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Simplecouk are on Twitter – come follow us

2009-03-12T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

Guess what … along with recently setting up our Simplecouk YouTube channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/simplecouk

This week we have joined in with the conversation at Twitter (www.twitter.com/simplecouk), we have found all of our favourite UK (some USA) magazines to follow, fashion twitterers, UK retail shops you like and some of our favourite UK beauty blogs including: Beauty Pages, Beauty Addict UK, Beauty Guerrilla, The Style PA and Cult beauty blog.

Come and follow our twitter updates here for latest promotions and general chat.

We were also pleasantly surprised that a few of these lovely beauty bloggers had reviewed our products too.

There are lots of USA American beauty bloggers on Twitter, not as many UK beauty bloggers than we first anticipated, hoping to find more on there soon, so we can be even more clear on what is important to you.

If you have contacted us about your UK beauty blog, please note we are reviewing and will be in touch soon, we have lots of social networking plans for the future, so will be in contact to let you know how you could join in with that. If you haven’t let us know about your beauty blog or channel yet, feel free to send these in via Twitter or by simply replying to this blog post.

Keeping on top of everything beautiful, we are also following news on celebrity gossip, what Gok_Wan is up to, receiving updates from our favourite teen site Stardoll, making friends with UK mums and following fashion updates from some of the UK’s top newspaper fashion editors.

It is all very exciting stuff….

As you all know we believe in Goodness and we hope that twittering will make us even gooder (if that’s a word !!). We will be connecting with our fans on twitter, promoting the VIP club and promotions and letting you know who we admire (our follow list) and keeping on top of everything beautiful.

Hope to see you on Twitter soon or YouTube - wherever you feel most comfortable really.

All the best

Sarah the Simple Twitter or Tweeter

Get a Simple VIP badge

2009-01-22T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

Be a proud member of the Simple VIP club and pin a “I heart Simply VIP” badge or “I am a Simple VIP” badge onto your Blog, Myspace page or website.

Reward yourself and share the Simple VIP club love. The badges are available in three sizes and colours and should you wish to promote your membership we have also designed a “I am a Simple VIP” badge. Read more >

We have created our own YouTube Channel

2009-01-07T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

As many of you will know we’ve had our own video clips & podcasts from Caroline Frazer, Celebrity make up artist and our website resident Skincare expert for a while now on our Simple solutions live page http://www.simple.co.uk/Skincare-Solutions/

We are pleased to inform you that you can now watch all the videos from Simple on YouTube. Plus if you are active on Youtube and have an account, then you may wish to click the subscribe button on channel http://uk.youtube.com/simplecouk or share our videos with your friends, post them on your beauty blog or simply keep up to date on the latest news on looking after your skin.

We hope you will make use of it.

The aim of our Youtube channel is to allow you to connect and engage with Simple in more than one place. We hope you will send in your comments and reviews of the videos we post, also you maybe interested in watching our previous and new TV commercials from Simple. Do let us know what you think of our commercials ie: Do they relate to you? Do you like them?

We are avoiding the big launch of this channel for now and just letting you our site visitor and blog reader know about it. You can look forward to more interesting beauty related “How To's” on our Skincare Solutions page http://www.simple.co.uk/Skincare-Solutions and You Tube channel in the New Year. Gain access to the channel here or alternatively see the link on the Skincare solutions page http://www.simple.co.uk/Skincare-Solutions/

If there is a particular “How to” from our skincare expert that you would like to see/hear then let us know or sign up here to take part in our Live Simple Q&A session http://www.simple.co.uk/Skincare-Solutions/Register.aspx

Thanks for listening and we hope to see you watching our videos soon.

Summer Holidays!

2008-08-11T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

How smug do I feel?!!! My friend and I decided to take our children away for 2-weeks in the sun - we arrived at the airport with all our luggage - remembering not to forget in-date passports and the correct e-vouchers for our flight and of course having the correct weight suitcases for fear of having to repack and remove certain importants elements of clothing at check-in in front of all other passengers........ We had both forgotten the new ruling regarding liquids in hand-luggage. Now, I (Mrs Smug!) didn't need to have any liquids in my hand-luggage because I had my Simple Wipes (the answer to all my skincare needs!) whereas Amanda had some unacceptable liquid items in her handluggage which needed to be thrown away before we could even clear security! She was absolutely furious - not a great start to our holiday...... Needless to say she says that in future she will use Simple wipes as they are not only easy to use - but can be taken onto an aeroplane without causing a massive security scare!

When we arrived - it was so hot - unlike the UK - and we spent most of our time in and out of the pool and the last thing my children wanted to do was to stand still whilst I rubbed in suncream to every single piece of exposed body - I was so pleased that I had taken the SPF30 Kids Sun Cream in a spray bottle (I bought it in Boots) - it was soooo easy to apply and quick too!

As you can imagine, with 3 children I did not get a lot of time to simply read my book and lie in the sun (although we are all told not to nowadays because of the health scares asssociated with being in the sun) - so I am not "sun-tanned" - but I have come back with a beautiful healthy tan - as my 9 year old son William said - "Mummy, you don't have a sun tan - you have a moon tan"! I used Simple Self-Tan Lotion every night and woke up every morning with a beautiful healthy glow - hence his description of a moon-tan. I would thoroughly recommend it - none of the health issues and yet all of the glowing comments - "Wow, you look healthy", "You must have had a great time - you really have caught the sun"...... Little do they all know!

