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♥ LUSH Halloween & Christmas Haul!

Even though the Christmas and Halloween LUSH products have been available online since the Creative Showcase and I did attend the Showcase this year, I still saved some money to do my usual haul when the products came to store as I wait all year to visit my local and grab some seasonal products. A few of the products I am going to show are from the Showcase and a few are even from last year as they have been released again this year but I still have a large amount left so I won't need to buy any more soon. Lets get into the haul!

Pictured - Jingle Bells gift set

Contains - Golden Wonder, Christmas Eve, Luxury Lush Pud, Magic Wand, Never Mind the Ballistics and Christmas Cracker

I had my eyes set on this gift set from the moment I saw it! If I could only have one gift set this season, I would have picked this one for sure! I was heartbroken last year when I missed out on Santa in Space as I waited till the Boxing Day sale and my store didn't have any at all and the online sale last year was atrocious so I didn't even attempt that! I knew I had to get myself this set ASAP before I was left disappointed again. In addition to this box being super beautiful, the products inside are a great combination also! I feel that Jingle Bells has a great combination of bath bombs and bubble bars and this would make a great gift for someone! I think if there is another one of these gift sets available on Boxing Day, I might grab another one!

Pictured - Magic Wand, The Magic of Christmas, Plum Snow, Christmas
Eve, Man in the Moon, Snowman, Bewitched, Christmas Cracker and My Two Front Teeth bubble bars

I love stocking up on bubble bars as they last me forever and LUSH always bring out a load of really great bubble bars with the seasonal range! I am in love with Plum Snow, I adore the Plum Rain scent, it's my most used shower gel and I spray myself with the body spray every single day! I need a lotion, a perfume, a dusting powder and anything else LUSH have to offer in this scent! I'm also a huge fan of Man in the Moon too! I am so pleased we finally have a Calacas bubble bar as Calacas is another scent family that I love. I'm really pleased LUSH have brought back Christmas Eve this year too as it was a ritual for me to actually use this bubble bar on Christmas Eve and I missed having it last year. Of course Magic Wand and The Magic of Christmas have came back again and I am loving the introduction of Bewitched, Christmas Cracker, Snowman and My Two Front Teeth, although I feel like My Two Front Teeth has only been released due to the Sleepy hype!

Pictured - Rose Jam, Berry Berry Christmas, Snow Fairy, Twilight, Bubbly, Santas Christmas, Once Upon a Time, Bucks Fizz, Snow Fairy, Buche de Noel and Sugar Plum Fairy

Okay, so I need to admit, my Bubbly, Rose Jam and Snow Fairy are from last year as I haven't even made a dint on these large bottles as I have smaller bottles of each either, so I won't be stocking up on them anytime soon. I have however purchased the brand new products this year! I am in love with Santas Christmas shower cream as this smells absolutely gorgeous and probably one I will grab a large bottle of in the Boxing Day sale as I can see myself getting through this little bottle quick! I also really like Berry Berry Christmas a lot too, it's like a combination of Plum Rain and Ponche, two of my favourite scents! I am really enjoying Bucks Fizz, but I don't need to say much about that if you've read my September Favourites! I also really appreciate Once Upon a Time, but I'm really sad I don't have a So White bath bomb to go with it.

Pictured - Lord of Misrule, Luxury Lush Pud, Shoot for the Stars and Never Mind the Ballistics

I had to grab some of my favourites! I love Lord of Misrule and wish they would just make it regular line already! We've lost a lot of bath bombs this year and they need replaced with amazing products like LOM! I also love Shoot for the Stars and I have been super in love with the Honey I Washed the Kids scent lately, so I had to grab two! I also found a likeness for Luxury Lush Pud last year and I have found myself craving a bath with this bomb for the last few months so I got myself a fresh two as mine from last year got used up super quick! And of course my Never Mind the Ballistics that came in my Jingle Bells gift set.

Pictured - Twilight and Snow Fairy sparkle jars on top of Jingle Bells

I feel like LUSH have gone all out with the Twilight scented products this year! After the craze surrounding Sleepy, I'm not surprised! LUSH are going to milk this scent for every penny it's worth now it's had mass media notice, yet I didn't see them bringing it to stores when the die hard lushies asked for it! If you didn't know, Sparkle Jars are massage bars that are hollow inside and packed with dusting powder. Although I like that they have released massage bars in these scents, I wouldn't really use a massage bar and a dusting powder at the same time, so I would have preferred these two products to be kept separate.

