What's In My Lush Box? (Review)

Meow, so this blog post is going to be about the What's In My Box video that I did a few weeks ago... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY8Ci_aQ_QU&list=UUZV6mQGhkORoc5XjoZ0APWQ)  (I'll put a link to it at the end as well..) I still can not thank Lush Leeds Spa enough for the Bloggers Event and for giving me the gift box.. It is serving as a very pre seasonal/Christmas gift to myself... If you want the box set/any of the products then I shall put links throughout the post.)

So the first product is The Comforter.. This is a bubble bar therefore you crumble a bit of the product under running water and it creates bubbles in front of your very eyes.. This product has a white and purple/fuchsia marbled look.. The white bit is bergamot whilst the fuchsia bit is cassis absolute. The bubble bar smells like blackcurrant which is mainly from the cassis absolute. The Blackcurrant smells gives the bath the comforting smell which you sometimes need hence the name The Comforter. The bar is absolutely massive therefore you can get a good 8 baths out of this with a lot of lovely scented bubbles. They are £4.75 each which sounds expensive but it is massive so you get what you get for your money.. (https://uk.lush.com/products/comforter-0) 

My The Comforter Bubble Bar



The Comforter in the bath

The next product that I'm going to talk about is Magic Wand. This is yet another Bubble Bar. With this bubble bar, you don't crumble it, you swish it under running water as it is attached to a stick which you use to swish it.. It is pink and very bright. You can get around 8 baths with this bar. The scent of it is very recognisable to regular Lush customers and regular Christmas customers as the scent is Snow Fairy. Snow Fairy is a limited edition Christmas scent which remarks candy/candyfloss or sweets. It is very sweet but the only way to describe it is if pink had a fragrance.. The product is priced at £5.25 (https://www.lush.co.uk/products/bubble-bars/magic-wand)

Magic Wand Bubble Bar

Magic Wand in the bath

At this time, my Lush Box kinda had a bad moment.. My brother knocked it over without realising until after therefore the next product had crumbled a bit so I only got a picture of it going into the bath.. This product is the Luxury Lush Pud. This product is a regular at Christmas but this year it has been revamped as instead of it being the colour of the Blackcurrant bit of The Comforter, it became more of pink colour. This one is a bomb therefore you just run your bath and then drop it in before you get in yourself. The Luxury Lush Pud has little buttons on the side of it which are little pockets of colour which explode when you drop it in. The smell of it is literally like a Christmas Pudding.. It is quite spicy but at the same time it has lavender and ylang ylang in which kinda tones down the spiciness and the quirkiness of Tonka absolute.. If you love the Twilight bath bomb then you will love this one or vice versa.. The products costs £3.50

Luxury Lush Pud

Luxury Lush Pud exploding in the bath

One of the spots exploding

The colour of the bath

Back to the bubble bars... This one is called Drummers Drumming.. Y'know because of the 12 Days Of Christmas song/carol? This bubble bar is a first in the history of Lush as it isn't just a bubble bar but its a musical bubble bar.  YOU CAN CREATE A MUSICAL BATH! It has two bells therefore when you swish it the bells jingle.. Now one side of the bar is yellow and the other is pink which obviously means that they have different scents. The yellow side smells of bergamot whereas the pink side smells of strawberries and cream... Mmm... Strawberries and cream scented bubbles.. This one is priced at the same price as the Magic Wand (£5.25) *screams* BUBBLES. MY BUBBLES!
(https://www.lush.co.uk/products/new-products/drummers-drumming)

Drummers Drumming

Drummers Drumming in the bath

Wow, the last of bubble bars.. So you get the point of how to use them by now... You crumble them and put said crumbles (its not really crumbs as its more pieces so crumbles felt right) and put them under running water. So the last bubble bar is The Christmas Hedgehog.. Okay, this is going to sound weird but Lush is a Vegan based company but consciously its not right to crumble up a cute hedgehog.. This product looks kinda like a hedgehog.. It is silvery blue.. Silver at the front.. Blue at the back.. It is literally too cute to put into words... It has blue shimmer beads, snowflake lustre and white edible stars which make it extraordinary from within. It is mainly made from Cocoa Butter and Shea Butter which means that it is very prone to melting once it has been touched by warm human hands.. The butters give your skin such a soft feeling once you have been in the bath.. It creates a lot of bubbles and it makes the bath go a silvery blue colour which is just so soothing and great.. The hedgehog also has ylang ylang and rose absolute which keeps the bath soothing and gives a great aroma for when its absolutely freezing outside.. This absolutely adorable animal is £3,25
(https://www.lush.co.uk/products/new-products/christmas-hedgehog)

