By now everybody has seen the latest Maybelline eyeshadow called tattoo 24 hour stay. Well Essence has recreated the concept and created a more affordable version of cream eye shadow which retails for R40 where the Maybelline one retails for R99.

I was actually quite disappointed in this product because I expected it to be more user friendly. Firstly the cream is meant to be applied to eyelids using an eyeshadow brush but this eyeshadow cream messed up my eyeshadow brush so badly I ended up using my fingers to apply it.

The second problem was that this was long lasting eyeshadow but it looked really horrible and waxy on my eyelids. It also felt really heavy and I thought all my money would go to waste, so I used the product as a silver eye liner. Another epic fail, the eyeshadow smudged and looked horrible after two hours so I'm really not sure how you were meant to use this as an eyeshadow really.