ELF Beauty Book Swatch-a-pa-looza!

Remember those ELF Beauty Book Palettes I was telling you about earlier???  Well the proof is in the pudding as they say LOL!

So without further adieu here are swatches with and without primer and some surprises at the end =}!

NOTE: None of these shadows have a name or number so I swatched them by rows in the order they were in the palette

NEUTRAL EYE EDITION

Swatched over Urban Decay Primer Potion

Swatched over bare skin

Top Row

Primer

No Primer

Middle Row

Primer

No Primer

Bottom Row

Primer with a swatch of Cafe eyeliner which is included in this palette

No Primer

Overall thoughts this is still my favorite palette!  Most of the colors are go on smooth as butter with the exception of the last color in the middle row which was a little chalky and splotchy without primer.  That's not a problem to me because I primer my eyes every time.  I'm not going to comment of the packaging because it was $5 as long as the make-up itself is good which it is!  Recommended MUST BUY!

EYE BRIGHTS EDITION

W/ Primer

Without Primer

Top Row

w/ Primer

w/o primer

Middle Row

w/ primer

w/o primer

Bottom Row

w/ primer

w/o primer

Overall thoughts  Some of these colors were chunky because they were glittery.  I'm not one to like glittery shadows but that is me. The glittery shadows did have a lot of fall out which is to be expected. Still for only $5 its a great buy and although the black in this palette was glittery it when on so smooth!  It is love!  

DUPED!

Does this palette look familiar???

Please pay the state of my palette no mind! It was one of my first more expensive beauty buys when it first came out!  I was probably like 18 and had now clue about make-up but its still kicking!

Doesn't it resemble the Bright Eyes Edition???

Yeah! so I swatched some colors that looked alike from the ELF Bright Eyes Edition Beauty Book to colors from the Urban Decay Ammo Palette

Left - Right: Urban Decay Maui Wowie, ELF dupe, Urban Decay Griffter, ELF Dupe

Left - Right: Urban Decay Mildew, Elf Dupe, Urban Decay Last Call, ELF dupe

Urbane Decay shattered, ELF dupe (a tad bit darker but same tone in color)

Top Row: ELF glittery white, ELF glittery black  Bottom Row: Urban Decay Polyester Bride, Oilslick 

Left - Right:  disregard first color,  Elf color, Urban Decay Midnight Cowboy, ELF dupe

If you have these Beauty Books or the Smokey edition what are your thought???

Hope this was helpful for somebody!

LOVE & LIPGLOSS

BEVERLY

Drugstore Gems -- ELF Beauty Books

So if you follow me on twitter you know that I spotted some affordable buys at my local Target.  Ok now i had a bad experience at Target (for like the first time ever and i go there like 2 times a week ugghh so annoying, neways) before all of that went down I spotted these ELF beauty book palettes for $5.  So i had them in my hand and after I was yelled at by an associate because she didn't like her job,  I left everything i had in my hand because I was FUMING!  Anyways I got home and Googled them and they had good reviews, SO I HAD TO HAVE THEM!  Sometimes make-up is like a drug so I drove all the way back and picked up these 2 palettes.

There is also a Smokey Eyes book but my Target was sold out of that one.  There were a ton of Bright Eyes left and I got the LAST Neutral Eyes, which is what prompted me to go back and get them ASAP.  OH EM GEE! If you see these pick them up SERIOUSLY!  For $5 you get 12 shadows!  For my barganistas thats about  $.42 per shadows which are about the size of a quarter!

Bright EYES

The inside of the cover gives you some steps on how to apply the shadow if your like me you don't follow rules and such so i skipped over them but to my ladies that need help they have diagrams and such.  I might try doing a look following the steps (more on that later).

on to the good stuff!

The palette includes a mirror, a small brightening eyes liner in BLACK and a dual ended sponge tipped applicator.  I use brushes for everything so I don't know the quality of the applicator.  BUT the eyeliner is the same as the full sized ones so that is a plus!

and THE GOODIES!

(Do these colors remind you of another palette??? more on that in my next post ;o))

AND my favorite last ...

Neutral Eyes

If you guys get my personality from my blog you know that I'm all for brights but ELF really out did themselves on this neutral palette!  When i was showing my sister swatches last night and I told her i Liked this Beauty Book better she couldn't believe herself.  I think if your going to buy one get this one its very versatile. 

every color is hella pigmented! I am not mad a cheap make-up!

swatches and dupes for other colors coming up in a post later so stay tuned Beauties!  

now back to setting up my room!

LOVE & LIPGLOSS

BEVERLY