Welcome everyone to today’s brand introduction. If you are interested in beauty and especially nails, chances are high that you already know about the american brand Sally Hansen.
Today I would like to tell you everything you need to know about them and their products, so grab a drink and enjoy, ‘cuz reading this post might take a while.
Disclaimer: advertisement – because of links to the brand
Good evening guys,
I feel like I have been away for forever. I am really sorry about that! There are so many things going on right now which cause me to have no time for the Blog at all. I promise I will be back 100% by beginning of December.
Today I have a new Blog post for you though. Last week I received a package from Cosnova, sending through some products of the new Essence “Come to Town” TE/LE.
I was really excited since I am already 100% in Christmas mood and wait for December to come.
By the end of November I will even pick out my Tree and get it delivered so I can start decorating.
Anyway, the “Come to Town” TE is full of colorful products fitting the Christmas mood.
As you can see, it includes 2 quattro eyeshadow pallets (each 2,79 €), 2 cream blushes (each 2,29 €), 2 lipsticks (each 2,29 €), a shimmering body powder (3,29 €), 3 eye pencils (each 1,99 €), 2 nail polish sets (each 3,49 €), the Lametta topper (1,99 €) and seasons greeting cards (1,99 €).
What Essence sais about the “Come to Town” TE
make a wish! Essence whisks you away to a christmas shopping spree in New York with the new trend edition “come to town”! Beautifully decorated window display, the xxl Christmas Tree in front of the Rockefeller Center and a sparkling sea of lights puts you in the ideal mood to shop for gifts.
This trend edition is a perfect present: the gorgeous color scheme consists of classic yuletide shades like red and green but also silver, gold, beige and pink. highlights include the shimmering body powder with a powdery light vanilla fragrance and two cute nail polish sets with three different colors each – all with a festive gift look that no beauty will want to give away. There are also exciting beauty pieces for your eyes, lips, face and nails. On top of all this, there is a set of five cards so that all girls can send their loved ones christmas greetings.
A wonderful christmas time… with Essence!
on sale from November 2014 to December 2014
What was sent to me?
Cosnova was very kind and send me the 2 nail polish sets, the Lametta topper, the 2 lipsticks, 2 of the 3 eye pencils, the 2 cream blushes and the seasons greetings cards.
Let’s start with the greeting cards. Already when I saw the press pictures I was totally excited and wanted to buy them. You get 5 cards in one set. They are of good quality and super cute. I will definitely use them this year.
01 Season Greetings
Next up are the products which were obviously most interesting for me. The nail polish set’s and the topper.
They are available as 01 Naughty Or Nice? and 02 Got My List?
01 Naughty Or Nice? is a warm toned set of three polishes. A bright red/orange which seems to have a pink undertone. It also includes a golden topper and a burgundy red (somewhat dark purple looking in the picture) polish, which looks really pretty.
02 Got My List? cold toned set with a dark turquoise polish, a silver topper and a bright pink polish.
The set’s seem perfect as little presents for either a self-made Advent Calender or Christmas itself. I will for sure create some cute designs and review the polishes in a separate post.
01 The Most Wonderful Tree is the nail polish topper which you can buy separately from the set’s. As you can see it is a nice turquoise green topper which looks like Lametta.
The 2 blushes were kind of difficult for me to photograph and edit. Everytime I tried to get rid of the grey-ish / blue background the colors of the blushes changed. Anyway, those to babies are cream blushes which appeared to be very soft and smooth when I swatched them. I can imagine them not drying out the skin, which is very important during winter. They might even moisturize a bit.
The colors are not really my cup of tea, even though I must say they look very pretty. I might try them once at least and then give them to my younger sister if I won’t use them :)
right: 01 Is That You, Santa? left: 02 Wrapped In Pink
swatches of the cream blushes
The Lipsticks are kind of the same thing for me. The colors are too bright and the red Lipstick is not relly the kind of red I would wear, but the went on pretty smooth when I swatched them and will also go to my sister or one of my friends if they want them.
left: 01 Is That You, Santa? right: 02 Wrapped In Pink
swatches of the Lipsticks
The eye pencils though are more for me. They are available in 3 colors. 01 Make A Wish, 02 Naughty Or Nice? and 03 The Most Wonderful Tree (which I did not get).
01 Make A Wish is a pretty golden eye pencil which, I can imagine, would be great for a nice golden eye Make-up for a Christmas Party. It is metallic and went on very smoothly. I love how it looks on the skin and will defenitely try it on the eyes as well.
02 Naughty Or Nice? is also metallic and very soft. Therefor it went on just as smooth. This is defenitely my favorite! I usually wear brown and bronze tones eye Make-up’s and think this will look super pretty with them.
The Quattro Eyeshadow (01 Make A Wish and 02 Naughty Or Nice?), as well as the Shimmering Body Powder (01 Make A Wish) I did not get, which is not so bad since I probably wouldn’t have used them anyway.
All together I think it is a cute Winter/Christmas TE, especially for younger girls that are not afraid of bright, popping colors. My favorites would obviously be the nail related products and the eye pencils.
Stay tuned for reviews and nail design with the polish set’s, which I will be posting in December.
Take care,
Mara
☆『マラ』☆
Hey lovelies,
welcome to today’s post which will be about one of the most popular Drugstore Brands in Germany.
