Benefit Watt's Up highligher

A few weeks ago my colleague at work excitedly rushed over to my desk to show me her latest Benefit purchases which included the Watt's Up highlighter.  It really stuck in my mind as a really beautiful product and very pretty highlighter, so when it was the Cardiff Benefayre I snuck into John Lewis first and bought one for me, a little treat for no good reason (the best kind!).  See what I thought of it below.

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I'll give you a pro tip off the bat - remember to fully wind it in before replacing the little cap, I had an incident with mine where it became stuck to the inside and some tore off - not the end of the word, but a silly mistake by me.

On to the product itself.  It's a cream formula in a stick, but that on application dries to a powder finish, unlike the Sun beam style products which have a slightly different finish.  This is double ended, the highlighter at one end, and a squishy sponge at the other for blending it in.  You could use your fingers to apply this, but I prefer to apply it straight from the stick - I just swipe it on my cheekbones, and switch to the sponge end and dab it across the edges to blend them in.

The lasting power isn't phenomenal, but it is decent.  I didn't really have any left when I was heading home from work (after applying it at about 7:30am), but I do tend to lean on my hands during the day and touch my face, so I wasn't that surprised.  It's a soft gentle highlighter, not in the slightest garish, which some of them can be far too obvious.  It really is very pretty.  It might be because it's a soft focus highlighter that it doesn't last quite as well as it's liquid counterparts, but I'm fine with that because in my opinion, it's much better.

I've managed to wear this every single day since I bought it, which means I might go through it a little quickly, but hey, at least it's being used :)

The lowdown

• You get 9.4g of product
• Cream to powder formula
• Costs £24.50
• A soft focus highlighter for your face
• Ingredients: Nothing nasty :)

This months Bigest-Pixi3 advertiser is the lovely Hayley from Water Painted Dreams

 

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