There was a Pre-Valentines event in my local Lush tonight. I've been looking forward to it since I heard about it through their Facebook page.
There was 10% off everything and if you spent more than €25 after discount you got a grab bag! So I was cheeky and bought two lots of just over €28 each (total: €57.37)... And got two grab bags!!! One bath one and one shower one!!
Stuff I bought:
Demon in the dark Soap
Sexy Peel Soap
13 Unlucky For Dirt soap - gift for my mum as it is rumoured to kill MRSA.
3 bath ballistics - gifts for various people
The Olive Branch shower gel 250g
Rehab shampoo 250g
Coolaulin conditioner 250g
Stuff I got free:
Pillar of Fizz container - for buying three ballistics
Mange too (two halves - one in each grab bag)
2 samples of Lemony flutter
2 pieces of Angels Delight Soap
2 pieces of You Wash My Back Soap
Too drunk emotibomb
Ma Bar bubble bar
Snow fairy Solid perfume
The Comforter solid perfume
Honey I Washed the Kids solid perfume (swopped with a friend for a sugar scrub! I win that one!!)
Checking on the website this would total approximately: £39stg - at todays exchange rate that is about €44.67!! I think I did really well!!
Also managed to get a free facial, some glasses of orange juice (no wine as I was driving) and some hints on new upcoming products including getting to sample one that not even some of the staff had seen!! The joys of them knowing me!! Overall it was a great night!! Can't wait for the next one!!
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Soap & Glory haul
I was in Boots yesterday only to discover that Soap & Glory products were 1/3 off! Happy days as it meant I could purchase some bits I had been eyeing up that I didn't necessarily need but wanted to try!
I actually went in because my Catch a Wrinkle moisturiser was running low so obviously I purchased one of those! I also stocked up on Fab Pore because I absolutely cannot live without it!! Sad but true!!
I also took the opportunity to purchase two new items:
No Clogs Allowed™ Deep Pore Detox Mask
The Fab Pore™ Hot Cloth Cleanser
Boots are great for having either 1/3 off the Soap & Glory products or having them on '3 for 2' offers which is one of the things I love about the brand. The four items I bought should have cost me almost €52 and instead cost just over €34 - a big difference!! I also have a Boots advantage card and get 4 points for every €1 I spend so can save those up for more goodies!!
I actually went in because my Catch a Wrinkle moisturiser was running low so obviously I purchased one of those! I also stocked up on Fab Pore because I absolutely cannot live without it!! Sad but true!!
I also took the opportunity to purchase two new items:
No Clogs Allowed™ Deep Pore Detox Mask
The Fab Pore™ Hot Cloth Cleanser
Boots are great for having either 1/3 off the Soap & Glory products or having them on '3 for 2' offers which is one of the things I love about the brand. The four items I bought should have cost me almost €52 and instead cost just over €34 - a big difference!! I also have a Boots advantage card and get 4 points for every €1 I spend so can save those up for more goodies!!
Friday, January 22, 2010
My pampering night
Work is really hectic at the moment and I've had more 12 hour days than I care to remember since Christmas despite having had a crippling chest infection... Added to that my beloved Boards.ie was hacked today and as a result I had no excuse to sit at the laptop tonight! (We know all the lovely people at Boards HQ will sort it as soon as they can though!) So, as so many of my fellow Boardsies asked the people of Twitter today "What can I do when Boards is down?" (Internet obsessed?? Us?? Never!!) The answer for me was simple - a pampering night and a blog post!! It's all in the name of research my lovelies!! Hope ye appreciate it!!
We have air-conditioning in the office in work. For some reason it never seems to work the way we want it to but it still manages to dry my skin out something dreadful! So first stop this evening was to deal with the fact that the skin on my face needed some tlc!
I started with a facemask made up of two Lush products: Angels on Bare Skin and Ocean salt. This both cleansed and exfoliated my face. Then after washing that off I did a 10 minute Fab Pore treatment from Soap & Glory. I followed this up with some Bright Here Bright Now™ from Soap & Glory. It was my first time to use it and I have to say it felt quite nice on my skin. Not so sure about the brightening claims though as I didn't really give it a chance. I'll have to give it another try!
Following this I hopped into the shower with the intentions of fully pampering myself from head to toe!! Or was it the other way around?!?
I started by doing the pampering treat with Lemony Flutter and Ocean Salt on my feet while standing in the shower. Not a plan I had fully thought through! If you missed getting to an ice skating rink this winter, try this! I slipped all over the place as I tried to slather both feet in Lemony Flutter at the one time and then scrub them with Ocean Salt. I somehow mananged to do this without maiming myself, which I was pretty impressed at given I'm not known for good balance at the best of times!!
I then washed my hair with the amazing smelling Godiva solid shampoo bar from Lush and followed this up with a Wella System Professional hair mask as this needed to be left in for 10 minutes which gave me time to use lots of other products!
