I have a serious addiction problem.

I have an addiction to LUSH, it's like a disease or something... and one I am happy to have, but shit sometimes it gets out of control. So alas I have a collective LUSH haul to show. I ordered a few things on the 1st of the month from LushUSA.com that came yesterday and this morning I went to my LUSH store.

I get in these weird psycho waves where I feel like I need to hoard all this LUSH stuff (example: right now) and then I am like eh that's too much work to order stuff or drive to the store (which is only 15 minutes away mind you) and don't buy LUSH for months at a time.

I am going to break this down into each purchase because I had two entire different experiences with each and there's limited edition nonsense going on, some discontinued stuff, coupons, blah blah blah. So it's just easier if I break it down by order.

 Online order

Shopping list...

Honey Bun Bath Bomb x 5

MUM Candy Fluff Flower Bath Bomb x 5

Hippy Chick Bath Bomb x 2

Colour Supplement Light Yellow Sample

Into Thin Air Sample

Now you may possibly maybe be thinking "did she really buy 12 bath bombs?" and yes, yes I did.  All of the bath bombs I ordered were from either the Easter or Mothers Day specialty items. And they were all on sale for $2 each. $2 for a bath bomb, you better believe I was going to go into hoarding beast mode. 

Hippy Chick
Originally priced: $4.95
3.4 oz

According to LUSH "You'll want to do the Hippy Hippy Chick with our refreshing grapefruit-scented Bath Bomb. We've just hatched this brand new shape and paired it with the zingy fragrance of our Happy Hippy shower gel. Perfect for getting chicks of every age into the bath tub, they'll be lining up to use this bird bath. Shower person? You can use it as an Emotibomb too!"

I never really thought anything of the Happy Hippy shower gel. It by NO means smells bad, I am just not a fan of grapefruit scents. I thought I'd at least give it a shot because scents do change while in use and mixed with your own personal scent. Not to mention I mainly got it because with just the other items I bought and shipping it would have been $26 and I said oh screw it just make it an even $30 and got 2 of these for $4 haha.

Mum Candy Fluff Flower
Originally priced: $7.95
4.6 oz 

According to LUSH "This year we've got a blooming great gift for your Mum. Flower-shaped Bath Bombs have been popping up all over the Lush kitchens; you can get one, two, or an entire bouquet. Everything's coming up Candy Fluff, Sakura, and Still Life – back in this special shape only for Mother's Day. Once your mum has bathed in her bouquet, she can plant the seedy tag and use the stem to remind her where the wild flowers are."  

Holy bahjeezus. First off let me put this out there because it bugs me when people don't know this and I see plenty of people say "Oh well this smells kinda like that one item, but not really." When YES REALLY because a lot of LUSH's items though in different forms (bath bombs, bubble bars, shower gels, etc) they do have the same exact perfumes and oils in them. Now I'll give it to you certain things may smell stronger is a scent than others, but they are the same scent none the less one variation may have a small tweak here and there or simply just more concentrated. LUSH's Candy Fluff scent is the SAME scent as Godmother Soap and all of the Snow Fairy holiday items. I personally could give two funks about the Candy fluff dusting powder because I have no use for them so I can't speak about that product. BUT Godmother on the other hand is one of my FAVVVVVVORRRRRITE LUSH items. So knowing this bath bomb was essentially a Godmother bath bomb just with a different name, I went and got 5. Yeah, I love Godmother THAT much that I needed to buy 5.

These originally were really expensive. 4.6 oz of a bath bomb for $7.95 is ridiculous because the year  round larger size bath bombs are about 6.3 oz and range from $5.95 to $6.95. But, this bath bomb cost so much because the tag that comes on the "flower stem" has wild flower seeds in it and you can plant that tag and grow some flowers. I am actually seriously considering planting these to see if they'll work, should I do it?

Honey Bun
Originally priced: $3.95
2.9 oz 

According to LUSH "Want to have loads of fun in the bath? Share it with your Honey Bun! Molded after a traditiona sweet. It's got the same toffee fragrance as our best-selling soap with sweet orange and bergamot oils. Pop one into your basket and hop right into the tub; every-bunny loves our bunny."

This is another product under the Honey I Washed The Kids scent umbrella. LUSH has a year round bath bomb that's very similar to this called Honey Bee and it's $6.40 for 6.3 oz. Conveniently my LUSH hoarding has paid off because I happen to have a Honey Bee waiting to be used in my stash so I can compare the two. Now if you're not familiar with LUSH Honey I Washed The Kids is described as a honey, caramel and toffee scent with a splash of bergamot oil (type of citrus oil). Now both bath bombs clearly smell along the lines of HIWTKS the only difference I smell is Honey Bun is stronger on the toffee scent. And Honey Bee is stronger on the caramel. And toffee is a sweeter of scents, so if you like Honey I Washed The Kids and really sweet scents you should look into picking this up before it's gone.

