e.l.f. Disney Elsa: Snow and Ice Beauty Book

The newest edition to the e.l.f. disney collection is Queen Elsa! I have nothing but good news and good things to say about this one! I feel like they took all the best things from the other beauty books they have come out with over the past few months and incorporated them into this one!

The book has eight eyeshadows, highlighter, two liners, lipgloss, and eyeshadow brush. This has been the most any beauty book has included.

Eyeshadows are swatched from left to right, first row, then the second row. 
"Kristoff" is a shimmery warm bronze/gold. "Sven" looks like a warm peach in the pan but swatches more of a cool toned peach on my skin tone (I"m a little confused by why those are named as such I don't really see them in those colors at all). "Anna" is a shimmery purple with a fuchsia undertone. "Hans" is a warm shimmer bronze. "Olaf" is a shimmer white, and surprisingly not chalky like I'd expected. "Arendelle" is the prettiest of them all! a shimmer burgundy. "Elsa" is a matte purple with slight silver glitter. "Marshmellow" ?? is a matte black with slight silver glitter. The glitter shades show up pretty matte on the lid to me. 

The highlighter, "Snow Queen", for the most part is a very shimmery champagne. It is very buttery and applies smoothly and evenly. It has a silver imprint in the middle. On the right is the champagne color swatched by itself, next to it is the two swatched together, as if you swirled a brush in the middle. 
Both the liners are really great. I have been very impressed with how well the e.l.f. liners have swatched and applied in each disney beauty book.  The liner on the left is the glitter liner "Starry Night." Unfortunately it isn't the best liner as far as glitters go. The liner on the left is the black liner "Frozen Heart." This one applies beautifully and very black! Neither one is waterproof or smudge resistant though.
The lipgloss "Royal Pursuit" is so pretty. I think that they did really well in replicating the color of Elsa's lips from the movie. It also applies nice and evenly (which is a huge improvement from the previous lip glosses that have come in the other Disney beauty books) and it doesn't smell bad like that one Snow White one did. 

Last but not least is the brush. YES it came with a brush! I think they all should have come with a brush. This is the original eyeshadow brush that is in the e.l.f. essential line that is only $1 but will be the best $1 you have ever spent. I won't go into much detail about it as I have don't previous reviews on this brush alone as well as a huge review on my favorite e.l.f. brushes. I will link one below. 
e.l.f. brush review
Overall this one was great! e.l.f. keep them coming and have them all be this great of quality! This is available at select Walgreen's drugstores. This is the only retailer that I have seen carry any of the e.l.f. Disney collections.
The only downfall: where the other beauty books have retailed for $9.99 this one retails for $12.99. I guess they really want you to pay for that brush and extra eyeliner =/

Thank you guys so much for reading. Please feel free to leave any questions, comments, or recommendations.

e.l.f. Disney: Jasmine Collection! A Whole New World Beauty Book

This is the third disney princess that e.l.f. has added to their disney princess collection.  I didn't get much at all from this one, just the beauty book. Aesthetically this beauty book is absolutely beautiful. I really think that e.l.f. did great with the colors. I really think the purple and turquoise compliment each other really well! 

The book is set up similarly to the Snow White one with 3 large shadows and 4 small ones.  This one has a blush a blush and bronzer like in the Ariel beauty book as opposed to just a bronzer like in the Snow White beauty book.  
It comes with a double ended sponge tip applicator like in the Snow White book. I'm pretty disappointed about that because the Ariel one was the only one so far that came with a brush. 

Ok, onto the shadows. I am not impressed. Out of the 7 shadows, I only feel like 2 are worth using. For the most part the shadows are very powdery and "hard" in the pan. Its really hard to get much payoff on my finger and really difficult fro a brush. 

