E.L.F Blush: Candid Coral

Hey adventurers! Today's post is of the ever famous E.L.F blush in the color Candid Coral rumored to be an orgasm by NARS dupe. I do not own Orgasm so I cannot add my thoughts onto that, BUT I can tell you that I like this color. It's a nice coral shade with gold shimmer to it. As you can tell from the photo above it is a little dusty and/or powdery. Unfortunately I couldn't take a picture of it unused for you since I have had this blush for months now.

Above is a very heavy swatch to show the color that you can get out of it. I find that when applying it with my e.l.f complexion brush it's very difficult to get a lot of color. The golden sheen of this blush is amazing. It works as a highlight as well. I wore it alone on my cheeks today and I didn't need a highlight--and I forgot to use one as I was in a rush. I went for a natural look today as well AND I didn't have the time to really get the pigmentation that I wanted out of the blush but it ended up working just fine.

Please ignore the crazy hair. That golden shimmer you see on my face is this blush and I think it looks amazing. This is after my 7 hour shift at work today. I think that the only thing that you can really see thats left is the golden sheen, but it was good and it worked for the look that I was going for today.

So overall this is a very nice blush and I do like it. I do wish it was a little more pigmented though as it took quite a few swipes in the blush and over the face to get this minimal color.


Would I repurchase? Probably.

xoxoAlaina

E.l.f's Baked Blush in Pinktastic!

Hey Adventurers! As promised August is E.l.f month and to kick it off, I'm doing a review on E.l.f's new baked blush in the shade Pinktastic. As you can tell from the photo above, it is a champagne color with pink swirls in it. It works best as a highlight and it is an absolutely gorgeous highlight. I'm going to be comparing this product next to theBalm's highlight sometime next week--get excited for that!-- cause they are both very beautiful and there is the extremely big price difference and I think that they exact almost exactly the same. Anyways. Enough about that--that'll be next week!

Now this swatch really does not do it justice, it comes off chalky in the swatch, but it's a very smooth shade when you get it on your face. I find that this was just too heavy of a swatch from it. This color is absolutely gorgeous! It's shimmery but not glittery and I find that it highlights just the right amount. I am absolutely in love with this product and for only $1.50--using the 50% off studio coupon code.

The packaging is cheap and the lid on this one actually got loose some how, it's just a plastic dome onto of the product. With black plastic on the bottom. and it's actually a lot of product for what you pay. They one down fall in my opinion is the packaging but you can't expect extravagant packaging for the price that you do pay. I personally just love this product and I'd repurchase it all day.



Were you thinking about picking this up? What other products are you interested in seeing reviewed?

xoxoAlaina

Revlon PhotoReady Cream Blushes: Flushed, Pinched Swatches!

Hello Adventurers! I picked up some of the New(ish) Revlon cream blushes and here are some swatches. I have tried out pinched since I bought them and pinched is a peach color and on my skin tone it just barely shows up and it doesn't last long. I set them with my Rimmel Stay Matte powder because I know you have to set it. I've been applying it with the BH Cosmetics stippling brush so I might just be applying it wrong, I don't like the idea of using my fingers so I'll keep testing it out before I make my final say on that---expect a review on these in the next coming months---. I haven't tried Flushed yet which is the bright pink shade, but I am expecting great things from that one, if I can figure out how to get it to stay on my face than I'm sure I'll let you know! Onto the swatches!

 Pinched on the left, is coming off much more orange in this picture than in real life, the picture below is more to the actual shade that it is. 

 As you can see in the picture above, pinched is on the left and flushed is on the right, and you can tell that pinched is very hard to see so I should of known it would of blended it. It just give a touch of color on the cheeks which is good if you're going for dramatic eye makeup or lips. Also in the Pinched swatch it is very streaky, but I don't have that problem on my cheeks, so I would say try to avoid building it up too much to avoid the streakiness. This picture above is also without flash on the camera.

This is the picture with flash and still Pinched blends in with my skin, but you can see that they give off a sheen but they are not shimmery, and have no sparkle. Also Flushed is not as bright as it is in the pot, but if I remember correctly the swatch stayed on the finger very well and only a little transferred onto the back of my hand, you probably have a better chance of building Flushed up than pinched. I didn't have the streaky problem with Flushed.


Any other products you'd like me to try? Go ahead and leave them down below!



xoxoAlaina