Halloween Has Landed at Lush!

I find that the seasonal products are always the best! (Too bad you can only get them once a year.)

Either way, Halloween had landed at Lush! The limited edition products include The Lord of Misrule bath bomb, the Pumkin bubble bar (yeah, it's spelled without the "p"), the Soot Ball bath bomb, and Demon in the Dark Soap. 

                                                

                                                         (Lord of Misrule and Pumkin)

                                                   

                                                                 (Demon in the Dark)

This Halloween collection includes a wide variety of scents (as wide as four products can be), including fresh mint (Demon in the Dark), musky citrus (Lord of Misrule), and of course, pumpkin! (The store I was at didn't have any Soot Balls.) 

According to Lush website, there are a bunch more products in the Halloween collection. I only saw those above, but here are all of them, just in case you were wondering:

Buffy Body Butter, Dark Angels Cleanser, Enchanter Bath Bomb, Ceridwen's Caulderon Bath Melt, Enchanted Eye Cream, Devil's Nightcap Perfume (I wonder how this smells), Wiccy Magic Muscles Massage Bar (I think they just renamed one of the current ones), Skin Sin Lotion, and Bewitched Massage Bar.

Quite a few! Either way, they're definitely worth having a look at. I have to say my favorite seasonal collection is the Christmas one, though. Speaking of which, Lush already has their Christmas collection up on their website. I've got my eye on this litttle guy.

Anyways, how will you get into your Halloween spririt? (And who knows, maybe we'll have a special Halloween surprise!)

SPOTTED: EOS Limited Edition Five-Pack

Sound the alarms! Just kidding, but seriously. Taking the spotlight on our first "spotted" post, EOS!

While EOS smooth spheres are sold individually too, they can reach about $4! Pricey. That's why this pack was almost irresistible- you get almost half off! 

The pack contains 5 different flavors:

(Strawberry Sorbet, Cool Mint, Honeysuckle Honeydew, Passion Fruit, and Summer Fruit.)

So, while I don't have a picture of the packaging (but the top picture shows it!) I can tell you that it's located in the pharmacy/cosmetics section. I found this pack literally right between the pharmacy and skincare sections, for $10.99. 

I have to say that Honeysuckle Honeydew and Cool Mint are definitely the best in the set. (Mint is definitely the most potent, while Honeydew has a clean but strong, melon-y scent.)

You can see our review of some EOS lip balms here.

So, check it out! (And while you're there, check out the $50 designer fragrance section!) 

Fashion Week 2013

Okay, so I know that Le Renifleur is a fragrance/skincare review blog. But I just couldn't resist making a pos about this. After all, hello?! Paris is one of the fashion capitols of the world.  I just HAD to do a post covering this. So bear with me. 

While I cannot name all of the designers for the life of me, and I am most definitely not in Paris, NYC, London, or Milan right now (I wish I was), I've put together a string of my favorite new designs together, along with some inspiration from the designers. These pictures are a collection from my "2013 Fashion Week" board on Pinterest, so have a look!

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BCBG Spring Collection

Marc Jacobs/Louis Vutton

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Marc Jacobs

Glamouri

Those are my favorite out of the bunch, but you can check out the entire board of pictures HERE!

Review: Pink Sugar by Aquolina

Looking for a super sweet, sugary scent? Look no further than Pink Sugar by Aquolina.
There is nothing remotely flowery, tropical, or clean about Pink Sugar. Along with that, it is almost impossible to detect any alcohol in it. When you spray it, you're bombared by a medley of sugar, sugar cookies, and vanilla. And A LOT of it.

When I first smelled this perfume, I immediately thought of this: Generic Sugar Girlyness.
Which, is pretty accurate, in my opinion, I have decided, after smelling it some more.
This definitely isn't a summery beach scent. I would say it would be appropriate during the winter, or at some kind of a fancy party. Even during the day, if it is applied lightly. Lightly.

As far as the smell goes, in retrospect, there's nothing wrong with it. It's simply a sugary, girly, and warm (As in stuffy warm, even cozy, perhaps) perfume. Definitely a playful scent.
I have a feeling I'll be smelling a lot more of this (they were giving samples away when the Sephora opened in the JCPenny's in my mall) since it seems to be one of the new "it" fragrances.

Overall Ratings:
Scent: 3
Look: 3
Price: $$$ ($20-50, it depends where you buy it.)

So, the overall score is: 3!

15 Fantastic Skincare & Beauty Tips

Hi everyone! Lived One Thousand Lives here, as a guest author, and I'm going to give you my list of beauty/Skincare tips/tricks that I have found to work!

In no particular order, here they are:

1. Put chapstick on right before the shower. The steam helps take all the dead skin off.

2. Shave with conditioner, it helps get a closer shave.

3. Wear sunscreen. I know it's not "cool," but it's really good for your skin.

4. Moisturize! Everywhere!

5. Go natural with makeup as often as you can! Makeup clogs your pores!

6. Make your own facials to save money. Do it with a friend and it's a lot of fun too.

7. Exfoliate your skin.

8. Clean your face like 1,00000 times a day. Ok, not really but clean your face very often.

10. The best thing you can do is drink water. My trick is put 8 rubberbands on your wrist or in your pocket and after every glass of water take one away. After every sugary/caffeinated drink, add one back! This helps keep up on your hydration until you make it a habit.

11. Whiten your teeth with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide, it works wonders.

12. Toothpaste on a pimple overnight practically takes the pimple right off.

13. Use the buisness card trick for better mascara. Don't know what i am talking about? Check it out here: Mascara Business Card Trick

14. If your mascara is running really low, but you can't get to a store, heat it for a few seconds with your blow dryer  It softens the mascara left over so you have some to use. 

15. Have a really red pimple? Break open a gel capsule of advil by poking a hole in it with a safety pin and pour the liquid onto the pimple. It instantly takes redness and swelling away.

These are my beauty tips and tricks! Let me know what you think and email me at livedonethousandlives@hotmail.com

Cehck out my blog at http://www.livedonethousandlives.blogspot.com

Thanks so much for having me!
Salaam, Lived One Thousand Lives

Flower by Kenzo

(You can be expecting a lot more fragrance reviews for the next little while, I've got a bunch lined up!)

I was immediately interested when I saw this bottle.- simple, yet\ eye-catching, I thought it was really cool.
Flower by Kenzo is a very interesting and layered scent, with many different and strong base, top, and middle notes. (If you aren't sure what those are, read here.)

When I initially smelled this for the first time, my impression was pretty much this:
"WHOAWOW WOW WOW THIS IS SOME STRONG STUFF!"
That impression still stands. Despite being quite heavy and lasts a long time, it is a clean scent, in a way. (A very strange way.)
You can definitely smell the flowers that were added to it, along with some other, more musky scents.

I couldn't detect this at first, but upon just smelling it, it does smell somewhat like old lady perfume. Which is a MAJOR NO-NO.
Aside from that, it kind of reminds me of the Titanic...and Africa. That sounds pretty strange, I know. I say it smells like the Titanic because it smells like what I would have imagined a lot of those women wore at that time. Just that time period. And Africa? It reminds me of Africa because it reminds me of freedom and power, but in a restricting way.

I truly believe that this is one of those products that are big for a little while, then deemed "unwanted" after that obsession is over. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone that wants a fragrance just for day-to-day activities. I wouldn't wear this unless I was at something really, really, super-duper-mega fancy. (And maybe not even then.)


So, overall rating time!

Overall Ratings:
Scent: 2 stars
Look: 4 stars
Price: $$$

And, the overall score is:
2.5 Stars!

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