Essence Colour Arts pigments (swatches, review)Essence Colour Arts pigmenti

Sensitive and extremely oily skin really soured me on make up when I was younger. Really, what is the point spending 10+ minutes putting it on, just to have to either remove it because your skin is itching or see it disappear in couple of hours as oil takes over. :roll:
Then I came into a contact with (mineral) pigments and my first make up crush was born. :love: So you can imagine how wonderfully was I surprised to get 7 of them in my mail for testing … it was kind of emotional moment for me. :blush:

I played with all of them for almost a week before I felt that it was time for review. They served as eyeshadows all over my eye (I looked like somebody punched me – but I could see if they irritate my skin), one of them was nice blush, glitter is great as top coat …
None of the pigments caused any irritations (I skipped using number 04 around the eyes as glitter and my eyes do not mix well). :thumb:
All pigments were applied over base and photographed in shade and sun.

Essence Colour Arts pigments: Smell The Caramel (no. 02), WOW It’s Orange! (no. 06), Miss Piggy’s Lollipop (no. 12):

• Smell The Caramel: is my favorite with its beige color and almost metallic finish. Formula is pigmented, with great adhesive power and one that glides on the skin.
• WOW It’s Orange!: is lovely blush and lip gloss with it coral-ish base color and tiny gold shimmer.
• Miss Piggy’s Lollipop: not as highly pigmented as the 2 above + with larger shimmer served as top coat and I used it as eyeshadow in combination with pigment 18 and 17 to make some kind of gradient

Essence Colour Arts pigments: Black Sparrow (no. 20), Dory In Love (no. 17), Little Mermaid (no. 18):

• Black Sparrow: dark base with metallic like steel-green sheen was my second favorite. I used it to make smokey make up and loved it.
• Dory In Love: I like the color of this pigment, but the adhesive power was not so hot. It does work as eyeshadow, just not as good as others. But is does make lovely nail polish – either base if you add little more pigment or top coat is you use tiny bit.
• Little Mermaid: blue with greenish undertone works as eyeshadow or you can make nail polish out of it.

Essence Colour Arts pigment Broadway Starlet (no. 04):

• is pure glitter with rainbow of colors in it. For me personally, this kind of pigments are good only for top coats.

I also got Colour Arts Lip Base and set of jars. I almost never use pigments on my lips as it’s too messy for me. I guess you could mix some of the gloss and pigment in jar, but I’m not fan of those kind of mixes as the tend to spoil pretty fast … at least some of them. Lip Base itself is fantastic clear lip gloss – good staying power, not tacky, fruity smell I associate with Essence … I love using it over matte lipsticks.
I did try out Lip Base and WOW It’s Orange! pigment combination and it does look lovely + staying power is great for gloss … I had it on for more than an hour and it’s still there … practically intact. I mixed two swipes of gloss and little bit of pigment on my hand and then applied it with brush.

Price:
– pigments 2,69 EUR for 1,2g (0.04 oz);
– lip base 1,99 EUR for 4ml (0.13 fl.oz)

Video review:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Hajz8ElyRKM[/youtube]

Am I the only one excited that soon this pigments will be available in the stores? :silly:

P.S. Names added.
*I received items for reviewMoja občutljiva in ekstremno mastna koža, mi v mlajših letih ni najbolj priljubila ličenja. Nekako nisem videla kakšen je smisel porabiti 10+ minut za nanos ličil, potem pa jih takoj odstraniti, ker me je začelo vse ščemeti. V najboljšem primeru je makeup izginil po parih urah zaradi pretiranega maščenja kože. :roll:
Potem pa sem spoznala (mineralne) pigmente in ljubezen na prvi pogled je bila rojena. :love: Lahko si mislite, da je 7 Essence pigmentov v ovojnici bilo zame tako prijetno presenečenje kot čustveno doživetje. :blush:

Vzela sem si skoraj ves teden za testiranje in končno jih poznam zadosti dobro, da vam jih lahko predstavim. Uporabila sem jih kot senčila (izgledala kot da bi me kdo udaril, ampak le tako lahko uspešno preverim, če povzročajo iritacije), rdečilo in nadlak.
Vseh 6 pigmentov je uspešno prestalo test … niti eden mi ni povzročil negativne reakcije (bleščic pa nikoli ne uporabljam v bližini oči, tako da št. 04 nisem testirala). :thumb:
Pigmente sem nanesla čez bazo ter fotografirala v senci in na soncu.

Essence Colour Arts pigmenti št. Smell The Caramel (št. 02), WOW it’s orange! (št. 06), Miss Piggy’s Lollipop (št. 12):

• Smell The Caramel: je moj favorit. Bežkasta barva se krasno obnese kot senčilo, čeprav mogoče komu ne bo všeč skoraj kovinski finiš. Nanos je bil krasen.
• WOW It’s Orange!: luštna koralna barva z zlatim šimrom, primerna za rdečilo ali lipglos.
• Miss Piggy’s Lollipop: ni tako pigmentiran kot zgornja dva. Večji šimer mi tudi ni priljubil pigmenta kot senčilo, čeprav barvno izgleda gradient s številkama 18 in 17 zelo lepo. Možno pa ga je uporabiti tudi kot nadlak.

Essence Colour Arts pigmenti: Black Sparrow (št. 20), Dory In Love (št. 17), Little Mermaid (št. 18):

• Black Sparrow: zelo temna baza s kovinsko sivo-zelenim sijajem je moj drugi najljubši odtenek. Zadimljene oči s št. 20 so pravi hit.
• Dory In Love: barva mi je sicer bila všeč, vendar je oprijem bolj slab. Še vedno deluje kot senčilo (sploh z močno bazo), vendar mi je bil bolj všeč kot lak – tako bolj prekrivna verzija kot nadlak z malo pigmenta.
• Little Mermaid: moder pigment z zelenim podtonom je lahko luštno senčilo ali pa lak.

Essence Colour Arts pigment Broadway Starlet (št. 04):

• večbarvne bleščice. Osebno take pigmente uporabljam le kot nadlak.

Preizkusila sem tudi Colour Arts Lip Base glos in set lončkov. Nekako se mi uporaba pigmentov na ustnicah ni nikoli priljubila – preveč packarije za moj okus. Verjetno bi lahko naredila v lončku mešanico glosa in pigmenta, vendar pa me pri vseh teh mešanicah skrbi obstojnost. Včasih je izdelek še dolgo časa dober, spet drugič pa se pokvari v parih dneh. Lip Base mi je zelo všeč za samostojno uporabo kot prozorni glos – dobro obstojen, ni lepljiv, rahlo saden vonj pa je že stalnica pri Essence. Najraje pa ga uporabim čez mat šminko.
Sem pa testirala mešanico Lip Base in pigmenta WOW It’s Orange!. Kombinacija se je zelo dobro obnesla – tako po obstojnosti kot barvno. Po eni uri je nanos še vedno izgledal svež, po treh pa je bilo nekaj barve še vedno na ustnicah. Na roki sem zmešala malo glosa in pigment, ter ga nanesla na ustnice s čopičem.

Cene:
– pigment 2,69 EUR za 1,2g
– lip base 1,99 EUR za 4ml

Video ocena in swatchi:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Hajz8ElyRKM[/youtube]

Trend kolekcija essence Colour Arts bo v drogerijah DM in drogerijah Mueller na voljo v avgustu 2012. Od jeseni 2012 pa bodi ti izdelki vključeni v Essence standardni asortiment.

Sem edina, ki komaj čaka, da zagleda pigmente na policah? :silly:

P.S. Imena dodana.
*izdelke sem dobila v oceno