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Review and swatches: Essence – Denim Wanted! Trend Edition

Yes, another Trend Edition by Essence. This time it’s called Denim Wanted! There are some very interesting products in the collection. Unfortunately I couldn’t get everything I wanted (yet). Today I’ll show you, what I got until now.

I got both of the gel eyeliners: Vintage Style and Fivepocket Grey. Vintage Style is

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Today’s FOTD

for work…

FOTD, EYES

FOTD, EYES

FOTD, EYES – flash

I used:

- ArtDeco eye shadow base

- MAC Shadestick in black

- The She Space mineral e/s – olive green for all over the lid

- Sweetscents – Egyptian sands for upper lid and a little bit in crease

- Alverde baked e/s in Silky grey for crease

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Review and swatches: Essence – Smokey Eyes Set – Punk Vibe + quick EOTD

The set comes with a gel liner, eyeshadow and an applicator (sponge, brush). The packaging is OK. Not fancy but useful, robust and quite easy to handle. The eyeshadow is well pigmented, which I like very much. It’s soft, maybe at times to soft. The gel liner isn’t pigmented enough for me. It’s good to use it as a base, but not quite pigmented enough to use it as a liner. I can’t write anything about the applicator because I don’t use such

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Alverde and Essence haul + swatches

I bought some new stuff from Essence and Alverde today. I don’t have much time to blog and since I haven’t actually tried any of my new stuff this won’t be a real review, but I have some quick swatches for you and some of my first and quick thoughts of the products.

Here’s what I

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Coastal Scents - Exotic gel liner

Costal Scents recently expanded their line of gel liner. On of the shades added was Exotic.

I was pleasantly surprised that they added the name of the liner at the bottom of the jar. I have few of the old liner that look similar from the outside, so I have to open them up

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