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Will you be in NY on Wed. August 24, 2016? Then drop everything and get yourself to the 2nd Annual Peach & Lily Sample Sale!
We’re bummed to have to miss it (we’ll both be in London doing non-Kbeauty shopping!), but how awesome is it that Peach & Lily is making it an annual event. Yahoooo!
Read Renee’s account of last year’s sample sale to prepare. I’m still working through my haul from last year!
HAPPY SHOPPING!
AB See link party #4–Kiss & Makeup–has concluded and you can check out all the entries showcasing cushions, blushes, peel-off lip tints, BB cream, and MOAR from Asian beauty brands here. Thanks, all, for submitting your links. Now for our readers’ pick and hosts’ pick…
Nourish the Skin is Emily, a UK’er living in Korea, so you know she has plenty of access to the latest and greatest K-beauty makeup. Her post on The Face Shop x Disney collaboration has close looks at the lip tints, eyeshadows, mascara, eyeliner, and cushions featuring Mickey, Winnie the Pooh, and Monsters, Inc.!
So long as we’re talking kute K-beauty…some of her recent posts also feature A’PIEU x Rilakkuma, The Face Shop x Kakao Friends, and Holika Holika x Gudetama. Please wipe the drool off your keyboard.
My Serendipities is Toronto-based Joann who, like us, loves cats. (Which did not influence our pick at all, no siree.) The Holika Holika Dodo Cat Lip Tint Bar is a heart, pink, and covered in cats–infinitely Instagrammable in other words. Check out Joann’s review and demo of this Dior Lip Glow-esque balm.
Your AB See hosts:
Sophie – MapleTreeBlog
Amy – Peepingpomeranian
Angela & Renee – BeautyandtheCat
Vanna – LeavesofYves
Function of Beauty is a new company specializing in personalized shampoo and conditioner, customized to your hair type, goals, and tastes. We now have customized prescription skincare and customized K-beauty boxes, so why not haircare? When Function of Beauty offered us a complimentary set to try, I excitedly agreed to give it a go.
The premise is simple: describe your hair type and pick the qualities you seek in a shampoo and conditioner (effects, scent, and color), and in a few days, receive the bottles in the mail.
As far as personalized beauty products go, Function of Beauty is a steal. $26 for a custom shampoo & conditioner set (8 oz. ea.) with free U.S. shipping? Yes please! Jan. 2018 Update: It’s now $36 for a set. Definitely a splurge, but we’d still repurchase.
Continue reading “All Tressed Up: Function of Beauty Review-Personalized Shampoo & Conditioner”
Voting in Round #4–theme: Kiss & Makeup–goes on until tomorrow (Friday), July 29th, at 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm BST.
Click the pic below to be taken to InLinkz, where you’ll see all the entries showing off their makeup faves from Asian beauty brands. To vote for your faves (pick up to 3), hover over the post you’re voting for and click the heart in the upper righthand corner.
Stay tuned to see which is voted the top post.
Given K-beauty’s knack for collaborations with cute cartoons and mascots, it was only a matter of when, not oeuf, a Gudetama collaboration would happen.
Well Holika Holika fulfilled this egg-lover’s dream in May with a skincare and makeup collection featuring everyone’s favorite lazy, apathetic egg. I seriously can’t get un oeuf of my Gudies.
And THEN I discovered that there were also Gudetama sheet masks from Japan and Taiwan (by My Scheming no less!) Apparently, un oeuf is not un oeuf when it comes to milking a cash cow.
Update July 25: Voting is live now! To vote for your fave post (pick up to 3), click on the photo below to be taken to InLinkz. Then hover over the post you’re voting for, and click the heart in the upper righthand corner. That’s it!
Voting ends Friday, July 29th, at 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm EST.
Welcome to Round #4 of AB See, the Asian beauty link party! Click here for my post explaining what a link party is.
