Bubbles went for the Ettusais Luminous Skin Party yesterday because beauty workshops are her new "in" thing. Not only is the $$ you pay for the workshop fully redeemable for products, you get the following benefits as well:
1) Door gift (Sulwhasoo is VERY generous with their door gifts, but that's for another post);
2) Make up/skin care lesson; and
3) Refreshments
Bubbles concludes that beauty workshops are the only way to go. So Bubbles went to the Shiseido office at Orchard Building and walked in to find this:
(1) Launch of the Ettusais Premium range (freebies if you buy 2 premium range products - you get one cosmetic pouch and one gel effect top coat)
(2) White bags are the door gifts, pink bags are for your purchases
(3) All laid out for the hands on session.
(4) Refreshments - cupcakes, fruit tarts, macarons and apple juice
(5) All laid out for the shopping spree
(6) Ettusais premium chiffon foundation powder. It has an interesting puff with 2 textures. The fuzzy side is for the entire face, and the spongy side is to get at the bits around the nose after folding the puff to get a point. The powder is very lightweight, and the Ettusais folks shared that to achieve this effect, the oil is drained off after it is mixed with the foundation powder before it is pressed into a cake. A makeup tip from Oki-san, Ettusais' Japanese trainer: to cover pores, pat on your foundation in an upward manner.
(7) Ettusais amino caviar cream - contains little spherical capsules which break when you apply pressure to release the essence goodness inside. It has 7 benefits, so one product is all you need
(throw out that essence, toner, serum, makeup base....) for day and night.
(8) A close up of the amino caviar cream and its texture (very creamy). You only need an almond sized amount for the whole face. It can be applied on the eyes as well, and on the neck if you're feeling extravagant. Bubbles found it very cooling when applied on her mien, but she may have applied too much as her face felt sticky after that (as though there was a thin layer of serum sitting on the surface). Bubbles fixed the sticky face by blotting it with tissue.
This cream is hydrating, but Bubbles gave it a pass as she's a Sulwhasoo alpaca at heart. The little skincare spheres in the cream are fun to squish between her alpaca paws, but take some effort to break/spread out when put on the face.
(9) Ettusais Premium CC amino cream. Bubbles bought this. It gave an instant glow and evened out Bubbles' skin tone. It is also pink!
(10) A blob of the CC amino cream. Bubbles was surprised that it was pink. It looks very light against Bubbles' human
(11) But it blends out well and will become invisible on the face. The pink adds radiance.
(12) Ettusais Premium Luminous Powder. This is a powder and highlighter all in one. To use it as a powder, mix the shades. To use it as a highlighter, pick up the shade on the left only. The highlighter powder is non-sparkly, unlike Bubbles' Cle de Peau one, so it looks like we have a real winner here!
(13) The powder brush is housed on top
(14) Mirror and powder/highlighter below. The powder is very fine. Bubbles asked if it had oil control properties, and the Ettusais folks replied that it controls sebum and gives hydration. How could this alpaca resist!? It followed her home.
(15) Testers we played with.
(16) Bubbles' haul - pink bag with purchases, white bag with door gift
(17) Bubbles bought the powder and CC cream, and got a blue pouch and clear gel effect top coat free. The door gift contained a mirror, an eye make up remover, and some acne thingo which Bubbles will figure out in due time.
(18) A contented alpaca.
