♡ iyastevie ♡: February 2017

♥ LUSH Mothers Day Haul - 2017!

I have been patiently waiting for the release of the LUSH Mothers Day range since it was loaded onto the LUSH website. I thought that the Easter range was being released on the same day and I had a mini panic attack thinking I was going to have to really budget what I bought and be in the same situation I was in with the Valentines Day range where I would have to buy a couple of items and then wait for weeks to buy it all! Fortunately, the Easter range is being released on the 10th of March, (my birthday!) so I could buy every item available in store!

I found that this range is very floral with a slight twist of citrus, there is a lot of rosewood oil, jasmine and lavender in the latest LUSH products and also some sweet orange oil and Sicilian lemon. I do appreciate the couple of honey scented products too! I think there are some really lovely products in this range and definitely a few that I will be grabbing more of!

Pictured: Your Mother Should Know bubble bar

Price: £5.95

Firstly, I was rather surprised at the size of this bubble bar! For the price, I would have expected this bubble bar to be about this size, but when LUSH release limited edition ranges, I've found that they do tend to bump up the price a little when you compare the size and price of the original line bubble bars. I was so excited to grab a Your Mother Should Know, because just look at them colours! Your Mother Should Know had a very vibrant blue, neon yellow and then a tiny chunk of vivid pink. This bubble bar carries the Frozen scent, which I am super happy about! With ingredients such as grapefruit oil, orange flower absolute and rosewood oil, this is literally the Frozen bath bomb in bubble bar form and I love it! I think this scent comes across really well in bath products. I do own the solid perfume, but I'm not as keen on the solid as I am on the bath products. I think Your Mother Should Know is great value for money and if you use_ a slice of the blue part when using a Frozen bath bomb, I imagine that bath would be bliss!

Pictured: Honey lip scrub
Price: £5.75

This was one product I was not planning on purchasing at all. As much as I love the Honey I Washed the Kids scent, I don't like the taste of honey. I imagined this lip scrub to taste purely like honey, but it doesn't. When I went to my local store I was chatting to one of the lovely ladies who works there and she persuaded me to try it. Honey smells like minty white chocolate with a slight scent of honey. I ended up purchasing one because I always do end up buying more than I intend to in LUSH! I find that Honey has a different texture to the other lip scrubs that LUSH have released. Honey is stickier than other lip scrubs, the sugar sticks together making it so much easier to get a good amount on your fingers without chucking the product everywhere and losing half of what you have paid for. If you don't know, LUSH lip scrubs are edible, so when you apply the scrub to your lips and rub it in, you can lick it off! I found that Honey has more of a honey taste than smell, but it's not too strong that someone who doesn't like honey would dislike this product. I like how the peppermint oil makes your lips tingle after using it. I am pleasantly surprised with this product, but it still doesn't take over my love for Sugar Plum Fairy.

Pictured: Baa Bar bubble bar

Price: £3.95

I was keen to buy this bubble bar, purely because it's so god damn cute! Baa Bar is quite a bit smaller than I imagined it would be, but for the price tag I think it's good value for money. Baa Bar contains clove bud oil, jasmine absolute, rose absolute, violet leaf and lavender powder, so as you can imagine the scent is rather complex. I feel like I have smelt this scent before but I can't quite put my finger on what scent family this little sheep belongs to! Baa Bar has a deep purple head and a white body, but inside that deep purple appears again. This bubble bar is not one of my favourites, because I'm just not too sure on the scent. I think with complex scents like these, I need time for them to grow on me or I need to put them in my collection for a while and when the scent tones down slightly, revisit the product and I'll probably like it! I can imagine this bubble bar to make your water really silky and a beautiful shade of purple.

Pictured: Ups-A-Daisy bath bomb
Price: £3.50

I don't think I like this bath bomb. The scent is rose based, as Ups-A-Daisy is packed with rose absolute and rosewood oil. This bath bomb does not carry the Rose Jam scent, this is just a standard rose scent, which I am not a fan of. How typical, this is one that I don't really like and I ended up with two! I have found that Ups-A-Daisy is really dusty. Every time I touch the bath bomb, my finger tips end up covered in the bath bomb dust. I have brushed off any excess dust, as I do whenever I get new products so I can add it to my LUSH dust jar, but I still manage to get covered in dust when I touch this bath bomb. I feel like it's an old bath bomb that is coming to the end of it's fragile life and I don't feel like a brand new bath bomb that was literally released yesterday should be like this. I can imagine that Ups-A-Daisy will look pretty in the bath, but I will have to use another really potent product to cancel out that scent!

Pictured: Pink Custard shower jelly
Price: £4.25 for 100g and £8.50 for £250g

This was probably the product I was most excited for. A new shower jelly is the answer to all my LUSH prayers as I am a huge shower jelly hoarder and I probably own more shower jellies than any other product. The description of Pink Custard sounded amazing, the combination of tonka absolute and vanilla absolute with neroli and lavender oil sounded really lovely. I was thinking that Pink Custard would have a prominently vanilla scent, really milky and smooth. With the name including the word custard, I really hoped that this would be reiterated in the scent somehow. Nope, it's straight up lavender. I am slightly disappointed. With the release of the Twilight shower jelly a couple of months ago in the LUSH Kitchen, I don't really understand why LUSH would create and release another lavender scented shower jelly. Overall, as I am becoming more open to lavender scents, this is a lovely product and it does smell really nice, I am just slightly disappointed with the scent choice.

Pictured: Mum bubble bar
Price: £2.95

I am in love. I love everything about this bath bomb. I love that you can buy it in two different colours, I love the price tag, I love love love the scent! Mum has ingredients such as Sicilian lemon oil, sweet orange oil, rose oil and gardenia extract, but to me the scent is purely them little Refreshers sweets you use to buy as a kid. The scent is sweet and candy like. If you crave Snow Fairy but you don't want something as potent, Mum is literally the answer. You can purchase two different types of this bubble bar, a yellow version and a pink version and of course I bought both! Mum is quite a small bath bomb and it is quite a fast fizzer, but it's a really lovely bomb! There's a super cute little message on the inside as well which is a cute little touch. I will be stocking up on this bath bomb! The scent is just stunning!

Pictured: Elsie the Giraffe (You're Having a Bath) reusable bubble bar
Price: £6.95

As I stated in my Mothers Day preview I'm not too keen on reusable bubble bars as I find them quite hard to store and they always fall of their sticks or the stick is never strong enough to hold the product. I really didn't plan on purchasing Elsie the Giraffe at all, but as always I ended up picking it up anyway. I am so glad that I did as this is probably in my top 2 favourite products purely for the scent. I have never smelt a LUSH product that is such a citrus blast as Elsie the Giraffe. The combination of grapefruit oil, lemon oil and lime oil is perfect. I love fruity and citrus scents so much and LUSH do them so well! As much as I love the scent and I think that this bubble bar is really pretty, I do not think that it is worth the money. Elsie the Giraffe is nearly £7 and I'm not too sure whether it's because the bubble bar is split into two but you really don't seem to get much product. I also imagine that this bubble bar would make your bath water a slightly 'I'm rather dehydrated' pee colour, but I don't care. I love the scent so much it outweighs the pee colour and the price tag. I need to figure out what bath bomb to use with this bubble bar!

Pictured: Scrubee body butter
Price: £6.95
Scrubee is probably my favourite product in the LUSH Mothers Day range. How bloody cute is that little bumble bee! The scent is a perfect form of Honey I Washed the Kids which I am super happy about. I have recently fallen in love with the Honey I Washed the Kids scent family and I am so glad to have new products to add to my ever growing collection. With ingredients such as Shea butter, ground almonds, coconut oil, honey and Brazilian orange oil, the moisture that this body butter will give your body is unbelievable. You don't use this body butter in the way you would imagine. You apply Scrubee to damp skin buy rubbing this little bee all over your skin in circular motions. You then rinse off the product, as you will have traces of ground coconut shell and ground almonds which are added in to provide you with the perfect exfoliation. You then hop out of the bath or shower and pat yourself dry and wa la! You will not need to moisturise as your skin will have soaked in the Shea butter and coconut oil and you have exfoliated at the same time! This is one product I would like to purchase at least 3 more of as I love it so much!

Pictured: Best Friends gift set
Price: £24.95
Contains: Rose Bombshell bath bomb, Ladybird bubble bar, Ups-A-Daisy bath bomb, Baa Bar bubble bar and Pink Flamingo reusable bubble bar

I'm not even going to lie, I purchased this gift set purely for the box. The box is so stunning and I needed it to add to my collection. I am going to store all my lip scrubs, solid perfumes and samples in this box as it is the perfect size. I also think that this gift set had a great selection of products, a bit of valentines day with Rose Bombshell and Ladybird, some Mothers Day with Ups-A-Daisy and Baa Bar and then a little bit of the original line with Pink Flamingo. I don't think this is the best gift set you can purchase from this range, I would say that Take Five or the huge Happy Mothers Day would be a better choice, (which I am SO tempted to buy) but I really needed this box! I think I'm going to purchased a gift set from every collection this year as I have started collecting the little info books and tags. I may already have my Easter gift picked out..

I think this range is very hit or miss with me. There are some products that I completely love and some that just don't make the cut for me. In a way, I'm glad there are some that I am not too keen on as it means I can stock up way more on the products that I do love!

LUSH Mothers Day gets a ..

You can find the LUSH Mothers Day range here

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♥ What To Buy From LUSH

I think that to anybody who is new to LUSH or who is intrigued by the products. it can be a bit overwhelming. There are so many different scents and so many products that you didn't even know existed. And I think I can say quite honestly, that I have used a lot of LUSH products. A lot. I have been buying LUSH since I was a small child, but my 'addiction' started in 2013 ish. I thought I would write a blog post for the newbies, for anybody who is just getting into LUSH and would like any help on selecting products and what I think is the best way to use them.

Pictured: American Cream hair conditioner

If you like sweet scents, then this one is for you. American Cream has a strawberry milkshake scent, which can also be found in a few other products that LUSH have to offer. This hair conditioner is my holy grail. I used to use Aussie hair shampoo and conditioner before I converted 100% to LUSH and went cruelty free and this is just as good, if not better. After using my favourite shampoo bar (or Snow Fairy) to wash my hair, I lather American Cream on the ends of my hair and massage up to my scalp. I focus more on the ends as for me, they need the extra care a little more. This conditioner is for all hair types. I have quite dry ends and oily roots, and I think this conditioner works wonders for me. It leaves my hair super soft, like I've had it washed at a salon and you can smell the scent until you wash it again. It can be quite an expensive product to add into your routine, but it's so worth it!

Pictured: The Comforter bubble bar

Bubble bars are probably my most hoarded item from LUSH, aside from shower gels. These last forever. A bath bomb can age quite quickly and turn to mush when you drop it in the water, but I have used bubble bars that have been two to three years old and they work just as good as they would the day they were bought. The Comforter is one of my favourite scents that LUSH offer, (I'm probably going to say this a lot throughout this blog post) as I love the berry scent. The Comforter may seem a bit steep in price, but the size of this bar is huge. For £4.95 you can easily get six baths out of it. As I use The Comforter a lot, I break my bars up using a butter knife to turn it into a soft powder and store it in a glass jar, and then stick a couple of scoops into a sieve and pop under running water. I find this way you don't waste any of your bubble bar. You don't get lumps sat at the bottom of your bath that haven't dissolved. Fro any new Lushie, I would recommend The Comforter as the scent is lovely, you get plenty of product for your money and you can grab a few products in this scent if you like it.

Pictured: Let the Good Times Roll solid facial cleanser

Since I first bought this product, I have fallen in love with LUSH solid cleansers. I have dabbled with the other original line cleansers, Dark Angels and Angels on Bare Skin but none do the job quite like LTGTR. LTGTR smells so good I could eat it. I also like that it isn't chunky, I really like the Buche de Noel solid facial cleanser that comes out at Christmas, but I can't use it whilst I'm in the bath as it's too chunky and gets stuck in my hair, just ew. LTGTR may have chunks of popcorn, but they can easily be removed. I believe that this facial cleanser is for all skin types. I love how it leaves my skin feeling silky soft and so clean. This is one of the only products that if I don't have a tub in my collection, I feel like I really am missing something. I hope the day never ever comes that LUSH discontinue this product as I love it so much!

Pictured: Intergalactic bath bomb

When this bath bomb came to LUSH Oxford Street in 2015, I was dying to get my hands on it. The colours, the scent, just everything about this bath bomb sounded perfect to me. I was so happy when LUSH announced that Intergalactic was coming to all stores. The scent is minty and LUSH does mint well! The colours are amazing, a base of blue with specks of neon pink and yellow. This is definitely the bath bomb for anybody who is new to LUSH. The other original line bombs are great, but none put on a show quite like Intergalactic does. I love pairing this with the Dirty Springwash shower gel, which I am nearly out of, so I shall have to purchase myself a 250g bottle. The combination of the minty scents is amazing, especially in the summer months when you need something to cool you down. I don't think I've met a single Lushie who doesn't enjoy Intergalactic and I imagine quite a lot of people would recommend it.

Pictured: Seanik shampoo bar

I haven't used a Seanik in a long time as I decided to branch out and try some of the other shampoo bars that LUSH has to offer (I'm currently using Montalbano) but this will forever be my favourite. Seanik has that summer beach scent to it, very fresh and clean. This shampoo bar contains seaweed, which gives your hair shine and volume. I have had umpteen bars of this and I will probably have hundreds more. Shampoo bars last forever! You can get over 50 washes out of one bar and for £5.95 for one bar which gives you 50 washes, I think it's a bargain. When you work out how many washes you get out of a bottle of shampoo, you'll get many more washes out of the bar than you would out of a standard shampoo bottle. These are also what LUSH call their 'Naked' products, as they don't require any wrapping. LUSH do sell metal tins that you can store your shampoo bars in, and if you wish to purchase a tin, don't go for the small circular tin that the bar just squeezes into, go for the square tin. I once purchased a Seanik and grabbed a circular tin for it, and getting it out of the tin after I'd used it was a bloody work out! With the square tin, you have plenty of room around it to prize it out of the tin. I let my shampoo bars air dry as I found with this bar especially, that it kind of started to smell when it was stored away in a tin.

Pictured: Refresher shower jelly

Probably one of my favourite types of products that LUSH sells is shower jelly. It's like no other product that you have tried before. The original line shower jellies aren't some of my faves, but Refresher is an exception. The gorgeous sicilian lemon scent really does come out in this jelly. It smells like freshly cut lemons and a little bit of sherbet. This product really does live up to it's name, as when used in the morning it really will refresh you for the day. This jelly, like all, are multi purpose and can be used for washing yourself, washing your hair and creating plenty of bubbles for your bath. I like to use Refresher with other products to create plenty of lemony scented bubbles. I leaves the water feeling silky soft and there's no need to moisturise when you get out. I'd recommend this jelly over the other two that are in the original line, Needles and Pine and 93,000 Miles as this has more of a 'generic' scent, whereas the other two have to be for quite an acquired taste (I don't really like either to be honest, bring back Sweetie Pie!) You can read about all the shower jellies I own in a previous blog post here, although it should probably be updated!

