Happy Hour Party at Lush Middlesbrough feat. Easter products

Lush is one of my favourite shops. Whenever I visit I always want to buy everything they sell as it's all so colourful, smells amazing and has incredible benefits. I've already been to one Lush blogger event and it was a lot of fun, so when another invite popped into my inbox I was quick to accept. This time the girls in the shop planned to show us their Happy Hour Party. Although Lush has always had parties in its shops, more recently they've made the events more structured and provided packages for different occasions. We were invited down earlier this week to experience the Happy Hour Party and see some of the new Easter products.

Being in Lush past opening hours is a bloggers dream. We take get to take a billion pictures (as you can see from this post) of the amazingly beautiful products and we get to try them all out with no-one around. It's amazing. So after we'd drooled over the products we got down to the party. The girls had us playing all sorts of fun party games involving shower jelly, their own brand lipstick and knot wraps. 

After all the giggles, the girls had a surprise, we had a sneaky peek at the new Easter range which looks amazing. You can see from my pictures a few of the new releases including Humpty Dumpty Bath Bomb (with a fried egg bath bomb inside) and Bouncy Bunny shower jelly (smells of oranges!) with old favourites such as Bunch of Carrots bubble bars and Keep it Fluffy bath bomb back for another year. I'll definitely be getting my hands on a few of these!

To finish the night off we got to make a Creamy Candy bubble bar. We mushed all the ingredients together and created our own shape bubble bar. I love taking part in things like this as it's great to see what goes into the product and how they're made.

The party lasted around an hour and I had such a good time. The girls at Lush do an amazing job and are so passionate about the products. If you are into Lush products I'd definitely consider having a party there. They can tailor the Happy Hour Party for young children, teenagers, baby showers, hen and birthday parties! It's £15 a head with £5 shopping experience (making products is additional).

Is this something you'd consider? Also what Easter products are you most excited about?

BIG Sea Salt Shampoo - Lush Review

Hi, I'm Danni and I'm a Lush addict. I bet you are too. Come on admit it, you have at least two bath bombs waiting to be sploshed into hot water for a colourful soothing soak in the tub. I certainly do, I have at least ten following the Boxing day sale. I kind of went crazy and got two gift sets and numerous half-price soaps. And on top of this, I also received gift sets for Christmas, so yes I am set for the entire year. Apart from all the smelly bath bombs, I decided to pick up a favourite of mine - Big Sea Salt Shampoo.

On Lush's website, it says to use a small amount of this shampoo - which is filled with sea salt, seaweed, coconut oil and lemon and lime - work into wet hair well to create a lather. At first, I was very dubious of Big's volumising claims, and I still kind of am. It definitely has all the makings of a great uplifting shampoo, but maybe I'm not doing it right. I should probably use less... But the real reason I am still in love with this shampoo is the way it makes my hair feel. After using Big my hair feels so clean. It actually squeaks. This doesn't mean that my hair feels dry at all because of the intense clean, quite the opposite it feels silky and smooth. I don't use this all the time as it is quite an intense shampoo, what will the large chunks of salt, but every week I get the satisfaction of making my hair super clean. Squeaky clean. It also smells amazing. At first, you may not think so, which happens with a few of the Lush products, but after a few washes, you will love it. It is so fresh and invigorating and the fragrance sticks to your hair after you've rinsed it all away. I'd urge you all to try this shampoo and I think I will try using a little less to see if this helps improve my volume! Do you have any Lush recommendations? I'd love to hear them as I'm obsessed with the shop and need a reason to visit again.

Lush Middlesbrough Blogger Event - Gorilla perfume volume 3 release

Last week I was invited along to Lush Middlesbrough's first blogger event to launch volume 3 of their Gorilla perfume; Death, Decay and Renewal. Lots of local bloggers congregated in the shop before the shutter was pulled down and the shop closed off to customers. It was a blogger's paradise being able to take as many photos as we wanted and try out all the products with no other customers! We were introduced to the Gorilla perfumes, specifically the three new perfumes, Kerbside Violet, Death and Decay, and All Good Things. We all had a good sniff and decided on our favourites. Mine was Kerbside Violet, it smelt like parma violets and the bubble bar Ultraviolet smells just like it!

The girls also showed us the Mother's Day products which included Ultraviolet, Yummy Mummy shower gel and Secret Garden bath bomb. I got a sample of the shower gel and it smells amazing! I would definitely recommend having a smell when you are in store next as you will want to take it home with you!

I really enjoyed this event, the girls did a brilliant job and it was great to see some other local bloggers. Being told about the background of the perfume and having the chance to stand and smell them all has made me consider buying one. Maybe I'll be smelling of a Lush Gorilla perfume sometime soon...

The Comforter Bubble Bar Review - Lush

Ahh Lush. My favourite store. I hoard many bath products from here and the stash keeps getting bigger and bigger. One product I picked up that will definitely become a staple in my bathroom is the Comforter Bubble Bar.

The Comforter - £4.50

There are three reasons I picked up this product. First I love bubbles, second - the bar is PINK and third - it smells absolutely gorgeous! It is such a girly bubble bar as it smells of very sweet and sickly like red fruits and berries. It definitely has a hint of candy to it which makes me love it as I feel like I am bathing in a giant candy floss.

I only use a portion of this bubble bar and it creates lots of gorgeous bubbles as well as turning the bathwater pink! Just what I want on a night when I need to soak in the tub!

Have you tried this bubble bar before? Any suggestions of Lush products I should try?

A Lush Bath

I wasn't always a bath person. I used to hate them, think they were too warm and much prefer a quick shower. However Lush came into my life and now I am a convert. After the blogger meet up I organised, in Middlesbrough at the end of March in which we visited Lush, we were gifted a gorgeous goody bag full of treats. I took the opportunity to use a few of the products during a relaxing bath.

