Lush Cruelty Free Kisses Event | Sarajevo

Lush strikes again! I adore their firm support of fighting animal testing. I imagine that I was as sad as they were to find out that the REACH legislation passed into law with the animal testing still in place. There is a long, long road ahead of everyone committed to ban animal cruelty in the beauty world. Nevertheless, initiative and creativity are never lacking when Lush comes in mind. Cruelty Free Kisses was the latest campaign organized by Lush and it was heavily focused on the importance of banning animal testing. The main event, or so to say, the highlight of the campaign was the attempt of setting a Guinness World Record on 6th July. Coincidence or not, the 6th of July is also the International Kissing Day so the two collided and it all made perfect sense – you will see why. The reason why everything falls into place is due to the way they wanted to set a new Guinness World Record. It was a record of the most lip prints collected within 12 consecutive hours. The record holders are currently Oriflame Slovakia with 22,174 lippies! What else was I to do other than pucker up along with everyone else and support the cause. These kisses were 100% cruelty-free because the prints were left by using Lush Emotional Brilliance range of lovely lipsticks. Would you even believe that some open minded male specimens puckered up as well? Kudos to you guys! I arrived later during the day and witnessed the entire procedure – synched time, T-shirts as canvas for lip prints, Emotional Brilliance lippies on display and lots of smiles and great laughs. My lipstick of choice was the Passionate one. Not usually what I go for but this was certainly a great opportunity to rock some bold lips. My make-up was pretty strong on the eyes – Maybelline Color Tattoo eye shadow in On and On Bronze mixed with Graphite from the Sleek iDivine Showstopper palette which I used in the socket. Eyes were also lined with the Artdeco eye pencil in Grey Leather. Eyebrows nicely groomed with the Revelique Eyebrow pencil (one of the greatest lates beauty discoveries). Face was prepped with La Roche-Posay Effaclar H and I added a bit of my Yves Saint Laurent Le Teint Touche Eclat Foundation. A little bit of Collistar Lifting Effect Concealer was dabbed underneath the eyes. Lips were bare with only a slick of Blistex lip balm which served as an excellent base for the Lush Passionate liquid lipstick. Hair was tightly pulled into a bun and since I know that my lovely Lush girls are always causual and in a good mood, I simply have put together a nicecasual outfit. White shirt with blue stripes with my favourite jeans and a nice sky blue belt. Oh, and I must not forget, my nails were coated with O.P.I nail polish in the infinite Samoan Sand. Lovely shade indeed! Nails look so polished and groomed without much hassle. I felt really comfortable in the store (as always) so I felt free to apply Passionate the way I normally would – with my fingers. I dabbed a bit on my hand and then picked up small amounts with my fingers and dabbed the lipstick on my lips. I got a nice stain effect and trust me when I tell you – these lipsticks are incredibly longwearing! I could not take the pigment off for more than 5 hours straight (and I nibbled on some cookies and drank soda). The place where I initially placed Passionate on my hand was stained. The only thing that took the lipstick off my lips and hand was the miraculous Bioderma H2O. Back to the event. I just wanted to mention how in such a great company I was. The “witnesses” during the entire procedure were two lovely girls I met and they were such cuties and so positive that I simply had to have some shots of us together. We swapped beauty tips and had a few laughs. It was a rather enjoyable evening altogether. We will know the results of the attempt in approximately 3 months and I sure do hope we broke that world record! If you would like to check out some more photos from the event you can do so by clicking here. Oh yes, I also bought a few bits from Lush so I cannot wait to show them to you in some of the next posts.

Lush ponovo napada! Mnogo ih volim zbog njihove
cvrste i nepopustljive borbe protiv testiranja na neduznim zivotinjicama.
