It's only available at certain stores, ask at your nearest one for more details.
Showing posts with label Benefit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benefit. Show all posts
Friday, 11 October 2013
Make-up lovers will like this countdown to Christmas
Benefit have created an advent calendar for 2013...time to start hinting to the other half I think!
It's only available at certain stores, ask at your nearest one for more details.
It's only available at certain stores, ask at your nearest one for more details.
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Benefit Cosmetics Audition Process
Hi guys,
So today I thought I would tell you about my experience of applying for a counter job with Benefit Cosmetics. Every now and then I try and get a counter job, but as most of my experience is office work, I never get far.
However, I got through to the recruitment day stage and it was actually a lot of fun. If any of you aspire to work for a make-up counter, this should hopefully be a helpful read!
Stage One: Online application
If you've had a browse on the Benefit Cosmetics UK website, you've probably seen that you can create an account and a profile, to buy products and/or apply for jobs. My tips for this stage is to look at the job description to see what type of person they are looking for and try and fit in your descriptions and experience around this. I haven't had sales experience, but I have had to work to targets in one of my jobs before, so I described that part of it as being determined to meet targets and knowing how important they are. I also handed in my CV and cover letter to a department store near where I live, and again made sure in my cover letter I talked about the relevant experience and what I could bring to the role. The main thing is to just come across as enthusiastic, hard working and fun and that'll be fine!
Stage Two: Telephone interview
I have to admit that I was caught off guard at this part!! I'd received a message explaining that someone wanted to talk to me about my application so I rang them back and on the spot they asked if they could interview me for 5 minutes! I can't remember every question, as I blagged my way through most of it. I can tell you that they asked me to name some of the products, why I wanted to work for Benefit Cosmetics, what I liked about the brand and a few questions on how I would attract customers to the counter. A bit of prep helps but it wasn't anything too hard.
Stage Three: Recruitment Audition Process
Once you've passed the telephone interview, you're invited to take part in a recruitment day. The only information I got was the location, date and time, to wear all black clothing, and no open toe shoes.
Google Benefit recruitment process and you'll find a load of blogs and forums where people detailed what they went through. It involved traffic stopping customers. Okay, this time I was scared s***less.
After reading through tonnes of information, the main thing was to not worry about having the make-up skills, just concentrate on being friendly, smiley, enthusiastic, stand out and approach every single customer.
On the day I was slightly late, due to having to arrive straight from my job 40 minutes drive away and not knowing the town centre at all. They seemed fine about it though. You get taken upstairs to the training room after signing in and storing your bags. There were only 3 other girls and we were all going for jobs in different stores, so that fact relaxed me a little. The trainer went through what the day entailed and explained how to traffic stop customers. We went through the different answers people could give and what we would say to try and persuade them to come to the counter. When I was reading about the auditions, people were saying you have to be quite pushy and they didn't like it, but it wasn't like that at all. The opening line was "Have you heard of Benefit Cosmetics?" and so the customer can only give a yes or no answer. Then if they didn't want to come to the counter, all you do is ask them why politely and try and persuade them gently one more time. If it's still a no, then that's fine and you move on to someone else.
Example:
"Hello, have you heard of Benefit Cosmetics?"
"Yes."
"Oh brilliant, well we're giving out free makeovers today, come with me and I'll show you a few products."
"I haven't got time."
"How long do you have?"
"10 minutes."
"It will only take 5 minutes at the most and you get a bit of pampering."
Something along those lines. Then if the customer says no again, you just thank them and tell them to enjoy their day. So once you've learnt how to bring people to the customer, the trainer will go through the products you will be using on customers, and demonstrates how to apply them and what to say. I liked the way they did it actually. You apply one product at a time to half the face, showing the customer the result after each product so they can see what difference each one makes, as it's quite subtle. You also explain how to apply the product and what each of them is for, and after a few goes you do remember a lot of information and end up constantly talking to the customer. It's important not to worry about not remembering every single fact; after all, you already know more than the customer so you will look like you know what you're talking about.