Pictured - Golden Wonder, Christmas Sweater, Monsters Ball and Luxury Lush Pud bath bombs

These are some of my favourite bath bombs that are part of the seasonal collections this year. Golden Wonder has always been a favourite of mine, I love the Celebrate scent family and Golden Wonder is a perfect product to carry that scent, while also making super gorgeous bath water. Monsters Ball is a recent favourite, this year being the second year that Monsters Ball has been released. This bath bomb has the Calacas scent, so would pair perfectly with Man in the Moon which is pictured up above. I think Monsters Ball is one of my top five bath bombs ever, it makes gorgeous bath art and the scent is to die for. A new favourite this year and a bath bomb that has exceeded my expectations is Christmas Sweater. This is a bath bomb that every lushie needs to stock up on this Christmas season as it is the most stunning bath bomb I think LUSH have ever made. You can read a little more about Christmas Sweater here. And I have another Luxury Lush Pud as I completely forgot there was one in my Jingle Bells gift set.

Pictured - Butterbear, The Snowman and It's Christmas Deer knot wraps

Another thing I have become obsessed with collecting from LUSH is their knot wraps! I have them all hung on a notice board in my bedroom, right behind my LUSH collection to make the backdrop look super pretty! This season I plan to buy nearly all of the knot wraps, so I grabbed my first favourites when I went in to my local on launch date. The first one I purchased is the Butterbear knot wrap. I saw this one at the Showcase but ended up purchasing Mystic instead as I knew this one would come to store. Not only is this knot wrap super cute, it's also massive! Butterbear is one of the 100cm x 100cm knot wraps that they have started doing and I am super happy this is a huge one! I love it, it's so colourful and cute! The next knot wrap I purchased is the It's Christmas Deer one. This seems to becoming a tradition for me to purchase the It's Christmas Deer products as two years ago I bought the gift tin, last year I bought the knot wrap and laid out all my Christmas products on it and I've done the same this year! I like this years version a lot, it has all the twelve reindeer and their names printed on, it's really cute! This one is also larger than average at 70cm x 70cm. The last knot wrap I have purchased so far is The Snowman, which is super vibrant in colour and really stands out nicely in my knot wrap collection. I love how this one has tiny little Butterbear, Man in the Moon, Pip and Snow Angel printed on it! I can see myself definitely wearing this in my hair as it is the perfect size at 50cm x 50cm. I can't wait to grow this part of my collection this season as there are some stunning knot wraps available!

So that is my Halloween and Christmas hauls so far! Although with this months pay I really need to get all my Christmas shopping done, I will be stocking up on some Halloween products as after the 31st of October, if it's gone then it's gone! What will you be treating yourself or someone else to from this seasonal collection?

You can find LUSH Halloween here and Christmas here.

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**Disclaimer: All views, opinions and photos are my own.**

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♥ LUSH Mothers Day & Easter 2017 - Preview!

I couldn't believe it that we're already nearly at the time where the Mothers Day and Easter products will be sold in LUSH! I like how they have released this collection, by loading the products onto the site for every one to see but not buy. This makes it so much easier for Lushies to be able to budget what we want. This also means that we're not going into the store blind, we can kind of make a guess at what the products are going to smell like as the ingredients are also listed online. I'm really rubbish at making a guess at if a product will belong to a scent family, unless I actually smell the item.

Anyway, lets get onto the products! There are loads of new products that are coming out in both these seasons and I can't wait to get my hands on them all! Lets start with Easter..

Pictured: Flopsy face jelly Price: £7.95

I am so excited for this product. If I'm not mistaken, images of this face jelly were floating around the internet last year but this product never surfaced. I know LUSH had a hard time getting Papa Noel, the face jelly that was part of the Christmas 2016 range just right, so I'm guessing that is the reason why this jelly never made it to our shelves last year. Flopsy has ingredients such as fresh carrot infusion, almond oil, lemon oil and gardenia extract, so I imagine this face jelly to be a lovely citrus scent with a slight floral tone.

