✩ ✩ ✩ Giveaway Has Now Ended Thanks To All Who Entered ✩ ✩ ✩
It’s time for my first ever giveaway! After 3 months of blogging I have been so pleased with how well my posts have been received and appreciated that I wanted to run this competition for my UK based followers.
I have been getting rather excited while gathering all these items together. I have won several competitions myself already this year, and I know what a great feeling it is to win something. Except this giveaway isn’t just something, it’s a great number of something’s most of which I have tried and/or reviewed myself!
So what can you win? There are the latest beauty items, some of my favourites from 2016 so far, even something edible that I’ve reviewed on my blog! I have also had some donations from a few very generous companies to put in this giveaway as well!
I will now list all of the items that one lucky follower will win below.
Cadbury Dairy Milk Medley Bar – Raspberry, Dark Chocolate and Hazelnut Flavour
This delicious medley bar contains dairy milk chocolate with dark chocolate chips, caramelised hazelnuts and freeze-dried raspberry pieces. It is super delicious, I recently reviewed this bar on my blog if you fancy reading all about it (with pictures).

Rimmel London – Mono Eye Shadow – Glam’Eyes in shade Posh Peacock
Bright blue eye shadow has been on trend this SS16 and I thought it would be awesome to give this colour a go if you hadn’t already tried it. This little mono shadow is a great handbag and makeup bag size too.

Barry M Gelly Hi Shine Nail Paint in the shade of Dragon Fruit pink
I hadn’t tried this new gel nail paint from Barry M so when I did manage to buy some for myself, I was so impressed with it that I wanted to give one away. I purchased this awesome bright pink colour as I thought it would look great in a contrast with the blue eye shadow I think.

Yankee Candle – Scent of Lavender – 8 hours of burn
Lavender is my favourite scent for calming down and relaxing after a long working week. This little candle will burn for around 8 hours and the smell is so strong that you can smell it even without burning it. I hope whoever wins the giveaway will enjoy this, whether it is burned in the bathroom to relax or burned in the living area to remove any smells of food. This is one of my personal favourites that I have included as a little relaxing pick-me-up for the winner.

Spectrum Brushes kindly donated from Spectrum Collections
If you haven’t owned a spectrum brush before you will hopefully be pleased with these two beauties! I have reviewed my personal collection on the blog already, if you fancy a read before hopefully winning these great products!
You can find Spectrum Brushes and all of their amazing products on their website http://www.spectrumcollections.com/
1. A14 –Wing It – This brush is designed for applying gel, wax or powder to full eyebrows. The firm bristles allow for you to make precision application. Or it can be used for defining the lash line when putting on gel eye liner because the brushes pointed edge can help achieve a fabulous flick with a steady hand.
2. A08 – Happy Medium – This brush is great for all round use for applying all kinds of makeup to the eye area. Be it cream, powder and pigment eye shadow, they all work wonderfully well with this soft medium sized brush. Products can be applied with ease to build up the look on the whole eye lid. You can gradually build with one shade or use several to create a smooth and blended look.

Beautiful Flamingo Brooch donated from Lylia Rose
This stunning piece has been donated by the lovely UK company Lylia Rose. They specialise in beautiful gifts in their online boutique. You can find them on Twitter @LyliaRose or http://www.lyliarose.com/