We were given the chance to create a fresh face mask and a bath bomb which we could take home to use. For my bath, these two were out in full force!

As I had made the bath bomb myself I was dubious to see if it would work as all previous ones I've had. I shouldn't have doubted myself as it fizzed away in the bath like any other. I love this Think Pink bath bomb as it makes the bath pink with lots of little love hearts in the water.

The face mask is called Catastrophe Cosmetic, filled with blueberries to help soothe skin and give a gorgeous glow. I've used this before and was a real fan. It feels like a clay mask as it is greyish and dries hard with the blueberries on your face which feels a bit weird. When I washed this mask off I was suitably relaxed in the bath and my face felt lovely and soft.

In our goody bags, we were given a small sample of Red Fun. I had seen this in the shop loads but hadn't considered picking it up. It is as the title suggests such a fun product to use and it feels just like play-dough. I pulled a little bit off and it smelled amazing. I just want a perfume that smells like it. On the website, it is described as mandarin and orange oil scented. When I rubbed it on me it left me all red and didn't lather like I would have expected. Having said that I did feel suitably clean after washing the colour off me. After using this sample I'd definitely consider buying the whole bar as it smells gorgeous!

I know that Lush is always going to have pride of place in my bathroom because I love their products so much.

Baker Street Meet, Middlesbrough

Well, you may have heard me twittering on about organising a meet up in Middlesbrough, last Sunday it finally happened! Quite a few people dropped out last minute which was disappointing but I think the small meet worked really well as we all got to chat to each other.

Firstly we met up at The Baker Street Kitchen on Baker Street, had some food and chatted to Tara from The Tara Emporium about her indie nail polish collection and her expanding variety of products including fashion, jewellery and bath products. She provided us all with a nail polish that she created to take home in our goody bags. Also in our goody bags was two products from Oriflame, a set of samples from Oqibo and some pop chips! I also received some tea from Bluebird Tea Co. but it came on the Monday after!

After we had our fill of food, we headed off to Lush where the lovely staff let us make a fresh face mask filled with blueberries and a Think Pink bath bomb then told us about all their new Mother's Day products as well as showing us how the Secret Garden bath bomb appears in water. Sorry for the overload of pictures.

L-R - Tracy, Rachel, Steph, Tara, Jen, Becca and Me!

We all got to take away a little bag of treats from Lush which was lovely and unexpected! I had a great afternoon and it was lovely to meet some local bloggers! I'd like to thank all attendees for coming along, Lush Middlesbrough for having us in store, The Baker Street Kitchen for reserving our tables and also the lovely brands that gave products for the goody bags!

Honey Bee Lush Bath Bomb Review

I've recently become obsessed with Lush and their gorgeous bath products. Whenever I'm in I have to have a smell and add a new one to my basket. This is the first one of Lush’s bath ballistics that I used after having such a good experience with the bubble bars.

Honey Bee is described on the website as “a sweet-scented bath bomb with honey and rhassoul mud to soothe the skin”. The smell of this is so hard to describe as it doesn't instantly strike a memory of other scents. It is very sweet and doesn't smell strongly of honey as you’d expect which is why I like it as I'm not too keen on honey. When I asked my boyfriend and mum what they thought they said it smelt of sweets.

The look of the bath bomb is yellow and brown, almost like a bee...see what they did there! The brown part of this is rhassoul mud which I've found after researching on their website has natural cleansing properties and helps condition and moisturise the skin. When I popped this in my bath it created a great fizz and turned the water yellow. The smell fills the bathroom and creates a lovely soothing bath. The only bad thing I found was that there were little bits of what I assume to be the mud at the bottom of the bath and after the water was drained it left the bath yellow, but this is easily washed off.

After my bath, the smell lingered on my skin for quite a while which was gorgeous. This is my favourite bath ballistic so far, but I will let you know if something takes the top spot! I would definitely recommend this if you don’t mind giving your bath a little scrub when you get out.

Have you tried this before?

Scrub a dub dub - Lush Bubbleroon Review

I'm not really a bath person. I'd much prefer a quick shower then get out and get ready. Sitting in a pool of hot water wasn't really my thing or so I thought. Enter Lush's Candy Mountain bubble bar that we got in a Christmas gift box. I hadn't used any of Lush's bath products but I thought it was time to give it a go. I got the bath water temperature just right so I wasn't coming out like a lobster and the bubble bar made it smell gorgeous. It was lovely. So here starts my liking of baths and my adventures into new exciting bath products!

I went into Lush last week to check out the new Valentine's products they've just launched. To be honest I wasn't overwhelmed by any of them so I ventured around the rest of the shop. I managed to come out with a bubble bar, a bath bomb, a massage bar and this bubbleroon.

According to the Lush website this little bubbleroon, based on the shape of a macaroon, is a bubble bar. So to release the bubbles you have to crumble this under the tap as your bath is running. There were three different types of bubbleroons in the Lush store but I picked up the Yuzu and Cocoa one. This smells sweet and quite strongly of coconut which makes makes you feel like you are in a bounty.

I only used half the bubbleroon as I'd seen people suggesting that half was sufficient but unfortunately I forgot to add it whilst the bath was running. I added it afterwards and swashed my hands around in the water to get the bubbles that you can see in the bath. It was a  lovely bath but the bubbles soon faded although the smell lingered.

At only £3.25 for what can be two lovely soaks in the bath I think these little bubbleroons are worth it. The other two scents are The Green Bubbleroon and Rose Jam.

Have you tried these before? What other Lush bath products do you love?