Shiseido Maquillage Spring '07 CM

I love Shiseido makeup commercials. Especially when they feature Misaki Ito and Yuri Ebihara

This one's from Spring 2007 with Yuri Ebihara:

I love how her eyeshadow looks so glossy:

Remember that Maquillage lipstick I got my bf to get from Japan ?

Its supposed to be the one in the above ad, but too bad it doesn't look that pink on me because its a sheer lipstick and my lips are too red naturally :S

I love how clean and subtle her makeup is.

a haul of major proportions

i finally got some time to take pics of the haul my bf very kindly bought from Japan :)

Firstly, he brought me some clip on earrings which was sweet of him :) I didn't ask for them at all so it was a nice surprice :)



I don't have my ears pierced...my mom never wanted me to get them pierced. Even so, I've been considering getting them done since I was 15 but even now I still haven't decided if I want to.

Anyway, I'm always envious of the selection of pretty earrings other friends have, and have mentioned it to my bf several times so I guess he thought I could use these ones in the meantime. What I like about them is that two of the earrings don't look like clip ons at all from both the back and front. Only one of them (the one on the right) has the telltale clamp thing on the back of them.

For most people these probably look really blah, but to me, these are finally the first pairs of earrings I can actually wear out. I bought a couple pairs of magnetic earrings before but those always hurt my earlobes after a while, plus I couldn't find dangly ones that weren't obviously clip-ons. These are my favourite out of all the stuff I got ^^

He also got me 3 bottles of DHC Cleansing oil, and 2 bottles of DHC washing powder which I'd requested:




And some makeup...He and his friend were so sweet, they went and searched for every single item on the list I gave him even though I'd emphasized he didn't have to get everything. And its not like they even know what any of this stuff looks like so it wasn't easy....





Details and closeups:

1. Kiss Me Heroine Long and Curl mascara

I wanted to try the Japanese version since I'd been using Blinc for the past 3 months and its good, just pricey at over CDN$30 vs 798 yen in Japan...thats less than 1/3 the price I paid for Blinc :S




2. Kiss Me Heroine liquid liner

Chiara's review said it was easy to remove with just warm water, similar to the Kiss Me mascara so I had to try it :)




3. Kate Gel liners in purple and gold



I didn't expect the pots to be that small actually, I thought they'd be close to Fluidlines but they are a bit smaller. Will review when I try them.




4. Lunasol Sheer Contrast Eyes in Lavender Coral



I love the packaging, its all metallic, even the bottom. Pricey though...





You'll see that almost every palette gives you two double sided applicators that are actually shaped for a specific purpose. Only the cheaper brands like Majolica Majorca and Lavshuca provide one applicator, which are still better than the crappy Maybelline / ELF ones.


5. Coffret D'or 3D Lightning eyes in Blue Green





I love the metallic cover, but too bad the base is plastic instead of metallic like the Lunasol one, but then it IS cheaper by about 1500 yen (US$15) so...

6. Sofina Aube Jewellery Shower Eyes in Purple







7. Majolica Majorca Majolook palette in GR741 (LE)





I love this one the most even if it was the cheapest because my bf had to check several different stores before finding it. Most stores were sold out of it, probably because its LE.


8. RMK Shiny Mix Eyes in Light green








9. Shiseido Maquillage Sheer Climax Rouge lipstick in PK730






10. Coffret D'or Combiant Rouge lipstick/gloss in 06 Peach blossom




11. Shiseido The Makeup Hydro powder eyeshadows in Violet Visions and Languid Lagoon

I asked him to pick these up at the airport because they're more expensive here with the 13% sales tax plus whatever markup there is for Canada.




So...reviews to come when I try them out :D

a wordy post about possible hauls

I checked out the MAC Slimshines today. The formulas felt really nice and went on creamy. However I couldn't get a decent enough colour payoff with a lot of them. The only three colours that I liked were Funshine, Missy, and Long Stem Rose. Now these are permanent so I decided to get only Long Stem Rose. However at the counter I realised I forgot to bring my wallet :S so I ended up getting nothing at all.

After that, I went to Sephora to check out the NARS Orgasm lipgloss and Tarte cheekstains that I'd been lemming for a little while. The lipgloss was rather disappointing for me. I hate trying glosses on at Sephora with the testers (eww..) so I swatched some on my hand instead. The colour was quite similar to my Dior Ultra Reflect Gloss in Raffia Orange, but the consistency was thicker.

Since the Dior gloss doesn't show up on me all that well, I knew the NARS gloss definitely wouldn't show up. So I moved on to the Tarte aisle to look at the cheekstains. The stains were listed for CDN$39! WTH....these are only US$28 on Sephora.com! :( No way am I spending $40 on a blush...I might consider spending that amount on a Dior blush but not Tarte.

To digress, Dior has a LE blush out for $US52 / CDN$54, which looks so pretty!

Dior Flower Blossom



But considering the design would be ruined once I used it, I've decided I really don't need it.

Going back to the Tarte cheekstain, a markup of $10 doesn't make sense. (Not that any markups make sense now that both US and CDN currencies are on par...) Going from $28 to $39 is a 35% markup! The Dior blush for example is only $2 more, while MAC stuff is about 20% markup usually.

Anyway as you can see, I wasn't much in the mood for hauling anything today, even if I had remembered my wallet. However I spent a huge amount of time online checking out Japanese makeup collections. Reason is because my bf's making a trip to Japan soon, so he asked me if there was anything I wanted from there (hell yeah! lol :D)

So I was reading up on Japanese cosmetic lines trying decide what to put on my list :) I wish I could go there myself and test out the products though! its killing me to look at pictures of all these products and not be able to try them out myself.

Oh, and according to A Touch of Blusher, the must try look for Spring 2008 seems to be lilac. Great news for me, because I love purples. I've been digging the purples in the Shiseido commercials, and am considering buying that SV844 palette used for the look.



I do already have purples from NYX, MAC, and ELF but I want to see how Shiseido eyeshadows fare in comparison.

I also really want the Majolica Majorca eyeshadow palette GR741, partly because its LE and because the Muse made it sound so good...



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