Not only will you win this stunning brooch in a lovely white organza bag, but you will also receive a discount code for the Lylia Rose website, 15% off your own order!
This fantastic prize bundle totals over £30! And it could all be yours; all you need to do is follow the steps below in order to gain entry. Good luck!
Severn Wishes Giveaway
1. Please ensure you are following on Twitter so that the winner can be contacted with ease on the closing date. Follow https://twitter.com/Sabrina7UK
2. Subscribing to the blog will keep you up to date with all the Severn Wishes news and posts, including future giveaways. You can do this on the homepage.
3. Use the link below to gain your entries to the competition.
✩ ✩ ✩ Enter This Giveaway Here ✩ ✩ ✩
The winner will be drawn at random by or on June 20th and will be contacted on social media. My main media outlet is Twitter so make sure you’re following on there so I can tag you if you win!
Thank you for entering, good luck!
★ Sabrina ★
Terms and Conditions:
- This competition is running from May 28th until June 19th 2016.
- This giveaway is only open to entrants from the UK.
- Severn Wishes reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and these terms and conditions without notice.
- No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason, and all entries subject to verification.
I love the shabby chic and vintage style of this tray. It is very sturdy and the colours are vibrant. The detail in the flowers and the cupcakes really bring the piece to life. I feel very lucky to have won such a nice item, and it will be used in the summer months for sure when we have tea and cake to share.
I have always enjoyed playing games that have unique and complex storylines. I love to get lost in the imagination of them, and feel as though I am inside the game and not just playing it. Having played some of the other Call of Duty campaigns I felt like this one would of course be similar, but I was wrong. Not only is this game graphically spectacular but I have found myself becoming so immersed in the action that all aspects of the world around me disappear for a time. The reason for this is because the gameplay is so intense at times, and concentration is paramount to succeeding.
The developer Treyarch returns to this video game to show what three years of hard work can achieve, and I believe they have done a fantastic job with this one. Set in the future, where life is both dark and difficult, you find your chosen character immersed in a world filled with futuristic technology and robotics. Aspects that will play a huge role in the entirety of this game.
Throughout the game I couldn’t fault the onscreen view, everything was clear and concise, maps and objectives were all easy to understand and follow. The graphics were clear and routes were easy to determine. Even in scenes of chaos the game allowed you to know where to go, often combining your movements with those of other characters and objectives.
My favourite type of sample to have is a skincare one. I always enjoy trialing out a new product, especially skin creams and foundation. I often sign up with companies when they request for people to be sent out initial samples to try, I am one of those thousand or so people who tried it (sometimes even less people are chosen) and I feel happy that I have contributed to a products review.
I hope you have liked my opinions on samples, and I will admit, I’m going to take my own advice and use some of my recent freebies too!
Vita Coco sent me this fabulous box with a sample for me to use. Its description reads, ‘Eat It • Wear It • Swear By It’. Even before it arrived to me I already knew how I first wanted to use the coconut oil.
My hair is naturally curly and can be quite dry. I have read about a number of celebrities who swear by regular coconut oil hair treatments. After doing some reading I decided on the best way to test if the product would work on my hair. I would photograph myself during the initial day of testing to determine visual differences. What I hoped to see was shiny and smoother hair after the first use.



So what else can you use this coconut oil for? Cooking is one option, and I have a wonderful curry recipe that I plan to use it on. I would normally buy dried coconut but I think that the raw coconut may mix better and be more cost effective, because it’s so versatile in this state.
So to give an overall review of this product my husband says he would give the contents of the box an 8/10. This is because he loved the figurine and says the quality of the t-shirt is excellent. He won’t be keeping some of the items and I believe he is considering gifting them to friends at Christmastime. But he liked the little ghostbusters ghost plush, even though he is a little old to receive cuddly toys!




I’m very impressed with the colour because of how bold it is. As you can see on my swatch on my arm it’s a deep shade of purple, not as dark as it appears in bulk in the pot, but still a wonderfully bright shade. Although only a very small pot at 4.5g, I feel as though this makeup will go a long long way. I barely used any of the powder for the swatch and I know that with the correct brushes it can be blended well.
Thank you to VLA Cosmetics who got the prize to me very quickly and well packaged as well. I am very happy with the product, and having not tried any MAC makeup before, I am impressed with the pigment.
I have always been a fan of juices and smoothies, and any simple way that I can get nutrients into my body quickly. When I heard about Juice Burst drinks I wanted to try them and give a short review for those who may not have discovered them yet.
Every one of the products counts as one of your five a day, and they are all smooth to drink and delicious too. Juice Burst have core flavours, and a new range of skinny drinks as well. These core juice drinks contain a lot of fruit juice and range from paired fruit perfections such as Orange and Passion Fruit, and the more unusual such as Blood Orange. As for the skinny options these have no added sugar and still contain enough fruit juice to be classed as one of your five a day.
I have been lucky enough to try some of these drinks, and I’m going to review some of them individually for you, outlining the nutritional information as well as what I thought of the flavours.

Spectrum Brushes are some of the most beautiful makeup brushes I have ever seen, no scratch that, they are definitely the prettiest I have seen! But what makes them so good? Well I decided I wanted to try them for myself and review them. So here I am in action, using these brushes and photographing them as I go, to give you an overall review of these unique looking products.
Being lightweight and soft the brushes are each designed for a specific makeup application. The shapes are specific to applying all kinds of makeup including Powder, Cream and Liquid. There are Eye Shadow, Foundation and Contour defining shapes as well as the general brushes for everyday use.
I kept hearing great things about the quality of these brushes from all over social media. And when I held them in my own hands and used them to apply makeup to my skin I could understand what all the fuss was about. Soft and shape specific, they made the application of my makeup products easy and precise.


I’m very pleased that I can add these stunning brushes to my collection, and I hope they last me for many years to come.
If you have enjoyed this review then please feel free to leave me a comment, and look out for more beauty reviews and pictures including these brushes in use, coming soon…