Elf Palette Review

A couple of days ago I went onto the Elf website because I needed another lip exfoliator (amazing product!) and they had a 50% sale so I treated myself to a 100 colour palette. t arrived this morning and I have but together a short review for you :)

So here is the palette, It has really nice simple packaging and you can see most of the colours so at east you know what types you are getting.

But getting on to my thoughts, overall I give this palette a 4/10 and here is why;

To be honest, I am really disappointed by this and I am happy I did not pay full price, even though full price isn't even that expensive.

I can say for it that I like that it has a good range of colours (it even has red!) and a nice amount of mattes, shimmers and satins.

The mattes were probably worst of all. When you first swatch the colours (even satins and shimmers) the pigment doesn't look too bad, mattes had the least but I thought that they might apply well. They were all kind of wishy-washy when you actually apply them, this goes for all finishes so applying with a brush is useless, I would recommend dabbing on with a finger to get the best colour payoff and also use a cream base for it to hold onto.

The issue I had with satin/shimmer is the amount of fallout! it was crazy.

Here I have a set of swatches, I chose a shimmer colour to demonstrate.
Top is swatched with a finger
Middle is swatched with a brush
Bottom is applied with a cream base underneath.

I think I can still use these and they would be ok for costume makeup so I think I will save them for that sort of thing.


Obviously I don't want to discourage anyone from buying these because you might really like them but they weren't for me. They were only £7.50 reduced from £15 so it's not too bad.

Anyway, I am planning to get some more videos on the go, I'm just trying to find better software for this but I should be up and running again soon.

I hope you enjoyed my review and I will speak again soon :)

- Roo xx

Makeup of The Day!!- Super Vamp!

I really enjoy doing these posts so I thought I should do another and today I have gone very dark and super vampy!

Recently I went to MAC and decided to kick it up a notch in the dark lips dept, literally I have been searching for this colour for so long and I just love it so much!

Let's crack on!



























First of all, sorry about the rubbish lighting, it looks hella darker in normal lighting.

Eyes, I have used Urban Decay's Naked 3 Palette (Strange, Burnout, Limit, Buzz, Nooner, Factory , Darkside and Blackheart) and seriously this lighting does it no justice because there was so much depth and colour in this look!
I also have Collection Extreme 24 Hour Liquid liner on (Super amazing stuff) and finally I finished it off with
MAC Extended Play Gigablack Lash.

On my lips I have MAC Lipliner in Burgundy and a MAC lipstick in Diva (So in love with this colour, its like a really deep wine colour.

I really hope you like this look as much as I do and keep an eye out for more posts.

- Roo xx

Make Up of The Day!!

I thought I would do another of these because I actually enjoy them a fair bit, so here you go :)

So I kept it super simple today and just went for a totally fuss free look :)
Here is what I used:

Face:
- Normal skincare routine (was on my last MOOTD, let me know if you want a detailed post)
- Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer
- Revlon Nearly Naked Powder
- Elf Blush and Bronze Contour Powder

Eyes:
- Elf Brow Kit
- Urban Decay Primer Potion
- Urban Decay Naked 2 (Tease, Bootycall and Foxy)
- Smashbox Full Exposure Mascara

Lips:
- Maybelline Baby Lips in Peppermint.

Hope you like this post.


- Roo xx

Beauty Smackdown! - Elf Lip Exfolitor Vs Lush Lip Scrub

I had another idea! I want to do a 'Beauty Smackdown' where I take two products and share my thoughts and opinions and tell you which one I think is the better product. I thought of this because I know there have been times where I can't decided between 2 different products and I just end up making a totally uninformed decision an potentially make a rubbish choice! So I hope this helps you all :)

Elf Lip Exfoliator Vs Lush Lip Scrub

So what I will do is just run though the pros and cons of both product and give you my overall verdict.

Elf Lip Exfoliator

 Pros:

- It's in a lipstick shape
- It's highly moisturising
- It's an intense scrub
- It's inexpensive
- It's smells like vanilla (could be a con if you don't like vanilla, but I do)
- It's made with sugar and tastes pretty good.
- It's compact

 Cons:

To be honest I literally can't think of any cons other than I with that you get more product because it's that good!









Lush Lip Scrub

Pros:

- The Scrub is quite intense
- It smells pretty good
- It's compact
- It's inxpensive 

Cons:

- It has salt in it too so I don't think it tastes that good (If you like salt/sugar popcorn then you will love it)

- The application can be awkward and not very precise.

- Very messy

I am a little sad to say that I'm not a massive fan of the Lush Lip Scrub after I had heard so many good things about it. I think that if there is one made with one sugar and not salt then I might be able to use it but that fact that it is also quite messy is a bit too much to deal with.

If you are interested in trying either of these products then here are the details of where to get them and also the price. UK readers will be pleased to hear that you can get Elf products but you have to buy them online from their website (Linked below):

Elf Lip Exfoliator:

Price: £3.75

From: www.eyeslipsface.co.uk

Lush Lip Scrub

Price: £5.25

From: Nearest outlet or if you can't get to one the you can buy from www.lush.co.uk

I hope you have enjoyed this post and let me know what products you would like to see go head to head!

- Roo xx

The Drugstore Edit: Maybelline Brow Drama

As promised, here is the first of many Drugstore Edits for my blog! :) enjoy!

 So I'm reviewing the Maybelline Brow Drama sculpting brow mascara for this edition and I know it's relatively new and so I wonder how many of you have been able to try this. I'm also curious to know where it's available.

So as you can see the packaging is quite simple, sort of reminds me of an all black tube of the great last mascara. So I like it, it's not fancy but it's straight to the point about what it is.

 I really don't like the applicator. I get the point of the ball part and separately the straight part but not together, the ball part makes the other part completely useless! I can't get enough product with the ball part anyway so I have to smush down the bristles which will eventually ruin it anyway but I'd love to use the other part to help evenly comb through my brows.

Here's a swatch to prove my point. I had to push down the applicator just to be able to get this amount. I think it can be really uneven too.

Another downside is that I think it only comes in 2 colours so if you have red/black light blond hair then you probably won't find a colour to match.

Not to mention I really wouldn't recommend this if you've forgotten to do brows, if you can get any product then it will cling to any hairs so you have to be super scrupulous. This also wouldn't work if you have very sparse brows. I also tried this over the top of my normal brow kit and it does make it look a little more natural but not enough to make it worth it.

I don't think I could slate this anymore and I really wanted to like this but it just isn't for me. If you feel like you could use this and I'd probably say that if you have thick well shaped and groomed brows then this might work for you. It retails for £4.99 so it's totally inexpensive.


Well I hope you like this and look out for 2 weeks time when I do the 2nd edition of The Drugstor Edit!

- Roo  xx