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Gore Shock

PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:14 pm


I don't have the "mineral" brushes, but I'm pretty sure I have most, if not all, of the regular and studio ones.

Regular Line
User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Eye shadow Brush: This is a really nice brush, especially considering it's only $1. It's soft, non-scratchy, and dense enough to pick up and hold color while still being soft enough to easily blend. It's best for all over lid and smokey looks. However, I honestly don't use it all that much. It's a total preference though. I prefer smaller, more detail work brushes because I rarely do an all over color. Not to say that you couldn't do more detailed eye makeup with this, theres just better brushes you could use to make it easier
Would buy again?: Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart






User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Total Face Brush: I am not a fan of this brush. It is super scratchy and applies products really unevenly because it drags. Have you ever accidentally singed your hair? I don't know if I'm the only one who caught their hair on fire before, but the bristles on this feel like your hair afterward. Totally dry and just...not good. The ends even kind of look like your hair after it's been burnt. It's also the only brush for ELF that I've had shed. The only positive I have to saw of it are the bristles have a pretty gradient. haha!
Would buy again?: No
Rating: heart






User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Blushing, Bronzing and Blending Brush: This kind of has the same feel as the Total Face Brush, but its really not nearly as bad. It has a good shape especially for contouring and a good density. It's dense enough not to get crazy fallout and works best to get a more dramatic line that you could blend out with another brush. For a dollar, it's pretty usable.
Would buy again?: Eh. Probably. It's not an awesome brush, but it's cheap so it's nice to have around just in case.
Rating: heart heart






User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Blending Eye Brush: I like this brush. It's good for various things depending on how you're doing your makeup. I find that its a bit too big/bulky to blend lid shadow, but I like it for either blending out the color above my crease into my highlight or adding another color above my crease that I want to be more faded rather than harsh.
Would buy again?: Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Defining Eye Brush: Looove this brush. This is one of the brushes I use pretty much daily. It's really nice for doing crease colors, but it's also great for putting shadow on your lid, and blending a bit of shadow under your eye. You can pretty much use this brush to do your entire eye shadow look. The one thing I would say to change would maybe make it a little more dense so it's easier to use for a cut crease, it's not impossible to do, but denser would be easier.
Would buy again?: Definitely
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart






User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Eyeliner Brush: Not too big on this brush, though I'm not too big on flat liner brushes as a whole, so I may be a bit biased. I've used this maybe once. I feel it's a bit too bulky/thick to get a good line. I mean, I wear my liner thick most of the time, but this just for me is one of those brushes where you just keep ******** up the line because it gets in the way with its bulkiness. Also, a stupid reason to not like it, but it stains. I don't get whose idea it was to make a light colored liner brush. It always looks dirty! It's hard to keep it uniform too. After I washed it, I needed to like squeeze the bristles for a few minutes or else it would dry and have bristles sticking out in the edges. I just don't like it haha.
Would buy again?: Nope. But this may just be because I hate all straight liner brushes.
Rating: heart heart (Just because it's not so much my thing, but I've talked to other who have liked it)




User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Smudge Eye Brush: This is one of those things that come on smudge eyeliner. It's nothing special, they're all really the same. I use it on occasion when I do more smokey looks because the eyeliner I use doesn't have a smudge end. Also it's kind of a b***h to clean because its more of something you just need to keep rubbing off. I'm really not so sure on how sanitary it is haha.
Would buy again?: I guess. I could live without it, but it's usable.
Rating: Not going to rate because there's really nothing to compare to as they're all the same.







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Concealer Brush: Good for spot concealing. It's a little more flimsy than most concealer brushes I've used, but I kind of like that because it makes it easier to blend out without needing to grab another brush. That being said, I don't really use concealer that ofter. I really like this brush for doing dramatic cut creases. It's dense enough and small enough to make a straight line without having it blend into other shades unintentionally. Though, like the straight liner brush, it stains! and you need to squeeze it once you wash it to make sure it dries right.
Would buy again? Yes.
Rating: heart heart heart





User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Foundation Brush: I hate this brush. I don't see how somebody can use this for foundation. Maybe tinted moisturizer, but even then I think you'd need to use something else to blend the color in better. This brush is so flimsy and totally not dense at all. I'll use it on occasion to apply moisturizer or primer to my face, but honestly, my hands even do a better job than this s**t.
Would buy again?: Not a chance.
Rating: heart






User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Brow Comb + Brush: This, like the smudge brush, is really you buy one anywhere, it's the same thing. So I'd rather pay $1 than $5 for it haha. Don't use it that much because my brows don't need it and my lashes never really clump haha.
Would buy again?: Yep
Rating: Again, no rating.








