Benefit from these essential top 5 products!

I love budget brands, but just recently I have treated myself to some higher end cosmetics and have found some products from Benefit that I just can’t live without.  These products are well worth checking out if you have some money to spare – they have become a vital part of my daily beauty routine and a lot of them deliver amazing results and have turned out to be well worth the price!  My one piece of Benefit advice though – don’t buy from eBay.  I am sure that there are genuine sellers out there, but for every genuine seller there are at least 10 fakes and you just never know what you might get.  The worst I had was a Get Even! That brought me out in a rash. On my face.  It wasn’t pleasant!  So buy online or in store wherever possible – but also look out for minis, mini-sets and offers as you can often get a hold of 8-10ml trial sizes so that you can try and see if a product is for you!

So, without further ado...here are my top 5 miracle Benefit products:

1.  The POREfessional

Here's my review from the website, which pretty much says it all.  This is the perfect smoothing, silky base.  Makes my blackheads vanish.

I have combination skin which unfortunately includes blackheads on my nose and enlarged pores at the side of my nose. This product makes the pores seemingly close and vanish and when finished with some concealer/foundation and powder, you can't see the blackheads at all. I know this product only masks them, but that's fine by me!! The minute I get blackheads out they come back anyway so I need coverage and this product delivers. It makes the rest of my skin feel silky but matte and my BB cream goes on top nicely, creating a flawless finish. Highly recommended for problem/combination skin, even mature skin (I'm 38).

 2. Boi-ing - Industrial Strength concealer

This product is AMAZING.  Easily the best concealer I have ever used.  Creamy and blendable it gives complete coverage without being heavy or greasy and it stays put and last all day long. It tackles dark cicles quite well and isn't cakey; it also doesn't sit in lines of creases around the eye area. I recently caught pregnant and my skin broke out and was completely unmanageable - then I remembered my confessions of a concealaholic kit and used the concealer inside.  It turned out to be Boi-ing in shade 1 and it was so good I bought the full size and will never regret doing so! Speaking of confessions of a concealaholic, this kit is a great way to try Boi-ing, Erase Paste, That Gal, lemon aid and eye bright for £28.50.  Bought singly, the products would cost £74.00!

3. They're real! Mascara
This one, I am not going to bash on about.  I am just going to say - this is the best mascara in the world, the best I have ever used and is the UKs No. 1 best-selling mascara.  Try it!  They have a special offer on now - buy the anniversary set for the same price as a regular mascara and you get a free travel size mascara.  I have mine in my handbag right now!

4. Foamingly clean facial wash

This is so lovely.  It smells wonderful and removes every trace of make-up and dirt without having to rub and scrub. My skin feels so clean and so refreshed after using this; no tightness or irritation and a little lathers beautifully and goes a long way. Not sure? Try the b.right! mini intro skin kit - a snip at £10.00! 

5. Sugarbomb Ultra plush

What a gorgeous lip gloss! Benefit have recent introduced lip glosses to complement their box powders and Sugarbomb is the prettiest gloss I've seen and worn in ages.  It makes my lips feel really soft and as with all Benefit products, it smells lovely and a little goes a long way!

Why not check out the boxed powder range here? Also worth checking out are the beauty kits packed full of minis that you can try for a fraction of the regular price before deciding whether to invest in a full sized product.  There's lots to choose from!

Aren't they gorgeous?? If I could, I'd get them all! All under £30 - these kits are such a good idea, plus if you are going away overnight or on a weekender, these are all you need. Get these beauties on your Christmas list!

 

Rip Off Ebay....

I consider myself a seasoned ebayer shopper.  With over 1000 feedback (and still at 100% - woop!), I have been on there a long time and I’ve had some terrific bargains which I continue to look for.

But recently, I am sad to say that I was well and truly had.  I really should have known because of the price….maybe I had gotten bigheaded and was a little too smug at my £6.95 buy it now for Benefit’s Get Even face powder….all I know is the moment the package arrived and I opened it, I knew something wasn’t quite right.

1. No plastic disc separating product from mirror, so mirror was fogged and wet.
2. Black & white folded leaflet, but poorly printed and badly folded.
3. Differences in the compact compared to previous purchases - despite the recent relaunch and new look.
4. I compared it with my old product and the differences were even more obvious.
5. I just knew it.

   Giving the seller the ‘Benefit’ of the doubt, I emailed promptly to inform them that this was obviously a fake and I wanted something done about it. They feigned ignorance and said they didn’t know as it was an ‘unwanted gift’.  I checked what they were selling and all in, they had approx 100 Benefit ‘unwanted gifts’ for sale.  Go figure.

   I returned it for a refund andreported the seller. What they are selling is CRAP and lord knows what rubbish the product is full of - cheap ass ingredients that could easily irritate sensitive skin like mine.

   I found a Fake guide on ebay to be invaluable.  This is an excerpt - the part about the Chinese language on the leaflet (which mine did have) finally woke me up to the fact that I was being really stupid and nobody sells Get Even at buy it now for £6.95 with free P&P unless it’s fake, useless rubbish.
   

   So research carefully and if in doubt, don’t buy it. This was nothing but a headache!!!

   "Benefit include ‘how to’ booklets with many of their products. Guides with a distinctive ‘Chinese’ look to them; the products etc will be fake. Benefit do not maufacture in China."

   If you really want that fabulous Benefit item at a reduced price, go Duty Free or save up ;) Or better yet, save a ton of money and try E.L.F. products!!