What are you doing?

Welcome back lovely readers, I hope you had the most wonderful end to 2015 and beginning of 2016! Welcome to my first post of the new year; something a little different.

Some of you will notice that The Beautiful Bubble has been pretty quiet for some time. It's never forgotten, just sometimes quiet.

Clinique Dream Team

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I really hope you've been enjoying welcoming Autumn back into our lives; what a glorious time of year. The skies are beautiful and bright, the trees and colourful and happy, our homes are starting to get cosy with candles and delicious spicy smells and our minds are brimming with festive plans and styling up our favourite chunky knits.

My make-up bag usually gets a bit of a clear out at the beginning of September to make way for all the lovely new goodies that adorn the beauty counters in autumn. One of my favourite brands, Clinique, seem to be having a bit of a beauty moment right now,

Eerste verjaardag in Nederland!

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As many of you will know, my husband and I recently celebrated our very first wedding anniversary! To really celebrate this wonderful milestone in our lives, we decided to take a trip to Amsterdam. We were also invited to stay with some of Nick's relatives in Wassenaar (South Holland) for a few days too, so we made a good holiday out of it.

We started with a super short flight from Newcastle to Schiphol, an even shorter (accidental first class...) train ride to the city centre and a shorter yet stroll along to our wonderful boutique hotel.

#brightandshiny: August

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I hope you've all had a wonderful summer.

I've had a tumultuous August! I've been making so much progress at work I've been busy beyond belief, as well as looking after my husband and animals, getting the house ready for a new floor going down and getting ready for going on holiday for our anniversary. The last week of the month running up to the bank holiday was the busiest of all, as I had my first ever training workshops at work. All the hard work and effort put in was worth it though, as they were a total success and I loved every moment! Hopefully there will be more and more happy training stories to tell in the coming months...

Garnier Skincare Trio: Summer

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 I hope you've all had a lovely weekend, I've certainly been enjoying some down time after another busy week.

Today I'm going to review three new products I purchased last weekend:

#brightandshiny: July

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I couldn't even begin to describe how busy I've been the last couple of months. As you can probably tell from my blog, I've been somewhat absent, and haven't done a #brightandshiny update in ages. Things have started to settle down a bit for now, so I'm making the most of my time to do an update for July, seeing as it was particularly spectacular month!

All I can really say is that I freakin' LOVE my job!!

I Want To Talk About Body Shaming

I want to talk about body shaming.