Lush Review - Golden Egg

Golden Egg is a strange one. When I bought it I was sure it was a bath bomb but when it came time to use it, I dropped it into the water and... nothing. It done nothing. Then I realised it was probably a bath melt which would have to be crumbled under hot water while you fill the bath. I had already filled the bath and had no hot water left to crumble a bath melt. I was annoyed and just started to rub it in the warm water hoping it would crumble when all of a sudden it started to foam. I was confused but got into the bath anyway and left it to continue to foam. When I looked it up after it's actually part bath melt, part bath bomb. You just let it melt in the bath and then it starts foaming. I probably should have done my research before using it. But it worked out ok in the end! It foams for a long time so you get a nice long bath out of it.

The top layer of glitters comes off pretty quick but the whole time it foams it releases some very fine bits of glitter into the bath. It turns the water into a gold colour but to be honest it really just looks like pee :P But when you look closely you can see the glitter so it starts looking less like pee then.

The Lush website says it has a honey-toffee fragrance. I'm trying to remember but I don't think when I smelt it I would have thought of honey and toffee. There was definitely a warm smell like toffee but after that it was quite citrisy I thought. Could just be the one I got anyhow! Regardless it still smelt amazing! It also has cocoa butter which makes the water nice and soft and it leaves your skin nice and moisturised.

If the glitter is putting you off the only thing you have to do is rinse the bath after so you don't need to be too scared. I love glitter and was hoping it would stay on me like Golden Wonder but sadly it didn't.

Overall I really liked this and would buy again!
Have you used this before yourself? Let me know what you thought of it! :)

Lush Review - Fluffy Egg

I have so many Lush products bought over the last few months that I need to use up. So as I use them I will be doing some reviews! First up is Fluffy Egg Bath Bomb which is out for Easter. Let me tell you, this smells amazing! It smells like sweets and you could smell it all day! I was storing it in my sock drawer and the smell was incredible every time I opened it! It is worth getting for the smell alone. I think Lush calls it their Candy Fluff fragrance.

It dissolves very quick turning the water into an amazing bright pink colour, which you can see in the background of the first photo. The flowers even dissolve super quick until you're left with just the lovely pink water that smells like sweets. The only thing I didn't like about this was it didn't leave the water feeling soft or moisturising. So make sure and have some body lotion or butter to put on after your bath.

Overall I would buy this again for the scent alone. It really does smell that amazing. Especially when you drop it into lovely warm water. At the moment my bathroom still smells like it and will probably stay that way for awhile! I hope! I think if it had of just been a bit more moisturising and maybe lasted a little longer when dissolving this would have been on of my all time favourites. But still, that smell!

Lush Review - Inhale Exhale Bath Bomb

I'm only just after using this one. Inhale Exhale Bath Bomb. A woman in the Lush shop at Henry Street Dublin let me test it out! She said its from the new Spring range that is out at the moment. She had a jug of water for it to fizz in, I popped it in, it fizzed away and it smelt amazing. She said the red side fizzes up first quickly so you can breathe in the neroli and rose oils. Then as you lie back while the blue one takes its time at fizzing away you can enjoy your bath and the awesome woody smell. The blue side takes as long at 10 minutes to fizzy out completely and goes lovely and frothy!

The water is at first a pink with white and blue froth on top. As the blue slowly dissolves the water it changes into an amazing deep purple.

I really loved this one. It smells amazing. With Black Pepper Oil, Sandlewood Oil, Cedarwood Oil and lots of others it has an wonderful earthy smell.

It makes for a long super relaxing bath. Nice and warm and tingly and I could feel it really relaxing my legs especially.

I'm out of the bath now about half an hour or more and I can still get the smell of it on my skin and I love it. I will be repurchasing this one for sure!

Lush Review - Luxury Lush Pud Bath Bomb

Another Lush review?! I know, I know. I think every beauty blogger reviews Lush products and here's another one to add to the never ending list but honestly, I love Lush bath bombs, melts, bars etc. and you should too. They smell amazing and most of them leave your skin feeling amazing. I bought quite a few after Christmas (I'm far too slow with getting these reviews up) including this one.

Luxury Lush Pud bath bomb. It's in the shape of a Christmas pudding but has great big colourful polka dots around it. It smells amazing, citrusy but a nice Lavender scent to go along with it as well as a few other smells that you'd need to smell yourself. I'm not great at explaining smells :P It's also a great size for a bath bomb so you're getting your moneys worth.




Here is my bath bomb demo but of course don't watch if you want to be surprised and you're thinking of buying your own at Christmas!

In the end it leaves the water a very blood red colour, now I think this varies for some people because I've heard its a purple/red or a wine colour but for me it was a very blood red and I loved it! The water was soft but not as moisturising as others they have. Overall though I love this and will definitely repurchase it at Christmas. I really hate it when you have to wait til Christmas for these great ones again! I have Golden Wonder still (its one of my all time favourites) and once I use it, I won't have another til Christmas :'(

When I do use Golden Wonder I will most certainly be doing another review of that amazing bath bomb.


