One bad butterfly! (Lush Butterfly Gift)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Butterfly Gift
Date:	10/07/09 (61 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: The items look pretty in the box!

Disadvantages: Certain items make your bath tub a mess

Lush do create some fantastic gifts and then they create gifts which really shouldnt be created whatsoever! And unfortunately Butterfly is one such gift that shouldn't of been created! It contains a bunch of useless items which end up causing such a mess in your tub which will then result on having to clean the bath tub vigorously after your bath!

I first noticed this gift whilst on a trip to the USA last year. It certainly caught my eye with its beautiful pink and blue butterfly wrapping paper together with its butterfly tag. However this is where my excited ended. I read the items included in this gift and promptly put it down back on its shelf! I'm not a fan of my bath products containing dead flowers purely because they don't look appealing once floating around in the water!

Contains:- English Countryside, Tisty Tosty, Amandopondo and A French Kiss.

English Countryside:-

If you are looking for a bath ballistic stuffed full of dead flowers and that you want your bath water turn a murky green then this is the ballistic for you! Oh and even better it creates a neon green foam as its fizzing around in your bath! As the bomb melts, small pieces of flowers float up to the surface of the tub creating an odd watery flower garden this is supposed to be appealing!

The flowers within English Countryside are far from fresh. They are brown, and rolled in a way that makes them look like tiny insects! Nothing more disgusting than imagining you are bathing in sewer water with crap floating around your naked body. Insect looking flowers are not the only nasty little surprise secretly hidden within English Countryside. This ballistic is also stuffed full of confetti butterflies, which due to the confetti getting wet instantly you can't actually tell that its butterflies at all! They just make a mess in the plug hole!

Now that isn't the only bad thing about this ballistic! Its scent is also pretty poor too. Lush set an image of being able to smell a sweet, floral, fragrant scent , as it has geranium, orris and sandalwood. However instead of this summer fragrance you don't much of anything at all and what you do get is pretty powdery. All in all this is a pretty poor ballistic and I wonder why Lush ever made this!

Tisty Tosty:-

I've really never gotten what everyone loves about Tisty Tosty, yet it's always on Lush's "best sellers" list. Perhaps the reason is simpler than I think: like me, people keep buying it over and over again, assuming they're somehow missing out on some aspect of its greatness, as if surely they're the only person in the world doing so.

Like most Bath Ballistics, Tisty Tosty is indeed a wonderful skin conditioner, making your body feel silky smooth to the point where narcissistically stroking yourself becomes an intervention-worthy addiction. But this aside, it doesn't add even a smidgeon of scent nor compensatory colour to your bathing experience. Tisty Tosty's only exclusive claim to fame is a visually provocative romantic swagger: it's heart shaped and contains 7 rosebuds which float along the bland water's surface.

All in, Tisty Tosty sorta reminds me of most men I've dated: he looks an awful lot like prince charming when we first meet, but then once I get to know him, I have no idea what enraptured me in the first place.

Amandopondo:-

As far as bubble bars go, this unpretentiously elegant ivory "cake" with a single ruby red rosebud on top is nothing short of understated perfection. The sensually seductive scent of rose is offset by the breezy innocence of refreshing lemon oil, lending a pleasant air of contradiction and leaving you torn between the recollection of summer days playing outdoors (complete with scuffed knees) as a young girl, and midsummer nights indoors playing the role of seductive feminine icon as a woman.

According to Lush, Amandopondo means "I'm defeated," and this Bubble Bar was designed to be a gesture of peace when we've done something we regret. In my opinion, Amandopondo is the perfect tribute to the gradual, lifelong blossom of womanhood--celebrating everything from where we've been to where we are now, and the limitless potential of where we can go from here. As Edith Piaf once sang, "je ne regrette rien": for those who cling to regret for past mistakes (which are all part of the growing process, ya' know), this bath will be certain to wash them away: while rose pulls your head out of the past, lemon renews your spirit, momentarily releasing all the baggage you've collected on your journey thus far.

French Kiss:-

In the event that your only French Kiss experience has been with those sad, fuchsia & white blobs of mush in North American Lush shops, I'm here to tell ya' that the French Kiss bubble bar is supposed to be purple & white, shaped like a tall, twisting Hershey's Kiss, with an elegant sprig of lavender serving as it's li'l tag. (Psst! You can find "real" French Kiss bubble bars in the UK!) Based on Lush's descriptions, you might expect this Bubble Bar to smell of lavender, but in reality, lavender's voice gets drowned to a whisper.

This bath primarily owes its fragrance to the potency of fresh rosemary and thyme, both providing a crisp green salad herb aroma. (Hence, I like to call it The Provincial Brunch Bath.) Personally, I like this unique twist on the typical lavender bath, especially as these herbs work the same way in the bath as they do in food: warming in winter, refreshing in summer. Yet while the scent is intriguing, by the time your body settles into the water, you'll often find French Kiss's bubbles are fading fast; even "churning" new bubbles using your shower nozzle can fail to produce a compensatory froth.

This is highly unusual for a Lush Bubble Bar; in a mere 5-10 minutes, you're left with little more than 1 or 2 floating lavender sprigs. (Though if you're bug phobic, you might want to leave them out of the water, as the seeds tend to break away from the stem, looking like small insects cruising the water's surface.)

What Lush say:-

"Sweetly sensual for someone very special
A Butterfly Kiss is a soft, sensual touch on the cheek with your eyelashes (someone else's cheek, naturally). You'd only do that to someone you're really close to and we suggest that you reserve this Butterfly Kiss for people you're fond of too. Don't go giving Tisty Tosties and French Kisses away unless you really mean it! It could lead to all kinds of misunderstandings."

This pretty poor gift costs $30.95 (£19.10 as of 10th July 09) which I think is pretty darn expensive for a gift which I personally think is awful. However this is my own opinion and people may absolutely adore these items! Maybe it is a good thing that this isn't available in the UK!

Summary: Its a good job its not available in the UK