Benefit and I, we are not friends. There I said it. Why? Well, many years ago Benefit Malaysia uses us, a group of bloggers to do a giveaway for them in order to create some hype for them. And when that is done, they have gotten what they want and the left without saying thank you or good bye. So, now they only get people who is famous or celebrity so-called to whatever they do. I am one who do not support Benefit Malaysia regardless how tempting some of their limited edition launches are.

Today I was randomly browsing Sephora Malaysia online for new product releases and stumbled upon this 2017 Cheek Parade palette. What caught my eyes is the new GALifornia, which was just launched not even a month ago. If you have GALifornia in this palette, shoot! I am half sold. Half because I am (still) not going to spend on Benefit. Hah!

The price: RM290. Not too bad considering there are 2 new shades – GALifornia and Hoola Lite. But do you need a 300 bucks blush palette and it is just Benefit? No you do not. I would take the money and buy Hourglass or Tarte or Marc Jacobs. Unless you are a hardcore fan of the brand then go ahead lol.
This palette will only be launching in April 2017 and we already have it in Sephora.my!

How to get the best from what you paid?

Coincidentally Sephora.my is having some weekly promotion on their website and Benefit has a GWP promo. If you spend RM240 and above on Benefit products, you will get this 3-piece gift set.

That is not all. Besides getting free shipping, you also get to choose sample for your purchase. The sample gets better and better the more you purchase. In this case, a Kat Von D Mini Studded Kiss Lipstick in Cathedral is in the sample list. Go ahead. Throw this in your shopping bag.

Am I tempted in any way? Of course? I am a beauty enthusiast and anything beauty always tempt me. But not until I need to buy it otherwise I could not sleep. Nah, I am still not supporting Benefit LOL. I still have my gorgeous Tarte 10-blush palette to dig into.

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I, for one has been taking pride in travelling with everything full size. People say I’m crazy but I just like how all the full size beauty products lining up at the hotel bathroom against the huge mirror . Well, that was until the recent Singapore trip with Olay where I find myself having trouble stuffing all my beauty products into my luggage. I was only going for a few days so I do not plan to bring a bigger luggage. The issue occurs because I brought my running gear with me. So that took hella lots of space hence lesser space for my beauty products . I have come to realisation that I need makeup kit that has everything I need, minus the bulkiness and luggage space. Hence I went online to Sephora.my and found these two Travel-Friendly Makeup Kit that covers everything that you need.

When it comes to travelling, I do not put on a lot of makeup. The most important is the base makeup aka face, eye makeup, cheeks and lip. Sometimes I even skip eye makeup what more eyeliner. No cat-eyed eyeliner for me. The makeup kit that covers EVERYTHING for the face that I have personally tried and was surprised with it is the Benefit How To Look The Best At Everything in Light.

Benefit How To Look The Best At Everything in Light (RM155)

When it comes to base makeup, I always go for the lightest shade. Benefit offers How To Look The Best At Everything kit in a few shades such as Fair, Light, Medium and Deep. As this is my first time trying out Benefit base makeup, I have no idea what is my shade. So I went on to Benefit.com to look at the shade chart. It is pretty easy and handy looking at the shade chart as they also provide shade preference on real human.

What I like about this this kit is that it has everything from primer to foundation to concealer, powder and even a miniature brush. With only this kit, I do not have to bring anything else. Just this will do.

The foundation turns out to be exactly my shade. It has a light to medium buildable coverage. The photo below is just one light layer. It does not covers all the flaw but it evens out my skin tone pretty well.

Something I did not expect from the kit is that they have two Boi-ing industrial-strength concealer in shade 01 and 02. How thoughtful it is to include not one but two concealer shades in the kit! I used the lightest shade to highlight and cover the dark circles on the under eyes and the darker shade for acne spot concealing.

I was pretty happy that Light is still available so I quickly put that into my cart to check out. What I forget was I am darker now due to excessive running under the sun. So the Light kit turns out to be too light for my skin tone lol. If I am not mistaken, the shade Medium will suits me better. So please forgive the white face turnout. The powder – Hello Flawless is a powder foundation, which can be used alone minus the use of foundation. Therefore if you are using the powder to set your foundation like I did, please do note that it can get a little bit too heavy and thick on the face. It will be thicker on the places you had the concealer on. On my face it is my under eyes hence you are looking at a fairer under eyes .

Tarte Energy Noir Clay Palette (RM155)

Tarte on Sephora online has the most travel kit of all. There was once I looked at my shopping cart and it was full with Tarte! But the one palette that is versatile enough for travel is the Energy Noir Clay Palette.

While everyone went crazy with other Tarte palette such as Tartelette In Bloom Clay Palette or even the Tartelette Amazonian Clay Matte Eyeshadow Palette, I had my eyes on the Energy Noir simply because the shades are wearable and it comes with a blush in it.

Personally, I am more drawn to purple or mauve shade so this palette is just perfect for me. I also like that there is a bone shade (hallelujah!) a brown and also two deeper shade as liner. I know many people like to see a black shadow in their palette but not me. However, when I travel I do not draw on my usual winged eyeliner so this time the black as liner works well for me.