The products we used were:
It's Potent Eye Cream
Porefessional
You Rebel
Benetint
High Beam
In the training room, you practise on each other and talk as if you are the customer, so you're not just thrown into the deep end out on the shop floor!! Once you've done half the face, you carry on with the other half but talking to the customer about their day and just general chit chat. You are encouraged to find out what product they liked and bring it over to see if they wanted to buy it.
The thing I was a bit frustrated about was that when customers asked how much things cost, I realised we hadn't been informed of the prices and there were no stickers on them. So it helps to research prices a little bit before the day, however no need to worry if you aren't sure. If a customer loves the product, the price won't matter to them!
I thought I would HATE traffic stopping customers but I actually really enjoyed it. No one is rude to you and the people that do come to the counter are actually really lovely!! I was also surprised with some of the people that did come to the counter, so really do ask everybody. It could see the girls on other make-up counters smirking if they heard you trying to get customers, but they were standing around doing nothing while ours was the busiest, so I didn't feel silly.
I think overall I sat about 7 or 8 people down and sold a couple of products, so I was pretty pleased.
However, I didn't get the job. My feedback was great, they said I gave the customers a great experience, and that it was nice to see the different age ranges I was bringing to the counter. There I was waiting for the inevitable 'but' which ended up being that they had filled my position with someone internal, so will keep my details on file and contact me if anything else comes up. Gutted!! I haven't got my hopes up, as she ended the call with "good luck for the future." Yeah thanks. I'll keep trying though.
Anyway, I hope this information helped you and gave you a bit more insight to recruitment processes.
Ciao for now!
However, I got through to the recruitment day stage and it was actually a lot of fun. If any of you aspire to work for a make-up counter, this should hopefully be a helpful read!
Stage One: Online application
If you've had a browse on the Benefit Cosmetics UK website, you've probably seen that you can create an account and a profile, to buy products and/or apply for jobs. My tips for this stage is to look at the job description to see what type of person they are looking for and try and fit in your descriptions and experience around this. I haven't had sales experience, but I have had to work to targets in one of my jobs before, so I described that part of it as being determined to meet targets and knowing how important they are. I also handed in my CV and cover letter to a department store near where I live, and again made sure in my cover letter I talked about the relevant experience and what I could bring to the role. The main thing is to just come across as enthusiastic, hard working and fun and that'll be fine!
Stage Two: Telephone interview
I have to admit that I was caught off guard at this part!! I'd received a message explaining that someone wanted to talk to me about my application so I rang them back and on the spot they asked if they could interview me for 5 minutes! I can't remember every question, as I blagged my way through most of it. I can tell you that they asked me to name some of the products, why I wanted to work for Benefit Cosmetics, what I liked about the brand and a few questions on how I would attract customers to the counter. A bit of prep helps but it wasn't anything too hard.
Stage Three: Recruitment Audition Process
Once you've passed the telephone interview, you're invited to take part in a recruitment day. The only information I got was the location, date and time, to wear all black clothing, and no open toe shoes.
Google Benefit recruitment process and you'll find a load of blogs and forums where people detailed what they went through. It involved traffic stopping customers. Okay, this time I was scared s***less.
After reading through tonnes of information, the main thing was to not worry about having the make-up skills, just concentrate on being friendly, smiley, enthusiastic, stand out and approach every single customer.
On the day I was slightly late, due to having to arrive straight from my job 40 minutes drive away and not knowing the town centre at all. They seemed fine about it though. You get taken upstairs to the training room after signing in and storing your bags. There were only 3 other girls and we were all going for jobs in different stores, so that fact relaxed me a little. The trainer went through what the day entailed and explained how to traffic stop customers. We went through the different answers people could give and what we would say to try and persuade them to come to the counter. When I was reading about the auditions, people were saying you have to be quite pushy and they didn't like it, but it wasn't like that at all. The opening line was "Have you heard of Benefit Cosmetics?" and so the customer can only give a yes or no answer. Then if they didn't want to come to the counter, all you do is ask them why politely and try and persuade them gently one more time. If it's still a no, then that's fine and you move on to someone else.
Example:
"Hello, have you heard of Benefit Cosmetics?"
"Yes."
"Oh brilliant, well we're giving out free makeovers today, come with me and I'll show you a few products."
"I haven't got time."
"How long do you have?"
"10 minutes."