Pictured: Chocolate Easter Egg soap Price: £3.50 for 100g

I am never ever excited for soap. I have a huge soap collection, but I rarely use a slice as I have so much and so many shower gels that I love. However, the sound of this soap excites me. I quite like chocolately scents, and this soap includes white chocolate in the ingredients. Chocolate Easter Egg also includes grapefruit oil, Sicilian lemon oil and vanilla absolute, so I may be 100% wrong but I think this may carry the Frozen scent? Either way, I'm excited to grab a slice and try it out!

Pictured: Chocolate lip scrub Price: £5.75

Another product that I am excited about! I had to double check, but this product came out in the LUSH Kitchen not that long ago. This must have been a really popular product to make it to the shelves, it's not very often that we see Kitchen products actually come to store. As you can imagine, Chocolate is made up of dark chocolate, cocoa powder and also tangerine oil, which makes me believe that this product may be a part of the Sonic Death Monkey family, which I have a bottle of the shower gel. If so, this product is going to taste amazing, like a chocolate orange!

Pictured: Wash Behind Your Ears shower gel Price: £5.95 for 100g

THIS is the product I think I was most excited about. New shower gels are my thing! I have a collection of 250g bottles of shower gel, and after picking up 500g bottles of the Christmas exclusives, I think I may have to start a 500g collection as well! I'm not sure what size bottle of Wash Behind Your Ears I'll pick up, with ingredients such as neroli, rose oil and carrot infusion, I really can't imagine what this product is going to smell like. I imagine it's going to smell quite floral, which to me is quite off putting. I was expecting this to have a tangy orange scent or possibly a chocolate scent, so I was quite disappointed when I read the ingredients. I'll still grab a bottle though!

Pictured: Bunch Of Carrots reusable bubble bar Price: £6.50

This little sticks have been around for a few years now and are one of the only products to actually come back. There are so many new products this season that I was worried these little carrots would be forgotten about! In 2015 when they first came to our shelves, all three carrots were orange, until last year when LUSH decided to mix it up a little and gave us one orange, one purple and one pink. It appears that they have stuck to the same design as last year. These bubbles bars are pretty good value for money, you get three bars for your buck and you can use them all separately. The sticks are packed with Sicilian lemon oil and bergamot oil, they smell amazing and give you a great mass of bubbles in the bath!

Pictured: Chick 'n' Mix bath bomb Price: £6.95

This bath bomb intrigues me. On Instagram I've seen an image of this bath bomb where you can take the top off, so the bomb can be used in two separate parts. I think this is a really good idea for LUSH to do, as with their bigger bath bombs (as you will see as we go on) they do suggest that you can split them in half and use one half in the bath and save the other half for another day. But have you ever tried to split a bath bomb? It's not the easiest task in the world, can get pretty dusty and if you're a total Instagram freak like me where you have to photo every bath you've ever taken, it won't look very picturesque. For the price tag, it is a pretty expensive bath to use it all in one go, so I'm happy LUSH have given that option of splitting it and it being easy to do. Chick 'n' Mix has ingredients such as tonka, dark chocolate and bergamot oil, so I'm not too sure what this product is going to smell like.

Pictured: Which Came First? bath bomb Price: £6.95

As mentioned above, this is one of the bath bombs that LUSH suggest that you split in half and get two baths out of. I personally, just put the whole bath bomb in to get the whole effect of the bath bomb, my boyfriend on the other hand would split this into 20 baths and make it last about a year. There are two different types of people in the world! I thought LUSH had made an error and uploaded the same product twice when I saw Which Came First? on their site twice, but then realised that they are different. While they both carry the same scent, grapefruit oil, Sicilian lemon oil and vanilla absolute, one has spots and one has stripes! No I don't believe that this tiny difference is the reason why LUSH would release the same bath bomb twice, so I'm guessing that the inside of each bomb must be different. Guess it means I'll have to grab some of each and try it out!

Pictured: Golden Egg bath bomb melt Price:£3.95

Here we have another product that has been released for Easter for a few years now. This is a standard favourite for this time of the year, as with ingredients like sweet wild orange oil and almond oil, this duo of bomb and melt is part of the Honey I Washed the Kids family. I, however, after purchasing and using Error 404, think it is more Error 404 than HIWTK. Either way, this is a lovely product. Once you get over the panic of the glitter that Golden Egg is encased in, the bomb and melt combo is perfect and will leave your skin feeling silky soft and well moisturised. You can guarantee that Golden Egg will be around for a few more Easters to come!

