BeneFit Dr Feelgood Review

Overall Rating

Amazingly effective stuff, smooth, younger looking skin, fab packaging. Lasts ages

A bit pricey

Last weekend I lost the plot entirely and arranged to do far too much in too short a time. On Friday night I started off with a lovely long red wine fuelled natter with a close girl mate - it ended at half past one in the morning with nearly three empty wine bottles. The following day I was due to go to the hairdresser, get together with a girl from school that I hadn't seen in over twenty years, meet my mum, meet my son and then go on to another friend's for dinner As you can imagine by the time I left the hairdressers at half past nine on Saturday I was doing a wonderful impression of a zombie - staring eyes, hideously pale waxy complexion and a mouth like a desert. Luckily my hair looked pretty spiffing. I had an hour or so to kill before I met my old friend and so I wandered into Debenhams fully prepared to treat myself to anything that caught my eye. Almost as soon as I stepped through the door I was accosted by a very pretty, pleasant young lady from the benefit counter who asked if I would like a free makeover. Would I? Do hippychicks eat chocolate? Any woman who is meeting up with someone she hasn't seen in a couple of decades will succumb to vanity and want to look good - it's just human nature! The first thing that was smoothed onto my poor raddled face was Dr Feelgood balm. Cleverly the girl only did one half of my face and then let me look in the mirror. I plucked up courage to look (well, I knew I wasn't a pretty sight that morning despite a good helping of glowing-complexion-tinted-moisturiser) and I gasped - my left half of my face had no hangover! The right still looked as zombie-fied as when I had crawled from my bed. Fortunately benefit are kind people and I was quickly put to rights with my right side of my face also smoothed and pampered out of its hangover. The price was nineteen pounds, but I just had to have this little tin of miracle balm. I even liked the style of the packaging; a glamourpuss 1950's feel with a nice squidgy sponge to apply it with. The scent is fresh but not overpowering (easy to use with the worst of hangovers) and it contains assorted vitamins to soothe and smooth fine lines and blemishes. Judging by the amount I use I reckon it will probably last me the best part of a year, which works out ok by me I was finished off with a superb under eye brightener/concealer and, an assortment of glowing face powder things and the final touch of a good squirt of benefit perfume. Off I trotted to meet my old friend and was complimented on my youthful appearance. The effect obviously lasted as my mother noticed how healthy I was looking; funnily enough I didn't confess about the two and half bottles of wine the night before or the two bottles that lunchtime (all shared I have to say; not drunk purely by me!) although I did mention in passing I had new make up on. I turned up for my last jolly of the day at seven o clock without having been home or touched up my face at all and was greeted yet again with pronouncements of my hale and hearty countenance. Not a bad day all in all! And definitely the most compliments I have received in a long time. The only person not to notice a difference was my eighteen year old son - but really, just what do I expect for nineteen quid! When I finally recovered from my excesses (I didn't get to bed until half past two on Saturday) I rose like Lazarus and made it as far as the bath and discovered that my skin still felt incredibly smooth when I washed it and it looked a lot better than I deserved. Since then I have used the balm each morning after moisturising and all day long my skin looks smooth, less lined, less imperfections and generally in good nick and I swear I look about five years younger. Plus I don't find I need any foundation now - just a quick sweep of light bronzer across my cheeks and off I stride to face the world looking for all the world like a healthy hippychick no matter how debauched my nights have been Since passing the big four-oh (only a couple of years ago admittedly, but I am definitely not in the first flush of youth anymore) I have noticed that my skin just doesn't look as fine and clear as it used to. So the search for anything that will help in the never battle against maturity has been incessant and expensive. This is the first time I have seen my skin not only look fabulous from a product but also this has to be the only range that has counteracted the visible effects of a hangover