I?m wearing Benefit?s They?re Real Duo Shadow Blender in Easy Smokin? ($24) and They?re Real Double the Lip in Criminally Coral ($20)

So, what do I know about double dates" Well, I know that they?re awkward?(but more on this in a sec), and I know that I thought about them a lot today because of the new $24 Benefit They?re Real Duo Shadow Blender in Easy Smokin? (one of six new duos available now), which has ? not one ? but TWO eyeshadows geared to give you bigger, sexier eyes.

Benefit They?re Real Duo Shadow Blender in Easy Smokin? ($24) and They?re Real Double the Lip in Criminally Coral ($20)

I feel like Easy Smokin? is more elegant than Sexy Smokin?, the duo I wore yesterday. It has a warm, dark bronzed brown coupled with a light and warm shimmery peach, and the powders seem more finely milled. Thank goodness, too, because the shimmery light shade in Sexy Smokin? was giving me a complex (frost is not kind to my fine lines). By the way, when you mix the two shades in Easy Smokin? together, it creates a beautiful bronzed peach, which is how I?m wearing it in these pics. I blended them together, and then I also lined my lash lines with warm bronze MAC Teddy liner (I bet MAC Costa Riche would totally work, too).

Swatches of Benefit They?re Real Duo Shadow Blender in Easy Smokin? and They?re Real Double the Lip in Criminally Coral

This reminds me of the time my best friend Jen and I went on a double date together with these two boys who were brothers (we met them ...