Benefit cosmetics

[flowerhead]

Benefit is so cute, I love all the packaging, but the products arent always that great, I've tried:

BadGal Khol - I love the packaging, it's a chubby hot pink pencil with a black cap. The formula isn't great though, it claims to be a true black but it is more of a slightly shiny dark grey, and you can forget a precision line with this, it's good for shading eyelids with tho. I stopped using it and it's expiring somewhere in my makeup draw..

High Beam - This is a gorgeous pale pink liquid highlighter with a flattering silvery sheen. I use this on my cheekbones and it makes them glow without looking shiny. I'd only recommend it for people with pink undertones to their skin though.

BadGal Blue - I absoloutely love this. The formula is great, gives me nice false looking lashes, but the wand is huge so blot some off on a tissue and apply it carefully. The indigo-royal blue colour makes my grey eyes sparkle and it doesn't look obviously blue, but makes your eye colour look pretty.

Lemon-Aid - I bought this because I like the idea of having bare but healthy looking eyelids without put concealer on them which creases, but this stuff is terrible. Goes on an unnatural creamy pale yellow and creased within an hour.

Benetint - My favourite lipstain, smells gorgeous like roses, gives a sheer red to full on dark fuschia colour depending on how much you apply. Lasts for ages on me too. I havent tried this on my cheeks, but I can imagine it would give a healthy 'pinched' look. One downside is the applicator doesnt blend well and you have to use and stain your fingers. I also tried the 'pocket pal' which is benetint and a gloss, but it was pretty useless as the gloss did not adhere well to the stain and felt plasticky.

And a friend of mine adores the whole Bathina range, I tried the 'feel so fine?' stuff which is basicly a velvet puff and some gorgeously scented body balm in a hot pink metal tin with a pin-up girl on the front on my arm, and it was amazing. Made my skin as soft as a lotion would but it melts right on and makes your skin feel like veluxe.

 

[Chelseaa]

A lot of their make up seems like...magic make up kind of. My sister and I were discussing it. Not to say it all works liek it says it will, but the general idea is like MAGIC. haha like jiggle gel....does that really work?

I LOVE boi-ing, lemon aid, dandelion, and hoolah. I use pretty much all of that on a daily basis.

High beam is great too.
Their shadows never look too appealing to me, so I don't really bother with them.

 

[Chelseaa]

Re: Benefit

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Originally Posted by LadyD I own a couple of their products and I absolutely adore them. Right now, I'm lemming the Dr. Feelgood, High/Moon Beam, Weather Girl palette, and Realness of Concealness palette. Anyone have any opinions or rants/raves about those? And more importantly.. what are your favourites from Benefit?

realness of concealness = amazing in my opinion.
loveeee it. :]

 

[goodbyexxkitty]

The only Benifit product I've tried is Boi-ing and I LOVE it! It's the perfect concealer for me, it's not cakey and it's covers my dark circles better than anything I've tried and it's the only one that doesn't crease through the day.

 

[starangel2383]

i like benefit cosmetics, i actually use their face makeup because alot of the stuff i have tried in the past just doesnt look right on me. but then again, i think their face stuff is the only cosmetic counter face stuff that i have ever purchased as far as foundation goes. i like how some kinda gorgeous works on my face and also the get even powder. i had never liked blush in the past and wouldnt ever go near it in the drugstore but i tried out dandelion and fell in love with it. i like the color, i like the little brush but i dont use that brush i use that little round brush that fits in the palm of my hand. i also like how dandelion smells, kind of a light scent. i have dallas and i also have that duo blush/bronzer. they are alright. i think i pretty much have a little bit of everything except for the brow stuff, the benetint, the shelaq and some other things. i pretty much stocked up on some of those things when i was still working at belk and could get a discount. but by far my favorite is dandelion.

 

[Karen_B]

I have Moonbeam, Dallas, Dandelion, Browzings, Eyebright, Ooh la lift and Eyecon. I like it all, except the Eyecon makes my eyes water - I have super sensitive eyes though.
The Dallas blush goes great with Moonbeam highlighter. I'm lemming Highbeam, too.

 

[ClassicRockGrrl]

I own BADgal Blue which i absolutely love ..i have the somekind a gorgeous and im medium skin toned and it blends easily on my skin but my friend is lighter than me and she doesnt really like it at all ....last i own the silky finish lipstick in good to go...i bought my mum one in ms.behavin ...we love them because they r not dry, leave ur lips kinda ,and u can control the color by applying it as much as you want..cant wait to get more stuff

 

[daisyv316]

I love Benefit cosmetics!!! specially the packaging, I think that is why I buy most of the stuff

I love the lemon-aid, I put it all over my lids and that is my base.
I use their concealer also, it works pretty good for me.
I absolutely love their high brow and I also use it everyday.
I love their eyeliner in babe cakes, because is just the right shade of black i wanted it to be.
I also love Dallas and I use it as a blush and it suits me perfect!
I also use benetint for a flush look.
And I also use the moon bean, on top of my benetint.
ANd I love ther red lipstick in zero guilt.

I use these products everyday! And I always get good compliments on the eyeliner and my lipstick.

As far as the eyeshadows, I can say that I'm not a big fan, and thats why I go to MAC

 

[BadBadGirl]

Someone else asked about this also above but there was no answer- the Eyecon is it worth the price?

