 Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So I'm so excited for today's video because I'm going to be reviewing the new Benefit cheek leaders palettes, which are new for their spring 2019 collection So if you're interested in hearing my thoughts on these then just keep watching So every year benefit has been coming out with these really big very good value face palettes And I've picked them up from the previous two years. So this year they came out with two Which is new for them and you guys know I had to pick them up so that I could compare them for you guys I mean it's really tradition that I picked these up because I love them I think they're such a great value and I just want a fresh one every year So before I go into the nitty-gritty on this palette, let's talk about the major details So they will be available February 26th online at benefit cosmetics.com as well as march 1st Is when they will be available in store. I don't see a price right now, but I'm going to assume They're going to be $50 which is how much the palette cost last year Now if you aren't aware of these palettes contain five full-size products from the benefit line There's some sort of variation between blush, bronzer and highlight So this is actually a 145 value that you are getting for $58 I'm not going to talk about the quality too much because I just want to let you know upfront That the quality of these are great They're consistent with the regular box formula as well as the other palettes in the past So blendability is very good. It applies very smoothly lasts a long time just overall really good quality I'm more so going to be talking about the colors and how they worked for me and just so you know, these do have a scent It's a very pleasant scent. I can't really describe it, but I love it. It's almost like a really good smelling lotion I don't know. You're gonna have to go in stores and smell it for yourself because I do not know how to describe sense But it's very pleasant. I love it The two palettes that they came out with were the bronze squad and the pink squad Essentially bronze squad supposed to give you a nice bronzy look and the pink squad is going to give you a nice pinky look, so let's take a deeper look into the bronze squad palette. So obviously this has more of a Deeper pink packaging to it really cute the cheerleaders on the front Benefit always does a banging job with their packaging So once you open it up, you actually do get a good size mirror and a little pullout guide on the top Does anybody actually use these? I don't know And then of course You are going to reveal the five shades You're getting two bronzers two blushes and one highlight in this palette as well as a brush And this is the only product in the world. I swear that actually comes out with a useful brush This is really good for contouring, especially the nose as well and right underneath the cheekbones I actually do really like this brush So in the overall palette the swatches are on the top side of my arm The bottom of course is the pink squad just so you can compare them Do you have gold rush blush cookie highlighter hula caramel bronzer original hula bronzer and coralista blush Now there's two new products in this palette that we're not in the regular benefit line before So first we have cookie, which is the highlighter. It's a brand new highlighter formula It is a palette exclusive to this as well as the new mini palette, which I will talk about So you can only get this highlighter in this palette or the mini one And then we have hula caramel, which is a deeper bronzer in the darker version of hula Which I think is lovely that they came out with this is going to be sold individually So if you do just want to purchase the deeper bronzer, you do have that option The other three gold rush hula and coralista are all in their regular line So hula caramel, I do want to talk about that for a second That is a new deeper shade that they made they have hula light It was only a matter of time before they made a deeper hula shade clearly I am very fair So I can't speak on how well this shade is going to work on medium to deeper skin tones I can only speak on my experiences until I have a chance to try on somebody of a different skin tone Than myself, so I don't want to talk about it too much on that But I will say this is kind of a strange color to me. It's almost very yellowy orange It reminds me of a very camel color It's almost camel, which is very beautiful on the crease It's actually what I used on my transition today, but on the face for me I'm just gonna tell you right now. I personally didn't like it on me It is usable So if you are fair and you do want to get this palette and you do want to use the bronzer You like get some use out of it. I would say use it as a transition shade or a crease color But you can get it to work on your skin as I did But I feel like the undertone of it is very weird It's very yellow and I just didn't like the way that it looked on me But like I said, I don't want to talk about somebody with a more medium to deep complexion If you've tried it out Please let me know down below how it worked on you to help each other out And of course if you don't like that there is hula in the specific palette as well I'm not going to talk about it just because I used it in the next palette So I'm just going to skip through hula, but hula is a classic. So the first blush that I applied was Coralista This is actually the first time I've tried Coralista from that line. It is a pretty classic blush for benefit I've heard about it for forever has a slight sheen to it. It's very light