LOVE IT!
On Sunday evening, a couple friends, the HB and I had a fun time at LUSH on Queen’s “Steamy After-Hours Spa Night.” It was a nice, exclusive-feel, RSVP-only event where you chose to be pampered with either a “fresh LUSH facial, an environmentally-friendly 20 minute hand and arm massage or a beautifully effective 20 minute foot massage.” I don’t know what you would have chose but the HB and I were all-over the 20 minute foot massage!
This location on Queen is not the biggest and there isn’t a lot of moving room at the best of times, and lo and behold, it seemed like all those who had RSVP’d arrived at the 7 p.m. start-time – on-the-dot, which meant crowd-ed. At least that’s what it felt like at first with a lot of ‘scuse-me’s as people shuffled around looking at product while waiting their turn for whatever pampering they had chosen. (There were only a few station of each ‘pampering’ – 2 hand & arms stations, 1 foot station and 1 facial station. – but they brought another foot station out later, which really moved things along!)
But don’t get me wrong – it was ALL GOOD! I think it just took a bit of getting used to because we were in a store. After a while, and especially once the snacks and refreshments came out, it really felt like a friend’s small house party – only in a house that smelled really, really good, and where you wanted to eat everything around you – Oh My!
The staff here are all absolutely amazing as well, and it shows that they enjoy their jobs – I mean, c’mon, giving a complete stranger a 20 minute foot massage – and a great one at that - with a smile on your face the WHOLE night deserves HUGE kudos in my book. That’s a sales rock-star at their finest!
As a whole, it was very educational and I learned a lot about how many products LUSH actually carries. (I usually go there for one thing and one thing only – the Soft Coeur (Honeymooner) Massage Bar – which I’ve come to use as a perfume because it smells beautiful. It’s a sweet-to-do I learned from my sister awhile back. She is a LUSH fan to the fullest!)
But that night we went home with a few things that are completely new-to-me and just as great, and which I am sure are now staples in our vanity, including Ocean Salt body scrub and Flying Fox shower gel.
I’m pretty sure we spent a good two hours there and I felt wonderful when we left. We all left with a “steamy goody bag”, and one of the BEST-discoveries-ever was in that bag – a sample of LUSH’s Karma Kream Body Cream, which smells AMAZING and which means I smell extra-AMAZING! I’m not loyal to a body cream right now but have been on the hunt for one for years. It’s important to me that whatever i use is made up of all-natural ingredients, and I’ve tried many different brands from my local health food store including Kiss My Face, Burt's Bees and Attitude Organic and too many more to name them all here. Haven’t really fallen in love with any of them either because they didn’t really moisturize, were too expensive for a small amount or didn’t smell good.
So Karma Kream – you’re up next! Your company throws a great event, so I have a feeling you will not disappoint!
Check out LUSH events at www.lush.ca/shop/events/ (There's one this Saturday that me and the sis will be checking out - Official End of Summer Luau - so if there's still room/time, you should get in on this LUSH-action!
Love love,
If I Was A Rich Girl...Toronto
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