 Hi guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel for today's video. We are starting a video like I've never done before. We're gonna do a little bit of a doop hunting here. Now, if you're new here, hi, my name is Morgan. I'm a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all shush about all of the new makeup on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys. And I primarily am a luxury high-end beauty review channel. However, I do love to dip my toes into more affordable makeup because I do love to compare in my videos. I'm not big on dupes. I'm not good at finding dupes. I'm not one of those people that recognizes dupes because I don't know, I'm so, so picky and packaging is so important to me. And I feel like I can really tell the differences in formulation. I'm not good at finding it in dupes, but that's what we're gonna do today because I feel like a lot of elf products remind me of a lot of my favorite high-end and luxury products. So I am going to be doing doop hunting and trying to see how elf products compare to my favorite luxury and high-end products. Now, this video is not sponsored. However, Magic Links, which is one of the affiliate companies that I go through, they did offer to send me an elf gift card and I was like, what cool video could I make? So that's that. We are on the elf website right now. So we're gonna go by category and I do have some elf products already that I know I want to compare that are in my collection because I've never actually compared them side-by-side to a luxury or high-end product, but I want to see if there's any new stuff. So we're gonna go in order. The first one that we have are primers. And now, obviously, the putty primers, you are going to want to compare those to the Tatcha Silk Canvas. Everybody's done that. And I actually want to compare the Jelly Pop Dew Face Primer to one of my other grippy primers. I have that already, so I'm not gonna add it to my basket. So I think we already have the face primer on lock from what I can see. They have a lot of primers though. Lots of primers. I am curious though about this acne-fighting one because your girl got acne, so I'm gonna add that to my cart, but we're not gonna compare that to anything. Also, I went to try this one. I'm gonna be shopping at the same time that we do this. Okay, let's go to Foundation. Now, ELF isn't really known for their foundations. The one that I immediately thought of, of course, was the Camo CC Cream to the IT Cosmetics. I've already done a whole video comparing those two. So we're gonna do a BB Cream, I think. This one actually reminds me a lot of the Clinique. I don't even own the Clinique though. And I definitely want to compare the products to my favorite. So I love the CC Cream, so I think I'm just gonna go ahead and compare these two again in that video. We'll just do another comparison. What does it hurt? Because that IT Cosmetics really is my favorite and this one is pretty much a direct dupe. So I'm gonna reuse those because I just, I have to. Let's move to concealer. So everybody compares the Tarte Shake Tape to the ELF Camo Concealer. So I'm actually gonna compare the Hydrating Camo Concealer to the Tarte Hydrating Shake Tape. So I already have this concealer, but it is not in the right shade. Ooh, light sand, perfect. This is the color that I need. So I'm buying a new color and that's perfect. Concealer is a check. Let's go to powder. I'm doing this in my head by the water that I apply things in and I want to try, let's see. I want to compare to my Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush flawless finishing powder. So we, I don't know if I should do the Prime and Stay finishing powder or the Beautifully Bare Sheer Tint. I feel like this one, lightweight tinted powder, blurs the face like this feels like it claims the same that the Charlotte Tilbury does. But so does this one. We'll do this one. Let's, you know, no, no, no. Let's be interesting. Let's compare the $3 one and some Charlotte Tilbury one. I'm gonna go ahead and do, should I do sheer or light medium? Let's do sheer. So powder is done. I do have a loose powder. I'll see if I want to compare that to anything. I'm going to think it over, but this is the main powder that I wanted to compare. Okay, let's move on to bronzer. And I know exactly what I want to do. This is part of the reason why I wanted to do this video. Elf just came out with a putty bronzer, you guys. So we're going to compare this to one of my creams. I'm going to see what the consistency is like and what I have in my collection. But I think feeling shady looks very, very gray. Let me do tan lines. What are the swatches look like? Maybe honey drip. I'm going to add that and we'll see what the total ends up being. See, is there anything else? That was the main one that I wanted to do. Side note, I love it. They're cream palette. I already have this bronzer. So I think that's what we will compare to. Okay, let's move on to blush. Now I already own the putty blush and I already own the monochrome. I own a lot of the blushes actually now that I'm looking at it. So I think we'll be good on this category. The only thing that I do want to compare though, I want to get another color of the monochrome multi-stick because I feel like there's a lot of products out right now that are comparable to this. And I have one shade, but I want to get another one because I feel like I don't have a color that matches it. So I want something, not glimmering guava. I feel like they're very, very shiny. I want something that's more of a true flat color. Okay, we'll do glimmering guava. That's fine. That looks like I have something