Review: Lush - Lord of Misrule

 

This bath bomb, named after the ruler of the Pagan Feast of Fools, has a strange and magnificent fragrance created by Gorilla Perfumer Simon Constantine. This bomb will slowly dissolve to reveal a wine coloured centre, with the added sweetness of the world’s first fair trade vanilla absolute, perfectly balanced by the earthy scents of black pepper and patchouli oil - Lush.co.uk

This bath ballistic is from the Christmas 2013 Collection, it is new for this year. The first thing I noticed about this was the colour, a very green colour with random yellow and pink dots. There is a giant star shape on the top of this as well.

Another point which I think makes this quite unique is the amount of time it took to fizz away, it was well over ten minutes before this stopped fizzing around the bath. Also there is no bits in this one so you can use it without having to put it in a sock to save on the clean up.

First you get a green colour, then it breaks down and the centre which is a pink / red colour begins to spurt out of it. Then things start to get even weirder, there is popping candy inside and you can hear the crackling from that in the water for around five minutes.

The water ends up a grey / brown colour and with the earthy scents and crackling noises you being to feel as if you are sitting in a witches cauldron.

The scent of this bath ballistic is quite an earthy one (not a dirty soil smell though), the main scent is patchouli, some spiciness but there is definitely a softer side to that which I imagine is the vanilla. The scent does linger on your skin for a good couple of hours afterwards. 

This is quite a visually interesting bath ballistic, and it does take a good amount of time to fizz away to nothing and as such it something you will want to have a fair amount of time to watch and to use.

I would get this again, I hope that Lush bring this back again next year.

£3.30 - Lush

Nails: Black and Gold

W7 - Black
Models Own - Gold Rush
Bundle Monster 208

33 Day Nail Challenge: New Technique

There aren't a lot of nail art techniques I haven't tried, but something I have been meaning to try for a while is a 'jelly stampwich'. Being that in between the layers of the jelly (semi transparent) polish, I stamped some hands.

Base Polish: Color Club - Mrs Robinson
Stamping Polish: W7 - Black
Stamping Plate: MoYou - 72

Stamping Plate: QA28 aka Mustaches and Kisses

So this is the stamping plate with and without the protective sticker layer. This plate isn't lined so the edges are quite sharp so if you do purchase this be careful.

 

All of the images printed well, and are quite comical!

I had problems with the stamping above on one of the lip images but that was because I got some of my hair on the stamper. One of the moustache images didn't stamp well also but again that was down to my bad technique. You get 13 images which is great from one plate.

A couple of designs I did for Movember, I am sure in time I will have used some of the other images. Click here to see some of those.

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