Review and swatches: Essence Vampire’s Love TEOpis in ocena: Essence Vampire’s Love TE

Essence Vampire’s Love TE turned out to be nice surprise – I love more or less everything I got. :thumb:

Four of the five polishes are pretty dark shades … just how I like them for the fall/winter time. :nails: And it doesn’t hurt that they packed them in Catrice bottles (brushes are not the same). :silly: I applied 2 coats + top coats in all of my nail polish swatches.

Let’s start with my favorite nail polish from Vampire’s Love edition – Gold Old Buffy. I absolutely adore this shade – it’s darker green, has complex structure and application was also OK. The only thing that I found odd was the fact that the brush is slightly different that in other polishes. We’re having bad weather lately so this polish looks darker green than in the photo most of the time.

Close behind comes True Love. It’s rare to find so pretty purple shade with warm undertone. Look how pretty is this polish. :wub:

Another great shade from this collection is darker gray-blue polish with lots of silver and purplish shimmer – Into The Dark.

Mamy applied only one coat and no top coat … so you can see how pigmented is this nail polish.

Last two polishes are nice, but not my favorites.
Hunt Me If You Can had black base with multicolored shimmer. But I find Catrice I Wear My Sunglasses At Night to be prettier.

The Dawn Is Broken is the only lighter shade in the bunch. This one was weird to apply – kind of gritty structure. And before I applied top coat I could feel the tiny grains in the polish … same way you feel larger glitter. Light gray polish with silver shimmer and darker particles is nice, but I’m currently not in the mood for this kind of colors.

Now lipstains – wow. I loved both of the shades. They are kind of liquidy, so I had to get hang of the application. But once I put it on it stayed there for hours. I applied thicker layer and then left my lips slightly open so the lipstain had a chance to dry evenly. After it dried completely I forgot I even had anything on my lips. It fades pretty well – I smudged outline with finger so there was no harsh line. 01 Bloody Mary is cooler purplish tone while 02 True Love is more reddish pink. Smell is slightly fruity and can be find in many Essence lipglosses. Sponge applicator is not bad either.

Love At First Bite eyeshadow palette consists of 6 shades (+ not so useful applicator) on one side and mirror on the other. Lightest pink and silver are more or less highlighting colors. Purple and grayish shade are not wildly pigmented but they do have very pretty satin like finish. Black shade with shimmer is one of those matte base eyeshadows with larger shimmer particles. Now darker olive-gold green is (for me) the star of this palette – fantastic color, nicely pigmented and with nice shine to it. I would buy the palette just to get this eyeshadow. :biggrin:

Price:
– polish: 1,79 EUR for 10ml (0.33 fl.oz);
– lipstain: 2,19 EUR for 8,5ml (0.28 fl.oz) 6 month expiration date;
– eyeshadow palette: 3,89 EUR for 4g (0.14 oz) 24 month expiration date.

Video swatches:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/eItaFvbHCn4[/youtube]

Huge :ahug: for lovely Saša who stood before the full Vampire’s Love stand and even though she was in a rush, she called me and got me everything I wanted. :rose:

Our Mamy bought Eau de toilette which she finds to be mysterious as collection itself.

What did you get from Essence Vampire’s Love trend edition?Essence Vampire’s Love TE mi je očitno pisana na kožo – všeč mi je skoraj vse kar sem vzela. :thumb:

Štirje izmed petih lakov spadajo med precej temne odtenke … kar mi čisto odgovarja v jesensko/zimskem obdobju. :nails: Ne škodi pa niti, da so uporabili meni ljube Catrice stekleničke (čopiči niso enaki). :silly: Pri vseh swatchih lakov za nohte sem uporabila 2 plasti + nadlak.

