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Benefit Rush Hour Discontinued: How to Find Best Dupes

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Benefit Rush Hour 2025 Update: Benefit Rush Hour has been discontinued. Visit our how to find discontinued cosmetics resources to locate discontinued Benefit products. And see our best dupe options below.

What are Benefit Rush Hour lipstick dupes?

Benefit Rush Hour is a real tricky one to dupe.

It is hard to dupe because the shade was not exactly mauve, it was sunberry.

Our best dupe bet is 3 Custom Color who has a darn good replica of Benefit Rush Hour

About Three Custom Color

An amazing cosmetic brand that can replicate a product texture and color of discontinued products like they got a DNA cloning machine.

Search their archive or send them a small sample of your discontinued favorite and they can custom order replicate it.  

More Dupe Options

For other Benefit Rush Hour dupes, some potential options are:

  • For blush – LAWLESS  Pinch My Cheeks Soft-Blur Cream Blush in duchess is similar but not a true dupe. Lawless does have a mauve shade but it is less mauve than Rush Hour.
  • For lipstick – we are still trying to match that Rich Mauve matte shade. A potential option is 3 Custom Color. Some suggest Bobbi Brown crushed lip color moisturizing lipstick in “BABE”.
  • Bite Beauty Glace is warmer and less pink, a dusty mauve. But the texture and coverage is similar. Glace is a bit more modern in hue. Unfortunately, it is also discontinued, but easier to purchase online from a third-party reseller.

THE BENEFIT RUSH HOUR EXPERIENCE

This super creamy formula is universally flattering and is an amazing quick lips and cheeks go-to product!

Unfortunately, what made it so special was it was so unique. So duping it is difficult.

BENEFIT RUSH HOUR SWATCHES

We swatched the color for you below:

Benefit Cosmetics Rush Hour 1 coat from about two feet away

Benefit Cosmetics Rush Hour 1 coat from about two feet away


Benefit Cosmetics Rush Hour 1 Coat in Natural Lighting

Benefit Cosmetics Rush Hour 1 Coat in Natural Lighting


Benefit Cosmetics Rush Hour Two Coats in Icky Office Fluorescent Lighting

Benefit Cosmetics Rush Hour Two Coats in Icky Office Fluorescent Lighting

Know a good dupe? tell us!

Discontinued Beauty Product Resources

Was your favorite beauty product discontinued?

We have info on hard-to-find and discontinued beauty products. Check out our growing list of brands, including:

Discontinued Clinique Products Guide


Why We Love Caudalie Vinexpert Firming Serum Product Review

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During our incredibly fun week testing out a few Caudalie products, I’ve been using Caudalie Vinexpert Firming Serum in the morning and Caudalie Vinoperfect Complexion Correcting Radiance Serum in the evening for the past few days, as recommended on the Caudalie website. Style Chick Lee will be following up in the next few weeks with a Baby Boomer’s take on the product, but I’m really pleased with the results, and a little surprised that there was as much to be firmed up on my face!

The Caudalie Vinexpert Firming Serum Experience

Like the rest of the Caudalie line, Vinexpert Firming Serum has a luxurious, smooth consistency. It glides over the skin with ease. With some firming serums, I find it hard to actually glide it on the skin in the correct motion (up and out), which seems counterintuitive for the purpose. Firming Serum feels like a treat when it is being applied, not like you have to do work to get it on!

I’m quite impressed with how the Firming Serum works in two specific areas, First, it smoothes and plumps my nose to mouth lines. I’m not terribly lined in the area, but I do look older when the area is dry or my skin is not at it’s perkiest. By the second day of application, the area looked smooth and soft. The second area with which I’m quite impressed with Firming Serum is on the cupid’s bow of my lips – the area is more defined, contoured, and plump than it’s been in about five years.

