Products I regret buying # 1 - Benefit You Rebel

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Today I'll share my story about a product I regret buying. I believe that positive reviews can help you find a product to suit your needs, but so can negative reviews! A lot of people don't like reviewing things they don't enjoy using but I think this could save people from spending money on products which might not be for them. Said product is Benefit's You Rebel, a tinted moisturiser. Now let me tell you, I'm not one to use tinted moisturisers anyway, but there are certainly ones I prefer to this. 

I remember being offered a makeover by one of the Benebabes in Westfield London a couple of years ago and sat down to see what the fuss was about, I haven't been into makeup as much back then as I am now. Now, I'm really pale and hardly knew anything about foundation as I haven't used anything but pressed powder before. She began to apply You Rebel and we chatted away about how she only got the job the other day and didn't have any professional knowledge about makeup whatsoever, she just enjoyed doing it. Not very trustworthy I thought but  decided to just wait and see how it turns out. Huge. Mistake.

Eventually,  she was done and I had a quick glance in the mirror she gave me [bear in mind the lighting was pretty bad at that point]. It did look weird, not like me at all but I figured that's how makeup is supposed to look like. So I stepped out and went to the loos to have a proper look - I didn't want to bother her with critical looks in the mirror - only to discover I looked worse than a Geordie Shore cast member. My face had a weird orangey brown colour and to top it all off she applied bronzer literally everywhere. That's how I spent the rest of my day at Westfield.

Why did I purchase You Rebel in the first place you may ask. To be honest, I don't even know anymore. The girl kind of talked me into it whilst she was doing my makeup and already put it aside for me to purchase and I'm horrible at saying no. To anything really. I'm stupid shy and polite if I do say so myself.

Onto the product itself [Sorry about this mammoth story]! Apart from the colour being way too dark for my skintone, it feels quite slippery and oily on application. The smell is so off-putting, it smells so weird and medical if that makes sense. Even if it matched my skin tone, it goes patchy during the day. It does give an even colour for an hour or so I suppose but it doesn't give any coverage at all, then again that's not something I would expect from a tinted moisturiser anyway. And that's how three or four years later, I'm sitting here with a tube of this sitting in my drawer unloved. Don't get me wrong, I should have known better and the lady was lovely so it's not her fault at all. 

Nonetheless I'm wondering, if anyone who owns this actually enjoys using it? Do you? I'd love to hear your opinion if you've tried it before!