I started with one of the mini Sugar Scrubs and used this on the areas that could handle a more abrasive scrub. I had divided it into two in advance and still only needed to use half of it. I'm very careful where I use this particular product as I have very dry skin that is easily damaged and it has in the past left scratches on me! :( For the areas that needed something a bit more gentle I used 1/4 of a Sugar Babe scrub. Have to say I really love the smell of this! It's just a pity that they can't get a happy medium between the two scrubs for how quickly they dissolve. I then used You Snap The Whip body butter for the first time. It smells amazing and really comforting but melts a lot quicker than the other body butters I have used. It also turned the water a really horrible grey colour when I was washing it off.
I had used Snow Showers shower jelly a few times and hadn't been overly impressed with it. It didn't seem to later much and it made me wonder if it was actually cleaning me at all. I discovered a tip somewhere recently that suggested putting on exfoliating gloves and placing a small amount of the shower jelly on your palm INSIDE the gloves, rubbing your hands together and lathering it up that way. I gave this a try and it did seem to work but I used a bit too much of the jelly so I still have a lump left in each glove for the next time!
When I had finally gotten around to rinsing out my hair and getting out of the shower I covered my feet in Heel Genius™ foot cream and slipped them into some cotton moisturising socks before covering my body in The Righteous Butter™ Body Butter and my face in Catch A Wrinkle In Time Age Avoiding Day Moisturiser. To finish it all off I sprayed Girligo™ Body Moisturising Mist all over me and used some Endless Glove™ Dry Hand Cream.
So there you go! SIXTEEN products later you have a nicely relaxed and fabulous smelling Girl Friday. High maintenance, moi??!
We have air-conditioning in the office in work. For some reason it never seems to work the way we want it to but it still manages to dry my skin out something dreadful! So first stop this evening was to deal with the fact that the skin on my face needed some tlc!
I started with a facemask made up of two Lush products: Angels on Bare Skin and Ocean salt. This both cleansed and exfoliated my face. Then after washing that off I did a 10 minute Fab Pore treatment from Soap & Glory. I followed this up with some Bright Here Bright Now™ from Soap & Glory. It was my first time to use it and I have to say it felt quite nice on my skin. Not so sure about the brightening claims though as I didn't really give it a chance. I'll have to give it another try!
Following this I hopped into the shower with the intentions of fully pampering myself from head to toe!! Or was it the other way around?!?
I started by doing the pampering treat with Lemony Flutter and Ocean Salt on my feet while standing in the shower. Not a plan I had fully thought through! If you missed getting to an ice skating rink this winter, try this! I slipped all over the place as I tried to slather both feet in Lemony Flutter at the one time and then scrub them with Ocean Salt. I somehow mananged to do this without maiming myself, which I was pretty impressed at given I'm not known for good balance at the best of times!!
I then washed my hair with the amazing smelling Godiva solid shampoo bar from Lush and followed this up with a Wella System Professional hair mask as this needed to be left in for 10 minutes which gave me time to use lots of other products!
I started with one of the mini Sugar Scrubs and used this on the areas that could handle a more abrasive scrub. I had divided it into two in advance and still only needed to use half of it. I'm very careful where I use this particular product as I have very dry skin that is easily damaged and it has in the past left scratches on me! :( For the areas that needed something a bit more gentle I used 1/4 of a Sugar Babe scrub. Have to say I really love the smell of this! It's just a pity that they can't get a happy medium between the two scrubs for how quickly they dissolve. I then used You Snap The Whip body butter for the first time. It smells amazing and really comforting but melts a lot quicker than the other body butters I have used. It also turned the water a really horrible grey colour when I was washing it off.
I had used Snow Showers shower jelly a few times and hadn't been overly impressed with it. It didn't seem to later much and it made me wonder if it was actually cleaning me at all. I discovered a tip somewhere recently that suggested putting on exfoliating gloves and placing a small amount of the shower jelly on your palm INSIDE the gloves, rubbing your hands together and lathering it up that way. I gave this a try and it did seem to work but I used a bit too much of the jelly so I still have a lump left in each glove for the next time!
When I had finally gotten around to rinsing out my hair and getting out of the shower I covered my feet in Heel Genius™ foot cream and slipped them into some cotton moisturising socks before covering my body in The Righteous Butter™ Body Butter and my face in Catch A Wrinkle In Time Age Avoiding Day Moisturiser. To finish it all off I sprayed Girligo™ Body Moisturising Mist all over me and used some Endless Glove™ Dry Hand Cream.
So there you go! SIXTEEN products later you have a nicely relaxed and fabulous smelling Girl Friday. High maintenance, moi??!
Monday, January 18, 2010
My Lush stuff
Did a clean up of my Lush products today! :) Was very strange (and a little frightening!) seeing it all laid out on my bed!
I am definitely a Lush addict - but I also realised how much I take advantage of their sales and special offers as I had LOADS of stuff that I had gotten for free in grab bags since I got interested in Lush last spring/summer! Unfortunately a lot of this stuff was bath related and although we have a bath in the house it's in the main bathroom which I don't use and to be honest, I'm not a bath fan! So I put a shout out on twitter the other day and got two takers for my bath stuff and went through it today and made up two lovely parcels to give/send to two lovely ladies!! I then sorted all the rest of the stuff and made a list of what I have... Eeek!!
