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I was lucky enough to get quite a lot of Lush stuff for birthday and Christmas presents, so I’ve started working my way through it. One of the items I got from my lovely mum was this Lush Christmas Party bath ballistic. It came in a set of four different bath bombs, and I picked it out first as I was taken with its fresh smell of oranges.
(If you aren’t familiar with Lush’s Bath Ballistics, they are basically bath bombs – concentrated, powdery-like balls which disintegrate with a light fizzing in your bath. They don’t have bubbles.)
The bath ballistic is big and chunky, weighing in at around 200g, and has a few metallic stars stuck on the top. It looks quite pretty, and is apparently intended as a bit of a wake up for the Christmas Party season! With Lush Bubble Bars I tend to divide them up into chunks (or at least halves) to get more use out of them, but with Bath Ballistics I find them too hard to break. I didn’t feel too bad about this one as I’d had a busy, stressful weekend and it was a gift!
I dropped it in the bath when it was almost full, and left it to do its fizzing thing. I did expect the water to change colour, but unfortunately I didn’t really notice any difference, although the bath did go a bit cloudy for a while. Having known nothing about it beforehand, and not thinking about the clue of the stars on the top, I was amazed when hoards of tiny metallic stars and bits of what looked like party streamers appeared in the water! It was a lovely, colourful explosion…until I started worrying about what would happen to my poor drains (that are really badly designed and get blocked fairly regularly) and also my hair. I do like to lie back in the bath, and yup, you’ve guessed it, my hair was full of tiny green, blue and red stars. It was fine because it was a weekend, and it would also be fun just before a party. Not so much for work or general day-to-day stuff.