Beauty Product Reviews

Great

Love it! The compact itself is sturdy and stylish and has a big mirror, which for me is always a huge plus. As for the elements, some are hits, some are ok and others are just NO - from my own experience and that of my friends, the lip and face elements are just not worth it. I have a lip element in Peaches and it's ugh! creasy and drying and the color makes me look dead. Having sensitive skin, I dared not purchase face elements because all the reviews on the Romanian elf site are negative. Now for the eye elements: - I love Dusk, it's pigmented and vavavoom like Adam Lambert ground into an eyeshadow. It is... not chalky, powdery somehow, you loose a lot of product that way, but for the price, who cares? And strangely, there is very little fallout. - I love Mocha, it's a beautiful rusty brown, perfect for autumn. - I love Moondust, it's an intense purplish taupy color, great for everyday. I think it goes very well as an outer v accent with pale gold on the lid and a coral in the crease. Forsake black eyeliner for a forest green, preferably pencil. However, it's not quite as pigmented as i would want it to be. - Golden Glow is a hoochi yellow gold which must be handled with care. But it can be tamed. - Sage is a moss green with gold shimmer, very pretty. - Periwinkle is a gray with a very strong blue base. Pigmented, but not like the others. - Ivory is a shimmery white.Not much else to say about it, I mean, it's a shimmery white. Not much you can do with it...

Written in the stars

I love this brush! It's probably the softest I own and the density is just right. While some might complain about the size (it's quite large) I find it perfect for highlighter and blending the line between brow bone color and crease color to seamless perfection. But it can be used for a lot of things, depending on preference and eye shape - I used it to blend into the crease on people with larger lid space or combination normal/deep set eyes, to contour the nose and for fine contouring on theatrical make-up (to make a guy look dead :))

Meh

Honestly, I think the only thing on the packaging you should believe is 'mascara' (unless you speak chemistrynese and know something the rest of us don't) and then go ahead and buy whichever is cheap and closest on the rack. Because they all promise to elongate your lashes 'till they touch your forehead, but let's be real. It just needs to make them visible. Does this mascara do that? Yes it does. You can buy it. Does it make your lashes grow? No. Does it matter? You tell me.

Naughty

I love this product. While it doesn't enhance eyeshadow colors, it keeps them in place for a respectable amount of time (10 h on a good day). Honestly, I reach for this more than the Too Faced primers all the while feeling downright naughty. Just don't wear it for funerals, eye doctor appointments, Titanic reruns or anything else that may involve tears.