Now here I am yet again going to break down the price value of things. Because more commonly it seems as though people cut the normal size bath bombs in half and use only 1 half per bath. So this is convenient because Honey Bun is dome shaped with a flat surface. It is also close to half the size of Honey Bee which would 3.15 oz so there's only a very slight different between half of Honey Bee and Honey Bun. So you wouldn't have to cut anything in half and make a big mess.

Now if you're like me and prefer to use a whole bath bomb per bath you could just double up and use two Honey Buns. $6.40 a bath with Honey Bee year round compared to $4 a bath with Honey Bun on sale is nice. 

I also a sample of the Light Yellow Colour Supplement which came with a coupon for 10% off when you went into a LUSH store. Now HOW RETARDED IS THIS, I made this order on the first and it arrives the 7th which is by all means great. But the coupon which came with the Colour Supplement expired May 31st? Retarded. REALLY. I do like it though so I went and bought a full size.

And I got a sample of Into Thin Air which I had NEVER even heard of until I had to look it up on the site. But taking out of the box I almost instantly through it out. It's really ugly looking. It's supposedly some cellulite reduction rubbing thingy, I don't  know it looks disgusting.

 ADVICE FOR PAYING WITH PAYPAL ON LUSHUSA.COM: DONT. It's a long story I won't get into too much. But I chose to pay with paypal on this order as I was too lazy to go find my wallet and get my credit card haha. Well my paypal account is tied to a different email address than the email I used to sign up my LushUSA.com account. I have various emails, I think something like 5 maybe 6. Which seems like it's excessive, but it's for a reason. I have a email for my freelancing/blog, I have a professional email for applying to jobs, I have my every day email address which emails get directly to my phone which I use as my email address for websites I shop on so when something I buy ships it goes directly to my cell phone. A few days after placing the order I go to log in with my email address and supposedly there was no account under that email address which wasn't possible since I had just logged on 2 days before to buy the stuff. Then it hits me my paypal goes to a different email since I rarely use paypal. So I email LUSH's customer service stating my problem and all I simply wanted to be able to do was track the progress of my order. They very nicely told me to sign in using the email from my paypal account and a password then I can check the progress on my order. Well, yeah... not so much. Didn't work. I didn't get a tracking number sent to any email address either and then magically the package was here. It wasn't a BFD, just annoying.

 In store purchase

Shopping list...
(prices vary frequently) 
Honey I Washed The Kids .53 lb/8.48 oz chunk
$37.80 per pound
Chox Away .31 lb/4.96 oz chunk
$27.80 per pound
Demon in The Dark .23 lb/3.68 oz chunk
$37.60 per pound
I Should Coco .23 lb/3.68 oz chunk
$37.80 per pound
Light Yellow Colour Supplement
Sexy Peel Soap Sample 
Trichomania Solid Shampoo Sample

I was having a really rough morning and was feeling really depressed. So I said screw it and went to "my" LUSH store because I only have 1 sliver left of Honey I Washed The Kids and wanted to see if they would let me use the coupon for the Colour Supplement. Well clearly I walked out with more than that. I've said it before on here and I will say it again, if you are a Bay Area Lushie you REALLY ought to go to LUSH Bay Street in Emeryville, best guys and gals ever. So amazingly nice. Best customer service. The girl who helped me totally knew I was just restocking on some essentials and when I asked her about the Colour Supplement and the coupon she agreed that the coupon should have been made available for use past the 31st and laughed at how I got the coupon when my order exceeded the date of that promo. And was a complete doll and adjusted the price to 10% off the item.

There isn't much I can say about this purchase it is is pretty simple. I only bought Chox Away and I Should Coco because I found out they're being discontinued. Infact have a sample of I Should Coco from my last trip the my LUSH store, but still hadn't used it. So I figured oh what the hey I've never used them I'll give them a shot while I still can because I don't fathium I will fall in love with either of them so no worries about having to stock up. Which I knew Chox Away had been DCd in the UK, but was unaware either of these soaps were going to be DC'd in the states. RIP homies.

LUSH gossip: I also learned today Candy Fluff is either be DC'd or made Retro, I am not sure but I do know it wont be available in store anymore. Tramp shower gel is become Retro (this I've known for a bit, but thought I'd let chya'll know too). Heavenly Bodies butter cream is being DCd and Ring of Roses and Lemslip butter creams are now being made firmer like actual soap. To my understanding though they will  remain very mild in actual soap ingredients and more moisturizing. Now if anyone else was aware of this before me, I WOULD LIKE A MEMO NEXT TIME JEEZ LOUISE way to leave me out of the loop, jerks.