The two shades that I think are really nice are 'Iago' and 'Jafar.' They are shimmers and apply really easily and evenly. The worst of the bunch are 'Abu' and 'Jasmine' =(.  I was really hoping 'Jasmine' would be an amazing light blue but it is really hard to swatch. It is like the both of these are very hardly packed into the pan. They aren't buttery at all and have a lot of fallout. 'Aladdin' and 'Raja' are pretty but have to be built up.  I'm torn on 'Genie.' It is a gorgeous blue/green teal type color but is patchy. It was slightly difficult to get it to apply evenly but once it was even I liked it.

The blush 'Royal Palace' looks like a peach toned highlight on my skin tone. I would not wear this as a blush, it would look very ashy. The bronzer 'Forbidden Treasure' would be a good all over bronzer to warm my skin tone, it would not work as a bronzer/contour type powder because it is almost my exact color. The blush is just a little chalky but not too terribly bad. It has slight gold shimmer which would make it a great highlight.  The bronzer is great, it is smooth and applies easily and blends well.

The eyeliner is AMAZING! This is the blackest pencil liner I have ever had! It isn't smudge proof, but doesn't claim to be. This will be the only thing I will use from this book. The lipgloss 'Magic Carpet' isn't bad. It does go on patchy. I tried to show it in the swatch. It isn't as bad as that horrible Snow White one by any means! It doesn't have a scent at all (thank goodness). 

I can't wait for the next one! I hope they continue this and have one for every disney princess in the princess court, with and addition of Pocahontas because I think that would be beautiful. 

Thank you so much for reading! Please feel free to leave any comments or recommendations <3

E.L.F. Eye Encyclopedia Collection (Eye Beauty Book Collection)

I recently ordered a good bit of stuff from eyeslipsface.com wanting to try some things I hadn't before. They had a special going on at that time selling three eye beauty books for $10 (usually $5 a piece).  A couple of the shadows are definitely worth having but overall, I would say don't waste your money.  There aren't enough pigmented and usable shadows in each book by themselves to justify buying them.  These books also come with a couple of examples attached to the inside, the looks are beautiful but don't tell you which colors they use, and some blank eyes for you to make yourself with lines to list which shadows you used.

Every eyeshadow is labeled with a number by a plastic film that is attached but easily moved from side to side out of the way. They each also come with an eyeliner, with no staying power, and a sponge tipped applicator.
Also many of the pans were falling out and need to be glued back in and the front covers of a few were also a little scratched. presentation and packaging was horrible.

Natural Eye Edition

The shadows look very beautiful in the box but many do not swatch well at all.

Eye 1 and 9 are almost invisible swatched. I had to work VERY hard to even get that little bit to show up on my hand.  Also eyes 3, 10, and 8 are quite sheer as well but are easier to work with than 1 and 9.  The best ones in this book are 2, 4, 7, 11, and 12. The liner for this one is a brownish-green. it is very pretty but wouldn't work on the waterline or anything. With effort it is pretty on the lower lash line.

 Bright Eye Edition

Out of the three books the bright eye was the one I liked the most.  At least the majority of these shadows show up on the skin.

Eyes 1 and 9 look very similar, I don't really know why they are in the same palette.  I am always excited about matte shades and unfortunately the matte brown in this book looks nice on my hand here but I have since tried to use it but have come up with nothing. I don't really know what happened maybe the shadows are pressed in layers and the top layer was pressed looser than the rest. The green, blue, purple, red, and black in this palette are just beautiful.  The liner that comes with this is black, again may only work on the bottom lash line.  On the photos the second line is the liner from the natural edition but shows up purple on camera. 

 Smokey Eye Edition

Out of all the different smokey eye kits that I own and have seen I am the most disappointing in this one.

The smokey eye edition comes with the same black liner that the bright eye edition did.  The black in this one is just pathetic! For a smokey eye book you would think the black would be the best of all! As seen in the swatches, eyes 6-8 and 9-11 are very good and I can see myself using these quite often.  I could also see using eye2 in some cases because it is matte.

So out of all the books that I received I would mostly recommend the bright eye edition alone, not the other two. To be honest I am thinking of prying my favs out of its packaging and putting them all in one book so I don't have to bother with the others.