Strictly Meets Hauschka

Christmas decorations in the shops already? Mr. John Lewis you are kidding me! I am a founder (and I strongly suspect the only member) of the Catherine Keeps Autumn Special Campaign. Instead of my focus leaping ahead to December 25th, I shall rejoice in every day of this magical season. My motto shall be Pooh's version of Carpe Diem:

"What day is it?" asked Pooh
"It's today" squeaked Piglet
"My favourite day" said Pooh

Ok, I would be a liar if I didn't admit that the nights drawing in not only saps light from the day, but also a little from my soul. However, without yin there would be no yang (or something of that ilk). Autumn is a time for amazing colours, catching leaves, making wishes, eating apple crumble and watching Strictly Come Dancing (I'm a big fan!). Lamenting the end of my 30 Day Radiant You Experience, in a somewhat flimsy excuse to resume blogging, I thought it would be nice to combine two great passions...Strictly meets Hauschka. It seemed the perfect opportunity to pick up my desire to dabble in all things make-up, especially in view of the new Allure collection. The ever so generous Dr.Hauschka team have sent me some products to review. I will no doubt need to reference the videos on Lisa Eldridge's site as I am worse than clueless, but hopefully the rather lovely looking, if not slightly intimidating, Illuminating Powder will hold all the answers, so enough with my excuses! Maybe I will dust down the sequin flapper dress I bought in the Jigsaw sales...

So ahead of the first installment this Friday evening, here is the line up for this year. In order to keep the identities of the celebrities secret in the run up to the contest, they were all allocated secret code names. I have devised my own Hauschka codes. At least one of the celebritiy contestants is a Hauschka fan (http://www.drhauschka.co.uk/news/2010/09/story-64), I wonder if I can convert the rest?

Professional Dancer	Celebrity	Celebrity     Codename	My Hauschka Code Name
Artem Chigvintsev	Fern Britton	Great (as in Great Britain)	Regenerating Body Moisturiser Contains Horetail Fern!
Vincent Simone	Dani Harmer	Bird (she places Tracey Beaker)	Spruce Bath   Like a breath of fresh air..
Brendan Cole	Victoria Pendleton	Cake (as in Victoria Sandwich)	Fitness Foot Balm     Definitely need this after all that cycling..
Anton Du Beke	Jerry Hall	Manor (Queen of her Manor)	Translucent Face Powder Her favourite Hauschka product
Kristina Rihanoff	Colin Salmon	Wild (salmon)	Rose Day Cream Wild roses and salmon pink
James Jordan	Denise Van Outen	Legal (as in Legally Blonde)	Aubergine Volume Mascara A va va voom product..
Iveta Lukosiute (replaced Aliona Vilani)	Johnny Ball	Round (shape of ball)	Cleansing Cream Seems a no nonsense basics type of guy.
Pasha Kovalev	Kimberley Walsh	Princess (of pop)	Lipgloss 04 Even in a crisis I couldn't imagine this lady not reaching for some luscious red lip gloss
Robin Windsor	Lisa Riley	Life (as in Life of Riley)	Lemon lemongrass body oil This product is full of zing
Flavia Cacace	Louis Smith	Captain (of the Olympic gymnastic team)	Rythmic Night Conditioner A good gymnast need rhythm and this product contains silver like the medal won at the Olympics
Natalie Lowe	Michael Vaughan	Robin (every Batman needs one)	Muslins Reminded me of cricket whites..
Karen Hauer	Nicky Byrne	Baby (from Disco Inferno Burn Baby Burn)	Body Powder Ideal for babies
Erin Boag	Richard Arnold	Teddy (as in Arnold Bear)	Almond Body Moisturiser A big teddy bear hug in a bottle..
Ola Jordan	Sid Owen	Sushi (nobody is quite sure of this code name!)	Pump Dispenser He played a mechanic in EastEnders