I realised a few days ago that over the last couple of weeks I've accumulated several Lush products and samples, so I thought I'd do a haul posts to show you what I'll be trying out.
A couple of weeks ago, despite waking up a bit
poorly that morning due to starting some new medication, I headed over to
Nottingham to meet up with some other bloggers. We had a lovely meal in
Zizzi's and a good chat and then the others all headed off into the town for
some shopping but I unfortunately headed home due to not feeling so good.
We were all given a goody bag and one of the lovely things I found tucked in
mine was a bag with a few samples from Lush. I think I've included the
correct samples here but there is a small chance I've got some of the little
pot samples mixed up.
I was very happy to see a nice sized chunk of Honey
I washed the kids. I did have some of this several years ago and I
know it's lovely. I haven't opened this yet but if I remember correctly it looks like a creme caramel desert (I love them!) and I believe smells like toffee or honey or something similar. Next up there was a small sample of Happy
hippy shower gel. I've tried a couple of Lush shower gels before but
not this one. This is grapefruit scented so I would imagine this would
make for a zesty invigorating shower. Lastly, this one doesn't have a
sticker on the top but if I remember correctly the little bag it was in said Ultrabland,
which as you can see from the top photo I also have a full size of.
As you'll know if you've read my recent posts, or if
you follow me on Twitter, last week I headed up to Meadowhall in Sheffield
for a bloggers breakfast which included a trip to Lush for a little bit of VIP
treatment. We made our own face masks, but this isn't included in the
picture as I forgot to take it out of the fridge, which is where you're
supposed to store their face masks.
Lush very kindly let us take away a cleanser and
toner each and I opted for Tea
tree water toner and Ultrabland cleanser.
I'm sure I mentioned this on my blog recently
(although I can't work out which post it might have been on) but I was a
mystery shopper for Lush and unfortunately this year they made the decision to
stop the scheme. As a thank you to all the mystery shoppers they credited
our mail order accounts with a final £25 (we used to get £30 for each mystery
shop).
I only actually ordered two products, but because
of some kind of problem somewhere along the way I've ended up with a few
extras. After really liking my Emotional Brilliance lipstick in Believe I
decided to order another one in Bubbly.
After using it a couple of times previously I also decided to order Aqua Marina cleanser.
I placed the order on a Friday and then went away
for a week from the following Wednesday. When I got back my order still hadn't
arrived so I contacted Lush to tell them it had gone missing. They were
great and arranged for another order to be sent out to me by next day
courier. When I got home from nipping out my order was waiting for me but
when I opened it all that was in there was the lipstick and a sample of Herbalism cleanser.
So I contacted them again saying the order had arrived but my cleanser was
missing.
Then later on that afternoon there was a knock at
the door which was a courier with my full order including an additional full
size It's
raining men shower gel (to say sorry for the missing order) and a sample
of Carrot
soap. It turned out that what had happened was there was an issue
with one of the ingredients for the lipstick and my first order had been sent
in two parts. The first part containing the cleanser has obviously gone
missing in the post and the second part containing the lipstick took 7 working
days to arrive and just happened to arrive the same day as my complete
replacement order.
Lush kindly told me to keep the part of my
original order that did actually arrive so I now have two liquid lipsticks in
the same shade. I'm not sure what to do with the spare one yet but might hold
a Twitter giveaway for it.
I probably won't review the samples (except maybe
the soaps) as there's not really enough product there, but
reviews of the full size products will follow in the future.
Are you a fan of Lush?
Great haul, I look forward to hear more about the cleanser :o) Xx
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I can't wait to give everything a try and I'll report back :) x
DeleteI love everything that you've got! Amazing choices :)
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Sometimes you can feel a little spoilt for choice with Lush but I already know I love a couple of the things I chose x
DeleteEverytime my dad comes to visit me, he always says something along the lines of "There was a time when you wouldn't walk past a Lush without going in!" but in recent years I haven't really checked them out. I love the looks of the little Emotional Brilliance range though :) xxx
ReplyDeleteI used to buy loads from them and then didn't really buy anything for a few years. I'm definitely falling for them again and love the Emotional Brilliance range x
DeleteI haven't ever tried the cleansers from lush, but I absolutely love the tea tree toner and I use it twice a day, it really does help my skin.
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I'm really liking the Tea Tree toner. You should try the cleansers they're really good x
DeleteWow you have been lucky with Lush :) I am just starting to enjoy their products- so far just the hand creams but will try to get my hands on some other stuff too :D
ReplyDeleteI have been very lucky, I'm very grateful! They do some lovely products x
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