I did have to kind of build it up a little bit But it's a really pretty peachy blush and then I used gold rush now There is a bit of a golden film over it that you are going to have to kind of Take that spray over off before you can get to the actual color I will say gold rush is not my favorite blush. I have a very difficult time getting it to show up on my skin This is what I would consider a blush for a very fair person Which is very interesting because they put gold rush with the hula caramel Which I would think somebody with a deeper skin tone would want to pick up But you have gold rush which isn't really going to show up. It's not very pigmented It's just for somebody who's very fair who doesn't really like blush and is scared of blush That's who I would recommend gold rush to but honestly, I'm not really into gold rush I like coralista, but that still is also very light and then finally we have the cookie highlighter and you guys this highlighter is Amazing. I loved it. It's a very smooth and buttery formula and for the first time I feel like I understood when people said my skin looks like glass This is the first time i'm describing a highlighter up like that. This highlighter makes my skin look like glass It blends into the skin. It goes into the skin. It doesn't stay on the skin Benefit did such a great job with this highlighter formula. Honestly, it's so buttery smooth so beautiful Again, what I do find interesting is they paired it with the darkest bronzer But this isn't even the darkest highlight. This highlight is very light So it's going to be beaming on somebody with a lighter skin tone I think that's who it's going to be more flattering on because I can see this being A bit much if you are deeper now if you don't want to spend the $58 on this palette You can actually get the mini cheek leaders bronze squad palette, which is $30 That's actually available online at benefit right now, which I will link down below Now that only has the hula bronzer gold rush blush and cookie highlighter So I would say this would be for somebody more of with more of a lighter skin tone because you are getting that gold rush Blush that I'm personally just not crazy about and you're getting this really light highlighter, which I love But just for my personal recommendation if you aren't interested in Investing in this really large palette spend $30 and just get the little mini one now It's going to have smaller pan sizes It's not going to be this large But get the mini one so you can try this formula as well as you can never have too many hulas in my opinion But overall I like this so it's nice So let's take a look into the cheek leaders pink squad palette as you can see much brighter Pinky easterly springy packaging this one is way cuter packaging if you ask me you have this same mirror and Little pully outie thingy and then so for this one the swatches are at the bottom You're getting a gala fornia blush tickle highlighter hula bronzer dandelion blush and dallas blush So there's only one new product in this palette and that is tickle highlighter the rest you can get in their regular line So this is the palette that's actually on my face today So I started off of course with hula bronzer just as an all over bronzy color if you haven't tried hula before You need to they have hula and every one of their blush palettes Which i'm okay with because hula is like one of the most amazing bronzers because you can use it to bronze and contour It's a very neutral tone So if you just use a big fluffy brush that warms up the face And then if you use a little bit more of a precise brush and build a little bit It's really great for chiseling out your face as well. I have as my nose contour today It's just a really good universal color and it works on so many different skin tones So hula is great. You can never have too many hulas in my opinion. So on this cheek. I started off with dallas Now I had actually never used dallas before when I saw it I thought it was a bronzer to be honest now You can use this as kind of a bronzer blush because it is a little bit more pinky Which if you put that all over your face in my opinion isn't that flattering as a bronzer But if you're not into a bright blush I think you would really like dallas because I kind of put that on the lower part of my cheek to blend in with my bronzer And that just works perfect. That's just kind of a blush bronzer if you ask me really pretty. I really like it I actually think this is going to be really good for medium to deep skin tones I think you will really like that shade on this cheek. I actually use dandelion blush, which I love dandelion It's actually described as a brightening face powder, but I like it as a blush on my fair skin I think it's there's something so soft and romantic about that blush It looks very very fair, but it's actually really subtle and pretty but it's still pigmented that it shows up It's way more pigmented than gold rush dandelion is definitely one of my favorite blushes to begin with really pretty soft pink blush And then you have galifornia I really do like galifornia that has a golden overspray on it when it's new Just kind of take your brush and get that off and then it's actually a really pretty bright pinky coral blush I love a bright blush So i'm really happy that they have galifornia in there and I applied that kind of to the apples Of my cheeks to brighten everything up So galifornia is that great brightening a blush that I felt like this palette really really needed And then we have tickle now I was really worried about tickle because I thought it would be too deep of a highly