Fair Lady? Can I be a naughty lady instead?! (Lush My Fair Lady)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush My Fair Lady
Date:	02/07/09 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Has a selection of great products

Disadvantages: None

My mother like me loves Lush. Everytime I come home with a Lush bag she is the first one to dive into it and see what goodies I've come home with! I've even found a few of my items missing and end up in her bathroom! So as it was recently her birthday I wanted to give her something I knew she'd enjoy! Lush was the perfect result and as was the choice of gift! I happen to be quite lazy and buying a gift already wrapped is my idea of heaven!

Fair Lady is a brightly coloured gift, with floral wrapping paper which is incredibly thick and resistent! All topped off with a bow and its tag detailing its contents. And of course it is filled to the brim with popcorn! Which by the way goes out to the birds! I chose Fair Lady because I have tried all the products and have enjoyed most of them and I thought my mother would too!


Fair Lady Contains:- A Ring of Roses Butter Cream 100g, Honey I washed the Kids, Fair Trade Foot Lotion, Therapy Massage Bar, The Olive Branch Shower Gel 100 ml.

A Ring of Roses

Unlike most of the Butter Creams, even when Ring Of Roses is left out on a dish sans refrigeration of any sort, it maintains its solidity, making it perfectly easy to use (and travel with). Essentially, Ring Of Roses is a soft, pink, creamy soap - but one that comes to you covered in red rose petals, looking like some sort of beauteous gift to be bestowed upon Cleopatra.

As soon as you get this thing home, get those lovely little petals the heck out of there, will ya'? Otherwise, by way of their own natural moisture, they will be quick to turn moldy while embedding (deeply) a green-hued grossness into your soap. And be prepared to scrape the petals off with a knife; they're slimy and will just leech onto your hands.

Once you get past all of this prerequisite nastiness, though, you're in for a fragrant delight. As long as those petals didn't rot into your slice of Ring Of Roses, you'll get a lovely fragrance of rose and lemon - much like that of the beloved Amandopondo Bubble Bar. And like the majority of Lush's soaps, it does manage to give you a decent amount of lather and fragrance, even if it isn't particularly moisturising, at least not to the degree you might expect from something called a "Butter Cream." In fact, it appears by way of effect that the only things that make Ring Of Roses a "Buttercream" is that it happened to be given a fancier name, a fancier presentation, and a fancier price than its soapy peers.

Honey I washed the Kids:-

Okay, do you remember the taste of Worthers Original? Well, that flavour is exactly how Honey I Washed the Kids smells (and it's even the same colour, too!) So suffice it to say that if you loved those sweets, you'll love this soap (with honey, bergamot, & orange as its fragrant foundation) to no end. You'll also love Soft Coeur massage bar, Ma Bar bubble bar, and perhaps Honey Bee ballistic, as well.

Once showered & dry, the lingering scent on your skin will be quite subtle, which is perfect if you're not generally accustomed to draping your body in ultra-sweet fragrances. Honey is amazingly good for soothing & smoothing the skin (credit Egypt for this discovery, not me) and Lush uses its every advantage to the full here. Speaking of honey, like many Lushies I, too, was at first a bit perplexed as to what could be done with the thin layer of decorative honeycomb on top. But then I found the perfect solution: use it to
gently pumice your dry heels whilst showering. Works wonders, this!

Fair Trade Foot Lotion:-

"Fair Trade," they called it, but while the cocoa butter used in this lotion is indeed fair trade, it's my opinion that we fans did not get a fair trade! A decent foot lotion that pales in comparison to the simple, cheap application of a Vitamin E capsule to feet each night (best healer on earth, that), I've only ever found one draw to pricier foot lotions: something with a perkily cooling, anti-inflammatory effect.

