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For a fair while now, I have owned a fair few Essence lipsticks, and I love them.

I love the packaging of these little guys.

They aren't big and bulky like other traditional lipsticks, and I love the print on the lipstick.

The tubes are very simple, and the sticker on the bottom is just your traditional lipstick sticker.

The lipstick is very creamy, so far so good.

I find the pigmentation to be slightly lacking, which I find great for daily wear.

Especially with a pink like this. It isn't an in your face pink.

These are around $4-$5 AUD in Priceline Australia, which is a very good price point in Australia.

The lipstick doesn't make my lips show it's dry side something chronic, although I have noticed that when paired with a lip liner it does.

So far I am very satisfied. The colour isn't a normal colour I would choose. I am not a huge fan of pink lipsticks. I more so love my nudes and purples. But I am very happy with this shade!

Once again, thanks for reading guys :)

So it is that time again. Battle of the mascara's! I have seriously not done one of these since September 2012 and when I realized I had quite a little collection going on and I hadn't done this post in a while, then I though I may finally do it!

I literally hoard my mascara's just for Battle of the mascara's! eep!

This honestly is a really good mascara. It coated my lashes quite well and it isn't typically a wand I would choose anyways. This was gifted to me in 2012 for Christmas.

I only had one issue, which is an issue with a lot of these mascara's.

I didn't have the waterproof one. I must say this Mascara was the worst for getting in my eyes! It stung so badly! This was the worst for stinging.

This mascara is really similar to the designer brands mascara I had last time I did Battle of the Mascara's. Very similar in person, It didn't show well in the photo.

I love this mascara. I got a lot of volume and lift from this mascara.

Not much to say apart from I LOVE IT!

Okay this was horrible.

I cannot stand this mascara!

I have no clue what went wrong with this. It clumps, it is hard to build up, coverage is minimal etc.

HORRIBLE!

The wand is very much the same as the NP Set Glamorista Mascara.

I hated them both............ awkward!

Essence Get Big Lashes

This is one of the best mascara's I have ever owned.

It's cheap, it's great. I love it.

It is very similar to my Maybelline The Colossal mascara, which I also really adore.

I did a review on the Essence Get Big Lashes Mascara which is viewable here:

http://sparrowstylings.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/essence-get-big-lashes-mascara-review-xx.html

So that is it for my Battle of the Mascara's again!

Hope this helps you in picking your next Mascara!

:)

When Priceline had it's 40% off sale I needed desperately to replace my Maybelline The Colossal Mascara. Although I was on a very tight budget.

Instead, I decided to try out a mascara from the essence range.

I chose the Essence Get Big Lashes mascara which retails for $4.25 at Priceline as apposed to Maybelline's The Colossal which retails for $19.95 at Priceline.

I love this mascara. The main reason I chose this is because the wands were somewhat similar, which you can tell in the photo below, although the essence one is larger, and also because of cost.

The Essence mascara has really grown on me.

From the packaging to the application.

This covers my lashes well with no overly noticeable chunks which I commonly find with alot of cheaper mascara's. Even though I do typically comb my lashes out before it dries, chunks or no chunks.

This is a very good mascara for it's price tag, and I am very very impressed :)

Once again, thank you for reading. Feel free to leave a comment :)

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

So today I took advantage of the 40% off at Priceline. If you haven't heard about this yet, it will still be going tomorrow!

Australis Velourlips in Tok-i-o

The main reason I got this is because Jessi from Jessi in Wonderland Blog raves about the vibrancy of these. Although she is right, they are very drying. I noticed that straight away, and to be honest I found it a bit difficult to get even coverage. I can look past that though as they are so bright! I love the purple! Easily fixed with a balm or gloss if I don't want the matte.

Models Prefer Infinite Colour Eye Pencil in Black Cat

This is so BLACK! and to make it a little more special, it has a sparse amount of glitter in it.

It is already starting to be one of my favorite Eyeliner Pencils.

It's very creamy on first impression, and after hearing it being raved about on Youtube, I thought I may try it. Lucky that I have!

Essence Get Big Lashes Mascara

I haven't tried this yet. But I got this as the wand is kind of similar to the Maybelline Colossal Mascara.

I was on a budget thanks to lovely darling fiance, so I thought I may try this.

Garnier BB Cream for Combination to Oily Skin in Light

This was a re-purchase, if you follow the blog you know I already love this.

I have been mixing this with a couple drops of my Kett Cosmetics Foundation as it is a lot lighter than last time I brought it!

Face of Australia Face Base Primer

If you follow me already, you will know that I find primers a bit pointless. I have recently had very bad acne, and my pores are massive, and getting to the point they are stretched and hard to hide. Thought I may actually try a primer to fill them in before applying my BB Cream. I'll see how this goes.

Made a wee bit of a mistake as I got the one with SPF 15 and I do not like that cosmetics...

Hope you enjoyed my mini haul!