close to it. If I can remember at the top of my head, but I think we're good on blush from ELF. Let's look at their highlighters. Now I wasn't sure with highlighters. They have a lot of different formulations and I can't really think right away of what I'm reminded of. Like the jelly highlighter I would want to compare to my Too Faced one that I have, but I decluttered that. So clearly it wasn't that much of a favorite of mine. But I'm thinking that this reminds me the metallic flare highlighter, a lot of my pressed gelay highlighters that I have, like Natasha Denona. So I think we'll compare that. Let me see what colors do I want. We'll do white gold. I'm a fair girl, so. But I also am maybe rose gold looks really pretty. I want the colors to be somewhat similar. So that's why I'm purchasing a couple colors of one product because I want them to kind of match and we'll do setting spray and powders. So let's see. I don't think there's anything in the setting spray that we need. Okay, so I think we're good with the face. Let's move on to eyes. Now eyes is going to be hard for eyeshadows. I wasn't sure really like this clay eyeshadow, it's sold out. So no, no, I do have a couple of liquid glitter eyeshadows. So I might feature that we will see, but I already have them in my collection. I'm not sure. This reminds me of my naked three palette and I love my naked three palette, but I don't know if it's like relevant enough. You know, I'm not looking for dupes color wise for the eyeshadows like these remind me a lot of the Natasha Denona. So I'm going to see if there's a color maybe that reminds me of a Natasha Denona that I have. I don't even remember what colors I have. That's I'm embarrassing. I have this one have this one. Well, you know, I have most of these. So I wouldn't at least get a palette that I haven't tried before. Maybe let's take a look. Okay, I'm actually going to get the new classics eyeshadow palette because I feel like I have some like my ABH palettes. I could compare to this like the sultry soft glam. So we're going to do that. Let's move on to eyebrows next. I think I already have what I want the ultra precise brow and so I'm going to compare that to probably the ABH or the benefit and the wow brow gel. I'm going to compare to what a couple of my favorites have been. Do they have a clear one? I prefer that looks like they don't. So I'm going to pick up the neutral brown shade. So there's a couple products that I use that I love from high end makeup. So I'm going to do that. I have the lash it loud. I think I'm just going to compare that to another mascara. I'm not a big mess. Oh, we'll do the big mood. I feel like I have a mascara in mind that that would work well for eyeliner. My all time favorite gel liner is the Mac painterly paint pot. Do they have they only have it in coffee. They don't have it in black. I can do the pen if I need to. I have a lot of pens that I love. So we'll just do that. We'll do eye primer next and I want to try the glitter primer because I'm big on glitter primers and I think that will be it for eyes. Now let's move on to lips. Do they have lip liner? I have these. They don't really have any good lip liner products. I'm surprised. Okay, let's move on to lipsticks though. I'm going to go with their seriously satin lipsticks and I'm going to see what colors I have could match up. So I'm going to order a couple colors. We're going to get taffy. They're only $3. God, I love elf. Let's do nectar. These look like colors. I would have a lot of taffy. Persimmon looks really fun and throw that in there. Why not? Any other formulas and I'm going to play with these products a little bit first before I decide to do the correct comparisons just because I want to make sure they're at least comparable. These sheer slick lipsticks are really awesome. I'm going to pick up a couple of these because these are very comparable to a lot. The formulas that are popular now, they have very bright shades in these. Like what color should I get? I guess I'll just get the one. I don't even know where to start with these, but the formula is very popular right now. Even in the high-end industry. I think we've covered it. I'm trying to see. Do they not have any glosses? Gloss, okay. Tinted lip oils. Those are very popular right now. I'm going to try one tinted lip oil. The nude kiss. We're basic here. I'm on a lip plumping gloss. Champagne glam. Pink sugar. Oh, we're frozen. I suppose. Anyways, I'm going to stop the shopping at spring right here in like five seconds. The package will have arrived. So thanks for shopping with me. Look what came in the mail. Today, my elf order. I have been winning a week for this guy. Anticipation. It has been killing me and I think waiting and this video honestly requires way more prep than my normal videos. All of that. I've not been this excited for a video in a long time. I have laid everything out on my desk and I have paired products together. I really just want to see how they compare because it's no secret. Like as much as I love my high end and luxury makeup, you can get great makeup at a much more affordable price. So I'm really intrigued. Really excited to see how different they are because while I know how formulations defer from wearing them this time and then the next time, I've never really gone side by side head to head to really see how full face and luxury makeup and high end makeup would compare to elf and I'm really excited. From when I was going through my collection, not all of these items are going to be complete color dupes. I tried to get as close as I could but I'm really more interested in the formulation as opposed to the actual