Glitterific! (Lush Shimmy Shimmy Glitterbug Massage Bar)

Member Name: LittleEwok

Product:	Lush Shimmy Shimmy Glitterbug Massage Bar
Date:	28/04/05 (137 review reads)
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Advantages: Glitter!, More Glitter!, Yet more glitter!

Disadvantages: Some people dont like glitter!

Us girls love a bit of glitter, whether we admit to it or not, and Lush have been quick to cash in on this. They have a huge range of glittery bath ballistics, with more still coming out at Christmas, and now they have a new, fabby glittery product. Lush’s Glitterbugs are a range of little bars of solid moisturiser with different coloured glitter through. Fantastic both for partying and keeping skin silky soft and smooth, they are yet another fantabulous and innovative Lush products. Described as a massage bar, which it really isn’t in the traditional sense, here’s the deal on the Shimmy Shimmy Glitterbug…


Ingredients

Cocoa butter, pink glitter, Shea butter, perfume, vanilla absolute, clary sage oil, lavender oil, benzoic resinoid.

As usual for Lush, this glitterbug is low on artificial ingredients. The cocoa butter and shea butter are there for moisturising, and of course the glitter there to make you shine! The resin would probably be used to bind the item together, and the vanilla, clary sage and lavender give the bug its sweet scent.


What it looks like

Shimmy Shimmy Glitterbug is a little 30g lump shaped as a lop-sided white heart shaped soap. You can see the lovely pink sparkly stuff all through it. Its all very cute and girly!


The scent

Shimmy Shimmy has a gorgeous delicate scent that is sweet and fruity with just a hint of floral tones to it. The vanilla is the strongest scent, and I’m addicted to this stuff as I’m a huge fan of the smell of vanilla. The smell is detectable but subtle on the skin, its nice and sweet but not too overpowering. If you are wearing it out and about (and lets face it you will be unless your boss can tolerate mass amounts of glitter in the workplace), you might want to consider applying it fairly lightly if your wearing perfume, you wouldn’t want to clash! However, you might find that Shimmy Shimmy goes quite well with sweet, fruity smelling perfumes, and anything that smells slightly of vanilla or coconut.


Applying it

Basically you glide the dry Glitterbug over your arms, cleavage and anywhere else you want glitter! You might consider avoiding your face as the moisturising elements in the Glitterbug are probably a bit heavy for your facial skin. It feels lovely to apply, the bug glides smoothly over your skin and leaves it feeling silky soft and wonderfully glittery!


Wearing it

One problem with Shimmy Shimmy is that the glitter sticks to your skin forever. Use it once and you will still be finding glitter on your arms six or seven baths later. Some people love this, but your boss might wonder why you are wearing pink glitter all over your arms when you go into work! The glitter might also attach itself to your clothes, your friends or your boyfriend…the latter tend to get rather upset when their manly arms are covered in pink glitter. Just tell them it’s a little reminder of you. Aside from this, Shimmy Shimmy is great to wear. The glitter is fairly subtle and not too over the top unless you use up a whole bar on yourself, and better still, it makes your skin as soft as silk for the entire evening. Bonus!


The price

At £2.90 for 30grams, Shimmy Shimmy is one of Lush’s more reasonable products. Unless you want to be a glitter fiend every day of your life, the product will last you ages. In fact the chances are it will go out of date before you use it all up, so get Shimmying!


All in all Shimmy Shimmy is a fantastic fun item for girlies (or girly boys!) Unlike a lot of Lush stuff its really good value for money, and as far as I’m concerned we all need a bit of glitter in our lives!

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