// First impression: Essence LE Winter? Wonderful!

Hello Internetians!

It's December.

It's winter.

Christmas is on its way and everyone needs to get some presents for their loved ones (well, not me. I bought the last present yesterday so I guess I'm well-prepared :D)

And while I was on a stroll around our local drugstore I couldn't help but notice the latest essence le called "Winter? Wonderful!"

At first I thought "Why would you call your le that... winter is only wonderful as long as you don't have to go outside and face the cold."

Yea, you can see I'm not really fond of winter haha but anyway, I'm that kind of person who always falls for a cute packaging so I couldn't resist and got three items out of all those good-looking lippies, nail varnishes, blushes, highlighters, eyeshadows and hand balms.

As I'm a sucker for eyeshadow, I just HAD to buy the "all ice on me" eyeshadow palette (3,99€)

If you know me you probably also know about my struggle of finding THE perfect, highly pigmented white eyeshadow. The lightest shade of the naked smoky palette is my fave so far although I thought that there's a low budget eyeshadow that's almost as perfect as "Thirteen" because sometimes you only need one eyeshadow and not a whole palette. But since I wanted the naked smoky so bad...you know... :D

Anyway, I should have swatched this palette before buying as the lightest shades aren't that pigmented, tho the brown shadows are really good and I think overall they're very pretty.

And yes, I am sorry for the bad exposure but you know... it's winter, it gets dark earlier so I had to adjust lighting condition a bit.

(but I wrote some softboxes on my Christmas wishlist, so fingers crossed haha :D)

If there's enough time during my Christmas holidays I'll try to review this palette and also the other two pieces. As a whole makup look maybe :)

I also bought the "winter kissed cheeks" blush and the "you melt my heart" highlighter (2,99€ each).

I was looking for a powder highlighter for a while so I put that one in my basket in no time and the blush... it just looked very pretty haha I told you I'm a person who falls for a nice packaging very easily :D

I haven't tried them yet as I made myself an advent calendar (how sad is that hahaha but my bestie sent me one the other day and I cried THANK YOU ALINA) and they're a part of it :)

x

// Mini drugstore haul + mini review

Hey Internet,

it's May. Finally. 'Finally' as in "it's finally time for spending some money at the drugstore again".

It's just some kind of a habit that I have.
I just always head to the drugstore during the first three days of a new month haha

I'm a huge superdrug addict but we don't have any stores here in Germany, which is kinda sad.
Like, i love superdrug (and boots) so much because of all the makeup stuff they sell there which I'm only able to buy by ordering it online and I'm not a fan of ordering beauty stuff online as I want my makeup asap!!!
So that's why I always end up strolling through DM which is kind of the German equivalent of superdrug. Just not as cool.

Anyway, I'm going to show you what I bought and I even kept the receipt so I'll even let you know how much I paid for these things.

As you can see, it's the obvious makeup/ hair care stuff haha

I know I said it in other posts but I feel like I have to say it again:
I love face masks.
From left to right:
pore cleansing facial mask - 0,45€
peel off mask - 0,45€ (just tried one, not sure if it was helpful, tho)
dead sea mask - 0,45€

Garnier Nutrisse Creme 101 pearl blonde - 2,95€

Yeah, my purple hair is slowly fading. But I loved it. Bringing it back very very very very ... soon :)

Garnier Fructis Oil Repair - 5,95€

A lot of people recommended this one to me, so I though I should give it a try.

Dove go fresh - 1,65€

Balea bodyspray Golden Shine - 2,45€

The bodyspray just smells heavenly! And it literally covers you in gold haha

Balea Blemish Balm BB Creme - 2,95€
Catrice All Matt plus makeup in 010 light beige - 6,45€ (my fave drugstore makeup!)
Catrice Allround Concealer - 3,45€
Catrice All Matt plus powder in 010 - 3,45€

Catrice Glamour Doll mascara - 3,95€
Actually, I thought this mascara would be great as a lot of people told me positive things about it so I decided to try this. Will this one be my new favourite mascara?
Keep scrolling to find out ;)

Catrice Eyeliner Pen - 2,95€

Maybelline Brow Satin Duo in med. brown - 7,85€
The pug... I paid 7,85€ for this?
Hahaha I just couldn't figure out the price at the store and thought it won't be that expensive.
Wow. I'm kind of surprised right now.

Anyway, I heard a lot of good things about the mascara, the brow duo and the eyeliner so I had to try them as soon as I came home:

First of all:
After trying these products, all I can say is that they're worth the money.
Glamour Doll mascara: It's an "okay" mascara. I love how your lashes are deeeeeep deeeeep black after using it but they're not that volumized.
I'm usually using Lash Princess by essence and it's still my favourite mascara. It makes your lashes longer and seperates them better than Glamour Doll does and I think they both have the same price.
Catrice Eyeliner Pen: It's just that kind of eyeliner pen I wanted. But it isn't waterproof. Found that out while I was chopping onions ;)
Maybelline Brow Satin Duo: MY NEW LOVE! I love it! I love how it has an eyebrow pen and and eyebrow powder and it's perfect for creating that faded look.

What are your favourite drugstore brands?
Mine are simple, Catrice and Maybelline haha :)

// Review: essence - How To Make Brows Wow

Hello once again, lovely Internet!

I haven't uploaded a proper product review for ages now so I thought it's about time for changing this.

This review will be about the eyebrow kit "How to make brows wow" by essence.

I bought it a few weeks ago as I thought I should give essence another chance after proving me their quality changed for the better during the past 5 years and I needed a new eyebrow powder.

Hi Internetmenschen!

Ich hab seit einer Weile keine Review mehr geschrieben und war der Meinung, dass sich das dringend ändern muss also hab ich das Augenbrauen Kit "How to make your brows wow" von essence herausgekramt (Nicht wirklich, ich benutze es seit Tagen :D)

Ich hab es bereits vor einigen Wochen gekauft, da ich es nochmal mit essence versuchen wollte, nachdem sie mich davon überzeugt haben, dass sich die Qualität der Produkte innerhalb der letzten 5-6 Jahre zum Besseren verändert hat.

Außerdem brauchte ich ein neues Augenbrauenpuder.

The packaging is really cute. It's a small box with tiger stripes on the outside and on the inside, there's a small mirror as well as paw prints.
There are three eyebrow powder shades called "love blondes", "love 'em all" and "love brunettes" as well as a highlighter called "lift me up!".
I'm filling in my eyebrows with either "love 'em all" or "love brunettes" as my eyebrows are a bit dark and these shades make my eyebrows look a bit more natural and less drawn on than the other powder I used before.

Die Gestaltung der kleinen Box ist ziemlich gelungen und niedlich: Außen Tigerstreifen, innen zusätzlich noch ein kleiner Spiegel und Pfotenabdrücke.
Die drei Puder heißen "love blondes", "love 'em all" und "love brunettes", außerdem beinhaltet dieses Kit noch einen Highlighter namens "lift me up".
Da meine Augenbrauen von Natur aus etwas dunkler sind, benutze ich entweder "love 'em all" oder "love brunettes". Ich weiß nicht warum, aber irgendwie wirken die Farben sehr natürlich beim Tragen und nicht so "aufgemalt".