Mother’s Day – the second Sunday in May each year – is a special one for me as my second child was born then so it is always the Mother’s Day that keeps on giving! This year it falls upon Sunday 10th May 2015 so put it in your calendar now and read our helpful gift guide for some ideas for Mum. Pictured here: afternoon tea at my own mother’s, and below, refined sugar-free ginger, lemon and date cookies.

Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2015

The brand new LUSH Mothers Day range is instore, with a selection of mother-themed goodies to chose from. Pictured here are Yummy Mummy Body Conditioner  ($39.90 per 250g) and Shower Gel, Mother Superior Bubble Bar ($11.90 each), Everythinh’s Coming Up Roses rose petal bombshell containing real dried rose petals ($6.90 each), and the red flower-shaped Love You Mum bath soap. Like all Lush cosmetics, they are 100% vegetarian, cruelty-free, ethical buying and handmade. Check out this limited edition special range both instore and online at www.lush.co.nz

For mums who adore beautiful lipsticks and love natural products, I have the perfect gift: Karen Murrell’s twentieth lipstick release in a special bronzed canister. “To celebrate my 20th lipstick I wanted to pay tribute to the love of my craft with a lust-worthy blue-based red. It had to be completely different from any red that I had designed before and it had to symbolise the love that I felt when I wore my first red lipstick” says Karen Murrell. True Love lipstick is $29.95 from selected pharmacies and health food stores. See www.karenmurrell.com for info and stockists.

For the fashionable stylish Mums, why not choose a leather clutch, wallet or handbag by New Zealand designer Amber Bibby’s label, Little Ghost? Available at www.littleghost.co.nz

Treat Mum to a luxurious hair treatment with a tub of Pure Sacred Mask hair treatment. Its exclusive “pre complex” is blended with 100% organic extracts and vitamins including shea butter, argan oil, marula oil, kalahari melon oil, and mongongo oil to hydrate, regenerate and restructure damaged oil back to its youthful state. For stockists see www.blacksheepbrands.co.nz 

Speaking of hair, this is my favourite shampoo and conditioner and I bet many Mums would LOVE to get some as a gift. Pureology Pure Volume shampoo and conditioner.

We all love salon dried hair but as a Mum, it is hard to get to the salon and REALLY hard, to get the same smooth look at home. In a breakthrough development to fix this problem, VS Sassoon have just launched a SmartTech hairdryer available now at Noel Leeming and other selected stores with brushless motor technology which means it dries 70% faster – with airspeeds of 150km per hour! People with long or thick hair like myself who find it hard to dry their hair will be excited to hear this fast dry-time means less heat-damage exposure for locks and therefore healthier hair. The high-tech ceramic technology enables hair to absorb heat better in a way that minimises damage and stress. The VS Sassoon 3Q High Performance Dryer retails for $239.99.

Megan Robinson
20th April 2015