Essences arrives!

I cannot tell you how long I have been waiting for Essence to come to the UK. I discovered this brand around 3 years ago in Spain and I've been dying to get my hands on some more!

First of all these nail polishes caught my eye immediately! L-R (Tip painter in white, Colour and go in bejos de brazil and Nail art special effects topper in Get the party started) Unfortunately I've only been able to play around with these on my toes as I have acrylic nails on, however I will be purchasing more and will do an in depth review of the brand very soon!

This next product was a purchase purely because I wanted to test one of the most difficult shades to create. This is the eye shadow in Blockbuster and it is a Matt cream colour. The formulation is amazing and using this all over the lids gives me a 'no makeup look'. Now that's the problem, the pigmentation on every other eye shadow was amazing except for this. Why the heck did I choose this shade? Grrrrrr.

Finally I picked up their lip liner in Cute pink, a medium warm pink shade. I'm pretty sure this was only 99p and although this is the only lip liner I have ever owned I can tell you for that price it is worth it! This isn't a majorly hydrating, creamy product but the pigmentation is great and let's face it i'm only going to apply lipstick over the top?

Unfortunately I can't tell you the price of these products as silly Wilkinson had offers on their cosmetics and only put the reduced price on my receipt, sorry. However, all of these goodies only cost me £6.50, BARGAIN ALERT!

Have you tried any Essence products?

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Haul: Pretty Pastels

This summer I am obsessed with pastels, they're just too cute! So I ended up purchasing a few things from Primark and Wilkinsons.

How cute?! This miniature mint green satchel was just £6 and I am very tempted to buy the lemon and pastel pink ones too at that price! Although miniature it has a front pocket for your phone to fit in and the inside fits my purse which is pretty big (it's from River Island so the size of something like this.) Plus I could probably squeeze keys and a lipstick in too.

I also picked up this mesh box tee in this coral colour. I loved the mesh flower pattern although I had to buy a vest to go underneath as it is a bit too see through for my liking. The top was £4 and the vest £2.

I then found a bargain in Wilkinsons. All Rimmel under £5 YES PLEASE!

I ended up picking up the Fix and perfect pro primer which is usually £6.99 for only £4.99. I can't really comment on whether my foundation stays better yet as I haven't actually tried it properly. However on my hand it felt really smooth and moisturising.

I then picked up the Lasting finish 25hr Foundation. This is usually £7.99 and I picked it up for £4.99. I picked up the shade 100 Ivory which was their palest shade and suits me perfectly (i'm a Mac NW20) although looks stupidly dark on my hand here, I promise it isn't it was just my flash. 

If you'd like to see reviews on these products then let me know in the comments down below, but make sure you don't miss out on these savings and watch out in your local Wilkinson's for Essence! As soon as mine gets Essence in stock i'm sure they'll be a huge haul! Whoops.

Lauren 

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