The first change they made is the fact that the caps are the same color as pens. It makes it easier to find the right shade, if you have it in a glass for example. Before all of them had silver caps. I was also really surprised to see that they have a transparent sticker with ingredients list on the sides of pens. Really nice surprise. 

Each lip liner costs 1.19€ and you get 1 gram of product. 

As far as the formula goes, it's pretty hard now. Before there lip liners were so soft that you could easily mistaken them for lipsticks. I guess they felt the need to change that?! I liked the previous formula, because I saw it as a new lipstick for a very cheap price, but I get why they harden them. The lip liner should be a bit harder to prevent the lipstick from going over the line and to make it last longer, so I am not mad at Essence. Now their formula seems very similar to Catrice Longlasting Lip Pencils. 

They are still creamy enough to easily spread over lips, but stay in place.

This means that lip liners are a lot more long lasting then they were before and that they stay in place and help to prolong the wear of lipsticks. 

11 In The Nude is light nude brown with peach undertone. On me it's definitely more of a brown shade and in no way nude. On someone with medium skin tone this could pass as a nude. It has a very obvious peach undertone to it. 

06 Satin Mauve is as the name suggests a mauve shade. It's a really nice lighter mauve hue which is a great base for mauve and plum lipsticks. It has more of a warm undertone to it, which almost makes it look a bit brown. I like to just wear it on its own, because the shade is so pretty. 

As you can see 11 In The Nude looks like a really nice warm light brown on me. I feel like this is my kind of nude, because it compliments my warm skin tone as well as gives my lips some color. I pair it with many brown and nude shades and really like it. 

Here I put MAC Velvet Teddy on top of it.

I've been told that some think Essence Lipliner 11 In The Nude is a dupe for MAC Velvet Teddy and I disagree. Here is a swatch of both. Velvet Teddy is darker, has a lot deeper brown hue to it and almost seems to have a bit of mauve undertone to it, while 11 In The Nude is peachier brown. In no way a dupe, just to clarify. 

I also swatched old formula of 11 In The Nude and as you can see the shades are a little different. Old version was actually a lot more brown and a tad darker. New version has more of a peach undertone and is lighter. I actually really like the change, because I'm pretty fair and you know I love warm toned shades. 

06 Satin Mauve looks like a really nice not too dark mauve shade on my lips. Yes, it's still pretty dark and in no way nude or my lips but better shade on me. I think this has a perfect mix of brown and mauve and I absolutely adore it. One big plus for me is the fact that it's still warm enough for me, since a lot of purples, plums and mauves can be more cool toned. 

I decided to apply MAC Patisserie over it, which is a lot lighter, but just gives it a bit of shine and moisture on top. 

I am in love with both shades. The formula is harder, long lasting and makes for a great lip pencil. The price is just right and I am sure I'll be buying more. Essence lip liners are my favorite lip liners / pencils. I definitely recommend you to try these, if you still haven't. 

Essence Longlasting Lipliner 04 Peach Beauty

This is a really creamy soft lip liner. It's one of those that doesn't need to be sharpen. You just swirl it to get more out. It's really creamy, almost too soft for a lip liner. The finish is perfectly matte and it has a very good pigmentation. One swipe gives you a really bold color. 

The shade matches its name. It really is a beautiful warm peach shade. Exactly my kind of color. I like to use this as a base under peach toned lipsticks, but I also love to use it on its own, since it is so creamy that it can easily pass as a lipstick. The staying power is also really good. Not as much as really hard lip pencils, but really good staying power of moisturizing pigmented lipstick. On that note, if Essence made lipsticks with this formula, I would totally buy it. It doesn't dry out my lips, which is always a plus.

Catrice Longlasting Lip Pencil 160 Sweet Nothing

This one is a bit different. It's harder, but still very creamy. You won't confuse it with a lipstick, but it's also not a typical hard lip liner. I actually don't mind creamier lip pencils, but if you do, than it's probably not for you. You have to sharpen this one, in order to get the perfect tip. 

The shade is really interesting. You may not see it on the photo, but it's very warm peach toned nude. I actually though that this would be a lot more white or nude, but the peach undertone is very obvious. It does look sickening pale on me, so essentially it does look like nothing. But if you look closely at the edges of my lips, you can see that it's a lot peachier than my skin around my lips. 

I will say this is a perfect lip base for those extremely nude lipsticks - which I'm not a fan of, since I look dead with them. It's also good as a highlight. You can apply it on the center of the lips and then go over with lipstick, to make the lips look more 3D. It's also good for cupids bow, since it does make it a bit lighter and it pops out.

I think this could also be used as a corrective lip liner. You know, when you get lipstick a bit out of the lips, you could correct it with this lip liner, if it was very similar to your skin tone. On me it does look a bit off, because of the peach undertone. 

It's well pigmented and it's matte. The staying power is good, but it can be a bit drying.

I decided to go over it with a darker brown lipstick (MAC Velvet Teddy) and you can see that the edges look a bit highlighter, where lipstick didn't covered lip liner. So now you get why I think it's good as a lip highlight. It really pops out on the cupids bow. I guess now you have an option of really pale lip liner, under every kind of lipstick, to prolong its wear and maybe use it as a under highlight. I will say the peach undertone did confuse me. They could just make a more neutral nude?!

There's 0.78 grams of product and it costs 2.29€.

Swatches of both of these. Here is a lot more obvious - the peach undertone. 

I like both lip liners, but I think Sweet Nothing peach undertone is unnecessary. Both feel creamy, but Essence feels almost like a creamy lipstick. They both serve different purpose, but I find them to be a really good cheap lip liners.