It Happened Again...

Walked past Lush the other day. I think we all know where this is going...

Yes, I ended up spending even more money that I don't have, it's always worth it though! So of course I'm going to share my lovely purchases with you. The first is something that I've wanted to try for a while, and it's the Mask Of Magnaminty face mask.

This smells INCREDIBLE!! I do love my minty smelling products. My skin can never make up it's mind, one day it's super oily and the next it will be as dry as the Sahara desert, and this product is great for that. The peppermint in it stimulates your blood cells so you look a little bit more alive on these cold winter days! It also has honey in it which is an anti-inflammatory and ground aduki beans (which are also in the Buffy body butter), these absorb all of the horrible dirt and excess oils and give your pores a good old clean out. I really like face products that make my skin feel fresh, so the peppermint is great for that. After leaving it on for about 10 minutes I like to wet my fingers and massage it all into my face like a scrub, just to get some exfoliation from the aduki beans. For £5.25 for a 125g pot I think it's definitely worth the money. I'm loving this mask at the moment, so a big thank you to the lovely lady at Lush who pointed it out to me! (I feel bad for not knowing her name, I was with her for at least half an hour.)

Staying on the minty side of things, the next item is the Dirty Springwash shower gel. This smells so good, and kinda reminds me of brushing my teeth in my Nan's bathroom (it's a good thing, trust me).  

I picked up the 100g bottle which was only £4.50. I really like the 100g bottles, their perfect for travelling. It contains spearmint and menthol, so it makes you feel all cool and fresh on a hot day. Perfect for summer!

Next is the Porridge soap. I know I say that everything smells amazing, but this really does. (It's Lush, what do you expect?)

This is packed with fresh orange juice and oatmeal which is brilliant for dry and sensitive skin, but its also great for irritation and is a natural exfoliant. It's really good for oily skin and is lovely and creamy. It has a kind of coffee like smell to it (even though it doesn't contain an coffee) so it's great for mornings to wake you up gently. I think £3.10 for 100g is a pretty good price and I'll definitely be going back for more.

The last is H'suan Wen Hua. This is a hair treatment that goes onto dry hair for about 20 minutes or so and is then washed and conditioned out as normal.

This has so much in it I don't even know where to begin. It repairs your hair and makes it the best it can be! I was a bit worried at first because it contains eggs, but coming from Lush I knew that they would have come from a really good place. the free range eggs are of course packed with protein to repair your hair, whilst the fresh avocados and bananas lock moisture in. The cinnamon is really good for stimulating your scalp, and the combination of balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil and bay leaf infusion give your hair an amazing shine. It's recommended that you use H'suan Wen Hua once a week for 6 weeks if you have really dry and damaged hair. I can already see and feel a difference in my hair, so for £8.95 for a 225g pot I think it's such a good price for what you're getting.

I also picked up some lovely new bath things, so I'll be putting them up soon!

Sea Peaches

Bonjour! I've been meaning to do a review on these little lovelies for a few weeks, but I've only just got round to it (if I'm honest, I've only just remembered!). So as always I popped into Lush with my sister just to have a look around, but you know how it is, you just can't say no! Luckily I didn't spend as much money as I usually do

I picked up the Seanik solid shampoo which I've been wanting to buy for quite some time. It always looked like something I'd enjoy whenever I was in my local Lush shop buying everything else. Especially with all that lovely slag and seaweed.

It smells like their Sea Vegetable soap and the Big Blue bath bomb, which we all know are my favourites! This shampoo is for getting some volume and life back into your hair, so it's kind of like a solid version of Big but with seaweed. There are 2 different types of seaweed used in this shampoo; Irish moss, which is a red seaweed, and Japanese nori (which is the stuff you get on the outside of your sushi rolls). These are really rich in protein and make your hair all beautiful and soft. Lush have also put lemon oil into it which gives you super shiny locks, and of course the sea salt for lots and lots of volume! I haven't got round to using this yet but I'm pretty excited to.

I also bought the Each Peach massage bar. I hadn't tried any of them before so it seemed like a good place to start.

It does smell quite peachy although I think it smells more like sherbet lemons, and I do love a good sherbet lemon or 2, or 10...

However, it doesn't actually contain any lemons. It has lime and grapefruit oils which contain lemonene. Lemonene is a colourless liquid which occours in certain essential oils and has a lemon-like odour. It also contains shea butter and cocoa butter which leave you feeling really soft as well as fresh. There may be a slight problem though... Once you put it on it can make you feel a little greasy because of all the oils it holds. That's why I like to use mine at the end of the day when I'm just sitting down and posting on here or editing videos, it somehow makes me forget that I'm a little bit greasy and sticky. Nevertheless, I really like this product, when you use it it releases all the amazing fragrances and makes the whole room smell sweet!

Carrying on to the non-Lush related items (it's a rare sight), I picked up some Barry M Nail Paints.

(Left-right: Barry M Nail Paint in Black, Barry M Confetti Nail Paint in Liquorice, Barry M Confetti Nail Paint in Bubblegum)

The first is the Barry M Nail Paint in Black. I was looking for the Gelly Nail Paint by Barry M but they didn't seem to have it in black, so I thought I'd give this a try anyway. I can't say I'm a massive fan of though. I needed at least 3 coats because it's so thin and I like my nail varnishes to be thick, hence why I was looking for the Gelly Nail Paint. It seemed to chip really quickly and easily as well, so I think I'll stick with the Gelly from now on.

The other two are the Barry M Confetti Nail Paints in Liqourice and Bubblegum. I love these! They work really well as a top coat and on their own. I like to layer the two on top of each other.

I think I have a picture somewhere...

So I nicked it from my instagram but you can kind of see what's going on. 

So I think I'll leave the regular Nail Paint from now on, but I have seen that Barry M are doing matte nail varnish now so I might give that a cheeky go.

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The 3 Lush Products My Hair Wouldn't Survive Without

This time last year my hair was at risk of being chopped off because it was in such bad condition. I'm one of those people that look totally ridiculous with short hair, but after discovering these 3 products my hair is well on the road to recovery. 

 The first is 'Big' a sea salt shampoo which in my books is the best volume shampoo going. My hair was so flat, thin, and lifeless that it would look like it was just stuck to my head. I've always loved having big hair, ever since my teenage years when I would backcomb it so much it looked like a birds nest (you can probably find some very embarrassing photos somewhere). I knew by using this product I could get the volume that I wanted without damaging my hair any more than I already had. The sea salt is also really good for my scalp as I sometimes get a bit of eczema there. Its recommended that you wash your hair twice with this to give you more volume, and I've found that it doesn't lather properly with the first wash so I like to use the first wash to focus getting all of the salt into my scalp, and the second to really focus on my hair.

The second product is the Jungle conditioner bar. It works wonders on frizzy, dry hair, and as we all know, my hair was a massive frizz ball. It's packed with vitamin C which leaves your hair so soft and shiny, it also smells incredible. Before I found this I would be using like half a bottle of conditioner at a time just to calm my hair down a bit, but now all I need to do is rub a little bit of this on and it does so much more than the conditioners that I was using before. 

The last product has to be one of my favourite Lush products ever. This is the R & B hair moisturiser. Originally I thought this was just made for Afro and really curly hair types, but after using this after conditioning my hair I found that it was just incredible. My hair would definitely get chopped off it it wasn't for this. As it's a leave in moisturiser it continues to work and keeps your hair feeling fresh and basically alive. Also as its so concentrated you only need to use a little bit each time, so a little pot of R & B lasted me about 4 months.

So well done, Lush, and thank you for saving my hair!

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