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Essence x Polly Pocket! You can look forward to these pieces

Natalie Hemengül
14.7.2025
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She was tiny and brought me great joy as a child: Polly Pocket. I was also overjoyed when I heard that Essence was reviving my favourite toy in the form of a cosmetics collection.

Barbie is great. Polly Pocket is better.

There, I said it!

No toy brings back childhood memories faster than the miniature doll from the hinged box. I'm deliberately excluding the larger and more manoeuvrable Polly version, which looks a lot like Barbie. This is because Mattel had a hand in this after a takeover. Essence is bringing back 90s nostalgia with a franchise collection this summer. Not in the nursery, but in our toiletries bag. And I am so ready for it.

An overview: These parts await you at the end of July.
An overview: These parts await you at the end of July.
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The limited trend edition includes:

  • an eyeshadow palette with pop-up pompoms and integrated drawer
  • A blush stick that changes colour from green to pink
  • Lip Glazes in three colours
  • A lip mask with peptides
  • A cream highlighter with pocket mirror
  • a heart-shaped comb
  • candy-scented nail stickers
  • a hydro fixing spray
  • a make-up bag

My highlights

Lip Glazes
I love the purple tube in the colour «Polly2K». It's not just the play on words in the name. The format also shines, because: the gloss tubes are back in 2000s style and trendier than ever. Thanks to the key ring and the pendants, which create a pretty contrast, the product has its finger on the pulse in two ways.

«90's Girl» (pink), «Fashion Polly» (orange) and «Polly2K» (purple).
«90's Girl» (pink), «Fashion Polly» (orange) and «Polly2K» (purple).
Source: Essence
My first choice!
My first choice!
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Lip mask
Okay, a genius was at work here. When closed, the «Peptide Lip Mask» looks like a Polly Pocket box. Once opened, a mirror and a Polly are revealed. The golden knob at the front can be pulled out and serves as an applicator. A thematically very successful design. Will the lip mask also be any good?

Everything about this design is just right!
Everything about this design is just right!
Source: Essence

Eyeshadow palette
I love Essence. But eyeshadows aren't exactly their speciality. With this palette, it's more the box design that appeals to me - not the colour selection. Once you open the box, the pollys jump out at you in the form of a pop-up element. You pull the eyeshadows out of the box like a drawer. Really cutely done.

According to Essence, the palette will be the only product in the collection to be available exclusively online.
According to Essence, the palette will be the only product in the collection to be available exclusively online.
Source: Essence

Blush Stick
You and I both know that I don't need this blush stick. After all, Essence only recently launched a comparable product. Nevertheless, I flirt with the cheek rouge. Primarily because it looks jelly-like and is mixed with green shimmer flakes. A product that I could look at for hours with the same fascination as a snow globe.

Abgespaced.
Abgespaced.
Source: Essence
Look like little astronauts!
Look like little astronauts!
Source: Essence

The collection is due to go on sale from 28 July. Unfortunately, it will not be available at Galaxus.

Are you more of a Barbie fan?
Then you might be interested in this interview with a collector:

  • Background information

    Barbie fascination – meeting a collector

    by Natalie Hemengül

Header image: Essence

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As a massive Disney fan, I see the world through rose-tinted glasses. I worship series from the 90s and consider mermaids a religion. When I’m not dancing in glitter rain, I’m either hanging out at pyjama parties or sitting at my make-up table. P.S. I love you, bacon, garlic and onions. 


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