Easy Brie'zy...

With Valentines Day fast approaching it can be tough to come up with something innovative yet thoughtful and to remind that special someone that they are still special. WELL, Waitrose have the perfect solution to your Valentines dilemma - heart shaped Brie! Its simple and completely genious! Who says Valentines Day doesn't have to be cheesy.......

Having sampled this little piece of heaven, the melt in your mouth creamy texture is sure to send yours and your loved ones taste buds into over drive! What are you waiting for; this heart shaped novelty Brie is available from your local Waitrose cheese counter for just £3.99.

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Last night we were extremely excited to host a photo call with the beautiful Abbey Clancy at our Superdrug Strand store in celebration of the new Lynx Attract for women. She looked every bit the part in her body-con electric blue dress and perfectly coiffed hair as paparazzi and on-looking fans stalked the door to get a glimpse of the model. Things later got a bit hot under the collar as a spontaneous ‘flash snog’ commenced starting with Abbey spraying ‘his and her’s’ versions of the fragrance into a parted crowd of male and female models leading them to join together and commence in a raunchy snogathon! This truly lives up to the fragrance strap line ‘unleash the chaos’! The night was a great success and we took a couple of cheeky behind-the-scenes pics so you can get in on a piece of the action too!

Also at Superdrug we are excited about the Lorraine: Naked competition that we arranged with the Lorraine Show. Lorraine is searching for the UK’s most naturally beautiful people and the winners will front a nationwide Superdrug campaign. Judged by Lorraine and Superdrug’s very own senior skincare buyer, Joanna Hutton, as well as a model scout and casting director, the campaign has already received over 2,000 entrants. Not only will the two lucky winners get to take part in an amazing photo shoot for Dare magazine but they will also walk away with £250 gift card and a fab Superdrug goody bag. The competition is all about natural beauty so we want your face – NAKED. Info on how to apply can be found on www.itv.com/lorraine. Are YOU Britain’s natural beauty?.....

Superdrug are not the only ones hosting all of the excitement on the Lorraine Show this month. Over at Waitrose we held a ' Britains Best Soup ' contest on ITV1’s Lorraine show, where the lucky mother of two Karen Tanner, scooped the winning prize with her Chicken, Chorizo and Paprika soup. Sound amazing? We think so too! Go get yours at your local Waitrose store available for just £2.49!

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Superdrug on ice...

Yesterday saw the Superdrug team really get into the Christmas spirit as they hit the ice to celebrate the start of the festive season. The team were joined by an army of journalists at the Tower of London ice rink and twisted and twirled their way around the ice to showcase all the hottest products available this Christmas.

The ZPR girls took to the ice in the exclusive skating session before hanging up their skates to highlight the best of Christmas. Hot chocolate, mulled wine and twinkling lights accompanied the festive spirit, although gazing at all the beautiful products nearly tripled the length of our Christmas lists!

Minus a few less than graceful stumbles, the team were gliding around the rink like pros by the end – Torvill and Dean watch out!

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There's no business like show business....

From London to Liverpool the fashion team has been working in true style the past couple of weeks, from star studded VIP fashion events around the country to LFW.

To start off the glamour the Peacocks team headed to four stores around the country to launch the Boutique collections at Peacocks. To celebrate the launch the stores held a preview VIP afternoon in the Liverpool, Manchester, Belfast and Newcastle stores hosted by a celebrity face, two gorgeous models modeling the new collections, amazing offers in store and best of all champagne and nibbles.

As customers queued outside to meet Zoe Salmon in Belfast, Pearl Lowe in Liverpool, Gemma Atksinon in Manchester and Anna Foster in Newcastle the stores were buzzing. The staff were full of life, the music was booming, the champagne was flowing and the Autumn collections screamed BUY me. Customers left the stores smiles on their faces and a shopping bag in tow. The day was a success.

Next stop…London Fashion Week. All week we waited in anticipation in the office awaiting the arrival of our LFW tickets. What shows are we going to? Do they cross over? What do we wear? Are we seated or standing?

It got to Sunday morning and we trotted into town, in our heels of course to head to Richard Nicoll and Nicole Fahri. London was alive, everyone was dressed in their best, from punk style to city chic; fame hungry fashionistas, bloggers, editors, make-up artists and photographers were ready for day three of LFW. Towering models strutted down the catwalks in structured shapes, beautiful cut work detail, delicate lace and ice cream pastels. It certainly got our taste buds going for SS12.

