E.L.F. Studio Under Eye Concealer & Highlighter Review

Remember those time when you can just simply walk out of the house with just a compact powder on your face? How I miss those days when I felt my skin was flawless, my pores were tight and dark spots were just non-existent. If I can recall correctly, I think I started getting freckles at the age of 23-24. I thought it was just a temporary thing like a sunburnt, it will stick with you for few weeks and disappear. But I'd guess this damn thing wants to become your BFF and it's really hard to get rid of them. Either you have to splurge on expensive prescription skincare or go for a laser treatment but that would still not guarantee they won't come back *sigh*

Anyway, those expensive things are just not my options at the moment. So at the meantime, I've been searching high and low for a great make up, concealer in particular, to cover up those annoying hundreds of tiny spots on my face. I have 3 concealers in my collection at the moment, but I will review the other two later. For now, I'd like to write my opinion about this product from ELF.

Retailed at AU$8.00 

Texture: Light to medium coverage

Buildable: Yes

Under Eye Dark Circles : Doesn't conceal completely but my eye bags are pretty bad actually

Freckles: I would say, up to 70% gone with the help of foundation

Dark spots: Slightly visible

Stickiness & Cakeyness: I've touched up twice and don't feel anything but dry

Redness: Concealed

Here are some photos for you guys to compare. Please be warned, my face without make up is quite horrifying.

If you can see (I'm sure you can) I have hundreds of freckles spread on my face especially at the cheekbone areas, little bit of redness on my nose, upper lip and on my forehead. My eye bags are quite dark and sunken (this is hereditary, my father has it too)

And this is a photo with two layers of Loreal Super Blendable True Match in Golden Beige applied to my face.

Will you agree with me if I say 60% of my freckles are already gone with this foundation? This foundation is pretty awesome but not that awesome to cover all the freckles completely. The redness on my nose is still peeking through so this is when I need to put on the concealer.

So what I did next was, I dabbed the product on the areas where I have freckles, redness and dark spots. Then I tapped gently with my fingers to help it blend with my complexion. I did this two layers on the problematic areas as I felt one layer is just not enough.

I had to put these two photos as they had different lighting under tone. The tiny faint freckles are basically gone but the really dark ones on my upper lip and on the cheek bone are still obvious. But overall, I'm quite satisfied with this product. But will I buy again? I found another concealer that works better for me so not for now :) (will review the other two concealers soon so stay tuned!)

Purr's Ratings: 7/10 points