Benefit- How to look the best at everything kit

Benefit products always appeal to me- the packaging is just too cute not to love! My all time favourite product of theirs is the POREfessional primer and when I ran out last week I went along to my local Benefit counter to repurchase and sure enough I got suckered into buying more! 

The kit I bought was the 'How to look the best at everything' in light for £24.50. I like the idea of buying kits from a brand as you can try all their products together and get a feel for them without splashing out on full sizes and then realising they're not for you. 

Inside the box is POREfessional PRO balm (7.5ml), Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow foundation in 'cheers to me' champagne (7ml), Boi-ing concealer in 01 and 02 (2x 1.5g) and Hello Flawless powder in 'me vain?' champagne (4g). There's even a mirror in the lid and tips on how to apply- everything you need to create your perfect base!

As I said I already love the POREfessional PRO balm, it gives the skin a silky, smooth texture minimising pores and definitely allows my make up to apply more evenly and last longer. Also a little goes a long way so this mini version should last me a while!

The foundation is not the right colour for me (when will I learn not to trust the lighting in shops?!) however, for the sake of this post I went about my daily business with a slightly orange face to give it a fair review! Texture wise the consistency is quite runny and the coverage is light. I built it to a medium coverage as I found it applied patchy and needed to be evened out. It gave a dewy finish which bordered on oily looking so I definitely needed powder to set. This isn't a foundation I would try again- it would probably be more suited to dryer, blemish free skin. 

The Boi-ing concealer in shade 01 is a decent skin tone match for covering minor blemishes and when combined with 02 it combats under eye darkness well. It's a creamy texture which smooths on easily and I found it corrected the colour around my eyes nicely. The only problem I had with this is that after an hour or so it had creased and needed to be rubbed back in- not ideal!!

I applied the Hello Flawless powder with my own brush as I can't stand the kind of flat brush that comes in the kit- it feels like your drawing stripes down your face and I don't want to look like a zebra. Also I much prefer a bigger brush to push the powder into the skin otherwise you're just undoing all your concealing work by brushing it all over your face! It gave a natural finish without looking too powdery and lasted around 4 hours before slight oiliness started to show through and needed touching up.

Overall, I feel that these products would be best suited to normal-dry skin only needing light coverage. On normal-oily skin and just found them slightly too creamy/wet to set into place. Also  although this is classed as the 'light' version I wouldn't recommend it kit for fair skin, it's just too dark. If you've tried any of these products I'd love to know what you think!