Wednesday 11 August 2010

Review - Benefit Coralista, Hoola and Dallas

I recently bought Coralista and Hoola from Benefit and already had Dallas, so this review is basically going to be comparing the three.


Coralista, Hoola and Dallas


Coralista
As you can see from the picture, Coralista is a really pretty colour. It's corally, as the name suggests, but is not too corally like some blushes, so is really wearable.

I find that the best way to wear it is swept from the upper half of the apple of the cheeks in a gentle upwards curve to the hairline, as opposed to just swirled on the apple of the cheeks. The colour blends really well into my skin tone, so it gives me colour as well as acting as a contour to exaggerate my cheek bones.



Hoola
This has to be one of my favourite bronzers. It's matt, and not shimmery like Dallas often can be. It suits my skin tone perfectly and just gives me a sublte hint of bronzing. It's a really good contouring colour. You can change the intensity of the colour depending on the skin tone, by building the colour up, or dragging it out.

I use it as my contour, creating the figure of 3 on both sides of my face. I start with the cheek bones, pulling the fish face and doing a few brush strokes over and over. I then blend the colour up close to my hair line and forehead, go over the cheek bones again before going down onto my chin bone.


Dallas
Not my favourite bronzer, as it appears to be quite shimmery. And I really hate shimmery bronzers on me, it looks silly in the daytime. However, the colour is a really lovely colour, really quite bronze. So I wear it in the evening, because the darkness of the atmosphere drowns out the shimmer, whereas daylight highlights the shimmer.

I'd wear it as a contour colour, just as I described Hoola.


The Brushes
I HATE HATE HATE these brushes, the bristles fall out, their too chunky, they absorb too much of the colour, the handles too short.... They just don't work for me. I usually use a blusher brush for all three, because it works so much better.


Hope this was helpfull! What do you guys think?
Love, Chlo x

I'm Back!

As you may have noticed, I haven't been posting things for a long time, but that will change I promise.

There are two main reasons why I've been away, the first being I had external examinations, which were obviously very important, so I needed to focus my attention on them. The second reason is that I started to wonder what the point of me blogging is, as I'm positive no one reads my entries.

But I've realised that blogging is for me, not anyone else and it really shouldn't matter if people read it or not. Take Julie from the film Julie & Julia for example.