e.l.f Baked Bronzer

I love my bronzer and feel like I could never have enough, so when I spotted this on sale decided to give elf's baked bronzer a go. I have this in 'Los Cabos' which is one of the darker shades as although I have a light to medium skin tone in winter, I tan easily in warmer months and wanted something that would help me achieve a more sunkissed glow.

Compared to my elf Contouring Blush and Bronzer Duo which I found very pigmented I found their baked bronzer to be more lightly pigmented. I apply this using an angled blush brush and found I had to build up the colour quite a bit but once achieved I found it gave me a lovely, healthy looking glow. There's quite a sheen to this bronzer, less of the shimmer I had to others I have tried but I still find it does leave a bit of a sheen on the skin although this finish does work for this product.

Even though it's a darker shade for elf, I found this is better more for an all-over use as it gave me a nice sunkissed look, but didn't work so well for contouring.

I think at the price it's a pretty good buy, I wouldn't repurchase myself though purely because I do prefer a more pigmented bronzer but I think this is great for someone wanting something basic or for a beginner.

This is good if your looking for a back up product when you've run out of your staple product. Its ok to use but you need to use a lot of product to get good colour pay off otherwise it dissapears into your skin and other make up quite quickly. The packaging is flimsy and you wouldnt want it stored by your bigger bulky products as it could break. Super affordable though and would reccomend for anyone trying out make up for the first time. Lasting power during the day, again, was ok but still couldnt see much of it left after the end of the working day.

I purchased this bronzer in St Lucia. As I have fair skin, I find it hard to wear bronzer without it looking too orange. This is the perfect bronzer colour for me! It is a nice brown and perfect to wear just below my blush to contour my cheeks. Unfortunately, it is so baked I struggle to pick it up with a brush! When I use my finger to swatch there is no problem with the product but I just struggle to pick up the baked texture with a brush. For this reason, I would not repurchase.

Not all affordable beauty buys are winners and unfortunately this bronzer is no winner. I bought Maui from the ELF website for $NZD3.00 during their 50% off sale. I absolutely love small makeup items because they're lighter, take up little space and they're easier to travel with so to have a bronzer that is of a similar size and packaging as their baked highlighter was an added bonus to me.

I recommend people to read the product details because I didn't, so I clearly missed a key word which would have stopped me dead in my tracks from buying it - "SHIMMERY". I seriously need someone to tell me why bronzers should have shimmers. I'm not trying to highlight the path of my contour nor do I want a shimmery framed face. On my chocolate skin this bronzer doesn't give me a sun-kissed look, it just looks shimmery as if I I'm all about that glittery life.

The pigmentation is non-existent, it took 4 solid swatches with my finger to pick up pigment so you can imagine how I fared with the brush - terrible. To add to the frustration I dropped the bronzer and the packaging survived the fall but the bronzer clearly detached itself from the pan - unbelievable. It was still usable not that there was any point with the little colour it was giving me. I'm glad this was an affordable lesson because it's one that I have no intention of revisiting.