Yuzu-Yu Hair Mask
Yuzu-Yu is a brand that is famous for their hair oil with yuzu oil. Yuzu makes your hair soft and shiny, while stimulating blood circulation when you apply it on your scalp. This hair mask contains yuzu oil along with menthol for a cooking sensation, and chili and ginger extracts for a warming sensation, that gives you kind of like a spa-treatment session at home. What a unique concept, isn't it?
The texture is pretty thick. It supposed to smell of yuzu, which is a fresh citrus scent with a little bit of bitterness, but it smells more like menthol unfortunately. I wouldn't want my hair to smell of menthol, but I thought to give it a try.
After shampooing, I applied it on my scalp as well as on my hair. Usually you need to be careful not to apply hair mask that contains silicone as it tend to clog the pores on your scalp, but with this hair mask you don't need to worry about that because it doesn't contain silicone, artificial fragrance, colouring and parabens.
The cooling effect kicked off immediately, and after 3 minutes my scalp felt so cool that almost felt like tingling. I was waiting for the warming sensation to start, but it didn't. After 5 minutes, I couldn't be bothered to wait any longer so I washed it off.
My scalp felt cool for another hour or so. I do not recommend it to use in winter, as you will need an extra blanket to sleep with. But in summer, especially in Japan it's always super hot and humid, it will be perfect to use on a pamper night.
And it made my hair SO soft and kind of fluffy, that is much better than having a limp and flat hair. Considering the fact that I applied it on my scalp, meaning the roots of the hair were completely covered with the moisturising hair mask, it's just amazing, isn't it?
My hair tend to get tangled when I use hair mask without silicone, but it didn't happen with this one. The only downside is the scent. I personally want my hair to smell good, and I want the fragrance of hair care products to be pretty strong and long lasting. This hair mask leaves a subtle scent of menthol (forget about yuzu, you don't smell it at all) that is not an amazing scent. I wish it had a nice pleasant scent like Macadamia :(
Anyway I can see myself using it in summer on a weekly basis to refresh my scalp. Have you tried this kind of hair mask? What's your thoughts?
Rimmel Marshmallow-look Lipstick 1300yen
Rimmel is definitely one of my favourite drugstore brands. I love their moisture renew lipsticks, apocalips and stay matte powder...they all are really good quality for the price. But those products are not available in Japan and Rimmel here seems to be completely different from the brand in the UK. Their products here in Japan had never been appealing to me until I saw this lipstick.
It's called Marshmallow-look Lipstick, and they brought out some new shades a couple of months ago and some shops had a special stand for the range which caught my eyes.
I picked up this shade 05 Mode Beige, as it looked like a perfect for every day wear.
It's got this gorgeous rosy tone which makes is feminine and wearable in my opinion. It looks beigy but definitely more pinky than orangy.
Apparently this lipstick has "marshmallow touch gel" that makes your lips look soft, and "moist oval powder" makes it last longer. It doesn't have shimmer or glitter particles, and formula is creamy that glides on and feels moisturising on the lips. It doesn't last too long to be honest, but as the colour isn't too bright you can't really tell that it's worn off :P
The formula of Marshmallow-look Lipstick feels more moisturising compared to Moisture Renew Lipstick in my opinion, and I like the fact that it's fragrance-free. They have bunch of pretty shades in the collection and I might pick up more shades for spring and summer!
I'm not sure if this range is sold in other countries, I'm pretty sure that it's not available in the UK but how about in your country? Have you seen / tried it? :)
I purchased Glossy Box a couple of years ago when it just came to Japan to see what it was like. The box arrived, I opened, and immediately I cancelled the subscription because it was crap. But now I hear quite a few people saying that their service has improved and the box isn't too bad. So I decided to subscribe to it again for a couple of months for a blogging purpose. Today I'm going to show you what I got in my February box.
So the box is nothing special, just a plain pink box. We don't have a thin mag that you get in the UK (not sure about the US), nor the post card thing which explains the products that are in the box, because we get different products based on our profile I guess.
The box was pretty heavy and I thought "Oh they have improved their quality because it must contain some full-size products". I was wrong. The reason why it was heavy was because of a bunch of sachets. Gee!
Noz Beashow Trial Set
Sachets of the haircare products from the brand Noz, created by a hair stylist Michio Nozawa, which I have no clue who that is. The white one makes your hair smooth, the blue one gives volume in your hair, and the red one moisturises damaged and dry hair. I haven't used them yet but I'm not excited at all about the sachets at all.
KRYOLAN Blusher Glossy Rosewood
Kryolan, the professional makeup brand from Germany, collaborated with Glossy Box and created this blusher. It's actually not sold anywhere else, and the shade is pretty nice.
The blusher is completely matte, which I like.
And this dusty pink shade looks quite sophisticated when I apply on my cheek. I didn't own any blusher like this, and I've been enjoying it since I got it. I wish it didn't have the Glossy Box logo on the packaging though.
Beaute de Sae Hand Cream -Rose bouquet
Beaute de Sae has been pretty popular here in Japan, I think the biggest reason is the packaging and the scent. They look very girly and feminine, and smell pretty nice. I don't particularly like the brand, just because they are too "kawaii" in a French-y way if that makes sense, their packaging looks like a French-wanna-be.
Look how tiny the jar is! This buttery textured hand cream is pretty rich yet doesn't make my hands greasy. However it's got a perfumy rosy scent, which I wouldn't mind if it was not as strong as it is. It's got organic sheabutter, aloe, honey and rise bran oil to nourish your skin. It's not greasy at all and it feels quite nice on my hands, I wish the perfume wasn't too strong.
Avance Lasjh Serum Mascara
Apparently they are known for their eyelash serum which has been around for more than 10 years, and this mascara contains the serum to grow your lashes.
This is a typical Japanese mascara in my opinion, that gives length but not volume. It's so wet that sticks my lashes together and make them look less dense. You might like it if you want to make your lashes look longer, not fuller, as whenever I wear this mascara I'm like "WOW my eyelashes look so long!" .
Stick Essence Face Mask
Last AND least, a Korean face mask. I'm not excited to try it because whenever I use Korean skincare products my skin reacts so bad.
That's all I got in my February Glossy Box. It costs 1500yen / month, and I honestly think it's not worth the price. The mascara itself is 1500yen so it is physically worth more than 1500yen, but I just don't feel like it is. A bunch of sachets didn't make me happy at all, and I felt like that they were being stingy about the sample of the hand cream from Beaute de Sae. I will keep my subscription until April to see what happens, and will most likely cancel.
What do you think of Japanese Glossy Box? Better or worth than the one in your country?
