If anybody was going to do a Harry Potter collection and do it justice, of course it was going to be Bath Bake Love! Since Sara-Meg started teasing the products for this collection, I have been so super excited! As I'm sure you'll all know, if you've visited my blog before, I am a massive Harry Potter fan and have been since I was a small child. I got a Deathly Hallows tattoo when I was 18, which I have no doubt you'll have seen before if you follow me on Instagram. I love everything about Harry Potter, it really helped me get through some hard times in my life as the books and films gave me somewhere to escape to when I needed it. I'm so happy with the amount of Harry Potter merchandise you can buy nowadays, and a Harry Potter inspired bath collection is obviously quite perfect for me! I was on a major budget with this order, so although I couldn't get everything I wanted, I am super pleased with what I did purchase. 

 Pictured - Bert Botts velvet scrub

This is one of the products that I was most excited for. I love Bath Bakes scrubs, they're the perfect consistency to get a great exfoliation but aren't so coarse that they scratch you. The scent of Bert Botts matches the name quite perfectly, it smells just like a packet of jelly beans, a really fruity and slightly sweet kind of scent. I'm so pleased that I picked up two Bert Botts because I know I'll use this up quick! I can't wait to try this out in a super fruity bath cocktail.

 Pictured - Christmas at Hogwarts bath custard
Christmas at Hogwarts smells just like the Maple Nog body cream that Bath Bakes released with their collaboration with The Rose and Thistle Wax Patisserie. It smells gorgeous! I love Bath Bakes bath creams for shaving my legs with, they leave your skin feeling so super soft and smooth and also add a little moisture to your skin, which is great for shaving which I have found can dry out my legs a little. This scent is going to be perfect for Christmas time!

 Pictured - Magic Sky bath cream

Oh my! Just look at how gorgeous this bath cream is! The attention to detail in these products is gorgeous, all the lustre and the stars placed around the side make it look so good. It also smells insane! When you sniff the open tub, you get the gorgeous scent of chocolate due to the layer of chocolate on the top, which literally looks like the night sky. When you dig down into the product itself, you get the most gorgeous blueberry caramel scent ever! It literally made my mouth water. I'm excited to pair this up with my other blueberry products from Bath Bakes! I can now have a full blueberry bath!

 Pictured - Phoenix Sparks bubble mix

Phoenix Sparks is a product inspired by one of my favourite characters, Fawkes! Phoenix Sparks has the most amazing scent for this time of the year. You can smell the pumpkin in there, the smoky scent that lingers just slightly and the cinder toffee comes through the strongest. This is the perfect fall scent! I would love a body spray in this scent, to cover myself in every day or a cake in this flavour! We need to see this scent again in other formats! 

 Pictured - Sherbet Lemon sugar bomb

How so sweet of Sara-Meg to include a random act of kindness in my parcel! I've never tried a sugar bomb from Bath Bakes but I'm excited to try this one out! Sherbet Lemon smells so good, just like the sweet lemon hard boiled sweet. I already know what I'm going to pair this with, plenty of lemon products to bring out the sweet scent. Did you know the Dumbledores favourite sweet is a sherbet lemon, hence why the password to his office is sherbet lemon! They're also one of my favourites too!

Pictured - Christmas Peek

I was so excited to see the option of purchasing a peek at the Christmas product alongside this collection! I absolutely love Christmas and the Bath Bakes collection from last year was amazing and had some gorgeous products, like Eggnog bath glaze and Christmas Pud bath dessert, so as you can imagine I am really looking forward to see what brilliant creations Sara-Meg makes this year! This set contains a sugar bomb, called Chocolate Orange and it smells just like the name! A really gorgeous chocolatey scent with plenty of orange undertones. I also got a velvet scrub, which I was ecstatic to get as scrubs are my favourite, in the most gorgeous white chocolate scent ever. I already know these two products are going to be very popular! 

I am in love with this new collection! If I could, I'd be stocking up on some back up tubs in the restock which is taking place on the 24th of October! If you were thinking about making an order, I'd definitely recommend it! 

You can purchase Bath Bakes products via the website here and make sure you are following @bathbakelove on Instagram to keep up to date with release and restock dates, plus sneak peeks at future products! 

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One of the things I have been dying to travel down to London to do has been to visit the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour. I've been adamant on going ever since it opened! I have been a massive Harry Potter fan since the books came out as my Mum bought them for me when Philosophers Stone was first released and then continued to purchase them for me throughout my childhood. I remember saving my £5 pocket money for the newest book to be released and being so excited to get it, reading it page to page as soon as I possibly could. I remember when Deathly Hallows was released and my 'friends' had seen me in town and didn't come over to say hello because I was carrying a Waterstones bag. This really didn't sway me, I'd always been interested in books and reading as a child and that's never changed.

Another thing that hasn't changed it my love for Harry Potter, so much so that when I was 18 I had the Deathly Hallows symbol tattooed on my wrist. I've had many people over the years tell me, 'You'll regret that when you're 80!' and, 'What are you going to tell your kids that is when you're older?' my reply is purely, 'Do you think my kids won't know about Harry Potter?!'

So as the massive Potter fan I am, when Reece and I decided to travel down to London for the LUSH Creative Showcase, I knew this was my perfect opportunity to visit the Warner Bros Studio Tour. I might live in the UK, but London isn't as accessible as I would like it to be as I live in the North and train tickets can be way over £100, at the cheapest! I've also managed to get Reece to enjoy Harry Potter in the three and a half years that we have been together, so I think he was pretty excited to visit the studios too.

We decided to dedicate the most of our third day to visiting the Warner Bros Studio Tour. Things didn't exactly start perfectly as we mistakenly got on the wrong train from Euston to Watford Junction and what should have been a 20 minute journey was actually closer to 45 minutes, making us late for our allotted time. Luckily I rang the customer advice line and they said it was fine and when we actually got there and handed over our tickets that stated 'Valid at 13:30 - 14:00,' they didn't even bat an eyelid! 

I took in total over 600 photos at the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour, so naturally I can't share them all, but I am going to share the best ones here for you all to see! I also took some videos too, which I have shared over on my Instagram page, @iyastevie, if you wish to take a look at them.

Pictured - Privet Drive 

The gift shop was amazing also! You could buy Harry Potter everything, from the Hogwarts uniform, to the books and DVD's, to jewellery to collectable figurines. I could have spent all day in the gift shop alone! I got myself a Harry key ring, a Dobby pin badge, some Platform 9 & 3/4 earrings and some post cards of the four Hogwarts houses for me to frame.

The Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour did not disappoint at all. This was easily the best day I had in London. It was everything I expected and more! The atmosphere was amazing, everyone was so excited to be there and people really had came from all over the world! It's really quite amazing how a book series can bring so many people together, it's truly magical. I was close to tears a few times because I was so overcome with emotion about seeing everything I had read about and seen on TV so many times before, seeing how the story I loved so much was brought to life and being able to see it with my own eyes is just priceless. 

I couldn't recommend the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour enough! Whether you're a massive Harry Potter fan like myself, you've only seen the films or you aren't interested at all, I think this is an experience that anybody can appreciate and that every body needs to see at least once. I think it's worth every single penny of the £39 ticket also, and that's not something I say very often!  If you're ever in the London area, I would really recommend looking into visiting the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour. It's a short train ride away and a bus picks you up right outside the station and drops you off right outside the studio.

I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could, as J K Rowling said, 'Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.'

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You can purchase tickets for the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour here and you can also purchase from their online store here.

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