Father’s Day is simply across the nook (Sunday June 18th, to save lots of you having to Google!) and this 12 months Boots are celebrating all of the various kinds of dads and father figures with their Love for All Dads marketing campaign.
They’ve an enormous choice of Father’s Day Items accessible on-line at boots.com and to indicate you a number of the wide selection (and offer you a little bit of gifting inspo) I believed that I’d pick presents for a number of the most well-known fathers the world has ever identified:
Father Time, The Godfather and… Father Christmas.
Don’t say I by no means offer you something. Right here goes.
Father Time
I’ll admit I knew little or no about Father Time; I needed to do some in-depth analysis on him earlier than deciding on an acceptable present. I learn that he was usually depicted as an aged bearded man and in order that did throw up a little bit of a quandary: who would admire a beard-trimmer extra? Christmas or Time? Then I discovered that Father Time typically had wings and I believed that maybe one thing to clean his feathers is likely to be a great shout; he additionally carries a scythe – bit delinquent – and so I puzzled whether or not a little bit of vibrant hair dye, possibly pink, would possibly make him look much less menacing and a bit extra approachable.
However no. I didn’t wish to get too carried away along with his Father’s Day current and select one thing he’d then need to return. Even when he does have the entire time on the planet, he doesn’t wish to waste it traipsing backwards and forwards to the put up workplace with the entire undesirable issues I’ve gifted him. The packets of pink hair dye or – and this was my different thought – the cross-body bag during which to soundly carry the hourglass and clock he has to cart about with him – must be relegated to the rejects pile.
Ultimately I picked out one thing I knew he’d admire – anybody who’s been alive for greater than twenty years would welcome this onto their rest room shelf and he’s been alive for, nicely, perpetually. It’s No7 Males Defend and Good Superior Serum, designed to focus on deep strains and wrinkles. No7 serums are famend for delivering anti-ageing outcomes and this one is not any completely different. Slides on rapidly and simply beneath any moisturiser or sunscreen, it’s the final word no-fuss big-results addition to any skincare routine. If you happen to can persuade him to have one… it’s £24.95 at Boots.
The Godfather
Do you know that Boots have a complete choice of actions and experiences to purchase as items? All the pieces from supercar driving to aeroplane classes, helicopter rides to clay pigeon taking pictures. No one of their proper thoughts would belief Don Corleone with an precise gun, so Clay Pigeon taking pictures was out, however I believed that maybe Paintballing can be an acceptable (and secure) different. The Godfather and three of his buddies can select a handy paintballing location after which hearth at one another to their hearts’ content material, realizing that they’re not going to begin a New York mob warfare.
I feel that there’s an expertise present for nearly each kind of father, on the Boots web site. It’s an absolute superstore of actions. So you possibly can be good, and get one thing that the recipient will really like (a calming afternoon tea, maybe, if that’s their jam), or you possibly can actually sew them up and purchase them an expertise match for under essentially the most excessive adrenaline junkie. The selection is yours.
Paintballing for 4 is £20 at Boots.com
Father Christmas
I don’t suppose anybody would have purchased Father Christmas a beard trimmer earlier than. It’s a bit presumptuous, isn’t it? Everyone knows he likes to maintain it lengthy and fluffy over the vacation interval. However – aha! What in regards to the instances in-between? Do you actually suppose he desires to cart round that monstrosity 12 months a 12 months?
Step ahead the Philips Sequence 9000 Status Beard Trimmer with Metal Precision Know-how and BeardAdapt Sensor. Now look: that is no extraordinary beard trimmer. It’s just like the Rolls Royce of beard trimmers. Modern, steel-bodied, expensively weighty within the hand. Simply sliding it from its carry case is a sensorial expertise, actually pleasing, even for me and I don’t have a beard. A lot.
That is what Santa wants from December twenty sixth till the Autumn. To trim all of it off. He’ll discover that his beard, come the next Christmas, will likely be much more shapely and fluffy due to his annual shearing.
However this isn’t a trimmer reserved solely for Father Christmas: mere mortals might also witness the fashionable prowess of the 9000 Status. It’s £109.99 at Boots – one for the entire boys who’ve been very, superb.
(And in case you’re in search of one thing aside from a shaver, this Items for Him web page has all of the choices in a single place, from skincare to aftershaves and extra.)
In order that’s the three most well-known fathers catered for. However what about the entire different dads? The place to begin?
Nicely actually, I’ve exhausted myself with all of this considering however I’ll offer you a bonus suggestion for the entire trendy fathers on the market: Gucci Responsible Pour Homme. Particularly the Eau de Parfum.
The Parfum is so smooth and attractive. The bottle is a little bit of a showstopper – it has a particular “if Batman wore scent” vibe – and the perfume itself is heat, woody and manageably unique. It’s a crowd-pleaser however in a massively subtle manner – and who doesn’t need one thing a bit luxurious and classy from the Home of Gucci? Daddy, Daddy Cool.
Gucci Responsible Pour Homme Parfum is £83.30 at Boots.
And in case you’re nonetheless caught for concepts then take a look at this Items for Dad information for extra inspiration.
Costs are appropriate at time of writing and whereas shares final.
Proper, I’m going to cease there. There’s an actual danger that a few of my present concepts would possibly backfire on me. I wish to state this proper now: I can’t be held completely accountable if Santa turns up clean-shaven for Christmas 2023…
Picture credit Boots and Unsplash
