Benefit Hello Flawless Powder Foundation Review

Hi family, so this stuff is a setting powder/powder foundation/whatever the hell you wanna it to be.
I’m ngl, I really didn’t want to like this because it is hella expensive, and I don’t know how fast y’all get through setting powder, but I eat that s*** up like it’s dinner. So…. I wanted to conveniently fall in love with a much cheaper powder. But for some reason or another, the universe seems to be entirely against me so of course I fell in love with it.
I tended to use it as a setting powder, and it does a pretty good job in blurring all yo imperfections. Like some days it is super good and makes ya look like you’ve been airbrushed, but other days it just kinda helps your makeup look. Either way, it’s a good product.
In terms of powder foundation, like most other foundation powders, it doesn’t have the most amazing coverage. Like i don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I need something quite substantial to hide Mount Vesuvius brewing on my forehead, so for those purposes, it aint that great, but I don’t think that this opinion is specific to this powder foundation, rather powder foundations in general.
In the handy box (which does carry a rather large amount of product ), it comes with a little benefit thin rounded brush and a sponge. Now I tried the sponge once, and it just was’t the right tool for this kinda product, at least for me. I also tried the powder with other brushes from my collection and it just didn’t work as well. BUT ladies and gentlemen, the little brush they provide….well…it certainly does pack a punch. You slide it across the smooth powder and wham bam thank you ma’am, it picks up the perfect amount of product to set but not look cakey, It’s genius, like benefit truly outdid themselves.
Anyway, this product is a hefty £25, but I regret to say that I will be purchasing this again and make myself more broke than I already am! Guys there are so many things I want at the mo, like the Huda Beauty Rose Gold Palatte….. I cant. Does anyone want to buy me that and make me the happiest gal alive???? No takers…..ok. Well, if you enjoyed this article please follow my blog and like me post cause that’d mean a lot. Loving you.

Goodbye 2016…

Fam, I thought I’d do a quick bye 2016 type gig for y’all.
2016 was an excruciatingly hard year for me. Like ridiculous. First of all, my parents started dating different people which is officially one of the strangest things that I will ever experience. I’m ngl, it’s hella uncomfortable, and also my mum’s partner has children my age, so it’s kinda hard to struggle with dealing with almost a replica of our family. I just wanna say for anyone out there going through a similar thing, I’m told that there is light at the end of the tunnel, I’m yet to experience it yet, but I’ve been promised it is there, so let’s try and reach it together.
Seriously though, if anyone wants any questions of advice(not that I am qualified to give it), just leave it in the comments and I’ll reply. Similarly, if anyone has any advice to give me, lemme know because someone let a really sweet comment on one of my posts about divorce a while back and it honestly made me feel ten times better.
Another thing that I have struggled with this year is sadness and depression. I dealt with….. actually no, this is meant to be a cheery post, I’ll do another much more depressing one later talking about my struggles, but for the moment, let’s keep it relatively PG.
One of the big things that happened was my sister, my beautiful fabulous amazing sister, got into her top university, and being the clever clogs that she is, I wasn’t at all surprised. The tricky thing about that for me was that the university she got into is in Canada. I currently reside in England, so things are going to become extremely difficult, she’s one of my best friends so to deal with her moving so far away will require a lot of adjustment.
Anyway, that brings me onto my last topic-friends. Now, I am blessed to have an amazing group of friends-no not friends, family. I spend twelve hours at my school everyday, so yes, thy are my family. My best friend is an absolute legend, in every sense of the word. She is funny and has an amazing soul and is just a joy to be around. She knows so much about me and I know so much about her. However, I don’t know EVERYthing about her, an she doesn’t know EVERYthing about me, and I used to find that a bad thing, but now I’m beginning to realise that (after all 2016 was the year for realising things :D) I don’t need someone to know every single detail in my life to be there for me or be close to me, but they just need to know enough to understand and not feel burdened. However, one thing I struggle with is that she has a lot of super close friends online which she has met in various places. I struggle because at some points in my life I feel she would rather be with them than she would with me, as she tells me all the time how amazing they are and how much she misses them, but she never says stuff like that to me….does anyone know how to deal with stuff like that. As well as my best friend, I have loads of other amazing people in my life who I am lucky enough to call my friends. So here is my advice-make a friend. Talk to the person serving you at waitress, or cha to the person waiting in the queue to get a coffee, just take the step and do it, you never know where it may lead, and hey, what’s the worst that could happen.
Anyway, let’s wrap this up, 2k16 as good, but I’m hella pumped to see what 2k17 holds. And jus remember folks, your vibe attracts your tribe. Also please leave me a follow and like, cause I want everyone to be in my tribe. Love Ax

Trend Alert!

Ok folks, can we please pause for a minute and consider where we are at this point. I understood contouring, chiseling those cheekbones and snatchin that jawline. I kinda got draping for those days when you just want to look a little more “rosy”, but glitter brows, I do not understand. PLEASE someone explain them to me in the comments. Because a) How do you choose the colour, like your root colour or a nice pastel pink or baby blue or what?!? b) ow do you get the glitter to stick c) how do you get the damn glitter out of yo eyebrow!

Ngl, this fascinating trend did kinda interest me so I watched a couple tutorials and did my research. My favourite “glitter brows” was a beauty guru just going over a few hairs in her brow with a glitter line, for example urban decay, heavy metal, which was nice as it gave the eyebrow a kinda highlight and it really worked.

However, on the other end of the spectrum, one young lady used eyelash glue and a S*** TON of magenta-pink glitter to do them. Like what! how much effort must that be to take off?!? Like seriously ladies, what is going on here. I can’t be bothered enough to go to the fridge and grab food to fuel my shell of a useless human bean, (not a typo, but if you understand the reference, lemme know) let alone sit at my dilapidated vanity for hours painstakingly applying glitter to my brow hairs, to then take 39.402 hours to take it off later.
On a bit of a tangent, and guys reading this, have you been aware of the glitter beard trend. Like wow, I’m hoping these were trends which we left behind to the chaos and ruin of 2016….

Oh and on that happy note… Happy New Year!!!!

1st January 2016, I mean 2017