Pictured: Big Blue Egg, Lava Lamp Egg, Integgalactic and The Eggsperimenter

Price: £4.95 - £5.95

It appears that the LUSH Kitchen like getting in on the release of new seasonal product lately, with the release of Roller on the Kitchen whilst the Valentine Day range is available and now these little cuties are going to be available once the Easter range takes off. All these bath bombs are egg shaped formats of regular line products. At the LUSH Creative Showcase in 2016, there were two items that were available to buy and also made an appearance in the Kitchen, Nebula, which was a huge version of Intergalactic and Mother of Dragons Egg which was a large version of Dragons Egg bath bomb. There were a total hit and people were excited to have a large bath bomb, so much that they sold out really quick on the Kitchen. For the price, I would imagine that these bath bombs are a little bigger than the standard size bombs, but not by much as they are only £2 or so more expensive. I think I may grab a Integgalactic and The Eggsperimenter to probably hold onto for a while and never use as they are so pretty!

And now, for the Mothers Day products!

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

Oh. My. God. A new shower jelly. I have a pretty large collection of shower jellies, in the small 100g pots and the larger pots. When Jelly Week happened on the LUSH Kitchen last July, I bought 4 out of 6 jellies that we available. Obsessed. So a new jelly is right up my street. I was really hoping that Pink Custard would have a raspberry ripple kind of scent, but with ingredients such as lavender, tonka and neroli, its not going to have the scent I imagined. I can't imagine what this will smell like and I'm quite surprised that they have made a lavender based jelly with the release of Twilight shower in the Kitchen not too long ago. This jelly can't have the Twilight scent as it would just be duplicating that jelly but using a different colour. I don't know, but now that I'm coming round to lavender scents, I'm quite eager to try this one out.

Pictured: Yummy Mummy shower cream Price: £4.95 for 100g

This is a product that I do own and I still have my little 100g bottle from last year. To be honest, it's still pretty full. That isn't because I don't like the scent, it's because I rarely reach for my shower creams. I find that they don't lather as well as the shower gels and I feel like I use more product as they appear to be more watery than the gels. That aside, this shower cream does smell amazing and does do it's job in the shower/bath. Yummy Mummy is the range that includes the infamous Roller bath bomb, a sweet tonka, geranium oil and Brazilian orange oil combination. I do think that in this format, this is quite an acquired taste. I thought it smelt lovely, but my Mum on the other hand thought it was awful. I don't think this it the best format for this scent, I think Roller really does the scent justice. I may pick up a 250g bottle of Yummy Mummy.

Pictured: Sunrise soap Price: £4.25 for 100g

I have a huge chunk of Sunrise that I bought last year in total panic. I thought to myself, 'What if this is the best soap that LUSH ever release and they never bring it back and I can't get my hands on it again?' So I bought the final chunk which was a whopping huge chunk and I've never used it in fear that it would never come back. Well here we are a year later and LUSH have proved me wrong. At least I can get this chunk out and give it a go! Sunrise has a very lovely orange scent due to it being packed with Sicilian mandarin oil and tangerine oil. This soap shares it's scent with the Brightside bubble bar. I like how perfect they look together as they both have the same shades of orange and yellow running through them. I don't think I need to buy anymore this year, but if I happen to purchase a gift set and there's a little bar of Sunrise in there, I won't be complaining!

Pictured: Scrubee body butter Price: £6.95

This little bumble bee excites me! I like it when LUSH release products that aren't just bubble bars and bath bombs. Scrubee is a solid body butter which you rub onto wet skin to release the oils and components which will sink into your skin. Solid body butters are kind of like in shower massage bars, which exfoliating ingredients to shed off all that dead skin! With ingredients like cocoa butter, shea butter, ground almonds for exfoliating and coconut oil you can imagine that Scrubee is going to do wonders for your skin. And with Brazilian orange oil and honey as key ingredients, this excites me even more as it sounds like this little bumble bee is going to be part of the Honey I Washed The Kids range! I may have to grab a few of these as I can imagine I'm going to love this product!

