how do YOU fell about getting toiletries for pressies?

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my hairdressers has the most fabby products, the shampoo etc is delicious and the packaging is nice too

they have really nice gift sets and i was going to buy one for SIL

i dont know how i would feel tho if someone bought me hair stuff for xmas

cant decide what to do............................

obv, thread title should be FEEL not fell

posh stuff would be nice
i'd be happy with that

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i love getting smelly sets and hair treats!!

ive got my friend a trevor sorbie hair set,my cousin a mark hill set and i got one for me aswell because it was in the boots 3 for 2!!!

depends on the product, good stuff that was obviously specially picked for me is lovely.

cheap ready made little baskets from body shop are yuck

in general i believe tis considered naff

however i like getting toiletries and having loverly bubbly smelly baths

I don't mind.

It has to be the right thing though - I'm v fussy.

Either something I already use and love, or something too expensive that I want to try.

Not a Boots own whiff of the week gift basket.

I'd love it, personally, if it is nice stuff and not just cheapo 'last-minute pressie from supermarket' sets!

would you?

shampoo as a p[ressie?

it comes in a lovely leather wash bag too

is it the easy option?

not that she buys ME nice stuff

she always gets me TATT

I'd be chuffed

Agree about things like "the sanctuary" and clinque etc as I tend to use pretty cheapish stuff so it is nice to be pampered. It is also nice to get a coordinated set with perfume so you don't end up smelling like a perfume counter.

I don't mind. I got a lovely set from Boots, all mediteranean stuff for my birthday from my friend. I love The Sanctuary stuff, but unfortunately it makes me itch.
A couple of years ago SIL got me a hair care set (paul Mitchell? Maybe) I loved it, but since then she has always bought me a little set of white musk shower gel, soap and body lotion, always the same three things in a wee box!

well this is tres posh

i eye it up whenever im in the salon wishing i could buy it for myself

its not a cop out?

so should i get it

Just get it If it's nice and posh then it's sure to be a hit

i agree what you say about gift sets

magnolia from marks and spencer

white musk from the body shop

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lo dior yes why should i worry?!

ok ill get it

another one ticked off the list

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Oh yes, magnolia from M7S, my MIL went through a stage of always buying me that! Only ever a tiny wee box though, with bottles that would do one shower and then be empty.
Having said that, she (MIL) loves the M&S Royal Jelly, and gets very huffy if us or the BIL/SIL don't get her the biggest gift set of it in the shop

if she gets you tat, i'd buy it for yourself & get something else for her....

sometimes i want to do that hoxtonchick

when I was 13 I thought those Body Shop baskets were the ultimate present. All I ever wanted for my birthday was a medium sized basket (I had no aspirations for the large ones - surely they were what you received when you got married or similar? ) filled with a couple of bottles, some soap, bath pearls and loads of shredded tissue. At Christmas I'd hope for one with green tissue and red bath pearls. Sigh.
I imagine my dh would be overjoyed if I was still as easily pleased.

I think it's fine and would be grateful. I only usually have the money to buy toiletries that I have to buy like boring shampoo, deoderant etc and so anything different is nice.

do bathpeals still exist do you think?

ooh yes, the bath pearls were the ultimate when I was young! Loved them!