Bobbi Brown #PrettyPowerful 2018

At the moment I am hugely into journaling, I have various diaries and planners on the go and love emptying my thoughts out onto paper each evening. One of my favourite journals happened to be a monthly planner in which you use to channel a little more happiness and productivity into your life, on the first of each month I would sit down, light a candle, state what I am grateful for and write about various areas of my life I would aim to improve in the coming weeks - it was wonderfully cathartic...well until I left my inner most thoughts on a train returning home from London. Why am I like this? No-one really knows, I'm clumsy, awkward and entirely forgetful but on the plus side I always have a spare pair of socks and gum, so really who is the real winner here?

Bobbi Brown #PrettyPowerful 2018
Bobbi Brown #PrettyPowerful 2018

As fate would have it, I returned home from such testing journey to be greeted with a beautiful parcel from Bobbi Brown and inside, alongside a glorious new pot of Bobbi Brown Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge, there was a limited edition Bobbi Brown The Happiness Planner; a bespoke #PrettyPowerful 100 Day Planner to encourage female empowerment (£20 available from Bobbi Brown studios). Fate I tell you and an accumulation of two of my favourite things to hoard: make-up and stationery.

The Bobbi Brown The Happiness Planner is perfect for this time of the year when it may feel like all those goals and plans you made in early January have all but fallen to the wayside, this nifty and uplifting diary of sorts will help you get back on track. Much like all the products within the #PrettyPowerful line up it has been created to in collaboration and to help raise funds for the non-profit organisation Women & Girls, for International Women's day 8 March 2018.

If journals aren't quite your thing, worry not as there is a few more exciting Bobbi Brown collaborations in aid of the Women & Girls Organisation: from Markus Lupfer, Lara Lip T-Shirt's in five various designs (exclusively available on markuslupfer.com) to special fitness classes with studios FRAME, Fitzrovia, once a week £10 (more details here), and of course the aforementioned Bobbi Brown Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge.

Bobbi Brown #PrettyPowerful 2018
Bobbi Brown #PrettyPowerful 2018
Bobbi Brown #PrettyPowerful 2018

Each year, I do make a point in purchasing the Bobbi Brown Pretty Powerful Pot (£22) as I adore the functionality of the product and of course the great cause that it supports. This year I have very kindly been gifted a pot so I will donate the cost directly or maybe purchase another and gift it to someone I know who could do with cheering up? Either way it is a cause and a product I entirely support. If you have yet to experience the Bobbi Brown Pretty Powerful Pot for yourself, let me be the one to tell you that you are in for a treat, not only is the shade Pretty Powerful entirely flattering on most, if not all skin tones but the clever cream product can be used on both the lips and cheeks. The medium and slightly yellow toned pink creates the most glorious, naturally flushed look on the cheeks and translates to a perfect nude-pink on the lips - once you try it for yourself, you'll wonder how you survived so long without it!

You can find out more about the Bobbi Brown #PrettyPowerful campaign here - link.