"It will only take 5 minutes at the most and you get a bit of pampering."
Something along those lines. Then if the customer says no again, you just thank them and tell them to enjoy their day. So once you've learnt how to bring people to the customer, the trainer will go through the products you will be using on customers, and demonstrates how to apply them and what to say. I liked the way they did it actually. You apply one product at a time to half the face, showing the customer the result after each product so they can see what difference each one makes, as it's quite subtle. You also explain how to apply the product and what each of them is for, and after a few goes you do remember a lot of information and end up constantly talking to the customer. It's important not to worry about not remembering every single fact; after all, you already know more than the customer so you will look like you know what you're talking about.
The products we used were:
It's Potent Eye Cream
Porefessional
You Rebel
Benetint
High Beam
In the training room, you practise on each other and talk as if you are the customer, so you're not just thrown into the deep end out on the shop floor!! Once you've done half the face, you carry on with the other half but talking to the customer about their day and just general chit chat. You are encouraged to find out what product they liked and bring it over to see if they wanted to buy it.
The thing I was a bit frustrated about was that when customers asked how much things cost, I realised we hadn't been informed of the prices and there were no stickers on them. So it helps to research prices a little bit before the day, however no need to worry if you aren't sure. If a customer loves the product, the price won't matter to them!
I thought I would HATE traffic stopping customers but I actually really enjoyed it. No one is rude to you and the people that do come to the counter are actually really lovely!! I was also surprised with some of the people that did come to the counter, so really do ask everybody. It could see the girls on other make-up counters smirking if they heard you trying to get customers, but they were standing around doing nothing while ours was the busiest, so I didn't feel silly.
I think overall I sat about 7 or 8 people down and sold a couple of products, so I was pretty pleased.
However, I didn't get the job. My feedback was great, they said I gave the customers a great experience, and that it was nice to see the different age ranges I was bringing to the counter. There I was waiting for the inevitable 'but' which ended up being that they had filled my position with someone internal, so will keep my details on file and contact me if anything else comes up. Gutted!! I haven't got my hopes up, as she ended the call with "good luck for the future." Yeah thanks. I'll keep trying though.
Anyway, I hope this information helped you and gave you a bit more insight to recruitment processes.
Ciao for now!
Monday, 27 May 2013
Holiday Make-up
So this time next week I'll be in sunny Spain (Cortijo Grande to be precise), and I cannot wait!! This afternoon I went through my clothes and packed most of my things, so I thought I would show you my holiday make-up kit. I don't want to take too much with me, and brushes take up the most room so I've decided to bring products I can use with my fingers.
Image from women.fit2fat2fit.com
I'm forgoing foundation, it'll be too hot for that and my skin is pretty clear anyway. I will just use a primer if needed, which I still need to buy. I think I'll go with Benefit 'That Gal' Primer again.
I've got a load of eyeliner and shadow pencils to take with me in different colours, including Gosh, Avon and Borjouis. Lots of variety. Of course I'll be using my Benefit 'They're Real!' mascara, my all time fave! No false lashes as I can't be bothered with faffing around, it'll eat up my drinking time! For my lips I have some Sleek Pout Polish's in pinky shades, and a red Maxfactor lip pencil if I feel like going a bit more glam.
My brows are quite dark so usually I just brush them but I've got a dark brown NYC brow pencil just in case. Then for my cheeks, a red toned Virgin Vie cream blush, a pink shade by Boots Natural Collection and Benefit High Beam to highlight. All that's needed is some blotting papers to take shine away, can anyone recommend some?
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Make-up #13
I was originally planning a before and after style type post. Unfortunately, I took the before photo on my other camera and it wont connect to my laptop for some reason, so here is the finished look.
PRODUCTS USED:
1: Apply your base as you usually would. I moisturise, use a primer (MAC Prep + Prime) and apply my Gosh X-Ceptional Wear foundation in Porcelain with a Body Shop foundation brush.
2: Fill in your brows to their natural shape. I used the darkest brown shade in my Avon eyeshadow palette and a Crown Brush UK eyebrow brush. I luckily don't have to do much to my eyebrows as they are so dark!
3: Apply an eye primer all over the lid. I used Urban Decay Primer for this look.
