Walk of Fame by Essence

My shrinking pay cheque has been leading me back into the drugstore makeup sections more than ever.  As a result, I've picked up a few more of the budget brand, Essence that has recently popped up at Shoppers Drug Mart.  I always appreciate a good, cheap beauty buy and Walk of Fame is definitely one.  This taupe creme wasn't as goopy as the previous Essence polishes I've tried and true to its claim, it does dry quickly.  It chips just as fast too but I tend not to complain about that so much if the polish is a quick dry.  At least it doesn't take long to repair a chip.

Where's the Party? by Essence

A quick stop in a Shoppers Drug Mart on Dufferin Street & Lawrence Avenue led me to an almost empty display rack of Essence cosmetics.  I'm curious to know why I've never seen this brand of makeup in any other SDM in the GTA except for that one.  They certainly don't carry it anywhere near where I live.

I bought 2 polishes and one of them was Where's the Party?, a purple green duochrome that leans a bit on the frosty side.  Considering the cheap price, it was less than $2 CDN, it's a pretty decent looking polish and has some really nice tonally transition to it and it looks good.  However, I got to tell you the formula was hard to work with.  It was too thick, bubbled and actually lived up to the promise of being a quick dry polish by becoming extremely sticky coming out of the bottle by the time I got to the second coat.  I doubt that I'd be able to get 3 more wears out of it before it would begin to dry up and be unmanageable.