I'm going to stay home! (Lush You Shall Go To The Ball)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush You Shall Go To The Ball
Date:	09/06/09 (36 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It looks lovely

Disadvantages: Items are a complete let down

As I have recently been reviewing Christmas products and gift products I thought its only fair to combin the two the review a Christmas gift box! Again as I have said in all the holiday/ gift reviews Lush bring certain gifts out for certain times of the year which are limited edition and are available just before the certain holiday. Normally as soon as the holiday has gone Lush whisks all remaining gifts off the shelves, Id really like to know what they do with them! Or like last Christmas they do an offer where you have to spend over a certain amount and you get a free gift!!

You Shall Go To The Ball is one of the gifts I have received from my brother whn it was brought out in 2005. Knowing that I like Lush he found it incredibly easy to find a gift for me that Christmas. I think personally he randomly chose a gift box and bought it! I was of course very thankful to him! Sometimes Lush's gifts are hit and miss, some you get with wonderful products which you can't wait to use and others contain items which you'd rather leave on the shelf and You Shall Go To The Ball could probably remain on the shelf for me! You Shall Go To The Ball comes in the usual square sized box wrapped in a heavy duty patterned wrapping paper (think stilletos, disco balls) and tied with a lovely satin bow. Visually appealing and very girly!

It Contained:- Christmas Party Bath Ballistic, Ruby Red Slippers Bubble Bar Slice, 100g Fair Trade Foot Lotion, Shimmy Shimmy Massage Bar, Ultimate Shine Shampoo Bar, 100g Snow Fairy Shower Gel, and Party On Temple Balm

With the revival of disco-era fashion (instant images of neon and leg warmers spring to mind!) and music, what trendier gift could there be than Lush's You Shall Go To The Ball, wrapped in the colours of discotheque lighting, complete with glitter balls and sparkling sequined stilletto
dancing shoes? They do say that you shouldn't judge a book by the cover! But when you get right down to it, though its a decent gift for the most part, once unwrapped, the strobe-lit dance floor can occasionally appear a bit empty despite Lush's every effort to get the crowd onto their feet.

In preparation for dancing the night away, you can bath with an exquisitely bejeweled, height-of-perfection Ruby Red Slippers Bubble Bar, enveloping yourself in the spicy, heady scent of carnations, seductive roses, and refreshing tangerines, but don't expect to be glittering once you ascend from her red/orange waters. So glitters haters you are safe as hardly any of the glitter actually stays on your skin, just make sure you wash your tub out first as you may be left with a orange ring which has cemented itself forever.

You can wash your hair with the gold glimmering Ultimate Shine Shampoo Bar, but don't expect to find a single sparkle in your shiny locks once it's rinsed away (again this is ideal for those glitter phobes out there, but why did Lush put glitter in it?!). You can shower with Snow Fairy's pink and iridescent "fairy" dusted watermelon, cotton candy, and banana scented gel, though you won't find any iridescence on your baby soft body once it's rinsed away. I'm starting to wonder why Lush puts glitter in them at all! It is a shame especially for so called Christmas products!!

To compensate for the lack of enduring bedazzlement in the prior three products, you can cover yourself in a gold, pink, and pastel green shimmer, the predominant colour always changing with the light's reflection, using Shimmy Shimmy Massage Bar, which will douse your entire life in ultra-fine glitter for up to a week. And then in the wee morning hours, when you return from the club and kick off your Studio 54 stillettos, you can rub a bit of pink peppermint and spearmint Fair Trade Foot Lotion onto your tortured tootsies, though you should take care not to get this staining lotion on fabric, especially if you're going to slather it on as an intensive overnight treatment. I have previously reviewed Fair Trade and I have decided it certainly was not for me!

As for the remaining two products in this gift, well, you could head off to a big bash somewhere, taking a weak champagne mimosa scented bath in muddy brownish-peach water filled with throwing stars and what feels like shards of glass in the form of bombed-out shrapnel if you'd like (if your lucky alot of stars will fall off before you get to use it!). And once you've partied yourself to exhaustion and need an aromatherapeutic boost to keep you going, you could apply a bit of Party On Temple Balm to your pulse points, only to smell lemons for a mere three to five minutes before they altogether disappear, serving positively no purpose at all whatsoever. And of course, you could keep reapplying this balm in desperate frustration until your temples begin to pay tribute to Grease more than they do Saturday Night Fever. I have a simple hatred for temple balms as I just don't get any satisfaction from them at all, however my brother was not to know this so his gift was given a "thank you so much, it's lovely" whilst being said through gritted teeth and a false smile!!

What Lush say:-

"As every man knows,when he hears the call "I'll be ready in five minutes" there's time to switch on the television and watch an entire episode
of Friends or the West Indies bowl four overs.You Shall Go to the Ball contains seven magicalpreparations to get you ready for the party of
the year. Unfortunately it lacks any way to speed up girly getting ready time"

It's such a shame that Lush created such a let down of a Christmas gift. For those who had never tried Lush I'm sure they would of been impressed in receiving such a lovely gift but for those Lushettes who have been die hard Lush fans for years no doubt they were all thinking the same as me! I'm glad to say that it is no longer available anymore and for those who have not tried it fear not you certainly have not missed anything!!!

Summary: Fortunately this is no longer available