ELF DUO CREAM EYESHADOW - $1
Butter Pecan (Left) & Mocha Swirl (Right)
I purchased this at K-mart, but you can find it at your local Target, K-mart or eyeslipsface.com
You don't understand how much I wanted to fall in love with this product. I think ELF is a pretty trust-worthy company and with their products starting at $1 - you can't really go wrong. Right when I opened the product - I was really impressed. The cream shadows are beautiful colors and they just blended out great and were highly highly pigmented. Here are the swatches!
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I was impressed! I tried out the products and within the first hour, it faded. I tried it with primer (ELF eyelid primer) and within two hours, it faded. Maybe with an amazing high-end primer like Urban Decay Primer Potion, it wouldn't fade as quickly, but I can't base it on what-if's. Did it crease? Within the first couple of minutes I applied it, but the creasing wasn't a problem for me. It would only be noticeable to somebody who is literally observing the crease of your eyelid. HOWEVER, I did find a solution! It makes an AMAZING base. These two duos match perfectly to the ELF Butternut quad I have and all the colors have a match! When I use the cream shadows as a base, it doesn't budge and makes the colors POP! But it still does crease a bit, but even less than with the cream shadow alone.
Do I recommend this product? YES. It may be my very oily eyelids that makes it fade or melt off so quickly. But even so, it makes a PERFECT base.
Pigmentation (Color pay off): 5
Wear (How long it lasts): 1
Creasing: 3
Price: 5
TOTAL: 3.5
