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December 11, 2008

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Canmake Stay on Balm Rouge Part II - Cherry, Alyssum, Dahlia and Earl Grey

( Click Here for part one) Despite being a lipstick snob, Canmake lippies occupy a special place in my heart. Their shades selection, which never looked cheap to start with, has evolved into something rather expensive-looking nowadays. I always ended up ignoring Canmake while visiting Japan (as I told myself there were too many pretty things, I couldn't simply buy "all teh toys"). As soon as I came back home, I kicked myself for not getting those cream blush and balm rouge at $6-7 bucks. Even with markup, they still worth every penny and actually outperform most mid-range highend options from Sephora. Here are the newer shades from the brands, released within the last two or three years. 13 Milky Alyssum is a slightly milky (the smooth creamy dulce de leche way, not the chalky white base kind of milky) rosy that belongs to the innocent my lips but better category. When I first used it, I couldn't help but notice the formula has a slight improvement:

Michelle Phan for Lancome- What do you think?

I am pretty sure that by now most of you guys (beauty blog readers) are aware of the fact that the YouTube Guru Michelle Phan has become the official video makeup artist(aka: YouTube spoke model) for Lancome USA . While we have all seen bloggers /YouTube girls promoting stuff like crystallized glass jewelry, circle lenses, sigma brushes etc. This is the first time (that I am aware of) some YouTube guru is hired by high end cosmetics brand as an ambassador to promote the brand. So I just wonder, what do you think? http://www.lancome-usa.com/beautyschool/faces-of-lancome/video-makeup-artist.aspx I personally think that it's a smart choice on Lacome's part as Michelle Phan's appears to be quite good at promoting herself/her brand/things in general and her fan base includes a lot of younger girls who wouldn't normally be attracted by grown-up brands like Lancome . For quite a while, I was wondering when is Lancome going to come up with a "fun collection" that

Integrate Pro Finish Foundation - SPF 16 PA++

Back in fall 2016, Shiseido Integrate did a complete overhaul on their line. The newly refreshed brand caused quite a stir, all for the wrong reason. While introducing the line's three spoke models (Kaho, Komatsu Nana and Mori Hikari), Integrate had an ad of three besties hanging out celebrating Nana's birthday, the other two went on and on about how they are no longer cute and increasingly undesirable as they approach 25. So the message was like "You are old after 25, make up for it!" The commercial drew a lot of criticism and was quickly taken off (here is an article in Japanese about the fiasco , there are some Taiwanese sources that still hosts the video but I won't link them here). I suppose it was insensitive (maybe a middle age man pitched the idea) but I still think it wasn't as off putting as those perfume commercials' message (Revlon's Love is On) "use our stuff so you can get laid". Anyway, I was pretty into their n

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