The Six Sample-Sized Products in Benefit’s New Primping With the Stars Face Kit Should Make Working With or Without Celebrities Easier

Where am I…?

What is this strange place?

It’s as if, when I walked through that door, I came out in a different universe, a parallel dimension, a nexus, if you will, of time and space, where the impossible is possible.

Back in the universe where I came from, primping with the stars — at least the one particular plus-size feline celebrity I’m familiar with — often took hours, days and sometimes even weeks.

Based on my star-primping experience, which involved prepping a superstar kitty supermodel for all the major awards shows, it was always a chore, but Benefit designed this kit to change that.

They filled the $32 Primping With the Stars kit with six sample-sized products from their permanent line, hand selected to fake a flawless face in mere minutes. In the kit, you get Benefit’s Stay Don’t Stray Eye Primer, The POREfessional face primer, Girl Meets Pearl Highlighter, their Some Kind-A Gorgeous cream foundation in Medium, one Benetint lip and cheek stain, and a tube of They’re Real mascara.

Two of the products in this kit are Benefit favorites of mine — Benetint, which I’ve been using off and on as a blush since 1998 (!), and Girl Meets Pearl, a dope-@ss warm golden pink highlighter I wear a lot beneath foundation or mixed with tinted moisturizers and lotions.

The other products here — the eye primer, mascara, face primer and foundation — I’ll use if they’re around, but I probably wouldn’t reach for them over NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base, MAC Prep + Prime Natural Radiance face primer or Chanel Le Volume mascara.

One thing — if you like the way you look in light beige and need a new foundation, the kit comes with Some Kinda-A Gorgeous cream foundation in Medium. Hopefully it works better for you than me, because on my tan skin it looks a little ashy.

All in all, I think this is a pretty good kit of fairly wearable products, probably a little more wearable overall than the products in Do the Bright Thing… I just don’t know if I’d call the kit lust-worthy, ya know?

PRICE: $32
AVAILABILITY: Coming soon exclusively to Sephora stores and sephora.com
MAKEUP AND BEAUTY BLOG RATING: B

If Monday was a dragon, we slew it

You did a great job today. 🙂 I hope I wasn’t the only person to tell you that, but it’s true. You here reading this now tells me that you made it in one piece, which is quite an accomplishment for a Monday.

I actually managed to cross most of the things off my to-do list today and even squeezed in a workout. Tonight, I was hoping to make it over to Old Navy to look at sweaters because I realized this morning that I don’t have any cute holiday-ish ones, but then the couch caught me with its tractor beam.

Dang, that thing is powerful…

Maybe I’ll try Old Navy again tomorrow. I don’t know exactly what kind of sweater I’m looking for, but maybe something tasteful with a little shimmer or sparkle that I can just throw into the wash (because dry cleaning is such a pain).

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen