ELF Aqua Beauty Molten Liquid Eyeshadow: A Review

In my recent quest to find quick makeup to use in the morning, I stumbled upon these at my local drugstore. The liquid eyeshadows have a doe foot applicator, kinda like a concealer. I have three shades in this range: Liquid Gold, Brushed Copper, and Rose Gold. In the swatches pictured below, I blended then out using my fingers.

Liquid Gold:

This one is probably my least favorite of the three. It is more of a yellow gold. It doesn’t blend out that well, but I used it in a wonder woman costume as a crown and it worked really well,

Rose Gold:

This one is probably my favorite. It blends the best out of the three and doesn’t crease.

Brushed Copper:

I don’t know if I’d call this a copper. It’s more of a copper-gold and not what you’d normally expect for a copper.

Overall, I don’t know if I would buy all of these since once they’re blended out they all kinda look the same. Also, if you don’t like the textured look of eyelids I don’t think you’d like this. I’d recommend picking up Rose Gold or Brushed Copper if you’d like to try these. These are great for someone who wants a wash of color on their lids without much effort.

Pick these up for $4 at your local drugstore.

Ulta Beauty Color Correcting Foundation & Primer Stick: A Review

I went to Ulta recently and tried to find something I thought was out of the box and different from anything I’ve tried before, and I think I’ve done just that. This foundation/primer is unique because it has a green center. There are a couple of reasons why this could be my dream come true product:

1. I am HELLA lazy and I love me a good time saver
2. I get out of my bed 0.000001 second before I need to be in my car on my way to school (at seven in the morning, mind you)
3. My skin is quite red, so I basically have to put green color correcter all over my face anyway

So, this product is essentially three of my beauty steps in one. Coming in at $14 and 0.25 oz, I think it’s not a bad price point. One bad thing, however, is the shade range. It has only a mere eight shades. It is a pretty good gradient, except there are lots of light and medium but only two dark shades. The tone of the color corrector for the darker shades might be too light and might make you look ashy. My shade in the range is fair porcelain, the lightest shade. When I swatched it in store, it seemed like it would be too light for me but it’s actually pretty spot on, just a little bit lighter than my skin tone. Along with fair skin, I also have neutral-warm undertones. The second lightest shade is very pink, and pink does not look good on ya girl, and the third lightest shade (which an Ulta rep. recommended for me) would have looked like I smeared cream contour all over my face. So I said screw it and bought the lightest shade, and I’m glad I did.

When I put this one in the morning it looked pretty good, but as they day wore on it got worse and worse and worse. See, my skin is very oily, and it basically slipped and broke down all over my T-Zone and surrounding areas. It made my skin look very textured and clung to all the hair on my face and made it stand out more. It made me want to wipe it off of my face. When I got home from school, I tried some different methods to try and make this work because I really wanted it to work. I tried several different setting powders to try and set it, and they all made my skin look extremely textured. The green also settled into my nostrils, which can commonly happen with green color correctors. I think the finish is just too wet to set it, and it soaks up the powder as soon as you apply it. It says on the website that the finish is supposed to be dewy, so I tried one last time to make it work by not setting it. Once again, it looked really good when I first applied it, but after a couple of hours it disintegrated on my oily skin. It also made me look a little washed out because of the green core. It was very full coverage and made my skin look very good at first, however, towards the end of the day it sat on top of my skin and made my skin look very textured. Also, it made my skin look kinda wet, which I know some people like but I’m more of a mette kinda girl myself. Cream products worked very well with it, but I can’t imagine you could use powder products with it. I won’t be using it under foundation because if it didn’t work well on its own it’s not gonna work well under foundation.

The stick itself is very creamy, almost too creamy. It is very easy for the stick to get muddy. Also, if you use it at an angle the green center will wear down a bit slower than the stick. Be careful in regard to how much you roll up the stick because it might break or shift at the base because the formula is so soft. As I used it, it would break and shift and it was very messy. I feel like I actually used quite a bit because of how creamy it is. The inside of the tube is caked with product.

So, who would I recommend this product for? If you are fair to medium skin toned, have redness everywhere, don’t like to wear a ton of makeup, like a very dewy finish, and have pretty much flawless skin, then maybe this will work for you. But, don’t take my word for it. This is just my opinion, and it does have a 4.4 rating on Ulta’s website with 700 reviews, so I guess somebody likes it. In the reviews I did see some people using this a concealer, which is a smart idea. I won’t be doing that, however, because I am done trying to make this work for my skin type. Just because it doesn’t work for me, doesn’t mean it won’t work for you!