Review & Swatches: ELF Baked Eyeshadow

Hi ladies, it's time for another review & swatches. This time it's ELF again! Yes I know, but I just can't resist the quality mixed with those affordable prices - that just screams my name. Especially for a girl like me working hard in high school with a low budget, even though I work in a clothing store and earn a good amount of money, I still prefer a great cheap alternative! BUT it's only because of the quality of these products I do, if not I wouldn't buy them but use more money on a better product.

About the product:

As I sit with it in my hands I feel like it's gonna last me forever to use it up. I've used the shadows so many times and it keeps looking exactly the same way as the day I received it, even though it does get a bit dirty (as seen on the photo above)
As the ELF Baked Palette I do find it easier to apply the product with your hands, cause I find that the product reacts to body heat and gets easier on your fingers than a eyeshadow brush. You can apply with both, it's just that I prefer to apply with fingers when it's baked.

Besides all that it's a very pigmented eyeshadow and I do like the colors a lot. There's 6 colors (in UK) and there's 10 in US and I've got 3 of them as you can see. I don't know why we only got 6 out of 10 in the EU, but I guess there's a weird reason for that. I am defiantly going to order the rest of them, cause I think it's just a good investment and you get a lot for the money.

About the packaging:

I really like the packaging, it's these small shadows and it's clear so you can see right away which color to pick up in your (maybe) big collection of makeup, which I find very helpful so you doesn't have to open each shadow to see which color it is.
It opens up very easily and it's just an easy shadow to bring with you.

          "Pixie"                                               "Bark"                                     "Enchanted"

 

 "Pixie" - This I would say has the opposite from the "Enchanted" this is pink with a touch of gold and it looks really girly and flirty on your eyes.

"Enchanted" - This color is really gorgeous in the inner of your eye and has a gold look with a touch of pink.

 "Bark" - this color is mainly a pretty dark brown color with gold glitter. This I would say is more for the smokey eyes look while it has a very dark color and lots of glitter, I would apply this on the entire lid or apply it as an outer v on my eyelid.

                        Enchanted                             Bark                               Pixie

          Pixie                                   Bark                             Enchanted

Without blitz

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Ingredients (as said on ELF's website):

Mica, Talc, Bismuth Oxychloride, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Paraffinum Liquidum (mineral oil), Dimethicone, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Rosa Canina (Rose Hip) Fruit Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben. May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491 , CI 77492 , CI 77499), Ultramarine Violet (CI 77077), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Tin Oxide (CI 77861), Yellow No.5 Lake (CI 19140), Red No.40 Lake (CI 16035), Blue No.1 Lake (CI 42090).

Review & Swatches: ELF Baked Eyeshadow Palette Texas

Hi ladies! So I thought it was time for my first review with swatches etc. It is going to be on the "ELF Baked Eyeshadow Palette" with the name "Texas".

I've always been having my eye on the palette and I decided to order it and I received it for two-three weeks ago I think, with some other goodies of course.

I've decided to write numbers on the pictures so you can match the swatches with which color it is in the palette since the colors doesn't have any names.

The packaging is very simple but works perfect for me! The surface is really soft and does not get dirty like for example the original NAKED palette. It comes with a big mirror (as seen on a picture further down in this post) which I really like if your on a vacation and doesn't have a mirror with you, so you just take out your eyeshadow with the mirror. 

The shadows are gorgeous!!! They are very soft and pigmented, BUT the lighter colors aren't as pigmented as the darker colors which I'm pretty down about, but it's nothing big. I do find that you have to apply the shadow with your fingers, cause if you do it with a brush I don't really feel it pick as much product of as i you use your fingers. But I think that's a plus, cause then if you want a more natural look you just use brushes, but if you want "party/more glam" look then you use your fingers.

All the colors are very gorgeous and they all contain glitter. The darkest colors 4 and 5 contain less than the others for some reason. I do find that the darker shadows reminds a little of one another, but that's fine cause your look more put together, but just so you are aware of that :)

If you are to a party and they take a lot of pictures with blitz, then your eyeshadow will look so stunning. The blitz gives the shadow a really pretty look. 

Here are some swatches with blitz and no blitz

Color 1 - 5

Color 6-10

Lovely big mirror

Ingredients (as they say on Eyes Lips Faces' website):
Mica, Talc, Bismuth Oxychloride, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Paraffinum Liquidum (mineral oil), Dimethicone, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Rosa Canina (Rose Hip) Fruit Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben. May Contain: Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491 , CI 77492 , CI 77499), Ultramarine Violet (CI 77077), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Tin Oxide (CI 77861), Yellow No.5 Lake (CI 19140), Red No.40 Lake (CI 16035), Blue No.1 Lake (CI 42090).

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