Pictured: D'Fluff shaving cream

I first purchased this item when I was visiting Dublin with Reece back in 2015 for his 18th birthday. I've only had a couple of tubs since then, but everytime I grab another tub I remember why I like it so much. D'Fluff has a very LUSH strawberry scent, which doesn't actually smell like strawberries. It has a bit of a floral scent to it, which normally I would steer clear of, but I actually really like this. This is the only shaving cream that I have used from LUSH which I actually like. When you rub it on your skin it turns foamy, in oppose to Prince which is more of a cream and just clogs your razor. I also find that with using this product, I don't nick myself as much and I don't get razor burn (I'm not very good at being a woman.) This leaves your skin feeling silky soft and I've also found that it helps to reduce redness from my pores.

Pictured: Rub Rub Rub body scrub

I love love love the scent of this product. Rub Rub Rub shares the same scent as the Sakura bath bomb. It smells fresh and clean, no floral or sweet overpowering scents, just clean. It really is lovely. You can purchase this item in either a black pot, where the consistency is a thick liquid packed full of sea salt or you can purchase a solid block. I prefer the version in a tub, I find that the block scratches my skin. So not only is the smell really nice, Rub Rub Rub does it's job well. It really does exfoliate your skin well, leaving the bumps on the back of your arms to never be seen again and your elbows and knees looking brand new. I really couldn't recommend this product enough, especially the older version that comes in a tub.

Pictured: It's Raining Men shower gel

I wasn't really interested in this shower gel until I found out what the scent was. This is a new love for me, as I only purchased my first bottle in October 2016. I really love a scent called Honey I Washed the Kids, which can be bought in a soap format, at Christmas in a bath bomb format called Shoot for the Stars and the LUSH Kitchen have also graced us with a shower jelly and solid and liquid perfumes that carry HIWTK. I wish I'd given this shower gel a chance a long time ago because I really do love it so bloody much. I use it to wash myself and wash my hair and the scent stays with you for hours and hours after your bath. HIWTK is one of LUSH's most loved scents and has been around for a while. I would recommend this shower gel to any new Lushie as this will definitely open up doors to new scents for you.

If I was you, I'd run to my local LUSH, grab every product mentioned above and have a really nice and long relaxing bath. You will not regret it! Don't be hesitant to ask for help in-store either, LUSH employees are probably the nicest you will ever find and will be more than willing to answer any queries that you have or point you in the right direction of products that you're looking for.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog post, it is very appreciated! Make sure to follow so you can see the next time I post! ♥ xo

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♥ LUSH Valentines Day Haul - 2017!

Pictured: LUSH Valentines Day Collection 2017

As promised, here is the low down on all of the products that LUSH have released for their Valentines Day range for 2017. I have been dying to get my hands on all of these products since the day they were launched, but as I now get paid monthly, I had to wait until the end of January. I think this is the first time I've ever went into LUSH and not really deterred from my budget list! I was also super happy that there was only one product I was unable to get as it was out of stock. Lets get into the products..

Pictured: Lots of Love gift set Price: £39.95

Includes: Prince Charming, Love You, Love You Lots, Lovestruck, Lover Lamp, Love Spell, Cupid and Rose Bombshell

As soon as I saw that this gift was available again this year, I knew I had to have one. I didn't purchase this gift last year and I immediately regretted it. I'm not going to lie, I bought this purely for the box. The box is stunning, the colour, the pattern, I love everything about it. I also like how this is a sturdy, proper box, much unlike the majority of LUSH gift boxes which are just cardboard. I think the selection of products is great, you get nearly the entire collection! I would recommend this gift, I think it's perfect for any Lushie or anyone who is starting to get into LUSH. This box contains a mixture of products with a mixture of scents, it's great.

Pictured: Cupid bath bomb Price: £2.95

I was so delightfully surprised by this bath bomb. I was a bit hesitant as to whether I was going to like this product as I am not much of a fan of violet. I was excited that Cupid includes fresh raspberry juice as an ingredient as I love raspberry and in my opinion, LUSH don't have enough products with that kind of scent. Luckily, to me this bath bomb smells like raspberry with a slight edge of violet. I really really like the scent of this bath bomb. I didn't expect it to perform amazingly in the bath, I expected it to be a really fast fizzer and be similar to Think Pink in the way that you don't really get much 'bath art.' I used my Cupid with a Lover Lamp and a little chunk of Unicorn Horn for bubbles, and I think it was one of my favourite baths ever. The water turned a opaque baby pink shade and I felt like I was bathing in raspberry milk! I think I will have to grab a few more of these before the range leaves our shelves!

