e.l.f. and other CHEAP crap

I LOVE CHEAP STUFF. I went to Old Navy this past weekend and raped the clearance rack - I bought Logan over a dozen shirts that should fit him next winter - at $0.97 a piece!! WHOO HOO!! (Remind me to tell you guys later about the woman with the screaming/whining kid!)

OK - now I have to tell you about my e.l.f. makeup! I ordered it on the 11th. It shipped on the 15th. And I received it all yesterday - the 20th. I was excited to hear about a website that sold their makeup for $1. But then - I was REALLY excited to see they had mineral makeup (it was a little more money at about $3 to $5 a piece - but still DIRT cheap compared to the other mineral stuff that's out there). So I tried it all out this morning...

I did buy $1 mascara - both the balck and the brown... It went on nice this morning, but I can tell after a couple of times opening the tube, it will be dry and clumpy. (I think I will be sticking with my trusty old maybeline lash curling stuff... they do still make that, right?) And my eyes are starting to drive me nuts after over eight hours of wearing it.

The $1 brushes I bought - so far I have only tried the eye show brush... I would say it was a good buy! Not GREAT, but good.

I accidentally bought (2) tubes of mineral lipstick in the same color (boo!) - I THINK I was trying to order two colors - oh well. When I first opened the tube - I was like "this doesn't look like PLUM!" It looked more brownish... (something I would not have purchased if I had been able to look at in person, first) but once I put it on, I realized that the color is PERFECT and I am glad that I have two tubes (It is SO HARD to find good oclors of listick!). It glides on really nice. It doesn't stay on any better than any other lipstick - but I was pleased that it did NOT get gooey or look funny as it wore off = it just sort of faded off (if that makes sense).

The eyeshadow and blush went on nicely - I feel like I am not wearing anything (although the color I picked to wear today may have been a little darker than I prefer - it would prolly be good for night time - I have two other colors to try which will probably be good day time colors). The blush was very suttle, which is what I was going for. (I HATE feeling like I am wearing clown makeup!)

Their free gift to me for giving them three email addresses was a tube of their lip gloss - cherry bomb flavor or some such crap. The color is fine - but the smell is disgusting. (glad it was free!)

SO, IN SUMMARY - the mineral stuff seems great! I am very pleased with my purchase, but I will probably be dumping the cheap mascara and the cherry ass flavored lip gloss!!