Usually I can deal with coffee smells - I like the smell of brewing coffee, coffee houses, coffee scrubs - so when Lush bought out a coffee face and body mask I was more than interested. Luckily, I got a sample in one of my orders, so I could try before I bought.
Good LORD. The smell!!!! I was warned by member Pintsize that the coffee mask smelled like cigarettes and she was not wrong! The smell of it is absolutely foul - or maybe my coffee palette isn't that refined. Either way, it smells rank.
The brown gloop is exactly that, and filled with little tiny chunks of coffee. I put some on after I had washed and exfoliated my face, and it went on easy enough, and 'dried' quickly, leaving the coffee granules stuck to my face.
This is the weird thing though - the awful ashtray smell had disappeared and was instead replaced with a weird musky cougar perfume smell. It was a bit over powering and I wasn't too impressed with it. But the results of the mask were awesome, and I would buy a small tub just for the lovely way it makes my skin feel.
I was so excited when this came out. I LOVE coffee, the scent, the taste mmmm coffee. So of course I had to buy it, it would be very rude not too.
It comes in the standard black lush tub. I brought this in the 150g tub. Don't forget take 5 empty tubs back for a free fresh face mask.
The texture of this brown mask is on the thinner side. Unless I am completely hopeless, I feel like I have to be very careful when I apply it to my face so I'm not dropping it everywhere. It has coffee grounds in it too making it the perfect 2 in 1.. Mask and exfoliator. The scent is coffee but with a very sweet twist. It's not overpowering and it's nice to the nose.
I apply a thin layer and let it do its thing for 10 minutes, this mask doesn't dry on your skin. Once I'm finished I give it a gentle rub round my mug gently exfoliating away all the dry flakey bits from my skin.
One tip I have with this is, its best used in the shower. The coffee grounds go everywhere and are difficult to wash away.
Once I dry my face my skin looks clear and really refreshed, it also feels really soft. A complete turn around from the dry dull state it's in before I use the face mask. I love this face mask and will be repurchasing.