Affordable and effective

I love Essence products. The price is always right and the quality is great for such a cheap product, a dupe for many other more expensive products.

I'm currently using a lovely shade of this eyeliner called Teddy. I have dark eyes and I always feel that I shouldn't overshadow my already dark eye with such a dark eyeliner, so the Teddy is great, a soft brown that I use on my waterline to tight-line my lids. I love wearing the eyeliner alone too, smudging it in a tad to give a bit of a smokey colour, just adding some of my favorite mascara to round things off.

Amazing in my books!

I am completely obsessed with collecting things, and the Kajal Pencils by Essence are no different. I really like these, considering the price. They are smooth and they most definitely are pigmented (unlike other cheap kajal pencils), especially when built up. They do fade throughout the day, and I do find that on a hot day I end up looking like a bit of a panda.

These are a bit hit or miss - I don't feel that they do a lot of quality testing on each product. You can get one of the kajal pencils that is smooth and soft and easy to apply, and one in the same shade/batch that is hard and doesn't really give you much pigmentation.