color. So one side might look a little bit different based on color and I'm really paying attention to the formulations. We're going to start off with primer. So ultimately what I decided we're going to do the elf jelly pop do primer on one side. This is $10 and then we are going to compare it to the Urban Decay All Nighter Ultra Glow Face Primer which is $36. So almost four times the price. These have reminded me of each other ever since I started using both of them. They both are this gel consistency. They both are a little bit sticky. They leave the face feeling a little bit tacky. I really like their Urban Decay and I really like the elf. So we'll see side by side how they do. So we're going to start off with my elf and this one smells like watermelons. I love it. The Urban Decay does not smell like watermelon. Honestly, that elf primer is a little bit more expensive than the rest of their line. Okay. So instantly what I can tell you is the elf primer is a little bit more sticky. The Urban Decay is definitely gliding on a lot more easily. It's not tugging at the skin. I'm going to give them both a couple of seconds to set and we'll kind of feel the differences between the tackiness. So yeah, the elf definitely feels more sticky and a little bit less hydrating. The Urban Decay definitely feels smoother. Now, I know everybody compares the Tatcha primer to the elf putty primer since everybody has already done that. I wanted to do something different. That's why I chose those two over the putty primers. We're going to move on to foundation. This is the one category where I think I failed because the easy one to do is the elf CC compared to the cosmetic CC but I already have a whole video on that. So I wanted to do something different. I wanted to do something with the elf flawless satin foundation. So what I noticed the characteristics of this is that it's satin. It's a lighter medium coverage, kind of a middle of the road foundation. It is only $6. So a foundation that I love that's in my collection that I thought had similar characteristics was the Dior Backstage Face and Body Foundation. This is $40. That's a big price difference. $6 versus $40. Now, when I get these on my face, they could be completely different. It's been a while since I've used this one, but I feel like they have similar characteristics. And like I said, I just wanted to see how one applied. Actually, I think I'm going to start doing the high end side first since I'm more familiar with most of these formulas. I will admit though, it's been a hot minute since I've used this Dior foundation. I don't know how similar these are going to be. This was definitely my one fail. Probably put way too much on, didn't I? Now that I have this Dior foundation on, while it is beautiful, which is why I put it in this video, I feel like it's going to be a lot different than the Elf. So these are not dupes, but we're just going to compare them. Elf is on the side. The Dior is a lot more liquidy. This one is a little bit thicker. I'm applying a lot because I applied a lot of the Dior. I'm going to get the clean side of my sponge, push it in. You can see that the color is different. It's fine. Here's what it is. Honestly, the Elf is providing a little bit more coverage than the Dior did. What is a good foundation you think to compare the Elf to? I really like this foundation. I feel like it's underrated. They're six bucks. It's really nice. Okay, so here is the Elf side versus the Dior side. The Dior side is much more glowy, a little bit more natural. We'll see how the wear differs. Again, this comparison is a little bit of a fail, but that's okay. Just in the order that I do things, we are going to go to eyebrows next. I am going to compare the Elf Ultra Precise Brow Pencil. There's lots of options for high end, but I'm going to do a popular one. The Benefit Precisely My Brow Pencil. So the Elf is $5 and the Benefit is $24. That's a big difference just because we go through eyebrow products really quickly. Anyways, even the Benefit goes fast. So you could really be saving a lot of money in the eyebrow department and I'm very familiar with both products, but I just wanted to see how they would compare side by side. I mean, the Benefit is just a solid product all around. You know, you can't beat it. It's been a favorite for years. Okay, we're going to put on the Elf now. I feel like the Benefit applies more pigmentation and more of a precise line, whereas the Elf you do have to push down a little bit harder and it's not quite as precise. Being completely honest, I do just like the Benefit better. I like the way that it's a lot more precise. The Elf is really great though for $5. I would repurchase this when I finish it, but if I'm looking for really hair like strokes, the Benefit is the way to go. Okay, I did also want to do some gel products for the eyebrows. They're both tinted. So the high-end option that I'm going for is a newer option, but I've been loving it. This is the Kosas airbrow and then we are going to compare that to the Elf Wow Brow in neutral brown. Let's see. Let's compare the splees here. One of the things that I love most about the Kosas is the spoolie. They are very similar. You'll see that the Elf has more of a spiral to it. I don't know. We'll see. So the Elf Wow Brow is $4. The Kosas $22. So what I love most about the Kosas is how thick makes my brows look. I really need to trim my eyebrows. I also really like how the Kosas doesn't deposit too much color. I feel like the Kosas was getting into the brows more whereas the spoolie on the Elf isn't grabbing the brows more. So this seems to take control of the eyebrow hairs a little bit better. I will be honest. We'll have to see how it wears but I don't think it's enough to justify the price difference. Very interesting and they both were really good. They didn't deposit too much color and my eyebrows look different. It's not because of the products. It's because of the eyebrows. Eyebrows are different. Okay. This was a comparison that I was really excited for. So I chose to use the Tarte Ultra Creamy Shape Tape. I've been using it a lot recently in preparation for this video to get a real feel for the formula and I want to compare that to the Elf Hydrating Camo Concealer. So a popular comparison has been the Elf Camo Concealer and the Tarte Shape Tape. They both came out with creamy versions. So we are going to test both. Now I have experience with the Hydrating Camo Concealer but the shade that I have is really dark. So I did repurchase a new shade but I think this shade is still too dark. I used to have a light version to mix in with the Elf but the packaging broke so I had to throw it away. Anyways, this guy is $6 from Elf and the price of the Tarte is $29. This is probably the closest price range that we've seen so far. I'm going to just put some right here and some right here. I think that that's the popular TikTok way of doing things, right? I just want to make sure we're applying an even amount of the product. Okay, nice coverage. Let's go into the Elf now. I have mine in the shade Light Sand. Has a little bit more heachiness to it compared to my Tarte which is in light neutral. Okay, a little bit goes a lot farther with the Elf. I might have put just a little bit more on than the Tarte but it's thicker. So it was harder to really control how much came out. I think just for a fair comparison, I do want to put a little bit more of the Tarte on. They both look pretty much the same. I really cannot tell the difference. So that's good. To make everything look a bit more even though, because my face is so much brighter on this side, I'm going to put just a little bit more of the Elf concealer right here just to brighten up the center of my face. That looks better that way. Okay, so these very, very close to each other. We'll have to see how they wear. Ooh, this one I was really curious about. So I picked up the Prime and Stay finishing powder. When I heard the word finishing powder, I stole it in a circular compact. I immediately thought of my all-time favorite Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless finishing powder. So I picked up the shade Fairlight in the Elf. I fear that this is lighter than my Charlotte Tilbury. Let's see. My difference on this is insane. The Elf is $3. The Charlotte Tilbury, $45. I know. So I'm going to use the lightest shade of the Charlotte Tilbury. Let's see how it compares to Fairlight in the Elf. That Elf is much brighter, which in this case works since my foundation is deeper. We'll do my beloved Charlotte Tilbury for... I actually don't really like this powder for setting the under eyes. We're going to use it today for that. Just in the center parts of my face, the areas that crease a lot more. Beautiful as always. Wiped off my brush moment of truth. Let's go into the Elf. This feels a little bit more powdery. Let's get a closer look. The Elf side looks a little bit more dry, but keep in mind that could be due to the actual products underneath, since they are different. I mean, generally speaking, the high end side looks better for me, but not bad. The Charlotte Tilbury feels just a little bit more hydrating, a little bit more creamy, compared to the Elf, but $3 versus $45. You can't beat that. Okay, let's move on. I have a new product. Elf recently came out with their Putty Bronzer. I got mine in the shade Hand Lines. I was looking through my cream bronzers, and the closest shade I could find was the Huda Beauty Tantor in the shade Fair, which is awesome because this is probably my favorite cream bronzer of all time, so it worked out. Here is Fair in the Huda versus Tan Lines. You can see Tan Lines has a little bit more warmth, but they seem to be pretty similar. So the Elf is going to cost you $6. The Tantor is going to cost $30. So let me see the difference in texture. So the Elf is the top swatch. They feel very, very similar. You can see the difference. I would say that the Huda feels a little bit creamier, and the Elf feels a touch greasier. Not in a bad way, but feel like it has a little bit more oil to it, and it has less pigmentation. So let's apply the Tantor first. I like to use it by putting the butt end of my sponge in the product. You can see we have lots of color here. I love this so much. It's my favorite. Then don't forget to get down here. I mean, this product is beautiful. Nothing weird over the powder. I purposefully put powder down first to see if the Elf product would react. That's beautiful. Let me wipe my sponge off so we don't get transferred. Let's go in to the Elf now. Okay. So instantly, a lot less pigmentation, which is not a bad thing at all, but it looks very pretty. Let's take a little bit more building up. That's for sure. So here is the Elf side. Here's the Huda side. So the Huda provides a little bit more coverage, and I think the Elf side has a little bit more of a shine, whereas the Huda, it's not matte, but it's more matte than the Elf, but the colors are pretty spot-on on the face. Wow, that's awesome. Okay, we are going to move on to blush next, and I chose cream blush. Everybody's really into the cream products. I really wanted to see how the Elf monochromatic multi-stick compared to the Newt sticks, Newties bloom all over face color. So these both have kind of the same idea in that you