OMG, so I'll admit to never make-up blogging anymore. I am sad!! I have lots of product to blog about and will attempt to catch up! I do have a somewhat decent excuse (preggoness = tired and not feeling cute). However, this product was enough to make me come out of the blog abyss and actually start wearing makeup every day!I was snooping around on Sephora.com at the beginning of the makeup addict's favorite time of the year (Christmas!!) when I randomly came across Benefit's Hello Flawless! powder foundation ($34.00). I think it popped up on the right side of my screen under the "You Might Like" suggestion list. Who am I to question Sephora?? I have and love some other Benefit products and this had awesome reviews so I threw it in the cart. I had kind of been in the market for a new powderish foundationy thing to wear as "every day." I own both the Chanel powder foundation and NARS powder foundation. While I like both products a lot, I'm sort of in between colors on both. Chanel's is a little too light but the next darkest is too yellow for me. I love the Chanel formula so I usually wear it over the NARS. NARS is pretty cool but doesn't go on quite as good as Chanel's IMO, and it's *slightly* too dark for me! Ay! The toils of being Casper-esque!
Anyway, so I swooped Hello Flawless! in the color "Me Vain?" Champagne. Freaking LOVE IT SO MUCH. I have been putting it on with my Lancome foundation brush ($33) and it works awesome. I am sure any GOOD foundation brush would work well. By good, I don't mean Target. If you're going to spend the money on expensive product, please please PLEASE buy expensive brushes to use with your product. Inexpensive brushes are sh!t and work like sh!t. Besides, once you buy the brush, you have it forever. My brush brand favorites are Lancome, Chanel and Laura Mercier. I'm sure there are others that work well as long as it's a higher line brand.
Now, I do like regular foundation (I currently wear a Chanel). Personally, I only wear it when I go out. For me, it's too heavy and takes too much time to put on in the a.m.'s just for work. Hence, powder foundation works awesome for every day!
Hello Flawless goes on super, super bueno and allows for good blush blending (VERY important!). It feels really light but has such good coverage and leaves such an even look!!!!!! It covers up all redness, too. Lovin' it! It has a better formula than both Chanel and NARS, according to moi. I have been using it with NARS Orgasm blush ($25) (raved about in previous posts) and the Laura Mercier Cheek Colour Brush ($45).
Finally, I've been using my very fave mascara to date, Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash ($18) and a random pairing (different every day) of another AWESOME thing that I bought when I bought Hello Flawless!:
The Bare Escentuals Buxom Babes Around Town Collection ($39.00). LOVVVVVE THEM! Basically you use a lipstick with some Buxom lips lip gloss on top and oooo lala. Love this stuff!! These sizes are awesome too. I never go through entire lipsticks or glosses so I really don't need full sized anything of lipstick or gloss. These are good size and would last a long time. Highly, highly recommend :)
Xmas is a great time to buy these gift sets from Sephora and try out a bunch of different colors in their popular product lines. Hence the reason I said it's a makeup addict's favorite time of the year!! :)
Okay, back to Sephora!
Mucho love~
Ann
