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It’s not too early now to start thinking about a beautiful Christmas, so with that in mind, I have a double give-away for one reader. The sold out Lancome Advent Calendar, worth X and a box of six super-crackers containing Hypnose Mascara, Bi-Facil, Mini Juicy Tube in Fraise, Visionnaire, Genifique Youth Activating Concentrate and a L’Absolu Rouge Lipstick – all in mini sizes that retail for £50.
It’s UK only, I’m afraid. Last time I did an advent calendar give-away, the stories that came in from readers were so moving that we made the Selfridges PR cry – so we can’t do that this year! So, on a happy theme, I want to know who you would most like to pull a festive cracker with and why! It could be anyone from history, fashion, beauty or your real life. Selfridges will choose their favourite and the advent calendar plus the crackers will wing their way to you in time for December 1st.
This give away closes on Tuesday 20thNovember at 9am. Leave your Twitter or blog name (not your email) so I can contact you.
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Think I’d most like to pull a festive Christmas Cracker with Mr Snowman from the John Lewis Christmas adverts, hats off to him (excuse the pun) as he did make a pretty impressive journey just to pick up some gloves and a hat for his snowman wife!
The person I would love to pull a Christmas cracker with would be Marilyn Monroe. Now there was a classy lady who always looked divine, who was both naughty and nice, and knew how to have a good time!
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I’d most like to pull a Christmas cracker with my mother-in-law, who passed away six months before I met my husband. They were very close, and she sounds like an amazing woman. We are expecting our first child, and it’s making us think about her a great deal. I’d love to spend a lovely family day with her, get to know her and share our excitement about the new arrival – I wish we had a time machine! 🙂
This is a gorgeous giveaway and whoever wins it will be very lucky indeed.
I would like to pull a my cracker with Bette Davis because she is an all time icon of film. She was glamourous and strong woman. She inspired me to follow my dreams and in one of my favourite films ” all about eve” she hosts a Xmas party and she steals the screen from Marylin Monroe with the classic line. ” hold on fella’s it’s gonna be a bumpy ride” . Bette also had great eyes and she would look fabulous in Lancôme. Lucia Diaz
I think it would have to be my family in Canada. I don’t get home for Christmas, ever. My job doesn’t allow holiday time over the Christmas retail period. But I’m hoping that will soon change!
Good luck to everyone who’s entering the comp too.
Ali x
This Christmas time Im wishing all my festive dreams come true, not money, bags or Loubis but spending time with you! There isnt a diamond in the world that sparkles half as bright,you love me and support me and your advice is always right! I live so very far away I miss you all the time, so to tell you that I love you, Ive penned this little rhyme. Lets deck the halls with glitz and glam and Selfridges Christmas cheer, here’s hoping I win this Lancome prize to really make your year. I love you mum so thankyou for everything you do, there can be no better person to pull my cracker with than you! XXX
Oh my goodness – the advent calendar! I *almost* bought one this year, but hesitated over the extreme indulgence of it all and missed out. Probably for the best, financially speaking, I guess 🙂
Re the cracker, I’d like to say someone sparkling, witty and imaginative, but, in actual fact, I’m looking forward to nothing more this year than pulling crackers with my two small nephews (who are just old enough for it to be fun, not scary) and, probably with some help, my new niece, who won’t even exist until Christmas Eve this year!
I would most like to pull a craker with Boris Johnson!! I think he’s hilarious, and would be a good laugh to have around on christmas day.
Laurel and Hardy (they count as one right?). No one else could turn the simple experience of pulling a cracker into such a joy 😛 @aliduarthall
I would love to pull a cracker with my beauty icon, Elizabeth Taylor. It’s so sad that we lost her this year as she was a stylish and beautiful woman who worked for some great causes.
Total girl cliche but Ryan Gosling because he’s gorgeous and I think he’d let me win! The tricky part would be making sure there was some mistletoe nearby!
I want to do it with my daughter, of course! Bet she’ll enjoy it so much!