Between Too Faced's Lash Injection and Bad Gal lash mascara- which is better? I love the fake lash look.

 

[xiahe]

i actually really like the bluff dust. IMO it does a great job at neutralizing redness (doesn't mask pimples but it takes the redness out of them making them less noticeable) and i find that the yellow power actually brightens my complexion a bit (it doesn't turn me yellow). i also like their boi-ing concealer. i was a little scared because it only comes in three shades, but the 02 (medium) shade matches my skin perfectly. it's ok for undereye circles but i use it for all of the discoloration i have around my eye. boi-ing instantly masks pimples and blemishes, unfortunately it isn't oil-free (i haven't had problems with my breakouts becoming worse, tho!)

 

[martygreene]

Hoola- neutral based, matte, sheer bronzer. It's wonderful and a staple in my kit. Works on the fairest of fair, and most everyone else too. It's buildable so it never looks fake, and since it has no shimmer it looks even better and is even more versatile.

 

[star07]

I also have the Realness of Concealness palette, which I only bought to try out some of their stuff (namely, Lemon-Aid and High Beam). I don't even have much to conceal!

Lemon-Aid, I think, is supposed to be a lid primer. It still creases on me but it has a light pleasant scent and it gives my small little Asian lids a nice bright look.

Ooh-La-Lift does nothing for me. Maybe I sleep too much to have undereye circles.

Boi-ing is OK, it still doesn't make my undereyes look the same color as the rest of my skin but it doesn't make it really ugly either.

High Beam is something I really can't tell on my skin. I think perhaps it's bad bathroom lighting because I can't really tell Stila's Luminzier *3 on my skin either.

Lip Plump was such a weird chalky color that I thought it went bad. Didn't know it was just a color primer to make other lip glosses/sticks look better!

I've also tried EyeCon which is fine as a moisturizer but I'm not sure what difference it's really supposed to make. Dandelion was such a nice-smelling blush that I wanted to keep it forever and ever but I recently swapped it for Georgia. Hopefully, that will actually show up on me.

 

[Navessa]

i have tried/used quite a few of their products - my favs are:

"some kind-a gorgeous" - foundation faker - i will be buying this again!
dallas - love the color it gives me!
maybe baby - one of my fav perfumes and can be combined with "touch me then try to leave"...cream

 

[pookus]

I love their kohl eye and lip liners... similar in consistency, in my opinion, to MAC, possibly even a little softer, which is a plus to me. And both the lip and eye come with smudger ends, another plus.

i also like high beam and occasionally use my tester size sample of some kind of gorgeous

 

[iammakeupaddict]

Other than MAC, Benefit is favorite department store brand.

My fav's are:
- Eye Bright
- You're Bluffing stick
- Get Bent Mascara
- Babe Cakes with Get Bent Liner brush
- She-laq
- Gilded
- Brow Zing
- Get Even
- Dandalion
- Georgia
- Bad Girl Liner
- Silky Finish lipstick

Okay in my opinion but not worth the cost:
- That Gal
- Rush Hour
- Benetint
- Boi-ing
- Some Kinda Gorgeous
- Hollywood Glow
- Glamazon
- Lemon-aid
- Lying Eyes
- High Brow
- Creaseless cream shadows
- Rush Hour

Nice if I had extra cash:
- Dr. Feelgood
- High Beam
- Moon Beam
- Maybe Baby Perfume
- Show-off's
- Her Glossiness
- 24k Gold lipstick
- Valley of the stars palette
- Sheer Cream Blushers


whew!

 

[Indian Barbie]

I really liked benefit and then I worked there and I went off it big time. There are some bath products that I'd really like but when it comes to makeup, I don't think their quality comes up to MAC. Whats bad is they're more expensive than mac!

 

[susanks1]

I bought Ooh La Lift a few months ago and gave it away to my friend. It did nothing for me.

 

[tania_nia]

The only things I've bought from Benefit are the Pocket Pal and the Bathina Shower cap, the latter I TOTALLY adore!! However I've browsed their stuff at the counter.

The Kitten powders looked full of glitter and stuff, like thick pieces so I wasn't interested. Same goes for Flamingo Fancy...though I know peeps who love it!

The Bathina shower gel smelled nice but I tend to like stuff from the Body Shop so I didn't buy same goes for the Touch me then try to leave me cream.

The only thing I was TOTALLY interestested in were the shower cap and the Betty bag, the latter has been discontinued I believe so won't be in my posession. I still look at their stuff though...it's so cute! I hope this helps!!

 

[yumemiru]

I'm a Asian, with paler skin than most Asian, instead of yellow tone. Some A Kind Gorgeous is wonderful on me.

 

[*Dani*]

I love Benefit! I've tried quite a few of their products and there have been some I didn't care for but most of them I've loved!
I adored my bottle of Benetint but I broke the cap the day I bought it! It never went back on properly after that and it kept getting spilt everywhere *sob* Aah, I'm sure I'll get a new bottle someday, but the price keeps putting me off!
I was also lucky enough to get a jar of their foot lotion (I forget the name) as a free gift, in fact I was extra lucky because I accidentally got sent two of them! That was really great too, it came with cute little socks to wear overnight to make the cream work better and it really did! It works overnight to give you super-soft feet. I'd definitely recommend it.
I love their Gilded pencil too, but I lost mine

. I also lost my badgal pencil, but I didn't like that one much anyway. It was way too chunky for an eyeliner.