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I like talking. A lot. I used to like keeping diaries as a kid and did it right up until a few years ago. Don't know why I stopped but I suppose the habit just died. So being the digital age and all that malarkey...

At the moment I have a healthy (and expensive!) obsession with Lush cosmetics. I love to buy and use their products, their (sometimes controversial) moral/ethical perspectives, the fragrances they use... so Lush will feature heavily in my ramblings. Besides that I am a lover of literature, passionate about music & dabbling in cookery. The most important things in my life are the members of my family. I like nice things too-besides Lush I like yankee candles, american candy, ANYTHING with cherries or cupcakes on (I even have a tattoo of each. You can probably see that I like brackets quite a lot too. Why yes, my mind often does go off on a tangent)

My original plan was just to make lists of all the gorgeous goodies I've had from Lush (it's become a teeny weeny bit of an obsession - but what else makes you feel & smell SO good?!) but that list has become so long that I thought it would be a little tedious for reading. I kinda fancied writing a blog anyhoo so maybe think of this as reading someone's diary. With permission of course!

My first Lush experience went a little like this: I actually visited Lush twice before buying anything, it just seemed so overpriced. I actually came away thinking you are paying for the handmade-iness of it rather than the products themselves. How wrong I was! 4 of us booked to go to a Pamper party at our local Lush store. The evening consisted of a facial where they used cleanser, fresh face mask, massage & moisturiser. This was followed by either a foot or hand treatment (in our party 2 opted for hand & 2 for foot), I chose a hand treatment which was an exfoliation of the hand & arm, a massage bar rub & dusting powder finish. The environment was lovely- music playing in the background, attentive & friendly staff, bubbly with chocolates & strawberries too. Then at the end of the evening you are allowed to spend £20 on products in store (which I chose to spend on the products that'd been used on me- was divine to come home & do the same treatments for myself that I'd been treated to in store. Really makes a difference to have the things demonstrated!) And there starts the slippery slope to Lush Addictiondom!