The Secret Santa Solver : £15 and under

Hello there, Fairypants fans! We're sorry that we didn't have a post ready for you last week, but we've been working on a special something for the festive season, and we'll have an extra post up later this week to make up for it! We present to you the very first edition of the Fairypants 'Secret Santa Solver'!

You know how it is - everyone at work draws names out of a hat and all of a sudden, you're saddled with buying a present, on a budget, for someone you maybe don't know so well.

We're here to take the stress out of the festive season for you! Here are our top 3 present ideas for a budget of £15 and under - AND we'll be covering other budgets later in the series :)

#1: The Ultimate Lip Kit - £12

If your recipient regularly wears bold & bright lip colours, the chances are excellent that they would appreciate our Ultimate Lip Kit. Comprising one of our super-sweet Lip Scrubs, a sumptuous Lip Balm and one of our beyond-beautiful (not to mention ridiculously moisturising) Lip Paints, this set is an absolute must-have for anyone who likes to look after those smackers! You can choose any combination of all of our flavours, scents and colours for each product and get a beautifully boxed gift set for just £12!

The Ultimate Lip Kit - £12

#2: Fairypants Boxed Perfume - £13.50

Ask around: if your lucky gift-buddy has a sweet tooth or a love of cocktails, or is even just a perfume-hoarder (plenty of us are, it's nice to have lots of options :D ), for just £13.50 you can present them with a perfume unlike any other. Our range of vegan perfumes includes scents such as Peach Melba, Strawberry Bellini, Cola Bottles and so many more!

Perfume 30ml - £13.50

#3: Mix & Match Nail Varnish Gift Set - £15.00

This one's easy. Look at your recipient's hands. Are they wearing nail varnish? If so, we've almost certainly got at least one set of nail varnishes that they will love. You can mix and match - for instance, if their signature colour is pink, you could pick out five pink-toned variations from each of our lines! Naturally, you could also just choose one of our pre-selected gift sets. For bold, sassy mani-fans, the Neon Gift Set is an absolute must have, but our Matte Pastel set is perfect for nail-fashionistas who like to keep it more toned down.

Neon Nail Varnish Set - £15

As I'm sure you already know, all of our products are 100% cruelty-free and vegan-friendly - tested only on willing humans! If you have become the Secret Santa to a vegan or vegetarian lady or gent, quite frankly we're certain that anything you could present to them from our selection would be gratefully received! All products are handmade in the UK and created by our very own Fairy Queen, Natalie :)

What would you love to receive as a gift? If you give it a quick tweet/share on Facebook, your Secret Santa has no excuse not to spoil you ;)

xox

Click here to see our '£10 and under' Secret Santa Solver!

October Discount- One Week Left!

If you're following us on Facebook/Twitter, you may know that we're running a special offer all through October, but hurry up Fairy Family - there's just one week left!

Between now and 31st October, you can get 15% off all purchases by simply typing OCTOBER into the discount code section at the checkout on Fairypants.co.uk!

To put that into perspective...

You could get between £1 and £1.50 off any of our 60-100ml sized dry skin balms! 60ml currently retails at £6.99, 100ml at £9.99. The perfect treat for your skin (as well as your pre-Christmas wallet) this Winter! Choose from Rose & Mint or Orange & Vanilla, or unscented for those of you whose skin doesn't like scented products. We also carry these in 30ml if you'd just like to try a littl'un :)

This also translates to more than £1.50 off any of our scrumptious body butters or vegan perfumes!

Better yet, if you're like us and like to be smart about your Christmas shopping, you could nab yourself a bargain on one of our gift sets. If you've got 5 friends/family members who love perfume (and we're certain that you have), you could buy one of our 5 piece perfume gift sets and split it out between them! Not a perfume fan? We have three piece sets of our lickably-lovely-lipbalms, with which you could also indulge in some saving-savvy Christmas shopping.

You could, of course, just buy them for yourself. We won't tell anyone, we promise ;)

If you've got any parties or gatherings coming up that might see you spending a lot of time outside, such as watching firework displays or simply out painting the town red, perhaps you'd fancy using your discount on one (or two, or five) of our super-moisturising lip paints. Pigmented to forever and back, and with a swoonworthily* soft, buttery texture, these little ladies are a festive-season must-have!

*we're not 100% sure that this is a word, but no other word will do the job, so we may have invented it

What will you be spending your October 15% discount on? If you post pics of any of our products on social media, make sure you tag us! We love to see what the Fairy Family has to say about all our products!

xox

Etsy puts on her Fairypants!

Now, we don't know about you, but when we're having a bad day, we like to treat ourselves to a bit of retail therapy. We don't always know what we fancy, but we love a good window-shop. Like most people - we like to get our little fairy mitts on things that are unique. Don't you love being the one to introduce your pals to a new product or brand when they ask where you got your shoes/lipstick/bracelet from? It also feels great to support smaller businesses and crafters. For this reason, we love a bit of Etsy!

