Susie N.Y will launch a new Rouge Glamorous Coat lipstick (1890yen) on 22 August in Japan. Made with lip plumping ingredients such as collagen, royal jelly extract and chamomile extract, the twelve shades come in 2 categories: Natural Basic Style and Adult Chic Style.
Susie NY's summer '09 collection, High Contrast World, is up on the official website. The collection includes a Face Modelling Powder (1680yen), 2 Shiny Eye Glosses (1050yen) and 3 nail polishes.
The Susie N.Y. website has been updated with the new spring collection, which includes a new series of eyeshadow quads.
The Eye Creation quads (1890yen) look like a cross between Fasio and Kate. The concept is also very similar to Kate's Diamond Cut Eyes, with a Jewellery Shine Color, a Highlight Color, a Medium Color and a Line Color in each quad. The shade combinations offered are the usual gamut of pink, brown, black and green. Not terribly exciting though they do look nice on the model.
Susie N.Y. will launch a new eyeshadow quad series, Eye Creation (1680yen, 4 palettes) on 13 February for spring. These look somewhat similar to the recent palettes by Kate and Fasio. I prefer the current design of Susie N.Y.'s Eye Visualize palettes which have cleaner lines but I guess change was long overdue as it has been at least 3 years since the Eye Visualize palettes were introduced.
I arrived in Tokyo yesterday and as always, it felt like coming home. Weather was chilly but not so cold that it's painful. After a good night's sleep, I hit the shops today and checked out all my favourite makeup stores like Plaza Style, Matsumoto Kiyoshi, Ainz Tulpe, Seibu department store and the Loft. This trip for me is really just to chill out rather than run around sightseeing. The only things on my agenda are shopping and eating :-)
It turned out to be a good time as several big Japanese brands have just launched their Spring '09 collections and there are also still all the Christmas collections on display.
Esprique Precious Xmas coffret
Esprique Precious True Impact Eyes. These actually look quite attractive in person and I would pick these over the Coffret D'Or spring palettes in a heartbeat. The texture is quite soft and velvety without being too powdery. The finish is a smooth pearl finish, which seems to be the trend among Japanese drugstore brands these days instead of the more metallic or intensely sparkly finish like Testimo or Aube Jewellery Shower Eyes.
Coffret D'Or Xmas palettes display
Coffret D'Or Shine Accent Eyes and the rest of the spring '09 collection just arrived in the drugstores. I swatched the new palettes and the texture is decent with a pearly shimmer rather than the bling-bling metallic finish of T'estimo eyeshadows. The metallic gel liners are terrible although they look very appealing and shiny in the palette. It proved to be almost impossible to get any payoff with these when I tried to swatch them with my finger but perhaps the result may be different with a liner brush.
The new palettes packaged with a free brush set (usually poor quality) and a Coffret D'Or mirror compact.
Coffret D'Or's new mascaras packaged with some freebies.
Gransenbon blushes
I'd been looking forward to checking out Gran Blush #14 Maple Nuts. This is a super pigmented orangish brown shade that would be great on medium to dark skin tones. If you go too heavy on this, it looks too orange but with a light hand, it gives a nice coral flush of color. Definitely the most pigmented shade out of all the Gransenbon blushes.
Gransenbon Gel Stay Liner
Gransenbon Premium Pore Cover Powder and High Tension Curl Mascara which are available exclusively at Plaza Style.
Rimmel Xmas collection display.
I was especially impressed by the gold Glitter On Cream Shadow which had a nice smooth texture that was not too greasy with just enough slip for easy application and dries down nicely to a powder finish. It has a gorgeous shimmery bright gold finish without chunky glitter like the NYX glitter cream palettes. And it cost only 630yen!
Kiss Xmas collection display. Both the Body Milk and highlight powder turned out to be lovely in person so I'm definitely getting these too!
Susie NY Xmas collection display. The Jewel On Multi Powder was just blah.
K-Palette limited edition Shiny Start Eyes #5 (purple), a lovely palette of smokey purples. This has also been added to my shopping list!
Excel Xmas collection display with the new pink eyelash curler.
NYX display of glitter cream palettes.
Loose face powder in a Tinkerbell case.
Bourjois display of the four new baked eyeshadows.
These were a total disappointment as the texture was rough and very dry to touch. I could get hardly any color payoff when swatching with my finger. Perhaps it is easier to apply with a wet brush but it's just not worth the effort when there are so many other better options at the store!
Lavshuca Xmas collection display and eyeshadow duos
Visee display. I was surprised to find that the Aqua Shining Eyes had been discontinued!
Majolica Majorca holiday collection display
Majolooks display
The Ainz Tulpe drugstore in Harajuku is a great place for buying prestige fragrances as it often has fragrances from brands such as Ferragamo, J. Lo, Elizabeth Arden etc discounted around 40% or more. This Lanvin Eclat D'Arpege (30ml) was only 1974yen (about S$32) and the 50ml size was about 2600yen!
Bihada Ichizoku masks and lipgloss set. I'm definitely getting a couple of these!
Crystal-encrusted mirror compacts at Plaza Style.
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Gorgeous selection of Xmas cards at the Loft.
Huge display of Chupa Chups (as in the famour lollipops) Bath Balls at the Loft!
Susie N.Y. will launch a small limited edition holiday collection on 25 November in Japan. The collection includes a Jewel On Multi Powder (1995yen) and three nailpolishes (840yen).
The Jewel On Multi Powder is the usual shimmery face highlighter and blush with shades of White Gold, Lucent Green, Pure Pink and Gold Pink.
The nailpolishes include two new LE shades, Nail Color Lustre X in X04 Nobility and X05 Sugar Candy, plus a Gloss Coat Shaking X, which is basically a clear top coat product that can be transformed into a glittery clear top coat simply by shaking up the bottle to move the glitter bits around.
