M went hauling yet again, this time for Lush

I finally remembered to bring my five black pots to the mall over the weekend, and was able to pick up a free face mask.  If you bring back five black pots to Lush, they will give you a free face mask of your choice.  Of course, I picked up my beloved Love Lettuce.  As you can see from my empty pots, Love Lettuce is quite an essential for me now - it's the perfect pick-me-up when I feel like my skin is feeling tired, dull, or dehydrated.  See my full review rave on it: here.

My empties.

The sucker in me couldn't just leave the store without snooping on everything else (except for their Emotional Brilliance makeup line - I'm kinda bleh about it)... so, I ended up with a few more things.

Honey I Washed The Kids soap bar & Love Lettuce fresh face mask

free sample of Ro's Argan body conditioner & Godiva shampoo bar

I tried the Turkish Delight shower smoothie back in April and loved it but swore that it was not worth the price tag.  In the beginning of June, I caved and bought a second pot.  I've been lusting for it since I ran out of it at the end of July, but man, that $32.95 CAD is hefty... so, in hope of finding a cheaper alternative, I picked up a $10.81 CAD piece of the Honey I Washed The Kids bar soap.  It's supposed to be a pretty hydrating, but not greasy, option.  As soon as I find a soap dish, I'll be busting it out.

I've been meaning to try the solid shampoo for a while now, since I know that I will be travelling twice a week when I start at my new job in January.  I would rather not check in any bags if I'm going to be travelling so frequently, so as little liquids as possible is the goal.  I could continue depot-ing some shampoo, but that gets annoying.  Plus, I've heard that the sold shampoos last forever.  I read through the descriptions of each and shortlisted it down to Godiva and Seanick before consulting with one of the Lush girls there.  Strategically, I requested assistance from the girl with fine hair, because I felt like she would understand my specific requests.    I ended up choosing Godiva ($10.95 CAD).  I've been trying it out for a couple of days and will continue for a bit.  Look out for a full review at a later date.
I also bought the square tin that's meant for the body melts to carry it.  It was $3.95 CAD.  The solid shampoo rounds were a bit oversized for the shampoo tins, haha.

The cashier demo-ed and gave me a generous sample of the Ro's Argan body conditioner, because she saw that I liked Turkish Delight.  Ro's Argan is supposed to be complementary to Turkish Delight, as it is also rose scented, but I found the scent of Ro's Argan to be much more fruity than Turkish Delight which actually has a much more muted, musky rose scent.  Ro's Argan was way too overpowering for me, so I will not be purchasing it.  I'm not using it as a body lotion, but rather as a shower lotion the way the cashier had demo-ed for me.  I'm just using up the sample as my "soap" in the shower.

- M

LUSH - Love Lettuce Fresh Face Mask

HOLY MOSES JOSES, a face mask that doesn't break the shit out of my face and make me look like an overly blushed Klingon!  To my hyper-sensitive oily/combination cyclic-acne-prone and something more sisters out there, we have hope.

BAM.

 BAM.

yea, that's my clawprint in there.

Ok, so I had long given up on face masks and decided to just suck it up with my Olay Exfoliating brush, until fellow Canadian nutjob, Estée, wouldn't shut up about her Lush face masks and how it's been amazeballs for her... thank goodness.
I picked this up when I went on a platonic date/hoarding shopping trip with R the other day.  Laid my deets (details, for you non-cool joes) on the sales associate (the ones at Lush are weird but super helpful--watch and learn, Sephora).  She recommended either this one or the oatmeal looking one... I've got a weak stomach for oatmeal, so I picked this one.  I think I paid $6 CAD for a small black tub of it.  My local store makes it fresh every Wednesday (you can't buy this online because it's made fresh), and each tub will give about 3-4 masks... even with my big face, I think I can probably generously get 4.

I scoop up a Timbit sized amount and generously smear it all over my face.  There's small bits of green plant looking material--I just spread it around.  It says to leave it on for something like 5 mins?  Iuno, I'm probably making shit up.  Anyway, it says not to let it dry out but I leave it on until it does, cuz I'm a rebel.  Then I just use my hands to wash it off very gently with warm water.  Afterwards, I use my Sephora precison pore cleanser pad to make sure all of it is gone.

Verdict:  THIS FUCKING ROCKS THE SHIT OUT OF MY FACE AND MORE.  I'm kinda outraged by how it made my face so hydrated and oil-balanced.  I think I texted R right away with something like:  "my face is fucking glowing."

- M