How I love a Chirpy Christmas!! (Lush Chirpy Christmas)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Chirpy Christmas
Date:	09/06/09 (32 review reads)
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Advantages: Full of lovely products

Disadvantages: Its no longer available

Every Christmas I tend to treat myself to a Lush gift box, its my end of year treat that I give to myself for a hard years work has been completed! Yes to some this may seem over indulgent and a bit ridiculous but for me I work hard all year round and I think treating myself is a way of saying good job! Lush is my luxury and I very rarely buy myself new clothes or shoes unlike some women as my hard earned money goes into my savings! Lush always bring out a huge range of Christmas gift boxes every year and sometimes it does make for a hard decision!!

I discovered Chirpy back in 2004 and the reason why I remember this date was because I was working in a town where a Lush store had opened that year and fortunately I happened to work only 2 minutes walking distance away! My luck could never of been better! However I now work where the nearest is by car and takes about 25 minutes!! Chirpy was a success in 2004 and therefore was brough back for a second year in 2005. Therefore I will be reviewing both the 2004 and 2005 gift boxes. As sad as it seems I happen to still keep the gift tags of all Lush and B gifts I receive!

Chirpy 2004 Contains:- Christmas Party, Kissletoes, Mr. Butterball Snowman Ballistics, Christmas Cracker Bubble Bar, and Snowcake Soap

Chirpy Christmas was wrapped in bright green paper decorated with robins and tied with a red satin bow. It's absolutely adorable, in red and green it still manages to get the point across loud and clear, with its emerald and scarlet coloured Christmas Cracker Bubble Bar scented with winter spiced oranges (a similar fragrance to Red Rooster Soap), plus a plastic star-filled (or as I like to call it, "shrapnel" filled), champagne Christmas Party Bath Ballistic, and a cinnamon Kissletoes Bath Ballistic, both of which will often smell delicious until they hit the bathwater, at which time, you have approximately 5 minutes to enjoy their deliciousness before it altogether disappears. (But you can simply use them together in one bath; they make an excellent bath cocktail!)

And the musky, skin-softening, cocoa butter filled Mr. Butterball Snowman, on the other hand, is simple perfection. If ever there were a man you should consider leaving your boyfriend/husband for, this is the one. (Oh nonono...that was not a joke. I'm being quite serious, ladies!) Likewise, Snowcake Soap is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser with its almond fragrance, and not your typical almond fragrance, either. This one smells like marzipan, only better, if that is at all possible!

And another good thing about this gift is that all the fragrances are fairly unisex, (though you still might want to avoid giving it to mega-mucho-macho types who might find chirpy robins and a bath filled with multi-coloured stars to be a bit "girlie." Boys can be weird like that...). But at under £15.00 (so at the cheaper scale of Lush products) you can't really go wrong with it, even if the ballistics are a bit on the poor side.

Chirpy 2005 Contains:- Jingle Spells, Letters To Santa (candy or foam) Mr. Butterball Snowman Ballistics, Christmas Kisses Bubble Bar, & Snowcake Soap

Brought out again for 2005 Chirpy Christmas is wrapped in light blue (blue?! when did this become a Christmas colour?!) paper with little robins all over it. At least in 2004, this bird-decorated paper was a festive bright green with a red bow.

But once you open it, all of the traditional scents of Christmas practically leap out of the box, giving you the shock and awe performance of a lifetime. These gorgeous smelling products include the cinnamon, clove, orange, and vanilla Christmas Kisses Bubble Bar (which gives you a gorgeous red bath topped with bubbles galore), the vanilla musk Mr. Butterball Snowman (filled with chunks of cocoa butter to give you a spa-worthy body treatment), and a slice of perfection in the form of almond Snowcake Soap.

Then there's the flawlessly beautiful zinger of a purple juniperberry, tangerine, and peppered fennel Jingle Spells bath with its sparkling silver and gold stars, bath with this ball of gorgeousness and you'll feel like you're riding the violet spectrum of an Arctic aurora (with cocktail glass in hand, considering that juniperberry is a fruity component of gin.) I swear to you, it's a practical guarantee that your gift recipient (whether male or female) will fall in love with every single one those products!

But then...you have the cinnamon, orange, and clove Letters To Santa Bath Ballistic. This is where things get a bit dodgy. If you buy this gift from Lush North America, you'll likely get a brownish-green bath (guaranteed to stain everything it touches) with three candy letters that do nothing but turn into miserable blobs of goo. If you buy this gift from Lush UK, you'll get a lovely spring green bath with several large foam letters that you can stick to the side of the tub. (And while Lush goes so far as to say that you can form words with them, you really only get 3 or so of these letters, so don't get your hopes up.) Now the only reason I know why Lush North America recieved candy letters and an awful looking bath is that I actually recommened this to my cousin over in Memphis, I told her to rush out and buy it as soon as she could! Unfortunately this ballistic gave pretty poor results!

Now don't get me wrong, Letters To Santa smells delicious, this entire gift smells delicious, with every individual fragrance complimenting the others perfectly! But before your giftee becomes besotted with their Letters To Santa based on scent alone (and that's certainly easy to do), please be sure to warn them about the potentially disappointing visuals!

To be fair to Lush though they cannot make items which appeal to everybody and I am sure that someone out there enjoyed their bath with Letters to Santa. But for me I wasn't best please with the overall effects. Unfortunately Chirpy was not brought back again despite much debate from the Lush community but I guess Christmas is a huge holiday for Lush and bringing out new products for this time of year is the up most important to Lush and I guess that an item has to sell extroadinarily well for it to be remade. I would however say that if Lush ever bring it out then buy it, it is definately worth a try and hopefully Lush will use some of their better xmas products! A good point is that Chirpy was one of the cheaper Lush gifts so proved a popular choice in gifts to people!

Summary: A really little pick me up!