The Bubble Bath Problem!

So with the holiday season fast approaching (Chanukah is in FIVE weeks?!!?! How did THAT happen?) companies are going CRAZY with new and limited edition releases. The problem is that I have A TON of bubble baths! I am trying sooooooooooooooo hard to use them up and work through what I have. My stash as of now consists of:

And my bubble bars:

See? I have a TON! I need no more. But I want soooooooo many of the holiday releases! I am having a very hard time justifying the purchase or addition of anymore bath products at this point but want so many. I do take a bubble bath at least 3 or 4 times a week and am working through them. So here is what I have gotten through in the last month

So here is the entire stash as of last week (a bubble bar and a bit are gone since)

And I am going to try really really hard to NOT buy any more at least through Christmas. I do plan to get one or two of the new Lush Crackling products and a few of the play dough type ones because, well, come on!! How could I not. But otherwise my goal is to work my way through this before then. I figure at four baths a week for 8 weeks....... That is only 32 baths so theoretically I could finish about 8 bubble bars. That would leave me only about 1.5 or two bubble bars. Sigh......... The never ending stash....... I may just have to give up and give in to the stash! Though I will do my best not to choose THAT option!

Moonalisa Chocolate Mint Lavender Bubbling Bath Brew

So this is the packaging. It comes in a ziplock bag in side a paper pouch. I gave this only 7 out of 10 as a possible score for the packaging part and let me explain why. I was gifted this. Meaning I had no idea what it was and needed to get all my info from the packaging. I noticed it said between a quarter and a half cup of product in the bath, but do you have any idea how much is in this bag? I hate when it doesn't tell you what you are getting. It turns out as you can see after I poured the entire bag into a half cup measuring cup that you get about a quarter of a cup. Now the fact that she says you need between a quarter and a half a cup I personally think she should have either given a half a cup or said you only need a quarter cup. But it is likely if you have a big bathtub or like a ton of bubbles you wont get enough. So its possible that this is LESS than a single portion. That is a big oversight on her part I think!

Now as you can see from the above pictures this actually bubbled quite a bit. I expect a bathtub full of bubbles and this did not let me down! A quarter cup was as it turns out a very good amount. But as you will notice below I only gave this a 5 out of 10 for bubbles. Let me show you why. Look at the next picture. That is FIFTEEN minutes later! I like bubbles to last through my 30 minute to 60 minute bath. I dont expect a full bathtub after an hour, but I expect some bubbles to be left. And I CERTAINLY expect bubbles to be there after only 15 minutes. So sadly this lost major points in that area.

Now water texture was a hard one. I gave it a 5. There was nothing wrong with the water texture. There was nothing good about the water texture. It was just water. But if you will look closely in the third and fourth water pictures, you will notice that there are lines where it didn't all dissolve. This didn't cause a problem but it was worth noting. I noticed no difference in the quality of the water in any way.

Now smell. I opened the package and though, its ok. Nothing fantastic. Then I added it to the water and WOW! You could really smell it! It was quite a lovely smell though it was subtle. Nothing too sweet that it should turn someone off. Overall I really enjoyed the smell!!

So as this was gifted to me I have no clue what the cost so I am disregarding it in the review. So all in all 25/40 was its final tally. Not a bad score, but certainly not great. I would not warn anyone away from this brand at all but at the same time, I have tried others that I personally feel were much better!

Have you tried Moonalisa products before? If so what did you think?

Secret Exchange - Goblins & Ghouls Edition - Take One!

So as most of you who read my blog regularly know, I organize a series of Secret Santa type exchanges that occur throughout the year. Well the first of the two packages I will be receiving came today. (You get the option to play once - give a gift and get a gift, or play twice and give two gifts and get two gifts). 

