A moment of girly, girly lust.
All right: if you've been reading this journal for any length of time, you know that I'm a total Lush Cosmetics addict. I admit it. I use my products carefully (I choose them even more carefully), I enjoy them greatly, and I take my time going through what I have...but that doesn't make me any less addicted. Right now, my hair smells of Big, Cynthia Sylvia Stout and American Cream, my body smells of Flying Fox, and the skin on my face is soft and clean thanks to the tender efforts of Love Lettuce. All hail Lush.
In cruising around the Lush boards last night, I caught mention of someone visiting one of the London stores and trying 'the new balms'. Since there's only one balm currently available in North America, I went over to examine the UK Lush website, hoping for edification.
I am edified. There are three new balms. There is one re-formulated balm. And I want all four of these balms in the North American shops right now.
Party On -- reformulated.
Party On Temple Balm is peppermint, caffeine, rosemary and assorted citrus. It wakes you up, peps you up, and makes your headache go away. This stuff is my salvation on the mornings where I couldn't sleep the night before, because it makes me happy and less homicidal. Not just my salvation, come to think of it. They've reformulated it to add more peppermint oil, and hence more immediate 'zing' than you used to get. I could use some zing. I won't get this 'til I use up the last of my original batch, but darn it, I want the option.
Flying Fox.
Flying Fox Shower Gel is my favourite Lush shower gel. It's sweet and warming and smells of honey and jasmine, and these are all things that I consider to be very, very nice. It's also calming, relaxing, and makes PMS pretty much exit the building -- anything that makes me civil is a wonderful thing to have on hand. And now they've gone and made Flying Fox Temple Balm, and I want it to carry with me always and smear on people who need a mellow break. Kamikaze killer attack aromatheraphy totally rules when it's that or an act of violence.
Woosh.
Woosh Temple Balm is, supposedly, named after the sound that deadlines make when they go flying by. I can respect this. This balm has lime, lemon, grapefruit, rosemary and geranium, to pep you up without blasting you off like Party On, focus you, clear your mind, and enable you to stalk and kill those deadlines through the wilds of the Sahara desert. I haven't used this particular oil combination before, so for all I know, it doesn't work at all, but the concept? The concept totally rocks my tiny world, and I hope the execution is as good.
Dream Time.
They've gone and turned the Dream Time Bath Melt into a temple balm, with the same (incredibly, insanely effective) mix of ginger, jasmine, sandalwood and chamomile. Rub this stuff on your pulse points and the odds are more than reasonably good that it's abruptly going to be tomorrow. I have bouts of insomnia, but I've found that sleepy baths don't work for me, since I can't fall asleep when damp and drying myself off wakes me up again. This is like 'bathtub in a tiny little tin', and I want it right now, by the literal gallon.
That's all they've made so far, but...isn't it enough?
Want.
In cruising around the Lush boards last night, I caught mention of someone visiting one of the London stores and trying 'the new balms'. Since there's only one balm currently available in North America, I went over to examine the UK Lush website, hoping for edification.
I am edified. There are three new balms. There is one re-formulated balm. And I want all four of these balms in the North American shops right now.
Party On -- reformulated.
Party On Temple Balm is peppermint, caffeine, rosemary and assorted citrus. It wakes you up, peps you up, and makes your headache go away. This stuff is my salvation on the mornings where I couldn't sleep the night before, because it makes me happy and less homicidal. Not just my salvation, come to think of it. They've reformulated it to add more peppermint oil, and hence more immediate 'zing' than you used to get. I could use some zing. I won't get this 'til I use up the last of my original batch, but darn it, I want the option.
Flying Fox.
Flying Fox Shower Gel is my favourite Lush shower gel. It's sweet and warming and smells of honey and jasmine, and these are all things that I consider to be very, very nice. It's also calming, relaxing, and makes PMS pretty much exit the building -- anything that makes me civil is a wonderful thing to have on hand. And now they've gone and made Flying Fox Temple Balm, and I want it to carry with me always and smear on people who need a mellow break. Kamikaze killer attack aromatheraphy totally rules when it's that or an act of violence.
Woosh.
Woosh Temple Balm is, supposedly, named after the sound that deadlines make when they go flying by. I can respect this. This balm has lime, lemon, grapefruit, rosemary and geranium, to pep you up without blasting you off like Party On, focus you, clear your mind, and enable you to stalk and kill those deadlines through the wilds of the Sahara desert. I haven't used this particular oil combination before, so for all I know, it doesn't work at all, but the concept? The concept totally rocks my tiny world, and I hope the execution is as good.
Dream Time.
They've gone and turned the Dream Time Bath Melt into a temple balm, with the same (incredibly, insanely effective) mix of ginger, jasmine, sandalwood and chamomile. Rub this stuff on your pulse points and the odds are more than reasonably good that it's abruptly going to be tomorrow. I have bouts of insomnia, but I've found that sleepy baths don't work for me, since I can't fall asleep when damp and drying myself off wakes me up again. This is like 'bathtub in a tiny little tin', and I want it right now, by the literal gallon.
That's all they've made so far, but...isn't it enough?
Want.