Essence – Sweet Temptation Trend Edition

In Croatia (our south neighboring country), they’re currently selling Essence Sweet Temptation Trend Edition. If I’m not mistaken – this edition was available in Austria and Germany last August and I don’t remember seeing it in Slovenia.

To us, the most interesting part of the collection were nail polishes. I personally had my eyes set on Devil’s Flavour – dark purple shade. And I mean really dark purple – something for all of vampy nail lovers out there. :cool:

Maestra was kind enough to take pictures of both polishes available in this edition. With both shades she used 2 coats.

Devil’s Flavour:

With flash:

Second polish is Tool Of Attraction – fleshy pink color that fits nicely in this year natural shades trend.

Part of the edition are three glosses: Tool Of Attraction, Mademoiselle and Devil’s Flavour. They’re note very pigmented, smell like candy and have very fine shimmer.

From left to right: Devil’s Favour, Mademoiselle and Tool Of Attraction.

Swatch taken with flash in the same order as in previous picture:

All three shades are very wearable and I could not pick favorite among them.

My least favorite part of this collection are trio eyeshadows. There are two sets: Mademoiselle and Touch of Velvet.

On picture shown with Touch of Velvet blush:

Swatches are made without the base, with thick layers of eyeshadow used.

All tree colors in Mademoiselle trio are lovely but have poor staying power. Colors are more pigmented than in Touch of Velvet trio, but I was still not impressed. Darkest shad is dark purple but looks almost brown on me and it crumbled during application. Lightest shade is light gray and middle brown. All three shades have shimmer in them.

Only darkest part of Touch of Velvet trio is pigmented, other two are more of a highlighters. The lightest part is bluish gray matte and of no use to me.

Two eyeliner in edition – En Vogue in Deep Allure – are soft and well pigmented. En vouge is gray and Deep Allure muted purple.

My favorite in this edition is Touch Of Velvet blush. It’s just enough pigmented to give me healthy color. It’s something between brownish-ping and peachy-pink in color depending on lighting. I wish they put less of multicolored shimmer in it, but it’s not really intrusive.

If you’re about to visit Croatia in near future, and like one of the products in this trend edition, I recommend visiting one of their DMs. :biggrin:Pri naših južnih sosedih je te dni v prodajo prišla Essence Sweet Temptation omejena izdaja. Če se ne motim, je bila ta kolekcija v Avstriji in Nemčiji aktualna avgusta lani, pri nas se ne spomnim, da bi jo videla.

Za nas sta bila najbolj zanimiva predstavnika kolekcije, kaj drugega kot, laka. Meni osebno je najbolj padel v oči odtenek Devil’s Flavour. Gre za temno vijoličen krem lak. In s tem mislim res temno vijoličen, primeren predvsem za ljubiteljice vampy odtenkov. :cool:

Maestra je prijazno slikala oba laka.

Devil’s Flavour:

Še z uporabo bliskavice:

Drugi lak v kolekciji je Tool Of Attraction. Mesnato roza barva, ki se lepo dopolnjuje z letošnjim trendom naravnih odtenkov.

Del kolekcije so tudi trije glosi: Tool Of Attraction, Mademoiselle in Devil’s Flavour. Niso zelo pigmentirani, dišijo nežno bonbončkasto ter vsebujejo fin šimer.

Od leve proti desni: Devil’s Favour, Mademoiselle in Tool Of Attraction.

In še swatchi na roki (slikano z bliskavico v istem vrstnem redu kot pri prejšnji sliki):

Vsi trije odtenki so zelo lepi in nosljivi – težko bi izbrala favorita med njimi.

Najslabši del Sweet Temptation kolekcije so meni osebno predstavljala senčila za oči. Gre za dve trojni senčili – Mademoiselle in Touch of Velvet.

Na sliki prikazani z rdečilom Touch of Velvet:

Swatche sem naredila brez podlage, senčke sem nanesla zelo na debelo.

Vse barve v trojčku Mademoiselle so lepe in uporabne, le obstojnost je bolj slaba. Pigmentiranost me ni pretirano navdušila, čeprav je boljša kot pri Touch of Velvet trojčku. Najtemnejša senčka se je pri nanosu drobila. Vsi trije odtenki so šimrasti – najsvetlejši je svetlo sive barve, srednji je rjav, najtemnejši pa temno vijoličen, čeprav na meni pride skoraj temno rjav.

Če je bil Mademoiselle trojček še nekako pigmentiran, je pri Touch of Velvet res viden samo najtemnejši odtenek, preostala dva sta slabo pigmentirana. Najsvetlejši del je mat modrikasto sive barve, ki bi ga jaz zelo težko vkomponirala v moje make-upe. Veselila sem se predvsem srednjega vijola odtenka, vendar je zaradi slabe pigmetiranosti primeren bolj za osvetljevanje. Najtemnejši del mi je kar všeč – gre za lepo temno rjavo barvo.

Svinčnika za obrobo oči sta dva – En Vogue in Deep Allure.  Oba sta lepo mazljiva in uporabna odtenka. En vouge je sive barve, medtem ko je Deep Allure zamolklo vijoličen.

 

Zmagovalec v Sweet Temptation kolekciji je bilo zame rdečilo Touch Of Velvet. Je ravno prav pigmentirano, rjavkasto-roza ali marelično-roza barve (odvisno od tipa svetlobe), z raznobarvnim šimrom, ki bi ga sicer lahko bilo malo manj, vendar ni moteč.

To je bila celotna Essence Sweet Temptation kolekcija. Če vas kaj pritegne in boste na obisku pri južnih sosedih, priporočam obisk DMa. :biggrin: