Essence hits and misses - My skin / Pure skin collection

Happy Monday everyone!


   Hope everyone is doing great! Today the weather here in my city was excellent so that's definately a mood booster.

   I have for you today, a review post. It is a review mainly on 2 essence skin products that i had on my vanity for quite some time, waiting to be reviewed. Unfortunately even though i LOVE essence (most of my make up products are by essence) these following two products were a major disaster. Major. I could not be more dissappointed :(

   The products that i am referring to are :

• My skin - face cream for normal to dry skin 
• My skin - cooling eye roll-on  with cucumber

Let's start of with the face cream.

  From first sight it looks good. It has a nice soft and cool texture with a light peach color. It also has a slight (not to intense) fruity scent. So far all good. The instructions recommend to be used mornings and evenings after cleansing , evenly on face, neck and decolte.

   I consider my skin to be dry with oily areas and not too sensitive. Turns out i was wrong. This face cream didn't feel at all nice on my skin.

   I go by the moto that if a face cream is really good that means that you can use it on your eye area as well. And so i always place my face cream aaaaaaaaall over my face. And this face cream by essence didn't feel nice on my eye area.

   The first sensation when you place the cream is coolness. Ah, such a nice feeling. You feel coolness and the sensation of hydrating. But this feeling goes away after 1-2 minutes after the cream is applied. Afterwards you are left with a sticky skin, not hydrated at all and it also tends to burn a little.......

   Please note that this may just happen to my own skin and not to everyone. But for me is was a great miss. I only used it 3 times on face. I couldn't bare it for more than that. In order to do my money justice i decided to use it as a hand cream (not good hydration results there either)

(A swatch and bellow it has been spread. Not a great difference but i thought to go ahead and upload it. It didn't make my hand lighter. It is just the lighting) 

Author's notes April 2014: I finally didn't use it as a hand cream. It never really absorbed in my hand and so it left it with a weird pasty feeling. I had to throw it away.

Moving on to the eye roll-on.

   Another great dissapointment :(

   Generally i have a very dry under eye area. If i don't use an eye cream or something hydrating underneath my eyes i cannot place my concealer. It tends to burn my skin and crack. I am accustomed to using the eye-roller by garnier beforehand, but i am always open for a new replacer. I though that i could give this product a go. Turns out nothing.

   That's right. Nothing. This product does nothing. Oh, not only nothing but something bad as well. Again as the previous product, it is cool and deceives you with a feeling of hydration but after 1 minute it turns to a gummy consistency. 

   I don't want to exaggerate but really not only it didn't help me place my concealer, but it also made it worse..... I ended up removing this product with a tissue in order to manage to place my concealer.

   Again, 2 times i tried using this product and no more. I also cannot think of an alternative use for it so i guess i will have to throw it away after this post.

                        
                               

 

   My conclusive opinion is that these 2 products didn't worth the 6-7 euros i paid for them (i think i bought the face cream 4 euros and the roll-on 3) but it may just be my own skin. I don't want to be absolute. 

   To lighten things up i will leave you with a positive review for essence. One that has to do with their Pure skin, SOS Spot killer product. It looks like that.

  

   This product it consisted of 2 parts. A white powder and a translucent liquid. You are meant to shake the bottle before use and so what you have is a white "watery" paste. The smell of it is quite intense and resembles of alcohol, medicine and clean medical equipment, which is great come to think that it's purpose is to deal with spots.

   I don't think it can cure your acne, but if you have one big red pimple, placing this on top will help it cool off. Also i have the impression that if you place is on a pimple that you just squeezed it will help the bacteria not to transfer and so no new pimples will be created in the nearby area.

   The product dries white on the skin, so i use it before i go to sleep and wash it off (what has remained at least) when i wake up.

(It dries white on the skin)

So my dear cat readers that was all for today. Essence is a favorite brand of mine so i have to say that i was quite dissapointed with my misses but what can you do. At least their other products make up for these misses.

Till the next time,

kisses and a paw