Lush Haul

I've been a Lushie for a while, but I had never gone into a Lush store until yesterday.

It was quite the experience and now I know what I should get online from the UK site. I advise you to not ever buy anything from the Lush USA site, it's way overpriced in comparison to the UK site due to the currency exchange.

Case in point-


This is what I got yesterday.


This totaled 33.86.

I got -

1 .36lb slab of Demon in the Dark soap-13.61 dollars
1 .23lb slab of Karma soap- 8.69 dollars
1 3.3 oz bottle of Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel- 8.95 dollars

This totaled 33.98 dollars.

I did lots of calculations to figure this out. 28 grams to an ounce, 16 ounces in a lb etc etc

USA versus UK price per gram (since they do it by grams)

Demon in the Dark- 7 cents a gram/4 cents a gram
Karma -8 cents a gram/5 cents a gram

The difference sounds small in terms of individual gram but it's about a 40% difference overall most of the products.

To be fair, there are some differences in ingredients for some of the products, but you can always look it up. As far as I know, UK Ocean Salt is different from USA Ocean Salt, ditto for Coalface.

From now on, I will order from the UK site minus for the fresh face masks. The masks are sold on the UK site but would probably go bad by the time it got to me here in California.

Shipping by the way is about the same as for the USA site, but so much faster! I would recommend you go to a Lush shop to figure out the scents and decide on what you do or do not like. To be honest, I didn't like most of the scents there, they were a bit too sweet smelling for me so I know what to order now!

I'll be reviewing the Lush things soon enough :)

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Don't forget to enter my giveaway! The link is on the top of the blog!

EOTD:Neutrals

Just a simple eye of the day








I need to better curl my lashes.



Products Used

Urban Decay Primer Potion
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
Fyrinnae Platinum on the lid
MAC Coco Pigment in the crease (discontinued)
Mac Provence pigment as a highlight (i think it's discontinued)
Essence No Limits Mascara

Private Label Cosmetics?

Recently there has been a lot of controversy with repackaged cosmetics (cosmetic companies taking straight mica from a wholesaler and then packaging them under their own brand). Something related to that is private labeling where a cosmetic brand has a deal with a private label cosmetics manufacturer (a company that creates basic cosmetics products) wherein the PLM makes the product and then adds the label to it.

I wasn't too aware of this until I started buying things online and discovered companies like Ladyburd and Diamond Cosmetics

Any of those products look familiar? The Indelible Creme Eyeshadow or Indelible Gel Eyeliner? Do those polishes look familiar?

Now I don't have a problem with companies that sell them as a startup to their company before branching out onto more unique cosmetics.

What I do have a problem with are companies that sell them but then market them as "organic" and then crazily jack up the price *coughPriticough* *coughKarmaOrganicscough*

What does organic even mean in those cases? If they mean chemical free I guess it counts because they're Big 3 free but it's nail polish, it's not all that natural to begin with.