It would have to be Michael Buble. Just i know predictable for a 20 year old girl. I just love him. I love his music, (he sings mine and my fiancee song ”hold on”) and i think he is an inspiration, he has worked his whole life to get where he is. He isnt one of these snobby types, but a real person. So id like to pull my cracker with him. Fabulous give away by the way! Lovely prizes. Kazzii @ http://kazziilovebeauty.blogspot.co.uk/ e-mail address is kayleigh-melisa1992@hotmail.co.uk
I would like to pull a festive cracker with my late friend Danika. Sadly got taken away from us earlier this year at the tender age of 22. The most beautiful, brave and strong girl I knew and will ever know did not let her horrible disease (Cystic Fibrosis) bother her at all and she fought it as much as her body would let her. I miss her loads and would love to spend more time with her, over a nice Christmas dinner and a festive cracker! 🙂
I’d like to pull a festive cracker with Armand Petitjean because I’d love to hear first hand the history of Lancôme from the person who was inspired to create it! @siobhanyc
Really lovely give away!
I’d most like to pull a Christmas cracker with my dad. He’s recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer and will be receiving his treatment over the next few months so he’s going to need something like that to cheer him up, even if skincare and makeup aren’t really his thing… I’m sure he wouldn’t mind sharing!
Thank you, @sophiehemmingsx
Thanks for the lovely giveaway firstly, it’s beautiful.
It’s a bit sappy but the person I’d most like to pull a Christmas cracker with is my husband. It’s our first Christmas as husband and wife and I’m very excited 🙂
Thank you! My twitter name is glowormhan.
I’d love to pop into the future for a few minutes and pull a festive cracker with my daughter when she’s all grown up and using makeup – just to check I’m doing an OK job as a parent!
@violetsrose
Ooooo it’s so difficult to choose one person, I should really say my other half…..but i’m not going to…..I would LOVE to pull a cracker with the delicious Channing Tatum, could I have him wrapped only in some tinsel please, many thanks!
Em
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Em’s Mixed Bag
I’d love to pull a Christmas cracker with Audrey Hepburn, such a gorgeous style icon. She was so well groomed, looking perfect in every photo, which was all the more interesting as she was a humanitarian, working as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF often in war torn countries. It was as if her beauty took second place to her charity work. Such a beautiful lady, both inside and out.
I would like to pull a festive cracker with Paolo Nutini as I would love him to sing a wee song for me.lol:)
I would (and will) most love to pull a Christmas cracker with my beautiful daughter.
She’s fun, intelligent, kind and silly all at the same time! I feel so incredibly lucky to have such a lovely friend.
Cheers
I want to pull a christmas cracker with the Queen, as shes the most important person in the country and I’m sure she will love the gift inside the cracker.
@SweetpeaLondon1
Sweetpea London
i really want these so badly!….damn you for tempting me hahaha
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I’d love to pull a Christmas cracker with my late nan, my mum’s mum.
She died before I really knew her but I do know my mum loves Christmas so much because of her mum. Every year my mum makes an extra special effort for Christmas and pulls out all the stops because Christmas is her favourite time of year and subsequently it’s now mine. Therefore if I had a chance, id pull a cracker with my nan for making Christmas so special for me without her even here. I want it to be a trait I pass down to my children and so on.
Thank you for such a lovely giveaway!
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I would like to pull a Christmas cracker with my dad’s dad. He died years before I was born, but whenever my dad talks about him he sounds like the most amazing person-funny, kind and cheerful.
Aww what a lovely giveaway!
I’d love to pull a cracker with my great grandmother who sadly passed away this summer.
Christmas has always been a massive family affair for us, where we spend most of our afternoon sitting around the (too small) dining table, eating our christmas dinner, pulling crackers, and more importantly playing the sticky note game which was always made more hilarious by my great nanny. The last time we played she was the Queen, which seemed very fitting!
Although it will be lovely to for my whole family to get together this christmas, I think we are all going to miss her and definitely be looking back on all the great christmases we shared with her 🙂
x
Great Giveaway!
I would love to pull a Christmas cracker with Gillian Anderson. I just love her and I reckon it would be a lot of fun. I can just imagine us, drunk, roaring with laughter, toppling over because the both of us would just pull way too hard…
Yours, Lilo (Twittername: @Lilo_liebt)
I would like to pull a cracker with my husband .. whoever that may be ! x
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what a lovely giveaway 😛 xxxx
I wish I could pull a cracker this year with my aunt Sue, who died 3 days before my wedding back in February. She was so looking forward to the wedding, possibly even more so than my own mother and to lose her so close to the day was heartbreaking. She made sure the sun shone on that cold february afternoon though. She is very much missed by the family and I’d do anything to see her again.