Pictured: Unicorn Horn bubble bar Price: £4.25

If you're no stranger to my blog, you will know that up until this last month, never would I ever have purchased one Unicorn Horn, never mind four! Ever since this bubble bar was released back in 2014, I have been so tempted to try it out, but the scent put me off. I hated lavender scented products, with the exception of the Twilight bath bomb. I have started to come around and therefore stock piled on these little beauty's! This is one bubble bar that even when it is crumbled and being prepared for going under the running tap, it still looks gorgeous. The bright pink, blue and yellow in this bar is stunning, if a Unicorn Horn was a real thing, this would definitely be a perfect depiction! I didn't find that Unicorn Horn was extremely softening to the skin and I did use a lotion when I left the bath, but I wouldn't let that deter you from stocking up a few of these!

Pictured: Lover Lamp bath bomb Price: £4.25

As I stated in my LUSH Valentine's Day Range Preview post, I don't get excited about this bath bomb. I don't think it's anything spectacular and I don't think the scent is anything to die for either. I think we've been spoilt with the amazing bath bombs we have like Intergalactic and The Experimenter, that if a baht bomb doesn't put on an amazing show, I'm just not as interested as I am for other bath bombs. I got a Lover Lamp in my Lots of Love gift set and while I was browsing I ended up picking up another one, I don't even know why. I had a bath yesterday as I came home from work ill, full of cold and with an awful headache and thought I would give this little guy a go as the scent isn't overpowering. I paired this bath bomb with Cupid and I have to say, it was probably one of the best baths I have ever had. As a stand alone product, if you are looking for a subtle bath or if you don't like the sometimes overpowering scents that LUSH have to offer, this would be perfect. For me, I think I have found the secret LUSH cocktail ingredient. The bath water became an opaque milky pink colour and I think it the opaque milkiness was due to this bath bomb. For that reason, I think I need to grab a few more Lover Lamps and apologise to them all for underestimating them!

Pictured: Ladybird bubble bar Price: £3.95

This is a product that I have been looking forward to getting. Ladybird was a new product last year that was released for Mothers Day. For some reason, I didn't grab one of these until the very last minute and I was only able to bag myself the last lonely one that my local store had. What made me purchase this in haste was the scent. Ladybird includes peppermint and we all know I love some mint in my LUSH products! I can't tell you how this performs in the bath as I haven't got round to using it yet. My one and only from last year, I kept hold of in case this little bug never made it to the store again. However, I can imagine that using the purple part of this bubble bar will make beautifully deep purple bath water and the red part will give you a blood red bathtub! Ladybird isn't just a straight forward mint scent, this bar also includes geranium oil, which makes the scent a little more complicated and acquired. I know I'm going to love this bubble bar and think I may need to bite the bullet and use my year old one in my next bath.

Pictured: Love Spell massage bar Price: £5.95

Another item that was included in my Lots of Love gift set was this lovely massage bar. I am a bit of a massage bar virgin. I have a Soft Coeur that I have used a few times, but I have so many body lotions that are easier to apply that I tend to sway more towards a lotion than using a massage bar. Also, with my boyfriend living in a different country, I can't get massages on the regular and if there's any massages being given when he's around, it's him asking me! However, I was glad to grab one of these as for one, it looks gorgeous! The colour and the little loves hearts on the top are just so cute! Also, the scent. I was expecting this to be straight up rose, but with the combination of aloe vera gel, rose hip syrup, carnation absolute and neroli oil, this is much more complex but gentle. I really like that this doesn't have an overpowering scent, You can definitely detect the rose hip but it is so subtle that if you weren't a massive rose fan, you could still like this product.

Pictured: Lovestruck bubble bar Price: £4.25

It is very rare that I come across a LUSH scent that I don't like. There is only one product that springs to mind, which is a very unpopular opinion. I really hate the Jungle scent. I bought the solid conditioner and on first smell I thought it smelt really tropical and lovely, but after using it and getting a whiff of my hair throughout the day after, I really couldn't stand it. I used it a few more times and still felt the same way, so my bar is sitting somewhere unknown within my LUSH collection and will probably stay there. Lovestruck on the other hand, I can't even bare to use. The scent on this bubble bar is odd, very odd. I purchased a Over and Over bath bomb and a Kiss Me Quick business wash card on the day of the release and went back the next day and grabbed one of these bubble bars. It looked so appealing, such a cute version of the heart eye emoji. I didn't smell it in the store, but all day at work I could smell a really funny smell and just put it down to people eating their dinner at their desk. When I got home I unwrapped Lovestruck and gave it a good ol' sniff and literally bowked. I have never smelt anything like it. I smell no citrus lemon scent at all, I smell pure cheap plastic. I kept sniffing it to try and see if I could figure out what it actually smelt like and it was that bad that it gave me a major headache. I got another Lovestruck in the Lots of Love gift set and to be honest, that product being in the set nearly put me off buying it. I just imagined opening the box and all the products inside smelling like that bubble bar. Fortunately, it didn't and the Rose Bombshell scent kind of took over. I thought maybe I'd grabbed one from a bad batch with the first one I bought, so I smelt this one and it smelt exactly the same. So both my Lovestruck's have been shoved at the back of my bubble bar draw in hope that they will thaw out and not have such a potent scent.