4: Using my 17 eyeshadow trio, I applied the lightest shade all over the lid, up to the brow bone. Use a large flat eyeshadow brush. Using a smaller eyeshadow brush, I then applied the golden shade on just the lid, avoiding the innermost corner. The next step was to apply the darkest shade in the socket line using a brush especially for the crease, and on the outer corner. Once this was applied, use what is left of the brush to fill in the lower lid, halfway to the inner corner.
5: To define the eyes even more, I used a flat liner brush (MAC 212) to apply the darkest shade to the outer corners of the eye. I then applied more gold from the centre to the inner corner on the lower lid and then the lightest shade was applied more int he inner corner. Curl lashes and use your favourite mascara (mine is Benefit "They're Real!")
6: To cover my dark circles, I applied Benefit Boi-ing with my finger, patting under the eye until it was all blended. I used a Crown Brush UK concealor brush to cover any blemishes. To set your base, apply powder matching your skin tone with a powder brush and pat on the face to avoid disturbing the make-up
7: Using a blusher brush (again, Crown Brush UK for me!), apply a pinky shade to the apples of your cheeks, blending upwards. I used Bobbi Brown in shade Desert Pink (18)
8: Highlight the tops of your cheekbones, brow bone and cupids bow using your favourite highlighter. I like Benefit High Beam, but I've heard great things about MAC Cream Colour Base in Pearl.
9: Almost finished! For the lips, I wanted to keep them quite natural so I just used NARS Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil in Dolce Vita.
PRODUCTS USED:
1: Apply your base as you usually would. I moisturise, use a primer (MAC Prep + Prime) and apply my Gosh X-Ceptional Wear foundation in Porcelain with a Body Shop foundation brush.
2: Fill in your brows to their natural shape. I used the darkest brown shade in my Avon eyeshadow palette and a Crown Brush UK eyebrow brush. I luckily don't have to do much to my eyebrows as they are so dark!
3: Apply an eye primer all over the lid. I used Urban Decay Primer for this look.
4: Using my 17 eyeshadow trio, I applied the lightest shade all over the lid, up to the brow bone. Use a large flat eyeshadow brush. Using a smaller eyeshadow brush, I then applied the golden shade on just the lid, avoiding the innermost corner. The next step was to apply the darkest shade in the socket line using a brush especially for the crease, and on the outer corner. Once this was applied, use what is left of the brush to fill in the lower lid, halfway to the inner corner.
5: To define the eyes even more, I used a flat liner brush (MAC 212) to apply the darkest shade to the outer corners of the eye. I then applied more gold from the centre to the inner corner on the lower lid and then the lightest shade was applied more int he inner corner. Curl lashes and use your favourite mascara (mine is Benefit "They're Real!")
6: To cover my dark circles, I applied Benefit Boi-ing with my finger, patting under the eye until it was all blended. I used a Crown Brush UK concealor brush to cover any blemishes. To set your base, apply powder matching your skin tone with a powder brush and pat on the face to avoid disturbing the make-up
7: Using a blusher brush (again, Crown Brush UK for me!), apply a pinky shade to the apples of your cheeks, blending upwards. I used Bobbi Brown in shade Desert Pink (18)
8: Highlight the tops of your cheekbones, brow bone and cupids bow using your favourite highlighter. I like Benefit High Beam, but I've heard great things about MAC Cream Colour Base in Pearl.
9: Almost finished! For the lips, I wanted to keep them quite natural so I just used NARS Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil in Dolce Vita.
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Benefit kits: Scene Queen and Sunday Funday
Someone buy me these please! The packaging is brilliant and I think these would make fab gift sets. What a great price too! The High Beam on it's own is £18.50 so it's definitely worth it!
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Why do we build castles in the sky?
My make-up on Saturday night:
I would just like to say that I had a massive red spot on my chin, and I used a Benefit concealor kit. It's amazing! Since then I have brought a Witch blemish stick and it's worked really well, my spot is almost gone!
I would just like to say that I had a massive red spot on my chin, and I used a Benefit concealor kit. It's amazing! Since then I have brought a Witch blemish stick and it's worked really well, my spot is almost gone!
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