ELF Baked Eye Shadows, Blush and Bronzer Review and Swatches

I got four of them to try out. They are awesome! Good pigmentation when swatched. Not much fall-out. For $3, you can't go wrong with this. The colors are just gorgeous! May get a few more when there's sales.

Enchanted baked shadow. Looks like you can actually use this as a highlighter too.

Bark

Peachy Cheeky baked blush. Good as highlighter for lighter skin tone

Maui baked bronzer. This is the right bronzer for my skin tone. Not too dark or light. Also, it does not look orange or muddy on skin! I use this on my crease to blend with eye shadows too. It works really well.

Physician Formula Magic Mosaic Bronzer Review

Looking cute huh? Don't be deceived! Look at the surface, you know something is wrong. There's a slight "shiny film" formed on the mosaic. Every time my product looks like this, it's a fail. This is the second PF bronzer that failed on me. I love always live PF but always have really bad experience with their bronzers. I am glad that I got it for only $3.49. It costs $13.49 originally. It was on the $7 off sales and there was a $3 off coupon attached. Still, it is not worth that $3.49!

See? No pigmentation! I rubbed really hard to get this little of color pay-off. Crap product. Back to store is where it goes!

Taupe Brown with a Pop of Purple

My fav way to use color

My new fav fake lashes. Cheap but not too bad of quality

Blush I used for this look. It looks pinkier than it actually is.

Physician Formula Shimmer Strips Eye Shadows. My Absolute favorite.

Eye shadows removed for second look. Bare eye lids look weird, don't they?

Then I decided to play with some colors. These are blue and green. 

My makeup station. LOL. I cleaned up afterwards. :)

My Obsession: ELF Beauty School Everyday Eye Manual Review and S...

My Obsession: ELF Beauty School Everyday Eye Manual Review and S...: "When I saw this palette for the first time in Walgreens, I knew I was gonna get it. I tried to look for swatches online but could not find a..."

ELF Beauty School Everyday Eye Manual Review and Swatches

When I saw this palette for the first time in Walgreens, I knew I was gonna get it. I tried to look for swatches online but could not find any. So I decided to be one of the first people who bought this just to experiment and test out the quality.

The photo below was taken without flash.

With flash

The swatches (no primer) are shown below. As you can tell, some colors are so faint that you can barely see them. The pigmentation of those shadows are BAD. The texture is very hard. It's like you have to scrape the surface of the shadows to get the colors. If you have the NAKED palette dupe (ELF beauty book in previous collection) you'll notice that they share almost some texture, which I hate. Some shimmery shadows are soft in texture though. Some darker ones like the dark burgundy and blue are quite pigmented but chalky. They may cause some fall-out. Overall, I will only give 2/5 for this palette. ELF encyclopedias are much better. Ever since then, they never really come out with better eye shadows for their beauty books anymore. It'll always be hits and misses when it comes to ELF. If it's 50% off, I would say go ahead and get it. It's not a bad idea to add something to your collection. If you wanna use this for daily basis and there's no discount, don't get it because you'll be really pissed off like I am. Grrr...

Silver and Black Smokey Eyes

This look is more dramatic in person. To be honest, I have never worn this look and step out from my house. I am always the "neutral" girl.

Nikki Minaj Inspired: Pink and Purple Eyeshadows look

UGH... All the colors go missing because of my pathetic Asian semi-double lid. How I wish I have the real double eyelids. It's so hard to apply makeup on semi-double lid because of the fold that eats away lotsa space when the eyes are open. BTW, this is a look inspired by Nikki Minaj in one of her music videos. She's all about crazy makeup (not as crazy as Lady Gaga but still definitely not kinda makeup you wanna wear and leave the house during the day time.)

As usual, my face is kinda washed out due to flash. The lipstick is supposed to be a barbie pink lipstick. Since the lips and eyes are so "strong" in colors, the blush on the cheeks are very light and natural.

Stuffs that I used on this look.

A Revlon bronzer that I got just recently and not particular fond of. It's the Revlon Colorstay mineral finishing powder in Suntan Matte. I was expecting it to be more pigmented. It seems like the product has dried out and hardened. I have to literally rub my brush to get the color out.