I'm Happy! (Lush Happy Talk Lip Balm)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Happy Talk Lip Balm
Date:	13/08/09 (20 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Smells great & softens the lips

Disadvantages: No longer available & poor pots!

My handbag always contains a Lush lip balm, regardless of whether I'm on a night out or having a day in the office I just don't seem complete without my little cheap tin of goodness! Lush have an ample range of lip balms and yes some are really not that great but there are others which really do make you buy over and over again! One of these is Happy Talk which is now unfortunately unavailable unless you go to Lush India who still have it on sale!

Lush describes this as their coffee scented Lip Balm, which is supposed to "taste like Italian espresso with two sugars and remind us of Milan in springtime." But really, it could be better described as nut and spice flavoured coffee -- the kind you get at Starbucks where they've added so much flavoured syrup that you can barely taste the coffee anymore. Saying that I probably could ask for my coffee without the syrup!

Because what you ultimately get from Happy Talk is a delicious whiff of hazelnuts, almonds, and walnuts mixed with cinnamon and clove, more coffee cake than coffee. Basically coffee is not even listed in Lush's ingredients - strange aye! Plus, Happy Talk is not all that "flavoured" for better or worse, think along the lines of walking into your mum's kitchen after she's spent the day making "hands off" coffee cakes, they smell fabulous, but you can't taste them (unless, of course, you're interested in feeling your mother's wrath.

But if your mum is anything like my mum, you know that your life would depend on limiting your homemade cake fetish to nothing more than a brief inhalation and a private drool). Such is life, so we can't have our cake and eat it, too. What else is new?

Besides, the real disappointment lies in the fact that though Happy Talk is a wonderfully smooth, creamy balm, its moisturising effects are unreasonably short-lived, requiring frequent reapplication, and this from a cheap, fiddly tin that can be an absolute nuisance to handle. Now I can quite easily cope with re-application it doesn't bother me however the cheap tin does and Lush have still failed to have a tin which easily opens, god forbid that you slightly damage your tin in your handbag and you will find yourself having a full blown argument with this tin because it just will not be opened!

But much credit to Lush, they'll evidently soon be doing away with these tins, having finally come to their senses. Yes, they've recently decided to go back to their user-friendly screw-lidded clear plastic pots. Can I get an "Allelujah!" over here, please? But I have been hearing this for just over a year now and I am still yet to see these wonderful plastic pots which were originally used, so maybe one day Lush will surprise us all!

What Lush say:-

"For coffee flavoured shine The name comes from the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, South Pacific. If you know the song, you'll now be driving all your friends and colleagues nuts singing it all day. Talking of nuts, Happy Talk is flavoured with hazelnut paste and softens your lips with walnut oil. It's one of our extremely glossy lip balms and it tastes of spicy, nutty coffee".

Happy Talk is one of those lip balms which Lush did away with and I really don't understand why considering it was a best seller. But anyway...there are plenty more to choose from and they come in at around £4.00 which is more expensive than your Vaseline tin but they are a bit more fun!

Summary: Keeps you happy all day long!