Product Review: E.L.F The Beauty Encyclopedia

In between my mundane stroll inside Target several days ago, I found the beautiful rack of E.L.F products and the bright red round tag saying "$5" lured me in like a kid walking into a candy store. I gambled and picked up 2 of them, one is a Smokey Edition and the other one is Neutrals Edition (of course, my boring inner soul picked this one). I came home and started to play around with it and I had to say I am quite impressed. The colors are gorgeous and versatile; you can simply create many looks and combination just using one palette.

Smokey Edition

This palette has at least 3 possibilities of smokey eyes: smokey blue, smokey purple, and basic smokey. Some of the colors are chalkier than the others but the highlight colors are absolutely smooth and easy to apply. I'm a fan of the bright purple in the middle, it's just simply gorgeous.

Swatches

Neutrals Edition

If you're looking for a fairly inexpensive neutral palette, this would be good for you because it consists of a variety shades from beige, orange, mauves and browns. Just keep in mind tho, they are mostly cool-toned colors so if you'd prefer warm shades, don't get this one :) Other than that, this palette is pretty good, some shades show up better than others (just like the other palette) but for 5 bucks I'd say go ahead and give it a try.

Swatches

Overall I'd give it 3.5 / 5 because they're not really buttery smooth and dare I say Wet'n'Wild Color Icon Palettes are better. Having said that, it's worth trying, I mean for $5 you get 12 shadows, you can at least buy it for the highlight shades which, in my opinion, are more pigmented than the darker ones.