Benefit Cosmetics Holiday Collection.

Benefit always puts out the cutest sets and kits just for the holidays. Here are this years gorgeous entries.

Celebutante - $34.00

This set contains:
High Beam Luminescent Complexion Enhancer
Benetint, Rose-Tinted Lip & Cheek Stain (rose)
Dallas, The Outdoor Glow For The Indoor Gal Face Powder (rosy bronze)
Lip Gloss in I'm With The Band (golden pink shimmer)
Full-Finish Lipstick in Lady's Choice (pinky nude)
Full-Finish Lipstick in No Competition (deep plum)
Velvet Eyeshadow in Leggy (pink nude satin)
Velvet Eyeshadow in Dandy Brandy (copper spice)
Fluff Shadow/Talent Brush

Glitz Glam and Gloss Set - $26.00

This set contains 3 double-ended wands in 6 glam new shades:
- Friends In High Places (sparkling raspberry)
- Kiss You (clear fuchsia)
- Almost Famous (copper penny)
- Zone Out (golden nude)
- I'm With The Band (golden pink shimmer)
- Fresh-Squeezed (pink grapefruit)

Sexy Starlet Set - $58.00

This set includes:
CORALista, warm coral-pink cheek powder
some kind-a gorgeous, oil-free foundation faker
BADgal lash mascara

Glam Idol - $60.00

World's Best Mascaras - $29.00

 

This set contains:
BADgal Lash
BADgal Plum

These beauties and more are available now at Benefit Cosmetics and Sephora.

A Look Back in Time: Benefit Erase Paste.

Last year on this date, I featured the wonder dark circle concealer from Benefit, Erase Paste. It is especially appropritae as I have been using it to cover up some definite under-eye drama this week.

Take a look:

I have so many concealers that I assign to different parts of my face, at different times of the year, and for different occasions. I have learned to fit Benefit's Erase Paste into the rotation when I need to cover really dark undereye circles. This beauty makes them disappear while lightening and brightening up the whole area.

I am not sure where my little spatula disappeared to because I have got myself digging out the "paste" with the end of a concealer brush. I then flip the brush to spread it - even though it is easily spreadable with a finger.

Unlike a conventional, thinner concealer made to be lighter than your skin tone, Erase Paste is thicker to stay where you spread it. It is also pink based, making it appear more natural and a bit highlighter, thus diverting more attention away from the flaw. I am using medium right now, but will surely try it out in fair for the non-tanned months. There is also a deep shade available, for darker complexions.

Wait Just One Hot Minute!

Get it on gals.... you know all it has to take is One Hot Minute!

From Benefit and only at Sephora and Sephora.com, take a look at One Hot Minute. This is a beautiful loose rose-gold powder that can be dusted over cheeks, decolletage, legs, shoulders... anywhere. The glow it gives off is sheer, yet sexy, and full of the perfect shade of "glow".

I like to dust just a tiny bit high atop my cheekbones, and then on my shoulders with the great little fan brush that comes with the powder. Just be careful not to "over glow", as a little bit is all you need.