I'm a Lush newbie and was gifted a Snow Fairy box for Christmas by my hubby.
I used my Fairy Dust for the first time by sprinkling a little onto my fingers, rubbing my hands together and spreading it over my chest and arms but I think I underestimated the amount of glitter in there, as my chest and collarbone had some serious twinkle going on. I looked like I belonged as an extra on one of the "Twilight" movies. Lol!
I came out the bathroom and hubby asked "What's with the stripper glitter?", so I thanked him and told him it was the powder that HE bought me for Christmas and that provided a good chuckle and led to him calling me "Sparkles" all morning. Haha.
So, what's the best way to apply Fairy Dust? Well, the instructions say to apply a little using fingertips (and that didn't work too well for me), others choose to squeeze the plastic flip top bottle to create a Fairy Dust cloud to walk through and then there are those who multi-task with it and use it as a body powder on a powder puff, use it as a facial highlighter or even a room fragrancer (by sprinkling some on the carpet before vacuuming).
Personally, I experimented with with an old powder brush that I'd replaced and used the brush to apply a very light dusting of the pale pink powder to my body. This worked so much better than using my hands. I ended up with the wonderful, sweet scent of Fairy Dust and just a light shimmer on my décolleté, collarbone and shoulders instead of being very glittery and sparkly.
Would I buy another bottle of Fairy Dust? Probably not. Don't get me wrong, I love the smell and I love the fine powder, I'm just not a fan of that much glitter and it seems like the amount of glitter seems to vary from one batch to another. If Lush did a glitter-free version, I'd definitely consider it (but then it would't really be Fairy Dust, would it?).
Not normally a talc powder kind of girl and if this didn't come in the Christmas gift box for Snow Fairy then I wouldn't have brought it.
Filled with a ground up powder of baby pink that is scattered amongst glitters, once applied to your skin it has this almost sticky quality that does wear off after a while to leave a fairy sparkle all over your body, which is cute, who doesn't love a bit of sparkle right.
Fragrance though is the problem with this product, from opening the lid the waft of warm, sweet almost sickening candy floss and pear drops scent assaulted my nostrils. In for a penny, I popped it on my skin nonetheless in the event that the scent mellowed on my skin, but it didn't. There is hints of strawberry but it just smells like those sugar coated strawberry laces and sherbet. If you are into these super sweet candy scents then you are going to love this. There is no way that this dust smells like a powder version of my beloved snow fairy shower gel, that is far more adult and refined in its scents.