A fellow beauty blogger recently posted an image of her
Essence cosmetics haul and in this cute bundle lay the new Essence Velvet
sticks. I immediately became curious about this product as I’d never seen it on
the shelf before so alas, I hit my local drug store (Dis-Chem) and was
fortunate enough to find these on the stand. A first impressions post had to be
written so here it is!
Ok so let me start off with the basic’s here. In this range
of Velvet / Gloss lip colour sticks there are a total of ten shades, five
velvet and five gloss. It’s sort of self-explanatory that the velvet sticks
have a ‘Matte’ finish to them and that the gloss sticks have a… well gloss
finish to them. The shades include:
Velvet: Gloss:
01 Nude Hero 01
Radiant Rose
02 Peony Star 02
Clear Nude
03 Mega Melon 03
Luminous Rosewood
04 Cherry Crush 04
Poshi Pink
05 Plum Perfect 05
Brilliant Burgundy
I picked up one of each, 05 ‘Plum Perfect’ & 02 ‘Clear
Nude’
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| Clear Nude |
When I first applied them I noticed that both are highly
pigmented and feel a lot like a lip balm. They aren’t very moisturising but
neither dried out my lips either which was a pleasant surprise especially
coming from a ‘Matte’ lip product which usually does just that for me. They
have a long wearing period and seem to fade evenly when you eat or drink.
#LookingGood
When I first opened up the packaging I looked at it and
thought that it looked just like a jumbo lip pencil. Don’t think that I’m very
far off with that one. I find that because of the shape it’s pretty easy to
achieve the perfect lip edge using this product, the formula is pretty hard so
you won’t have to worry about smudging either.
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| Perfect Plum |
The only thing that I was a bit “Huh” about with regards to
this product is that when you look at it appears to be a “twist up” but in fact
it is not. You will need to sharpen these lip colour sticks, which I guess
isn’t much of a down fall since a little goes a long way with these…
All in all I’m definitely not disappointed with these lip
colour sticks although I cannot say just yet that I love them as I haven’t
quite had them long enough , I’ll have to keep you posted in that regard. If
you have these in your vanity are they one of your favourites or will you be
purchasing yours the next time you’re able to?
S
Xoxo
( Side Note: Since I've been wearing
this product quite a lot lately I have just tried to sharpen it - the
results aren't so great as it does so unevenly and the actual lip colour
softens as well #BitOfAMess, Anyone else experience this or is it just me? )
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