NEW ESSENCE SPRING/ SUMMER 2024 // First impression review incl. swatches (Is Essence the new ELF?)

in which I do a first impression review incl. closeups & swatches with the new Essence Spring/ Summer 2024 update. And they are doing a lot of dupe products for both Charlotte Tilbury and Milk Makeup. So the question is: Is Essence the new ELF?
00:00 Intro
01:48 New Essence Spring/ Summer 2024
07:53 Base
15:04 Cheeks
23:24 Eyes
31:49 Lips
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WHAT I’M WEARING
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MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO
Essence Hydro Gel eye patches
Essence The Super Balm
Essence Jelly Grip primer
Essence Hydrating Skin Tint 10
Essence Magic Filter 10 Light
Essence Baby Got Blush Pinkalicious & Dusty Rose
Essence Blush Crush Cool Berry & Lovely Lilac
Essence Baby Got Glow Sassy in Silk
Essence Metaglow duochrome highlighter
Essence Chilli Vanilli liquid eyeshadow
Essence Luminous eye tint Glazed Candy Cloud & Sparkly Jade
Essence Metaglow eye liner Chromatic Love & Galactic Chrome
Essence Dewy Eye Gloss Crystal Clear & Galaxy Gleam
Essence Call Me Queen mascara
Essence Cranberry lip oil
Essence Meta Glow lipgloss Cyber Space, Digital Pink, Pink Vision, Golden Future
Essence 8hr lip liner Vintage Rose & Fiery Red
Essence The Slim Stick longlasting lipstick
Other products:
Kiko Milano Neutral Eye Base
Essence Stay All Day concealer
Essence Skin Sensitive Mineral powder
Catrice Holiday Skin bronzer 010 Summer in the City
Refy brow gel
The Face Shop brow pencil
MAC Paintpot Painterly
MAC Yoghurt single
Catrice Glam & Doll waterproof mascara
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This is not a paid for advertisement or sponsorship. I buy 99% of all products I am showing. If anything was sent to me in PR or is affiliated, I will denote it with *. Links are not affiliate links, but just links to my personal pages linked to my blog or youtube channel, unless otherwise stated. I film my videos mainly using natural lighting as artificial studio lighting greatly alters the look/ performance of products and acts very similary to a filter. Besides, I don't live my life under studio lighting, so I need my makeup to look good in natural lighting mostly for my day to day life, which I why I prefer to test out products in the type of lighting I see my makeup in most.

[@greenelephant6539]

How are you not on Essence's or Catrice's PR lists?! You're doing a lot for these brands!

[@FloatinginDreams]

They only work with German influencers. And I wouldn't want to: their PR is the same for everyone and it is only a selection of products in shades that don't work for me.

[@claireplauche7724]

That green is LOVELY on you!💐

[@anix670]

Gosh Maaike, this entire collection worked so well on you! I am super impressed by Essence for this collection, wow. Excellent video, thank you!❤

[@FloatinginDreams]

Oh thank you! I think this update is one of the better ones for Essence.

[@michellelaybourn4707]

The eye patches sliding ftw😂❤️

[@FloatinginDreams]

I know! They were the sidekick I didn't know I needed.

[@anix670]

🤣

[@anacristinamoura881]

😂😂😂😂

[@claireplauche7724]

Lol..eye patches are cheek patches too!! You're awesome Mikka! Thanks so much for taking chances for us to know! Educator till the end!💕👑💐

[@FloatinginDreams]

Thanks for your comment.

[@Ana-gd8uv]

Love your videos and how in detail you present us the products! This new Essence line is amazing, I got the Pink pop blush crush. You look wonderful in green and this makeup is amazing on you, green eyeshadow and llip liner are wow! Ps love the backgorund, so calming

[@kathleenmoortel5449]

Great video! The look turned out beautiful 😊

[@FloatinginDreams]

Thank you!! 😊

[@azrah970]

I like those wand blushes and highlighters, I'm definitely picking them up. Personally I don't care about packaging as long as I don't have to give almost 40 Euros for Charlotte Tilbury, too expensive for me. I feel like Essence totally outshined Catrice with this drop, usually I'm more excited for Catrice update, but this time I'm all for Essence :)

[@FloatinginDreams]

Same here! Totally loving more in this Essence drop which is rare for me.

[@Natasa77]

Hi Maaike, I love love love how this look turned out and it suits you so well! Green and orange look good on you and has a nice spring vibe. I'm with you on Essence updates seeming more exciting than Catrice's. As for that primer, they used to have a gripping primer before, but the colour of it was some pinkish colour... it was maybe a year or two years ago. I personally didn't like that one and you really had to wait quite some time before putting foundation. I'm interested in quite a few products from this update, I'm definitely going to pick up some of those new lipsticks! Have a great day! x

[@FloatinginDreams]

I saw that one too but the fix & last range wasn't great for my dry skin. So I passed up on it.

[@TatianaQuinteroA]

I'm new to your channel and I'm liking every video. I enjoy your attitude and the fact that you do essence reviews. I live in Colombia and essence and Catrice are easily accessible brands here.

[@FloatinginDreams]

Yes I do both Essence and Catrice twice a year when they have their new collections out. Glad you enjoy! And welcome to the channel.

[@TatianaQuinteroA]

@@FloatinginDreams thank you! Have a wonderful day.

[@hayleylongster4698]

I really appreciate these videos so thanks for doing them! I'm planning on doing an Essence/Catrice haul just before my holiday in May (🇬🇷Ελλάδα, έρχομαι!!) so it's helpful to have your thoughts before then ❤

[@FloatinginDreams]

I am always doing reviews over on the blog and give short thoughts in shop my stash videos. So if you follow those you'll get the lowdown quickest. And I will be doing a few videos in March with the new lip lines and the palettes.

