Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder

I have come to the very clear headed decision that should I want to save up then it only makes sense for my financial well being that I steer clear of the Chanel counter. Well after one last hurrah and what better to splurge on as parting gift than Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder.

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder
Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder

Chanel packaging is always super chic and I'm willing to bet one of the few brands we openly flaunt on the train...slightly poser like yes but hey it is Chanel darling! Unlike most Chanel cosmetic items Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder comes presented within a beige compact no doubt as a nod to the "Les Beiges" title, despite not being monochrome it is just as sleek as ever and will no doubt take pride of place on many a dresser!

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder
Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder
Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder

I was colour matched at the counter to shade No.30 but as my skin is fairly oily and has the habit of oxidising products so I went for a shade lighter which is No.20 and have to say I'm really happy with the colour choice.Okay it is a smidgen lighter than my skin tone but it doesn't add a white cast to my complexion and as a result doesn't turn me deeper or orange over the course of the day. A word of warning about the Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder is that they run fairly deep and most look like bronzers rather than pressed powders and I'm not exactly pale.

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder

Despite all the hype from blogs, magazines and friends I can't say I love Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder. For a start it is very perfumed which I do worry in time it may irritate my skin and despite feeling silken on my skin it does very little for me. I don't find it does all that great a job of setting my make-up nor does it keep oil at bay. Chanel claim that Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder (hence the title I guess) gives the skin a healthy glow which is what sold me on the spot but in the end it didn't turn out to be anything other than a finely milled powder. No glow, no nothing, just a run if the mile scented pressed powder. Gutted doesn't begin to cover how I feel. I am unsure if my oily skin is perhaps to blame or if this is perhaps another product that doesn't deserve the hype that surrounds it?

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Pressed Powder £38 via Debenhams - link


Random Fact - Coco Chanel worked up until her death. Coco died on January the 10th, 1971, in Paris, France at the age of 87.