User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Lip Defining Brush: This looks NOTHING like the picture. I haven't used it for lips because I really think its too fluffy and soft to effectively apply any lip product. I do however looove this as an eyeshadow brush. It's really nice for more precision shadow. It's in my top for most used brushes.
Would buy again? Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart (as an eye brush haha)
PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:18 pm


Studio Line

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Kabuki Face Brush: I really dig this brush. It's suuuper soft and dense. It gives amazing coverage for powder foundation and it blends well when used to apply liquid foundation. I mostly use it to blend out blush when I put on too much or add a powder foundation on top of my liquid. You can use it for a setting powder, but it may pick up more product than you want it to because it's so dense.
Would buy again?
Yes.
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart






User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Powder Brush: This works pretty much like a less dense kabuki. It's still dense however, and really soft, it just doesn't pick up as much product. If you want less coverage with a powder foundation this works well. I generally use it to apply finishing powder or blend out blush when I want to keep it pigmented, just less harsh.
Would buy again?: Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Complexion Brush: Again, really like this brush. It's really soft and applies product evenly. I use it mostly to apply loose setting powder, which I then blend out with the Powder Brush, or to apply blush. It's nice for blush because it's a good size, and you don't need to worry about being light handed because its so soft and doesn't apply too much product at once.
Would buy again?: Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Eyeshadow "C" Brush: Great brush. The bristles are shorter and more dense than in the regular shadow brush, I prefer it to the regular. It's extremely easy to get condensed color in one area without worrying about any fall out. Though, again, it is a bit wide for my taste, but thats just me.
Would buy again?: Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Blush Brush: A better alternative to the regular blush brush, though it's too small for blush in my opinion. I use it for contouring. It's realllly soft. Pretty much all the studio brushes are amazingly soft haha.
Would but again? Yeah
Rating: heart heart heart








User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Small Angled Brush:It's alright. Not my favorite, though. It's too flimsy and not dense enough for my taste to apply stark liner. I don't use it all that much, occasionally on my brows. It's another that sometimes frays which is annoying.
Would buy again? Probably, just because I can be usful in some situations, and it's just nice to have.
Rating: heart heart







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Contour Brush: I prefer this to the blending brush for applying above crease color, but not for blending. They look kind of similar, but this one is a bit shorter and more dense. I do prefer it to apply a highlight to then go in and use the blending brush to gradient because it applies more heavily than the blending does.
Would buy again? Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Angled Foundation Brush: This is alright. It's denser than the regular foundation brush, but I'm still not sure on if it's dense enough. It's usable, but you really need to know how to use it. You need to use -just- the right amount of product at once or it starts getting streaky. It works nice, but it is a bit of a hassle depending on your foundations formula.
Would buy again?: I'm not sure. It works well when I have the patience, but thats not all that often haha.
Rating: heart heart

Gore Shock


Gore Shock

PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:19 pm


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Concealer Brush:Muuuch larger than the regular concealer brush. They have a similar density, I think I prefer this one because I'm more of an area concealer rather than a spot. The studio brush is made from a better material I think too. It's smoother, I'm not sure how to explain, but all together it works better to apply even coverage over a larger area. I sometimes use it to apply shadow in my crease as well, because again, it keeps form and is more precise due to its density. Not as good for cut creases as the regular concealer, though.
Would buy again?: Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart








User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Small Precision Brush: Great for numerous things. I used it for applying cream liner, highlighting inner corners, applying shadow on the lower lash line, and applying lipstick. It's pretty dense, but still has some give to it isn't difficult to use.
Would buy again?: Yes
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart heart








User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Small Smudge Brush: Another one of my favorite brushes. Not so great for smudging, however. It doesn't really work for that haha. It's really small and dense with a kind of rounded point that really helps with precision. I love it for doing my eyebrows and cream liner on both my lash lines and waterlines. I use it daily.
Would buy again? No question
Rating: heart heart heart heart heart







User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Fan Brush:It's really thin. I'm not too crazy on it. It works if you have a bit of fallout or removing powder if you use face powder under your eyes to avoid fallout, but if you have more than a few tiny spots, it just kind of smudges them around instead of pulling them off.
Would buy again?: Yes, but just because I rarely have any fallout, so it works for removing the little I get.
Rating: heart heart heart







(my posts were too long, so it said I had to make smaller ones. D; )
Basically, the studio line is just full of win haha. Hope I was somewhat helpful. =]
PostPosted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:28 pm


Yay I finally had time to just sit and read this and I am glad I did I think now I am going to go and spend like 45 bucks on elf lol thank you for taking time to do this lol

Mother_Zombee
Captain


BluesyOnions

Generous Businesswoman

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:23 am


I bought their complexion brush from the studio line once and it shed so much. Every time I used it, I got like 5 to 10 of its bristles on my face, and I hadn't used a heavy hand at all. I threw it out after like 3 or 4 uses, because it had already shown signs of losing a lot of its density.
Maybe it was just a defect?
PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:03 pm


Probably. Or I just got nice ones. The only ones that I've had shed on me are the face ones from the regular line.

Gore Shock


Honey n Tea

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:40 pm


heart surprised

I always found ELF Studio line brushes to be great. WAY better than any 40 dollar makeup brush in my opinion.
PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:14 pm


Honey n Tea
heart surprised

I always found ELF Studio line brushes to be great. WAY better than any 40 dollar makeup brush in my opinion.


Yeah. I have their bent eyeliner brush (which I love and I had been looking for a cheap one for ages), and their C shadow brush, and they are really good quality. Idk about the complexion brush fail, I may buy another sometime to see if maybe it was just a defect. I'm on a hunt for good brushes at the moment.

Once I get a good camera, I'll probably do indepth reviews on them on Luuux or something.

BluesyOnions

Generous Businesswoman

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