OK I've done a post about Elf cosmetics or eyeslipsface before as they're one of my favorite brands, but I got more stuff recently so this is the first half of what I've got and what I think is good:
I'll start with the face stuff, I really like the all over cover sticks, I have in the picture 'fair' and 'light' although 'light' is pretty tanned if you ask me. It just depends how pale i'm looking as to which i go for. They are really tiny and perfect for taking away and carrying around, they make brilliant under eye concealers. Also I majorly love the sheilding hydro tint with SPF 15, it's a tinted moisturiser which i can't live without in Summer and still have to keep stocked up with in Winter for those days when you want to feel more fresh faced. It's pretty good coverage too. These bits are an amazing £1.50 each and they last forever despite being really small, incredible really.
I also got 2 things from the studio line which is £3.50 a piece, which are the lip plumper and primer. it seems to work pretty well, smells nice etc. The primer is like a concealer for your lips which you put under lipstick and it helps it stay on, as well as making it look better generally. I'm quite impressed with it as I have very pink lips naturally and like to wear pale lip colours this really helps tone down the natural redness and lets the lipstick colour show more.
Next I got the lip definer and shaper, also studio line. it's not what i thought to be honest, It's quite chunky, really shimmery and creamy so I'm not really sure what it's supposed to do. All those words don't exactly lend themselves to 'good lip liner' in my opinion. One end is supposed to highlight around your mouth basically and the other to line them, for me it's too fat and creamy to do either of those jobs and the two ends are practically the same colour to me. Maybe its just me though, it would probably make an OK lip highlighter in the middle of your mouth but I don't really do that look much.
If any of you girlies reading this want the lip lining crayon thing then email me your address and i'll send it to the first person who does so, since I don't have a use for it then it would be nice if someone else could benefit from it.
Right the real stars from the whole ELF range are the make up brushes, my favorite brush ever is their standard eyeshadow brush which is £1.50. I've got the defining brush yesterday as well which is also lovely and handy, and as they were out of the eyeshadow brush I got the studio line version instead which is £3.50. And.. it's even better! Look at the lovely blending I did today:
To do this I used the shadow stick end of my ELF studio gel liner & shadow stick all over the lid as base with MAC greasepaint stick over the outer 3rd of the lid. Then used the MAC graphic garden pallette putting the ivory colour (any pigmented ivory shadow would be fine)at the inner corner, the black colour in the outer corner and mac's 'tempting' bronze shadow in the middle, then swished it all together with the 2 elf brushes I mentioned. V happy with the blending capabilities of that 'C' brush even if it does have a weird name!
I've got more stuff coming tomorrow, they've released more new products last night so I've ordered 2 new lip products, a mineral eye pencil and lip liner (thought I'd try again with a different one) and a cream eyeshadow duo as i quite like them.
the site is www.eyeslipsface.co.uk if any of you want to take a look, I'll hopefully be putting up my MAC haul tomorrow when I've done the photos for it. I had quite an entertaining time going on the bus myself to MAC and getting lost, ended up walking an old woman's yorkshire terrier. I do get into some odd situations!
loving your work x x x