e.l.f Studio Lip Exfoliator Review

Great little product, nice packaging. I used this on my dry flakey lips and it removed all the flakes of dry skin well. My lips didn't feel rough or over used after which was a bonus! Nice taste and smell. Can't go wrong for $5 really. I highly recommend it!

First of all, I love the packaging. Compact and shaped like a lipstick which makes for easy application. Opening it up, it smelled like caramel. I chose to apply to my lips lightly as I wasn't to sure what to expect. At the time I had very dry, flaky lips so was pleasantly surprised when it removed all unwanted skin and once I wiped away everything my lips felt so smooth and conditioned. I now use this product once a month to keep my lips looking soft and smooth.

I was very excited to try this product as I always suffer from dry, cracked lips that look awful under lipstick.

First impressions were great. It came in a lovely black lipstick case and when you opened it, it had a beautiful shape and looked like it was carved from solid brown sugar. Sniffing it, it smelt of caramel and sugar and all sorts of delicious things you'd love to eat.

But this is where the love ended for me. I started rubbing it across my lips and after the initial few seconds of thinking 'this tastes amazing', I then realised that all I could taste was blood and all I could feel was stinging. I'd manage to successfully rip my lips to shreds with the exfoliant and do quite a bit of damage.

Two weeks later, having healed and been ready to give it another try, I reassessed my technique and very, very gently started rubbing it across my lips. But no, the stinging and bleeding began again. I've tried it a few times since then but unfortunately I've had to come to accept that the formula is just too rough for my delicate lips. I really want to love this product, but sadly it's not for me.

I usually don't buy lip exfoliants, because I can whip one up at home, know exactly whats in it, and works like a charm, but this has changed my mind.

First of all, I love the packaging. Compact and shaped like a lipstick, it's something I've never seen before. I love that you can wind it up and down, and put the cap on to seal it. Much better than having a little pot and digging my fingers in and having half the product go under my nail.

It's a nice matte finish on the tube, which is beneficial. I like to scrub very hard against my lips, and the matte finish allows a good grip.

The texture is nice and coarse, like sand paper, it is very rough, but it has a really pleasant feel, having the rough texture glide across your lips. It's also perfect, because it gets right into your lips and gets rid of every little unwanted thing!

Coarse pieces of sugar come off on your lip, which you can further massage in and around with your fingertips. it's also super moisturising, which is surprising to me, given that it is so coarse, but it left my lips feeling super soft and very kissable - no lip balm required.

It also has a really nice scent. Sugar and spice and everything nice. Vanilla, cinnamon and brown sugar. Reminds me of a cinnamon roll! YUM!!

It's safe to say, that I won't be making my own lip scrubs any more ever. For $3 a piece, I'll be buying a hundred of these!

Hate the smell. Its nice that it comes in a lipstick shape as it makes it easier to apply but can be quite rough on the skin. Good for the price but theres definitely better exfoliators out there

This product doesn't exfoliate my lips as effectively as other products but it does if you keep rubbing it on your lips for awhile. It smells like caramel and tastes so good I could almost eat it. For the price it is pretty good, but definitely not the best.

Bought because my lips are very cracked and dry in the winter season and I love to use this before lipstick.

While this product does exfoliate your lips and makes them feel very soft, I personally found that it hurt my lips and made them bleed on one occasion. Mixed feelings about this one.

This is a great treat for keeping your lips in condition the sugary makeup of the lipstick means that when I run this over my lips pieces of it cling on that I buff away with a finger to remove all the dead loose flaky bits of lips smeg so you have smooth lips perfectly primed to apply lipstick/stain too.

It helps too to keep my lips hydrated, since using this exfoliator I have seen a huge decrease in cracked lips this winter as well as little chaffing or actually any cold sore? Wonder if it’s related?? Anyway it does something magic to my lips that makes the feel plumped up too.

The only downfall is the packaging, in a smooth black casing which is the exact same design, shape and colour as their lipstick range if you keep the exfoliator in the same place then you like me will be losing it, hence the reason I know own 3 of these little devils!! But its fine as they are not expensive at all.