WOW!

2008-07-17T12:14:05.9530000+00:00

Simple, I just love your new website. It is so clean and fresh looking. There are so many new parts I don't know where to begin! I completed a Skin Health Check and was so excited when I received my report..... It is so comprehensive and full of so many pieces of advice and information - I didn't realise that I knew so little! Note to self: I really must drink more water and eat more berries. I also love the fact that you have recommended a selection of products which are right for my skin and I could buy them straight away - without having to even leave my house. I hope they arrive soon - because according to my report I need to start using them straight away - particularly Radiance Wipes and the Eye Cream. I also love the new VIP site - I know that you asked us our opinion about the site we preferred - I didn't realise just how much better it would be..... I want to be VIP of the month so I am going to recommend all my friends.....
Well done Simple - great products and a great website..........

Wipe your way to radiance!

2008-05-29T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

As we told you in last month’s newsletter, we have sent the exclusive and yet to be launched Simple Radiance Wipes to all of our UK based friends of Simple. We hope you like them.

The product you have been sent is so new that no one from the press or public will have had a chance to see it, try it, or comment on it before you. However, we would love to know your thoughts, so please, please, please tell us what you think about the latest addition to Simple’s range. All you have to do is post a comment to this blog.

Discussion: Cleansing Facial Wipes

2007-12-05T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

Welcome to the first SimplyCity forum. The topic, Simple Cleansing Facial Wipes. You use them daily but how do you use them? When do you use them? What do you use them for? Do you need advice from Caroline Frazer this month on the best tips for the wipes?

We want to open up the discussion to you and the rest of the friends of Simple.

Who'll get the ball rolling?

www. Father-Christmas.com

2007-10-31T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

I love Christmas and it’s only weeks away! My only complaint is that it arrives far too soon. One minute it’s October and then, blink, it’s the first week of December and I’m buying an advent calendar with a sale sticker on it and panicking about presents.

Every year I swear I’ll be more prepared. Every year I think I’ll tackle buying Christmas presents earlier, but it never happens. I half write a list, start searching the web for ideas and then leave it to the last minute when everything has either sold out, or the last delivery date has gone (I usually discover this the day after). Not this year though, this year is different.

This year I’ve got a battle plan. My tactics are simple: get everything off the internet: do not go to Bluewater. This means I can comfortably dedicate one lunch hour a week between now and Christmas to track down the best presents on the planet. I can keep tabs on what everyone else is buying via the news sites and have sites like handbag.com to keep me updated on what’s new. Then I can run price searches online to make sure I get the best deal and find the best 0% interest credit card to put it all on. Genius or what? I

’m not embarrassed about it, I’m convinced that Santa has long deserted his traditional home of the North Pole and is cruising around cyberspace in his sledge just like me. He would be if he had any sense anyway…

I’m not worried that I’ll be missing out on the whole festive spirit thing. Instead of traipsing around shops getting increasingly wound up by long queues and over priced goods, I will be partaking in a suitably Christmassy activity, like ice skating at the Natural History Museum, a Carol Concert at St-Martin-in-the-Fields or the Christmas Hall at Harrods. I’ll sit in the calm, gifts surrounding me, mulled wine in hand and ‘The Best Christmas album In The World Ever’ playing in the background. Then I’ll set about wrapping my present mountain (badly).

And if my plan doesn’t work this year? Next Christmas it’ll be vouchers, socks and a nice bottle of plonk all round.

I’m not a plastic bag!

2007-10-10T00:00:00.0000000+00:00

The phrase ‘Going Green’ no longer conjures up images of seasickness, jealousy or Fungus the Bogeyman, but now is firmly associated with being ‘environmentally friendly’. The drive to save the planet has emerged from the domain of Swampy and his cohorts and exploded into the mainstream. It’s great news for the closet environmentalists amongst us who used to hide our items made from recycled paper at the bottom of the shopping trolley in case someone saw it and branded us a ‘tree-hugger’. The masses have accepted that we all need to be a little bit greener and less wasteful, the message driven home thanks to politicians. And they are not all talk, measures have actually been put in place to make it all a bit easier. We are encouraged to recycle, re-use carrier bags (or better still not use them at all), walk or cycle, lift share and not take a 4x4 into the congestion zone!

We’re au fait with all the fluffy phrases like Greenhouse Effect (sounds quaint doesn’t it?) and Global Warming (doesn’t sound too bad considering the summer we’ve just had) but really these concepts aren’t that fluffy at all. Thanks to global warming some predict that by the time a baby born today is 80 years old the world will be 6 and a half degrees warmer than it is now. Melting snow, rising sea levels and temperatures spell doom and gloom for us all. Scary stuff hey?

But will the alarming predictions come true?
Who knows. The truth is that, regardless, we are starting to care about our planet, which is no bad thing. By adopting the environmental practises handed to us on a plate it’s easier than ever to ‘do our bit’ and it’s happening. It’s not just individuals that are going green but those that really can make a difference – big business. Who cares what their agenda is? We don’t believe that it’s out of the goodness of their hearts, but sustainability can give a business an edge over its competitors.

We won’t know if our efforts will, or could, have made a difference until it’s too late. It would be a shame for our kids if the sceptical amongst us prevail and that 6.5 degrees causes all sorts of trouble in the future. I quite like the planet and I would like it to stay the way it is, with this in mind re-using a plastic bag and turning a light off hardly seems like a big deal. Or is it?