Začnimo z meni najlepšim odtenkom iz Vampire’s Love edition – Gold Old Buffy. Tega laka se pa kar ne morem nagledati – temnejša zelena s kompleksno strukturo in OK formulo. :wub: Edina stvar, ki se mi je zdela rahlo nenavadna je, da se mi zdi čopič rahlo drugačen kot pri drugih lakih iz te kolekcije. Ves čas, ko sem ga nosila je bilo vreme precej turobno, tak oda je večino časa izgledal temnejši kot na fotografijah.

Tik za petami mu je True Love. Zelo redko naletim na tako krasen vijola odtenek, ki celo nima hladnega podtona. Poglejte tega lepotca …   :wub:

V kolekciji se skriva še en lep odtenek – temnejši moder lak z veliko sivega in vijolčkastega šimra – Into The Dark.

Mamy je uporabila samo eno plast laka in nobenega nadlaka.

Zadnja dva laka sta sicer luštna, vendar nista moja favorite.
Hunt Me If You Can ima črno bazo z večbarvnim šimrom. Meni osebno je na isto vižo veliko bolj všeč Catrice I Wear My Sunglasses At Night.

The Dawn Is Broken je edini svetel odtenek. Formula je rahlo hecna, ker vsebuje veliko “peščenih” delcev. Podobno kot pri bleščičastih lakih, je tudi tukaj potreben nadlak, da prekrije grobo površino. Lak vsebuje veliko srebrnega šimra in temnejših delcev.

Imam oba lipstaina iz te kolekcije in sem za enkrat navdušena nad njima. Najprej sem se sicer malo lovila pri nanosu, vendar mi je dokaj hitro uspelo lepo nanesti tole precej tekočo formulo. Najbolj mi je všeč efekt, ko nanesem malo debelejšo plast in z rahlo odprtimi ustnicami počakam, da se lipstain vsaj deloma posuši. Ko je lipstain popolnoma suh, ga sploh več ne čutim na ustnicah. Jaz sem robove rahlo zabrisala, tako da nisem imela ostrih robov, ko je po 3-4 urah pričel bledeti. 01 Bloody Mary je obarvan v temnejšo vijola barvo, medtem ko je 02 True Love bolj rdečkasto roza barve. Vonje je nežno saden kot pri marsikaterem Essence glosu. Aplikator z gobico precej dobro opravi svojo nalogo.

Love At First Bite paleto senčil sestavlja 6 odtenkov (+ ne ravno bleščeč aplikator) na eni strani ter ogledalo na drugi. Najsvetlejša odtenka bosta pri meni bolj kot ne v uporabi samo za osvetljevanje. Vijola in sivkast odtenek sicer nista strašno pigmentirana imata pa zelo lep satenast finiš. Črna senčka je precej pigmentirana. Gre za kombinacijo mat osnove in večjega šimra. Absolutna zmagovalka je temnejši zlato-olivno-zelena senčka – krasna barva, fino pimentirana, z lepim sijajem. Že samo zaradi te senčke mi ni žal, da sem kupila paleto. :biggrin:

Cene:
– lak: 1,79 EUR za 10ml stekleničko;
– lipstain: 2,19 EUR za 8,5ml produkta z rokom trajanja 6 mesecev po odprtju;
– paleta: 3,89 EUR za 4g senčila z rokom trajanja 24 mesecev po odprtju.

Video swatchi:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/eItaFvbHCn4[/youtube]

Velik :ahug: za prijazno Sašo, ki si je kljub naglici vzela čas, da me je poklicala, ko je naletela na polno Vampire’s Love stojalo in mi vzela vse kar sem imela na WL. :rose:

Naša Mamy je preizkusila tudi Eau de toilette. Citiram njeno mnenje: “Toaletna vodica meni zelo lepo diši. Vonja nikakor ne morem opredeliti, lahko zapišem samo, da diši. Ne gre za cvetlični vonj, niti ne za lesno noto. Recimo da je skrivnostnega vonja, kot je že ime TE samo.”

Kaj ste ve vzele iz te kolekcije? Še kaj nujno potrebujem?