liz Earle Advent Calendar £100* (free delivery until 4th December)

You Beauty Advent Calendar £59.95 + £2.95 P&P*

Every year, I will be given a chocolate advent calendar from my grandparents (yes, i'm 22 years old) and each year, I still find it just as exciting opening the little door and having a cheeky piece of chocolate for 24 days of the month (even though we all eat chocolate all year round, but it's in the shape of Snowmen and holly...thus making it 100% DIFFERENT...okay?) . However, being a complete beauty junky, when these got delivered to my door, I suddenly lost all enthusiasm for my chocolate advent calendars.

The first one is a Liz Earle advent calendar. As most of you know, I am a huge fan of Liz Earle. I've used their cleanse and polish for well over a year now, and although I dip my toe into the realm of other cleansers, nothing ever comes close. This is the perfect pre-christmas, skincare lovers treat. I appreciate that not everyone will have £100 to splash out on a lavish advent calendar, but look how amazing it is! The perfect early Christmas present for your best friend, Mrs or your Mum. It houses samples of all their best selling skincare, eye care, haircare and body care. I can't express to you how excited to am to start opening this. The end of December can't come quick enough..

The second beauty advent calendar has been created by Latest in Beauty to celebrate their 1 year partnership with You magazine. If you aren't really much of a skincare enthusiast, then this would be much more "up your street". The calendar is made up of 24 different branded beauty samples including Benefit, St Tropez, Espa, L'Occitane, Eve Lom and Dermalogica (a few of my favourites from the long list). There is much more of a variation of products in this one, from mascara and lip balm, to hair masks and hand cream. The calendar is worth over £210, so you are getting yourself an absolute bargain. It's like one giant beauty box! :) You can click here to go the site and take a peek at the products included (or if you want it to be surprise i'd advise you don't scroll down on the website and go straight to the "add to basket"). I, myself have looked at the products included (as I wanted to see if the advent calendar was worth the price tag), and I can confirm that it is! I'd probably use almost all of them.

Have these interested you? Are you contemplating spoiling yourself or someone else during the exciting Christmas run up? I personally think these are a brilliant concept, I just wish they'd been around sooner.

♥

Monday, November 12, 2012

Response To Your Response

When I filmed my video on "Dealing with Panic Attacks & Anxiety", I didn't think for one minute that I would have had such an overwhelming response from so many of you. It took quite a lot of courage for me to sit down and speak out loud about my experiences and difficult aspects of my life on camera. I know that all it involved was me sitting in my bedroom and talking to a piece of photographic equipment but I knew that there would be an awful lot of you watching, so at the time, the pressure was on a heap more than if I were to be showing you the products I'd enjoyed using that month. The video also made it onto YouTube's homepage, which made the experience all the more nail-biting. Not only were my loyal viewers and subscribers hearing about my struggles with panic attacks, but now anyone that landed on the youtube homepage was also watching. Although scary, it meant that it was helping a lot more people, and this made it all the more worthwhile. I wasn't really too sure what the feedback from the video would be, I only wanted it to be seen, and for it to have helped at least one person. After attempting to try and read through all (5,300 currently) comments, hundreds of tweets and a brimming email inbox, it became apparent that I had in fact helped an awful lot of people. I can't even express how happy this makes me. I wish I could sit and reply to each and every one of you, but I think it would take me a lifetime, so instead I just want to say thank you for all your kind words of support and love. I have shed many a tear hearing about how some of you have changed your lives around because of my gentle push. From 12 year old girls to 40 something men, the spectrum is so wide and so many of you have been affected by my rambly video. Whether it has helped you to realise what you are experiencing is panic and anxiety, helped you to help someone close to you, given you the reassurance you aren't alone or given you a virtual cuddle, I am so pleased that it has affected you positively in some way. If you are reading this and you are one of those people, please remember to stay strong, stay happy and keep positive. I wish you all the luck in the world with whatever it is you are battling, you can do it, and you aren't alone.

*group hug*

♥

Friday, November 2, 2012

Giveaway | Custom Blog Design by Wonder Forest

Are you a little bit bored with your blog? Do you wish you had the capability to make it look more professional and add a personal touch?

To kick start November, I have something I think a lot of you will like! My friend Dana who runs the ever so fabulous blog "Wonder Forest", and who is also responsible for my amazing blog design, is giving one of you the chance to win a complete blog re-design/make-over to the cost of $300. If you're anything like me, and find designing things exceptionally hard, along with HTML, then this is perfect for you.

“Hey friends of Zoe! I’m Dana and I blog over at Wonder Forest. I am a professional designer who had the pleasure of working with Zoe on her own blog and wanted to offer the very same services to one of her lucky readers! I know how hard it can be to stand out in a sea of bloggers and a custom design can do just that. I will work with you to design and develop a blog that conveys who you are. If you’d like to check out some of my select past work, just click here. I am excited to work with one of you, and if you are in need of any other design services, premade Blogger templates or graphical goodies you can always visit my new design shop at Envye.com.”

Rules of the Giveaway

♥ Be a follower of my blog via Google Friend Connect

♥ Follow Dana's Blog via Google Friend Connect

♥ "Like" Dana's Facebook Page

Competition is open worldwide

Design services only for blogger blogs

You must already own a blog/have one set up
Giveaway is open for exactly ONE week

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I will announce the winner of the giveaway in exactly one weeks time here on my blog.

Here are all of Dana's links:

Blog- www.Facebook.com/wonderforest

Twitter - www.twitter.com/thewonderforest

Instagram - www.followgram.me/wonderforest

Blog - thewonderforest.com

Shop - HTTP://shop.thewonderforest.com