Essence has been a brand I have loved for a while now.

And to top it off, they are so freakin' cheap!

LOVE!

I now own a total of 6 essence pencils, and I will keep re-purchasing these.

My recent ones were 3 lip liners and one eyebrow pencil.

My eyebrow pencil (bottom liner and left swatch) is in the colour 02 Brown.

It isn't creamy which I love (the less creamy, the more staying power) but not too hard.

The staying power is great!!!!! I mean EXTRA GREAT!!!

So this is already a love for me!

I also brought three lip liners. 08 Red Blush (top pencil, right swatch), 02 My Treasure Island from the Ticket to Paradise Collection (2nd down in Pencils and Inner Right swatch) and 03 Hot Chocolate (3rd down in pencils, and inner left swatch).

Red Blush is very creamy, and very comfortable to wear. It looks great with just a gloss over the top and staying power is great.

My Treasure Island, OMG it is so glossy, almost to the point I could wear it by itself! It is such a beautiful liner!

Hot Chocolate was rough at first, but once I gave it a sharpen and took away that hardened outside from sitting in a package, it was really creamy. This would work really well on my Mum as she has darker skin again than me. But for me it washes me out, even with gloss. Once I have more maroon or brown lipsticks, I will wear it. But I don't have any at the moment! :(

Hope this informs you a lot more on the quality of these. So much bang for buck considering Hot CHocolate was 0.87c, Red Blush was $1.75, Eyebrow pencil was $2.50 and My Treasure Island was $2.25.

Thanks for reading :) xx