Going to be frightfully honest now and post what I have (not including the stuff that is being given away!)... Have tried to put it in categories where some of the stuff is similar! Some of the things are from the Retro range that is only available online and some of the items were seasonal things so have marked these after them in case anyone wants to go looking for them on the site!
Soaps:
Porridge*
Ice Blue*
Sandstone*
Father Frost (Christmas)*
Angels delight (Christmas)*
Solid Fragrance:
Vanillary
Olive Branch*
Snow Fairy (Christmas)*
Temple Balms:
Flying Fox
Whoosh
Dreamtime
Emotibombs:
Up You gets
Too Drunk (to F***)*
Sugar Scrubs:
Sugar Scrub*
Sugar Babe*
Fairy Tail (Christmas)
Fresh Face Mask:
BB Seaweed
Body Butters:
You Snap the Whip
Buffy
Aqua Mirabilis
Running to the Embassy
Snuggle (retro)
Dusting Powders:
Vanilla puff Powder
Silky Underwear
Candy Fluff*
Massage Bars:
Business Time
Fever
Cosmic Dream catcher
Shimmy shimmy sparkle bar
Therapy
Each Peach (and twos a pair)*
Ego (retro)
Bewitched (retro)
Sore Labours (retro)
Cleansers:
Fresh farmacy cleanser
Angels on Bare Skin cleanser
Ultrabland cleanser
Foot and Hand:
Fair trade Foot lotion
Volcano foot mask
Lemony Flutter cuticle cream
Smitten Handcream
Shower stuff (random mix):
Ocean salt face and body scrub
Godiva Shampoo bar
Happy Hippy Shower Gel*
Jungle conditioner (sample)*
Snow Showers shower jelly (Christmas)*
Miscellaneous:
Eau Roma Toner Water
Vitamin E toner tabs
Vanilla Dee-Lite body lotion
Vanilla Fountain
Vanillary fragrance
Anything marked with * is something I got free somewhere along the line... Lush are awesome for free gifts and often throw in samples for you when you are purchasing instore. I was disappointed that they don't send samples with stuff ordered online but saw recently on the forum (on the Lush.co.uk) site that if you ask them to in the comments box when ordering they will so will try this in future!
I am definitely a Lush addict - but I also realised how much I take advantage of their sales and special offers as I had LOADS of stuff that I had gotten for free in grab bags since I got interested in Lush last spring/summer! Unfortunately a lot of this stuff was bath related and although we have a bath in the house it's in the main bathroom which I don't use and to be honest, I'm not a bath fan! So I put a shout out on twitter the other day and got two takers for my bath stuff and went through it today and made up two lovely parcels to give/send to two lovely ladies!! I then sorted all the rest of the stuff and made a list of what I have... Eeek!!
Going to be frightfully honest now and post what I have (not including the stuff that is being given away!)... Have tried to put it in categories where some of the stuff is similar! Some of the things are from the Retro range that is only available online and some of the items were seasonal things so have marked these after them in case anyone wants to go looking for them on the site!
Soaps:
Porridge*
Ice Blue*
Sandstone*
Father Frost (Christmas)*
Angels delight (Christmas)*
Solid Fragrance:
Vanillary
Olive Branch*
Snow Fairy (Christmas)*
Temple Balms:
Flying Fox
Whoosh
Dreamtime
Emotibombs:
Up You gets
Too Drunk (to F***)*
Sugar Scrubs:
Sugar Scrub*
Sugar Babe*
Fairy Tail (Christmas)
Fresh Face Mask:
BB Seaweed
Body Butters:
You Snap the Whip
Buffy
Aqua Mirabilis
Running to the Embassy
Snuggle (retro)
Dusting Powders:
Vanilla puff Powder
Silky Underwear
Candy Fluff*
Massage Bars:
Business Time
Fever
Cosmic Dream catcher
Shimmy shimmy sparkle bar
Therapy
Each Peach (and twos a pair)*
Ego (retro)
Bewitched (retro)
Sore Labours (retro)
Cleansers:
Fresh farmacy cleanser
Angels on Bare Skin cleanser
Ultrabland cleanser
Foot and Hand:
Fair trade Foot lotion
Volcano foot mask
Lemony Flutter cuticle cream
Smitten Handcream
Shower stuff (random mix):
Ocean salt face and body scrub
Godiva Shampoo bar
Happy Hippy Shower Gel*
Jungle conditioner (sample)*
Snow Showers shower jelly (Christmas)*
Miscellaneous:
Eau Roma Toner Water
Vitamin E toner tabs
Vanilla Dee-Lite body lotion
Vanilla Fountain
Vanillary fragrance
Anything marked with * is something I got free somewhere along the line... Lush are awesome for free gifts and often throw in samples for you when you are purchasing instore. I was disappointed that they don't send samples with stuff ordered online but saw recently on the forum (on the Lush.co.uk) site that if you ask them to in the comments box when ordering they will so will try this in future!
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