Boots Star Gift! Smashbox Superstars Gift Set

 Its that time of the year again when Boots have their weekly Star Gift offers. If you’re not familiar with these, its basically where every week they select some gorgeous gifts and for 7 days only, they are on offer at wildly discounted prices.

It’s the perfect time to start stocking up on your Christmas gifts while bagging yourself a real bargain.

This week they have a truly SMASHing offer for you.

Available until November 8^th only you can get your hands on the incredible Smashbox Superstars gift set for the amazing price of just £30. This set is worth a staggering £88 so you are saving over half the retail price!

Packed full of some of the brands best-selling, hero products it is the perfect gift for beauty lovers!

The Smashbox Superstars includes:

Photo Finish Foundation Primer Light Travel 15ml

Photo Finish Primer Water Travel 30ml

Covershot Ablaze Eye Palette 7.8g

Superfan Mascara 10ml

Camera Ready Contour Shadow Brush

Smashbox know their primers and the Photo Finish Foundation Primer Light is one of the best around. Designed for oily, blemish prone or sensitive skin this super lightweight primer smoothes the skin and creates a beautiful soft focus finish.

This water based, transparent gel primer is wonderfully light on the skin and is quickly absorbed, instantly mattifying and leaving your skin feeling silky smooth, the perfect canvas for your foundation.

The set also includes the Photo Finish Primer Water which works alongside the traditional primer to ensure your skin is looking flawless throughout the day.

It can be spritzed onto your skin and used as a primer or alternatively used to set your look or as a make-up refresher throughout the day.

 

Formulated with electrolytes to help restore moisture it works as an instant skin pick-me-up and is great at imparting hydration to parched skin throughout the day.

Also within the set is their best-selling Ablaze Cover Shot Eye Palette.

This gorgeous compact palette features a range of pigment-powdered eye shadows in a range of beautiful, captivated shades, formulas and finishes so you can create a whole host of different looks from just 1 palette.

These hot, desert-inspired shades are perfect for creating warm, autumnal looks and feature the following shades;

Relaxed: Creamy, soft, matte beige

Moccasin: Rich, shimmery gold

Siesta: Warm, pinky shimmery gold

Nirvana: Shimmery, deep rich mauve

Delirious: Shimmery, golden brown

Torch: Shimmery, orange gold

Throwback: Matte terracotta

Dark Horse: Matte deep brown

 Highly pigmented with beautiful, rich textures and a soft focus finish the shades blend together beautifully and can be built upon to create either soft or dramatic looks.

The compact that the shades are housed in is actually very cool in itself too as it features a hollographic cloud of terracotta colour which moves when you angle the palette!

 

The Smashbox Camera Ready Contour Shadow Brush has also helpfully been included within this set so applying the palette has never been easier.

This eye shadow brush effortlessly applies powder eye shadows to the crease for a defined eye look.

Its super soft, high-tech synthetic fibers allow you to create a defined shadow look to perfection.

Last but by no means least is the inclusion of the Super Fan Mascara.

This lengthening, super- black mascara creates gorgeous fanned-out volume, length and lift that lasts for 12 hours.

Its delicate yet precise 360° Precision double-bristle brush provides product from root-to tip, while the soft comb reaches and styles even the smallest of lashes for fuller, thicker eyelashes without any dreaded clumping.

Its non-flaky, non-transferrable formula means that once applied you know your lashes are good to go for the rest of the day!

So, as you can see you’re getting a LOT of seriously impressive products for your £30 so you better hot foot it down to Boots now before the offer ends on the 8^th Nov or risk missing out!

Smahbox Photo Finish Primerizer

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s a crime not to prime.

Using a good quality primer helps to prep your skin for makeup, creates an even canvas for application and basically helps to keep your making up looking fresh and gorgeous for longer. 

If like me however, you suffer with oily skin, it can be difficult to find a primer that you  can use alongside a moisturiser that doesn’t leave your skin feeling heavy and saturated with product.

Finding a primer that is light enough to actually work, while controlling your oily complexion is hard enough, without the added agg of finding one that works with your moisturiser.

Lucky for us then that Smashbox have created Photo Finish Primerizer (£30).

Famed for their fabulous primers, this brilliant little product is a primer and moisturiser in one.

Described as ‘moisturising makeup magnet’ this primer is infused with skin-restoring Niacinamide and hydrating Hyaluronic Acid to help smooth, plump and condition your skin.

Fine lines are softened, pores are blurred and your complexion is softly saturated with a dewy glow, creating the perfect base for your foundation.

The primer itself is milky white in colour, feather-light in texture and scent free.

Quickly absorbed this non greasy, lightweight fluid leaves your skin feeling instantly nourished and hydrated and because it is so light in texture it simply melts into your skin and disappears.

It is perfect for my oily complexion but dry skin types may feel that it isn’t quite enough to quench their thirsty skin, but I may be wrong.

In terms of its use as a primer it does a fantastic job of creating the perfect palette for your makeup.

My foundation glided onto my skin and actually required less blending that usual.

Throughout the day my make up needed less touch ups, including powder top ups on my oily t zone which surprised me and my foundation felt locked in place!

It seems I’m not alone in my feelings about this product with 97% of people saying it felt lightweight, 90% saying it offers high levels of hydration and 88% saying it helped their make up to last all day.

Try it for yourself and see if it can help you achieve a flawless look all day long.

Smahbox’s Photo Finish Primerizer is available now and costs £30.