Sorry for the delay between the last post and this one, I've just been swamped at uni and didn't feel like doing uni work, going to uni and this all at once. Hopefully it won't happen again!
So I was thinking about doing a small series about what ELF products I have as I got my latest order in the post today which was just a few things I picked up during the 30% off sale. When I say a few, I mean eight things, but my order still only came to £16 so you can't really argue with that!
So here's what I got:
I got four lip products:
elf lipstick in Classy, which looks really bright in the tube but goes on quite sheer and is kind of a 'my lips but better' colour for me as I have quite pigmented lips anyway. Also, just have to say that this lipstick smells amazing, they kind of smell like calpol (if you know what that is) but a lot sweeter. Major plus haha.
I also got the last two elf studio matte lip colours that I don't already have and I'm not too sure about either of these, I got coral and tea rose. Coral is obviously a coral colour, but I think I'm far too pale to pull it off and it just looks a bit orange on my lips. Tea rose looked like a light pink on the website but when it arrived I found out that it was a lilac-y colour. I don't have a lilac lipstick so that's new for me, but again as I'm so pale it just sort of looks like I'm very very cold. So I'm not sure about that, might have to give them to someone with darker skin than mine.
I also got one of their elf studio lip liner and blending brushes, I now have two of these and I tend to use them just on their own, blending them in so they're more like a lip stain. I got this in the colour wine, which is a dark plum-y red colour. This definately looks a lot better with my skin tone. I always seem to wear really vibrant colours on my lips, I think it enhances my skin tone and just makes my lips stand out more. This is a really lovely colour and blends out so it doesn't look so vampy so that you could wear it during the day.
I also got an elf studio blush in the shade Tickled Pink and this is a really nice, subtle colour which adds a bit of colour to your cheeks but isn't super overpowering. I really like the packaging of the blushes and eyeshadows as they're a kind of rip-off of nars' packaging. I like how there's a mirror in the lid and the formula feels really velvety on the skin.
I've recently been rethinking how I choose eyeshadows, usually I would got for whatever purples or greens were available and completely bypass the nude or brown shades. But I was thinking that as I have blue eyes and orange is the colour that would most compliment them, I should start looking for coppery or bronze toned eyeshadows. So that's why I got Sunset, a single eyeshadow from the elf studio line. It looks a bit brown in the picture, but in real life its like a golden coppery colour. It's very orangy, so I may have to tone it down a little bit but I really like the pigmentation and the formula feels really nice.
Finally I got the elf mineral foundation in fair, I can't really say anything about this yet as I haven't used it properly, I can just say that I had a really hard time trying to get the product through the sifter, I had to really bang it about in the end haha.
Overall I'm pleased with what I got and can't wait to start using everything!
Thanks for reading,
Hayley
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