Try it Again Tuesday: ELF Eye Shadow Duos

Today's try it again products are the ELF eye shadow duos. When I bought my duos I tried to get both the cream and powder ones in the same shades. Last week I shopped my stash for my duos in the shade Mocha Swirl.

L-R Lightest cream and powder Darkest powder and cream. Top of each swatch has primer.

I do still really like these duos, they come in such a great selection of colors and for $1 each you can't go wrong. In the Mocha Swirl duo, the lightest shade is really light on the eye, using eye primer does help to make the color look a little brighter. The darker shade of the two is very pigmented and is great for a crease color.

Today I used the lightest shade from the cream duo, then used the darker shade from the powder in my crease and the lighter shade from the powder for my highlight. I really like the look I was able to achieve. I did have some creasing issues with the cream shadow, but when I just wore the powder shadows last week, they did not crease on me.

As with all ELF products they are hit and miss, for me these two duos were hits. Not really sure why I quit using them in the first place. I am going to try harder to reach for these more often.

Have you re-tried any product lately?

Try it Again Tuesday

When I originally started this series, if you want to call it that, the idea I had in my head was makeup products that I have tried and then kind of forgot about them and then rediscovered them. Then today as I was doing my nails, I thought this could go for looks that I've tried, but they didn't come of quite the way I wanted them too.

So with that being said, today's try it again Tuesday is milky glitter nails! I tired this last week, but I didn't have the right kind of milky polish to pull this look off, so I picked up a bottle of Wet n Wild's Megalast polish in 2% and here is the look I got with my second attempt.

I first applied two coats of 2%, one coat was just too sheer for me since it was my base color. I then used a makeup sponge to apply my glitter polish, which was Trust Fund Baby by Spoiled. Then I added 2 more layers of 2%, one coat didn't make it look milky enough in my opinion. I am much more satisfied with the results this time.

Try it Again Tuesday: ELF Conditioning Lip Balm

I have been digging down in my makeup and using products that I have not used in a while. This week I've been re-trying the ELF Conditioning Lip Balm with SPF15 and I remembered why I quit using it in the first place. I have one in Peaceful Pink and one in Nice & Natural. I think these lip balms are a tad on the sticky side while they are on your finger,

Try it Again Tuesday's

I'm sure, like me, a lot of you have bought a beauty product and it somehow found itself shoved to the back of a shelf or the bottom of a drawer either because you forgot about it or it was something that you didn't really liked the first time you tired it. This happens to me often so I thought I would try these products again and see if my opinion on them had changed or to remember why I liked them to start with. This may become a weekly or bi-weekly post :)

So this Tuesday I have two products, one that got shoved to the back of a shelf because I didn't like it a lot the first time I tried it and one that I simply forgot that I had.