everyday makeup

This is generally the makeup I wear everyday. Obviously I'll switch it up sometimes with lipsticks and blusher but in terms of my base (primer/foundation/concealer/powder) I usually stick to these products, If it's not broke don't fix it ;)

Face:

Chanel Perfection Lumiere in '40 Beige'

Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer in '3 medium'

Benefit Hello Flawless powder in 'Beige'

Benefit Hervana blush

MAC msf in 'soft and gentle'

Eyes/brows:

Benefit Magic Ink liquid liner

YSL faux cils mascara

Primark £1 lashes

Benefit Browzings in 'light'

Lips:

L'oreal lipstick in '254'

Revlon matte lipstick in '001 nude attitude'

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Cupcake (yummmm), Hunger Games trilogy (fave books everrr), Topshop loafers

Benefit blushes, snowww, my face!

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My Eyebrows

I've become pretty obsessed with my eyebrows the past few months, it might have something to do with the fact that since I've stated working for Benefit (at one of the boutiques in London where we have brow bars too) I have been trained in how to actually do brows, as in wax, tint, shape etc. And I absolutely LOVE it! I love doing other people's brows and seeing the transformation and how it completely just changes someones look. So I thought I'd show you the transformation in my eyebrows over the years...

So the first picture is what my eyebrows are like naturally (please excuse the scary huge pupils! I had taken some eye drops for an eye infection.. anyway this is the only picture I could find of my brows naturally) and as you can see they're basically invisible! They were like this up until I was about 16 because I didn't really know what to do with them and was too scared to fill them in because it really made me look so different. Thankfully though I finally did something about them and started ti fill them in.

The second picture is my eyebrows without any product on and not filled in. As you can see I have them tinted now and to keep the shape I wax them, usually I do it myself or sometimes one of the other girls I work with does it. I personally much prefer waxing to threading as I think it hurts less and gives just as nice a shape.

The last picture is of my brows filled in with Benefit's browzings powder and wax duo in 'light'.I really like this product because I think it looks quite natural and it's quite easy to control how much of the powder and wax you apply. Also I just use a slanted eyebrow brush to apply it. I mainly use it at the front of my brows because this is where the hair is quite sparse and I like to have quite a square shape to them. Some people may think that my eyebrows are to dark, or thick, or bold but this is how I personally like them :)

But as you can see a bit of eyebrow grooming makes SUCH a different and I'm really quite happy with how my brows are at the moment and I would really recommend browzings for filling them in.

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Hervana

Working for Benefit certainly has its... ermm Benfefits (sorry for thre pun!). Especially working in the boutiques, where we usually get to release new products before the concessions. It means as soon as we get new stock in such as testers we get to have a bit of a play around. Even though this product has already been released in the US and by the time I post this it will have probably been released in the UK too, I wanted to talk about the newest box powder from Benefit - Hervana.

To be completely honest when I first saw preview images of this new blush I was veryyyyy skeptical as the colour range seemed very purple, not really my thing! Reading reviews on the US site didn't help either as almost everyone was comparing it to Dandelion and the newly discontinued (thank god!) Throb. Basically I though it was going to be another very pale, pastel (not in a good way, more like in a poorly pigmented way) blush that would only suit pale skin types, like the previously mentioned.

I was happily surprised when I finally got my hands on this little beaut though! Everything I thought that it would be, it in fact wasn't. Hervana is a lovely, almost matte, berry shade blush with a surprising amount of pigment that suits basically any skin tone. In terms of the packaging I can't really fault it either, I really quite like the purple toned heaven theme, plus the new packaging comes with a little mirror and a better quality brush! Sounds perfect right? Well actually, yeah it pretty much is in my opinion! Maybe it's because it's my new shiny toy that I don't want to stop playing with but I genuinely can't stop myself from reaching for Hervana in the morning to complete my look.

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