Essence Makeup Review

As a student I love affordable makeup. So when Essence Cosmetics offered me the opportunity to review some of there products I said of course!

Check out what I tried below...


Price $4.99

The first product I got to try was the Stays no matter what 24 h volume mascara in black. As I say in every review I want mascara that will give me some serious length and volume. I hate flat lashes so I am always looking for dramatic looks!


The brush itself is good as you can see not a lot of excess mascara between bristles so that helps in regards to clumps. I am super shocked at how well the length and volume is with this mascara. I seriously wouldn't think a mascara less than $5 would give good results. I have been using this mascara for the past two weeks and have been happy.


Price: $3.29
The next thing I tried was the Stays no matter what 24 hr eyeliner

The tip is pretty good which makes it easy to apply

It comes off easily however I found it was not really waterproof. Right before my big move to Ca I had lots of emotions so of course I shed a few tears and noticed my inner eyelid area lost all of the eyeliner. With that sad I wasn't really impressed.

Price: $1.99
The next thing I tried was the Kiss Care Love Lip Balm. First thing I noticed was the bubble gum smell or something yummy it had. They really don't give much color to your normal lip color and the consistency is not too sticky/thick or too thing where you have to keep adding some on. I would say it is just good enough. 

Price: $3.49
Finally I tried the 3D eyeshadow in Irresistable smoky and Irresistable mermaids kiss

The shape of the shadow is cool bc if there is one thing I had in duo eyeshadows is there is no clear separation between the two and I always get the darker color all in the light one. Here there is a diff in one from the other so you could use just one only and not make a big mess in the other.

Here are the swatches of the colors. On the left is Smoky and the right is Mermaid kiss. I am not a fan of the shimmery shadows so of course these shadows on not something I would use but they do have good pigmentation. These swatches are just the shadow so with a good primer they would give good color.



Where to find: Any ulta store

**disclaimer-this product was provided for my 100% honest opinion**

IMATS 2013 Beauty Product Reviews- LA Splash Cosmetics

It's about time I start reviewing some of the things I got from IMATS in NY.  One of the products I bought and wanted to try bc I heard of the company before was LA Splash. I glanced around and saw they had a lot of glittery cosmetics which I try to stay away from but I saw the black liner and decided I wanted to give it a try.

Packaging of the eye liner is very simple. Like that you can see the color the liner will be. In my case black but you could see the color of the blue, red etc. 

I don't know if the tip is sponge or what not but it is extremely delicate. You could def bend it if you take it out rough for sure. But at the same time I actually liked the brush bc it made it super easy to apply it. I def would recommend a brush like this for beginners. The regular brushes that come with liquid eye liners you know the ones that look like paintbrushes? They are the reason I hate putting liquid liner on. The one on this liner is nice!

As you can see from my swatch the liner is pigmented very well. It also dries pretty quickly. Unfortunately, I went jogging like 15 minutes after I applied the liner and while it is supposed to be water resistant and smudgeproof...its not. I came home looking like I cried black tears. Was not a pretty sight and almost all of the liner was off. I was bummed bc it showed so much promise. Good thing it was super cheap at the IMATS. 

Regular price $7

IMATS Special Price-$1-2 (I think will get back to you after I asked my blogger friend if she remembers)

http://lasplashcosmetics.com/productdetail.aspx?item=2