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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Most Worn Lipsticks

Sooo I was wondering what beauty product would take

the honour of being my first official blog post and there's nothing I love more than a bit of lippy, so it was inevitable that I would

have to show some love for my faves! I wanted to show a mixture of colours, as usually on a day to day basis I'm likely to be wearing a nude shade and it wouldn't be much fun to look at four identical pictures to look at now, would it? Sooo I've picked my fave pink, nude, red and coral(ish) :)

Top L-R: MAC Viva Glam Gaga, GOSH Darling

Bottom L-R: Nars Heat Wave, Barry M #147

(Sorry about the strange lighting, I had to use flash otherwise the colours would have looked completely different!)

- MAC Viva Glam Gaga: When I first got this lipstick it was a bit of spur of the moment buy and I was unsure of how much use I would get out of it. But I can honestly say that this is probably my most worn lipstick when I go on a night out! I love that it's a bit bright but nothing too OTT as I have a bit of a phobia of wearing bright coloured makeup.

- GOSH Darling: This is my most worn lipstick of all time. OF. ALL. TIME. No doubt about it! I have genuinely gone through about 8 or 9 tubes of it. I wear it pretty much everyday and I really do think its the perfect pinky/peachy nude. I do also love MAC's creme d'nude and myth but in my opinion the GOSH alternative has a much more pleasant formula.

- NARS heat wave: So as I previously mentioned, I do have a bit of a phobia of wearing bright makeup especially lipsticks as my lips are quite thin and I think they emphasise this. However every girl has to own a red lipstick right? And I really do love this one and find it's bet worn with a simple black cat winged eyeliner look.

- Barry M #147: This is my summer lipstick and has that kind of coral-ish tone that has been so popular this summer in terms of makeup (& fashion!). I think it's really nice and wearable and goes with pretty much any eye makeup look. Lovely! :)

Thanks for reading and I hope you're all enjoying this warm-ish weather we're having! :)

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