Pictured: Rose Bombshell bath bomb Price: £4.25

As soon as I realised that this bath bomb was Rose Jam scented, I knew I had to grab a couple. This bath bomb kind of reminds me of Mistletoe bath bomb from the Christmas 2016 range due to the pattern and the colours. However, Rose Bombshell is completely different to Mistletoe. Rose Bombshell is packed full of rose petals, so when this fast fizzing bath bomb releases it's centre, you will be swimming in roses, literally! On cold sniff, this very much has that Rose Jam scent and it smells gorgeous, however I find once it hits the water the scent kind of changed to more of a standard rose scent, which I'm not too keen on. I really thought I was going to absolutely love this bath bomb, but it's not one of my favourites.

Pictured: Love You, Love You Lots soap Price: £4.25 for 100g

I never really use soaps, I say as I look at the huge amount of soap I have in my collection! But, I think I would have grabbed a slice if this bar didn't come in my Lots of Love gift set. This soap is beautiful. The colours are perfect and I love how in the gift set you get a slice which actually says 'love' on it. Love You, Love You Lots lathers really well, I'd probably go as far to say the easiest lathering soap I have used. Much like Love Spell, I find that the scent is gentle and not too in your face. I think the coconut oil in this soap really tones down the rose syrup, oil and petal infusion. This soap works really well and I would like to think that Love You, Love You Lots will come back again next year as it definitely appears to be popular!

Pictured: Prince Charming shower cream Price: £5.50 for 100g, £10.95 for 250g, £18.50 for 500g and £32.95 for 1kg

I still have my bottle of Prince Charming from last year which has only been used a handful of times. This bottle however, I can't imagine will last as long in my collection. I have found a massive difference in this years Prince Charming compared to last year. According to the labels when I compared them, the ingredients are exactly the same and the only difference is that this year the shower cream is self preserving. However, I find that this years version of Prince Charming smells so much better! I think my bottle from last year had some extra pomegranate juice in it as I wasn't too keen on it. I didn't plan on buying a bottle of Prince Charming this year but I got this bottle in my Lots of Love gift set, and I'm bloody glad I did! I love this years version! It's thicker, more like a shower gel and it smells unbelievable! You can really smell the pomegranate but you can also smell a sweet scent which I'm guessing is the marshmallow root. This little bottle may have persuaded me to grab a 250g bottle!

Pictured: Over and Over bath bomb Price: £4.25

I am in love with this bath bomb. I think this may be in my top 5 ever bath bombs, and that is a bold statement! The show that Over and Over is nothing like I have ever seen before! In my personal opinion, I think this bomb beats Roller and Never Mind the Ballistics. Over and Over is definitely my favourite bath bomb in the bath bomb and melt selection. The colours are astounding this bath bomb really does do what the name states, it just rolls over and over around your tub leaving such gorgeous patterns in it's tracks. Over and Over is a fruity concoction of lime oil and limonene. I would maybe even go as far to say that this is one of the nicest fruity smells that LUSH offers, it is up there with the Avobath range. I have stocked up on Over and Over and I think I may need to grab a couple more before the range disappears. I think that these may not store well due to the weight of them, so like with the Roller issue, they may start to crack around the middle but I can't imagine Over and Over having the same storage issue as Never Mind the Ballistics with the 'blue mould dots' (I say in quotations as LUSH don't believe this is the case) as there are no fresh products in there that would cause such an issue. Honestly, go grab yourself one and fall in love with this great big ball of bicarb!

Pictured: Kiss Me Quick business wash card Price: £2.00

I love this product. I love love love love love this product. I really wish it could stay around longer than just Valentines Day. Kiss Me Quick carries the 29 High Street scent which is kind of hard to come by in stores. 29 High Street is a scent that was created to represent the overall smell of a LUSH store. Via the Kitchen, they have released a shower gel, a solid perfume and there have been a couple of products throughout the years that have carried this scent. You can also buy 29 High Street liquid perfume in the Poole store as a courtesy to that store being the first ever LUSH store on the planet! So when I picked this up in my local store and gave it a sniff, I recognised the scent straight away and was so shocked and surprised that this was the scent that was chosen for this product. Before this little card, I had never tried a wash card. I asked for the Best Wishes wash card from my boyfriend last year for my birthday but he grabbed me a few other bits instead. This wash card lathers up so well! I was expecting to have to work this one quite a bit to be able to get a good lather but I didn't need to. The only downside to this product is that once you have used it, it rips really easily and turns to mush, so I would recommend tearing a little bit off when you want to use it or cutting it into strips. I have a few more of these on the way in my sneaky online order and I think I'll snip a little bit off when I want to use it.