can use them on the lips, on the cheeks, wherever you want. I tried to get the closest colors possible. They're going to look a little bit different on the face. They're just not the same, but the Elf stick is $4. Newt sticks, $34. That's a $30 difference. So I have the shade Glimmering Guava in the Elf, and what's very different about this that I just couldn't replicate is there are some gold reflex in here. I chose the dewy version of the Newt sticks, but the color is different. There's not that gold sheen in here. This is a shade bohemian rose. I mean, they're not very close. I did the best that I could. Instantly, I would say the Newt sticks feels creamier. It has a different finish. These aren't the same product, but I want to see how wear time is different, all of that. So I'm going to take the top of my sponge of the Newt sticks. I'm going to put this right on top. I love these. They are amazing. They really are so multi-purpose. I really only use them on the cheeks, but sometimes I'll use them on the lips just for like a quick balm, you know? That's so pretty. I'll put the elf on top, but it's not going to stay there because I do have some cheap products. Blended beautifully. Looks beautiful. Is a nice sheen. The Glimmering Guava. Honestly, I have another one of these. Let me see if it's closer in shade. I have the shade dazzling peony. Honestly, okay. This one looks a little bit closer. So we're going to use dazzling peony instead and it has less reflex, which is nice. Okay, good. I feel better about doing these side by side now. Here we go. So the color might be different, but I'm just testing the formulations here. So Nude Sticks is giving off more color and a little bit more of a glow. A different kind of glow because the elf has like a reflective kind of glow because of the shimmers in there whereas the Nude Sticks gives you more of a skin-like glow because of the texture. It's a little bit thicker. Okay. So one thing that I'm noticing is the elf is not doing well on top of the powder whereas the Nude Sticks, it was really not that big of a deal. The elf is also looking a bit more greasy on the skin. Oh, it like completely took off the foundation. There's a big difference there. You see this compared to this. That's not very pretty. Going to try and aid it by putting on just a little bit more of the elf foundation but I would say definitely go for the Nude Sticks over the elf as far as cream blush if you're going to use it as a cream blush. So a lot of the foundation came off in this area so I'm just putting a little bit more on. Hopefully it doesn't look too wonky. So I think of everything. This is the one product where I'm like, ooh, the high-end is much better. I'm going to try and put just a touch more of this just to bring the color back to my face but I really am trying not to disrupt anything. Next up, we have highlight. I'm excited for these two but I have this elf highlight which looks like it's a baked gelay formula in the shade Rose Gold. And so I was thinking, what are my favorite high-end like gelay kind of formulas? And I put out the Natasha Denona. I need a nude glow which looks like this. So the elf is going to be $6. Natasha Denona $42. That's a big difference. Now these are not shade dupes. You can see the tones are different. So the elf one you can see has that rosy tone whereas the Natasha has more of a champagne tone. These are the closest I could get in terms of shade to each other but we'll see how it sits on the skin using my blinged brush F17. We're going to start off with the Natasha Denona. Got a good five swipes in there. This is one of my favorite highlights. Really beautiful. Doesn't emphasize the texture of the skin too much. Wiping off my brush. Let's go into the elf now. So the color is going to be a bit different. It's okay. Honestly, I think I'm going to mix it because I bought two colors of these because I think it is a bit deeper. So I'm going to mix in a bit of white gold just to brighten everything up. Okay, so here is the elf side. We have the Natasha side. The elf looks a little bit more metallic whereas the Natasha looks a little bit more one with the skin. So the reflect is a bit different but they look pretty close. I would say, wow, I am impressed. Okay, it is time to get into eyeshadows. This is the one that I struggled with the most besides the foundation as far as finding something close. But I ultimately decided to get to the elf, the new Classics palette, which looks like this. I felt like it had a lot of universal colors which would be in a lot of my high-end palettes. So this is $14 and it looks really great and wearable. I've been wanting this one anyways so I was excited to have a reason to purchase it. And one of my favorite palettes that I felt like had a lot of similar shades was the Scott Barnes Snatchel Palette. I was going back and forth between the Scott Barnes and a couple of my ABH palettes but I wanted a palette that had a lot of options. So it's not dupe for dupe color story-wise but there are a lot of similar shades. So especially the mattes here, I feel like are repetitive and there are some shimmers that are very comparable as well. The Scott Barnes has shimmers that pull more warm compared to the elf. Anything, honestly, I might like the elf color story better but I'm trying to get as close of a look as possible without looking like a maniac. So I thought that these two would be good. Like I said, the elf is $14. Scott Barnes over here, $84. So that's almost eight times the price. Didn't get an eye primer. So to keep it fair to really see how the eyeshadows wear, I'm just going to use the makeup by Mario base on both eyes. I'm going to go color by color on each eye just to make sure we can get them as close as possible to each other. Side note, if you are interested in getting this, I don't really recommend it. Okay, I'm going to use Vintage from Scott Barnes on this eye. This is our transition color. That looks probably going to be really simple. This is the perfect time to pull out my Odin's eye brush cleaner. Okay, and then I thought truffle right here looked really close to that shade. Elf kind of has more pigment. Here's your look at that. We're going to deepen up with foxy right here. Pop it right in the outer corner, blend it. Then darling looks a bit warm for that shade. So I'm going to go like two in darling and then like I did three in darling and then two in earth to kind of neutralize. Oh, yeah, that's a nice match. And I'm editing it out, but I am going in with my brush cleaner before I touch each eye because I'm just going back and forth to really try and get them as even as possible. I'm going to take some of Woody. This is going right along my lower lash line. I think we're going to go pretty smoky down here. You'll notice the shade was extremely pigmented. I'm going to try and blend it out a little bit. I'm going to go in with earth just earth this time. The shade is also extremely pigmented. I will say I do feel like the Scott Barnes is blending out a touch more seamlessly. But I mean, if you have a little bit of skill in eyeshadow, I think you'll be okay. I'm going to go in with temptation down here. Really focus this in the outer corner, outer V area that beautiful. And in the elf, I'm going to go into Muse and like dot once in Noir because it is a touch darker in the Scott Barnes palette. But with that little bit of the dot in the black, you see how that made everything match. Honestly, I feel like these palettes, as far as the mats go, have the same level of pigmentation, which is awesome. I go in with a clean brush and blend out these edges. I'm looking into the shimmers now to see what we have that is close. The textures and finishes do seem to be different just because Scott Barnes has a little bit more reflect in it. It looks prettier, whereas the elf is a little bit more of like a plain kind of shimmer. So what to amp it up? We are going to use some glitter glue. Now, elf does have a glitter glue, which I did not know. Their glitter primer is only $3. And then I have the Too Faced Shadow Insurance Glitter Glue that is $24. $3 versus $24. So the shades that I think I'm going to compare are rose gold from the elf palette. I'm comparing that to starlit in the Scott Barnes palette because they're similar finishes, but they aren't similar colors. You can see the difference there, but I didn't think it would be fair to use one of the prettier Scott Barnes glittery colors. And I have to say the elf seems a little bit more pigmented than the Scott Barnes. Now, I will say where the Scott Barnes palette is superior is the fact that it does have those more multi-dimensional shades. But quite frankly, the elf just does not have. But is it enough to justify like $70? Probably not. Okay. So the elf glitter glue is a lot more liquidy. It's a little bit more difficult to control. I'm going to go into rose gold right here. And I don't know that it's really grabbing on to this shadow that well. A gray glitter primer from the drugstore is NYX. That one you really can't tell too much of a difference between the Too Faced. Really pretty. Okay. I'm going to use the Too Faced now. Yeah. The Too Faced is not as liquidy, so it's a little bit easier to manipulate because I feel like with glitter glue, you want to put it in a certain spot because you don't want shadow to stick where you don't want it to stick. So the Too Faced is definitely easier to work out. Obviously the shades are different, but I do prefer the elf shimmer to the Scott Barnes. However, the glittery shades down here are prettier than what you're going to get in the elf. I'm going to mix in a little bit of Hollywood incisorin on this eye just to try and get a closer match to both eyes. So it's going to have a little bit more dimension now, but I just want to get them to be a closer match. So siren actually, I'm blending into it. And then you can instantly see that this eye is more multi-dimensional. And I know it looks crazy. I'm going to mix them. All right, you guys. So honestly, I mean, here's the truth. If you're a regular on my channel, I call myself an eyeshadow snob. For me, since I love eyeshadow so much, I am okay with paying more for a better formulation. The Scott Barnes, it's blending easier. I think the shimmers are prettier except for that starlet shade that I put on my lid. The elf shimmers are really, really nice, but the elf is a great, great palette to have, especially this one with this color story. I do notice a difference in quality, but is it enough to justify $70 for most people? Probably not unless you're a true makeup enthusiast like myself and you really love high-end luxury makeup. I don't think for the average person it is enough to justify the price difference between the two. I can tell the difference. The Scott Barnes is better, but it's not miles better. So take with that, what you will. The looks look pretty close. Not exact, but pretty close. Let's move on it to eyeliner. So I have my Charlotte Tilbury, the Feline Flake. It's a really great felt tip liner. This is $30 and I'm gonna try the elf H2O-proof eyeliner pen in the shade of Jet Black. This one is $6. So we have $6 versus $36. Let me compare the tips for you. Pretty close. You can see the Charlotte Tilbury is just a bit longer. Let me throw on my Charlotte