Rachel Knows... e.l.f. HD Blush!

I don't like these for me. I just don't like bold blush. That being said, if you do love bold blush then you'll appreciate these. The pump bottle is very easy to work with and once you sheer these out they last and last. They're awesomely pigmented, which is hard to come across if that is something you really love in a blush. When I look at these colors I think lip products. I wish e.l.f. would turn these into lip colors because they are just beautiful! The problem child of the bunch for me was Showstopper. As you might be able to tell from the pictures it just wouldn't apply as smoothly and beautifully as the other colors. It wouldn't sheer down well either. I'm not sure if I got a bum bottle or if that is just how that color behaves. In my opinion, I think these blushes are best suited for woman of color. These would show up amazingly on their skin. On my pale, pale skin it just makes me look like a clown. I startled my husband when I was swatching Showstopper because it literally looked like I had a huge, horrible bruised, bloody, carpet burn type thing on my arm. He thought I'd injured myself and that isn't usually a reaction you want to get when you're applying makeup. Ha-ha! I had trouble making these sheer out. I used my finger, so that may have been the problem. I couldn't find my stippling brush, but the blushes just didn't look quite right to me. They looked sort-of patchy and just not smooth. I rubbed and rubbed and even went over them with a tissue to see if that would make it smooth out some and it still just didn't look right in person. I used the teeniest, tiniest dot when I applied it, so I know I didn't use too much. I don't know. In the right hands and on the right skin I can see these looking awesome, but on me it just ain't cutting it.

All of the colors below are sheered down like they would be if you applied it to your cheeks.