+1 What she said basically.

I do have a few of their pro brushes in my kit. Which work great and feels great on the skin - models tell me ! x

Fae, while I haven't used their mascara, eyeliners nor lip glosses I am a HUGE fan of their Lash Curlers  One of my associates turned me onto these and for a couple of dollars they work extremely well... in fact so good that I carry extras to give to brides on their trial sessions (provided I'm not using band lashes on the client for their event)...  A lit' good will goes a long ways...

That said, I picked up their brush belt which although cost effective didn't meet my needs... Why? the pockets where a tad too deep for 20% of my brushes... Also it is constructed of a plastic vinyl... which has initially had a significant "vinyl" smell...  Still looking for a brush belt made from a washable quality fabric...  but for the price? no major complaint...    lessons learned, I now purchase most of my tools from Sephora, Ulta or Sally's where I can actually review the product in real-time first...

btw, e.l.f.  doesn't do returns, only replaces orders damaged in shipment... best to get it right the first time... 

hope this helps...

For Personal use it is definitely worth the money. As a MUA starting out I did use it and it got me by.  I was broke and couldn't afford some of the higher end palettes, and honestly most people never noticed that I was using a cheaper brand they knew I had a couple of large palette with a lot of color and thought I had been doing it for years.  A little water makes the pigment go a long way especial for metallic colors.  I have moved on to more PRO palettes but its cheap and I still like to keep it in my kit just in case ESPECIALLY the HD Powder always comes in handy...

It makes sense that the cheaper the brush, the more inconsistent it will be from one to another.

I've probably got 30 or so brushes from them, several duplicates, and and I haven't noticed a difference. But if I did...it was a dollar, I can't expect TOO much from them (they're already way above would I would expect for just a dollar) and I just buy another one.

Oddly I like the personal brushes (black handles) over the "studio" or "professional" or whatever the line with the white handles is called, I think the black handled ones are softer and the powder brushes don't try to knot up or shed when I clean them like the white handled ones do.


Unrelated to the issue: are you ordering online or is there a place in Toronto that carries elf?

Laura UnBound wrote:
Oddly I like the personal brushes (black handles) over the "studio" or "professional" or whatever the line with the white handles is called, I think the black handled ones are softer and the powder brushes don't try to knot up or shed when I clean them like the white handled ones do.

I agree with you on this because I have both black handle and white ones too and surprisingly the black handle ones do seem softer.

There are quite a number of places in toronto where you can pickup cheap elf brushes.  Sometimes dollarstore carries a variety of them but their availability and selection varies from store to store and they come and go.
I've also started seeing some selection at Winners and Marshalls.  There is also a few brands I don't recognize that seems to be pretty good.

Balls, I have never seen them in any of those places. It's one of the (many) reasons I was so happy to see we were finally getting a target.

The black handle are the studio line, the white are the essentials line.  They confuse you by sometimes putting "professional" as part of the brush name in the essentials line.  But the studio line is meant to be more better quality line.