This ELF makeup is showing up everywhere now. I first saw the brand of dirt cheap makeup at Target, and then noticed they also carried it at a CVS I went into in the same day. I guess I was shopping a lot that day! I had heard of it before, but I thought it was primarily an online cosmetics sales company, not really one that you could find in stores around town. ELF stands for Eyes Lips Face by the way. Their niche is making really cheap makeup that actually works fairly well.
I’m not going to say that it’s the highest quality stuff, because it isn’t nor should it be for the mere price of a dollar, which is what everything they make costs. But shoot, if you want to try a fun new eyeshadow color or lip gloss or stick, then you know you can buy one for a buck and if you don’t like it then no big whoop, you just lost a dollar on it. It’s a limited selection, but that’s also what I expected from such a bargain basement pricing system. They also package their stuff in a much cheaper style.
For example, the eyeshadow I bought to try, a light brown shade, was packaged in a cardboard outside, with a plastic (flimsy) container that held the actual eyeshadow it’self, almost like a temporary packaging. The color went on as expected, it took a couple of dips to get the color adeqately saturated to where it would show up on my lids, but it was a nice color, and it had decent staying power once applied, although it did fade toward the end of my long 16 hour day.
I also bought their blotting sheets, which are fantastic. For a dollar, I got a conveniently packaged box of 50 blotting sheets to blot the excess oil off my face, which shows up often and in abundance on my oily skin and makes me look shiny, which is not good when it comes to looking polished and professional. They were only a dollar, as you guessed it, and they work just great! So, for fun, experimental makeup and other little beauty bargain, you can try ELF for a buck!