Pictured: Mother Earth bath bomb Price: £7.95

With an astonishing price tag at nearly £8, I can imagine that this bomb is going to be much bigger than the standard size. It has to be. Unless it has a hidden product inside or it's made of gold, I can't imagine why the price tag would be nearly double the price of a standard bath bomb. Either way, this bath bomb intrigues me. LUSH state that the ingredients in this bomb are tangerine oil and peppermint oil. PEPPERMINT OIL. I LOVE MINT. I know that I'm going to love this bath bomb. I don't even need to smell it or see it. Mother Earth also has candy pink lustre and frosty holly lustre listed as ingredients, therefore I can imagine that this bomb is packed with lustre, which sounds perfect to me! I really hope that Mother Earth makes it to stores and isn't a Kitchen exclusive!

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

Oh I love how many new bath bombs LUSH are releasing lately. I can imagine that Ups-A-Daisy bath bomb is going to create a wave of colour in the bath as on the other side of this bomb, the colours are orange and pink. With ingredients like rosewood oil and rose absolute, Ups-A-Daisy bath bomb is going to smell very floral with a slight citrus note due to the limonene. I think I'll be grabbing a few of these and stocking up as at that price, who wouldn't!

Pictured: Mum bath bomb Price: £2.95

Here is another bath bomb where LUSH have decided to make two of the same but use different colour schemes. I like this idea, although it means I am going to spend more money as I'm going to want all the different colours, damn you LUSH! I think this is going to be the Mums version of the Fathers Day release Superdad bath bomb. I really like this bath bomb, it looks really cute and something that my Mum would appreciate. Containing Sicilian lemon oil, sweet orange oil and rose oil, I also think that this is going to be a scent that my Mum would like so I may have to grab her a gift set that includes this bath bomb, as well as grab a self for me! I mean, my LUSH collection could count as my kids right?

Pictured: Baa Bar bubble bar Price: £3.95

This little bubble bar looks like it will look very aesthetically pleasing sat next to my Ladybird from the Valentines Day collection! How cute is this little lamb! This bar of bubbles sounds like it would be perfect for a night where you know you need a really good sleep, as the lavender powder, white clove bud oil and violet leaf sound like a perfect recipe. I can also imagine that Baa Bar will make a beautifully coloured bath with the deep purple that it contains. I will be grabbing a few of these!

Pictured: Elsie the Giraffe (You're Havin' a Bath) reusable bubble bar Price: £5.95

I never really get excited about reusable bubble bars. I find them hard to store and I find that the stick sometimes isn't strong enough to hold the product and I have to leave them out to dry after I've used them and then wherever I leave them ends up marked with the colours and to be honest, that's too much hassle for me. I love the idea of them, getting so many baths out of one product and not having to chop through the beautiful pattern that someone has taken so long to make, but they just never really excite me. However, scratch what I just said because I probably will grab a Elsie the Giraffe purely for the ingredients, lime oil, grapefruit oil and lemon oil. Sound like this is going to be one huge citrus party and I want a ticket!

Pictured: Your Mother Should Know bubble bar Price: £5.95

Oh I am excited for this last product. I have a huge collection of bubble bars and I use such a tiny amount of them that they just mount up and I end up with so many mixtures of scent and colours, it's amazing. Your Mother Should Know sounds like a really great bubble bar, the colours look so vibrant and will definitely make your bath water a lovely colour. The scent also sounds a lot like the Frozen, with neroli oil, grapefruit oil, and rosewood oil. Yes! I love the Frozen bath bomb so I must remember to pick one up and combo these two products together.

There we have it, the LUSH 20017 Mothers day and Easter ranges! We have so many new products to enjoy, I really don't know what I want to get my hands on first!I'm going to have to save like a mad man to be able to grab everything that I want. I don't think there are any products that I don't think sound nice and apart from a few I already have, I can probably see myself buying the entirety of both ranges, so keep and eye out for a full review of each product when I do get my hands on it all! I don't have a definite release date for these products, but I imagine it will be some time in February or very early March.

The Mothers Day and Easter LUSH range gets a..

To be able to view these products for yourself and see a full list of the ingredients, please visit the LUSH website and search the product name.

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**Disclaimer: All views and opinions are my own.

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