Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Today, we're doing another chit chat Get Ready with Me First Impressions kind of video. And I'm using a bunch of Benefit Cosmetics. Benefit has also been kind enough to offer some goodies for you guys. This bag is entirely full. I think that they're such a generous giveaway and if you want hear more about that, you can hang around until the end of the video. Now I'm compensated in any way for this. There's no benefit or ulterior motive for me. I just thought that I would take this opportunity to give you guys something cool. I've gone ahead and I've done my foundation and my concealer. It's been a long week or two. I look as though I haven't slept in a week or two. Let's get our brow game on. I have here Benefit Brow Zings, and it's a little brow palette and it has a powder and also a wax.

I'm starting off with the brow wax and I'm just running that through the lengths of my brows actually with the included brush. And then I'm going to go in with the powder portion. So it's been rather quite on the Shameless Fripperies recently. Uni has become really hectic and I feel like I am drowning in to do lists when all I'd rather be doing is hiding in bed and eating cake out of a sippy cup. Do you know what I mean? Hey, this is actually really awesome brush. It's really stiff and tapered so I'm getting a lot of precision. Okay and now the product that I'm actually really excited about is the Gimme brow and this is in the shade medium deep. Now I bought the light shade while I was in New York, and I love the applicator, I love the formula but it made my brows look a little bit dusty and I think it was actually too light for my coloring. So let's give this one a go.

Okay, yes, much better shade for me than the light. If you're around my coloring, go for medium deep. I love the effect. I don't see much in terms of the fiber volumizing claims but it does make the individual brow hairs look a lot more prominent. So it looks like you have more brows going on. Let's move on to the eyes. Now I have this Benefit World Famous Neutrals. Sexiest nudes ever. In this, there are four powder eye shadows and I think these are two cream eye shadows. Okay, so I'm going to start with Holy Smokes, which is a sort of taupey gray kind of cream eye shadow. I'm just patting that on to the lid with the finger. This texture is really quite fin and tacky. It's got some emollients to it and it's really easy to blend. I just blended that with the finger. I think I might actually put a little bit of that on the lower lash line too.

Next, I'm going to take maybe this taupey purply shade. It's called Rain Check and I'm just sort of blending that in the outer corner in to the crease, being really slap and dash with it. So is anyone watching this is going to IMATS Sydney this year? Because I always go alone. None of my friends are in to make up. So if you see me roaming around by myself, can you come and say hello so that we can be friends? I can take photo. Thank you. So I'm loving where this is going. I think these kind of grayed purple shades are really chic. Next I'm going to take the shade Milk It and I'm just going to run a little bit underneath my brow bone because I probably blend it that a bit far. And with that same Milk It shade, I'm just going to push that in to the inner corners. I haven't changed brush once. It's all casual today, guys. So next I'm going to take the shade Bingo and this is a risky shade for me because it's a minty pastel and pastels generally look awful on me. And I'm just patting that over the inner half of my lid. Ooh, I actually really like that shade. Every now and again I quite like to try products or colors that I think don't necessarily work on me because I think it kind of gets you outside of the box and experimenting. I think experimenting is good.

For eyeliner, I've forgotten to bring my eyeliner. Ugh. Nope. All right. I'm going to show you something that I do when I'm traveling and I need to be resourceful. I've take a little bit of my mascara that I'm going to use today and I'm going to apply it like a gel liner. Revolutionary.

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Now this is such an absurd and random favorite but the hard angle brush, the brush that comes with the Benefit Brow Zings palette is legitimately one of the best eyeliner brushes that I've ever used and I've tried a lot. Now I'm going to apply lashes today. These are the Prima Donna lash. I wasn't even aware that Benefit did eyelashes, let alone awesome ones. These remind me so much of my ultimate favorite, the Shu Uemura smokey layers. Now much like the Shu Uemura lashes, this appear to have quite a stiff and thick eyelash band, so it really helps to maneuver the lash to make a little bit more flexible so that it's easier to apply and it fits better to the curvature of your eye. That's what I'm going to be doing for the next few minutes. I'm going to use my lash applicator which is a fantastic tool by the way and I'm just going to plank that down on my lash line.

Now that both my lashes are on, I'm going to add some mascara and my favorite mascara for bonding false lashes to natural lashes is the Benefit They're Real because of the applicator. Now the applicator does reminds me a little bit of like an ancient artillery or dangerous deep sea urchin and I'm the moron that pokes my eye out, so be careful and practice caution. But the plus side is the bristles are quite spiky and separated and firm so they really comb through the natural lashes and bind them to the false ones. This is like my third or fourth tube. I'm a huge fan of this mascara, as with everyone else on YouTube apparently.

All right, next I'm going to take what's somewhat of a [colt] product by Benefit and it's their Hoola Bronzer. Hoola. And I'm just going to use this in a pretty typical bronzer placement, so towards the top of the cheekbones, on the hairline. Lucky last, I have a Hydra Smooth lipstick. The lipstick is called Air Kiss and it's a soft pink shade. So the stand out products for me absolutely without a doubt the Prima Donna lash. I'm a lashes kind of girl and I think that these are on points. They are beautiful. I also really love and have loved for a long time the Benefit They're Real. Mascara is one of those personal things, you know, it differs from person to person. Also the Gimme brow. If you're my coloring, go for the medium deep. Every beauty addict and their dog seems to own this product because it's awesome.

Enough blabbing. Now for the giveaway. So a lot of these products I actually didn't try in today's video because I only received one and I wanted to reserve it for the giveaway so that you could be awesome. To start, we have a Benefit High Beam. I have the eyeshadow palette that I used today which is the sexiest nudes ever. I have the Benefit Hoola Bronzer, colt product. I have the Benefit Professional, another colt product, the Stay Don't Stray Stay Put Primer for concealer and eyeshadows. I also have my favorite product of the day, the Prima Donna lash. I hope you really love them. Finally, I have a lipstick and this is in Fling Thing. I have no idea what kind of shade that is but I'm sure Google will let us know. To enter this giveaway, you have to be subscribed to Shameless Fripperies on YouTube obviously and then click the first link in the description box.

Now you can get extra entries if you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Come over. I really love to chat to you guys. This giveaway will end in two weeks from today and is open internationally to all of my international friends. I wish you the best of luck. I hope you will have a wonderful day and I will see you very soon. B-bye.