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STEP ONE

Scoop a small grape sized amount of the Matte Putty Primer and begin to warm the formula with the tips of your fingers.

STEP TWO

Once you’ve noticed the formula becoming creamier, with your fingers, glide the product onto the affected areas of your face; focusing on areas you want to minimise shine from. Most frequently, areas that reflect the lightest and produce the most oil are the forehead, nose and chin. However, if you’re finding your cheeks needs a little extra attention, feel free to work that area with product too.

STEP THREE

For the best effect; wet the Total Face Sponge and squeeze out any excess water before pumping your desired amount of Flawless Finish Foundation onto the sponge itself. Beginning at the nose, buff the product outwards, whilst pressing the foundation into your skin. The perfect feature of our Total Face Sponge is its diagonal dimension, which give you a super easy way to achieve a quick, full coverage of foundation.

STEP FOUR

Once you’re happy with your foundation coverage, the 16 Hour Camo Concealer is the Matte Putty Primer’s BFF. As the doe foot is large and equipped for great coverage; apply a small oval sized amount under the eyes, on the nose tip, nostrils and chin. Here, you have the option of buffing the product with your fingers, a Concealer Brush or going back in with our Total Face Sponge. Best practice for buffing concealer around the eyes, would be keeping more product under the eyes to rid dark circles, and buffing any excess product onto the eyelids. This ensures that there is great coverage, however you avoid creating maximum creasing around the eyes.

STEP FIVE

To finish this matte look, all you need to use is our Matte Magic Mist & Set by spraying your face from 10cm away! Find this setting spray Online or at KMART.

There we have it, 5 steps to a matte-tastic base! For more tutorials, tips and tricks – join our Beauty-verse Newsletter, where we send out weekly product updates, exclusive promotions + 15% off of your first order.

As we value your feedback, we’ve put the ranking of our products in your hands. Choosing the top three products our customers think everyone should own and love; please welcome our Total Face Brush, Bronzer Brush and Lip Lacquer in Clear.

TOTAL FACE BRUSH

Why we love - slightly tapered bristles to contour the face and help build gorgeous coverage as needed. Great for quick full-face touchups!

Why you love - I bought this brush a while back and I love it! It is my favorite fluffy face brush yet! It’s so soft and I love just running it over my face with my translucent powder. And to be so cheap! I couldn’t believe how amazing it was for this price. Definitely buying again. Wonderful product!! - HGrace17, 5 star review.

BRONZING BRUSH

Why we love - Allows for precision application of blush, bronzer, and all other multipurpose dusts and loose powders. The angled bristles perfectly fit the curves of your cheekbone to expertly define, shape and contour your cheek area.

Why you love - Best affordable bronzing brush on the market! Replaced my high end brushes, and this brush was a dream at blending out my bronzer. Wish I would've found it sooner! - jb9876, 5 star review.

LIP LACQUER IN CLEAR

Why we love - Provides maximum color and brilliant shine, The Vitamin E enriched formula is smooth, comfortable, and moisturizing. Perfect for wearing alone or layered over lipstick for a bold lip statement.

Why you love - Absolutely amazing! Makes your lips look gorgeous and shiny. I would highly recommend this product it is the best lip gloss I have ever used! Love this product, highly recommend, will definitely buy this lip gloss again! [This review was collected as part of a promotion. - Person17, 5 star review.

Want to show us some more love? Let us know your favourites by emailing our team at customerservice@elfcosmetics.com.au so that we can keep on giving you what you want! To enter our beauty-verse, make sure you're signed up to our Newsletter, where keep you up to date on new arrivals first hand, exclusive promos + get 15% off of your first Online Order!

Scrolling through our New Arrivals, you may be thinking ‘How is the Camo Concealer Sponge different to all our other sponges?’ To where the answer is easy! This sponge is specifically designed to work best with our 16 Hour Camo Concealer’s consistency. Plus, the dual ended sides assist with getting into those hard to reach areas, such as the inner corners of your eye and waterline. Furthermore, this makes it super easy to get a seamless coverage around your eyes and create sharp lines for wings or cut creases.
If still, you’re needing extra company - grab our 16 Hour Camo Concealer in our newly released shades!

You may also be wondering which product will give you the best result with our Flawless Finish Foundation. Without further curiosity, you’ll find out that our Total Face Sponge and Domed Stipple Brush are both heroes who will both give you varied effects! To use them together, read below on how you can achieve the most error-free foundation base.
Step 1: When applying foundation, the quickest method is to load your Domed Stipple Brush before buffing the foundation out into your skin. To assist with getting a streak-free base, use circular-type motions with the tip of the brush’s bristles.
Step 2: To get skin-like look to your foundation, wet your Total Face Sponge and squeeze out any excess water. Once you are happy with the dampness of your sponge, begin to press your sponge against your skin. This will not only erase any possible errors but set the foundation into your skin, resulting in longevity of wear.
Voila! Two-stepped, easy, flawless foundation!

