Review: Lush Charlotte Island

I've been to Lush last week. I don't usually go there even though I have one near me when I'm in Ljubljana. So I finally bought H'Suan Wen Hua hair treatment which I'll review in the next days and Charlotte Island (that perfume bottle is from Refan and it's D&G Light Blue).

Charlotte Island is a wash-off tan, a sort of instant tan but without the annoying self-tanning scent. It a relatively thick, chocolate brown cream with some red tones. The application is very easy and even, of course providing you have a relatively smooth skin (it applies uneven on parts with body hair). On the skin the colour is bronze with some red undertones, which in some lights can make you look a bit sunburned (however my cousin and mom say it looks fine and that I'm overreacting), it also contains a tinny bit of shimmer. With one application you get a faint but noticeable tan and you can layer it. It dries fast and it doesn't stain the clothes. There are two things that really bother me. First it's the bottle. I hate Lush bottles. The plastic is way to hard so the bottle is ridiculously hard to squeeze. Second it's the scent. The sales woman said it smells of chocolate and some reviewers on MUA said it has a tropical scent. Well I don't smell anything tropical. It kind of smells like old chocolate, I would describe it as a scent of an old stuffy room, sort of musky. It's very strong  and it lingers for hours. I just really dislike it. I like the idea of the wash-off tan, this is one of the rare ones (if not the only one) available in Slovenia, but I really doubt I'll repurchase it. A 100 ml bottle costs around 8� here, there is also 250 ml bottle available.

Edit: It definitely makes me look sunburned. The colour is just to red. I applied it all over my legs and the first comment I got from my mom was why do my legs look so red and that they look sunburned. If you're really pale don't buy it.

Charlotte Island je obarvana krema za telo, ki da efekt takoj�nje zagorelosti in se preprosto spere. Gre za �e kar gosto kremo cokoladne barve z nekaj rdecimi toni. Nanos je enostaven in enakomeren, seveda ce ima� relativno gladko ko�o (namrec �e kar neenakomerno se na nana�a na nedepiliranih predelih). Nane�ena na ko�o izgleda kot lep zagorel ten ampak z nekaj rdecimi toni, ki v dolocenih svetlobah lahko izgleda kot rahla opecenost (ceprav moja sestricna in mami pravita da izgleda cisto v redu in da pretiravam). Ima tudi nekaj res drobnih in redkih ble�cic. Z enim nanosom dobi� rahlo ampak dovolj opazno barvo. Na ko�i se hitro posu�i in se ne prenese na oblacila. Dve stvari me zelo motijo. Prvo je embala�a. Vse Lusheve fla�ke so narejene iz pretrde plastike, ki jo je skoraj nemogoce stisniti. Drugo pa je vonj. Prodajalka je rekla da di�i po cokoladi, na MUA pa ga nekateri opisujejo kot tropski vonj. Jaz ne voham nicesar tropskega. Mogoce malo di�i po stari cokoladi ampak jaz bi vonj opisala kot vonj po stari, zatohli sobi, pac enostavno zoprn. Vonj se obdr�i zelo dolgo in je precej mocan. V�ec mi je ideja instantne zagorelosti ampak dvomim, da bom tole �e kdaj kupila, kljub temu da je eden izmed redkih (ce ne celo edini) wash-off tan. 100 ml fla�ka stane okrog 8�, dobi se �e v 250 ml izvedbi.

Edit: Definitivno da opecen videz. Enostavno je barva prevec rdeca. Nanesla sem jo po nogah in prvi komentar, ki sem ga dobila od mami je bil zakaj so moje noge tako rdece in ce me je opeklo sonce. Ce ste zelo svetli je ne kupujte.

Taken in sunlight: