 Here we are. This is the best of the best from elf cosmetics This is what I have found through the years that are just Absolutely tried and true products from elf cosmetics elf for me is a brand that they really have stepped up their game They are trying so hard to think outside of the box and still bring us affordable makeup And I think that is just so fantastic Now I'm sure that not all of my picks will be your picks if you guys have some elf products That I don't mention here that you just swear by please leave that in the comment section because I'd love to hear those from you And please give this video a thumbs up if you like seeing the best of the best from different makeup brands because I do enjoy bringing those To you because I test out so much so that you don't have too lots of times and always try to remember when I do these videos It's just to inform you. I'm not like saying you have to run out and get these products I know that we're all living through very very difficult times right now I just want to be able to bring you good content so that you guys can kind of take your minds off of What's going on and be a little bit distracted and so I thought this would be a really good way to bring you something That was very affordable and that were my loves from this brand So we're going to get into my very favorite best of the best products from elf cosmetics right now So I'm going to start off with elves Eyeshadows now, I think that they are something next level now I am not talking about elf used to have like these have the little Duo, I think there was duos and then they had the 10-pan ones that were longer This is their new formulas that I'm talking about this palette right here Which is earth and ocean and it came out I don't know a little bit ago And then they have one that I haven't tried yet that I really want to and if you guys have seen that I think it's something about the chocolates or something if you guys have seen that and like it let me know This one is so cool as far as all of these really cool tones over here Then you got your really warm ones over here and just absolutely blends so good together The only one that I've had any sort of a problem with is this one right here, which is a silver It's a little bit more chunky, but I even can make it work with using Some setting spray on a brush or on my finger and then going into it I can still make it work But I kind of have a tendency to go into these other ones because honestly you guys they are just So beautiful and so pigmented and even these ones like this one right here is a matte and holy moly you guys They're so good Blends so well and they just are ones that I have been dipping into like crazy and I love this palette this particular palette just speaks my name because it has all those colors that I can play with But it still has the very Neutral or just basic colors that you can go into and pick up and really get a lot of use out of two And then we have these new little babies that just came out not very long ago and you guys Everybody is just going crazy for them and there's a reason they're really good I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on them, but if you find a color that you really like I would say go for it My favorite one right now is the truffles one Because it does have that color that I love to put on my lid and then it has more of the almost cool tones over here But you do have that one basic tan brown color right there. That's such a pretty color on the eyes I just think these are so gorgeous great for travel So they're like three dollars a piece and wow you just can't go wrong because you you know throw it in your purse You have something that you can travel with this one is called rose Rose water and I just think that they're so good They've just done a really great job on the formula in here really highly pigmented. It just is a really good formula you guys I don't think you're gonna be disappointed with any of those that you pick up and they're all over the place right now So I just wanted to throw in my two cents and say yeah, they're pretty good The next thing I'm gonna talk about is their primers now The the original primer that they came out with was the mineral primer And that one is a straight-on dupe for Smashbox original photo focus. I think it's no photo focus is wet and wild photo finish Primer so definitely take a look at those. I have right now the poreless face primer Which honestly you guys this is a pretty darn close dupe for the hourglass one Their veil mineral face primer so close. It's very silky goes on very Just soft and it gives you that really really poreless look on your skin But their putty primer that is the dupe for the tacha. This one is my favorite for my dry skin It just feels different on my skin It just feels like it has a little bit more hydrating factor to it But it has enough of the silicone or the dimethicone that it really just makes my pores look Just flawless and finished without you know making me too matte So this one is probably my number one, but you guys if you have any other concerns, you know They they do have an acne control one and they have that other mineral one that I would Highly recommend and I know that they do have a hydrating one I haven't tried that but at every single one of these in this bottle like this that I've tried I've loved I do have the luminous one in the poreless putty Which I don't like as much as the original but so these are my two picks for their primers So good can't go wrong with elf primers Also, one of the things that I talked about years ago when my channel very first started was their makeup mist and set from elf I like this one for really setting my makeup in the summer when it's a little bit more humid and I'm a little bit more You know having my little menopausal power surges that I get occasionally But they do have an illuminating one too that I haven't tried yet So if you guys have tried the illuminating one give me some feedback on this but this one I've been using for years and years I'll go out and I'll look for other ones and I'll try other ones and I like them and then I come back to the elf one Especially during the summer I shouldn't say that I use this during the winter when the dry heat is on and the air is so air It's so dry. I don't use this in the winter, but in the summer. I definitely use this one So that's been a staple of mine for a really long time And then I very recently in another video talked about this little quad right here Which is the contour palette from elf and I love this contour palette for so many reasons number one I got a lot of comments from you guys saying I didn't know that you could pop out those little pans on those You can you could take these little pans from any of these elf quads And you can just pop them out and then you pop them back in and then you can have yourself your own Little customized palette they have several of these out and I'll show you in a second what I'm talking about But what I love about this is that contour color that contour color right there is one of the best contour colors I've ever found it is deep enough that you can you know really carve out a cheekbone or you know kind of hide the high Forehead or the chin or whatever you're doing But it doesn't have so much orange in it that it's going to look like you've got a streak of orange instead of just a Re-seeing contour color. I also love the other colors in here This one is more along the lines of a bronzer color This one is more along the lines of a highlighting color and then just a regular like banana powder, which I really love This is a powder that if it this is in my purse and I don't have powder and I need to touch up That powder will do me every time and actually if I just mix the two of them together I almost have something like the Milani prep set and glow that everybody is going that's over right now Which most of us have been using for years But if you just swirl between the two you really have something like that You can touch up with it too. So love the elf contour palette. This is probably my third one Maybe I don't know something like that, but they also have this total face palette and you're gonna see okay I took one of them out and this was another one that I had another one of the contour colors that I had from another Palette and then I just use these ones over here. So this is a really super light blush if you're medium to deep skin tone This is not gonna work for you. This works for me in the winter and then you have like just kind of almost I'm gonna say it. It's almost an hourglass powder you guys and then this one is supposed to be the bronzing color So this is a really super light palette But if you like hourglass powders and I don't even remember what goes over here because it's been a while since I switched this out But if you really like hourglass powders the ambient lighting powders and you swirled in all four of those From the original one you really have really close powder to that in texture in The the quality of it the blendability of it how it just doesn't show any texture whatsoever And it just gives the most beautiful look across your face and again This is the total face palette and like I said you can switch those out. That's what that is as I've switched one out So definitely, you know look into these palettes I think they've gotten lost after time in the shuffle of you know We get so much going on with makeup releases But I love these little palettes and I will continue to purchase them and I hope they never discontinue them Okay, two powders that I want to talk about first of all if you are an oily skin gal the perfect finish HD powder This one is fabulous If you love the it cosmetics by by porous powder This one is almost along the same exact lines as that it has such a pretty texture when you delve into it With your finger and then when you put it across to your face if you are oily through any of these breakthrough areas It's going to help you with that oil and keep that oil at bay also poor refining Fantastic, but as far as it just being a good powder you guys when I stick my finger in there I feel like that is a super high-end powder and a wonderful compact and they did a really great job on the way They did it I've since lost my little puff that goes in there But I love that you can throw that in your purse and you have that little puff and you can use it Just as a touch-up powder through the day as well as this one Which is the sheer tint finishing powder and they again took their cue or per se This is the fair light one. They took their cue from the it cosmetics line You guys this is the powder that I use almost daily. I really love this powder It is such a good powder for blurring out my mature skin my pores my texture all of that It just makes my skin my skin look finished and my makeup set down so nicely And it's not drying as drying as the one that is the HD powder So if you have oily skin, you're gonna probably really love this one But if you have dry skin like I do this is a great one now as far as their loose powders I'm not crazy about those I have found that they just dry me out so bad and even some of my Oilier skin gals that I've talked to have said that that powder doesn't work that well for them either Either really like it or you really don't but these two powders right here The sheer tint finishing powder and the HD powder are so good And it got it has both of us covered whether we're dry skin or whether we're oily So somewhere in between just pick your whether you want a little bit of extra finish or whether you just want that Translucence that the HD finishing powder would have just as a regular powder I want to mention two of my workhorse brushes These are brushes that I use every single day no matter what I'm doing no matter what makeup I'm using these two brushes come out and it's the elf small stipple brush I love this brush because it is small enough that I can do all of my precision work And that is usually to carve out my cheekbone So I stipple across my contour right here along where I'm getting a saggy gel and you know on the chin Right here, and I just stipple it out and the stippling motion seems to be so much better for me Then the brushing because wherever I brush it has a tendency to write the first place I laid it to be a ton of color and then I have a hard time blending I don't have a problem with that with this and I was turned on to this by Emily Noel Probably six seven years ago, and I love this thing. It's such a good little brush I think it's like three or four dollars. So can't go wrong with that and then this brush I discovered last year. This is my favorite powder brush that I have This is just a large. Let's see if I can read this on here Just says powder brush elf powder brush, but I love this It is a dupe for one that I have that I got from it cosmetics that costs a ton more Probably triple more or more this one I think it's $12 and the one that I have from it cosmetics I believe is in the 30 to $35 range so this one is so soft and so nice and I could not have and my elf favorites or my the best of the best in elf without having this brush in there because It's in my hand every single day to do my makeup. I just love this thing There's a couple of new things that I picked up from elf that I'm really impressed with And I want to tell you about them right now and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on them But I really do like them and think they're beautiful. This is the lip plumping gloss I just think this is so pretty. This is all I have on today along with a lip liner And it's a sheer gloss with a little bit of iridescence in it And I just think it's so pretty and it does the same effect on my lips that the buxom do It's not quite as intense as the buxom, but it still has that, you know that little bit of that Menthol or eucalyptus or whatever it is in there camp for whatever it is in there That gives you that cooling effect that you get and I really do like those and the colors are really pretty on that This one I really like from elf too. This is a multitasking stick So you can use this on your cheeks. You can use this on your lips Whatever your eyes, whatever you want to use it on this is such a creamy blush And that's what I have on today you guys. I just have really fallen in love with this It's got a great texture. It clings to my cheeks all day long So I don't have a bunch of fading during the day and when I use a stipple brush I don't ever use my cream products without using a stipple brush It just goes on just gorgeous and I don't feel like it's hard to blend out And I love the texture of it. It doesn't show up any of my mature skins texture Which I like about it too and this color is sparkling rose and when it says it's sparkling rose You would think that it has some sort of shimmer in it. It doesn't really I think it just Has a beautiful satin effect on my skin. So really really enjoying that one And then everybody went nuts. So over the original elf concealer and this one that is the hydrating one I am now over the moon in love with this. This is what I'm wearing almost every day right now And I just really like it. I like the way that it sets down I'm going to just put a tiny bit on this little beauty blender that I'm using right here and And kind of just do that a little bit But I like the color of it the color of it is really good And I like how well it blends out and I'm just going to just kind of show that to you really quickly Right here and you can see you'll see the difference between my two eyes because this is just kind of a touch-up After having it on I've been in front of these lights filming for a while So after that happens, I feel like my makeup starts to melt But isn't that pretty on the difference in those two eyes just really really pretty So I'm just going to put a little bit more over here from the same Amount that I took originally. I just feel like it's a really good concealer for somebody that has dry mature crepey under eyes And you do have to set this though I do anyway because when I get a Hot flash I'm finding that I really have to do something in order to be able to keep this from not increasing Or anything like that But I love it because it's super hydrating and my under eyes are such a dry area on my face And I struggle with them all the time So I like this one so much better than the original because the original just made me look like a dried out Cakey mess and I couldn't do that. So my last three products are products that came out fairly recently I would say they probably came out last year maybe in 2018 But it is the primer infused bronzer the primer infused blush And then their new highlight that they have I have shown this in my favorite blushes from the drug store before because you guys This is so creamy. I every time I stick my finger in there. I'm like, whoa This is such a nice blush and because it has the primer It just really hugs your cheeks and it's going to stay there all day and on elf's website Not like on ulta. I think they only have four colors at walmart I think they only have two colors But on the elf website, they do have like eight colors and then they just came out with some shimmering ones too So i'm going to actually try those shimmering ones out for you guys and see what I think about them You guys might have more where you're at But as far as where I'm at there really isn't that many this one is in sun kissed. It's the bronzer It's the lighter one. I really do appreciate this one again because of the primer infused and it doesn't like go Bam, it's a bronzer You know sometimes when I get a bronzer and my fair fair skin and I go ahead and try to put it on It's just not going to blend in well enough and it's gonna all of a sudden just make me look super orange And that's not what this does. It's just really pretty you can blend it out Buff it out. It's really soft and again, it's that primer infused formula so that you can You know have it on all day It just doesn't mess with any of the other makeup Actually, if you have that blush and the bronzer on during the day and you have a really crappy foundation on You're going to find that your blush and bronzer look great, but your foundation is melted away So I really do love both of those and by the way This one is always rosy on the actual blush and I wanted to make sure I told you guys that The last product is the highlighter and I have been absolutely in love with these new highlighters. They're so pretty you guys I think they only have a couple of colors right now. Maybe online. They have more Um, I will look into that, but I really do love this I think it's so pretty and so beaming and for me It doesn't show up a lot of texture because when I use highlighter I only use it right there and I don't really use it anywhere else I don't buff it all over my face if I'm going to use some sort of a highlighter all over my face It's going to be the essence pure nude. That's really a very soft one Because on my mature skin if I get crazy with the highlighter, I'm going to be in trouble So I really have loved using this one. I think that it's one that is just Gorgeous on the cheeks. It can be built up and I just think that it's one of those ones that Everybody can wear and everybody can love so that highlighter is our standout product So those are my favorites from elf the ones that have stood out to me and a lot of them have stood the test of time And a few of them are brand new, but I can tell you right now that they are awesome products So I hope that you did enjoy this video. Please give it a thumbs up. I hope you all are hanging in there I know that it's tough right now. Please take care of yourselves. Thank you so much for spending a bit of your day with me I love you so much and I'll see you in my next video. Bye guys