♡ CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE 2016 ♡

It's that time of the year again - time for my annual Christmas Gift Guide post. If you've not seen these posts on my blog before, I basically have trawled the shops, internet and social media to pick out my top Christmas gifts to compile this gift guide. I've picked out beauty, fashion and random items and this guide is pretty much a compilation of gifts I've purchased myself, gifts that I'm gifting to others, things I wouldn't mind receiving myself and a few random bits that I thought were interesting. With that being said, I hope you enjoy and find this lil gift guide fairly helpful.

BEAUTY:
I'm kicking off my 2016 gift guide with quite possibly (or definitely) my favourite category of them all - beauty. I've done my best to source out some high end and more affordable products and narrow them down into only a select few, and here they are.

• No7 Illuminated Make Up Mirror  - originally £49.99 but this has recently been on offer at around £15 - £20
• Benefit b.Right on girl! gift set - £29.50 at Boots 
• Essie Crack'a'Colour Christmas Gift Set - £20 at Boots
• Real Techniques Mega Set - currently £40 at Boots 
• MAC Nutcracker Sweet holiday collection - I personally recommend the lip gloss sets and the patent polish sets (£26 each)
• Too Faced Park Avenue Kisses gift set - £20 at toofaced.com 
• Nars Limited Edition Shadow Side - £29 at ASOS

FASHION:

This was perhaps the hardest category for me to find gifts in - purely because fashion is so individual and it's hard to say what each person may or may not like and, for this reason, I've done my best to keep this as general as possible. 

• Black and white check tassel scarf  - £13 at River Island - though pretty much everywhere sells scarfs, this is just the one I picked out 
• Pink cat fragrant eye mask - £10 at River Island (I'm a cat fanatic, so of course I had to pop this in)
• Purpose Tour x H&M - merch is always a good idea for the music obsessed people in your life - I've been loving the Purpose Tour merch which has recently been stocked at H&M
• Slim Fit Boyfriend Coat - £59 at Topshop - coats are an essential during winter time and I am so *insert heart eye emoji* over this one
• Polar Bear Print Socks - £4.50 at Forever 21 - can you even go wrong with socks? 
• Ted Baker Peek a Bow Chain Earrings - £25 at ASOS

RANDOM:

This is basically the category where it's completely up to you - the category based on personal choice, and what kind of person you're buying for, so I've picked out some of my favourite cds, dvds, books and so on to share with you here. 

• DNCE by DNCE - at the time of writing this post, it's currently £7.99 on Amazon and it's one of my favourite albums of all time, enough said
• Unfinished Business by Nathan Sykes - I love Nathan Sykes and his album is not a disappointment - currently £9.99 on Amazon
• Pretty Little Liars (Book One) - the PLL book series is my all time favourite (I prefer it to the TV show, and that's saying something) and I think it'd be a super great gift for anyone that loves reading and / or the PLL show 
• The Vamps: Our Story: 100% Official - oh please, if you know me, you'd know that this was going to pop up somewhere - though I do recommend buying celebrity biographies as Christmas gifts, especially if you know the person you're buying for has a specific favourite celebrity, who may have a book out
• Lonely Planet 2017 Calendar - currently £9.99 at ASOS - calendars are a great gift idea and I personally love getting a calendar every Christmas 
• Sass & Belle Cat Mug - HOW CUTE IS THIS?! Currently £10 at ASOS
• New York Luxury Reed Diffuser - £20 for 400ml at Next 
• New York Fragranced Luxury Candle - £12 at Next 

So that concludes my Christmas Gift Guide for 2016. I've spent hours trawling through the internet in order to pick out these gifts so I really hope that this was helpful in some way. I hope you have a lovely week and I'll see you very soon with another new post.