I bet you never thought you'd see such an entry on this blog. Don't worry, neither did I.
But since summer is almost upon us, it means the inevitable sunscreen questions keep piling up in my mailbox. And it seems that to nearly all Western fans of Asian beauty products, "sunscreen" is synonymous with "Biore".
Yeah... Even though Ratzilla regularly writes about Biore; even though everybody, their
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Biore UV Milks (Face, Perfect and Bright) SPF50+ PA++++
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Cinderella White Esthetic Serum-in UV Protector SPF50+ PA++++
Cinderella...
She was never my favorite Disney princess. In fact, if anything, I found her to be annoying as all hell. Maybe because I always felt closer to the evil stepsisters. I mean, I could understand them. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't particularly smart either and I knew full well there would never be a rich and handsome prince charming waiting for me at the end of the rainbow.
So, when a
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Biore UV Aqua Rich - Whitening and BB Essences
Biore part 1 is here.
When someone proudly tells you that they are using a Japanese sunblock, chances are they mean Biore. And when they say they are using Biore, chances are they mean the one in the blue tube. Which is not the Biore we are going to talk about today.
In the previous Biore episode I've already gave you my very important thoughts on all three Biore milks (they are "meh" and "get
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Im;BEAUTY Cloud 9 Whitening Anti-Aging Cream
Don't scream at me and don't tell me in the comments that I can't spell. Though that is true, too. I can't.
But this thing, up there in the title, that's how it is spelled on the box.
The brand is called Im;BEAUTY, and the product we are going to talk about today is Cloud 9 Whitening Anti-Aging Cream.
We haven't even started yet and things are already getting complicated.
You see, there are
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MŪN Skincare - first impressions
Last year, sometime around October, I took a look at MŪN (pronounced "moon"), and thought it would be nice to try it.
Then, I guess it was in November, I actually commented somewhere that I was thinking of getting the MŪN Anarose toner, because I love roses. And up until then, all rose products I had tried were, well... not very rosy.
A few days later I had an email from MŪN waiting for me in my
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Amazon Japan Prime Day 2017 Haul
Amazon's Prime Day sucks. It's all hype and no real deals. Yeah, it's better now than it used to be, that's for sure. I still remember one of the first prime day events and a lightning deal for a five gallon bucket of personal lube, or something like that.
I'm not sure how Amazon did this year in other countries, but from what I'm hearing on the innertubes, it was less than inspiring in the US,
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Evermere Moist Tec UV Gel SPF50+ PA++++
Back in March Miss Y went to Saitama for a work conference and apparently she had enough time to visit an esthe salon (a.k.a. a spa) to get a facial, a full body treatment and gods only know what else.
She brought some skincare with her. A brand I've never heard of before. Evermere.
She let me try a few things (a gel cream and a gel face pack) and I liked them enough to fire up the innernets to
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Spa at The Burj Club in Dubai
IMPORTANT:This is NOT a sponsored post. I paid for my visit to The Burj Club.I also asked and got permission to take photos and write about my experience.
When I was planning my vacation and it turned out that my flights qualified for Dubai Connect, I jumped for joy and started to make a list of all the things I wanted to do during my 22 hours in the United Arab Emirates.
Unfortunately,
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MT Metatron - MT Essential Serum
Do I still remember how to use this strange thing called a blog?
I hope so!
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There is a reason why I don't really like doing sponsored reviews. Actually, there are many reasons.
One, that usually I don't like the products I receive. I always have high hopes and well, high hopes is where it usually ends.
Two, if I do like the product and say so, then I'm usually accused of becoming a
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Korean beauty versus Japanese beauty - revisited
I wasn’t going to take part in the grand Japanese beauty versus Korean beauty debacle of 2018, because how much more can you beat this very dead horse?
To any thinking person with even the most basic reading and comprehension skills, it’s obvious that the whole thing started as a PR stunt to promote some non-name quasi-Japanese brand. Yet, K-beauty cheerleaders jumped on the cause with the zeal
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Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++
A couple of years ago, while reading various blogs written by foreigners living in Japan, I found one authored by a young woman from Eastern Europe. One day she posted something about her massive collection of Kanebo lipsticks. Her readers, mainly young, impressionable women in her home country, were suitably awed and amazed, and treated the blogger with all the reverence and respect that someone
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How House of Rose lost a fan
I used to love House of Rose. It's a Japanese skincare and beauty brand that this year will celebrate its 40th birthday. House of Rose prides itself on providing cosmetics that are "friendly for the skin." Its products are based on plant extracts and milk derived ingredients. House of Rose wants the customers to fall in love with its skincare and become loyal, long-term users.
Despite being "
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Les Merveilleuses LADURÉE UV Protection Base SPF50+ PA++++ and Translucent Base N SPF30 PA+++
You wouldn't know it was still spring according to the calendar. The weather has been silly hot the past few days and it feels like the middle of summer already. Crazy!
That means we are bombarded daily with new sunscreen releases and it seems that there are more and more of them every season.
But today, I want to tell you about two products from last year. One of them got updated packaging and
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DHC Lip Cream Star Wars Edition
I've realized that reviewing Korean cosmetics is, for the most part, pretty much pointless. Many brands are here today, gone tomorrow and products are constantly changed and discontinued. That is good from a marketing point of view, but sucks when you like something, wrote about it and then want to buy it again.
Today's post will be about a product that has been around for ages. It's still the
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