essence Eyebrow Designer pencil 04 blonde

Day 13 was also kind of a bummer for me. I don’t know why the products in this advent calendar kind of suck right in the middle. It’s nice to have an eyebrow pencil (although I rarely use one), but the color is way to light for my black eyebrows so I can’t use it all.

Other than that, it has the same cute winter design just like the other products and it’s a nice addition as a makeup product. These pencils have a retail value of 1.48 euros (7 lei) each.

essence nourishing hand cream

This is a hand cream in a small size, perfect to take it with me in my purse. I think it can be considered a full size product because there are plenty of other brands who sell these types of hand creams. The packaging is real cute and it contains shea butter, coconut oil and almond oil. It has a pleasant scent but I can’t really tell what it is. It absorbs fast into the skin and it feels nourishing. Since hand creams are not usually sold by essence just when they have limited edition collections, I found some hand creams from previous collections in an online shop sold for 9 lei 1.91 euros (9 lei) each.

essence Let The Magic Begin bath bomb

I had one of these essence bath bombs from their last year’s Christmas collection and I must say it wasn’t that great because it just colored the water a little but the scent was very faint and I didn’t see any moisturizing ingredients in it. It was just a bath fizzer so to say. This bath bomb looks cute, it’s pink and all, but it’s also very very small (15 grams) so honestly, it really is useless in the bath tub. I used it just to sink my feet in some hot water because I had some pain in my ankles, but that’s about it. Since this is also a product that isn’t usually sold by essence, I will also place it at around 1 euro retail value.

So, these last 3 three products were also a little so-and-so. The hand cream and the bath bomb are just products in small sizes and the eyebrow pencil is useless for me because of the color, but it was a full size product. The total retail value is 4.39 euros, and the grand total for all 15 products we had so far is 24.64 euros.