The Christmas Hedgehog

Crumbled Hedgehog in bath

Wow... This is the last Lush product that I was given... The bad thing with this one for you guys is that I haven't used it yet because it looks too good and smells too good to use just to review for you guys... The final product in my box is called Golden Wonder.. Now as you can tell by the name that it is going to be very gold... You are right! Now, Golden Wonder is a bath bomb but it's not like any other ordinary bath bomb... Golden Wonder is a bath bomb in a bath bomb in a bath bomb which means that it takes a long time to make.. 10 days in fact.. It takes 10 days just to make one of these. This is one of the reasons why I don't just want to use it for a review of it.. I did get shown a demonstration of it though therefore I can talk about that. The design of it is a present shaped bomb with a golden colour outer layer with a cream bow on top to represent a present as there is a bell in the middle of the second bomb which acts as a surprise... There is other surprises within this bomb but if you want to know what they are then you should go buy one to find out... (*HINT* gold) This bath product smells mainly of cognac and lime with a hint of clementine which gives it an all round boozy citrus scent. The scent smells absolutely divine and luxurious! When you drop this present into the bath, it turns the water a lovely dark blue/green colour with a gold glitter trail (and the other surprises) swirling around in the water.. It's literally one of the best presents you could buy for yourself this Christmas. Priced at £3.75 which isn't that bad for a bath bomb especially when it contains so much gorgeous things..  (https://www.lush.co.uk/products/bath-bombs/golden-wonder)

Golden Wonder

Golden Wonder in the bath

Birds eye view of Golden Wonder

So this is the end of my blog post on What's In My Lush Box.. I hope that you've liked it.. As I've said the links to buy them.. The link to the full gift set is https://www.lush.co.uk/products/15-30/jingle-bells . The link to the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY8Ci_aQ_QU&list=UUZV6mQGhkORoc5XjoZ0APWQ

PS: The links have been taken out due to them being not sold as Lush updates their links to their products every year so even if there's a new version of the same product then the link will have been changed.


I still can not thank Lush Leeds Spa enough for putting the #LushChristmas Bloggers Event on and for giving me the gift box. If you live near Leeds then I urge you to go into their new big store in Leeds and buy something as all of the products are amazing!
Thank you for reading this far
I hope that you have a great week and I hope to see you next time I write a blog post.
*meows and disappears*

Lush Leeds Christmas Event

Meow *meows twenty times in a row because I'm so excited about this post*,
So this week, I was invited to a very special event. It was the Lush Christmas Event in Leeds. As I attempt to blog about anything and everything, I classed myself as a blogger and was invited to this very exclusive bloggers event... I would like to credit and thank Aaron Thomas Hastings for his amazing photography skills and companionship on this adventure!

Basically, I met Aaron and travelled to Leeds.. We tried to participate in a treasure hunt to do with Pulp & Patent Pending which failed so badly.. After this epic fail, we went to McDonalds and lurked via their Wi-Fi (thank goodness for free Wi-Fi...) After so long, we travelled to Lush.. Check the vlog out to understand this in a visual content.. Yes I am plugging my own video..

When we got there (after I fast paced around Trinity Leeds to get to Lush), we were greeted by a member of Lush staff asking for our names on the guestlist.. I kinda felt a bit like I was at a VIP club being let in seeing as I am sad like that..


Music At Lush Leeds Spa

As soon as you stepped into the shop, the building smelt of festive Christmas scents and the music that was blaring all throughout the shop just screamed Christmas.

 Once we got into the actual store, we were allowed to roam around.. Y'know the usual? Be awkward, take pictures and roam around until someone starts to say what they think about the product that you're taking photos of or sniffing.. Us bloggers don't do social interaction well unless we can all talk about something that we love..

Once us bloggers had took edgy photos of cosmetic products that screamed Christmas..  We wondered around looking and smelling... I kinda awkwardly walked about as there was so much going on and I kinda didn't know what to do and Aaron was following me around like a lost puppy as I had brought him as a sort of birthday treat as his birthday is next week and I wouldn't see him then and to meet new people... A lovely member of staff said, "Why don't you build a snowman?" Aaron instantly said "why not" and we filmed a bit whilst he sung the obvious song from Frozen... I smelt the soap whilst he was sculpting.. The product that I am referring to is the Snowman FUN. This comes in a packet where you get 60% white and 20% orange and black to create a snowman.. You can then use this to also as a bath bomb, body wash, shower gel and other things.. The white bit smells like the Carrot Soap from the Easter collection which smells really good.. The only way that I can describe it really is to say that its kind of like carrot cake but more floral instead of spice.. It costs around £5.. Whilst we were at the Snowman Station... There was the Gold Fun which is at the same price with the same soft play dough texture but instead of white and smelling florally it smelt more of the gorgeous caramel scent of Honey I Washed The Kids soap and had a glorious gold shine to it (Me nor Aaron got any pictures of the Gold FUN because I couldn't put it down because it smelt that good!)