Pictured: Two Hearts Beating as One bath melt Price: £3.95

I tried as hard as I possibly could to put of using this stunning bath melt until I receive my LUSH mail from a very lovely Instagram account that I have been following for a while but started talking to the lovely lady just after Christmas. I agreed to grab @snapsoflush some bits that my local store still had after Boxing Day and we got chatting and she told me that she very kindly does Kitchen orders for some Lushies in Canada and Australia as the shipping directly from the LUSH Kitchen would cost them a fortune and as I done her a favour she very kindly offered to grab me some items from the Kitchen if I ever needed her to as I explained that I'm already in work when the menu goes live. When the Two Hearts Beating as One bath melt was floating around the internet, it looked so stunning, but what really sold me was the scent description, apricot oil, argan oil and almond oil. This sounded absolutely perfect. So when the LUSH Kitchen announced that they were making available a Two Hearts Beating as One shower gel, I had to swipe one up straight away, and luckily Jess was able to grab me a bottle, god bless her! I have been trying to put off trying out this bath melt until I had the shower gel to pair it with, but I just couldn't. I had to use one! Two Hearts Beating as One is absolutely stunning as soon as it hits the water. The scent is a perfect mixture of the apricot oil and light floral due to the jasmine, geranium and rose. I really like this, I hope LUSH make so many more products with this scent!

The only products that I haven't purchased in the LUSH Valentines Day 2017 range are The Kiss lip gloss and lip scrub as I already have a full tub of the lip scrub from last year and I don't think the colour of the lip gloss would suit me very well. I also haven't managed to purchase any Roller bath bombs because as soon as they become in stock, they go out of stock, so a huge high 5 to anybody who managed to bag themselves some!

Overall, I think this range has been really lovely with some great new products and some lovely scents. I do kind of wish that the Valentines Day range would branch out a bit more from rose scents, but we seem to be getting there with them including a 29 High Street scented product and Ladybird.

The LUSH Valentines Day collection gets a..

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♥ January Favorites

Seeing as though I didn't post a December favourites, as I posted a 'What I Got For Christmas' haul, I thought I would share with you all the items that I have fallen in love with this January. January has been a long, stressful and busy month for me! I'm finally starting to settle into my new job, Reece was over for over a week and January is the start of all my families birthdays, so I've been visiting family a lot! I have managed to squeeze in a lot of baths and grabbed a few new items in the sales, treating myself with my first proper pay!

Pictured: Honey I Washed the Kids solid perfume, Shoot for the Stars bath bomb and Its Raining Men shower gel

When I first starting using LUSH, I was all for the Snow Fairy scent. Then I progressed onto The Comforter and started broadening my scent options by trying out any product I could get my hands on. A scent range that I never really tried was Honey I Washed the Kids. Back in September, the solid perfume was available in the LUSH Kitchen, and as I was grabbing a Rose Jam solid, I grabbed a Honey I Washed the Kids one also as they were still in stock. I fell completely in love with the scent and it is probably my most used solid perfume. I always have it in my handbag and I am desperately on the search for the liquid version. When the Shoot for the Stars bath bomb came out as part of the Christmas range, on first sniff I knew I loved it. Shoot for the Stars is the most photogenic bath bomb I have ever used, I've never had a bath with this bomb and not got perfect photographs. As I loved both of these products a lot, I grabbed a 250g bottle of It's Raining Men shower gel in November when I visited the LUSH Spa in Edinburgh with Reece. This scent is sweet honey with a slight soft barely there orange scent. It's beautiful, a really gorgeous scent that does well in any format that LUSH put it into. I couldn't recommend this scent range enough.

Pictured: Wengwood Orange Pekoe, Twinings Lemon Green Tea, Twinings Blood Orange and Cranberry, Twinings Pure Peppermint and Wedgwood Wild Strawberry tea bags

My stepdad decided that he wanted to stop drinking so much coffee and decided to try out some fruit flavoured teas. I've been wanting to try some fruity tea for a while now so I thought this was a perfect opportunity! I have tried to make lemon iced tea before and it was absolutely awful, so i was kind of knocked off the idea of fruity tea. However, this time around I actually really like it. We have tried blood orange and cranberry, lemon green tea, wild strawberry and peppermint. My favourite by far is the Twinings blood orange and cranberry tea. It's so lovely and refreshing. It does have a slight tea taste, which I don't mind, but you can really taste the fruit in these bags. If you're looking for a healthier version to coffee, I would recommend trying out some Twinings tea, they have so many flavours to choose from, including chocolate flavours!