Hope you enjoyed this little review :) Lots more to come soon when I get off my lazy ass.

Lush Birthday Gifts Review - Star Light, Star Bright, Sunnyside & You've Been Mangoed

For my birthday I got two different Lush bath melts and a bubble bar. First off I'll start by saying I hate anything that smells like citrus. I do not like most citrus smelling bath products or even candles or anything like that! My family, even though I thought most of them knew I don't like citrus, got me all citrus based products! Haha! I had tried one other citrus Lush product before and it was awful, it was so so terrible and one of the worst bath bombs I've ever used. So as you probably guessed I was very skeptical of all three Lush products I received but I was pleasantly surprised and one of them even ended up being one of my all time favourite ones! So I'll start with it...

 (not a great video but you can see all the nice glitter and the lovely blue/turquoise water! Please watch on best quality possible!)

(the amazing glitter that is left on your skin after! Not gloopy or oily!)

Star Light, Star Bright

I used this one first because I thought I'd like it the least haha! But it's ended up being one of my favourites. It has a very light but really nice citrusy smell. It also had cocoa and Shea butter so it has a lovely chocolatey smell along with the citrus. It's very hard to explain but smells so good! It leaves a lovely blue/turquoise colour in the water and it's super glittery and all that glitter stays on your skin and leaves you all shiny! I've read some reviews about it and a lot of people don't like that about it and shower afterwards? You crazy people, who doesn't want to be covered in glitter?! And its not a gloopy mess either which I actually thought it might be. You could easily apply body lotion or butter afterwards and it would apply fine and you'd still have awesome glitter over you. By the next morning though most of it will be gone. I enjoyed it while it lasted. I will definitely be repurchasing this next Christmas. I'm super super sad it's only for Christmas. It could easily be a year round one.

★★★

Sunnyside

I feel like I've gotten this one before but can't remember using it?! Or either I was thinking about getting it but its citrusiness put me off it. On the Lush site it says it has Lime, Tangerine and Sweet Wild Orange which sounds so very citrusy and one I would steer clear of but actually its really not as sharp as you'd think it would be. Its really nice and fresh. I cut it in half and had two good uses out of it but if you want it to be super bubbly I'd say use the whole thing. It also leaves a lovely golden glitter shimmer in your bath water. It doesn't stick around like the Star Light, Star Bright but is still lovely all the same.

★★★

You've Been Mangoed

I forgot to take any photos of this but you can look at it here on the Lush website where I got the above image from. I've only used one other bath melt that I'm aware of, Star Light Star Bright, I didn't even know it was a bath melt when I first used it. I actually thought it was a bath ballistic and just threw it into the bath and let it fizz but with this one I wasn't sure what to actually do with it. Its just like a little bar of soap! It was even melting away in my hands when I first held it. But amazingly and oddly it fizzes when you put it into the bath! It doesn't leave any bubbles or leave a particularly nice colour (it went kind of greyish orange) but it smells amazing! I didn't think I would like the smell of Mango so much. Its delicious and sweet and not very citrusy at all! Its mixed with cocoa butter so its super creamy and leaves your skin so soft. I would buy this again but its a bit pricy for the size of it.

★★★

So overall I was super happy with all of these. It has restored my fate in the citrus smelling products that Lush have and I may just be purchasing some in future. I have bought some more recently but I think most of them are non citrus but I'll review them soon.

Have you used any of these products before? Or are you thinking of purchasing some now? I would love to know! :D

Hope everyone is having a good New Year!
Thanks for reading and I'll have another blog post very soon! :)

Lush: Bubblebeard Bubble Bar & Golden Wonder

Finally! An update :) I bought Bubblebeard Bubble Bar and Golden Wonder awhile back and said I would do a little blog post about them.

I was curious about the Bubblebeard for awhile before I got it. I love beards and moustaches and anything related so I knew I had to have it. It smells nice and minty and musky. That's about the best I can explain it. I really love the smell. You swoosh it around in the water until you get lots of bubbles. I find you can get about 3-4 uses out of it but be careful cos it might break off the stick. The bubbles you get aren't the most amazing bubbles but they do smell really good and last for awhile. Oh and I did make loads of bubble beards :P

I love Golden Wonder. 

 

I got it last year at Christmas and it was my favourite thing and I couldn't wait for it to be Christmas time again so I could buy another one. Its shaped like a little present and when you put it in the water it goes from gold to all different colours swirling around to a lovely dark turquoise (or a dark purple) with little gold stars of glitter that melt and fill the bath with swirling glitter. Just awesome! The smell, I find, isn't too amazing. Its kind of citrusy which I don't like. I don't like any citrus smelling things at all but its not over powering, its just light and I do like it. But really I buy it just to see it dissolve. My photos don't do it justice it really is the best Bath Bomb Lush have.

The turquoise is way darker and bluer than my photos show. In the last photo if you click and full view you can see the little glitter stars!

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