Lush Beautiful Shower Gel

Hello Bloggerbeans,

I am a huge Lush fanatic so when my amazing friend and all round amazing pal Katie brought me heaven in a bag (Lush and Candles) I was so giddy with joy! She is such a good egg to me and I could not thank her enough. Most of the things were Christmas exclusive which does leave my heart heavy writing that little phrase as their Christmas exclusive range is always quite possibly the best time to be in Lush with their Snow Fairy Shower Gel bottles in the thousands everywhere milling around the store however nestled in between the Golden Wonder bath bomb and Candy Mountain bubble bar was the Beautiful Shower Gel which you can still get to my relief of loving it so much! This is just the little January pick me up I needed and like it says on the bottle it makes you feel refreshed and ready to face the day. I love the fact that its a bright yellow colour as just looking at the bottle makes me feel a little happier. Their have been days when I needed to shower and have woken up feeling like miss grumpy gills until I have used my little bottle of happiness scented with apricot and peaches and became 100% more optimistic about the day. It is that freaking good it even makes me not hate mornings as much as I usually do and if a Shower Gel can do that then the little flecks of gold glimmer must be possessing some magical powers to change my whole perspective on something so huge like my morning moan. This small 100g bottle is a perfect travel size and for something small seems a little pricey at £4.95 however you only need the smallest blob to lather up incredibly well on a flannel or shower loofah. If this little quote from the Lush website doesn't make you want to grab your hands on some of this pure sunny liquid gold I don't know what will:

'If you feel anything less than a vision of loveliness in the morning, this peachy keen shower gel is the one for you'

Just that one quote sums up nicely how I feel about this wondrous and true to its name, beautiful shower gel.

Toodlepip x

Hello Bloggerbeans,

Lush is possibly one of my favourite shops I love to be in. From the LUSHcious (See what I did there?) smells when you walk in all the way to seeing all the amazingly designs on their bath bombs and bubble bars, when I walk into my nearest lush store I feel instantly happy as my troubles met away:)

I recently purchased A Dorothy bubble bar in lush for £ 3:25 with the Dorothy bar obviously being based on the Wizard of Oz which is a really neat and clever idea. Today was the day though that I decided to use it and treat myself to a bath making myself smell lovely as tomorrow is the day when I meet Louise (Sprinkleofglitter) and I want to make sure that I feel good about myself. The Dorothy Bubble bar left my skin feeling luxuriously soft and turned the water a pale red then blue colour as the rainbow melted into the water. I would of like there to be more colour like the Wizard Bubble bar which is only available in the winter however I think this was because I purchased it in March and forgot I had it meaning the blue colour of the Bar had bled onto the bag making the colour of the Bubble Bar less vibrant than it is shown on the Lush website.I will remind myself to not leave my lush products that long! Overall I was really happy with the products job overall. I reckon you could of gotten two baths out of the bar by breaking it in half however I ended up using the whole thing as I didn't want to be too saving of it as the more use, the better the overall performance of the product is.

Tomorrow like I said before, is Louise day as I am meeting her at her Book signing in London and decided to make a full day of London fun with my chummy Amelia (@amelialeader_) by going to the massive Oxford street Lush and Primark. Excited is an understatement!

If you want to see pictures from my day before I put them on my blog be sure to follow me on Instagram (Katysummers21) to see all the magical photos from the day and yes I will be doing a day in the life and maybe a OOTD post as well if I can. Be sure to come back on Monday for Book Review Monday!

To purchase the Dorothy Bubble Bar Click HERE

Toodlepip x

~ Katy Summers

Hello Bloggerbeans,

I have been busy, busy, busy! I have now only 4 weeks until my first GCSE exam! (Oh no!). With my Drama practical exam done and dusted along with my Spanish, I now have to have my English speaking presentation learnt and ready for tomorrow. At least I am talking about something I love..... BLOGGING! Onto this weeks post....

You guys seem to love my Avon Hauls so back by popular demand is a spring themed Avon Haul!

For any of you who don't know what Avon is it is an independent company which sells makeup which you can order through your local Avon representative via their catalog which they leave outside your door. Ordering from Avon is such a relaxing experience as I sit down with their catalog in one hand and a pen in the other pondering over new releases in case there is something that catches my eye. Once you have decided if you want to order anything you leave the catalog with your order form outside your door and it magical disappears by your local Avon representative who sends off your order and in a couple of weeks delivers it all to you. It's as simple as that!

This Avon haul was a little more Jewelry based. I saw this set of two bracelet and couldn't resist myself! They look so simplistic and are rose gold (I think) which made me very happy indeed. The fact one of them says 'Happy' will be a little reminder for me to try and find the happiness in each day which I plan to do as inspired by Louise Pentland (Sprinkle Of Glitter). The 'Katrina sentiments bracelets' were in the clearance sale for £3.00 so are no longer being sold to my disappointment :(

My second Jewelry purchase was this gorgeous 'Aubin Stretch Bracelet' in Gold and Chestnut brown. Like the other bracelet, this was also in the clearance sale at £5.50 so is not currently being sold. This bracelet has now become one of my most worn jewelry pieces along with The julienne pendant which features later on in this post.

In my last Avon haul I talked lots and lots on how much I adored Avons Cherry blossom scented spritz which you can still buy. Well they only went out and made a limited edition shower gel which smells EXACTLY like the spritz. It is like heaven in a bottle and a bargain at £1.25! you can still get this limited edition version but you need to be quick as its the last chance you can before it won't be available to buy.

Onto my first beauty product which was the 'Ultra colour Lip Crayon' in Risque rose which cost £5.75. I loved the colour however was a little disappointed with the product as a whole. I found it very drying on my lips and it didn't stay on very well. It may of been because I had slightly dry chapped lips already however I tried applying again with my lips in better condition but still had the same problem. For me it wasn't worth buying.

When I ordered all these things, Avon had a deal on which is unfortunately not on now which was if you spent over £5 on certain lip products you could order a free makeup bag with a lip-gloss and nail varnish in complementary colours (I went for 'Natural Nudes'). Even though you can't buy the makeup bag I think you can get both the lip-gloss and nail varnish separately however they don't say what shade they are in which is a bummer but if you search hard enough you will probably be able to find them.

This lip-gloss is amazing and is definitely a purchase I would make in the future and feels so luscious on my lips. The lip-gloss is in a dark coral colour. (UPDATE: I found out the exact shade and it is 'Nude muse')

If you know me by now you will know that I am not a lover of nail polish however I tried out this Nail Pro+ nail polish in 'Naked Truth' and found it was so easy to apply and to take off. The Nail Polish is gel like so gives a nice shine. I plan on painting my Nails more often when I go to college as the rules will be more relaxed and I plan to start off with this colour as it is in a subtle shade.

Nail Polish Tip: If you want to speed up the drying process you can use your hair dryer on its coolest setting and blow it over the nails until dry. It saved a good 5 minutes of my time!

This pendant is one of the newest items in the Avon Catalog and I have worn it a few times already including for my 16th Birthday Which you can see me wearing HERE. 'The Julienne Pendant' was £7.00.