Last Thursday, I attended the Happily Ever Essence event – a launch party for essence‘s Spring/Summer 2015 collection. The event was held at Casa Loma, which made for not only some stunning pictures, but hilariously, turned a lot of us into tourists in our own city as very few people had actually been there before!
Having come straight from work, I met up with some fellow bloggers on the subway (Sam from Gemstone Beauty and Steph from fun size beauty).
After we’d climbed the stairs of doom (if you’ve been to Casa Loma, and came from Dupont station, you know what I’m talking about) we were sent immediately to the basement where a purple carpet was stretched out before us. Impossibly cute touches on the wall included posters of new essence makeup releases.
We were bang on time, so the Screening Room had yet to fill up. To set the scene, the room was filled with an aura of purple light, essence branded bags, towels, drop cloths and limited edition product props were littered throughout the dungeon-esque room. The Princess Bride was playing on loop via projector at the back of the room. It was beautiful!
They even created a purple drink especially for the occasion (although I can’t for the life of me remember what was in it). We got the low down on some of their new products as well as some old staples. My points of interest were the Lash Princess and Plump NO clump!mascaras and a brand new 2-in-1 liquid liner that has a chisel tip on one end.
I managed to snag a shot with several of the CBBers at the event, so be sure to check them out as well!
- Laura of Lipstick and Laura
- Zubie of Living the Grey
- Steph of fun size beauty
- Shawna of Spill The Beauty
- Kaitlyn of Kaitlyn Elisabeth Beauty
- Julie of Mme Bonheur (YouTube)
I had a wonderful time (seriously, this event went on for three hours and I loved every second of it – usually they last for an hour and by then everyone is ready to pack up and leave!), got my nails did for the first time ever (no really) and then walked out with an enormous bag of makeup to try out!
Giveaway Time!
And this is where the giveaway comes in! I received a ton of product that I either will not use (looking at you, lip gloss), received duplicates of, or straight up already had them in my collection. I checked with the company and they are more than happy to allow me to giveaway the extra products to my readers!
So here’s what’s up for grabs, some of it is brand new releases, some from limited editions, and some even from the regular line:
- Eyeshadow: #cloud number nine, always on my mint, smokey night trio, smokey day trio, irresistible first love
- Lip gloss: Fabulous Fuchsia, Cute Pink
- Lipstick: Nude Love, On the Catwalk!
- Nail polish: Let the stars rain down on me!, L.O.L.
- Mascara: Lash princess, PLUMP NO clump!
- And a package of glow in the dark nail stickers!
Details
- Open internationally!
- Giveaway runs for two weeks starting today – May 2, 2015.
- One winner will receive all of the products listed above (however, if your country does not allow nail polish to be shipped in, I’ll remove those from the prize).
- Please be aware that all entries will be double checked to ensure fairness.
Good luck!
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