Sometimes I Get a Little Silly

Having recently sat two out of four exams for this semester, Law and Psychology, I went a little bit silly today. I popped into the Body Shop with the aim (not exactly outcome) of checking out some of those oily things you set on fire ... oil burners I believe they are called. I saw one on trademe.co.nz which was gingerbread flavoured and that got me a little bit curious.

Apparently Christmas Has Been Moved To November

The Shops are spreading their X-mas joy. The Body Shop has two new Christmassy fragrances - Cranberry Joy and Spiced Vanilla - both very warm, heavy, spiced fragrances. I got a bit sucked in and bought both fragrance's lip balms.

Spiced Vanilla and Cranberry Joy Lip Blams - NZD$12 for 13g from The Body Shop

This may have been silly, as I don't like either Christmas or lip balm


The cranberry one is a light baby pink with shimmer and the vanilla is a creamy colour with shimmer. I apologise for the rubbish picture but you get an idea of the moisture and shimmer.

So far so good, my lips feel moisturised, and I do get very dry lips quite frequently and they taste nice and if they do turn out to be duds, at least they smell good. I didn't realise till the bus ride home that I used to have a toy dog who smelt exactly the same as vanilla spice. I'm probably going to buy several more of these for christmas gifts, and because I really like the packaging which is the little metal tin version as opposed to the plastic containers which are the norm for the Body Shop. Maybe I have a use for lip balms after all

Coming up I have more splurge purchases and a tinted moisturiser review

Bonus: I got a free sample of the Vanilla Spice shower gel too, just for being pretty I guess :P