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Night Time Skin Care Routine

Post author By muffinchanel.com
Post date 27 May 2013
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The Clarisonic Mia is my favorite skincare tool! I love it. The Mia is perfect for travel and everyday use because of its size — it’s Clarisonic’s smallest skin cleansing system. The Mia runs for one minute on one setting. I’ll use it twice — once for my face and once for my neck & décolleté.

I use my Clarisonic with Philosophy’s Purity Made Simple cleanser. This cleanser is so gentle, yet it is strong enough to remove all of my makeup. With purity and the Clarisonic, I know I am removing all of the impurities from my skin.

After my skin is clean, I’ll apply Lancome’s Advanced Génifique serum. I love this because it absorbs quickly into my face, neck and décolleté. My skin looks youthful and radiant after using this serum and I feel that it preps my face well for the final step to my night time skin care routine, Lancome’s Visionnaire

This cream has a pleasant smell and is essentially, a skin corrector. It fixes visible pores, wrinkles, discoloration, and makes your skin feel soft and healthy.

See my UPDATED night time skin care routine here. 🙂

Tags Beauty, Clarisonic, Cleanser, complexion, facial, Health, Lancôme, Mia, purity, regimen, review, Sephora, skin, skincare

Blog Health + Beauty

Sweetie Pie Review – Lush Cosmetics

Post author By muffinchanel.com
Post date 26 May 2013

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This Lush gift set is the perfect gift for anyone. With 6 awesome products, you are sure to walk away with a new favorite!

This set comes with:

The Comforter
Bubble Gum Lip Scrub
Shimmy Shimmy Sparkle Bar
Sunny Side Bubble Bar
Rock Star Soap
Sweetie Pie Shower Jelly

I showed you this gift set in an earlier post, now it’s time for a review!

The Comforter – My absolute favorite product from Lush. Hands down. The Comforter you get in this set is half the size of the stand-alone Comforter (3.5oz vs. 7oz). You can get at least two uses out of this size Comforter. To use: Just crumble up the bubble bar under your warm running bath water. I like to sweep my hand through the water to really agitate it & get the bubbles going. The Comforter makes your water a nice, bright pink color that is so smooth and silky. I love the smell; it’s kind of fruity, but cool.

Bubble Gum Lip Scrub – I am not a fan of Bubblegum as a smell (I prefer the Mint Julips version of this sugar scrub) , but this scrub is great for giving your lips a nice polish. A little bit will definitely go a long way! To use: I like to first put on a chapstick or lipbalm then apply a little bit of the sugar scrub with my finger. The lip balm will help the scrub to stick. Then gently rub the sugar all over your lips — don’t rub too hard! Then you can lick the scrub off or gently wipe it away with a damp cloth. Makes your lips super soft and smooth.

Shimmy Shimmy Sparkle Bar – This is almost like a lotion bar, but with glitter. It definitely gives a nice glow, but it didn’t absorb very well on me and I felt like I was leaving a glitter trail on my clothes and furniture. I’m not sure the best way to use this. :/

Sunny Side Bubble Bar – This is another bubble bar I like. In fact, if you’re trying Lush for the first time, I recommend trying a bubble bar — any kind, but definitely a Bubble Bar; they’re the best! Sunny Side makes your bath not only silky and bubbly, but glittery gold! And not like chunks of glitter sinking to the bottom of your bath — it’s like swirling liquid gold.

Rock Star Soap – :/ This soap smells weird to me. It’s like a chalky bubblegum smell? Thankfully, the smell doesn’t linger and it doesn’t leave my skin feeling dry.

Sweetie Pie Shower Jelly – This “jelly” is kind of cool. It’s like a more solid shower gel — think Jell-o consistency. The smell is pleasant and with glitter swirls in it, how could you go wrong? I take a small bit of the jelly and lather it up in my loofa. The jelly is a tad slippery, but once it’s lathered, you’re good to go. Leaves my skin feeling clean and soft.

The Sweetie Pie gift set is $46 at Lush.com and I would rate it 7.5/10.

Tags bath, bath bomb, Bubblegum, Comforter, cosmetics, lush, review, rock star, Soap, sunny side

Blog Health + Beauty

The Art of Bathing

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The Art of Bathing is an amazing gift set from Lush that includes many different bath bombs and bubble bars.

Avobath Bath Bomb
Big Blue Bath Bomb
Butterball Bath Bomb
The Comforter Bubble Bar
Fizzbanger Bath Bomb
Karma Bubble Bar
Ma Bar Bubble Bar
Phoenix Rising Bath Bomb
Pop in the Bath Bubble Bar
Sex Bomb Bath Bomb
Space Girl Bath Bomb

This set is the perfect gift — each one of these products are great. And they all come in a fun, reusable hat box.

Tags avobath, bath, bathbomb, bubble bar, lush, lush bath, sweetie pie, the art of bathing, the comforter

Blog Lifestyle

Time to Relax — Bath Time

Post author By muffinchanel.com
Post date 11 May 2013

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Looking for a way to unwind? There is no better way to relax than to take a nice, long bubble bath. And nothing is better than a Lush bath!

Lush Cosmetics makes a variety of amazing bath bombs, bubble bars, and bath melts.

All of their products are cruelty free and handmade — so great (if you’re into that).

My favorite products are:

The Comforter
Creamy Candy
Sex Bomb
Think Pink
any of the Bubbleroons

These two make the most perfect bath ever. Sex Bomb and The Comforter will give you the most wonderfully fragrant and silky bath you’ve ever had.

Lush products can be a little bit expensive, so you’ll want to break your bubble bars into smaller pieces. They’ll still produce tons of bubbles, but you’ll get many more uses out of one bar.

Tags bath, bath bomb, bubble bath, bubbles, lush, relax, the comforter

Blog Lifestyle

Starbucks Rewards

Post author By muffinchanel.com
Post date 10 May 2013

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If you enjoy Starbucks and go there often, you should definitely register for My Starbucks Rewards. For every purchase you make with your registered Rewards Card, you will earn a star. With just one star, you’ll be able to get a free drink or food on your birthday. How awesome is that?!

Once you’ve earned 5 stars, you are a Green Level. You’ll still get the birthday drink or food, and you get free refills on certain drinks during your visit.

After acquiring 30 stars within a year, you’re Gold Level — VIP! You’ll get a fancy “gold card” in the mail and, for every 12 stars you earn, you’ll get a free drink or food! Definitely a nice treat — just make sure you let them know you have a free drink/food before you show them your card. Your barista won’t know you have a free item waiting unless you tell her. You can redeem your rewards whenever you want before their expiration date for any food or drink. It’s a better value to redeem for a drink than a food item and size doesn’t matter either — I always get a trenta size when I redeem my free drink.

Sometimes Starbucks has special bonus star promotions — like earlier this year when they gave an additional star when you bought a Refresher.

It’s really easy to manage all of your stars through the Starbucks app for iPhone as well. It lets you see how many stars you have, how many you’ll need until your next free drink, and lets you add funds to your card. You can even pay directly from your phone at Starbucks or you can use the Starbucks Passbook app which I prefer.

It’s a fast and convenient way for you to get rewarded for buying drinks you’re already going to buy.