Tilbury really quickly. Beautiful. Okay, let's try the elf. Now I have had experience with elf eyeliners in the past. I haven't been the biggest fan of them, but I've never tried this. I'm like, I don't know which way to hold the mirror. Here we go. Eyeliner is something that I don't mess with. There are a lot of really bad eyeliners on the market that I've tried and I will pay whatever it takes to have a good liner because you look terrible if you're wearing a bad liner. Charlotte Tilbury has a little bit more flexibility in the felt tip, which doesn't really matter, but as far as the product, the Charlotte Tilbury is much more black to the elf and there's more product that comes out with the Charlotte Tilbury, making it more easy to use. However, this eyeliner from elf, as long as it holds up, is a nice eyeliner for $6. This is one of the better drugstore eyeliners that I've tried. It's not quite black enough for me. Charlotte Tilbury just, it's better and since I think an eyeliner is so important, I'm gonna spend the $30, but if an eyeliner is good, it doesn't matter the price to me. I'll spend $6. I'll spend $30. There's a Maybelline eyeliner that I think is a bit better than this one, but the elf is really good in a pinch. So I really like this. I did get mascaras. I've said this before, I'm not the best to judge mascaras but I picked these up kind of last second. So I chose the elf big mood mascara. I wasn't sure exactly which one I was gonna compare this to at the time that I purchased it, but it looked big. It looked like a big fat brush and I felt like I had some mascaras that were similar. I don't wanna open up new mascaras because I do have mascaras that are definitely comparable to this. So the closest wand I could find was the Pat McGrath Labs Dark Star mascara along with this being one of my favorite mascaras. So we're just gonna compare these two. I normally don't like mascaras on first use. This is not the first use. So it's gonna be hard to compare these two but let me show you the wand differences. So they both have an hourglass wand but you will see the elf definitely has a fatter wand. Like I said, this was the closest, the closest I could do. I'm gonna go off camera and do this because otherwise we're gonna miss in here for an hour. Okay, this elf mascara, it's not my favorite. It's a little bit too wet. It's not separating my lashes. I'm not going to knock this out yet just because I feel like if it dried a little bit I would like it more but the wand is also a bit too big for my preference. So this is just not the mascara for me. However, you might like it. Again, I don't like to review mascaras because I just, I don't have good lashes. I'm gonna put on false lashes. They're gonna be the same lashes. I know elf does have lashes but I don't like them in general. So I'm gonna pop on my falsies and I will be back. Lashes are on. Eyes are looking more similar. So we're gonna move on to lips and elf didn't really have the biggest selection of lip liners. They had one kit that contained four lip liners and a lip gloss for only $10. So I have that kit. So I picked one of the lip liners, which is $3. I averaged it out technically $2. Probably would have been the price but anyways, it was a set. We're gonna say this lip liner was $3. I guess I'm using the elf side first for this. I've used both a lot. So this is a really good lip liner by the way. I like how it's a little bit more stiff. Like it's still creamy but you have some control. And I'm gonna compare that to my favorite Pat McGrath Labs lip liner in contour. This is $28. Do I pay that much for a lip liner? Oh my goodness. This glides on a lot easier. And I would say if I didn't know already how the Pat McGrath wore, I would tell you I actually liked the elf better. But here's the thing with Pat McGrath. This is a rare braid. This is a formula that is so creamy to apply but it doesn't budge. I've used both of these. The Pat lasts longer. It's more creamy. But the elf lip liners don't sleep on them. I wish they would come out with more and you could buy them in more than just a set because elf in general has a really nice lip liner formula. We're gonna do a lipstick now. These are not the same color. I tried, I just watched a billion lip colors. So I'm gonna compare the elf satin lipstick which is $3 to my favorite lipstick formula the Natasha Denona I Need a Nude Lipstick line. This is $25. $3, $25. You could buy like three, six, nine, 12, 15, 18. Eight lipsticks for the price of one Natasha Denona but the Natasha Denona formula can't be beat. This is the shade Andrea. It's like a nude color and I'm comparing it to the shade cream from elf which is a little bit more pinky but close enough. So the Natasha formula, it's creamier. It's my all-time favorite lipstick formula. I'm more partial to Natasha Denona but $3 for the elf. It's really, really good. This is a nice formula. And our last comparison is lip gloss. The colors aren't that close but I do have the elf lip lacquer for $3 comparing it to my Fenty Gloss that is $19. I have the cream lip gloss in Fenty Glow which is a little bit more of a pink. Just putting that right on top. One of the best formulations. The problem with this video that's making it hard is I'm picking my absolute favorite formulas and the elf just isn't matching up. So this lip lacquer is in the shade Wild Rose. It's a different color all around. It's not as creamy. It's not as shiny but it's a solid lip gloss formula. It's fine but you can see that difference in shine there and the Fenty definitely feels more hydrating. All right, you guys. That was everything. I take one last look at the difference between my