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Birchbox Goodies // June 2018

Happy birthday Birchbox! It's the company's 5th birthday this month and to celebrate they've created this beautiful keepsake tin inspired by British tea parties - so adorable! In this month's Birchbox I received an Ella Eden eyeshadow, the POREfessional Pearl Primer from Benefit, a Number 4 smoothing balm, a suncream from Polaar and a Lord & Berry strobing pencil, as well as an assortment of 3 teabags from Whittard! Unfortunately, I don't actually like tea so they will be going to one of my friends to enjoy! Read on to find out what I thought about the other products!

Ella Eden Compact Eyeshadow in "Faith"

We were able to choose which shade we received in this eyeshadow - I went with "Faith" as I'd already seen the other shade swatched on someone with a similar skin tone to me and because it was a really pale pink, it didn't show up very well. This one is a really lovely shimmery coffee-shade. It blended out really easily and was also quite pigmented. I have to say, it's not really anything special. I have a lot of shades that are similar to this one and I feel like once you've tried one shimmery brown shade you've tried them all. 

Benefit POREfessional Pearl Primer

I have been wanting to try this primer ever since it came out, but I didn't really want to go and spend £10 on a mini version as all the primers I've tried from this range have just pilled underneath my make up or attached themselves to any dry patches on my face. However, this one didn't which I was really surprised at! It's quite a creamy formula, and not quite as silicone-y as the regular POREfessional primer. I felt like it definitely made my skin look a little brighter and even after wearing it all day, my make up was still looking good and it didn't feel heavy on the skin!

Number 4 Jour d'automne Smoothing Balm

I was quite looking forward to trying this product - I have quite dry, frizzy hair and in the summer it just turns into a big mess from the heat, so anything that claims to reduce that will immediately catch my attention. I have to say, I didn't really notice a difference with this product and honestly, it just made my hair look and feel really dirty and greasy.  I ended up just sticking my hair up in a bun even though I'd only just washed it so that was a bit of a disappointment.

Polaar Velvety Sun Fluid

Another product that is perfect for me as I burn very easily! I always have to use at least factor 30, even in the UK, but I hate putting normal suncream on my face as it just causes loads of break-outs and isn't the easiest to apply makeup over. I haven't actually tried this yet as I'm still at uni so most of my day is spent indoors, however, I did test it on my arm - as well as smelling amazing it was also really lightweight, which makes me think it will be perfect to use on my face!

Lord & Berry Strobing Highlighter Pencil

Another product that was a real disappointment for me. I personally hate trying to use a pencil to create what a powder does, whether that's a highlighter or a blush and this was no exception. It's really hard to blend out and to be honest the pigment wasn't that great either - I'll definitely be sticking to either cream or powder highlighters in future!


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