Wild? Pansy more like! (Lush Wild Child)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Wild Child
Date:	02/07/09 (41 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: The gift wrap is nice!

Disadvantages: Dud products

Wild Child is one of those gifts which is uber popular around the globe with Lush but for me this gift is rather poor. It doesn't really contain any items which really jump out at you and you certainly wouldn't buy any of them individually. If only Lush would realise that their gifts should be filled with some of their best selling items rather than items which sell "ok" but don't break the bank!

Wild Child is hardly wild at all in fact its running scared if you ask me! The wrapping paper however is quite rock chick, the graffiti multicoloured paper looks quite impressive (which probably lures people into buying it!) and again its made girly by the bow and tag!

Contains: Flosty Gritter, Yummy Yummy Yummy, Chocolate Whipstick, Rock Star, Up You Get

Flosty Gritter:-

Dear glitter haters, do not fear Flosty Gritter's glimmering pink disco ball appearance. Please cease to slowly step away from the Bubble Bar counter in the shop with a look of terror on your faces as though you've encountered a wild bear in the wilderness! Flosty may look scary to you folks, but she's actually quite friendly: a bright pink sparkle-free Bubble Bar that's merely had her surface bedazzled for decoration, Flosty gives you a bright fuchsia bath with mauved violet undertones covered by gigantic glaciers of bubbles that simply refuse to melt away.

Push those frothy white mountains to the side, and if you look very closely (and I mean very closely, being that the majority of Flosty's pink glitter sadly goes altogether unnoticed in the similarly coloured water), at light's will, you'll occasionally witness a fascinating flutter of iridescent fairy dust performing a mystical dance under the water's surface. And that's all there is to the glitter: what happens in the bath stays in the bath with not a single fleck of tell-tale twinkle on your body, and that's a promise.

The only evidence that you've taken a Flosty Gritter bath is the delicious spiced vanilla milkshake scent of Lush's much-loved American Cream Conditioner, which I've always believed makes a better perfume, as it seems unworthy of cruelly being relegated to mere hair care product status. And good thing, because unlike Christmas 2005's disappointing Twinkle Bath Ballistic of the same scent, Flosty Gritter's perfume lingers all night long, guaranteed to sensually satisfy bathers of every sort, even you frightened anti-glitter types who, in this case, have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Yummy Yummy Yummy:-

Lush's shower gels have always been a source of frustration to me. I can never find the right balance of moisture, scent, lather and texture in a scent I like. Perfectly pink in colour and to sniff out the bottle this has a lovely sweet scent however this is where the good points end. This is no typical shower gel, its more of a cream shower gel (or cream) and doesn't quite get the lather going however much you try.

Instead of the pretty, light fragrant scent you got when first sniffed, in the shower it turns in a sickly sweet, over the top honey fragrance which is good enough to make you feel quite ill. After I had gotten over the scent and I had appeared from the shower, the scent ends up quite subtle on the skin which isn't actually too bad and your skin does actually feel soft and moisturised. You get quite a bit for your money, but, unfortunately, half of it goes down the drain as the shower gel is very runny. I would compare the texture to whole milk, or heavy cream. The later is nonexistent as well.

Chocolate Whistick:-

Hardly exceptional even at the very best of times, Chocolate Whipstick merely provides decent preventative moisturisation with average endurance, best used under lip colour as a softening base. The consistency of this thick, emollient balm (which you should be careful not to over apply given that it does tend to leave an unsightly brownish-beige tint, hence my preference for using it under lip colour as opposed to allowing it to stand on its own) can be a bit unpredictable.

The majority of the pots I've owned from both Lush NA and Lush UK have provided a pasty, gritty finish, while the pot I received from Lush Japan is nothing short of creamy fudge icing goodness, with the delicious flavour of a Terry's Chocolate Orange. And as usual, the tin pots themselves are quite fiddly, I must say. Because the lid's lip comes down so low over the pot's base, you're left with very little anchorage to grab onto when it comes time to unscrew it. (My advice: put the pot in your palm, place one palm flatly over the other and then twist with your wrists. To close the pot, simply snap it
shut.)

Rock Star:-

Rock Star soap was created to smell exactly like the Creamy Candy Bubble Bar Slice and Luxury Bath Melt. All smell like bubble gum, namely a big, fresh piece of Bazooka (without the waxy comic strip.) Rock Star is strange, though: sometimes, at first sniff, you'll get all the childhood penny-candy scrumptiousness you bargained for and more.

Other times, you'll land a slice of Rock Star soap that has an overpowering, fake, medicine-like scent about it. Sure, you'll still smell bubble gum, but this soap is often a note or two off from exacting Creamy Candy's deliciousness. Plus, when you smell this soap in the store, it's potent. But in the shower, the scent can occasionally turn a bit shy in comparison to that of the Creamy Candy baths (which release a fragrance that would scent your skin for days on end if you'd let them).

Rock Star's lather is rich, fluffy, and pink-tinted, but while it certainly doesn't do anything bad to the skin, I also don't think it does an impressive world of good, either. Really, this soap strikes you as having been created solely for its scent, to make the Creamy Candy cult jump up and down with joy. (I'm a member of that cult, by the way, as is my roommate who leaves my house smelling of Creamy Candy at least 3 times a week.) And yet, this intended purpose takes us full circle, back to the issue of Rock Star's scent often being a less predictable, slightly mismatched artificial take on the Lush candy baths we know and love.

Up you get:-

An Emotibomb is the shower's equivalent to the Bath Bomb. Although I personally don't use them often, Lush is well known for their Bath Bombs, colorful balls that you toss into your bath that fizz and release bath oils and perfumes. Emotibombs were designed for those of us who prefer showers, but want a similar experience. They work the same way as a Bath Bomb, except that they are not round and the Emotibomb is tossed onto the shower floor, where it fizzes and releases mood enhancing fragrance. Up you Gets is ideal for those of us who have to be physically dragged out of the bed in the morning!

It is a citrusy lemon scented product that is supposed to help wake you up and get you moving in the morning. This cream-colored, oval-shaped bar is about 3 inches long with a happy person on it. I figured this scent would be perfectly suited for me. However this citrus scent revolves around lemon and you can hardly detect the wonderful lime and grapefruit but after a few minutes the scent completely disappears leaving you pretty much disappointed.

What Lush says:-

"The perfect small package for the party animal.
Even the wildest of party animals has to stop having fun and get into the shower occasionally. Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel cleans and soothes their hair and bodies, Rock Star soap offsets the scent of jeans which haven't seen the inside of a washing machine for a while. Up You Gets wakes them up for the next party and chocolate Whipstick softens their lovely pouty lips"

Wild Child costs £15.61 which to be fair to this gift, this isn't actually that bad! The lipbalm alone costs around £4.00. However I wouldn't really recommend this gift (unless you know the person likes the items) as there are quite a few other gifts that would be even better.

Summary: Just keeping on walking part this one!