Revealing My Adore Me Secret + a $500 Gift Card Giveaway!

This post was sponsored by Adore Me as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central. I received complimentary products to facilitate my review.

I'm a bit of subscription box fanatic; with so many amazing companies offering such a wide variety of products via mail, it's easy to see why I love getting these boxes full of goodies each month. I have a subscription box for clothing, jewelry, food, and even beauty products, but I was missing a subscription box for one really important thing, one kind of secret thing... until recently.

Adore Me is my newest box I've added to my collection of subscriptions and since I'm loving the box so much, I've decided to share all the details about something I usually keep a secret... Adore Me is the perfect way to treat myself to pretty "unmentionables" and since they make a variety of sizes, I guarantee you'll fall in love with the service too! Plus, with over 500 styles of beautiful lingerie to choose from, I think I'll be a fan of this box for a very, very long time! After signing up, I also learned they add pieces to a new collection each and every month, providing access to the newest fashions in lingerie and sleepwear to their VIP members only! Hello gorgeous new undergarments, all the time!

If you're new to the subscription box thing or haven't heard about Adore Me yet, I bet you are wondering "how does Adore Me work exactly"? It's simple, for $39.95 a month, you will become a VIP & you'll receive the opportunity to pick a matching set from Adore Me’s new collection! That means you get the choice of what is sent to you, from a wide variety of classic styles and those super fashionable new items that come in each month! The membership is flexible though, so you can simply skip a month if you decide you don't need or want anything or you can just save your credit for a future month when you really want to spoil yourself - the choice is yours!

Want some good news? If you decide to become a VIP member between now and November 30th, you'll receive your first set for just $19.95 using the code "GETGLAM19"!

That's not all the benefits you'll reap by signing up to become a VIP though; I'm super excited to share that VIP Adore Me members also receive $10 off any style, any time, a free set (every 6th set is on the house), free shipping and exchanges, and exclusive access to VIP only sales and sets.

That means there's a handful of benefits waiting for you, as well as an adorable (or seductive) new lingerie set - made in your size & your style, shipped directly to your front door... We all know having a matching set of undies makes a girl feel pretty, even if it's just her little secret...

While you're trying to decide which Adore Me set you want to invest in first, I highly recommend you take the time to enter the giveaway for 1 of 2 $500 Adore Me store credits using the giveaway form below! Plus, don't forget to share the giveaway with your friends... you know we all love the chance to win items that make us feel pretty!

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Whether you are looking for a gift for yourself, your best friend, or you're looking for your girlfriend - Adore Me is the perfect way to spoil a girl that loves getting girly!

Gift Honey this Holiday with Nature Nate's

Oh, sugar, sugar! Honey, Honey... You should give some honey to your girl!

While those aren't even close to the actual lyrics, I'm obsessing over this adorable gift idea! That's right, I'm on a roll sharing gift ideas this week and I hope you love all the gift ideas I share, including this adorable gift made for anyone that loves honey!

Nature Nate's offers 100% pure, raw, and unfiltered honey in the most adorable holiday themed tins. Making these sweet little gifts the perfect surprise for the chef in your life and since they come in creative little containers, they make the perfect stocking stuffer! 

This unfiltered honey contains pollen, as if it were straight from the hive, and offers the best flavor, aroma, and nutrition values naturally this way. Plus, since it's made from 100% American Bees, it's thought to help to eliminate pesticides and ensures that only the highest quality honey is produced! So you can rest assured gifting Nature Nate's knowing it's the best of the best when it comes to honey!

Nature Nate’s 100% Pure, Raw & Unfiltered Honey in one of their holiday tins is the perfect gift for everyone on your list at the affordable price of $12. So, who would you buy honey for in your life - maybe your honey-darling or your love bug? Tell me all about why honey would make the perfect gift for this person in the comments below, I can't wait to hear all about it!

Thanks to Nature Nate's for providing some samples of this delicious honey in return for this review. Looking for more gift inspiration? Check out the rest of the items in my Holiday Gift Guide:

Holiday Traditions & Hickory Farms Gifts

Thanks to Hickory Farms for sponsoring today's discussion.

It's obvious that I love the holidays, with the joy that's spread through out the season and the loving times I get to spend with family - what's not to love? While hubby and I are celebrating our 7th Christmas married this year, we're still working on building traditions of our own but we both have traditions we follow with our families and those traditions truly matter to us!