Aaron's cute little Snowman

Once Aaron had made his little snowman (picture above), his hands were covered in black and I had a professional camera that wasn't mine in my hands so we were confused about what to do about the charcoal effect on his hands. Luckily, Lush had provided some soaps to use once you had finished making your cute little snowman..  They also had shampoo bars to try out which weren't/might not be technically out yet.. We smelt all except the shampoo bars..

New Shampoo Bars

We just looked at them in awe and touched them (they felt amazing!) The soaps that I tried were the Yog Nog, Reindeer Rock and Baked Alaska.. The Yog Nog has soya yoghurt and a mixture of festive spices.. The smell to me was slightly rich but the spices cut through it so it was a pleasant smell.. It kinda reminded me of a mixture of the Charity pot and the Honey I Washed The Kids rolled into one with a few sprinkles of spice.. It melted very quickly when I picked it up which is from the butters therefore it will do great things for your skin.. It is priced at £3.40 per 100g. Reindeer Rock has a mixture of berries within the product including lingonberries (ooh exotic!) The smell of this soap is very berry like.. Its weird to word it but if you have ever tried the Comforter bubble bar before then you will love this soap! It also has little pictures of reindeers on which makes it really festive (I am not sure if this soap is in the picture below but I have some pictures of it so you shall see it within the post.. The last of the three festive soaps igos Baked Alaska... This is such a pretty soap when you cut into it.. It reveals different sections of colours and it just makes it look so attractive to look at.. The smell is impeccable.. It's so powerful, citrusy and bold.. It just reminds you of like a citrusy (not just lemon) meringue pie.. A hybrid of grapefruit dipped in sugar and lemon meringue pie if you must... £3.25 per 100g.. There is also Fairy Ring which I nearly forgot.. This final festive soap has more of a musky masculine scent to it as this contains mushrooms which gives the product a very earthy/woody/musky sort of smell. It is shaped in a toadstool just to remind everyone that it contains mushroom.. It looks too pretty to be a soap and should be on a Super Mario Bros game.. £4.10 per 100g. 


Yog Nog, Baked Alaska & Fairy Ring

After this, we went to get a drink and something to eat.. As I said, when one hears cake.. One has to get some cake! We wandered around and then found two clean glasses... The bottles were in a champagne bottle styled bottle.. These were placed on the iced display which is normally used to keep the fresh face masks fresh.. I found a bottle of Apple & Cranberry sparkling juice which sounded great and Aaron chose Apple & Elderflower.. I didn't realise how much was in the bottle and just kept pouring until instead of filling a glass half full.. It was nearly overflowing.. Ah well... We both grabbed a cake by a local bakery that I don't know the name of unfortunately but one line of cakes were chocolate and the other line were normal Victoria sponges.. As I didn't want to screw my stomach up a lot.


Cute Victoria Sponge's



Close up of Chocolate Cake

 

Glass of Sparkling Apple & Cranberry Juice

Once we drunk our glasses of sparkling juice and ate our cakes (and felt good about ourselves), we wondered around the corner towards the section of soaps.. The lovely member of staff showed us which ones were the seasonal ones and which ones weren't.. She gave us a little debrief about them and what they contained and let us feel the texture of them.. Especially with the Yog Nog one, we could feel the butters getting to work.. We took pictures of the soaps on display as I checked to see if they had my favourite soap on show (Honey I Washed The Kids.) We then went on to see all the shower gels in action.. We had another chat with the same member of staff and asked her what her favourite shower gel was... She said 'The Olive Branch' as she uses it on her German Shepherd dog as her dog has Eczema... We also asked her how she copes with the amount of glitter she sees in the year (as most Christmas seasonal stuff contains glitter) and asked her if she loves throwing her knowledge about beauty and cosmetics into day to day conversations with friends.. We then went onto smell the lovable, vibrant, recognisable Snow Fairy and smelt every soap and shower gel going!


Big Block Of Yog Nog Soap



Blocks of Fairy Ring



Blocks of Baked Alaska



Bottles of Snow Fairy



Blocks of Reindeer Rock



Block of Baked Alaska Cut Into Pieces

Once we had our smell of Snow Fairy and a random conversation with a lovely staff member, we wondered around to the massage bars but we passed the makeup stand.. Aaron instantly stopped and went, LET'S PUT SOME ON ME FOR A PHOTO!'.. I was very tempted to grab a liquid eyeliner pen and apply to his face but I resisted and told him that they didn't do nail polish and walked away from it after he took snapshots after it.. I did flicker at the lip scrubs (around £3.75?) as they were a great invention but we both strolled towards the massage bars...

