ELF - Shimmery Eyeliner Pencil - Review and Swatches

I'm not sure whether I like them or not? I felt that I had to keep getting one more to give them another chance?  They are like a eyeshadow base rather than an eyeliner. Anyway, I will be reviewing and swatching 6 out of the 9 for you guys! As everything else on the regular line they are £1.50. I got most of them when the 50% sale was on, my two newest ones that I got in the last 50% off are the Gunmental and Plum passion. As usual the Elf website (through no fault of their own) their swatches never really match their products "actual" colour. Enough of the babbling on here you go!

                                           L2R - Plum Passion, Grassy Green, Black Bandit, Gunmental, Boldly Bronzed, Iconic Ivory

Pros:

Very soft and glides on well (also a con)

Black isn't too shimmery so can be used on water line and smudged out for smokey effect

Comes with a sharper built inside the lid (comes quite handy)

£1.50 for a multi-use kind of product that's pretty awesome
Range of colour's

Cons:
Loose fitting lids - can ruin your make up bag
The white feels like CHALK, I would never use it and it crumbles, terrible, terrible, terrible product
A bit too smudgy, with a little bit of pressure it can just melt into a big blob
Quite soft - which could also be a good thing if you want to blend it out

Overall a good product, not too keen on some of the colours such as the green, expected the purple to be more vibrant. The black is my favourite and the white is terrible I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

Price: 4/5
Quality: 3/5 -
Packaging: 3/5
Staying power 3/5

Overall an "Average" product, could probably go on without these however they make an excellent base for eyeshadow if used with the eye shadow primer (Will review this product soon!)

ELF - Brightening Eye Liner - Review & Swatches

I have 5 out of the 6 Brightening eye liners. I haven't got the Glided, simply because I don't know how my NC40 skin and dark eyes would really go with that! These come at a price of £1.50 each. I usually get them when ELF did the 50% off! (Sadly they had their last ever one *queue sad music*)

I will review and swatch the 5 that I have for you guys!

                                           L2R - Coffee, Ash, Plum, Midnight, Black

First thoughts, meh, white packaging and flimsy lids which refuse to stay on and ruin my make up bags! However.. These little gems in cheapy packaging are one of my favourite Elf products from the £1.50 range. I recently just purchased the Plum and Midnight in their last 50% off. I was hoping the Midnight would be a nice dark blue but it seems to be almost black, not too happy about that. The Plum isn't very pigmented so it doesn't really show up on my eyes. I love the Coffee shade for when I'm doing neutral make up. They don't smudge TOO much.

Price: 5/5
Quality: 4/5 (smudginess lets it down)
Packaging: 2/5 (Name colours have already faded off, lids refuse to stay on!)
Staying power 3/5 (Managed to withstand my tears but the Coffee shade doesn't seem to last as long as the black)

Overall a great product for £1.50 and a great item to have!

I have also just purchased one of the mineral eye liners in ASH and wanted to show the comparison.

Can you guess which one is the Mineral line Ash and which one is Ash in the £1.50 range?

Left - Brightening eye liner & Right - Mineral Line 

The colour pay off is better in the £1.50 range in my opinion HOWEVER it is worth paying £3 to get the mineral line one if you want a smoother application. No tugging and on a plus side, no chemicals or dyes!

Comment below!

ELF Mineral Lipglosses - Review and Swatches

I have 7 of the 11 Mineral lipglosses. First impressions, the packaging is very MAC lipglass-like. Its sleek, fits well into a handbag and you can see the colour and amount of product well. The consistancy is a little on the sticky side for me but the colour pay-off is well. Especially at £3.00 you can't really go wrong! These are available on the website. http://www.eyeslipsface.co.uk/product~prodID~153.htm

                                                          L2R: Pageant Princess,Au Naturale, Bare, Trophy wife,Soroity Girl,Wild,Trendsetter

                                          R2L (colours correspond with above but R2L Trendsetter-Pageant Princess)


These colours are beautiful and are very long lasting, usually last around 3-4 hours and they fade away nicely instead of leaving horrible white marks around your lips. *not a good look* Au Naturale and Trophy Wife would look nice ontop of any colour lipstick as they are the sheerest of my collection with specks of sparkle. My favorite is Bare which I have started to pick up a lot more than my favourite MAC lipgloss in the colour Revealing.  (close enough Dupe). Wild for me is abit too orangy for my NC40 Complexion. But the others look beautiful! I will be posting up pictures of me wearing all 7 of them soon..

Price: 5/5
Quality: 4/5 (stickiness)
Packaging: 5/5
Staying power 5/5

Overall a wonderful product and the benefits are that it contains no chemicals and no dyes. So ladies..grab yourself a mineral lipgloss! *pucker up*

 

New to the world of "blogging"

Hello all! - Let me introduce myself. I am a 21 year old graduate on the outskirts of London, bored mindless looking for a job... with a passion for make up, shoes and all things fashion! Complimented about my large collection of make-up and also told off about my growing collection...yup that's me! This blog will initially begin with my swatches and reviews of the Elf Cosmetics (www.elfcosmetics.co.uk) make up that I own. (Bought with my own money). I decided to start this blog because whenever I want tob buy something from ELF and I google for a swatch it looks really pretty, but when I order it, it looks so different on my slightly darker (NC40-41) skin. This is the main purpose of this blog!

I asked on the Facebook group for ELF Cosmetics UK - if anyone thought that this would be a good idea and I received an overwhelming response. So here I am, needing your assistance along the way!! My first blog entry will be swatches and reviews on the MINERAL line of ELF lip-glosses. I hope you enjoy!