Hydrate and Conceal with Benefit's Fakeup!

retails at €26.50

Why hello there my lovelies!

On Friday evening last I was invited to a Benefit event to show us bloggers their newest product 'Fakeup'. Before I talk about this amazing new product I just want to take a minute to show you the kindness of Benefit who always throw the most amazing parties. Bubbles for everyone[not me- driving :-(] and oodles of yummy food including the cute as a button picnic style fish and chips. 

Now- back to the main post!

What is this 'Fakeup' I'm on about you are thinking? Well it's essentially an under eye concealer that has a ring of vitamin E and Apple Seed extract... huh? Basically this means that not only will you be hiding away your dark circles but you'll be doing your skin wonders. It won't crease and will last all day. 

We were all colour matched by the amazing Mark I of course am the palest of the pale(I don't look it at times but trust me-I am!) 

They come in 3 shades; Light, Medium and Deep. I was very lucky to receive all 3 the other night and boy did I have a field day when I was getting my self dolled up to go out last night. 

I used the light shade under my eyes, down the bridge of my nose and a little on my forehead I then contoured with the deep shade. I love contouring with cream products and this is a gem, easy to blend and a beautiful dewy finish too. You can see the results on me below. I can honestly tell you that throughout the night my makeup stayed on without the need for touch ups(well bar my lippy!) which was great so I could spend more time dancing the night away!

 We also got the Hello Flawless powder in honour of it's Birthday which I will review at a later date when I've used it a little. 

I hope you guys get a chance to check out this new concealer and if you do let me know your thoughts bur for now I hope you are all enjoying your paddies day while I nurse an incredibly large hangover..

All the best,

Always,

Alice May xx

ps last night I was asked for not my number but my twitter... weird. (commence twitter censor!)

Photo robbed from the Benefit facebook page!

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Benefit Blogger Challenge: My Dad Does My Makeup!

Us bloggers were challenged to a rather fun competition with a rather great prize so naturally I accepted right away!

The Challenge 
Have a man in your life(be it your Brother, Boyfriend, Son, Dad or a man you grab off the street!) do your makeup have him do a full face makeup to include but not limited to foundation, concealer, blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara

Well I thought doing this with my Dad would be fun as he is the most unfeminine person I know and doesn't know a scrap about makeup. Perfect.

I filmed the whole thing which is on my YouTube channel but here are some photo's I took. I was very surprised with the result, I honestly thought I'd look a mess but with a few more goes I think he'd be pretty good! Weirdly the foundation looked far more 'yellow-y orange' but normally it matches so I don't know what happened there ha ha! He was also very enthusiastic and quite the little performer!

The Products Dad used(purple eye shadow in palette)

 Until next time I hope you're all well and I'll talk to you all soon,
Wish me luck!

Alice x

products used

-Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen WOW foundation in 'Cheers to Me' Champagne 

-Boi-ing concealor in 01

-Inglot loose powder

-Mac 'Pink Swoon' Blush

-Inglot purple eye shadow in 439

-MUD eyeliner pencil

-Rimmel scandaleyes mascara

-Mac eyebrow pencil 'Brunette'

-Mac Viva Glam lipstick 'Nicki'

-Benefit Hoola bronzer

Benefit's First Cream Blush Reveal!

I mentioned in the last post that we were shown a brand new product by Benefit but wasn't sure if we could talk about it.. turns out. We can(yeay!). Benefit always realeses something just gawjuz at the end of January usually a box powder(who said Hoola bronzer!?..okay I'll stop) but they decided to shake things up and have invented this cream blush/highligher!

The lighting wasn't the best in the event location and I kinda forgot to take a photo of the swatch on my hand.

Basically there are 3 colours:

Pink Blush

Coral Blush

Highlighter

So you can just swipe it on your cheek, blend and voila the perfect cheek combo! You can always pick out one of the colours of blush and apply it to your lips(does bene tint have cometition!?) 

The wee slogan behind this product is 'You have the right to get gorgeous'. How cute is that!

The name of this product is(drum roll please) 'Fine One One' and will be available to buy at the end of January 2013(well that's scary to write!)

How excited are you? Will you be snapping one of  these up?

Let me know in comment form!

Until next time I hope you're all well and I'l talk to you soon,

Alice x

Benefit Blogger Christmas Party!

Hey guys so I had the awesome pleasure of attending the Benefit Blogger Christmas Party(I know, the Christmas season starts earlier and earlier each year!) last night in Dublin and you guyyys it was so much fun! Of course a lot of my lovely blogger friends were there but some I had never met before were there too and I think you may have gathered how much I love to meet new people!

Okay okay sorry I'll get onto the fun stuff!
Mark, benefits makeup artist for Ireland(who is amazing by the way!) showed us all of the Christmas sets as well as sneaky little something but as of right now I'm not sure If I'm allowed to talk about it so shh! 

The sets this year are of course amazing, I always love having a gander at the sets each Christmas and this year was no different! They all have really cute packaging(when does benefit ever not?!) with a lot of them in mini suitcases that will come in handy for storage(and we all know how much I love a bit of storage!).

(picture from the Benefit website)

I think my favourite would have to be the 'Sexy Little Stowaways' it has a hoola bronzer, need I say more? I am obsessed to the extreme with it. It will feature strongly in my 'my makeup story' when I finally make the video that is! The set also includes:

• it’s potent! eye cream brightening eye cream to fade dark circles
• the POREfessional PRO balm to minimise the appearance of pores
• BADgal lash mascara
• stay don’t stray stay-put primer for concealers & eyeshadows
• ooh la lift instant under-eye brightening boost
• chachatint mango-tinted lip & cheek stain
• sun beam golden bronze complexion highlighter
• bella bamba a 3D brightening pink face powder
• “that gal” brightening face primer

I had the chance to really play with the it’s potent! eye cream brightening eye cream today and I have to say I'm a convert! Then of course who doesn't luke the bad gal mascara? Okay, I can't hide it I love everything about the set, it's totes amazeballs! This retails at £25 which is about €30(we were told the prices in euro but goldfish memory here can't remember exactly!)

All the Christmas sets are available in store now so get yours quick!

I would talk all day about all of the stuff in the Christmas sets but this post is all ready longer then I anticipated..!

We received something awesome but I want to play with it a little and then I'll post a full review so for now I'll leave you with some photo's of the evening so you can feel apart of the extravaganza! 

Have a mosey at your local counter or online as well which is linked here.

Until next time I hope you're all well and I'll talk to you soon,

Alice x

One of the beautiful displays

Mark playing the buzzer game that I honestly didn't play because I don't like losing and it seemed pretty impossible!

Strike a pose!

A little sneak into the review coming up!