Categorized: Benefit

One might think that by time they’re in their 30′s, acne would be a thing of the past. But sadly, not always. In fact I may have more break-outs now than I did when I was in my teens!

Luckily Benefit Boo Boo Zap! is here. This is the same formula they had before, but in new pretty packaging.

The day I received this in the mail I was in the midst of a huge pimple on my chin. Not the kind you can easily cover up either. More like the kind where you wear a Band-aid over it and pretend you cut your face while shaving…No?

But don’t worry I will spare you a revolting close-up shot of said pimple.

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This spring Benefit wants to send you on vacation with their Cabana Glama Makeup Kit. Well at least they want you to look like you went on vacation!

Inside you will find mini versions of all the best of their faux tanning products:

• Hoola bronzing powder (with brush)
• Posietint lip & cheek stain
• Some Kind-a-Gorgeous medium foundation faker
• Three eyeshadow shades: Peach Fizz, Bronze Buzz, Cocoa Pizzazz
• Double-ended applicator

Open her up and you see a large mirror as well as a pull out guide that shows examples of various ways to wear the products. Oh and some nice “vacation photos”.

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Benefit Hello Flawless! Oxygen Wow Brightening Makeup is a new product out this spring.

This liquid foundation comes in nine shades and is oil-free, brightening and contains an SPF of 25 PA +++. PA refers to the reflection grade of the UVA filter. A three star rating is the highest you can get, so that’s good!

It also includes something called Oxygen Wow Hydrating Complex. This complex helps boost cellular respiration for a “plumping effect”, protects against environmental stresses and contains vitamins C and E which help prevent signs of aging. Since I seem to be aging 2 years every month, I am not going to complain!

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The year was 1995 (or so) and I was 23 years old. I was sitting in my hairdressers chair gazing longingly at something I had never noticed before. Her incredibly perfect, arched eyebrows. So I decided to ask her about them and it turned out, she got them done in the salon by a new brow specialist they hired. A brow specialist who hailed from the Benefit Brow Bar previously.

I made my first appointment, not really knowing what to expect since I had never had waxing of any kind done before. It was so easy, painless and amazing. The results were… I looked SO MUCH BETTER!

I had kinda tried in a very half-assed way to get my brows into some sort of arched shape before that. I think the first time I attempted this I was probably between 19-20. I had no clue what I was doing so of course I over-plucked in all the wrong places, and they just looked bad. I didn’t “get” the concept of filling them in until I started having them waxed, so they were pale and hideous. I looked kind of like an alien with the top half of my face looking washed out.

But those were the 90′s when eyebrow waxing just wasn’t as common knowledge as it is now. At least that’s my excuse.

Now I know better. Since then I have fairly regularly been getting my brows shaped and waxed and always, always filling them in.

Now I know that eyebrows shape your entire face. They set “the tone” for everything else.

Now I know that not having them defined and orderly makes my whole face look older, droopy, surly.

Now I know that a simple thing like getting them shape immediately brightens and lifts my entire face, and makes me look younger. It also makes my eye makeup look 1,000,000 times better.

Luckily for us all Cameron Tuttle has written a book called Raising Eyebrows: Your Personal Guide to Fabulous Brows.

I read this whole book this past weekend and can say that is covers anything and everything you need to know about eyebrows. From the history of them to what will look right on you to diagrams, it is basically an eyebrow encyclopedia.

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As you may have heard, Benefit has a new blush coming out in January called Hervana.

This blush is a combination of four gorgeous shades: lucky shell, divine peach, heavenly rose and berry delight, that combine together into one gorgeous pink color.

This won’t be released until January, however today they are having a one day only flash sale and you can get it early!

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