{"id":534,"date":"2008-05-28T10:27:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2008\/05\/28\/cheap-and-good-skin-food-vitamin-eyeshadow\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:09:09","slug":"cheap-and-good-skin-food-vitamin-eyeshadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2008\/05\/cheap-and-good-skin-food-vitamin-eyeshadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap and Good? Skin Food Vitamin Eyeshadow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>.<\/p>\n For my second experiment, I popped over to Skin Food <\/strong>to check out their stuff. Skin Food is a Korean cosmetics company <\/strong>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<\/a> and to the Singapore site<\/a> for those who can’t read Korean.<\/p>\n 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<\/a><\/strong> for about RM23 <\/strong>(I think). <\/p>\n 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?<\/p>\n The colour I got is a lilac. There is a reason why I ended up with this colour. I was at the Skin Food kiosk in MidValley Megamall and saw that most of the colours available were just too sheer and too light and pastel<\/strong>. I was actually quite hard pressed to find a colour that would work for me and took so long to choose that the sales assistant thought I was trying to swipe something. No, seriously.<\/p>\n After dithering, I eventually picked up the lilac as the best one of the lot. There were other eyeshadow lines available. There were mousse and loose powder eyeshadows and 2 other pressed pan eyeshadows – Sugar Dessert eyeshadow<\/a> and another I cannot recall off hand. Though pretty, they were out of budget as they cost over RM25<\/strong>. Though the texture of these 2 were finer, the colours were also of the pastel <\/strong>variety and highly shimmery<\/strong>. If you are looking for a highlight colour, try looking in these lines. However, if what you want is colour, I’d say forget it.<\/p>\n Coming back to the Skin Food Vitamin Eyeshadow<\/strong>, here’s how it looks on my skin. As you can see, the colour is hardly lilac at all, just mostly shimmer. On my eyes, it totally disappeared and all I saw was white shimmer.<\/p>\n Quite nice for highlighting, but I already own lots of highlighting colours and did not need one more. Next to the RM5 Elianto shimmer eyeshadow<\/strong>, you can see how pale the colour is compared to what you see in the pan.<\/p>\n Needless to say, I did not like it one bit.<\/p>\n To be fair, some other shades like the orange was more pigmented. However, warm colours don’t work well on me, so I don’t wear them much.<\/p>\n The texture of the powder shadow is hard <\/strong>and it was not easy for me to pick up the colour. Bear in mind I use my fingers and it is usually easy to over do colours when using fingers. I tried with a brush and got even less colour.<\/p>\n So, cute packaging aside, I have nothing very good to say about Skin Food eyeshadows. Comparing Elianto and Skin Food, I’d say, go with Elianto eyeshadows <\/strong>if you are on a budget. For RM5 you can’t go far wrong. The Skin Food sugar dessert eyeshadows are expensive for highlighting colours but they are pretty so maybe go for that one for a highlighter.<\/p>\n I guess the powder eyeshadows aren’t Skin Food’s strong selling point.<\/p>\n UPDATE: <\/strong>Read Beetrice’s Review on the Skin Food Vitamin Eyeshadow<\/a> and Bloop de Paris<\/a> eyeshadow in this Cheap and Good? series.<\/p>\n Skin Food Vitamin Eyeshadow<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n Cheap [rating:4\/5]<\/strong><\/p>\n Good [rating:1\/5] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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<\/p>\n
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