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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Lush Life: Northern Light Bath Bomb

Northern Lights Bath Bomb found its way to me via Santa. Adam really is pretty awesome at picking out Christmas gifts. This bath bomb fragrance duplicates Lush's popular Christmas Eve bubble bar scent of jasmine sweetened with ylang-ylang. Unfortunately, I found the scent to be rather light. I would have preferred it to be much more strong.

The colorful display entertained me for a bit. The cylinder lazily wobbled about the tub leaving a colorful stream in its tiny wake. Fushia, purple and magenta came first, followed by aqua and a lime yellow that left behind floating stars. There was a pink ring left around my tub with this bar but nothing a bit of rubbing didn't remove before I exited stage left. Overall, I would buy this one again if it came out, hoping it would be a bit stronger this year.

How are your reading goals coming along? I finished up the second book, Fool Moon, in the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher. Harry is Chicago's only P.I. wizard for hire and finds himself in dire straits more often than not. The first in the series is Storm Front. The writing is very conversational, pithy and punny. It makes for a quick, funny read, and does not take itself seriously at all. There are several in the series but I do not plan on reading them back-to-back. Apparently Sci-Fi did a one off season of the show, trying to make one episode out of each book.

Currently, my eyes feast upon Blue Lily, Lily Blue the third book in the Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater. What are you reading or watching?

17 comments:

I just started reading Percy Jackson. Finally! I'm so late for that party, I know. And I think I might have stumbled across why I'm hating all the books I try to read lately. That's an upcoming Natters post for me.

As for what I'm watching, I'm getting swamped now that all our shows are starting to return. Hubby and I watch Gotham and Sleepy Hollow on Mondays, Suits on Wednesdays, and now tonight Vikings will be returning for its third season. Woot! Oh, and I always have episodes of Snapped recorded. Love me some Snapped! Plus hubby has a million shows of his own that he watches.

That sounds like a lovely bath bomb! I tried to look for Christmas Eve when I'd visited the store, but it was out. Of course. The books I've read this year are all three of the Gallaghers of Ardmore trilogy by Nora Roberts. I've read some of her earlier works and it was pleasant enough, and Michael insisted on buying the trilogy for me so I read it to appease him. The writing is really simplistic and hard to follow in a believability sense. I didn't find myself invested in any of the relationships of the trilogy and I wasn't buying this whole 'magic soulmate' business. As for watching.... ehh... we don't have cable and we have no plans to get it. We'll watch whatever fits our fancy on Netflix (reruns of Scrubs, anyone?). Besides that I'll watch a lot of Rooster Teeth stuff on YouTube.

I had Christmas Eve gifted and I loved it! I hope we can both nab some next Christmas :-)

Nora Roberts. I have tons of her books but I can't seem to wasn't to read them. I always reach for something else! Soul mates. Bah. I agree.

Scrubs!!! So funny! Love that show too Liz. I can see just having Netflix and internet too but my hubs would never go for that. He asks for so little I could never dream of requesting him to sacrifice TV. :-) Rooster Teeth?! Gotta Goigle that. Hopefully it is nothing like Creepy Pasta...

Rooster Teeth is a um..... mature language, potty humor type group of people that do a wide variety of content. They got their first big hit by making Red Vs. Blue, a machinima based off Halo. Then they just.... expanded. I like their Achievement Hunter group who do lots of Lets Plays in various video games. It helps me decide if I want the game or not.They also have a very toned down channel that's intended to be family friendly called Game Kids, where various kids of employees do Lets Plays with their parents. It's really cute :)

I loved this bomb!! I thought mine threw pretty strong, but I do have a small bathroom. (pretty sure I could fit my entire place in your living room & girls bedrooms..lol). I'm itching for a Lush trip.. got my eye on Sakura & Dragons Egg. :)

That bath bomb is gorgeous! I read the first Harry Dresden about a month ago and really enjoyed it, but have been putting off picking up the next one til I get through a couple other need-to-finishes. Too many books and tv shows!

I'm hit or miss with straight-up oud perfume, but one of my all-time top scents is 10 Corso Como, which has an almost gassy hit of oud right off the bat before it settles down (sounds delightful, doesnt't it? LOL).

I am ridiculously excited that your read the Dresden book!! Isn't he a character? I enjoy Bob the skull too.

Gassy. YEA. The one Oudh centered perfume I have does have a fecal tinge. Gah. But I am such a sicko. I try to not wear it in public. Lol I really wanna hear your Top Ten list Kate. Your perfume tastes are exciting! Corso Como? Writing down for my next Surrender to Chance purchase.