on me And i'm here to tell you now that it's really not it doesn't leave a cast on my cheekbones However, it is very very gold It's the exact same formula as the other highlighter cookie and the other palette so creamy such a good quality highlighter I think this is going to be very very flattering on medium skin tones But if you're a lighter you can definitely make it work. I have that all over my lid as well such a smooth buttery formula I'm really digging this highlighting formula. So I'm loving tickle But I like cookie more But I think tickles more flattering for more medium to deep skin tones This palette also has the pink squad mini version of it for 30 dollars And in that you're getting dandelion blush galifornia blush and tickle highlighter So if you're interested in these three shades, there is a cheaper option for just 30 dollars for these three really quickly I did kind of what wants to compare what was in last year's palette to this year Just so you can know if there's going to be any repeats I'm not going to talk about the one from two years ago because that's supposed to be expired All right. So the blush bar palette looks like this just in case you're curious Very pinky. I really liked the one from last year from the bronze squad the repeats you're getting are Hula and gold rush So just these two are repeats which makes me sad because you guys know I don't like gold rush But of course hula is always going to be repeated So you're only getting two that are repeats and from the pink squad You're actually getting three repeats which are zanzalion galifornia and hula and you guys know I do Love these three So they're not repeating any that I don't like but that's three of the five that are repeated from last year So I really don't know why they did that and not to mention one of them You can actually get individually as well So i'm not gonna lie if you have the palette from last year I really don't think you need the pink squad But if you do want to get tickle I would recommend getting that 30 mini squad palette because you can get it That's just my personal thought. I think if you have the palette from last year you don't need this But I really liked a lovely Pinky blush, but if you have the one from last year I think you can definitely pick up the bronze squad at least if you're interested in purchasing them Also something that I wanted to mention online when I saw The two palettes next to each other I instantly assumed that the bronze squad was going to be for somebody of a deeper complexion because they have The deeper bronzer now after playing with the palettes I actually decided that the bronze squad palette itself is more suited towards lighter skin tones Which is kind of upsetting because listen, you have the darker highlighter and the darker Blushes in the pink squad palette and you have the lighter highlighter and the lighter blushes In the bronze squad palette So in my opinion to really make this very simple for you guys to choose from I think Benefit should have taken the hula caramel And had switched it in with dandelion. Let me just give you my theory. So imagine dandelion's hula caramel First of all, that's an even bronzer your palette because you're getting dallas and hula which are already Bronzey colors and you're also getting a darker blush and a darker highlight I think that would have been much more friendly towards deeper skin tones And if you had a lighter skin tone and this was dandelion You would have had the perfect pink palette With an appropriate bronzer. That's just my opinion I think by switching those two colors, it would have just made a lot more sense to everybody Like I don't know. Let me know your opinions. I can't be the only one that thinks that So let's just round up my thoughts here overall amazing quality Once again the highlighter formula You did a good job benefit. If you have the one from last year I don't think you need the pink palette instead of buying this I would recommend that you just buy the mini version of it so you can try out this formula Honestly, I don't know I think I might like the bronze squad better because I like these two a lot I don't know. I like them both kind of the same, but I like The cookie highlighter. That's like my favorite thing of both of these palettes I just feel like if I could mix and match these I would get the most perfect palette But there's things in each palette that I would prefer would be different but overall super good Look into the little mini palettes if you're interested in kind of getting a taste in these But I think these palettes are for somebody like if you buy One palette a year and that's what you use all year for your face. Oh my gosh Please get one of these these are amazing You can refresh it every year if you love them as much as I do and get a new one every year I truly feel like that's the type of customer that this palette would be best for but You know if you're thinking about getting these and you're a fan of the benefit box products I love these but if you have a bunch of benefit products You like have every color in this palette with the exception of one or two I'm gonna give these a nine out of ten big thumbs up though. Love them. Very happy with my purchase Let me know down below what your thoughts are about these palettes. If you're picking them up what you're thinking I really want to know let's get a conversation going and so just remember to like this video Subscribe to my channel. Leave me a testimony for Sephora squad. I will put the link Down below and of course subscribe. I will see you guys in the next video. Bye guys. Have a great day