**CLOSED** Giveaway time...

Hey everyone...hope you're having a fabulous weekend. I'm going to be MIA for a little while as work are sending me to Copenhagen for a few days. I wasn't that excited until I read that its home to the longest pedestrianised shopping street in Europe :)

I thought I'd fire up my 100 followers giveaway before I go so without further ado here are the bits you could win. (I went a bit nuts shopping for this giveaway so decided to share the giveaway love by splitting it into main and runner up prizes)

Main prize

17 Lasting Finish nail polish in Chaperone (grey), Forever (beige) and Holding Hands (pale duck-egg blue) 

Lush Whoosh shower jelly

Haircare minis (Umberto Giannini Intense Beauty shampoo and conditioner and Lee Stafford Spray Shine)

Tea cup charm necklace, navy spotty headband and navy/white nautical bangle - all from Primark

Benefit Finding Mr Bright face kit

No 7 Exquisite Curl Mascara in Black

17 Mirror Shine lipstick in Belle and Nudist Peach

Runner Up Prize 

No 7 Eye Colour and Eyeshadow Blend and Contour brushes

Lush Ma Bar bubble bar

No7 Define & Shimmer Eye Palette

Pic to show the shades in the palette

How to enter

If you would like to enter please leave a comment on this post with your name, blog link and an email address that I can contact you on should you win :)

The all important rules

You must be a public follower of my blog

The giveaway will end on 3rd April 2011 and is open to international readers

The winners will chosen using random.org

Extra entries are available by:

• Following me on twitter here and sharing a link to the giveaway in a tweet (+1 entry)
• Posting the giveaway in your sidebar (+1 entry)
• Blogging about my giveaway (+2 entries)

Please let me know in your comment which of these you've done so your extra entries can be counted and last but not least....

  

Until next time,

Hauled: Lush, Revlon (and a primer disaster!)

A small haul from the weekend...I nipped into Lush as I wanted to try their I Love Juicy shampoo and their website is still not up and running after being hacked :-/ I got it in the smallest size they do as although I'll only get a handful of washes out of it, I think you know pretty quickly whether you're onto something good! And If it works half as good as it smells (like tropical fruit juice!) then I have high hopes! I also picked a lip scrub in Mint Julips which I put to work staight away...and which tastes so blinking good it should clearly come with nutritional information.

My only other beauty purchase was some Revlon ColorStay. This foundation is infamous on the beauty blog circuit and as such needs no introduction. I figured it was time to check out the hype for myself...plus it had £3 off in Superdrug and me loves a discount.

On a sad note I was applying some eye primer this morning and on squeezing the tube the following occured:

...depositing the majority contents down the front of my PJs :( Looking on the bright side I've been thinking of switching primers once this tube is all used up anyway so it just means that moment is now! Currently in the running are Nars or Estee Lauder so if anyone has used either or those or has any other recommendations then please do share.


Until next time,

Reviewed: Lush Jungle Conditioner

I first encountered Lush's solid shampoo bars a few years ago when I went backpacking and whilst browsing their online shop a few weeks ago, my attention was well and truly grabbed by the Jungle solid conditioner.

What they say....

"Containing 5 different fruits, Jungle feels different on your hair from liquid conditioner; until you wash it off, you hardly notice it's there. It smoothes and detangles, leaving a fruitily scented coat of shininess. Smooth it along the length of your hair from root to tip, then rinse out."

What I say....

Packaging Erm well like many Lush products there isn't really any other than the bit of cellophane it came wrapped in. Storage is a bit of a problem as you can't just leave it in the shower or on the side of the bath like other conditioners (unless you want to be greeted by something that resembles this on your next trip to the loo!) I tended to just pat mine dry and pop it on the bathroom shelf safely out of water's reach.

Product Poor Jungle is a also bit of an ugly duckling - its an insipid shade of green and the texture reminds of a cross between a crumbly block of cheese and good-old homemade soap where your gran - in her aim to save the household pennies - sticks all the little dregs from different bars together! There are no instructions included but one of the website reviews suggests soaking a small chunk in a pot of warm shower water whilst you shampoo so that its soft and easy to apply. Unfortunately I couldn't quite master the 'hot water to chunk size' ratio and ended up dissolving it entirely so in the end I took to just rubbing a small piece between my hands until it looked like this...

...and then just smoothed it onto my hair.

Results I really wanted to like Jungle as the quirky application is quite fun but unfortunately the formula just wasn't rich enough to condition the dry ends of my hair. I had to resort to some leave-in conditioner just to get the comb through. However all is not lost as I discovered that Jungle makes an awesome shave gel and the formula is moisturising enough to leave my legs and underarm skin lovely & soft:)

Price £4.20 for 100g

Would I repurchase? Possibly if I was in Lush buying something else anyway but I wouldn't go out of my way to pick this up.

Would I recommend? Yes if your hair doesn't need much conditioning (or if you're in the market for some "fancy-but-gross-looking-and-tricky-to-store" shave gel!

Until next time,