I starred at the palette for a while trying to figure out what look I can create with this palette because I am used to using a warm light brown as my transition shade but this palette does not have one. Then I figure I could get away with the dull light purple as transition shade and I was right. My favourite has got to be the deep purple shadow, which I used on the outer V. There are two shimmery shadow in the palette that are perfect to pop onto the center of my lid. As for the inner corner highlight, there is a strip of highlighter in the palette which doubles up as upper cheek highlighter as well. If you want deeper outer V, just dip a little bit of the dark brown and deepen the shades of your outer V will do

For this look, I skipped mascara altogether. The dark eyeliner I had on using the black from the Tarte Energy Noir Clay Palette managed to give my eyes the deep and dark look that I wanted. Anyway who have the time to sit down and remove mascara at the end of a long day when they travel, eh? . I would not want to seriously.

The palette surprised me just as much as the Benefit kit as this palette literally have zero fallout. The quality of the shadows are as good as the rumours I heard. These shadows are quite pigmented and easy to blend away except for two lighter shades which I used as transition shade. That two takes a little bit more building to get the colour payoff that I like.

There you have it! My travel-friendly makeup kit that I think everyone should have when they are travelling. Now, if you still have yet to check out Sephora, you got to because Sephora is like a makeup heaven for all of us beauty enthusiast. You can now shop at Sephora online for your favourite make up products here! Sometimes you may even spot some online special deal that physical store do not have.

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For the past few days my Instagram feed has been flooded with photos of ELLE Malaysia August 2016 magazine GWP in collaboration with Benefit Cosmetics. It has been months since I saw any good magazine GWP especially with the current economy. Everyone is holding their money and sponsorship tightly. So this ELLE Malaysia August 2016 X Benefit Cosmetics Brow Products is really refreshing!

Each magazine comes with just one Benefit Cosmetics new brow products deluxe size. There are five to choose from, or rather to hunt for.

1. Ready, Set, Brow! Clear Brow Gel
2. Gimme Brow Volumizing Eyebrow Gel
3. Ka Brow! Eyebrow Cream-Gel Color
4. Browvo! Conditioning Eyebrow Primer
5. Goof Proof Eyebrow Pencil

So far I only managed to buy 3 out of 5. I’m not interested with Browvo! Conditioning Eyebrow Primer so I’ll skip that. But I am hunting for Goof Proof Eyebrow Pencil. I notice that the stock for Ka Brow! is more than the rest. I wouldn’t mind more Gimme Brow

Magazine is selling for RM8.90 a copy. It also comes with a brow waxing service card. Only available at Kinokuniya KLCC, Times and MPH bookstores. Hurry! It’s running low as everyone is hoarding a few copies each

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I don’t usually browse Sephora.my as I get my Sephora fix directly from the store instead of their online store but there is this ad on Facebook by Sephora saying that their online store is having a 25% sale on selection items. Curious cat I was, I login to Sephora.my, look for the SALE tab and started browsing. When I saw Nudestix Lip + Cheek Pencil was on sale price of RM27, I excitedly continue to browse and discover more and more items on a really steal price. Then I started Whatsapping a few people. I Whatsapp Paris B on Marc Jacobs Le Marc Lip Crème Lipstick and Kiss Pop Lipstick that was on RM36 sale price, ShopGirl on the unbelievable RM27 discovery, and Mieza on Nudestix 3 PC Magnetic Eye Colour Kit which was RM51 for the whole set. What was odd was the discount percentage shown was lesser than the final price shown. I could not be bothered about the percentage. My eyes was glued to the final price lol.

I placed my order, made payment and my parcel was sent out a few hours after that. But because my area was not within Aramex delivery area, as usual the parcel was redirected to GDex and it arrived yesterday afternoon. There was three Nudestix Lip + Cheek Stain set available but one of the set was sold out. So I got the other two – Soul & Flesh and Mystic & Whisper. The description on Sephora.my page said that this is a 4-in-1 product. I always thought it is a 2-in-1 stick so I went to Sephora.com for more info. It said it is a lip color, lip liner, lip balm, and cheek color. Duh! Anyhow you put it it’s still a 2-in-1 product for me LOL.

Marc Jacobs was on a huge markdown as well. Well, at least that is what I thought. It was just a system glitch or human error . Since I have been buying so much lipstick lately including Nudestix in this small haul so I skipped their irresistible RM26 lipstick, for which I regretted now. I stumbled upon the Marc Jacobs Feather Noir Ultra-Skinny Lash-Discovering Mascara for just RM32. Seriously? I paid near to RM50 for Korean brand skinny mascara. And this is Marc Jacobs! BUY! I do not want to tempt you but the Genius Gel foundation was just RM60. Let’s not get into Becca. I had my eyes on so many of their products but they ran out of the shades I want so I was forced to not get any Becca

Oh. This is one interesting story. Earlier in June, Sephora sent out a newsletter on a free Benefit Cosmetics ka-BROW! Eyebrow Cream-Gel Colour deluxe sample for the first 50 Black Card customers by entering a certain code. It was supposed to be valid from 2nd June to 8th June. I had a few things in my cart and entered the code for the GWP but never get to checkout. The GWP item remains in my cart all this while until last week. So when I checkout, the gift remains. I was curious to see if Sephora would send me the GWP and they did .

So that is my small Sephora online haul. I think they notice the pricing error and everything was readjusted back to the sale price that was supposed to be within a few hours. What I paid was indeed a glitch. It happens all the time with Sephora.my. But this time the glitch was a steal for me and to those who managed to purchase some of the items

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