I bought this while I was waiting for the super hyped up L'Oreal's Lash Paradise to reach Slovenia (I bought it then online) and now, having tried both I wonder why isn't there a hype surrounding this one as well" I picked it up in the drugstore without reading any reviews, actually because I don't recall seeing any or I didn't notice them and I made my choice purely based on the fact it's a pretty looking mascara. I've had it for a couple of months now and I find it quite impressive.

This has one of the strangest, but classic type of brushes. It's got an odd pattern of length of bristles, with one part of normal bristles and then a completely random bold patch in the middle part. It just looks unfinished and I have no idea what purpose it serves. I don't think here the brush contributes to anything important, though it separates ok, but they could have just done a regular shape and most likely no one would notice the difference.
Formula is a great consistency as soon as you open it and it's neither too gloopy or too liquid, so you don't have to wait for it to reach its full potential. At this one you just open it and it works the same as it will in two days, two weeks or two months. As is usually for Essence, the formula is intensely black, but what is not so common is that the formula is almost waterproof or at least it behaves similar to a waterproof formula. By that I mean that is difficult to remove completely, even with Biobaza Cleansing Micellar oil (Garnier ...