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[labellementeuse]

Every time I walk past a Lush shop, I feel like the most ridiculous sort of girly-girl. I have in the past happily washed with Budget shampoo and conditioner, I've never dyed my hair, I cut it about once a year and blowdry every twelvth of never, I don't own moisturiser or any kind of hand or foot cream and as far as skincare goes I have a gel cleanser I never use. I do use liquid soap and I do try for something that smells good and I have been using the same type of shampoo and conditioner for nearly two years now, but that's the extent of my investment in the girly luxuries. I'm just way too lazy for anything else.

But Lush absolutely destroys me. For a very long time, for various reasons, I had almost no sense of smell. That got fixed a few years back, but for awhile in there Lush products were some of the few really great smells I could, well, smell. Now that I can actually smell them properly? oh my god take me now.

That said! Sometimes, my favourite thing about Lush is what you can tell about the people who buy them. For example, my mother just bought me two samples of Wow Wow mask, a big pot of Coconut and Almond Smoothie (which smells more like peanut butter Jelly Bellies to me, but hey), a tub of Marilyn (chamomile designed to smooth your hair and, with regular use, make it lighter; smells like beeswax. So yummy.), a bar of the citrus-y Happy, and one of You Snap the Whip.

From which I deduce! My mother wants me to be more assertive (I'm not sure you get much more assertive than me), have more "wow", be more happy, and... be like Marilyn Monroe. Which, I don't know, suicidal and married to Arthur Miller? Good call, mum. However, it all smells so great I don't really give a damn.

My life for the past few days has been defined by a sort of... temporal dislocation. When my dad came to pick me up on Thursday, it was the 28th of September. However, as related elsewhere, I was operating under the impression it was the 28th of October - the day before his birthday, so I baked him a birthday cake. The cake was damn good, mind you, but: "Isn't it your birthday tomorrow? ... no? ... It's not October?"

Then today I realised that it's not the last week of lectures! No, that's next week! This is excellent news.

Comments

[deutscheami.livejournal.com]

You Snap the Whip is so much fuuuun; it turns you blue! It's like being a Kiera Knightly warrior princess without the leather bondage gear!

I got hooked when I was in Berlin and there was a store right up the street and now that I'm back in the States where mail order is my only option, life is dull and smell-less.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I seriously can't wait to use it - I didn't want to unwrap them before I got home - but I love textured soaps. And bonus skin-turning-blue?! I'm totally excited now.

This wee gift package may actually be the end of me. I totally can't afford it to be the end of my resistance to their evilly gorgeous products, but... hey, term ends in a month and then I'm back to full-time work, so I'll completely be able to afford it!

:( I feel your pain, I really do. We only have six stores spread over three cities... fortunately (but lethally) in summer I work about three doors down. (It's also right next to de spa Chocolatier, which is... exactly what it sounds like. Holy expanding, delicious-smelling waistline, Batman!)

[kuril.livejournal.com]

I love the smell of lavender, so that's the kind of liquid soap I use. The fragrance lasts throughout the day. It's just nice enough that I don't mind paying extra for it. It's also oatmeal based, which my skin likes since it dries out too fast otherwise. But it doesn't come from a specialty shop. I can find it at any grocer here, but it is the most expensive of the soaps.

I wish I could pamper myself more :-)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

When I'm not killing myself browsing through Lush, I normally use St Ives Apricot or H2O, which are both great and not huuuugely expensive, or Lux Vanilla & Cinnamon. That one's slightly more expensive but it also smells real good, although not as good as Lush.

I like lavender too! When you get your money you should splash out on something really nice, you can totally afford it just once. (Besides. Imagine what the government would think of an ex-military spending their money on hand-made lavender soap or bath bombs from Lush, an all-vegan organisation that campaigns against animal testing. Although they are capitalist. ;))

[flotternz.livejournal.com]

LOL, that sounds exactly like me. I swear, Lush will be the death of me. At the moment I can't get enough of Sonic Death Monkey shower gel and Ma Bar bubble bars.

I need to get back there...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

oh my god chocolate shower gel. that would actually be the absolute end of me. I'd try to eat myself. it wouldn't be pretty. :D I like sharp/bright smells in the mornings anyway but... mmmmph.

Can't wait to move back to wellington where I don't have to go out of my way. *lazy*

[mipol.livejournal.com]

mm, I love the smell of that store!
I practically drool when I walk past it.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

It is so good. (It is also right next to de sp Chocolatier in Wellington. >.< it's a double delight!)

[kitsunerei88]

I didn't even know Lush existed until like, last year. I keep begging my boyfriend to buy me bath bombs xD.

Aww. Temporal dislocation sounds better than my last few days. I spent them feeling like an academic failure. ^^'' Because it turns out I'm not allowed to do a concurrent degree in sociology and earth science. Which means I need to completely switch my degree program, take physics over the summer, and dive into geophysics next year.

Could be worse. I could have to redo my entire first year.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

XD I hope that young man treats you right and, well, treats you!

I know you're just joking but, honey, you're not a real college student until you've spent months and months agonizing over your degree problem. I'm just amazed you figured out potential problems before you got half way through your degree, instead of doing what I'm doing which is be like "... huh, so what do I need to do to graduate again?" It's normal and it does NOT mean you're an academic failure. The reverse, actually, IMO.

[kitsunerei88]

So I guess I'm a real college student? o.O That feels weird to me. In Canada, there's a definite difference between college and university. o.O then I get all weirded out when people from other places say "college" because I have no idea what they mean. xD.

It's okay. Knowing my university and it's administrative style, I'll go in at Intent to Register, be like "I want to do THIS degree!" and then they'll be like "You can't because you don't have a physics prerequisite!" and then I'll say "I'll do it over the summer!" and they'll be like "But you'll probably fail it and not get in the program anyway!" Then we'll argue for awhile and eventually they'll put me down for a major in Earth Science or something while I fill those prerequisites then a year later, I can go back and be like "HAH! PUT ME IN THE DAMN GEOPHYSICS PROGRAM I SPENT LAST YEAR DOING!"

Well, unless (like Ontario) NZ had a major educational overhaul in the past five years, the ". . . huh, what do I need to do to graduate again?" can't be that bad. My boyfriend is in a program that technically doesn't exist anymore because they overhauled our education program the year he graduate from high school and. . . now his program has been overhauled and the program he's in doesn't exist anymore xD. Since they assume that like, no one's in this program, there's no information on it anywhere, even though there's probably still 20 or 30 people in it. xD.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Well, we only have universities here, so I usually just translate from university to college and assume everyone will know what I mean. Um, so what I really meant was you're a real tertiary education student! Fighting with the system is NORMAL, really.

Sounds about right to me. :P

We have had an educational overhaul, but not in tertiary, in secondary. Unfortunately, I was guinea pig year every, single. year for secondary, so I TOTALLY feel your pain. We don't normally have hugely restrictive requirements for graduating, though; I'm just doing a slightly complicated thing whereby... you know, it's boring and complicated and I don't understand it myself, so I'll just not explain it, but: I really, really sympathise. :P

[kitsunerei88]

yeah, our education overhaul was all throughout the education system. I was about three years after the guinea pig year, but it STILL affected me because it was so huge. What they did was get rid of a grade of high school, because we used to have a Grade 13. During the overhaul, they got rid of grade 13, shifted all the education down to cram it into a K12 system, and introduced standardised testing (which is, IMO, the most ridiculous thing ever) and it reverbated to university because they couldn't cram EVERYTHING in. My boyfriend had done integrals and trig derivatives in high school, and it was part of the curriculum then. It's not anymore, so I don't know it and won't learn it until later this year --''. Crappy Conservatve government!

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Smellies! <3

I so get the temporal dislocation thing aye. The other day I also thought it was the end of October... and that I'd forgotten to go to my last linguistics tute. Hah.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Can't live without them, baby.

hee.