Fair Trade has a candied mint fragrance, and so, that tingly feeling of yore is no more. Additionally, though it's coloured pink much like Mark's original lotion (he created Peppermint Foot Lotion at The Body Shop) Fair Trade's dyes have a tendency towards staining fabric; you have to be ultra cautious hen applying this lotion with trousers on, and equally careful while this lotion is still on your hands, as everything it touches turns pretty in pink. So make sure you thoroughly massage this lotion into your skin, and note that when liberally applied as an intensive vernight treatment, it will permanently stain your moisture booties!

With all of this need for additional care, and without the cooling ensation that one has come to expect from a mint lotion, my advice is to save yourself a "mint" by heading to a health food store and icking up a bottle of those Vitamin E capsules for half the price. Religiously apply one capsule nightly, bid hardened heels a permanent "adieu" (they'll be altogether cured within one or two days, after which the rest really comes down to basic maintenance), and spend your saved pennies on a pot of Mask Of Magnaminty for occasional use as a cooling, exfoliating foot, ankle, and lower leg mask to relieve swelling and to soothe your joints and muscles after a long day's work (or a long flight). You'll be mighty glad you did.

Therapy

Imagine wearing lavender perfume while eating a slice of lemon crème pie. That's the scent of Therapy in a nutshell (er, pie crust). Therapy is not only excellent as a massage bar (especially effective at calming the mind--hence the name), but if you learn to apply this fast-melting bar sparingly, it also makes a wonderful daily body lotion. (Remember: a little goes a loooong way. If you apply too much, you're destined to make a McDonald's fry vat look oil-free.)

The cocoa & shea butters nourish your skin & enhance its elasticity. As a result, Therapy is actually quite good at preventing stretch marks. (But that's not to say it rids you of them completely! That would be impossible and any product that makes such a claim is straight-up lying!) For example, I've been losing (truckloads of) weight and had begun to notice quite a few spankin' new tears on my skin.

Since adopting Therapy as part of my daily regimen, far fewer new stretch marks have been appearing despite my continuing to lose weight at the same pace & primarily from the same areas of my body. And I'm genetically prone to severe stretch marks, so you'd think I'd be kayaking up Niagra Falls without a paddle in this case. Not so now that I've started Therapy.

The Olive Branch

The Olive Branch shower gel smells a lot like fizzy orange soda. With mandarin, lemon, bergamot, and orange flower, it has an uplifting zing with the occasional note of masculinity thanks to antioxidant-rich vine leaf and olive oil lending a slightly greener air to the sunshiny mix. Not to mention you get the feeling that there's a bit of musky spryness contained in the secret "perfume" ingredient, as well.

This makes The Olive Branch an excellent shower gel for luring men into Lushland; it's essentially a unisex fragrance that leans ever so slightly towards the sparkling scent of men's cologne. And it leaves quite a bit of that sporty deliciousness in its post-shower

wake, especially when used a shampoo. Moving beyond fragrance, The Olive Branch is an unusually watery gel: even moreso than Sonic Death Monkey.

Yet though it's next to impossible to get just a little being that it runs out of the bottle so quickly (and shaking the bottle first doesn't do much to thicken its consistency), a little does indeed go a long way. Just a few drops will lather your body and hair fabulously, leaving both feeling soft and smooth: olive oil is packed with nourishing, moisturizing vitamin E, one of the great anti- agers, and when combined with lemon and mandarin, hair (especially normal to oily) is given shine, scalp and skin are toned and all

of the above are left looking at least 30 minutes younger!

What Lush says:-

"A bunch of flower gifts for your own fair lady.
In My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins first met Eliza Dolittle outside the Covent Garden Opera House when Covent Garden was still a flower market. Now that it's a post-modern shopping palace, you can buy Lush products - they are lovely things made with floral essential oils. In honour of Eliza, beautifully played by Audrey Hepburn, we present you with My Fair Lady, a floral gift to present to a fair lady of your own".

Fair Lady is available in store and online and costs £22.42 which is around the medium mark for Lush's gifts, however it is one of the cheaper gifts, but happens to be the one with the best products in! And its a great selection of products! Like all of Lush gifts, you tend to pay more for the wrapping but I think any woman would be pleased to get this!

Summary: Ideal birthday gift!