Only Sorta Suckered: An ELF Update

After a few weeks of wondering and waiting...my ELF products finally came in...all $50 worth...which in itself is good news. Because after the "Elf is a hoax" internet warning, I was pretty sure that that was $50 of my hard earned money flushed down the toilet...so to get anything at all made me feel a little better about the whole situation.

So, I've been sifting through my purchase, trying on things here and there, and here are five items that I really like thus far.

1. Candy Shop Lip Tins

A great lip gloss...it's kinda thick how I like it, so it stays on for a good length of time, and it has a really nice little shimmer to it. And let's face it...anything in a tin is automatically pretty darn cute.

2. Hypershine Gloss

This was a little bizarre to me at first, but once I got it going, I really liked it. It's a lipgloss that comes in the shape of a pen. The application apparatus is a brush, and you twist the base of the pen until the gloss oozes out of the tip of the brush. I don't know if I'm describing this the best way possible, but once it oozed, the gloss was a great little shimmery color that I really liked a lot.

3. Total Face Brush

I don't know about you, but whenever I need a good blush or face brush, they tend to run at least $10...and that strikes me as a bit much. But...I always make the purchase because a good blush brush is an absolute must for any fashionista. So I was eager to try the ELF face brush and once I got it, I felt like this was a dollar well spent! Well...actually two dollars...because you know my hoarding tendencies would not let me run the risk of this being a good deal and me only buying one brush. And I'm glad I did get two...I may even go back and buy more! It never hurts to have a good brush on standby.

4. Mechanical Eyelash Curler

It's great, it works, and it's $1. Need I say more???

5. Brightening Eye Color

With colors being the thing in fashion these days, it's always nice to dab a nice splash of coordinating color to your eyes to bring the whole outfit together. But who in the heck is going to invest in 20 different expensive eyeshadows ranging from fuschia to avacado green to aqua blue just to tie it all in with your new top? What better way to add some fun new colors to your makeup pallette without emptying your wallet?!

So...all's well that ends well in ELF world...but my only issue with the whole thing is...where did this affiliation with Nordstom come from??? Had I known that ELF was just a regular old $1 makeup company with no intentions of going out of business, and NOT a discontinued line of makeup sold at Norstrom which was urgently liquidating all of its stock...I would have proceeded a little differently. Instead of feeling like...if I snooze I might lose, and trying to buy out the whole stock of products and thinking I was getting some monstrous deal for my money, I might have just said well...maybe I'll buy a lipgloss or two, and go back for more if I like them. But that is just not the way I roll. Now the only thing to do is find a nice cute make-up bag that can hold all this new stuff! And I guess that isn't so bad after all, is it?