Product Review : Benefit Stay Flawless 15 Hour Primer

On my recent trip to NYC I just had to stop by Sephora, where I finally picked up the primer everyone has been talking about. You know the one that supposedly keeps your makeup flawless for a 15 hour span. That’s quite a hefty time frame right??

{Benefit Stay Flawless 15 Hour Primer, $32.}

I put this primer to the ultimate test by wearing it before heading to an outdoor concert…in the rain…to at an 8pm concert. I applied this product at 11am, to arrive back at my house around 12:30am, 13.5 hrs later. Just a few hours short of the time marketed.

Here are my BEFORE and AFTER pictures to show you a visual on how my makeup stayed put. *Excuse my hair in the afters as we sat in the misty rain the whole time at the amphitheater and I didn’t reapply anything, including my lip gloss. So I’m giving you no smoke and mirrors, just real life results!! Ha!

{BEFORE concert}

{AFTER concert, 12:30am tired face!}

{CLOSE UP BEFORE}

{CLOSE UP AFTER concert. The most noticeable difference was my blush fading.}

Other makeup worn:

Kat Von D. “Sinner” shadow palette | YSL Creme Blush in #7 |

Too Faced “pillow talk” Glamour Gloss

Let’s be realistic with what I put this product through : 13.5 hours of wear, outside most of the time, in the Georgia humidity, and in the rain. I made it work hard and didn’t even apply pressed powder during the night. That being said, on a scale of 1-10, I’d give it a 9.

Function & Feel:
It took some getting used to applying my primer from the stick form because I’m used to a slightly liquid formula you squeeze out. So this stick feels kind of reminds me of a glue stick when rubbing on my face and does feel a bit thicker than most of my other primers. I drew it all over my face, then quickly rubbed in with the warmth of my fingers, then applied my foundation right after with my new favorite sponge I bought on the same trip to Sephora.

Wearability:
I have normal to dry skin, so oil production isn’t an issue with me which is a benefit to my foundation usually not sliding off my skin like some women struggle with. But this primer did seem to help my drugstore foundation (L’Oreal True Match) stay on rather nicely despite the elements. It also made my skin look more flawless than when I wear the foundation alone. It didn’t feel as thick after the initial application so it definitely soaked in and felt nice.

What do you think of these results? Have you given this primer the Benefit of the doubt??

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