Essence Crystalliced Collection: Swatches

Essence's new trend collection for this winter is Crystalliced, featuring icy shimmery shades and dusky pastel tones.

The collection includes four Liquid Eyeshadows, three Lipglosses, a Snow Flake Mascara Topper, five Nail Polishes, a Liquid Highlighter, two Glitter Froster loose pigments and nail stickers.


Naturally, I couldn't resist picking up a few products to play with, especially since they are so amazingly affordable with pretty packaging.

The Lipgloss in 01 It's A Snow Woman's World is an intriguing sheer dusky lavender with violet micro-shimmer. This reminded me of MAC's Nico lipglass but without the glitter.

02 Diamond Dust Lipgloss is a sheer white gloss with sparkly silver shimmer.

03 Ice Crystals On My Window is a pinkish white gloss with pink micro-shimmer. The lipglosses have doe foot sponge applicators and retail at CHF2.95 (about S$4) for 7ml/0.23oz.

The Liquid Eyeshadows in 01 It's A Snow Woman's World and 02 Ice Eyes Baby (CHF3.75; 4ml/0.13oz) are sheer cream eyeshadows with doe foot sponge applicators.


The Crystalliced Liquid Highlighter (CHF3.95) is a typical pearly white liquid highlighter in a plastic pump packaging like the Vampire's Love Blush Gelee.

Swatched from left to right in the pic below: Lipglosses in 02 Diamond Dust, 03 Crystals On My Window and 01 It's a Snow Woman's World, Liquid Eyeshadows in 02 Ice Eyes Baby and 01 It's a Snow Woman's World, Liquid Highlighter.

All three lipglosses apply sheer with just the barest tint of color. I think these would work best over a lipstick to add glossy shine and some sparkle.

Both the liquid eyeshadows dry down to a semi-translucent finish with a light glimmer. These feel smooth and do not contain any chunky glitter bits.

All the products are made in Germany.