Benefit: Watts Up Highlighter

Couple of things I want to say before I get started on this post, excuse my awful rate of posting at the moment, I feel like I'm so busy recently, although I'm not really doing anything out of the ordinary haha. Then secondly pleeeeeeease excuse my awful, untamed eyebrows in the next few posts, I'm going back for my next HD brow appointment this week and I let them grow loads so hopefully they can look super groomed! Right on to the product...

I thought I'd share with you a review on Benefit's new highlighter, Watts Up.

I've had mine about a month because of staff preview and it just been launched exclusively at Boots (I think it comes out everywhere else on 8th Oct) so I've been having a good play on myself as well as on customers.

Benefit say this is a "Soft focus highlighter for the face". The colour is like a bronzey/champagne, its in a stick form, and the texture is a cream to powder when blended.

Here you can see the colour, on the top its unblended and below I bended it with my finger.
So what have I found from using it...

Ive found it goes over the top of make up much better than the liquid highlighters such as 'Highbeam', you don't have to be careful in the way you blend, just draw it over foundation and blend with your fingers. The colour is also really flattering, especially with a darker/olive skin tone. It gives a really glowy finish as you can see below, which I do find might suit a drier skin best, on a oily it can look a little "sweaty". It also shimmer not glitter... hallelujah!!! I hate highlighters that are full of glitter! Like most highlighters, I would avoid putting it in the centre of the face where the pores are bigger.
The only thing I found kind of disappointing about the product is the lack of smell, I really like Benefit's product scents, they are usually fruity and fresh, but this one just smells like its ingredient Shea Butter, which I always find smells abit "fatty"

Overall I really like the easiness of this product, that its no fuss to apply and portable, the colour is also gorgeous, and just what the brand needed.

Mac make up lesson part 2

As I have previously mentioned I had a Mac makeup lesson for my birthday, and bought an absolute truck full of stuff, these are 2 more bits that I bought.

Cremeblend blush in something special and Mineralize skin finish in Soft and Gentle.

Now I have always been a powder blusher girl, no real reason I just have never really got on with creams, and I hate using my fingers to apply makeup, so when the mac girl pulled this out I did sort of wince! but surprise surprise I actually love it, the colour is beautiful very soft peachy pink and the textures thick enough to give the heavy pigment I like. She even applied it with a blusher blush so no fingers... yey! I don't think it lasts that long on my skin, although I have read other reviews that differ, but I think I'll accept it coming off through the day for the dewy glow it gives, really really beautiful! I will definitely be buying other colours!

I got the skin finish because of how much I loved the Wonder woman skin finish, but unfortunately I don’t think this one is in quite the same league! It’s very very shiny and glittery, looks fab on a very glam night out but abit much for most other moments haha! I do love the texture of the product because it doesn’t look too powdery, I might have abit of a play around on the eyes too.

Here is the swatch: