Benefit Boi-ing Eye Bright Compact Review

Hello lovelies,

I have a review post for you guys, this is basically a 2 in 1 review as it contains 2 different products from the Benefit range.

I hauled this the other day and if you haven't seen that haul click here to go to that post. This was one of the products I ordered with my Benefit Cosmetics order. I was pretty excited because I have used both products before and I really enjoy them.

The compact is pretty small, and if you look at it at first glance it is just a small black compact. You would not expect there would be 2 products in 1 little compact. The compact itself is of black shiny plastic, and has a tiny benefit logo on the bottom.

When you open the compact, there is a mirror in it, and at the top there is the Boi-ing concealer in shade 2 and at the bottom there is an eye brightner. Now I do have a medium skintone so the concealer shade is perfect for me, for light skintones you probably have no use to this little compact, because the concealer is on the darker side. 

The concealer itself, is really nice and creamy. You can apply it with your fingers or with a brush. Personally I like to use my fingers as it seems to make the concealer much creamier because of the body heat and it blends more easily. The concealer has a nice coverage, I would say medium to full coverage. I like it for blemishes and when needed also as an undereye concealer. 

The eye-brightner that is in the compact is a pale pink shade and is also of a cream consistency. I first experienced this product with my smokin eyes palette by Benefit. I loved it back then, so I thought I couldn't go wrong. Well this is a very thick consistency so it can look a bit cakey on your browbone, where it should be used. Right underneath your brows. It does brighten up your eyelook, I would recommend it putting it on before you put on your eyeshadow. I put it on after my eyeshadow once and that was not a good look. So if you would like to use this product, I would recommend taking a little bit on your finger and blend it out because once again the cream melts a bit whilst on your finger. Also what I do like to use this product on is on my inner eye corner. It gives an instant brightning effect on your eyeshadow look.

Overall, I would try this out if you have never tried both of these products before. Because this little compact is only half of the price of a normal sized Boi-ing concealer. If you don't like creamy products that if not used right can be cakey, this is definitely not for you.

I hope this review helped you. Let me know what your favorite Benefit products are?

Essence Fantasia & Snow Jam Limited Edition Collections

Hi dolls,

I know I have been announcing and showing you a lot of new products for this month or for next year lately. But I love to keep up to date and also prepare for the new products that I want to buy. 

First up is the Essence Fantasia collection, a collection inspired by fantasy and fairytales. Expect a lot of shimmer!

In this limited edition collection there will be 3 eyeshadows retailing at € 1.99 a piece, 2 metalic eyeliners retailing at € 1.89 a piece, 2 lip laquers retailing at € 1.99 a piece, a highlighter retailing at € 2.99, 4 nail polishes retailing at € 1.89 a piece and eye jewels that stick to your skin for € 1.59

This limited edition will be available in stores now! I think I am going to pick up the highlighter it looks too pretty to pass up!

The next limited edition collection by Essence is called Snow Jam, inspired by Snow season with all the snow bunnies on the slopes. I have to say I am pretty excited because it contains such vibrant colors.

There are 3 different eyeshadows in cream consistency retailing € 2.39 a piece, 2 jumbo duo eyepencils retailing € 1.99 a piece, 2 lipbalms retailing at € 1.59 a piece, 4 nailpolishes retailing at € 1.69 a piece, mini nailfiles for € 1.39 and a 24hour hand protection balm retailing at € 1.99

This limited edition collection will be available from January 2013 onwards for about a month or two. I might pick up a couple of the nailpolishes the eyeshadows don't really appeal to me that much.

First Look of Khroma (Beauty line by the Kardashian sisters)

Hi dolls,

I am super excited to write this post and show you photos of the Khroma products that are available for sale in the pre-launch state of the entire line. The entire Khroma line will be available in the Spring of 2013 but this is just a selection of their products that will be available right now!

Khroma is the beauty line by the Kardashian sisters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe. I have to admit I love the Kardashian sisters and admire them for the fact that they are great business women. Some people may say they have zero talent but making the right marketing choices and setting up a business and establishing themselves is quite an achievement. Of course I cannot let it slide that their makeup is always flawless and have great fashion sense! I am so jealous! They make girls aware that you don't have to have size zero and that you should embrace the curves you have.

In this pre-launch of Khroma Beauty, there are 5 products that each represents 1 of the sisters or all of them. 

The first 3 products are palettes these are face palettes with eyeshadows, blush, bronzer and highlighter to create that Kardashian look. These remind me of the Too Faced glamour to go palettes. Each of the Kardazzle palette that is the name of the palette contains 8 eyeshadows to create various eye looks (4 shimmer and 4 matte), a blush, a bronzer and a highlighter to create that amazing contouring and highlighted Kardashian cheek. 

This is Kourtney Kardazzle, it contains some more mature eyeshadow colors but you can create beautiful eyelooks with this palette. The blush color looks more of a dusty rose color.

This is the Kim Kardazzle palette, as you can see this has a far more emphasize on the more smokey eye colors. Which is a signature Kim Kardashian look. Kim is often also seen with pinky cheeks so it was an obvious choice that she would have a pinky blush in her palette. 

The last but definitely not least of the palettes is the Khloe Kardazzle palette. Her eyeshadows seem to have a more neutral tone and seem to have a more peachy pink toned blush. She does have a lighter skintone than her sisters which would make sense her cheek colors are a bit softer.

All three of the Kardazzle palettes retail for € 16.95 which is pretty decent for a small palette with 8 eyeshadows, 1 blush, 1 highlighter and 1 bronzer color. I really like the print on all the palettes.

The fourth product in the pre-launch of Khroma Beauty is an Au Naturel Nude Lip Set, no Kardashian beauty collection would be complete without a great nude lippy. This set contains a lipliner, lipstick and lipgloss to create those perfect nude lips. Kim knows how to pull off a great nude lip, this set claims to be suitable for both day and night looks and also suits all skintones.

This set retails for € 17.95

The last of the five products in the pre-launch of Khroma Beauty is the SheBang Quick Transformation Set, it is basically a nice neutral set of shadows, pair of false eyelashes and a waterproof eyeliner. You get several shadows to create a nice neutral eye look, add false lashes and line your waterlines you are good to go when it is your eyemakeup concerned. 

This set retails for € 17.95

Now you are wondering this is all very nice, but probably only launched in the US. FALSE! This is going to be launched in Europe as well, and you can now get it online! All 5 of these products you can get online at http://www.khromabeauty.eu/

Which of these products will you be buying? I think I might get one of the palettes either the Kim or the Khloe one as they appeal to me the most. Let me know what you think of this pre-launch collection of Khroma.

Preview of the New Viva Glam Nicki!

Hi dolls,

You have no idea how excited I was when I heard about this lipstick. Yes MAC has teamed up again with Nicki Minaj for their Viva Glam lipsticks and lipglasses. I recently bought the original Viva Glam Nicki, and I assume you have all seen swatches and photos of it so I won't go on about it too much. But I love it!!

Now 2013 Nicki will be the sole spokesperson for the Viva Glam line, earlier this year you saw that she was teamed up with Ricki Martin. 

I am pretty excited about this and here is an official press photo of the new Viva Glam Nicki 2 and the new Viva Glam Nicki is a very pretty lavender color. This color will be released as both a lipstick and a lipglass. Now when is this fabulous color going to be released? For the US territories this will come a little bit early on February 9th 2013 to be exact. Me as a Dutch person have to wait until March 2013, I know it is so unfair but what can you do about it? Nothing....

All proceeds made from the Viva Glam line goes to HIV/Aids charities. So will you be getting this lipstick? or which one has your preference?

Preview of Catrice ''SpectaculART''

Hi dolls,

I thought this might interest you, Catrice is coming out with a new collection for the winter. It is inspired by the colorful Indian style combined with the simple French style. This collection will be available from November onwards.

I know Catrice is not widely available everywhere, but if there is anything that you would like to see in a giveaway please let me know in the comments down below. I did a Catrice giveaway before so I don't mind doing another.

This collection will contain eyeshadows, false lashes, eyeliner pen, highlighting powder, mouse blush, lipsticks and nail polishes.

There are four different eyeshadows in this collection. All very metallic colors.

Retails for € 3.99 a piece

Also a pack of fake individual lashes.

Retails for € 3.99

A superfine eyeliner pen.

Retails for € 2.99

A highlighter powder.

Retails for € 4.59

A mousse blush, kind of reminds me of those old Maybelline mousse blushes. Only 1 color which is a soft pink.

Retails for € 3.99

3 different colors of lipsticks that go on very sheer even contains spf 10.

Retails for € 3.99 a piece.

4 different nail polish colors, nothing that really stands out with me to be honest.

Retails for € 2.69 a piece.

And finally a gold leaf topcoat. Which to me looks more just like a flaky gold top coat, we shall see when the collection comes out.

Retails for € 2.69

Will you be picking up anything from this collection?

New Essence Collections ''Class of 2013'' & ''Twilight Saga''

Hi dolls,

I was a little bit reluctlant to do this post because the class of 2013 collection has been in stores since this month and the twilight collection... You know I don't really like the entire twilight hype and don't really understand it either. (although I have been watching a lot of vampire diaries lately... that is as far as I will go with the entire vampire theme movies or tv shows)

Anyways I shall start off with the class of 2013 collection. Basically it is inspired by the preppy school look so we have nice neutral tones and some innocent blues. There will be eyeshadow pens, lip tints, nail polishes, a translucent powder, a blush and some hair ties and a cosmetics bag. I shall show you my picks for what I think I would pick up at the stores. If you want all of the images of the products I can make a seperate post about it all.

I think this blush looks super pretty and I like that there is this print in it. With the darker pink and the light pink, if this blush feels as soft as their other blushes. Definitely a love! (retails for €2.99)

This lip tint is described as a nice red which I think should be great for fall the other lip tint in this line is a baby pink which is always nice for a more neutral look. This one is a bit more bold. (retails for € 1.99)

Class of 2013 collection is on sale now at your Essence retailer.

Now on to the Twilight collection, they decided to release a twilight collection to coincide with the release of the final twilight movie. This collection will be consisting of pigments, liquid glitter eyeliner, lipstick, lipgloss, shimmer powder, blush and nail polishes. The colors in this collection are a bit darker with a ton of glitter or so it seems. With some gold glitter to match, because apparently vampires glisten in the twilight movies (or so I have heard). If you want to see the entire collection leave me a comment below so I can create a seperate post.

Now on for my picks if I would purchase any of the products.

If this nail polish is anything in opacity as it is in its bottle then this nail polish would be an absolute show stopper. I think I will actually pick this polish up, it is a nice gold color. The other colors in the collection are darker colors with glitters in them. (retails for € 1.99)

Finally this dark lilac pigment. I think this color will look gorgeous on everyone and it is great for winter and fall. Especially with pigments you can go crazy with the glitter considering it is the holiday season! The other colors in this line are a shimmery gold, black and a multi dark pigment. (retails for € 2.59)

The Twilight collection will be hitting stores in November. 

Will you be picking anything up from either the Twilight collection or class of 2013? 

Mac now sells online for Dutch Mac Lovers

Hi dolls,

I have some great news for the Dutch Mac Lovers!!!