I am partial to cream foundations. I think they give a more skin-light finish and you can usually adjust their coverage from light to full by tweeking your method of application. So, I was VERY interested in what E.L.F. had come up with with their HD Mattifying Cream Foundation.
I got the lightest (Porcelain) of the six shades they offer. Here are ELF's official shade swatches from their instragram.
So I'll just get right down to it. I'm pretty impressed. This foundation is really easy to apply and blend. I usually sheer it out a bit with a dampened brush to get a more natural look for every day wear, but it looks good straight up too. I HIGHLY recommend setting it with a translucent powder. This will help prevent slippage and creasing. I tried ELF's HD powder, Rimmel's Stay Matte Pressed Powder, and the Sephora Collection Smoothing Setting Powder. It looked great every time. Just be sure not to go overboard with the powder ladies. It's better to have to touch up a bit later on than to cake that stuff on and look a powdery mess!
This does begin to fade after several hours of wear. It faded evenly on me though, not all splotchy.
If you've got oily skin I suggest you use an oil control primer with this as well as a setting powder. Most oily skinned girls I know stay away from cream foundations all together though.
The packaging on this one is nice too. Well done ELF! It's black, sleak and comes with a nice mirror.
Hmm.... anything else? It's $6, but you probably already knew that.
That about covers it. Have you tried it out yet? What do you think?
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