Essence on clearance at Target!

To all the aussie ppl out there, i went to Target yesterday, and saw heaps of the Essence core line with clearance stickers on them. Quite a few nail colours, also alot of the baked eyeshadows, normal eyeshdows, some of the mascaras, blushes, and also some eye pencils. Worth checking out i think. I picked up two nail polishes for $1 each! Score!

Kink in Silk Road

This polish looked really promising in the bottle, like a copper version of Choose Me by Essence. But it made my skin look so red, and chipped within an hour of putting it on! Kink is a brand in is sold in Coles stores in Australia. I have used 2 other polishes from this brand with great results, so was really suprised that this was a dud :(

Essence is here in Australia!

Im so excited :p You can now find full stands of Essence Cosmetics in Target stores all around Australia! I died when i saw the prices.... SO CHEAP! $2.55 for a 5ml nail polish. Heaps of other stuff too, eyeshadows, mascaras, eyeliners, lipglosses, foundation, blush, ect... All of them crazy cheap. So i started off slow and only bought 4 nail polishes :)

      L-R: 67 Make it Golden, 38 Choose Me!, 78 Blue Addicted, 85 Galactic Black

I shall be doing swatches off all of them over the next week :)


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China Glaze Crackle in Black Mesh over B Collection by Bloom in Rio

I felt inspired by a recent post by Nihrida - www.nihrida.com - Loving her blog right now :)
I used China Glaze Crackle in Black Mesh over B Collection by Bloom in Rio. Great combo in theory, but i had alot of things go wrong here :(

This was the first time using Rio. I thought it would be a nice bright 'summer' type of red, as it isn't a true red, it is a bit more orange/coral looking. As soon as i started putting it on i knew this was gonna be crappy. It was so runny! It went everywhere :( I had no control at all. But it was opaque in one coat, and i was going to go over it with the crackle anyway. I waited about 20mins, and it felt dry, so i started to put the crackle over..... It didnt crack well at all. Then to top it off it pulled some of the colour away, leaving it looking patchy, ugh!

Its blury, but you can see where it has pulled the colour away. Also the crappy cracking.......
Well as much as i hated it to start with, it's kinda growing on me :) Might try this one again with a different red.

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