ELF shimmer eyeliner pencil

Automatically when these came out not too long ago, I was totally attracted to them. The beautiful colors and its only a buck? Why not...so I got 5 of them. They all come with a built in pencil sharpener on the lids, but the lids are basically useless because they come off all the time.

ELF company claim: "Instantly brighten eyes with e.l.f.’s shimmering metallic liners that put the spotlight on eyes. The smooth formulation glides on effortlessly without tugging at the delicate eye area. Choose from an assortment of 9 delicious and essential shades designed to add depth, definition and a special sparkle to create a very glamorous look! Pencil includes a convenient sharpener cap for easy use!"

NOT TIGHT ENOUGH!! ELF FIX IT! Love this product but hate the lids. Also they don't have a printed name or any sorta sticker on each of them so i basically don't know the names. Twinkle TealGrassy Green
Precious Pink

Blissful Blush
Gunmetal
Although I do really love these because they are creamy and pigmented, the staying power isn't that good. They sorta do work on the waterline though. If I really wanna use it on my lids, I'd either set it with powder or just use it as a color base. Either way, these are a good buy.

Conclusion:

-price: A+ ($1 each)

-packaging: C

-product quality: B

-Overall quality: B-

-Buy again? Maybe

88 color palette

Yet another thing I was introduced by Youtube. This comes with 88 colors with a mixture of shimmery, frosty and matte colors. Most people buy from coastal scents, but I bought mine on ebay. It is the exact same thing, just it doesn't have the printed label on the packaging.I had the impression that the palette would be much bigger, so it was surprising to me that this is actually quite small. Each eyeshadow is the size of a CDN dime (around 0.5 cm in diameter). The palette comes with a nice quality mirror and two sponge tip applicator but those I threw away.

As you can see here, the palette is a lot smaller then a regular sized paper.

Swatches from the left to right, top to bottom.

A lot of the lighter colors are not pigmented and are very hard to the touch. Most of the shimmery and frosty color are the most pigmented. So whether if this worth almost $30 from coastal scents or $20 (both included shipping), that would be your choice.

Conclusion:
-price: B+
-packaging: B-
-product quality: B-
-Overall quality: B
-Buy again? Maybe

Make up forever 12 flash color case

I have been eyeing this pallette for a while now because of the beautiful bright colors and the pure white. I had always longed for the Nyx jumbo eye pencil in Milk, but sadly we never have it here in Canada even though there is a small selection of NYX products in Save on food. This palette consists of 12 regular flash colors: Gold 004 (metallic gold), Coral 002 (vibrant coral), Turquoise 000 (light turquoise), Fuchsia 005 (bright fuchsia pink), Yellow 013 (vibrant yellow), Brown 023 (dark brown), Silver 003 (metallic silver), White 010 (pure white), Red 017 (bright red), Bright Blue 014 (bright royal blue), Leaf Green 008 (bright green), and Black 011 (pure black).
Not to scare you or anything, but the price tag for this product is pretty...WOW! If you buy each color seperatly, it would cost you $216 but if you buy this palette all together, it would only be $95. 95 bucks for this product? Is it really really worth the money? Haha dont' worry, I bought this at IMATS Vancouver so it was only $65. I do have to say though that....THIS WAS WELL WORTH EVERY PENNY!
Swatches of the Top row

Bottom Row

All of the colors are very creamy but the white is so creamy, that I seriously only need to use the littlest amount to get the effect I want. You can use each color soley or mix them together to get new colors just like painting. Not only are these good as color bases for eyeshadow, but you can also use them as cheek stains or on your lips too. Heres an example of mixing color.
Plum color=Red + Bright Blue and the Bright Yellow= Coral and yellow

Lets do an experiment--> an idea from my wall of inspiration.

I'll call this..."Sunset Eyes".

If that's not bright, I don't know what is.

AND drum roll plz......

If I didn't use the MUFE flash color, I swear nothing can be as bright as this. Btw I used the red and a little bit of coral for this eye look. Absolutely AWESOME!

Conclusion:

-price: C+ (kinda expensive)

-packaging: B

-product quality: A

-Overall quality: B+

-Buy again? Yes

ELF shimmering facial whip

ELF company claim: "Multipurpose, on-the-go whipped colorant is vitamin B, C and E packed to instantly brighten and sooth skin with no greasy after-feel. "

-multipurpose: eh....sorta?

