Hi, girls!
I've had ELF Tone Correcting Powder in Cool tones in my makeup collection for a couple of months but only recently I've started using it properly. I've read some good reviews and I decided to buy it thinking it would be good for correcting some areas (yellow for brightening under my eyes, green for reducing redness, blue and pink for the dark spots). The truth is that it's not so effective using the colors separately, but actually to blend them together with you powder brush.
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The packaging is very sleek, stursy black case with a large mirror, very NARS-esque as all ELF Studio Line products. Overall, I think that for a drugstore powder it's pretty great, but if you have a more darker complexion than Warm might be the one for you. Sure, if you need a setting powder there is always the HD Powder from ELF but being a loose powder is little more messy to work with it. I prefer always powders in compact form.
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If it caught your attention, you can find it on ELF's website at only 3$. And it does almost the same things as high end powder so go for it but don't expect to do wonders for concealing your problem areas.
Love at first brush
I've had ELF Tone Correcting Powder in Cool tones in my makeup collection for a couple of months but only recently I've started using it properly. I've read some good reviews and I decided to buy it thinking it would be good for correcting some areas (yellow for brightening under my eyes, green for reducing redness, blue and pink for the dark spots). The truth is that it's not so effective using the colors separately, but actually to blend them together with you powder brush.
It claims the fallowing:
"Create a balanced and radiant complexion that is beautiful and healthy. The lightweight formula evens out skin tone and absorbs excess oil, and sheer formula brightens, mattes and neutralizes the skin. The colors are meant to be blended together as the Blue neutralizes orange, the Green neutralizes red, the Pink neutralizes grey and the Yellow brightens and neutralizes red."
It's available in 3 ranges of shades: Cool, Warm and Shimmer, probably depending on the type of skin and the finishing one wishes for. I've got Cool which is composed of 4 matte almost white chalky shades: Yellow, Blue, Green and Pink. As stated above, these shades don't do much on their own in terms of correcting skin tones, but blended they do give a matte, almost flawless finish.
I always use a light hand when applying it as while I have pretty light skin, too much of this will look as an white cast. I see it more as a setting powder in compact form, being very sheer and lightweight, and I like that it provided matte finish and no touch ups are required during the day. I'm not sure though how it will look in the summer when I'll get darker.
The packaging is very sleek, stursy black case with a large mirror, very NARS-esque as all ELF Studio Line products. Overall, I think that for a drugstore powder it's pretty great, but if you have a more darker complexion than Warm might be the one for you. Sure, if you need a setting powder there is always the HD Powder from ELF but being a loose powder is little more messy to work with it. I prefer always powders in compact form.
If it caught your attention, you can find it on ELF's website at only 3$. And it does almost the same things as high end powder so go for it but don't expect to do wonders for concealing your problem areas.
Love at first brush