{"id":14339,"date":"2014-05-19T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2014-05-17T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T02:54:17","slug":"chanel-les-beiges-healthy-glow-multi-colour-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2014\/05\/chanel-les-beiges-healthy-glow-multi-colour-powder\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling for the hype that is the Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Multi-Colour Powder"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mmm … you know when everyone and their aunt is raving about a product and you just never try it for whatever strange reason you may have? That’s me and the Chanel Les Beiges powders. Let me just say that I’m not quite sure what they are. Pressed powders? Finishing powders? Do they add colour? What?! Beiges? How blah is that?<\/p>\n
But while on a shopping jaunt not too long ago, I found myself standing in front of the Les Beiges display at Chanel looking at the very pretty Les Beiges Healthy Glow Multi-Colour powder<\/strong>. The pretty stripey detail reminded me of a pretty blush I own from the brand<\/a> and I was sort of smitten.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me you wouldn’t be too \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n I haven’t bought anything from Chanel in a very long time and for some reason, I got it into my head that I wanted this powder. This is a limited edition powder that is part of the Les Beiges line, and comes in 2 shades, imaginatively identified as 01 and 02.<\/p>\n 01 which you see pictured here is the lighter shade meant for fairer skintones. 02 is more bronzed and slightly deeper in tone for medium to deeper skintones. Each palette contains a highlighter at top, a Les Beiges powder in the middle and in the case of 01, a blush at bottom or in the case of 02, a bronzer.<\/p>\n Ideally, you could then use this powder in a few ways. You can blend all the colours and use it all over as a finishing powder to add glow and warmth to your skin; or you could pick up each colour individually and use them separately. Well, let’s just say that the latter ain’t gonna happen!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The fact is that the pan, despite the deceptively large size in photographs, isn’t very large. You will need a very narrow brush if you wanted to pick up each colour individually. There is one packaged with the product, a half moon curved brush that lies on a hard piece of plastic covering the powder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It isn’t too bad, but I found it flimsy and too thin to be of any real use. It’d work in a pinch but I rarely work with anything in a pinch. It either works or it doesn’t and this, for me, doesn’t.<\/p>\n The other thing I noticed was that the tester at the counter felt relatively soft, so when I ran my finger over the powder, it picked up product quite well. But when I took mine home, it feels hard to the touch and there is little product pay off. Am I the only one who feels this way or did I get a dud?<\/p>\n The strange thing is that when you run your finger over the powder and then swatch it on your hand, it looks like there is a lot of shimmer and “glow”. When I pointed it out to the SA and asked if it might be too much to wear all over, her reply was that it was the “glow” and that it’s what these powders were for, plus there was SPF15 for sun protection. Wow… not \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n