-no greasy feel afterwards...hmm =S its alright

You can get these for only a $1 at elf cosmetics or if you live in the States, target or sometimes the dollar store. I live in Canada so I have to buy everything online, but they do have it now in Zellers (the priced are not worth it though).

When I made my first purchase from ELF a while back, I was really excited to get the all over color stick but then changed my mind and bought most of the shimmering facial whips. Hoping i could use it as a blush, I was quite disappointed when I got them and played with them.

From left to right: Pink lemonade, Toasted, Citrus, Golden Peach, Lilac Petal

So what these are suppose to be are kinda like luster drops from MAC. You can add some into your foundation for a glowy look, used alone as a highlighter, coloring, you name it. It isn't greasy but when being squeezed out of the tube, there is always glittery water coming out. It is very annoying since everytime you want to use it, you'd have to grab a tissue and squirt a bunch of water before you can actually get to the product.These come in a small plastic squeeze tube with a small, fine tip. The cape itself is quite crappy I must admit, since it sometimes doesn't line up with the tube and fits really weird.
The lettering within a short period of time comes off (when i say short, i mean like in 3 days short). If you can see in the picture, the word "facial" as now become facl. ==" fail....
Swatches (from left to right) :Pink lemonade, Toasted, Citrus, Golden Peach, Lilac Petal
When applied to the face, it seems quite liquid. But when blended into the skin, it dries really quickly and leaves a patch of metallic stuff. The pigmentation is quite nice but the only color that confuses me is Toasted. I was expecting a brown, but it turns out to look like a darkish purple. I have tried to put some in my foundation, but it looks like nothing ==". Bottom line, I am not impressed with this product, even if it did win Allure 2008 awards. The only thing that is sorta good is for adding it into CCO lip tars to not make it look so scary and be able to use them as lip glosses.

Conclusion:
-price: A+
-packaging: C
-product quality: C+
-Overall quality: C+
-Buy again? No

How-To tutorial on Simple Smokey Winged Eye

Products Used:
-Daiso eye lash curler ($2)

-Clinique High Impact Mascara ($20)

-Prestige Waterproof eyeliner in Cocoa ($7)

-Prestige eyeliner in Golden brown ($3--> got it on sale)

-Makeup Forever Aqua Eyes Champagne 23L (metallic pink champagne)

-ELF Mineral Eye Primer ($1.50--> normally $3 but used a coupon code)

-Crown Brushes: Deluxe Oval Shadow ($3), Small chisel brush ($2) , Mascara brush ($3), 88 coastal scents warm palette ($20)

1)Prime your eyes
-By doing so, you have insured your eyeshadow to last longer and won't crease. Also it will make your lids a little sticky so that your colors will be more vibrant.

-apply and blend into lids

2) Apply a nude-ish color for a wash of color.
-use a big dense eyeshadow brush and take some of your nude color
-this color that i choose is a frosty white with gold shimmers; left hand top corner from the 88 warm palette
3) Eye lining-Line really close to your lash line; here it doesn't matter if it is messy because the next step will fix it. -I use a brown instead of black because it looks more natural and throughout the day when it smudges, it won't be as visible.
*TIP: when eye lining your eyes, close your eyes, place your finger on your lid and lift your lid just a little bit, exposing the lash more then normal. Then LINE!*

4) Smudging it out -pick a dark brown color and load it onto your small detail brush (doesn't' matter which kind it is, as long as it is small and dense and can do detailing)

-start smudging from the middle of your lid and make your way to the edge; don't do the winged tip yet though

5) Winged tip
-use the tip of your tiny dense brush and make the winged tip with eyeshadow (reason for this is, it will give you enough drama for daytime without "trying too hard" and being too harsh)

-open your eyes to calculate the degree of your wing (not literally)6) Water lining
-Lining AGAIN? XD yeah....take a golden bronze color and line your water line. Remember not to tug on the bottom lash line because it is very delicate there.

What it looks like now... All we need now are the finishing touches...

7) Lashes
-Curl your lashes and put a coat of mascara

8) Smudge Bottom lash line
-select a dark reddish purple and smudge it on your bottom lash line
9) Highlighting
-Take your white eyeliner and line the inner corners of your eyes. In this case, I'm using a champagne color for a more natural looks.

FINISHED LOOK...