by PJ on Friday, May 11, 2012
in -Dior, -Elsia, -Kanebo, -Kosé, -Lunasol, 2012 Spring, all about Japanese cosmetics, makeup, seasonal makeup top 10
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6th: Lunasol
(image from www.kanebo-cosmetics.jp/lunasol/)
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Looking at all the pinks and peaches in Lunasol’s spring 2012 makeup collection, I feel as if I were looking at colors from Jill Stuart packaged in Lunasol cases. It is a very spring-like, coherent, and wearable collection, but I think it is a little too safe and that it lacks the flair and imagination that many of Lunasol’s past collections had. This is mainly why Lunasol is not among my top three collections this season.
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Today I am launching a new series: Stash Debut 2012. In the last few months, I purchased a few items from Japanese beauty lines I had never purchased from before and I also bought eyeshadow palettes from Japanese lines which I hadn’t previously own eyeshadows from. I have been trying these items, and, in the next few months, I will be sharing my thoughts on them. First up in the series, I am reviewing Elsia‘s Luxe Shine Eye Color in E-5.
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(images/info from www.cosme.net)
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Kanebo Chicca will release its summer 2012 makeup collection in Japan on May 9th. The collection includes:
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by PJ on Tuesday, May 1, 2012
in -Anna Sui, -AQ, -Cosme Decorte, -Jill Stuart, -Kosé, -Les Merveilleuses de Ladurée, 2012 Spring, all about Japanese cosmetics, makeup, seasonal makeup top 10
10th: AQ MW
(image from www.nikkei.com)
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With Kosé Cosme Decorte’s Magie Deco not releasing a collection for spring 2012, my attention is naturally moving towards one of Cosme Decorte’s other lines, AQ MW (Absolute Quality Marcel Wanders). The filigree patterns of the line’s debut makeup collection for spring 2012 run across the cases as well as some of the products themselves. Packaging-wise, I still prefer Magie Deco, but I certainly look forward to AQ MW’s seasonal releases in the future.
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(images from www.kanebo-cosmetics.jp/coffretdor,
info from www.kanebo-cosmetics.jp/coffretdor & i-voce.jp)
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Kanebo Coffret d’Or will release its late summer/ early fall 2012 makeup collection in Japan on June 16th. The collection includes:
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(image/info from www.kanebo-cosmetics.jp/lavshuca)
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Kanebo Lavshuca will release its summer 2012 makeup collection in Japan on May 1st. The collection includes:
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by PJ on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
in -Paul & Joe, 2011 Holiday, 2011 Spring, 2011 Summer, all about Japanese cosmetics, fashion, makeup, makeup - base makeup, makeup - base makeup - powder, makeup - eyeshadow, makeup - lip color, makeup - lip gloss, skincare, skincare - moisturizing/others, stash focus
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First of all, apologies for the delay in posting about this stash update.
I have to admit that, ever since the last Paul & Joe winter sale, I had been waiting for the next one. (Paul & Joe does have items on sale during the summer sale, but the lineup is usually not as impressive, and I didn’t purchase any sale item last summer.) There were a lot of items on sale for the winter sale 2011, and, for the first time (that I can remember), holiday limited-edition items were sold at reduced prices at Paul & Joe counters right on the other side of Christmas.
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