Benefit New Launches 2016!

Hey everyone! I'm really excited to be sharing this huge Benefit haul with you today! I wanted all of their new releases SO BAD and I managed to shop around and find deals good enough for me to justify buying almost the entire collection.

My plan is to hopefully share a first impressions video with you all over the next couple of days, but for now I just wanted to share some photos for those of you looking around online trying to figure out if you need these products in your life. One thing is for sure - they sure are pretty!

First up is this cute little Hoola set! Now I realise Hoola is not a new product and I have to admit I have never used it before even though everyone raves about it! However, Benefit have just released this special set where you get a min Porefessional Primer and Watt's Up! highlighter for the same price as the bronzer on it's own which is £23.50.

The first of the new range is Dew The Hoola a liquid matte bronzer with a pump, a liquid version of their Hoola powder. This is actually a sample that I got in my Birchbox this month, the full size bottle if you haven't seen it already is beautiful! I'm both excited and nervous to try this as liquid bronzers are really not my thing and I am so fair! Full size £22.50

I hate it when people say 'this is everything' but honestly... this Hoola Bronzing and Contouring Brush  is so gorgeous! It's incredibly soft but also dense and the design is stunning. It's feels wonderfully weighted in the hand. £17.50

One of the products I was most excited about, the Hoola Zero Tanlines body bronzer. This is a 12 hour self tan without the horrible smell and with this great applicator in the lid to avoid streaks. £19.50

My final product to share with you is this new matte liquid highlighter from the Dandelion range Shy Beam. I think this will work beautifully with the other products from the Hoola range even though they weren't strictly from the same set of products although I'm a little unsure about that nail-polish-style application. £19.50

Couldn't forget the free bag!

If you are interested in seeing this products in action please check out my next first impressions video which will be shared a couple of days after this! Let me know if you are tempted by any of the pretty new releases from Benefit.

Makeup Revolutions Swatches Part 1: Mermaids Forever Palette, Bronzers and Highlighters

Hey Everyone! So as promised, today's post will feature swatches of the products I talked about in my video earlier this week. However because their are SO MANY shadows in these palettes I am featuring the Mermaids Forever Palette, the Vivid Baked Highlighter in Golden Lights, the Vivid Baked Bronzer in Rock on World and the Summer of Love Bronzer in Love Hot Summer in today's post and the other items (The Mermaids vs. Unicorns Palette, Pure Pigment and Aqua Seal and the Flawless Matte Palette) will be in my next post.

First up, the Mermaids Forever Palette.

I have included the names of all the shadows in this photograph so that it's as easy as possible to match up the shades in the palette with the swatches below.

Okay so that's the whole of Mermaids Forever swatched close-up for you.

A few notes on this palette:

• The really lightest two shades in particular, especially Forever don't show up that well at all.
• All of these shadows have been swatched heavily on top of a primer to get as much colour payoff as possible without applying them wet.
• A couple of these shades are appalling when used dry - try them wet and they really pop
• The quality of these shades varies a lot from one to the next. A few of them takes tonnes of building up, most take a fair amount of building, a few of them one stroke and BAM - tonnes of colour so experiment.
• USE A PRIMER (I can't stress enough how important that is with this palette)
• My favourites: Enchant, Ariel, Pink Sea, Waves, Fishtail, Turtle, Treasure, Prince

Okay! Last but not least we have a swatch of the bronzers and highlighters from the video:

Swatched, semi heavily so you can see the colours but with nothing underneath this time. 

the Summer of Love Bronzer in Love Hot summer, the Vivid Baked Bronzer in Rock on World and the Vivid Baked Highlighter in Golden Lights. These are all nice but powerful! So use a careful hand. I'm keen to try their pink highlighter too, and their new strobe cream.

That's it for today, come back next week for part 2!