I feel like I should put a warning on this post, as opinion on the video I did on this was so divided. Some people loved it and wanted to buy it, some people couldn't see the point. So, here's the warning:
WARNING - NON-SERIOUS MAKEUP AHEAD!!!!!
Seriously, this palette is a bit of fun.
The ELF Studio Transformer Palette costs £3.50 from eyeslipsface.co.uk. You get 10g of product.
In the palette you get 4 shades of the transformer. They look very, very pale and milky. From left to right is green, copper, pink/red, and blue. If you swipe them with your finger, you'll see the milkiness vanish and just the shimmer will appear.
These really don't work on their own. There's absolutely no point in applying these on your lids as regular eye shadows. You'll just see the barest hint of coloured shimmer and nothing else. These work at their best over black eye liner.
When you apply these over black liner (or a black cream eye shadow) these "transform" into the most amazing shimmer. They become much brighter and jewel toned.
I tend to press these into black liner on my lower lashline to smudge it out and add a hint of colour. They also look great when I use them over black gel liner, although they don't come out as bright. I think it's the slight stickiness in the pencil that adds to the brightness. I've also tried the green shade packed onto MAC's Black cream colour base on my lid. It looked fantastic!
There is a very similar product from the Body Shop called Eye Shimmers. These cost about £9.00 each and come in a wider variety of colours. However, after playing with some swatches I discovered the effect with the ELF palette was much more vivid. I swatched both together to compare.
The texture of the two was very similar. They are quite crumbly so you need to make sure you don't pick up too much. The texture of the ELF did feel much smoother though and some of the shimmers from the Body Shop look quite chunky in the picture.
This is really just a bit of fun to add a little colour to your eye liner. If you were planning on buying something like this, I'd got for the ELF over the Body Shop.
The ELF palette was received free to review, this has no effect on the review I give.
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