I’d like to pull a cracker this year with my aunt sue, who died 3 days before my wedding back in February. She was looking forward to my wedding so much, possibly even more so than my own mother, so to lose her so close to the day was heartbreaking. At least she made sure the sun shone on that cold February afternoon though. She’s very much missed by all the family, and I (as well as everyone else) would do anything to see her again.
My twitter is @nicolalalalala
I would choose to pull a cracker with my Boyfriend of 8 years..we might live together and see each other all the time but he is the person who has made all the christmases since our meeting so magical.
My twitter name is @bexels.
xx
It would be Paolo Maldini. Wearing hotpants. Him, not me. Let’s not mess about here.
@powderedalmond
Hi I would like to pull a cracker with you so we could discuss all things beauty. x
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I would like pull a christmas cracker with Ryan Gosling, because well….he’s Ryan Gosling.
@Gemmbentley
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I would love to pull a Christmas cracker with my lovely baby-daddy in my head, Michael Fassbender – That smile, those eyes, his Irish accent, those chisled cheekbones – his laugh, his singing, “THAT” scene in his movie Shame…
..I totally forgot where I was going with this.
@Macstephanton
Amazing giveaway!
Rowan Atkinson cause he’s hilarious! X
James Arthur! So adorable!
Caitlin Moran. Just read How to be a Woman and I had to stop reading it on the train because I was getting odd looks for laughing out loud. I bet she has some great Christmas anecdotes too.
@jaimelancholia
Christmas and lancome combined? Wow… bliss!
The person I would most like to pull an exceptionally Christmassy cracker with has got to be good old Christmas Cliff. Sir Richard and I would crack our cracker open whilst singing such great festive hits as Mistle Toe & Wine and the Saviours Day followed by a stroll around a snow covered, and typically British, rural village.
It’s just got to be done right?
🙂 Good luck everyone! and fingers crossed for me!
@LauraClaireUK
http://luckypretty.blogspot.co.uk/
I would pull my cracker with Scott Schuman (of The Sartorialist fame). His photographs find and celebrate the beauty, grace, style and elegance unique to all of his subjects regardless of race, religion, gender or age. What a great example of embracing all humans.
Charlotte Wright @BeautyLeeds8
Would love to pull a festive (chic) cracker with Coco Chanel ….. Hoping that a little bottle of No5 perfume might drop out! x
Wishing you all a very “Happy Christmas” 🙂
I’d most like to pull a festive cracker with the most beautiful man on earth David Beckham! He is the ultimate family man, incredibly good looking and even if he won the crackers contents I’d still get an eyefull of the man candy! x
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The person i’d most like to pull a festive cracker with has to be my girl crush – Beyonce because …… she is beautiful!
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Id love to pull a christmas cracker with my amazing boyfriend. I am going through a time in my life when I am SO SO SO busy that I very rarely have time to give him much attention. He still finds time to fetch my dry cleaning, make me dinner and the other day, I have him a list of make up I needed and he went to Selfridges and got it for me. He works a full time job too!! So I’d like to spend a special moment with him and just say THANK YOU for being you!
Thank you for another amazing give-away.
The person I would love to pull a Christmas cracker is Kate Winslet. Beautiful, talented and smart, she is one of my favourite actresses of all time. More importantly though, I’d cherish an opportunity to thank her and ask her about her work with The Golden Hat Foundation, which supports people with autism. My son is autistic and I am really touched that Kate has got so involved in helping families affected by autism. I was overjoyed, when she collaborated with Lancome (I tip my hat off to Lancome, too) on the Golden Hat limited -edition make-up collection, with some of the proceeds going to the Foundation. The make-up was exquisite and I immediately bought lots of it. It’d be amazing to spend time with Kate.
The person I would most like to pull a cracker with is my gorgeous best friend Claire. She moved back this year from Oz and it will be our first christmas that she’s back, she’s had a rough time this year as she’s been diagnosed with cancer is currently undergoing chemo-so we are all determined to make this a christmas for happiness! She’s gone through this with dignity, determination and such an amazing attitude. I can’t think of any celeb or anyone else I would rather pull a cracker with!!