Our last beauty-verse lesson for today includes our Blush & Glow Brush Set, who strongly teams up with our Metallic Flare Highlighter and Primer-Infused Blush. As four amazing brushes with multitude of use; the Fan Brush and Highlighter Brush are great bring soft light to your cheekbones, whereas the Flawless Face Brush and Angled Blush Brush work best with Blush and Bronzer.
If you’re wanting to ditch the clown look and aim for a subtle effect, we suggest using less pigment by loading your Flawless Face Brush and tapping off any excess, before dabbing the apples of your cheeks. Or, if you’re wanting to load on and utilising your blush as a feature product, use our Angled Blush Brush with a tapping motion at the apples of the cheek, followed by swiping the brush upwards towards your cheekbones.

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Eyeshadow is best tool to elevate any flawless base. So, during festival season, it’s time to ditch your over worked neutrals and focus heavily on saturated pigments! For our festival line-up, we’re showcasing some killer 18-pan, 12-pan and 7-pan Eyeshadow Palettes, equipped with base, transition and highlight shades for each section of your eye.

In the front row, our star is the 18-Hit Wonders Palette who’s here to deliver matte, satin and shimmer shades designed to inspire the most swatch-worthy looks. The key to getting the best out of this Eyeshadow Palette is by utilising your matte shades inside of the socket with a Fluffy Eye Blending Brush, your satin shades pressed on top of your mobile lid with the Eyeshadow ‘C’ Brush and your shimmer shades added into the corners with your Essentials Concealer Brush.
When planning a colour palette, this 18-pan Eyeshadow Palette is the right choice because you’ll have a rainbow of hues to cover any last minute outfit changes.

Second act is led by our Mad For Matte – Jewel Pop Eyeshadow Palette, best suited for those matte-lovers out there or anyone wanting to leave the sparkling to their outfit. When using this eyeshadow palette, think 80’s colour palette wonderland, ideal for shading and highlighting the eye. As seen in our campaign image using Pantone colour of the year Classic Blue, the 7^th shade from your left is key to giving you major trend pay-off. Using this shade as the foreground and it’s complimentary warm-toned shades in the background, allows Classic Blue to take centre stage. We recommend mixing the 3^rd and 6^th colour to really amplify the contrast between both shades and give some healthy colour back into your skin.

There’s no finishing off our festival set until you see our Chromatic Eyeshadow Palette in Birds of Paradise. These colour coordinated luxe-metal finished pigments are best for the girly-girl who wants to go glam, but be fun. To tailor this eyeshadow palette to a festival look, swipe the 7^th bright pink shade into the above and into your socket as your highlight colour, before transitioning deep into the socket with the 6^th shade. Use the 6^th shade once again at the waterline, to keep cohesiveness. To add glam to this look, the 4^th shade is the perfect shimmer to buff out into the mobile lid before highlighting your inner corner with a fun yellow in the 1^st shade. Want to know the most exciting aspect of this look? You can use this whenever you want during the year and it comes with a brush, perfect for touching up between sets!

Here we are festival babes, 3 key festival faves to suit all of your fashion-forward needs. P.S. don’t forget to tag us on Instagram at @elfcosmeticsau or #elfcosmeticsau , so we can all join in on the fun.

Dancing with Vitamin E is a sure bet to win when it comes to hydration. As an anti-oxidant, Vitamin E is a fat-soluble, essential nutrient with an anti-inflammatory goal to treat skin conditions such as acne, psoriasis and aging effects from the sun. What you’ll find below are our top-picks for your Eyes, Lips and Face that you will benefit from.

At home base – starting with the Face, you can’t miss adding a lightweight Illuminating Primer Mist. With a water-based consistency, this primer is one spritz away from the ‘glass skin’ effect – and holds additional ingredients such as Cucumber, to keep you feeling refreshed for longer.
Not into that dewy finish? The Oil Control Primer Mist bans shine by creating a protective barrier between your pores and make-up. Also infused with Vitamin E, you’ll still reap the benefits from sun induced anti-aging.

Kiss your match hello this season with our Lip Exfoliator. A sugary scrub, with a sweet taste to wipe away any excess skin and leave you revitalized. Just like priming the skin before Foundation, removing any excess off of your Lips is key (like, literally #1) in allowing Lipstick to glide on with ease and retain it’s longevity. Especially if you’re into a Matte Lipstick – you’ll need this!

Feeling puffy? Vitamin E’s anti-inflammatory effect plays a big part when using our Illuminating Eye Cream. With Eye creams being super concentrated, applying a pea sized amount to your finger should do the trick when swiping the cream from your inner corner to underneath the eye. The benefit? Our Illuminating Eye Cream’s Jojoba, Green Tea and Cucumber team up to sooth the skin and remove those unwanted dark circles, giving you a youthful glow!

You’ve wrapped up your regime and are feeling like a winner! Show us by sharing a selfie with our Glow On The Glow Selfie Light! Don’t forget to upload and tag our Instagram Handle @elfcosmeticsau #elfcosmeticau

You Glow Girl!