Line of Makeup Testers

More Testers Of Makeup

We finally got to the massage bars! We wondered around and smelt some of the massage bars.. Aaron had no clue what they were so I described the concept of them to him and told him how staff can massage your arm to try a certain bar out.. I then went on to go on about how the butters melt on your skin and how it leaves such a good feeling! I then found the Strawberry Feels Forever and the Each Peach (And Two's A Pair) which I absolutely love and made Aaron smell them (I think he got sick of smelling everything at some point.) Both are £5.95 but they last a long time and have great benefits for the skin within.. We then went and took more photos of the massage bars whilst I demonstrated a few on my hands as they are amazing! We also found Let The Good Times Roll which is a cleanser which smells like popcorn as it is Fall Out Boy lyrics so me and Aaron started to sing Fall Out Boy within the store.. (It's £6,75!)

Wiccy Magic Muscles & Tender Is The Night

A Selection Of Massage Bars

I saw a demonstration going on and Aaron followed therefore we went and watched... We saw the last of one which was representing a mermaid but I can not remember what the name of the product was.. The lovely woman doing the demos said that she was just going to get some clean water and do some demos for us.. I think we started with the Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night selection which were Northern Lights and Sparkler.. The Northern Lights smelt slightly florally but very mellow and very delicate like the Twilight bath bomb with an added kick whereas the Sparkler smelt a bit like Dragons Egg but with an added kick and slight boost of floral added. £3.50 each. We then went on to see the Golden Wonder and how it's a bath bomb within a bath bomb within a bath bomb and how it takes 10 days just to make one with such precision... It has golden lustre, edible golden stars and other things in.. It smells very decadent and rich.. It contains cognac and lime.. You can definitely smell the lime which cuts through the richness and the added bonus of looking like a present just makes it extraordinary.. Priced at £3.50, it is definitely a me gift to buy yourself whilst Christmas shopping for everyone else... We also smelt a mixture of other products including the Shoot For The Stars, Magic Wand, Drummers Drumming and Dashing Santa... Shoot For The Stars had changed colour this year to a lighter shade of blue but still had the infamous scent of Honey I Washed The Kids... Under the water, it bursted through with different colours with a main highlight of blue whilst a literal trail of sliver glitter which looked like a glittery line of cocaine but it looked so magnificent in the water.. £3.50

Shoot For The Stars

Golden Wonder (I think?)

Dashing Santa - £2.95

I think Northern Lights but sorry for not knowing..

Might be Sparkler.. Sorry.. I can't remember

Dashing Santa again..

Northern Lights.. I'm sure of it

I think Sparkler.. Sorry..

Shoot For The Stars (I think..)

We then went and wandered around and took photos of the bath bombs and some of the bubble bars/bath melts but mainly bath bombs.. This was the final thing that we took photos of as it was getting late and Aaron had to drag me out of the shop.. We sung and danced along with staff as well.. I fiddled with the products and smelt them and forced Aaron to smell basically everything and then planned to leave as we had to get a train and then I had to get a bus home.. Here are some photos and I'll try to label prices with photos..

Star Light Star Bright - £3.50

Sparkly Pumpkin - £3.50

Wizard Bubble Bar - £3.25

The Melting Snowman - £2.25

Lord Of Misrule - £3.50

Lord Of Misrule - £3.50

Me looking at a demo ft Sunnyside - £3.75

Wizard - £3.25

The Melting Snowman again

Festive Gift Boxes

Jingle Bells Gift Box - £29.45

Butterbear - £1.95

The Christmas Penguin - £3.25

Snow Angel Bath Melt - £3.95

Holly Golightly Bubble Bar - £3.75

The Christmas Hedgehog Bubble Bar - £3.25

So after this, we headed to the door where we were given a goody bag with a gift set in.. The staff said good night to us all and hoped that we had a great time.. I had such an amazing time.. As soon as I headed out the door, I heard mine jingling and later realised it was the Jingle Bells gift box.. I squealed and shouted that it was jingling within Leeds city centre at 10pm at night... Oops.. We headed towards the train station, hugged and then I went home..
I have done a vlog on this and if you want to watch it then you can watch it here.. http://youtu.be/DYbMXcXloYM

I hope that you watch the video and if you do then don't forget to Like, Comment with your favourite Lush product and Subscribe!
I can not thank Lush and Lush Leeds Spa (the Leeds Lush shop) enough for inviting me and letting me enjoy the night and test out everything..
If you don't know what to get someone for Christmas then I urge you to get something from Lush for them this Christmas!

Meow!
Thank you and I hope to see you reading my next blog (about the gift box) when it's up!