A Pamper Evening

Hello everyone! 

As you know, HelperBaby has been very very sick, and the other night I got approximately 2 hours of sleep. Needless to say, I looked like death warmed over the next day. So, I got out all of my spa essentials and decided an evening of pampering myself would do the trick. 

I didn't buy all these items at once, they are things that I have stock piled in my bathroom for about a month. I don't do pamper evenings all the time, but when I do, I want to fee luxuriant and lethargic; this is just what the doctor ordered. 

To start off with..

This, is everything that I use to acheive my pamper evening. 

I start out with brewing a cup of camomile tea for myself. 

Then, I wash my face and drink my tea. 

Next, I do a Biore nose strip to open and clean out my pores. And I read while that sits for 10 minutes. Then, I do a small GlamGlow mask. I already need more, but I still have enough for nose and spot treatments, so this is what I did. That sits for 20 minutes, and in the mean time, I sprayed all the summer shoes I took out of storage with an anti-bacterial, anti-fungal shoe spray to make sure they smell nice when it comes time to wear them all summer. (I can't wait!)

 Then I run my bath, with my Bath bomb, that my best friend, Tia, gave me for Christmas. It smells sweet, but not overpoweringly so and it makes the water smell good and get all fizzy. I loved it I will be buying more bath bombs in the future!

I soaked for about 10 minutes (I'm not a HUGE fan of baths, but my muscles needed the soak) and then I drained the tub and took a shower. I first scrub my lips with my LUSH Bubblegum Lip scrub, then I wash my hair with my Biolage and then scrub my arms (where I have unevenness and redness that I am trying to get rid of) with my LUSH Ocean Salt Scrub. I wash my body with my Nivia Harmony time and that leaves my skin feeling super soft. And I smell like a rose garden. How lovely. Then I wash my face with my Micheal Todd Tropical Enzyme Scrub to get all the dead skin off my face and make sure that all the mask and glue from the Biore strips has been taken off. 

I then Brush my teeth (my tea is finished by now) and I put on my rejuvenating eye pads and my almond oil hair mask. They both smell amazing. They only need 15 minutes, so I fold laundry while I'm waiting. 

Then I rinse out the hair mask and wash off any residue from the eye pads and towel off. I then spray my hair with my Soy Leave in Conditioner from the sexy hair line. Then I comb my hair and run my AG Keratin repair through my strands and comb those through too. I braid my hair and let those work their magic on my damaged locks. 


I then tone my face with my Pore Refining Toner, just to try and get those pores as tiny as possible after I removed all the junk from them. Next, I massage my Liftactiv Night from Vichy onto my face (this stuff smell so good) and follow up with my Ceramide Youth Restoring from Elizabeth Arden. I then gently pat my Ceramide Lift and Firming Eye Cream from Elizabeth Arden under and around my eyes. And then I put on my normal, everyday deoderant. And I finish my routine off with some Hurraw MoonBalm onto my lips. 

 I then put BioOil on my arms and anywhere I have scars or stretch marks. 

I then go crawl into bed and paint my nails with one of my favorite polishes, Wedding Glitters by Sally Hansen. Two coats does it, and I'm ready to read and then fall asleep, renewed, refreshed, and ready for another day of mothering.  

 












I hope this inspired you to do a little something for yourself this week. As mothers, we are busy and tired and often over worked, and we need a little break ever now and then to balance everything out. I hope you do a little balancing yourself. 

Remember to go check out my Luvocracy page to see all the products I used in my paper evening. @caitlynnescagel

See you on Monday!

Warm wishes. 

LUSH Cosmetics Review

Hello everyone! 

Today I will be posting several different posts. This is the first of three. I hope you enjoy it! 

This post is about my LUSH cosmetics scrubs. 

The first product I used is the Ocean Salt Face and Body Scrub.

This is a blue and white swirl of fine sea salt, coarse sea salt, and vodka. 

If you are a fan of coarse scrubs, this product might just be for you. It is a thick, chunky formula with a beautiful bahama blue water colour in it. 

I really liked this product. Again, this is just a first impression. I will be using this product every day for the rest of the month and I will give you another review the first week of February. I will use it every morning and night and after I exercise. We will see what it does to my skin. 

The scrub is thick and creamy with thick salt crystals that really scrubbed my skin and removed all the dirt and oil from my pores without stripping my skin of all it's moisture. 

The LUSH products are against animal cruelty and testing and all their containers are 100% recycled, making all of us feel a little better about using these products. Now don't get me wrong, these products are a little pricey. Well, actually, really pricey. I might not purchase more of them, depending on how long these products last. If they last more than two or three months, then maybe they will be worth it, but I somehow doubt it. 

Anyway, these products are handmade and they have little stickers on them to indicate who it is made by and when you should use them by. This ensures that LUSH doesn't need to fill their products with preservatives. A lot of their products are organic, some are vegan, and all are cruelty free, paraben free, and made with ingredients that occur naturally. Some are had to pronounce, but that is because they occur a natural chemicals within some of their ingredients. With all of the allergies that are cropping up everyday, LUSH is a great company to go with if you need to know exactly what is in your products. And it's not just the cleansers that they list their ingredients for. Every thing that this company makes has every little thing listed on the package. So, thank you Sara for this body and face scrub. And I will use it before February 28th. 

The only thing bad that I have to say about this product is that IT TASTES HORRIBLE!!!!! Yes, it is just salt and vodka mixed together. Do not eat this product. If you have no taste buds, then by all means, it is safe to eat, but I would not recommend it in the slightest. 

This is everything that is on the label. 

Net wight 4.2 ounces. Fine sea salt, Fresh grapefruit infusion, coarse sea salt, stearic acid, fresh organic lime extracted in vodka, sodium cocoamphoacetate, glycol cetearate, triethanolmine, avacado butter, extra virgin coconut oil, lime oil, seaweed absolute, violet leaf absolute, glycerine, lanolin, cetaeryl, alcohol, *limonene, *linalool, fragrance, FD&C Blue no.1, methylparaben. 

*Occurs naturally in essential

Not virgin! A Vodka voyage. 

The next product you can eat though, and you might actually want to. In fact, it is recommended right on the label!

This is me washing my face with the scrub for the first time. 

The LUSH Bubblegum Lip Scrub. 

 

I love this lip scrub. It tastes good, though it is a little too sweet and artificial for my taste. It is a fine scrub, but I felt like my lips were as soft as ever, bright and lovely and plump. I wet my lips and scrubbed the smallest amount onto them vigorously. It took the dead skin off of my lips and left them tingling and new feeling. 

This is a wonderful product that I would recommend to anyone looking for a great lip product. I use it every morning and every night and I feel as though it helps exfoliate and rejuvenate my lips. I have a horrible time with my lips in the winter. I have already been through a whole tube of chap stick, so I really needed a lip scrub. Again, this product is all natural. It's actually vegan. 

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This is what is on the container: Castor sugar, cold pressed organic jojoba oil, methyl ionone, flavour, polyester-3, D&C red no 28, D&C red no.21

Preservative free, Vegan! 

And thank you, Susan for my lip scrub. I will use this up by March.

Again, these products are expensive. It cost me $9.95. 

I would definitely recommend this scrub to anyone willing to spend the money. In my DIY section, though, I will be making a DIY face scrub, a DIY lip Scrub and a DIY lip plumper. They will be coming soon. 

This is me using this product:

I hope you found this review helpful.

Warm wishes.