We’re hosting this week, and the theme is…
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As a makeup lover, I (Angela) picked this theme because I especially love the innovation and trends that have originated from Asian beauty brands. Gradient lips, aegyo sal, shiny foundation, cushion makeup, … the list goes on. And sometimes, it’s simply a matter of doing it better than non-AB brands have done it (see Laneige Water Drop Tints, Clio Kill Black liquid liner, and Fairydrops mascara).
Bloggers: tell us about AB makeup products, tips, or techniques that you like. Until this Sunday, July 24th, click below to add your link to an old or new post. Due to some…technical difficulties (ahem, I learned that WordPress.com-hosted blogs can’t do Javascript)…your thumbnails and links won’t show up here automatically, so I’m adding them manually each day.
Three Simple Rules:
1) Asian Beauty related posts only.
2) Comment on three other participants’ posts! It’s all about sharing the fun.
3) You can include the AB See logo above and link back to this page on your submission. Keep the party alive!
Readers: starting Sunday July 24th, vote for up to three of your favorite posts. Click here to vote.
Top posts will be featured on here! Looking forward to seeing what you all submit!
When the AB See link party (for bloggers and readers alike) took on the topic of sun protection, that was the push for me to finally–finally, midway through the summer–post a roundup of (almost all) the Japanese sunscreens that I’ve tried in the last two years. All of them are SPF 50+ PA++++, which is apparently hard to formulate well because I’ve had way more misses than hits!
These are the sunscreens reviewed in this post, in order of preference:
Continue reading “Land of the Rising Sunscreen: Japanese PA++++ Sunscreen Reviews”
Biore, Shiseido, Nivea, Sun Bears–those are some of the frequently mentioned brands when the topic of Japanese sunscreens come up in Asian beauty circles.
Solanoveil was new to me when I spotted it on Ratzilla Cosme, as a Best Pick no less! So I took a chance and ordered a bottle–sparking a loyalty to the brand that’s still going strong as multiple repurchases can confirm.
In the last year, I’ve tried both Solanoveil Watery Essence and Solanoveil Watery Gel (Ratzilla’s Best Pick), so this post reviews and compares the two. For reference, my skin is normal in the summer, dry and flaky in the winter, and I always wear foundation on top (mineral powder or cushion compact).
READ MOAR: I tried 12 Japanese sunscreens so you didn’t have to.
Continue reading “Good Day Funshine: Solanoveil Watery Essence vs. Watery Gel Review & Comparison”
September 2016 UPDATE: Ichimi Cosme changed its name to Ume Cosme. Instagram and Yelp links have been updated.
Today’s post is a closer look–in pictures–at Japanese and Korean beauty store Ichimi Cosme in New York’s East Village. That link will take you to Renee’s first look at the store, and Ichimi Cosme is also on Instagram and Yelp.
That’s Renee shopping because I was in the midst of my no-buy when we went ::quietly sobs::
Ichimi is located at:
318 E. 9th St
New York, NY 10003
(between 1st and 2nd Ave.)
What I love about Ichimi Cosme is that it offers a ton of Japanese beauty brands that weren’t available before in NY (at least not as far as we two shopaholics knew). Los Angeles (including the Asian suburb of San Gabriel Valley) has long had tons of Japanese offerings. (I’ve posted shopping guides on LA shopping and specifically Takashima in the SGV before.) Continue reading “Scratch that Ichimi Cosme – Asian Beauty Store Review”
Catladies and gentlemen, announcing…
All are welcome–regardless of whether you blog or just enjoy reading blogs! Click on the AB See logo above to go to Maple Tree Blog‘s post kicking off our inaugural party and giving the exact details on how to participate.
I figured I’d make this a “Link Parties for Dummies” post because I didn’t know what a link party was until recently!
What’s a link party?
Basically, bloggers submit links to their posts fitting the theme of the week (always AB-related for AB See), and readers check out the posts and vote for their favorites. This link party’s an opportunity for AB fans to see new blogs (AB See, get it?) and for AB bloggers to introduce themselves to new readers (and meet other bloggers, too!). Continue reading “AB See: Join the Asian Beauty Link Party”
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