E.L.F - Budget Beauty Buys!
A couple of nights ago, I fulfilled my urge and placed a mini E.l.f (eyes lips face) order online. To be honest, I am not very fond of E.l.f as in the past, I ordered a MASSIVE range of products, and ended up tossing a lot of them in the bin - Eeeek, which explains my reasons for placing such a small order.
Tone Correcting Concealer - Shade: Honey £1.50
This was a repurchase, I remember using this in the past and remembering how creamy and light the consistency was. I currently have the mac select moisture cover concealer, but it's way too dark for me when I'm not tanned. I thought 'honey' would be the perfect shade, but it's still too dark! *Sigh*
The formula is actually really similar to the mac select moisture cover, even the packaging is the same shape, but clearly the elf lid looks very cheap. The only difference is that the elf concealer is slightly more creamy, less watery and has a slight orange scent. You can also see how warm toned the shade 'honey' is, it's sort of like a salmon pink undertone.
All Over Color Stick - Shade: Golden Peach £1.50
I already have 'Pink Lemonade' and LOVE it, I was expecting 'golden peach' to be the perfect blush shade but it honestly looks more like a highlighter shade for my skin tone. It is pretty though, it's exactly as described... a golden peach colour. I thought it reminded me of mac 'Lilicent', but it doesn't, see swatches below.
Studio Cream Eyeliner - Shade: Black £3.50
This was a totally random purchase. I have ran out of my blacktrack fluidline and wanted to see if an affordable option would do the job.
Here it is swatched.. On an initial swatch I tried to rub it off after about 5 seconds and it smudged all over the place. I then tried after about 10-15 seconds and it still slightly smudged. I tried it with a primer underneath and it seems to work better. I tried to smudge the swatch after and it did not budge. I haven't worn it on my eyes yet, so that will be the ultimate test.
The packaging is similar to most gel eyeliners, but this one is squared off, it actually looks very sleek.
Individual lash kit - Intensify lashes £1.50
I thought individual lashes would be good to add at the corner of my natural lashes for a more subtle effect.
Have you ordered anything from E.l.f lately or tried any of these products?
Tone Correcting Concealer - Shade: Honey £1.50
This was a repurchase, I remember using this in the past and remembering how creamy and light the consistency was. I currently have the mac select moisture cover concealer, but it's way too dark for me when I'm not tanned. I thought 'honey' would be the perfect shade, but it's still too dark! *Sigh*
The formula is actually really similar to the mac select moisture cover, even the packaging is the same shape, but clearly the elf lid looks very cheap. The only difference is that the elf concealer is slightly more creamy, less watery and has a slight orange scent. You can also see how warm toned the shade 'honey' is, it's sort of like a salmon pink undertone.
All Over Color Stick - Shade: Golden Peach £1.50
I already have 'Pink Lemonade' and LOVE it, I was expecting 'golden peach' to be the perfect blush shade but it honestly looks more like a highlighter shade for my skin tone. It is pretty though, it's exactly as described... a golden peach colour. I thought it reminded me of mac 'Lilicent', but it doesn't, see swatches below.
Studio Cream Eyeliner - Shade: Black £3.50
This was a totally random purchase. I have ran out of my blacktrack fluidline and wanted to see if an affordable option would do the job.
Here it is swatched.. On an initial swatch I tried to rub it off after about 5 seconds and it smudged all over the place. I then tried after about 10-15 seconds and it still slightly smudged. I tried it with a primer underneath and it seems to work better. I tried to smudge the swatch after and it did not budge. I haven't worn it on my eyes yet, so that will be the ultimate test.
The packaging is similar to most gel eyeliners, but this one is squared off, it actually looks very sleek.
Individual lash kit - Intensify lashes £1.50
I thought individual lashes would be good to add at the corner of my natural lashes for a more subtle effect.
Have you ordered anything from E.l.f lately or tried any of these products?
Comments
I've never ordered from ELF, but I am tempted by NYX - it's so cheap - and the products seem to be of such good quality. I'm tempted to place a HUGE online order!
♥ best wishes!
@powder ahhh your right, it does look like hush cream colour base! I used to have the powder highlighter in Luminious, but i think I gave it to my mum and she left it in Turkey, it was really pretty! I hope this elf eyeliner works out :)
I must say that there are only few products from elf that i love, the others are just meeeh for me.
I absolutely love:
- studio line face brushes
- shimmering facial whip
- color sticks
- healthy gloe bronzing powder in luminance (GREAT highlighter, you have to try it!)
- studio bronzer warm
all the other stuff that I ordered are really nothing special, but I reccomend the ones I named.
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@Dye-A-Graham I will do some googling :)
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