Pictured: Ponche shower gel 500g

One of the only products I wanted in the LUSH Boxing Day sale, was a bottle of Ponche shower gel. I have wanted to try this shower gel for as long as I can remember, and the last time that this was available to buy in the store, I was in my Snow Fairy stage, so if I even looked at it I wouldn't have been interested. After hearing so many Lushies rave about this scent in the shower gel format and the perfume, I knew I would love it. Unfortunately, I was unable to grab a bottle before Christmas due to my pay day being the last working day of the month and on Boxing Day when I tried to get on the site, there were more than 42,000 people in the queue ahead of me! I accepted my fate that me and Ponche were not meant to be - sad face! So in my misery, I visited my local LUSH store to see if they had any sale items left over, which they did! I was super happy to grab a Papa Noel, Santas Belly and another tub of Snow Fairy Body Conditioner. I went to the till, pleased with my products and super excited that one of the lovely ladies had told me they were getting a delivery later that day and it was likely that there would be some more Christmas stock coming in later on that day. Another lovely lady behind the till asked if I managed to grab anything online from the Boxing Day sales and I explained how I came into the store and the queue to get online was far too long, so I missed out on the only item I wanted, Ponche. The lady who told me about the delivery then handed me this HUGE 500g bottle of Ponche. I didn't know what to say. It didn't register at first that she had said, 'This is for you, this is a random act of kindness as you're always tagging us in your photographs on Instagram and always in the store.' I just wanted to smell it and oh my, I was happy. I literally nearly cried. I kept trying to say thank you and stop looking like a complete idiot who was about to cry over a bottle of shower gel! I have never been so thankful for a gift before, I've never been so grateful to be part of a community where the brand really does take notice of their customers and goes out of their way to make their customers day. Every bath I've had since I was gifted this bottle, I've wanted to use it, but I can't bare the thought of having none left! This shower gel has a tangy orange scent with a definite spice of tequila. It's all I thought it would be and more! I am in love with a shower gel and I am not ashamed of it! You should all check out my local LUSH on Instagram, @carlislelush.

Pictured: Celebrity Big Brother logo

Photo credit: Google Images

I am a huge reality TV junkie. I love TV shows like Geordie Shore, TOWIE, (although its starting to bore me now) Ex On The Beach and plenty more. So Big Brother is right up my street. I never sued to watch the celebrity version as it was always celebrities that I either didn't know or that were old and boring and in there because of their status, not because they would make an entertaining character. I only really started to watch the celebrity version when Big Brother changed over to 5. This season is probably one of the best, in my opinion. The producers decided to mix 'all star' housemates, celebrities that had been in the house before like Speidi, Heidi and Spencer Pratt from The Hills, a TV show I used to watch religiously when it was still being aired, Jedward, the X Factor reject twins, Nicola McClean, an ex glamour model and Calum Best, George Best's son and self proclaimed ladies man who wishes to change the public perception of himself. The new housemates have seen the likes of Ray J, singer and probably most known for taking part in the infamous sex tape with Kim Kardashian which basically made her famous, Angie Best, Calum's mum and wife of the late George Best and Chloe Ferry, a Geordie Shore star. I think this has been the most explosive season yet! When Kim Woodburn, from the TV show How Clean is Your House? entered the house, my god she caused a ruckus, arguing with anybody that looked her way! I am rooting for either Nicola or Calum to win as I think they have both made great housemates this season and they're both really likable characters. I also think it would really piss Kim off if Nicola won! Many people think that this TV show is a pile of crap and a waste of time watching, but seriously if you haven't watched this season I really recommend catching up on Demand 5 and seeing all the chaos that has gone on!

Pictured: 'The Walking Dead' game and ThatcherJoeGames

Photo credit: Google Images and Joe Sugg 'ThatcherJoeGames'

Firstly, I am not a gamer. The furthest I have stretched in playing games is The Sims and Harry Potter LEGO. I once played Call of Duty with my little cousin and he told me to leave him to play alone as I kept shooting him - oops! I fyou have read a previous blog post of mine titled Youtubers You Should Be Watching, you will be familiar with Joe Sugg. Joe has three channels, a main channel, a vlogging channel and a gaming channel with a combined subscriber count of 12,880,596 at the time of this blog post being written. I am subscribed to a few gaming channels as I like gamers who have The Sims series, as I think it's funny to see how they create the characters and houses and you can get great tips from gamers who know what they are doing, when you play yourself. In 2015 I got completely into a series that Joe was putting on YouTube of a game called The Last of Us. I was so invested in this game series that I considered buying it for Reece for Christmas that year and actually got my Mum to get him a copy, so that when we move in together I can play it as I don't own an XBOX or a PlayStation. I am even more invested in this game series. I watched the first episode of Joe playing the third season and over that weekend binge watched the first and second series, in two days! That is so many hours of game time as some of the episodes are nearly an hour long! The graphics on the game are as if the images were pulled straight from a graphic novel and the story line is so gripping, you get attached to the characters. What I like about this series is that the player has the option to input the choices you made in the first game, into the second game. It flows really well and the game layout tells the story in a well put manner. Watching this game series has really made me consider watching the TV show. Both my Mum and Reece love this TV show but I never really considered it to be my kind of thing, but after seeing the game play I'm reconsidering that! You can find Joe's gaming channel here, I would really recommend watching this series of The Walking Dead, or if that's not your kind of thing his The Sims or The Last of Us series are also really good! Joe has created playlists with all the episodes so you definitely won't miss one!

January has been a long ass month and I can't wait to see the back of it! There are lots of products that I want to get my hands on in February, so hopefully my February favorites will be up in a few weeks!

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