Twitter: ggrun83
This is great, such a generous give-away. If I had one of these advent calendars I’d be keeping hold of it! I would really love to pull a cracker with my big brother this Christmas. He lives in Dubai with my sister-in-law and has done for over 10 years. We hardly ever get to see each other – at best once a year – and I really can’t remember the last time we were together for Christmas. Plus if I spent Christmas with them in Dubai I’d be able to soak up some lovely Dubai sunshine, bliss!
I commented earlier – my twitter is @beautylovenotes
I’d love to pull a cracker with audrey Hepburn. Style, class and kind. I’m sure she’d be fabulous company.
My twitter is @Vicgartland
I would like to pull a cracker with Scarlett Johansson, so I could have a chat to her about her beauty secrets- I always think her skin/make-up look is flawless.
@KrystleF
I would love to pull a cracker with Charlie Sheen. I think he is hilarious and completely nuts. I love cray cray people.
@Frenchievslizie
I know you said you wanted happy stories but, I would love to pull a cracker with my Nan. Unfortunately she passed away shortly after last christmas and we always used to have a lovely time round at my mums, especially at christmas. I would give anything for one more christmas with her.
Right, read some more of the happier comments now to cheer yourself up!
@Lordy__Gaga
The person I would most like the pull a Christmas cracker with is my Pap (Grandad) … There’s so much I wish I had asked him about before he’ passed away, and no one else knows the answers
You wanted happy stuff though … So I also wouldn’t mind pulling a Christmas cracker with Daniel Craig – I saw Skyfall last week and now have a major crush!!
Nicola xx
Twitter: @x_nicnac_x
I would love to pull a cracker with Marylin Monroe so I could ask her makeup and beauty tips. Also I would love to talk to her about depression and her fragility.
thank you
@milkymoles http://www.milkymoles.blogspot.co.uk
I would most like to pull a cracker with Bradley Cooper and hope that he had planted a ring inside it to propose to me with haha!
@campbell_hayley
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It would be my best mate since school, she’s been one of my rocks, not only making me laugh but being my cheer leader. She was one of my first clients for her wedding make up after she encouraged me to do my qualification. She’s also pregnant with her first child that is due on my birthday 🙂 @unevenlemming
I’d choose Karl Lagerfeld. First, we’d have a bet and the winner would get a brand new quilted chanel bag. I know I’d win for sure, just look at his skinny little arms!! I’d just have to be careful not to break him!
Twitter: xxrooxx
It would be my best mate since school, not only is she a great and strong person is also my biggest cheer leader. She encouraged me into my make up course and was my first client for her wedding. She is also now pregnant with her first child which is due on my birthday next year! @unevenlemming
I’d most like to pull a cracker with my goofy labrador Tango because it would be hilarious because (obviously) he doesn’t have fingers!
Twit-twoo – @hetface
Mr Bean. Seeing utter confusion cross his face when cosmetics fall out of a cracker would be priceless – similar to opening an advent calendar door and finding a lipstick! @rachelmcder
I would like to pull a cracker with my Best Friend Tom who I also fancy a lot (well actually love a little bit)
This will be our first christmas as friends only knowing each other for 9 months and in those 9 months he has helped me change in a good way so much.
He cares about me more than some of my oldest friends and its pretty funny seeing as we met on a dating site. I am truly thankful to have him around and I hope that we will be friends if not more for a long time to come 🙂
@promakeupblog
Assuming you pull crackers like my family does (arms crossed, all the way round the table) would most like to pull my Christmas cracker with Ronnie Barker on one side and David Attenborough on the other. Unlikely heros for a beauty lover, I know, But they are the the two people I would most like to sit between! David Attenborough has done and seen everything that I would dream of and his life has been my dream career – after finishing being in awe, I could talk to him forever about his life and what he’s experienced. And Ronnie barker because I think he was one of the greatest comedy writers and wordsmiths ever. He had an incredible way with words and I would just LOVE to hear him read the joke and limeric! (Remember the trebor adverts and think about that again..). @isobelwebb
I seriously cannot wait to pull my first cracker with my son. He’s past 2 years old now so last year he was too young. Christmas this year already has so much joy surrounding it. It’s like the little guy has woken our christmas spirits (to a ridiculous degree) We’ve been watching Santa Paws (his new fav movie) but yes, I cannot wait to pull a cracker with the wee dude. He was quite the miracle.
