Review: Makeup: Kose Visee Jewel Crush Eyes Eyeshadow Palette

I like my Japanese makeup, but there is one brand that never captures my imagination - Kose. Somehow, nothing in the line ever interests me. Their colors look bland and boring. We have 4 makeup lines under Kose at our local beauty counters - Beaute de Kose, Luminous, Cosme Decorte (different counter) and Visee . I don’t know if Visee is carried anymore, but if it is, its a very tiny range and nothing like what I see on the Japanese website.

In fact, it looks like the Malaysian Kose site has never been updated since 2004! Just compare it with Singapore’s site and you’ll see why Kose doesn’t excite me here in Malaysia. So, it was sight unseen that I got the Visee Jewel Crush Eyes eyeshadow palette.

The palette I got is E-5 which online, looked like it would be a neutralish sort of colour. In person, its got noticable pink tones which I was not quite sure if I’d like. Pink on the eyes just doesn’t do it for me.

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Pigment powders and loose powder eyeshadows

I was introduced to pigments and loose eyeshadows about 2 years ago and in the process I built up quite a collection of them. I then got to wondering what the difference was between pigments and loose powder eyeshadows and why some companies called them such.

From left: Make Up For Ever Star Powder #90920, Barry M Dazzle Dust #14, MAC Coco pigment

MAC Cosmetics as most will know, sell pigments. These are jars of loose pigment powder that you can use not only as eyeshadow, but also for lips and face. Originally, these were supposed to be the basic ingredient of coloured makeup. Mix it with clear gloss and you get your custom coloured gloss. Use it on cheeks and you get a blush. Continue Reading >> Pigment powders and loose powder eyeshadows

Cheap and Good? Skin Food Vitamin Eyeshadow

This is Part 2 of the Cheap and Good? eyeshadow series. If you missed my explanation of what this series is about, do read Part 1 on my review of Elianto Shimmer eyeshadow.

For my second experiment, I popped over to Skin Food to check out their stuff. Skin Food is a Korean cosmetics company and like many Korean mainstream cosmetics, happen to fall in the low-medium priced market. So again, the customers tend to be the young and those on a budget. Here’s the link to the Korean site and to the Singapore site for those who can’t read Korean.

I’ll be honest. These cutesy Korean brands don’t appeal to me. I chose Skin Food because of the cute factor and because I always see many people at their counters. I reckoned there must be something worth checking out there other than the fact that their prices are low. Skin Food did have a range of eyeshadows that fell in the below RM25 range and I was curious about how they fared. So, I picked up the Skin Food Vitamin Eyeshadow for about RM23 (I think).

You have to hand it to the Koreans though. They know how to package their product so it appeals! Skin Food’s Vitamin Eyeshadow comes in a compact with a large eyeshadow pan in it. The brand name and the signature little cherub is embossed on the surface of the shadow. How cute is that? Continue Reading >> Cheap and Good? Skin Food Vitamin Eyeshadow

Review: Makeup: Guerlain Eye liner & Kohl pencil - Noir (Black)

I’d been lining my eyes with my Bobbi Brown gel eyeliner for a while and then I was introduced to the concept of tightlining for which the gel liner was not really suitable for in my view. So, I was using the Make Up For Ever Eye Seal with a black shadow for a spell, until I came across Guerlain Terracotta loose kohl.

Since I wrote my review on the loose kohl, I’ve stopped using it. It was just way too messy for me, and I did not have the time to clean up my eye area every day and mess up the rest of my makeup all the time. So, its in cold storage for now.

When Guerlain sent me the eye pencil kohl, I was a little apprehensive. I’d used pencil eye liners before but there was a tendency for it to smudge and smear. The ones that did not smudge or smear tended to be hard and hurt my eyes while those that were soft would leave me with racoon eyes. So yes I was apprehensive and I took my time to test it out.

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