Elf studio blush: twinkle pink

Elf studio blush in twinkle pink

Elf products have always been a bit of a hit and miss for me, there are some products which I love and are really great value for money, such as the cream eye liner and then there are some products which I'm not to sure off. This blusher is one of them, at £3.50 the price is amazing and you can't complain at that, even if you don't like the products you haven't wasted that much money. Although it would be really good if Elf had a section in a drug store, then that way we could test out products before we buy them. There must be a reason why they don't stock in stores, does anyone know?

I actually really love the colour of the blusher its a lovely light pink and as you can see from the picture it has little gold flecks in it. Now I don't mind shimmer/flecks in my blushers as it can really brighten and highlight your face. But this blusher once it's swatched no longer has them lovely sparkly gold flecks in it, they just seem to disappear and ends up looking like dry flaky skin, lovely. However when it's on your cheeks the gold just seems to come back and the 'flaky bits' are barely visible, however in certain light you can end up catching a huge gold fleck that just looks rather odd on it's own. Like you know when you get glitter on your face and you can see it in certain lights and you just can't get rid of it? Well it's very much like that.

I just really can't make up my mind if I like this product or not. I love the price and you can't complain at £3.50 for a blush. Swatched the blush looks crumbly and flaky and not appealing, but on your cheeks it's a different story and has quite a golden shimmery tone to it and often you find huge gold flecks on your face which isn't to great for me. The blusher surprisingly lasts a while, but I don't really find myself reaching for this one often. I actually prefer the cheaper Elf blushers at £1.50. Maybe this blush has allowed me to see that I prefer matt blushers or ones with shimmer rather than actual flecks of glitter.

Has anyone tried this before? What do you think?
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