Oh and I’m @sera_mcdaid
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I would love to pull a cracker with Alexander McQueen, it would be so interesting. I would love to know about the ‘real’ him, the controversy surrounding him and obviously would love some style tips xx
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Twitter: @foxy1982
I’d love to pull a Christmas cracker with my Grandad as sadly he died when I was 7. I know this is meant to be a happy theme so I will keep sit light! But I’d love to be sat across the table from him and watch him pop on his party hat and put his own spin on the joke because if there’s one thing he could always do that’s make me laugh! He wrote down little silly songs and jokes for me when I was a kid and I still have those so I’d love to hear what he’d make of the jokes inside crackers!
My Twitter is @LaurenyCaton
I’d have to pull a festive cracker with Karl Lagerfeld, he’s become such a legend, but having recently watched Lagerfeld confidential, it is his naughty sense of humour I love so much. He’s modern and willing to adapt to the modern world and embraces all that comes with it. It fascinates me how he embraces the new, obviously loves what he does but has a healthy irreverence still. I mean who else would design a hula hoop bag and get away with it? He has a sense of humour in fashion, and is such a storyteller. I’d love to sit round the dinner table entranced.
@fashupnorth
I’d like to pull a cracker with Bradley Cooper, simply because he’s hot!
@SuzyofBeauty xx
I’d like to pull a christmas cracker with my musical inspiration morrissey! just to see if, even, his normal morbid comments evaporate for christmas
@kellbellwiseowl
This is a no brainer for me………..Anton du Beke!!!!!! He’s very easy on the eye, extremely charming, has a brilliant sense of humour and what’s more……………he dances like a dream!!!!!! Oh yes, me and Anton…………………sigh sigh!!!
I’d most like to pull a cracker with Michael Kors. I think he’s an absolute legend. We could sip champagne and hopefully he could give me a few styling tips afterwards! <3
@HellsBells_80
I would love to pull a cracker with my gorgeous budding beauty addict niece so she could keep the prize inside and stop pinching my make up every time she visits!
(@jen__la)
Knowing that Selfriedges has filled the crackers with Lancome’s best-sellers in perfect minis and a calendar full of beauty luxuries to brighten up the greyest of London mornings – I’d host a post xmas dinner for all of my beautiful friends and share the Lancome love in true christmas cracker, circle style.
I would love to pull a Christmas cracker with my beautiful Mum. She taught me all about the importance of skincare and took me to our local Estee Lauder counter on my 13th birthday and stocked me up with their full skincare package. Sadly my Mum passed away last Christmas and I would give all my Christmases to come just to have 5 more minutes with her. @blushingpeonies
I would love to pull a cracker with Mr Michael Buble! I would then make him sing me to sleep after the feast at lunch by singing all of the old Christmas songs in his gorgeous style!
I would most love to pull a Christmas cracker with my mother because she deserves to be showered with everything that she loves, one of those being Lancome products! Special presents for a special lady on a special day 🙂
I would love to pull a cracker with Artem Chigvintsev! Not only is he a very, very, very (very) good looking man, but he’s a fabulous dancer! He could teach me a few moves after we’re done with the crackers and dinner! He’ll just have to promise to leave Kara at home…
Janey
@janeylambert
I’d like to pull a cracker with Gok Wan, then afterwards he could could cook me some fantastic chinese food and tell me how to dress!
And again, with actual Twitter name – @misswhiplash
Oh my goodness – the advent calendar! I *almost* bought one this year, but hesitated over the extreme indulgence of it all and missed out. Probably for the best, financially speaking, I guess 🙂
Re the cracker, I’d like to say someone sparkling, witty and imaginative, but, in actual fact, I’m looking forward to nothing more this year than pulling crackers with my two small nephews (who are just old enough for it to be fun, not scary) and, probably with some help, my new niece, who won’t even exist until Christmas Eve this year!
It’s a bit soppy, but I’d like to pull a cracker with my grandad. He died in 1996, but I just had a baby boy three weeks ago and I would have loved for them to have met each other (as well as Grandad and my husband meeting each other- Grandad would finally have had a cricket fan to talk to!)
I’m @wuthering_alice on Twitter
Hi ,
I would like to pull a cracker with you coz u r my fav blogger and mean while we could discuss all beauty related things and stuff. I could discuss my beauty related problems with you as well.
I have many issues and problems related to makeup, skin and hair.
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