Benefit : How to look the best at everything Review

The packaging is soooo beautiful!! (drools)

Benefit is my all time favourite beauty brand, its so beautiful the packaging and products just ooze class and quality. Benefit Browzings was my first self purchased high end beauty product that I still to this day swear by, I bought it at the tender age of 13 and it changed my life (slit exaggeration but its really is amazing)

As I bought it handing over £23 seemed like a lot for this little black box of a simple powder and wax. But oh how I was wrong, as the money  left my hand the beauty addiction began, I started searching youtube for everything and anything with the word 'makeup' in the title then subscriptions began and that was it I was addicted.

Recently for Christmas I was given the Benefit How to look the best at everything kit, from my godmother. It was an unexpected gift as I never really get makeup for xmas I usually just buy my own throughout the year. But as I opened the box I knew id love it, it contained a small Porefessional, hello flawless oxygen wow foundation 2 shades of the infamous boi-ing concealer and hello flawless powder. Just what I needed.

I'd always wanted to try the porefessional as id heard amazing things about it but id never had problems with large pores until just before xmas ironically, and I planned to purchase it with my Christmas money. The porefessional is amazing it glides on like silk and closes the pores to within an inch of there life. It gives a great base for all skin types, personally i never have a problem with my foundation but if anything the staying power of my foundation never lasts and with my freckles full coverage just isn't an option, since using the porefessional religiously I've noticed my foundation staying on a lot longer and just looking 100% better and more flawless. Ammmmmmazzzzziiiinnnnnggggg!!!

Next I tried the Oxygen wow foundation, I used my real techniques expert face brush to apply it, and expected amazing things from the foundation as id heard it was brilliant, but to be honest it wasn't my favourite, maybe its due to my outstanding love for my Loreal Lumi Magique foundation but I felt it didn't apply smoothly and was rather patchy on my combination skin. I don't really have any blemishes to cover as ive never been prone to spots or acne just my freckles and the odd red patch to cover, but I found the coverage limited, I used two pumps as it is the small tester size I thought 2 pumps should be sufficient but I felt I would need at least 3 to get a full face coverage! I was overall disappointed, however i did like the satin feel and colour match of the foundation it just didn't live up to my expectations, which i was really disappointed in considering this was my first try of a benefit foundation.

Next up was boi-ing, id previously used boi-ing from my big beautiful eyes palette in e shade 03 but for some reason in my palette the formulation seemed to be verrrrryyy dry and powdery so i never really used it, so when i saw 2 shades in the kit i thought id give them another try and I'm glad i did.

They were totally different Benefit : How to look the best at everything Review not sure if the formulation has changed or i just had a bad pick in my eyes palette but my boiing concealers in shades 02 and 03 have been life savers, especially with my sleepless nights watching youtube and new girl mounting up. Boi-ing is definitely a must buy for a full coverage thick concealer, that makes dark circles and redness vanish!M

Next up is my favourite of the bunch the hello flawless powder in the shade 'I'm so bunny' honey (such a cute name!!) which also comes with a cute little powder brush. This powder is fabulous, it gives a gorgeous medium coverage un powdery and finish with a beautiful glow. I loooooveee it! It has a lot of yellowy tones so compliment all skin and gives a glowy, sun kissed look without looking too cakey. I have used this product everyday since christmas and absolutely adore it despite never really using anything other than a translucent powder beforehand just to set my oily t zone. (Ewww) i really cant praise this product enouugh and as soon as i run out (which will be soon) im running straight to my nearest benefit counter to stock back up.


Overall the kit is brilliant and for £24.50 your definatly getting your moneys worth, the sizes of the products are all very reasonable and individually packaged for easy storage (except the powder) and the concealers are in great little plastic case so can be easily thrown in your makeup bag for application. I love this kit.

9/10

 (this kit lost a mark for the foundation expectations and the fact the powder is not individually packaged so is not easy to use on the go)

But overall verryy good
Well done benefit another great success!!

Soph x