This year we're going to try to make new traditions while traveling, with having to make so many stops along our journey in the midwest to see all of our family it should be an adventure. One new tradition that I'm super excited about is our little off-the-beaten-path vacation we're plotting and hopefully going to take. We'll be driving all the way home so we want to stop a few beautiful places along the way and hopefully we'll make a random stop a tradition each year. With that said, another new tradition that I love to partake in around the holidays includes giving (and receiving) food as gifts and now it includes tea parties! What better way to any person's heart than through their tummies & taste buds?!

Receiving a fancy tea party package in the mail from Hickory Farms recently was an amazing experience! With two wonderful tea selections, Belgian truffles, Pretzels, Fruit Spread, and Biscuits - I felt like I had stepped into a regal tea party the second I laid eyes on my new collection!

While I was enjoying my "biscuits" and tea, I suddenly realized I knew just the right person to surprise with a Hickory Farms box first. I decided to check out the variety of gift baskets I could send and realized I could check almost every one off of my list!

Are you a foodie wanting to celebrate the upcoming holiday the right way? I bet you are wondering where can you buy Hickory Farms for your family? Hickory Farms' food gifts are available at Holiday market locations, on HickoryFarms.com, and at most big box retailers!

Not only can you buy Hickory Farms at those locations, you can win an awesome Hickory Farms giveaway here on the blog! Simply fill out the giveaway tools form below & leave a comment completing one simple sentence, "Traditions matter because..." - I may include your quote in an upcoming post as well!

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Disclaimer: Compensation and products for review were provided by Hickory Farms via MomTrends. I received a free sample of the product for the purpose of this review and to facilitate a giveaway.  The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions of Hickory Farms. Must be 18+ to enter to win, US residents only. Lauren Paints | a beautiful life is not responsible for sponsors who do not fulfill prizes, all information submitted via the form is only submitted to LaurenPaints.com. 

Well, now that you've had your chance to enter to win an awesome giveaway and I've shared one of my favorite ways to treat others (and myself), I suppose it's time for you to treat yourself as well!

"I and Love and You" Pet Food Giveaway

Thanks to I and love and you for providing samples for my pooches & for providing one lucky winner with a prize,
all opinions expressed below are my own.

Choosing the right food to feed my pups has been an experience, to say the least, with so many brands and so many ingredients in every brand - I feel overwhelmed a lot of times. Trying to decipher labels and decide what they really need in their food has been a learning process but I think we may have finally landed on a food that we all can agree on. I love my dogs a lot and they love me a lot, so "I and love and you" is the food I choose to make sure they are healthy, happy, and satiated.

With a picky and particular little poodle and a muscular mix of a dog that seems to have an aversion to most dog foods, we are constantly trying to convince them that dog food is actually made for them. Luckily we found "I and love and you". We all love it so much because it's a wholesome pet food formulated by holistic veterinarians with the highest standards and made with quality food ingredients, found right in the grocery store with our food!

Our particular poodle seems to have warmed up to I and Love and You and will nudge the bag when he's hungry and our little muscular mix scarfs her food down every time we fill up her bowl, so I think it's safe to say we have found the food for our pups.

I&L&Y's ingredients include the things I look for when choosing food for myself: grain-free, real meat as the first ingredient, prebiotics, probiotics, no artificial preservatives, flavors or colors... I choose to buy food like this to promote optimum health for my dogs and I've noticed they really seem to love the flavor! Plus with a formula made to make their tummy happy &to help them look more beautiful, what more could I ask for in a dog food?

Do you want to let your dog sample I and love and you? Maybe your little feline friend would like a taste of their cat food line? Enter to win a giveaway for an awesome sampler pack with the giveaway form below:

One lucky winner has the choice
between a dog box or a cat box!


Dog Box
(approx. $150 value) includes:
5lb Kibble - Red Meat Medley
1.5lb In the Raw - Raw Raw Beef Boom Ba
Nice Jerky - Venison + Lamb Jerky Bites
$100 in coupons (5 coupons with $20 value each)


Cat Box
(approx. $125 value) includes:
5lb Kibble - Poultry A Plenty     
2 cans - Chicken Lickin'
2 cans - Oh My Cod!
2 cans - Puurky Turkey
$100 in coupons (5 coupons with $20 value each)

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Now that I've shared our new doggie food and how much we love it, I'd love to hear all about your dogs (or cats) and why you think I & Love & You would be a good fit for your little furry friend!

Dreamy Bedroom Makeover with eve!

It's true, our bedroom was a little bland. Nothing to brag about, until recently...

Ever since eve made her debut in our bedroom, we both love her! Now don't get the wrong idea, eve is actually our new mattress, straight from the UK and ridiculously comfortable!

Why did we decide to get a new mattress? Well, after realizing we spend at least 1/3 of our lives in bed, we came to the conclusion that we should be making our bedroom the dreamiest place it can be. So I embarked on a journey, a journey to make over every inch of the room and of course, getting a new mattress was at the top of the list for making our bedroom dreamier. It was easy to decide which mattress we would be upgrading to once I found eve.

While the look of an eve mattress is sleek and gorgeous, I bet you are wondering what makes eve so dreamy? Well, it's simple... they've stripped the mattress buying process of gimmicks, jargon, and nonsense and made a mattress that is comfortable! eve is everything a mattress should be, shipped directly to your front door. With 3 luxurious layers of different types of foam, eve offers a cloud like experience, supports your body in all the right places, and helps relieve aches and pains. Check out the unboxing of my new queen size mattress in the video below:

With the new look and the new mattress, came a new headboard, a new bedspread, a new side table for him, and all kinds of pretty new little items for both of our side tables. It's amazing what a difference our bedroom makeover has made, I want to spend more time cuddled up under the covers than ever before and with a super comfy new mattress, you can't blame me!

On my side of the bed I wanted girly items to look at when I first wake up, so of course, I went with the most feminine of colors - a super light pink. I added a beautiful, modern lamp, a fun & inspiring piece of art work, some light pink flowers, a light pink floral candle, a lavender scented diffuser, and a sparkling picture frame - everything a girl needs to make her smile in the AM!

On his side I placed a succulent planter, a motivational sign, a seasonally scented candle, and a lotus candle burner and on the wall I hung a chalkboard so I can write his "honey-do list" and little love notes, as well as a fun little candle holder. His side of the bed is the perfect little mixture of tranquility and motivation, an ideal scene to wake up to in the morning!

I think you can see, our room is officially the dreamiest it can be and it's all thanks to our new mattress and our adorable little additions to our bedside! It's amazing how easily I was able to transform my room. Are you thinking about giving your bedroom an overhaul? Check out why you should choose an eve mattress - with their 100 day mattress trial money-back guarantee, you have nothing to lose and plenty of good nights of sleep & cuddles to gain!

I'm Participating in No-Shave November: I Quit Shaving with my Flash&Go!

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GiftSilkn #CollectiveBias

Life is good in Florida! I suppose you could say I'm living on island time, most days, so it comes as no surprise that I love spending time at the beach whenever I get the chance. What I don't like about my islander lifestyle is constantly having to deal with my bikini line and unwanted hair, especially on days when I just want to hop on the kayak in my bikini and go... Plus, my legs always burn when they're freshly shaven and I spend time in the salt water - that's something I definitely want to avoid at all costs.

Since I want to avoid that sting, I'm participating in "No shave November" this year. While I won't be shaving, I'm clearly not going to be walking around hairy... that's just not my style. I bet you're wondering how I plan on staying hairless?

I don't have to worry about shaving all the time because I've started using the most amazing little device, the Flash&Go. What exactly is a Flash&Go? It's an innovative light-based device for permanent hair removal on the face & body, the perfect tool for a busy girl that wants a smooth body without having to put all the effort into shaving on the daily.

Plus, I no longer have to worry about pesky ingrown hairs or razor burn, a beach bum's worst nightmares! The Flash&Go is so easy to use, effective, and safe on sensitive skin, that's why I think it'll make the perfect gift for every woman, especially my besties.

How do you use the Flash&Go device? It's simple, you need to make sure your legs are freshly shaven to allow the Flash&Go's energy to go directly to the source of the problem.

Then you'll plug your Flash&Go in, set the device to the correct setting (starting with the lowest and working your way up to the desired setting). You'll place the device over the spot you want to rid of unwanted hair and hit the "trigger" button.

Once it sends a light pulse and you feel a tiny little zap, it's time to move the device using the little itty bitty guidelines (just little imprints from the device) to help you treat an area thoroughly.

That's it, just keep using the device to rid any area below your cheekbones of unwanted hair and after several treatments the hair growth stops! I should note that only gals with darker hair and lighter skin can use this device and luckily it has a sensor that helps determine if it can work on your skin or not - I love safety features like that!

