e.l.f. Eyelid Primer vs e.l.f. Mineral Eyeshadow Primer

Hello my lovely readers. I've been wanting to do this review for a while now. I have already reviewed the e.l.f. Mineral eyeshadow primer,you can see it here, and today I will compare that one to the e.l.f eyelid primer. I have bought quite a few things from e.l.f. and the mineral eyeshadow primer that I have now is my second. But I wanted to try the e.l.f. eyelid primer and was wondering if there are any differences between the two primers.

So packaging wise you can see that they are different, the e.l.f. eyelid primer is kinda narrow on the bottom and wider on the top. Both have the same color combination, warm beige with black.
I think both, eyelid and mineral eyeshadow primer, have the same amount of product and they are paraben free.
What e.l.f. says about them:

eyelid primer: "Preps your eyelid for smoother, longer-lasting and crease-proof eyeshadow. The ultra sheer nude color works to increase eye colour longevity. The lightweight liquid formula quickly absorbs into the skin for comfortable wear."

mineral eyeshadow primer: "This gentle and completely sheer Eyeshadow Primer has key vitamins A, C and E to help prevent aging and moisturizes the skin. The formula glides on easily and disappears instantly to create longer-lasting, crease-proof eyeshadow. The Mineral Eyeshadow Primer is designed to be used with your favorite mineral eyeshadow to provide ultimate staying power for beautiful and vibrant color that lasts. 100% mineral based with no parabens, no preservatives and no chemical dyes." 

The applicators are the standard for eyeshadow primers, the mineral primer's applicator is slightly bigger than the eyelid primer's.

I got both primers in sheer. The e.l.f. eyelid primer comes in another 3 colors whereas the mineral eyeshadow primer only in sheer.

As you can see from the swatches they look the same and they both blend easily. They dry to matte finish but the eyelid primer has kinda off-white color when it drys which isn't noticeable pretty much at all. Texture wise the are almost the same with mineral primer being slightly smoother.

One difference you will notice when you open them is that the e.l.f. mineral eyeshadow primer has a really nice buttery smell and the other almost hasn't any smell. Personally I prefer the buttery smell :P.

I should probably choose another eyeshadow, less pigmented but anyways. As you can see there is a noticeable difference been the swatches without primers and with them. I would say that the e.l.f. mineral eyeshadow primer is a bit better with helping the eyeshadow payoff. Although they don't do tremendous work with boosting the eyeshadow payoff,  they do help a lot with staying power of eyeshadows. I have noticed big difference when I'm wearing either of the e.l.f. primers.

That's how the eyeshadow looks after about 7-8 hours. I didn't use the same eyeshadow for the eye makeup and swatches!. 

I must say that the color pretty much didn't fade at all so thumbs up for the primers.

Overall I would say that they preform almost identically with e.l.f. mineral eyeshadow primer being slightly better, at the end is up to you if want to pay £1.5 or £3. To be honest next time I will need a new primer I don't know how I will decide which one I will buy :P.

You can buy the e.l.f. eyelid primer here for £1.5 and the mineral eyeshadow primer here for £3

Have you tried any of these? Which eyeshadow primer are you using? Let me know in the comments below.

I won I won...Haul

Hello my lovely readers. Not while ago I won Christine's and MUA Cosmetics' giveaway. To be honest I never thought I would win since usually I don't win giveaways,I'm not that lucky. Yesterday I received the package and I was really excited to open it :). Here is the picture of my prize.

What I won

MUA Lip Boom in Doin Good

MUA Nail Crackle Glitter in Green and Gold

MUA Mosaic Blusher in English Rose

MUA Matte Foundation in shade 2 Honeycomb

MUA Undressed Palette

MUA Going for Gold Palette

MUA Extreme Volume Black Mascara in  extreme black

MUA Extremme Curl Mascara in Black

Soon I will have reviews for all of them so stay tuned :)

Thank you Christine and MUA for those prizes

MUA Going for Gold Review and Swatches

Hello my lovely readers... About a week or so I received my order from MUA which included the Going for Gold palette and some other goodies... Few weeks back MUA announced a limited eyeshadow palette for the Olympics. Me and many other people thought that the palette would have the colors from the Olympics rings but instead the palette has mixture of grey,gold and brown colors. I must say that at the first look I was a bit disappointed with it but after looking at some swatches and pictures of the Going for Gold palette I really liked it. Let's have a look at some pictures

 *direct sunlight*

 *in shade*

The packaging is same black plastic with transparent lid that other MUA eyeshadow palettes have but this ,

as you can see, has square pans for the eyeshadow instead of round that the MUA palettes usually have. Because of the square pans you get more products for each color but you get only 10 shades instead of 12.

Now let's look at some swatches.

*direct sunlight*

*in shade*

(i used tiny amount of elf eyelid primer)

The eyeshadows are mostly shimmery, the shades 2 and 6 are matte and the shade 1 semi matte. All of them are pigmented but I would suggest to use an eyeshadow primer and/or eyeshadow base to get the most pigment out of the eyeshadows. They are a bit powdery and might see small amount of fallout with some eyeshadows.What I noticed while using these eyeshadows is that with the shades 4,5 and 10 in order to get a good amount on the brush you kinda need to dip into eyeshadow more than once or twice. This "problem" disappears after using the eyeshadows couple times.

As always on the back of the palette you will find the eyeshadow numbering, a mini tutorial for eye makeup and the ingredients.

Overall I would say this is a good palette for someone who likes this kind of colors. I quite like it although I am not a huge fan of grey eyeshadows. I have already created 2 looks using this palette that you can find here and here and probably will have more in the future. The only negative is that the eyeshadows contain parabens.

You can buy it online from the MUA store for £4 plus shipping.

Do you own this palette? What do you think of it?

MUA Haul

The past week MUA had an offer,you would get their new limited edition palette Going for Gold with every order over £8 so as you can understand I could not pass this offer.I didn't buy a lot, just few goodies that I wanted to try out.Here's what I bought.

Undressed Palette £4.00

 Extreme felt eyeliner £2.00

 Eyelashes in Vixen £2.00

 Blusher in shade 2 £1.00

 Going for Gold Palette free

This week I will try them up and the next week or at weekend will post reviews and swatches for them so stray tuned :)

Did you take advantage of this offer and bought something?

Have you tried anything that I bought?

New FREE Gift with every purchase from Sigma

Hello lovelies.

You all know that Sigma does pretty awesome offers each month. So this month apart from the 10% off of your purchase using the code AP2012 you will also get a really pretty mini eyeshadow palette with every purchase over $30. This is available only throughout the month of July.

The palette has 3 shades from their Bare,Dare and Flare palettes:

Reveal (Dare palette): A deep rust shade with a pearl finish. Great for contouring the eye as an alternative to brown. Also makes a unique smoky eye.

Act (Bare palette): A neutral, medium brown tint. Great for everyday use for all skin tones.

Oversee (Flare palette): A subtle ocean blue with a gold pearl.

(I must say that I honestly love the colors they chose for this palette)

If you were planning on buying something from Sigma in July this the perfect time to do so.

Happy shopping :)

Note: The sub-total of the purchase must be over $30 to recieve the FREE gift