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Hrmn, I’m not sure how I feel about this. It’s Metro Chic (a fabulous drab from Sephora by OPI) with Liquid Vinyl from Orly.
It’s good to try new things. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t - but you won’t ever know unless you, you know, TRY. *grin* Nail polish remover is a beautiful tool.
One of the things I try to do for myself on a regular basis is to take a hot bath, for as long as I want (even if I have to add more hot water). Most of the time, I have a book and my laptop (and I know, I know, what if I drop it? But I haven’t so far) and a bottle of water or a glass of wine or SOMETHING.
And also most of the time, I have something that smells awesome and is made by LUSH.
If you aren’t familiar with LUSH’s products, the most important thing to know is this: there is something in the awesome smells that is totally addictive.
While LUSH makes a great and broad assortment of products, my favorite ones are the bath ones: bubble bars, bath ballistics, and bath melts. They each do different things to the water but they all leave my skin moisturized and my brain pleasantly mellowed. Aromatherapy works, dudes.
I made a trip to one of the local LUSH store’s today, solely to check out the holiday products. Let’s just say, I’ve stocked up.
So many bath products, so little hot water.
The Art of Bathing is a box set of 12 bath products, every single one of which kicks ass. It’s also a good thing to get if you want to give smaller, bath-related gifts to various people. And I love the packaging this year. The polka dot hatbox makes me smile.
Right now, until, I think, the 23rd of November, LUSH is running a promotion. If you spend $50 and part of your purchase is a gift set, you’ll get $20 to spend on a holiday gift set. The promotion stacks so if you spend $100, you will get $40. The holiday gift sets are lovely and easy gifts to give if you know someone who likes baths, showers, lotions, or otherwise smelling good and taking a bit of time in the bath.
If you can’t make this sale, but you still want to stock up on LUSH, I’d actually suggest waiting until the Clean Sweep sale that comes after the holidays. I hit that one hard this past year and while I stopped in to get face stuff every now and then (because the face products have shorter shelf lives), for the most part my bath needs for the year were met (I don’t take LUSH baths anywhere near every day, more like once a week or so). Your results may vary, of course, depending on how much lounging in the tub you do!
My favorite LUSH products are Coalface, for cleansing, the glittery red bubble bar they come out with every holiday season under different names, Hot Milk, which is another bubble bar that smells delicious and is just as relaxing as a mug of warm milk, and pretty much whatever I’m bathing in at the moment. *grin*
Do you have any LUSH faves?