If you're anything like me you'll fall into the same trap every Christmas, you swear this year will be different yet after buying a couple of gifts you'll find yourself sneakily buying a gift for you, sound familiar? Surprisingly this hasn't been the case for me this year *pause for audible silence*. I've been incredibly strict with my Christmas gifting, sticking to budgets for each recipient (damn you house savings) and haven't bought myself any little treats along the way. Could I be a reformed character? Well.... As I've done so well with my Christmas shopping, completing it in record timing (if you're not so organised and need Christmas gift inspiration look here and here) I decided to treat myself to the three items pictured above. A reformed character? Not quite.

After a cheeky 30% off ASOS discount code landed in my inbox (thank you Yourvine) I had to buy the Elemental Herbology Moisture Replenish Starter Kit usually £20, but mine for a brilliant £14. I adore the perfect balance moisturiser by this brand, so much so I wrote a post about it here however since the weather has gone from bearable to arctic my usually well behaved combination skin has gone to the dry side. Cue the very welcome arrival of this set, perfect for targeting skin concerns, a Christmas gift for a skincare lover (the packaging is lovely) or as a get to know the brand exercise. The kit includes the purify & soothe cleansing balm, the cell plumping facial moisturiser, the facial glow radiance peel, a muslim cloth and my favourite product so far the facial souffle intensive overnight creme. This has been a real skin saviour especially on my dry patches. I promise to report back on the other Elemental Herbology goodies very soon.

 I picked up my second treat, the Topshop nail polish in Jem after my recent trip to the Leeds store where I tried out the Topshop personal shopping service. This is the perfect Christmas nail polish and the bottle is full to the brim of large red glitter chunks. I'm currently wearing this on my ring fingers over Ciate's Dangerous Affair which came from my Mini Mani Month advent calendar, which I'm absolutely loving although I did pick up a Malteasers advent calendar (naughty Hannah!). At first I wasn't too enthused by the Topshop make-up range but now I have a few nail polishes and the moon beam highlighter I'm tempted to try out more from their range, particularly the lipsticks which I hear nothing but good things about. Any colour suggestions?

My final treat to myself was this travel size Neom candle in Refresh. Now I'd like to say this was a completely by chance purchase but I'd be lying, I've been hunting for one of these bad boys for a while so when I walked into a local boutique last Saturday and saw they did Neom I knew it was time to pounce. The Refresh scent is really uplifting with key notes of Sicilian lemon and basil, you'd think they wouldn't work together but they absolutely do. I really fancied the huge Christmas candle but at 40 odd pounds I deemed this more than just a treat. I can't wait to start burning my first Neom candle and feel like a proper blogger with a candle burning in the background whilst I write my posts.

Today feels like Friday for me as tomorrow I'm finishing work early (woop woop) to hop on the train with my mum and head to London for a pre Christmas treat, triple woop! The reason for our trip? Colours of the world, spice up your life (yes I did just sing this) we're off to see Viva Forever the musical and I for one cannot wait to get my Sporty Spice on, yes she really was my fave. Annoyingly I'm currently fighting a stupid viral infection so I'm hoping copious amounts of afternoon tea and the power of shopping might help to send it packing, fingers crossed. So this is a sort of heads up that I may be M.I.A for the rest of the week but don't fear, I will be back with London snaps galore, a run down on Viva Forever although I can't promise they'll be no singing- a full Cagney On Tour report if you will so keep your eyes peeled.

 Have you succumbed and bought Christmas treats for yourself? What have you been buying?