Chinese New Year: The Year of Good Luck & Glamour with Benefit Cosmetics

Chinese New Year is this Friday and I’m celebrating with Benefit by teaming up with the cosmetics company to create a Chinese New Year themed look. Although 2014 is the Year of the Horse, Benefit is declaring it the Year of Good Luck and Glamour -- although isn’t it that every year? As such, I wanted to create a rich, glamorous look that is easy and effortless. 

Chinese New Year is all about big celebrations and bright, vivid colours, with red being the most predominate, followed by gold. I fashioned my entire look around that theme, with soft yet slightly smokey gold eyes, bold and matte red lips, and an overall luminous glow. Red symbolizes joy, luck and prosperity -- I loved playing around with this luxe colour while adding that touch of glam to my look.

This weekend, Benefit is celebrating CNY in style at 5 different Sephora locations across Canada. I will be getting my Chinese New Year on at Fairview mall on Friday -- come by and say hello! For more information, click here.

And what would Chinese New Year be without handing out some good fortune? Benefit is giving away a gift basket of all the products I used to create my look. Enter the contest below for a chance to win these amazing goodies. Good Luck and Glamour!

Photography by Carolyn Roberts

Products I used:

The POREfessional | Fakeup concealer in medium | Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow in I’m all the rage beige | Benetint lip & cheek stain | Longwear Powder Shadow in milk it!,  call my buff, gilt-y pleasure, thanks a latte | Gimme Brow in medium/deep | Instant Brow Pencil in deep | They’re Real! Mascara

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