Now a girlfriend was with me when I went to pick this up at the post office and she was as excited as I was to open this! She said she never really understood the excitement of joy of my doing this until now. She was seriously as excited as I was. "This must be what if feels like Christmas morning if we celebrated that!!" she said. And you know what? Its TOTALLY true! This is exactly what I expect Christmas morning would feel like!

I can not get over how pretty these fake leaves are! Look how pretty the packaging was! And all the large foil glitter leaves as well!

All the cute little packages that were in the box! Look how autumn themed and halloween themed it is!

This one didnt survive the trip 100%. It kinda lost its ribbon! So it was the first one I opened!!

And this was the most awkward part of unwrapping this. I think I made my girlfriend a little scared by how much I jumped up and down when I got this one!! OMG!!! HAVE YOU SEEN THIS??!!!! This polish in real life is 1000x times more awesome than online pictures make it seem. Have you ever gone crazy over a polish you saw online and wanted it and wanted it and FINALLY got it and then it was just kind of blah.....? Well this is the exact opposite. It is ten times more awesome than even I thought it was!!!!! Butter London Stag Do!!

Next package!

OMG!!!!!!!! FISHWIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was another polish that I desperately wanted and also cant get here. Its a light blue holographic polish that is amazingly awesome. I honestly think Butter London has outdone themselves this holiday season! Its AMAZEBALLZ!!!!!!

At this point I am pretty sure at this point that it cant get any better at all.

And then I get this. OH MY GOSH. I have been wanting to try Picture Polishes for sooooo long. And this one is GORGEOUS!!

And then I opened this.

I have no clue what brand it is, but asside from the light purple with holographic microglitter that is its awesomeness, look at the name!!! Its named for ME!!!!!!!! Shayna's Scattered Sky!!!! How freaking amazing is THAT???

I swear this box never ends!

I have never tried a Smitten Polish before. This one is a gorgeous green glitter.

And then I saw this. OMG. Really?? I had four polishes on the top of my wishlist. Four Butter Londons that I had no way to purchase here in Canada. And then look at this: A third of those four!!!! Billy No Mates!!!

This is the second Elevation Polish I own but the bottle is totally different. I guess she changed the bottles! This one is gorgeous. And looking at it I cant help but wonder if the polish with my name on it is made by Elevation? Its the same bottle. Hmm...... The shimmer in this is beyond amazing!

This one is so sparkly!!! Pahlish! I have only tried one of Pahlish's colours before and it wasn't a "me" colour. I cant wait to try this one!

OMG Gelous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been DYING to try this!

Another brand I have never tried! And its a gorgeous purple. Kind of reminds me of Chanel Paradoxal but with more insane shimmer!

And I havent even gotten to the pumpkin bags yet!!

These are candle tarts. I am not quite sure how to use these. I assume a tart burner is similar to a scented oil burner? But the chocolate crack one is so big!! Do I need to find a tart warmer that can hold a tart this big? Imagine an eskimo pie - that is how big this is!

Udderly smooth udder cream, nail stickers and a bubble bath. I have already used up the bubble bath this morning!

I mentioned on a different thread that I was looking for some wet n wild shine polishes for stamping, and look what my wonderful ghost sent me!

Mango Oil and a mini Candeo polish in Joker. Another brand I dont think I have ever tried before!

Three more wet n wild polishes!!

And I really wish I could somehow let you guys see the quality of this card. Its GORGEOUS!! Its thick cardboard and looks handmade and is just simply gorgeous!!!

And a typed up letter inside the card:

And who is M? Who is my amazingly awesome secret ghost? SaraLaughs!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

And just to give you an idea of how much wrapping there was, look at the kitchen doorway in the top left of this photo. I was going to trim the picture but I wanted you to get a sense of scale! My friend said it as like a big pile of leaves and we should jump into it. I am thinking that that would have been a very bad plan considering that its a hardwood floor underneath!

And everything together!

All the polishes!!

A GINOURMOUS THANK YOU TO MY 

AWESOME AMAZING 

WONDERFUL SECRET BUDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!