elf side and my high end side. I can tell you now just by looking the high end side particularly the skin looks a lot better. I think what really messed us up was the stick because it looks really dry and my under eyes do not look good on this side and I think it's more so to do with the powder and a little bit with the concealer but I think it's more the powder but I mean you can even see on camera. The high end side is visibly more blurred, more smooth. I much prefer it. That's for sure. However, when I tell you the price of everything you're going to be like you might want to go for elf. So the price of elf, everything that I use today only $89 under $100 for the full face. The price of the high end luxury side $542. Not quite but almost a $500 difference. Is it worth it to you? So I want to finish off this video and I will do a little bit of a wear time update after this but I want to finish off by telling you what the best products from elf are that really do compare to my high end favorites. I think eyebrows, you know, if there's one area in high end that you should save on it's going to be eyebrows, the elf eyebrow pencils and the gel did a fabulous job. Depending on how it wears I think the elf putty bronzer put up a good fight against the hood of Tantor. Again, I do think the Tantor is better but the actual finish very very close looks really good. The highlights, very very similar on the face. It hurts me to admit this but the eyeshadow pellets also very close in quality. I will say elf quality is not my favorite especially when you get more into the colorful tones but as far as just these neutrals, the elf did a great job. Normally neutrals are easier to formulate so that's what I'm assuming. So when it comes to neutral shades, the elf is really good. It puts up a fight. Again, prefer the high end formulas if you have the money but if you don't have the money or you're looking to save, elf is a good alternative. Eyeliner really impressed me from elf. There are some bad eyeliners from elf but so far I really like this one. Lip liner puts up a good battle as does the lipstick. So as far as what you need to stay away from that you just can't replace with high end I will be honest, I much prefer the Urban Decay primer. It just feels better on the skin. I don't think the foundation was a fair battle so I'm just going to leave it at that. I mean the high end side looks better but they were different products. The concealer, I much prefer the Tarte. The elf is good and a lot of people love it but the Tarte just looks smoother and it's wearing better. So that's the main difference and I mean the $3 versus the $45 powder. I mean my skin looks completely different. This is one product that I would say I know it's a huge huge huge difference but the Charlotte Tilbury is worth the difference from what I'm seeing on my skin. It's so blurring. It's so perfecting. I mean this was a disaster. Nude sticks all the way. This broke up my foundation. It did not look good. While I don't think you need the two face primer I really am not a fan of the elf glitter primer really. I would suggest NYX if you're looking for something more affordable. You know I wasn't the biggest fan of the mascara but I don't want to compare that because it's a brand new one but I mean yeah that's pretty much it. For the most part I think elf put up a good battle for sure and I'm quite impressed. I'm going to insert it to my wear test here and then I will finish with my outro. Oh my gosh I can't believe what a grease ball I look like right now. Okay I actually don't look this greasy in person. I'm just sitting in front of a really strong ring light that's bouncing off my skin but let's take a close look. I have worn the makeup for nine hours so this is a really long time at no touch ups. I mean you can tell me if you think it looks any different. I'm going to say the high end side. I mean these are all of my favorite products. It looks better. I'm much happier with the skin especially along the under eyes here. I'm not sure if it was the concealer, the powder or because I had to go over the powder with more foundation because of this cheek mess up but something here wasn't working. You can see that the Scott Barnes eyeshadow is longer wearing than the elf. The elf faded just a bit but now see the foundation picked up over here. The highlight looks super bomb though. That highlight is really comparable. I'm very happy with that. Overall, I mean throughout the day the high end side was looking better but that's the way it should be. It was five times the price but my takeaway from this video really is and I mean I knew this before but hopefully what you can take away from this is it is okay to buy affordable makeup. You can definitely make it work. This side being $89 and this side being 540. It doesn't look like that big of a difference on the skin. The only person who really can notice it is me because I'm looking in a mirror and then you guys because you are looking in this very HD camera but from afar it really is hard to tell. So don't feel bad about missing out on the high end makeup but of course you guys know I'm a proponent of buy what you want. Buy what makes you happy. These are the facts about the products for. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. That is the end of my rare test. So that is all I have for today's video. I hope you guys had as much fun as me. I've been thinking about this video a lot. It's different from what I've ever done before. It's a lot of work but it was a good time. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. And we'll see you all in the next one. Bye guys. Have a good one.