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Review: Essence LE Wake up, spring! Eyeliner Pens (01 happy first day of spring, 02 let's the spring begin, 03 spring a-ling a-ling)

Hey Beauties!

When I saw promo photos of Essence Limited Edition Wake Up, Spring! I immediately noticed pastel eyeliners. The shades looked so pretty. It's really hard to get a hold of colorful eyeliners in our drugstores, even more so to find a white one. Obviously I couldn't just take one shade, so I got all three.


Eyeliners come in a pen like shape. They all have colored packaging that corresponds the shade inside. Each costs 2.19€ and in it is 1 ml of product.


It has a foam tip applicator, which is the first problem. I have all three shades and the tip on all of those just doesn't get saturated enough. White one gets saturated the most, while lavender the least. You can see that there is still product in the pen, but it doesn't want to come down to the tip. I actually had such a hard time working with lavender shade that I bent the tip to almost break it and at that point the product was coming out from that point of breaking it. I then applied it on my hand and with a tip on my eyes. Since then I store them down wards and they work a bit better.


Eyeliners come in three shades 01 happy first day of spring is cool lavender shade, 02 let's the spring begin is white and 03 spring a-ling a-ling is retro minty green. All the shades are fairy light pastels. 


The formula of these is like a milky cream which needs a bit of time to dry down completely. It doesn't move once it sets, but if it gets in contact with water, it will come off. I also find them a bit sticky, so you definitely need to use some sort of eye primer, if you're eyelids are a bit droopy. 


The pigmentation is also not as good as I would expect. It depends from shade to shade. I find that white and lavender are more pigmented, while I always struggle to build up intensity with minty green. You need to go over the line multiple times to get the full color payoff. If you press the tip down too much you also get an uneven application. For some reason this eyeliner just doesn't work when I apply it over eye shadows. It's like the tip gets dirty with the eye shadow and doesn't want to perform. I really dislike this. It's obvious that I'm gonna apply it over eye shadow. 


I also applied all three shades with different eye makeup to show you how they look like on me. 

01 happy first day of spring

Pastel lavender shade is my favorite of all three, but it performs the worst. When I tried it at home it almost seemed like it was already a bit dried up. I might have picked the wrong one up in the shop. The tip doesn't want to get saturated. It took some real effort to make it look like it's OK. When I used it for the second time it worked better, because I had it stored down.




02 let's the spring begin

White performs the best. It's the only shade that the tip actually gets saturated, although it's less pigmented, because it's the lightest. White is great for creating double wings, 60's inspired makeup or just adding the light on your eyes.




03 spring a-ling a-ling

This retro minty green also doesn't get saturated enough, but performs a tad better than lavender, although it's less pigmented. I am a bit on the fence when it comes to the shade. It's unique, but I would almost like it to be a bit brighter. 

Obviously you can wear these as an eyeliner on its own - even though they are very light, but my eyes just look very tired without some kind of dark color around the lash line, since my eye color is pretty dark. But you can also use it as I did, just slightly above the black liner. It almost creates colorful shade.




Here I also used all three of them together. It's a bit difficult to go over them with black liner, because the texture gets pretty thick. But you can definitely make it work with patience and precision. 



I am disappointed by these eyeliner pens. The shades are unique and I love the milky finish, but it seems like Essence didn't put much effort into the performance. The tip doesn't get saturated enough and it's really hard to work with on top of eye shadows. If this was maybe in a gel form or liquid with a brush, I'm sure it would work better. I wouldn't recommend these. But if you'd still like to get these colorful eyeliners for whatever reason, I would say store them downwards and check in the store that they haven't been opened yet. 
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Review: Farmasi Kajal Secret Eyeliner Pen

Hey Beauties!

My second product I got from Farmasi is this Kajal Secret Eyeliner Pen. Don't let the Kajal mislead you. It' not wax based pencil, it's actually a liquid liner in a marker form.

It has black shiny packaging with silver writing on. I have it in black and that is the only color available. It costs 5.90€, but Farmasi members can get it for 3.90€. Unfortunately it doesn't say how much product is in it.


It has a sponge like marker kind of tip that gets saturated with the color. I will say I'm so used to L'Oreal liner, which has a very thin tip and I really like having thin tip, because I can make a very precise and thin end when creating my flick. This is my problem with this one. I can't create a very thinned out flick. I actually do my winged liner and then I take one of those cosmetic cotton swabs and dip it into makeup remover and perfect the end. 

That being said the applicator is nicely saturated with color. It hasn't dried out yet and I've had it for about one and a half month. 


Here is the ingredients list.


The color of liner is a true black with shiny finish. It's pretty liquid and it dries really quickly. 


I decided to compare it with my trusty L'Oreal Super Liner Perfect Slim in Black. As you can see L'Oreal liner tends to settle into skin cracks, while Farmasi doesn't. I think that's because Farmasi dries faster. As far as the color goes they both look black to me. 


L'Oreal liner also smudges quicker than Farmasi. I rubbed my hand and L'Oreal started smudging like crazy, while Farmasi didn't even move. Farmasi liner is really long lasting. It never budges on my eye and I don't ever need to reapply it.


I do have a problem with application though. Because of the marker form it has, you have to put very little pressure on the skin if you want to create a really thin line. It takes a lot of patience to get the end of the flick really thin and as you may see, it's still not as thin as I like it to be. Ok, you can correct that with cotton swabs, but it's just a hassle. Maybe it's my fault, because I put too much pressure. I feel like the quicker I do it, the better. Just don't think to much and don't be too precise.

 Also another really annoying thing. Sometimes when I go over the line I already created I take off the product, instead put it on. It creates patches on my eyeliner line and I can't go over and over it. I think the reason for that is that it dries to quickly, it forms foil like layer and when you try to go over it, you just basically peel this layer off. So yes, definitely not the easiest to work with if you want a perfect line. Of course once it's on, it stays put perfectly and I don't have any problems with it through the day.




Sometimes I do create a descent line, but it seems like it's a hard work some days :).




I love how long lasting and black this liner is. I think the price is also really affordable. What I don't like is the tip of the applicator (actually this marker form in general I don't like) and the fact that it almost dries a bit too fast, since you can't really correct it going over it, because you start to erase it. Not a bad product, but just not my kind of form. Maybe I need to still get used to those marker things, because I always preferred brush or felt tip liners. 

I also reviewed some of the other Farmasi products: Eyebrow Styling Powder, Shine Rush 2 in 1 and Eye Brow Pencil.




Moj drug izdelek od Farmasi je Kajal Secret Eyeliner Pen. Naj vas ne zavede ime kajal. Ne gre za voskast svinčnik, ampak je v resnici tekoč liner v obliki flomastra.

Ima sijočo črno emabalažo s srebrnim napisom. Moj je črn in to je tudi edini odtenek v katerem si ga lahko kupite. Stane 5.90€, ampak Farmasi člani ga lahko dobijo za 3.90€. Na žalost ne piše koliko izdelka je v njem.

Ima gobast aplikator v obliki flomastra in aplikator je dobro navlažen z barvo.  Jaz sem zelo navajena na L'Orealov liner, ki ima zelo tanko konico in z njo lahko narišem res tanko linijo na koncu mojega linerja. In to je moj problem s tem linerjem. Ne morem narisati črte, ki bi bila na koncu res tanka. Po navadi narišem črto in potem vzamem eno izmed teh kozmetičnih bombažnih palčk in z odstranjevalcem ličil popravim konec črte.

Aplikator je drugače odlično prepojen z barvo. Ni se mi še nič posušil in ga imam en mesec in pol.
Seznam sestavin.

Barva linerja je prava črna s sijočim finišem. Je precej tekoč, vendar se zelo hitro posuši.

Odločila sem se, da ga bom primerjala z mojim najljubšim L'Oreal Super Liner Perfect Slim linerjem v črnem odtenku. Kot lahko vidite se L'Orealov liner bolj usede v majhne razpoke na koži med tem ko Farmasi ne. Mislim, da je to zato ker se Farmasi hitreje suši. Kar se tiče barve sta oba črna.
L'Orealov liner se tudi hitreje razmaže. Na roki sem imela oba linerja in ko sem drgnila kožo je Farmasi ostal skoraj nespremenjen, med tem ko se je L'Oreal kar hitro razmazal po roki. Farmasi linerja mi nikoli ni treba ponovno nanesti ali popravljati.

Imam pa problem s samim nanosom. Ker je Farmasi liner v obliki flomastra moram res narahlo pritiskati, če želim ustvariti zelo tanko črto. Da dobim zelo tanek konec črte se moram zelo potruditi in biti potrpežljiva in kot vidite, še potem ni perfekten konec.  Ja res je da lahko to popravite z bombažno palčko, ampak to je že dodatno delo. Mogoče je problem v meni, ker preveč pritiskam. Zdi se mi, da hitreje narišem, boljše je. Ne smem preveč premišljevati in biti preveč natančna.

Druga zelo moteča zadeva je da včasih ko grem preko črte, ki sem jo narisala, črto izbrišem namesto dodatno narišem. Na črti ustvarim packe, kjer mi manjka linerja. Ne morem iti večkrat preko črte tam kjer sem jo že narisala. Mislim da je razlog zato ta, ker se zelo hitro posuši in ustvari sloj, ki je podoben foliji. Ko grem potem še enkrat preko tega sloja, ga začnem brisat oziroma se skoraj olupi dol. Tako da je, vsekakor ni najlažji liner za nanos. Seveda ko je enkrat narisan, ostane popoln in se nikoli ne premakne.

Včasih ustvarim kar spodobno črto, ampak zdi se da so nekateri dnevi težji kot drugi J.

Zelo mi je všeč kako dolgo obstojen  in črn je liner. Tudi cena se mi zdi primerna.  Flomaster oblika linerja mi ni preveč všeč (v bistvu mi ti linerji v obliki flomastrov na sploh niso všeč) in dejstvo da se skoraj prehitro posuši, saj ne morem popravljati črte, ker jo začnem brisat. Ni slab izdelek, ampak ni čisto po mojem okusu. Mogoče se še moram navadit na novo obliko, ker sem na sploh vedno preferirala linerje s tankim aplikatorjem ali čopičem. 

 Več o njem in podjetju si lahko preberete tukaj. Ocenila sem tudi nekaj drugih Farmasi izdelkov: Eyebrow Styling Powder, Shine Rush 2 in 1 in Eye Brow Pencil.


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