Are you wanting to reward someone in your life with the gift of not shaving? Did you know you can get a Flash&Go from Kohl's and/or Bed Bath and Beyond? This FDA-cleared, Dermatologist recommended spa-like device is easily accessible for everyone and that's what makes it so amazing! Say goodbye to $2000+ hair removal treatments and start ridding your body of those pesky hairs on your knee that we all manage to skip while shaving... I know that's the FIRST spot I started my treatments on when I got my Flash&Go!

This spa-like product wants you to spread the love, so they're offering an awesome deal! First, you need to pick up a Flash&Go for yourself, then go to KeeponGifting.com and snag a $25 gift card so you can grab a Flash&Go for a friend and you'll score an entry into a giveaway for a trip to Aruba - the perfect place to show off your hairless bikini line! Want even more amazing news about that gift card? It can be used up to 3 times, offering you a total savings of $75! So what are you waiting for? Head into Kohl's or Bed Bath and Beyond and start zapping away unwanted hair today!

Once I grabbed an extra Flash&Go with my Keep On Gifting gift card, I decided I wanted to make my bestie a gift basket full of items we both love. Since she's as much of a beach bum as I am I decided to make her a beach bag full of all the essentials.

I included the Flash&Go in her bag, of course, as well as all kinds of little goodies that I knew she would love. If you want to make your best bud a beach bag that'll make her smile you will need to grab a new sparkly bikini, some citrus scented sunscreen, a rad pair of sunglasses, a pretty little white pashmina, a trendy, floral headband, frilly, lacey shorts, a fun and fancy pair of flip flops, a handful of beach towels, and a beach bag! Now she'll be all set to rock the beach all year long, with hairless legs and all the essentials a girl needs.

Now that I've shared how you and your bestie can stop shaving and participate in No-Shave November with me, I'd love to hear what you think of handy new device in the comments below! What area of your body would you choose to treat first? Who in your life would you love to gift a hair removal device to this year? Don't forget about the awesome $25 gift card from KeeponGifting.com when you decide to surprise that special person!

The Perfect Stocking Stuffer - YummySnack Bars Wrapped with Santa and Rudolph FREE Printables {+ a giveaway!}

Christmas is just around the corner, which means it's time to start getting presents together! Lucky for you, I've teamed up with a huge group of bloggers and we're all giving away prizes that will be perfect to stuff into stockings this year!

This awesome giveaway hop is hosted by The Mommy Island  & The Kids Did It! Don't forget to enter to win all of the awesome giveaways in this hop, the more you enter - the better your chances of winning all kinds of amazing stocking stuffer items!

My prize in this stocking stuffer giveaway is epic (and delicious), YummySnack Bars are "better than candy bars"! With wholesome, real food ingredients like flaxseed, peanut butter, coconut, natural peanut butter, and cocoa - these bars are healthy, yet they still taste like your favorite candy bar!

All YummySnack Bars are gluten-free, which is a huge bonus in our home since hubby can't eat wheat! Plus, I'm happy to share they only have 8 grams of sugar and no starch, so I'm able to snack on a delicious "candy bar" with no guilt whatsoever!

High in fiber, with 100mg of omega 3s yet totally free of hydrogenated oils, trans fats, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives of any kinds, YummySnack Bars are the definition of a the perfect treat without it being a cheat!

Available in a variety of different flavors to suit everyone's taste: Peppermint, Brownie, Coconut, Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter, and Chocolate. Which YummySnack bar do you want to try first? Enter to win the giveaway for a sampler pack of YummySnack Bars (4 of each of the six flavors - 24 bars total) using the form below:

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Not only am I giving away a sampler box of these amazing snack bars, I want to share a few printables that you can use to add some cuteness to all the "candy bars" you giveaway this holiday season. With Rudolph and Santa in tow, we're guaranteed a good time so go ahead and fire up your printer and wrap these cuties around the YummySnack Bars you win from the giveaway above!

Grab the Rudolph printable here and the Santa printable here.

Cut out both of the candy bar wrappers, using a piece of decorative washi tape or just regular tape, attach the new wrapper to the YummySnack bar!

Now you're set to give an adorable gift that everyone will loving snacking on!

Want to find more adorable gifts to give as stocking stuffers? Be sure to enter all the giveaways below:

After you've taken time to enter all of the giveaways, be sure to check out the rest of my holiday gift guide for inspiration this holiday season!