To end the day on a high the doyenne of fashion, Anna Wintour was sitting in the FROW, just a row in front of us at Nicole Fahri with her trademark neat bob and oversized sunglasses. The only thing missing was Kate Moss sitting beside her to make the stunning collection absolutely complete.

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ZPR Girls

Last week saw the crème de crème of the beauty world gather at the oh so chic Sanderson Hotel to help Superdrug launch the new Optimum Super Antioxidant Grape skin care collection.

The Superdrug team hosted a delicious breakfast (grape themed of course) to celebrate the launch and attendees were given an expert presentation on the science behind the range.

The ground breaking range is the hottest new product in the world of anti ageing and guests were also treated to a relaxing facial incorporating the new products, which left skin looking glowing and radiant. The results have sent the beauty obsessed office into a bit of a frenzy, so we are pleased to announce the range is now in store (form an orderly queue as its predicted to be a sell out)!

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Sky high with Superdrug

On Friday 15th July, Superdrug took events to another level, quite literally. To celebrate the launch of Superdrug’s new own brand false lashes we took false lash lovers up 443ft high as we held an event on the London Eye.

A very first for the London Eye, we created our very own Lash bar in our very own pod overlooking the sights of London. We held the event for the best beauty bloggers around and managed to apply 47 sets of lashes in two and half hours. The social media world became a lash frenzy as bloggers tweeted they were sky high having their new false lashes applied. One of the bloggers loves the new range so much she had arrived wearing her #30 lashes.

The event was captured by our resident videographer Ted Beagles, our token man in flight and all we were missing were the G&T’s and a boogie box to really get the Friday night underway.

All of the girls left the pod fully lashed up and ready to hit the town. All in all a great success! Look out for Superdrug's lashes in store now and on special offer until 2nd August.

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ZPR 10th Anniversary Celebrations!

This week has been all about the ZPR 10th anniversary celebrations. The ZPR team were joined by clients, friends, and journalists to ensure last nights party went off with a bang! The party took place in the super stylish gallery below our office, where the fabulous Lisa Moorish DJ’d with some funky 80’s classics – making it irresistible for some of the team to bust just a few moves on the quiet…Lucy G and Georgia!

Rocket provided the canapés and drinks for the evening, which seemed to be thoroughly enjoyed by all - if we can judge it on the rate they disappeared for the platters! Everyone ooh’d and ahh’d over our the rare tuna spring rolls, ricotta parcels and miniature slices of beef Wellington to name a few – but more importantly the delicious treat desserts, and mini ZPR cupcakes were what all the party guests were desperate to get their hands on! Eating all of this delicious food of course makes thirsty work, and the canapés were washed down with lots of celebratory champagne and special ZPR style Zellini cocktails!

The atmosphere was fantastic as we were joined by some of ZPR’s most loyal and respected friends and supporters, who all came along to wish us a happy ten year anniversary. To mark the occasion we asked our guests to sign our special ZPR commemorative cheque book to tell us which charity they would like to us donate some money to, as a birthday gift from ZPR.

Judging by the amount of thank-you tweets we received this morning we can definitely say our party was a hit and enjoyed by all! Here’s to another fabulous ten years of ZPR!

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Well what a celeb packed week so far!

Monday morning we kicked off with the fabulous Gwyneth Paltrow on the entirely edible and very tall B&Q Garden at The RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Making an appearance on the garden which aims to show people how they can grow fruit and veg just about anywhere, Gwyneth posed along with her new cookery book in front of the 30ft vertical tower as the entire press at Chelsea descended on the garden to get their shot and a glimpse at the actress.

Followed by this, TV presenter Lorraine Kelly arrived on the garden in a beautiful floral inspired outfit along with B&Q celebrity ambassadors Kirstie Allsopp and George Clarke. All were given a VIP tour of the garden by the designers as the sun shone over the tallest ever garden at Chelsea.

This was followed by a champagne and canapé reception on the garden for press as top journalists and bloggers got the inside scoop on how the garden was created. Filming from the garden was also popular as BBC News, BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, BBC South and even the South Korean public TV station, climbed the tower’s stairs to film up high and live from the garden.

Another high on Monday was the arrival of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh to the world famous show. Her Majesty even stopped by the B&Q Garden to chat to the garden designers and the B&Q team.

Tuesday was D-Day as the results from the RHS judges were announced, in a some what surprising way. Designer Laurie Chetwood, broom in hand, was tidying up the garden ahead of the arrival of the thousands of visitors as presenter Nicky Chapman ran up unannounced, crew in tow to tell him that The B&Q Garden had received top honours with a Gold medal. The B&Q team were ecstatic as the months of hard work had paid off.

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