Pretpostavljam da smo bili podjednako tuzni zbog saznanja da je REACH
inicijativa prosla u evropskom parlamentu s time da je testiranje na
zivotinjama jos na snazi. Potrebno je jos jako mnogo rada i vremena kako bi se
ta grozna praksa potpuno ukinula iz svijeta ljepote. Bez obzira na to,
inicijative i kreativnosti nikada ne manjka kada je Lush u pitanju. Cruelty Free Kisses je posljednja u nizu kampanja koje je Lush organizovao a veliki
fokus je bio upravo na znacaju ukidanja testiranja nad zivotinjama. Najbitniji
dogadjaj, odnosno vrhunac kampanje je definitivno bio pokusaj rusenja Ginisovog
svjetskog rekorda na dan 06.07. Slucajno ili ne, na isti dan pada i
Medjunarodni dan poljubaca i sve se medjusobno upotpunilo a objasniti cu i
zasto. Razlog zbog kojeg se sve savrseno uklapa lezi u nacinu na koji su
pokusali da obore svjetski rekod a to je bio rekord u kategoriji najvise
skupljenih otisaka usana/ poljubaca u okviru 12 uzastopnih sati. Trenutno taj
rekord drzi Oriflame tim iz Slovacke sa skupljenih cak 22,174 poljubaca! Sto mi je
drugo preostalo nego da i ja ostavim svoj poljubac zajedno sa ostalima na druzenju u Sarajevu (BBI centar) i
podrzim njihov cilj. Ovi su poljupci 100% liseni svake okrutnosti zato
sto su svi ostavljali svoje puse koristeci se sa Lush tecnim ruzevima iz linije
Emocionalna Brilijantnost. Vjerujete li da je cak i par primjeraka muskog roda
dalo svoj doprinos? Svaka cast. Ja sam stigla nesto kasnije tokom dana i
upratila sam citavu proceduru nadziranja pravila i detalja – sinhronizovano vrijeme,
pripremljene majice koje su posluzile kao platno na kojem smo ostavljali svoje
poljupce,  izlozeni Lush ruzevi u raznim bojama i mnogo dobrog raspolozenja.  Ja sam
odabrala Strastvenu (intenzivni fuksijasti ruz hladnog podtona). Nije nijansa koju
bih inace odabrala ali ovo je zaista bila super prilika da eksperimentisem sa
jarkim bojama na usnama. Oci su mi bile nesto jace nasminkane. Maybelline Color
Tattoo sjena u nijansi On and On Bronze, pomijesana sa nijansom Graphite iz
Sleek-ove iDivne Showstoppers palete. Takodjer sam ih malo uokvirila Artdeco
olovkom za oci u nijansi Grey Leather. Obrve sam uredila Reveliqe olovkom za
oci koja mi je jedno od najboljih posljednjih beauty otkrica. Lice sam pripremila sa La
Roche-Posay Effaclar H i nanijela sam malo svog Yves Saint Laurent Le
Teint Touche Eclat pudera. Ispod ociju sam utapkala malo Collistar Lifting
Effect korektora. Usne su bile skoro „gole“ uz samo tanak sloj Blistex balzama
za usne koji je posluzio kao izvrsna podloga za Strastvena tecni ruz.  Kosu sam podigla u pundjicu a posto znam da su
moje ljupke Lush dame uvijek opustene i dobro raspolozene, kombinovala sam
casual odjevnu kombinaciju koja se sastojala od bijele kosulje na plave
prugice, omiljenih farmerica i tankog kaisa boje neba. I nikako ne smijem
zaboraviti spomenuti da sam nosila O.P.I lak za nokte u vjecno lijepoj nijansi Samoan
Sand. Krasna boja i ruke sa njom izgledaju jako uredno bez mnogo truda.  Bas sam se osjecala opusteno (kao i uvijek
kada posjetim Lush) i dopustila sam sebi da nanesem tecni ruz kako bih i inace –
aplikatorom sam nanijela malu kolicinu na mesnati dio sake ispod palca i
prsticem pokupila malo po malo ruza te ga utapkavala na usne. Dobila sam jako
lijep stain efekat i vjerujte mi kada vam kazem da ovi Lush tecni ruzevi strasno
dugo traju (vjerujte da su me cak malo i uplasili!). Pored toga sto sam se
posluzila keksom i gaziranim sokom, ruz je ostao na usnama u punom intenzitetu
citavih pet sati! Jednako dugo se zadrzao na ruci na koju sam ga nanijela.
Jedina stvar kojom sam ga uspjela skinuti je cudesna Bioderma H2O. I sto se jos
ovog dogadjaja tice, zeljela sam spomenuti i da sam upoznala dvije krasne i
slatke djevojke koje su bile prisutne u funkciji svjedoka cjelokupnog postupka.
 Bile su mi tako simpaticne da sam ih
morala „oteti“ i napraviti koju fotkicu sa njima.  Razmijenile smo beauty savjete i dobro se
zabavile. Na kraju krajeva, bilo mi je jako lijepo. Sto se rezultata pokusaja
obaranja svjetskog rekorda tice, biti ce poznati za otprilike tri mjeseca i
drzim nam fige da smo uspjeli u toj namjeri! Ako zelite da pogledate jos slika
sa druzenja to mozete uciniti klikom ovdje. I da, kupila sam par sitnica iz
Lusha koje jedva cekam da vam pokazem.