The Ingredients

The ingredient list includes pretty much everything I look for in a firming product:

  • firming and anti-wrinkle Resveratrol titrated at 1000 ppm
  • immediate tightening effect lucerne, fern, soy
  • radiance boosting grape
  • draining red vine and witch hazel
  • energizing ginseng
  • soothing B-5 pro-vitamin, oats, and orange flower
  • moisturizing olive squalene, sodium hyaluronate, plant glycerine, rose, and ceramide-3

The ingredients provide a great combination of firming, toning, and soothing. Not only does it provide long-term care, it provides immediate benefits upon application – no waiting six weeks to see the first signs of results!

Why We Love It

I noticed today that I ended up applying far less makeup (and skipped my luminizer) after a week of regular use of Caudalie’s Firming Serum, Radiance Serum, and Premier Cru. If you are a retinol user like me, it is easy and non-irritating to combine the three Caudalie products with your Retin-A or other retinol product routine, and best of all, it calms any irritation from the retinol. It’s hard to find products that don’t cause irritation when used in conjunction with retinols, but I’m finding that all the Caudalie products are incredibly soothing and compliment most skincare routines beautifully.

Where to Find It

Find Caudalie Vinexpert Firming Serum at Caudalie-USA.com for $79.00.

More Caudalie Week Posts

We’ll be updating you on our thoughts about the products we’ve talked about during Caudalie week in the upcoming weeks and we’ll get the take of the other Style Chicks so you can get a sense of how the products respond to the skin care concerns of those of different ages. In addition in the next couple of days we’ll be sharing some of our general observations of the line. Stay tuned!

New Caudalie Week Product Review: Caudalie Premier Cru

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This article is a product review that explains the benefits of Caudalie Global Anti-Ageing Premier Cru

Why We Love Caudalie Premier Cru

Tuesday night I was leaving the gym and the wind was bitter and brutal. As in, have to brace to not be knocked over, hair flies straight up into a Marge Simpson hair configuration kind of wind.

Despite having slathered my face with moisturizer before I left the building in knowing that I was headed out into unpleasant conditions, this was a matter of damage control when it came to treating my raw skin when I got home.

So I decided to try my sample of Caudalie Global Anti-Aging Premier Cru Cream after I had gently washed my stinging face.

The Caudalie Premier Cru Experience

First thing that I thought was how truly luxurious of a cream it is.

Consistency Compared to La Mer

The texture struck me as somewhere between La Mer Cream and La Mer Concentrate. You don’t have to spend the time melting Cru like La Mer Cream, it easily warms up on your finger and then the consistency and feel is a bit more like a non-sticky La Mer Concentrate.
I applied it to my raw skin, expecting a bit of a sting. It didn’t sting, in fact, it was instantly soothing. It felt good while applying it. It felt like a treat. It felt like what my skin needed.
Cru absorbs nearly instantly and leaves skin with a super-smooth, glowing look. Skin moves well and stays creaseless.

Lips

If there was no other use for Premier Cru, what it does for lips is incredible.

I’ve tried a lot of topical lip plumpers and found some really great ones (various ones from Fusion Beauty for example), but most leave lips a bit dry, even the ones with humectants in them. Premier Cru plumps and contour lips better than any lip plumper I’ve tried in quite a while. Your lips aren’t swollen, they are your lips, just far better. And the best part is that lips are beyond soft!

Caudalie Premier Cru Clinical Results

I thought the clinical results mentioned on the Caudalie website were interesting:

  • the cream gives a 1/10th of a inch lift to the skin (at least that much my skin looked incredibly firm after application)
  • 80% more radiance (again, my skin went from raw and red when I went to sleep to glowing when I woke up – for me it was far more than 80%!)
  • continuous moisturization after application (check!)
  • incredible anti-oxidant protection via Caudalie’s thrice-patented titrated Resveratrol, Viniferine from Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte grapevines, and grape-seed Polyphenols.

All I can say is that I’m ready to pick a new one up as soon as this one runs out so I can have continuous use of this amazing cream!

Summary

If you like La Mer Concentrate for it’s moisturizing properties and luxurious feel and would like a less expensive product that moisturizes just as well with less product per use and has lifting and plumping properties, I would highly recommend Caudalie Premier Cru!

Where to Buy It

Find Caudalie Global Anti-Ageing Premier Cru for $150.00 at Caudalie-USA.com.

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