As most of you might know, Essence is a brand that is often sold at DM or Rossmann here in Germany / Europe, but also around the world. I saw they are even sold in the United States! Another important thing is that Essence is a Brand which is strictly against testing on animals. They also offer good quality products for a fair price.
From my experience I can say that Essence is a good way to try new trends, no matter if it is regarding Make-up or nails. They have a wide range of products and regularly offer Limited Edition products which are always fun to try, but mostly sold out pretty quickly.
I own a lot of Essence products, especially nail polish of course :)
So today I would like to review my favorite Essence products.
Make-up related things
Eyeliner
I am a fan of liquid eyeliner. I think it is easy to handle and with a bit of practice gives you a flawless winged eyeliner. My personal favorite are the regular and waterproof eyeliner from Essence.
Top to bottom you can see the regular liquid ink eyeliner and their waterproof eyeliner.
Sometimes they change the packaging, but as for right now, the eyeliners look like this.
(pictures taken from the Essence Website)
In the past Essence also offered different colors of Eyeliner, the metal glam eyeliners.
I still own the brown one (01 got a date?, 02 on the go, 03 pretty cool).
I don’t know why they took them out of the shelves, but I am very sad about it.
I especially loved the brown one. Please, please bring it back!
Eye Shadow
The next product is their eye shadow.
Of course I have a few favorites here as well. In the picture (top left and bottom right) you can see number 02 dance all night, which is a super pretty light sparkling eye shadow which I love to use at the inner corner of my eye to brighten it up and give a highlight under my brows as well. It can also be used for blending and is an eye shadow I use regularly if I wear Make-up. The next color is number 23 soul mate (top right) which is a nice brown with a light metallic effect and is nice to be used all over the lid or in the crease. Last is number 77 sandy says hello, also an eye shadow with metallic effect. I am not good at explaining colors, maybe you should check it out at the store, but I guess you could say it is a light copper? This brightens the eyes and I mostly use it all over the lid, top it off with number 23 in the crease and you are good to go.
Another thing you can use all their pretty eye shadows for is creating your own nail polish.
Check out all the pretty colors I picked for that.
Loose pigments
Next is a product that is also not sold anymore as far as I know. Loose pigments.
I like to use these to get a nice sparkle in the inner corner of my eyes or also to blend and as a highlight under my brows.
They use to offer them in the Limited Editions as well, in the picture you can see 03 a piece of forever (2012 – twilight breaking dawn part 2 LE) and 02 smell the caramel.
Do you see a trend here?
Another of my most favorite products ever are these two form the 2010 fairytale LE.
On the left you can see the eye shadow 01 Tinka’s dress and the highlighter powder 01 pixie dust on the right.
Oh darn it, I forgot to take a picture of the Eyeliner that also came in this LE. The name was 02 Tinkas’ dress.
I really love the eye shadow. It is such a light coral-rose color, which makes the eyes look so pretty! The highlighter powder can be used for it’s purpose or also as an eye shadow. Together with the eyeliner this is the perfect spring look.
Nail related products
Essence studio nails 2 in 1 cuticle remover and the studio nails nail polish correcting pen.
I think I don’t have to say much. They do what they are supposed to and they do it well. Also, they smell nice. :P
Essence – Show your feet nail polishes
I picked four of my favorites.
left to right:
26 kiss of the mermaid
27 electric blue
08 divalicious red
30 oceana
They last long, the dry fast and they come in super pretty colors. Electric blue is one of my all-time favorite blue polishes. I own 5 bottles of it haha
Effect polishes
left to right:
24 i feel gritty (sparkle sand top coat)
03 hello holo (holographic glitter)
19 bird of paradise (feather effect)
Each of these represent the effect I really like. I love their new sparkling sand top coat, it works with every polish and ads an interesting sand effect. Hello Holo might be one of my favorite polishes. I never got as many complimnets on my nails as when I was wearing this for the first time. I simply layerd 2 good coats and BAM! there was the crazy holo glitter madness. I love it! But it does distract me a lot from work haha
Last but not least the feather effect. I don’t know if you saw my Instagram post on the Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat collection I own, but it shows how much I love the feather effect and the Essence one is a nice affordable version of it. More color mixes please.
more effects and regular polishes
left to right:
07 blue-jeaned
190 kiss me, freddy
171 galactic glam
04 skyfall
I don’t know what to say about these, but I love how blue-jeaned gives a different look and the other are just very nice blue polishes with a lot of sparkle, which I love.
Aquatix LE
left to right:
06 under water love
05 finding Dori
Yes, yes, YES! Essence you have done everything right on these! And may I also mention the awesome fish tail effect stickers? Gorgeous!
Please put them into the regular counter so I can get them all year long.
Dark Romance and Love letter LE
left to right:
02 red romance
05 inkheart
Red romance is such a nice old-darker red matte polish, so pretty. Inkheart is a very good stamping polish, which is why I bought 3 of them to have stock.
Nail tape
I bought these recently and love them. I didn’t necessarily bought them to stick them on the nails and leave them there as decoration, but to create designs with them and take them off to show color below. I will try using them as decoration tape as well. More of these please Essence. Maybe a clear one?
Girl, as you can see they offer a super wide range of products for a fair price. Maybe if you have the chance, check them out at your next Drugstore visit. Some shops have the three meter counter which is packed with Essence products.
I hope you liked today’s post.
Have a great night
Mara
☆『マラ』☆
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