[@hayleylongster4698]

@@FloatinginDreams Cool, thanks, will stay tuned!

[@justmeiam4996]

I bought the Skin tint almost a week ago,not bad for a 4 euro!!! My only question is what it's gonna do in warmer weather (i have a t-zone) and it can be a bit drying - I'm using it with the Primer with niacinamide from Catrice(LOVE this thing I'm on my second tube it doesn't break me out)

[@vegemitegirl1971]

I do like the Cranberry lip oil. I believe it is an older product as I finished mine a year ago.

[@julieneuharth550]

Awesome video that's for all your hard work ❤❤❤

[@DiaDia18]

Veet nice your video! Did you know if they have Essence and Catrice new limited edution collection with Disney? Haveca nice day!

[@tanjas5375]

The skin tint got very good Reviews from german youtubers. I wear it today for the first time on my over 50 skin and it looks very smooth and evens out my skintone very well. So does the liquid blush.

[@tanjas5375]

The blush has no nasty ingredients.

[@FloatinginDreams]

The skin tint seems to be really good. Will.have to test it out more though to really tell how it wears.

[@frostysly_does_makeup]

Fun fact. The blushes have removable pans. You can remove the yellow rim and the blush pan falls out and they are magnetic.

[@FloatinginDreams]

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know.

[@user-px6bq8xe3d]

I have horrible short, pointing down and straight lashes. I loved the rare beauty mascara but it took a while to build up and it is quite expensive. I found a better alternative within essence line - lash WITHOUT LIMITS EXTREME. Have it in black and brown and love them both. Actually will be heading to buy new once today. The effect on my lashes is amazing (even though for most mascaras it is a challenge to make my lashes to at least show up). I also have hooded eyes and usually mascaras leave marks just below my eyebrow. This one doesn’t (for the first 3 months). I do feel like the formula changes in 3 months and you have to repurchase it, however it is still much cheaper than buying a rare beauty mascara and the effect on my lashes is better. Maybe this comment will be useful for someone who has similar lashes as I do, hooded eyes and oily eyelids 😊 P.S. I have tried the new call me queen mascara,but the wand is not working out for me. It makes my lashes on the outer part even shorter than they are 🙈

[@FloatinginDreams]

Lash Without Limits is a great mascara. I used up the brown one.

[@Brilliantnash]

Hi Maaike, love the dark green sweater on you! To me it looked like the liquid eyeshadow moved around a bit. Such a shame as it would make for a nice light wash of colour if one were into it.

[@FloatinginDreams]

That was user error. I applied too much on on eye and layered the purple shade on top.

[@user-xh1mj5dz7e]

I do the waterproof top layer on my lashes, too 😂

[@FloatinginDreams]

Yay! It works so well all the time.

[@elizabethsmith583]

I would like to try an Essence eyeshadow. What would you recommend? I have light skin cool to neutral undertones. Only colour I don’t like to wear is blue. Thank you ❤. 😊

[@FloatinginDreams]

If they are still available to you: the six pans that have music related names are solid options. I also like the cool nude edition and the recent Cape Town palettes. Not sure if any of them are still available though.

[@exomake_mehorololo]

We need people with similar lashes and taste to us to try mascaras. I dislike majority of mascaras because they clump my lashes together like insect legs, weigh them down, make them look like plastic or don't even tint my whole lash. Mascaras that work for short lashes look terrible on long lashes 😐 and a lot of people seem to like thickly clumped together crooked lashes that look like 10 pounds of mascara on if I go buy a lot of vids I see😅

[@S__Kay]

Yesterday I saw one of their basic 9-shade pallettes discounted and I wonder if they're going to replace it with something new.

[@FloatinginDreams]

Perhaps next round. There were no new palettes listed for this one.

[@angelrose7451]

Hi Maaike, may I ask where you bought the entire collection? I'm looking for several products but as far as I know Kruidvat etc doesn't have them yet and Boozyshop only has some of them. Like the slim click lipsticks have 10 different colors but I think Boozyshop only has 6 of them online. Thank you so much! 🤗

[@FloatinginDreams]

I placed 4 orders: 1 on Kosmetik4less, 1 on Boozyshop and 2 on Notino. However things are still going out of stock quickly so if you can't find the full range it's because products have sold out or haven't been sent to retailers yet.

[@angelrose7451]

Thank you so much! I'll probably also be making several different orders 🤗

[@claireplauche7724]

The eyeshadow looks like it creases...did it set down quickly?

[@FloatinginDreams]

I applied too thick a layer on one eye. The lighter patch is the purple tone I layered on top.

[@pinkbubblesnake]

God that meta glow highlighter looks really pretty. I wish they had another shade because pink/purple is too cool toned for me

[@pinkbubblesnake]

Also I can't find the eye tints easily in the UK, only two stores online have them and they're on clearance. None of the taupe shade left. Shame if they've already been discontinued

[@FloatinginDreams]

They are doing them here but the UK is usually behind and doesn't get the same products we do. Perhaps check again in a few weeks.

[@exomake_mehorololo]

Is that balm a dupe for anything? Like the Too Faced pillow balm?

[@FloatinginDreams]

Not sure. Could be. Pretty much everything here seems to be duping something.

[@pinkbubblesnake]

My moneys on the by terry baume de rose

[@victoriaq3465]

Pretty

[@pwallace5359]

You would look really nice e with thick bangs.

[@FloatinginDreams]

Only if I cut my hair short which I did 2 years ago. Currentle letting it grow out.

[@shicadelic]

Tried the new mascara... was meh

[@FloatinginDreams]

Really? What didn't you like about it?