Emotional Brilliance

Saturday 21st July saw the wholewide launch of Lush's brand new cosmetic range based around YOUR emotions.

Friday evening I went to see the new products with glass of bucks fizz and camera in hand!

The idea is that you select colours that appeal to you and those colours will indicate a certain emotion, thus being your colour of your emotion at that time. Everyday will be different and you can express that through the makeup that you wear.

Lush believe that you wear your emotion through the colours you have choosen which make them personal to you, instead of colours indicated by trend or fashion.

To choose your colours head into store and spin the wheel of colours, and choose three colours, these represent eyeliners and liquid eye shadows and lipsticks. All colours are beautiful and vibrant with such intense pigmentation.
These products are versatile as you can use the lipstick on you cheeks as blush and eye shadows as eyeliner.
All these new colours are vegan and cruelty free, packaging is recyclable.

My colours/emotions for the evening were Drive, Ambition and my subconscious emotion was Vibrance!

It was a great evening and the staff at Lush Arndale are always lovely and extremely helpful and bubbly!
Colours cost 14.50 for 5g and are available now in store and online.

                                                                                            

Vanillary

                                                 

My favourite perfume of the minute is this beautifully subtle scent from Lush, the Vanillary solid perfume stick. 

pic taken form Lush website

They use real vanilla and jasmine, which gives this perfume a lovely subtle warming creamy smell instead of that harsh chemically vanilla smell we are all so use to.
I love the packaging because you can just throw it in your bag and not worry about it breaking, making this great for travelling and now has become one of my festival essentials!
As its a stick perfume all you need to do is push the bottom and the product rises out of its tube but dont push it out further than you need to. I have found that if I apply the perfume onto my neck first and finish on my wrist I can use my wrist to push the product back in and apply at the same time!
Lush have a large selection of solid perfumes, which come in spray from too. I highly recommend you give them a try.
                                                    

                                                       

glogg

the lovely people at lush gave us a surprise goodie bag at work the other week, and i ended up with a bath bomb (which is incredible after a long day working or essaying) and a bottle of shower gel. all i've used from lush before are their shampoo bars which a friend brought to uganda because they're completely natural and better to use, especially in the cold shower at 7am! and their face cream because my skin can get pretty oily really easily. so this is the first gel i've used from them, but i was impressed: 'glogg' has a lovely cinnamon scent a warm mulled wine aroma (and it even has some red wine in the ingredients list!) and my skin feels soft and pampered afterwards. i was sceptical at first because when it comes to shower gel i'm a big fan of the original source range - love their mint shower gel, really wakes me up in the morning with a refreshing zing! but you can definitely tell the difference with lush and their use of natural ingredients. definitely worth a try. (and while you're at it i strongly recommend the shampoo bars, too!)

Curly Wurly!

picture taken from Lush.com

I have curly/wavy hair- depends on the day! - and before recently I have just used John Frieda only because they have a wide range of shampoos and hair treatments for curly hair. I always been pretty aware of what goes into my body and only in the last couple of years become more and more focused on what goes in, on and around my body!
So new shampoo was on my shopping list!
Lush was my first port of call as they have such a large range of beautiful cosmetics which are all handmade, vegetarian and 80% are vegan. They are environmentally friendly and are presently fighting for the ban of testing on animals.
So I walked into Lush Arndale, Manchester, and a girl helped me decide which shampoo would be good for me!
Curly Wurly it was...this is a lovely rich shampoo. You dont need to use that much and therefore it lasted for SO long! and I didnt even need to buy a separate conditioner! for my hair type it had enough moisturiser to keep it soft and conditioned.
The shampoo has these lovely moisturising friends to help it out: cocoa butter, shea butter, jojoba oil, avocado butter and olive oil.
It also has bits of coconut in it- the tub instructions say that because of 'the bits' you may need to spend abit of time making sure they are all out - but I had no worries when it came to this and I have ALOT of hair!
The smell is lovely and coconuty and creamy - its a lovely shampoo - highly recommend it