In the UK, the distributers of elf are not stocking anymore, so the only way we can get elf makeup will be on the American website with a large shipment cost. Because of this there is a MASSIVE sale on - up to 80% off, and elf is cheap anyway!! I also had a few vouchers, so this is what I bought:
The swatches are in the same order as the picture above, the colours ( in order top to bottom) are:
22145 Tiki Torches
22146 Sangria Starters
22143 Coco loco
22148 Movie star
These are Jumbo Lip Gloss Sticks, they're a bit like the original chubby sticks, but with a lip gloss. So far I'm pleased with them, they have an amazing pigmentation for the price and a nice consistency. I don't know what the original price was, but I paid between 80p - £1.50 depending on the colour (I think it was down to how many they had left), so think this was a great bargain!
They all have a glossy finish ( you can't really see in the picture, sorry), but Tiki torches is glittery as well.
The next things are both lipsticks, the swatches and above photo aren't in order left to right I'm afraid :( The left lipstick is the right swatch and visa versa ahh the confusion!!
The left lipstick and right swatch is one of their Mineral lipsticks, called 'Party Pink' - no. 6703. The other one - I won't try and give its location again! - is slightly different, it's from the ' Moisturising Lipsticks' range, it's called 'Cheeky', no. 82632.
I wouldn't say I notice a difference tbh, I even think that the normal one feels slightly more moisturising!!! Or is that just me? I also prefer the colour of Party pink, although they are both very wearable colours, I just think that it suits my skin tone better.
They are both glossy, very pigmented and shimmery, although Cheeky is a lot more shimmery. Cheeky is quite a coppery toned pink, with more 'reddy' undertones, and Party pink is a more nude toned pink with a golden shimmer. I don't the original price again, but I paid £2.50 for Party Pink, and £1.98 for Cheeky.
The next thing that I got was the Studio Cream Blush in Tease (nothing like the Esteé Lauder powder blush if your wondering). The first thing I was surprised about was the packaging - it's really nice!!. It's basically just a typical pink colour with nude undertones. The swatch photo is rubbish, but on it gives a really natural look. I've never used a cream blusher before, but was pleasantly surprised as I was expecting it to look really false and Barbie-like. You do have to be careful you don't use too much though!
Again - actually I don't think I know the original price for any of them! I paid £1.95, and I think this is an amazing price for the amount you get and how amazing the pigmentation is - this'll last me forever I think!
This is one of the HD Blushes, it's in the shade Superstar, which is a really bright, almost neon pink, definitely a Barbie colour! It's a liquid blush, which I'd never heard of or seen before. You need the most tiny amount of blush to get a nice colour, if you do it right it looks really natural. To get the swatch on my hand (above) I used a pump about the size of a quarter of a grain of rice. (not a very gd description I know, but it's all I can think of!)
I paid only £1.35, and I wish I got more shades because it's such good value - they are actually now down to 90p!
This is a Custom Lip colour, I got this not realising you were meant to buy a palette, along with Custom Shadows and a bunch of other stuff so you have your own custom look in a palette, so now I just have a single solid lip gloss colour without a lid in a container similar to that of a de-potted MAC eye shadow.
It's in the shade icing, 01116, which is a really beautiful pink with a pretty shimmer running through it, which unfortunately doesn't really show up in the photos
The swatch has barely come out, but I hope my description above will do, as it is really quite sheer and is hard to photograph.
I paid £1.05 for it, which isn't as good as some of the others in my opinion, but is still pretty good for a lip colour.
These are Flawless Eyeshadow Palettes, I like them because they give instructions on how to do a nice look. Most of them are nice, pigmented shadows, the only one I don't really rate is the 'lid' colour on the blue palette.
The official names for the palettes are Party Purple and Sea Escape, I expect you can tell which is which!
I paid £1.75 for each, which I think is, again, amazing.
The next product is an Eyeliner & Eyeshadow Stick in Midnight/Blue, I was intrigued by this on the website, so I decided to order it as it was only £1.98. Basically one end is an Eyeshadow stick, it resembles a By Terry Eyeshadow stick (but obviously not as good quality), the other end is slightly darker, but seems to be made of the same thing as the Eyeshadow, although it is a lot finer.
This is the HD mattifying mineral foundation. This I was pleasantly surprised by, as I thought (because it's a cream foundation) it might be horribly oily and be bad for my skin on my T zone. I was very pleasantly surprised as it has a really good coverage and is not oily at all - but not drying either. I don't use the sponge, but a brush to apply it. I picked this up in the shade porcelain for £2.07, another very good but I think!
These are Shimmer Eyeliner pencils, they only had these two colours left - Grassy Green (the light green) and Twinkle Teal (the darker, emerald green). As the name suggests they have a shimmer (bordering glitter) running through them, I haven.t actually tried these yet, but for the price, they can't be anything but good - Grassy Green was 59p, and Twinkle Teal was 98p. They also both have a sharpener built into their lids, which I think is very clever as ally you have to do is twist them when they have their lid son and the are sharpened.
This is a gel eyeliner in a shade just simply called 'purple' .The official name for them are Cream Eyeliners. They come with a handy brush which is actually pretty good. It was only £1.98, which I thought was very good, there was also a pale yellow available, but I didn't feel daring enough o try that one!
This is a loose Eyeshadow in shade 'black licorice' (I think it's meant 2 be liquorice). Despite what the name suggests it's actually more of a shimmery grey colour. I haven't quite worked out how you use this properly yet but I love the colour and it was only £1.75. The only thing I would say is that for a loose Eyeshadow, I would prefer it in a pot!
This final product is a Jumbo Eyeshadow Stick in shade Feeling Lucky. It's a really beautiful shimmery reddy-brown with burgundy undertones. The pictures don't display how pretty it really is - it just looks brown! There were two other colours, blue and green I didn't get them - but my mum did, they were called Bali Bound ( the green one ) and Like a Boss ( the Blue one) . The prices on these varied, my one cost only £1.48!
My mum also bought a tinted moisturiser with SPF 20, I would've liked to get one but they didn.t have any of my shade left unfortunately. Even my mum thinks that the shade she got (sand) is too dark!
She meant to only get one, but ended up with 4! Even with 4 the price was only £5.40 !!
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I've never tried e.l.f make up before, and I was thoroughly impressed by the quality for the price of the products, out total order ( of course including all the sales and gift codes) was only £32.21, including postage!! A pretty good deal, eh?
I highly recommend if you live in the UK and are looking for some new make up you get online and have a mooch around the website as most things are running low and a lot have already sold out. Whatever you get though - the price will probably be fantastic. For the US, everything will be in stock, and I think the price will still be pretty good!
XXX
LeahKatie