Etsy is a wonderful online marketplace, stacked to the rafters with the handcrafted, the beautiful and the unusual. The expression 'made with love' is pretty much par for the course in this world wide web wonderland. You can 'favourite' your preferred sellers so that you don't miss their new products and announcements, and better yet, it has its very own lovely app for shopping on the move - we find that a cheeky bit of Etsy browsing really cheers up the commute on a dreary evening ;)

If you didn't already know, Fairypants is on Etsy! All of our lovely goodies are arranged into categories for ease of browsing, and there's a contact button just in case you have any questions about any of our products or policies. There's a super simple search function to help you sniff out those harder-to-find products too! Natch, for those bold, cruelty-free-cosmetics fans, the obvious choice is 'vegan neon nail varnish'. For those who prefer their claws to be a little more toned down, you could of course search 'vegan pastel nail varnish'...

As for navigating the app, that's easy as pie!

Use the 'sections' function to find what you're after!

Browse the scrummy flavour/scent ranges of our products!

If you're not sure what you're after, you can just scroll through all of our individual products and bargain gift sets!

If you're a new addition to the Fairypants clan, put your mind at ease looking at the fab reviews we've had from our past customers!

Happy shopping, fairies!

xox

Autumn Treats: Keep Those Smooches Soft & Sweet!

We know, we know - in our last post we were teaching you how to cling on to Summer. That said, we can't deny (as much as we want to) that the weather is likely to start getting a little bit nippier soon.

As much as we love our sunshine, we're excited to say hello to the chill! Why? WELL, if you can think of a better time of year to indulge in lip balms that smell good enough to eat, we'd be very surprised.

For those of us who don't like your run-of-the-mill, bland chapsticks, the Fairypants Lip Balm range is a welcome change! If you think of a couple of your favourite tasty treats, the odds are that you'll find a lip balm in our range that matches at least one of them! Made using shea butter and jojoba wax (more info on our website, and even MORE available on request), your lips won't know what they did to deserve these little pots of loveliness!

Blueberry Muffin? Peach Bellini? Pina Colada? Rhubarb & Custard? Barely the tip of the iceberg, folks!

Why not treat yourself to one of our delectable lip scrubs while you're at it? Cruelty-free, gentle on your smackers and smelling good enough to eat, it's hard to find a reason NOT to indulge!

We'll catch up with you again soon, but in the meantime, here are a few of our favourites :)

xox

Summer neons, had me a blast...

Now that we're well into September, Summer for 2016 has officially ended. 

Well, we don't know about you, but at Fairypants HQ we're just not ready to say goodbye. What better way to hang onto those fun Summer vibes than by painting them onto our nails?

Anyone who keeps their finger on the pulse of nail art channels on YouTube will know that in the last year or so, 'dry-brushing' has come into its own as the saviour of the not-so-artsy nail fanatics everywhere. You don't need a steady hand, you don't need any fancy products or tools and you don't even need a lot of time. It's also a super easy way to get a French mani with a twist! None of those fiddly straight lines for us!

Choose a nude/pale base coat (we've gone for white), then using your colours of choice, wipe as much product as possible from the brush, and swipe the remainder onto those talons! Swipe vertically, horizontally, diagonally- whatever takes your fancy! This look is so versatile - you could literally use any colours - nudes, brights, glitters - and you're guaranteed an unusual mani that looks like it took a LOT more effort than it did. As our aim is to recapture the Summer, we plumped for the Fairypants Neon Collection on a white base, with a glossy topcoat. A matte topcoat would also look awesome! We've also popped a cheeky bit of a glitter accent on the ring fingernail, but you can work this look any way that takes your fancy!

Is this the most versatile look or what?

Which colours would you choose? If you've recreated this look (or changed it up with new colours), tweet us or tag us on Instagram! We'd love to see what you've come up with!

xox 

Well hello there!

We started this blog a million years ago, way back in the mists of 2012. We then kinda... stopped blogging. Because life took over!

It was brought to our attention that this old blog was still out there in the ether, so we decided to actually do something with it.

So hello, let us start again. We are Fairypants, and we design and make vegan cosmetics, skincare, perfume, jewellery and accessories. We started with just a few ranges, but our offering is expanding all the time, so keep up to date with us, so you don't miss anything...

To start off, I'll tell you the story of how we started making cosmetics. Sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin...

Make up has always been an obsession of mine - I used to work as a beauty specialist for a well know high street retailer back in the day, and they used to just take my wages straight back off me, I spent that much money there. But above all, I loved lip balm. I collected it from all over the world, paid ridiculous postage fees, had friends bring it back for me and so on. But I was never TRULY satisfied, you know?

Until, that fateful day I stumbled upon a recipe for make-your-own lipbalm. I got so excited, I probably did a little wee. I found stockists for all of the ingredients, and set about following the recipe, tweaking it a bit every now and then.

The only thing about lipbalm is it's realllllly hard to just make one or two, so I ended up with about 20 extra pots in different flavours - so I gave the extras away to friends and family. They told me they wanted MORE, so I thought... hang on - can I sell these?

Turns out there's loads of red tape when you make anything people will put on or near their bodies (quite rightly). So after conversations with my local council, I set up a relationship with a lab, so that each product I made could be thoroughly assessed for safety. That can be kinda expensive, but I reckoned it's better to be safe than sorry - better to pay for EVERYTHING so that it's all above board.

So I did! That was a couple of years ago now, and since I've spent shedloads of money creating new ranges. Now we have lip balm, lip scrub, lip paint, nail varnish, eye shadow, skin balm and perfume. And we keep expanding - I won't rest until I've replaced everything in your make-up bag/bathroom cabinet/box on the floor.


So - nice to meet you, see you soon!
xox