Korean Skincare & makeup Haul ~ The FaceShop, Aritaum, It's Skin, A'Pieu

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Hey guys!
It's been a while, I've been super busy with moving into University and adjusting and balancing life ahaa ~
however, I've been shopping ~~more than I should~~ a lot recently and I have tons of stuff to share :)
This mini-haul is a bunch of stuff I purchased a couple months back (but forgot to post) that I got at Pacific Mall ( a giant asian mall in North Toronto) which is pretty much the only place I can feasibly visit that has lots of physical Korean makeup stores that aren't over-priced re-sellers! There's Missha, The Face Shop, Holika Holika, Amore pacific, Tony Moly, It's Skin, and some others... (I'm really hoping they open an Etude House store soon!) Read on to see what I got + mini reviews!
* I've also added shopping links for each product - click on the product title

Rice Water Bright Cleansing Water ~ The Face Shop
Amazon ($10.44)

I've heard a lot about this popular line from the Face Shop (especially the cleansing oil) and I've been needing a cleansing water for double cleansing so I picked this up since it was 30% off (always a sucker for those sales)
I don't double cleanse all the time, but I do quite like this product - it does a pretty good job of removing makeup and is fairly gentle. I can't really speak too much for the brightening effects yet - I feel like cleansers can't really brighten much since they only stay on your face for such a short time.

#07 Crazy Ruby & #13 Cherry coke Water Sliding Tint ~ Aritaum

I think Amore Pacific was having a buy one get one sale at Aritaum? The colors looked really nice and I like tints a lot! I'm currently obsessed with the Cherry coke color (it's not that dark irl) but the texture of both is really nice - it's moisturizing but still has amazing color payoff, It's just slightly lacking staying power

Smart Solution Clear Sun Spray~ It's Skin

I've been wanting to get a spray sunscreen for a while since it makes it very convenient to re-apply throughout the day and it's also super light weight and doesn't make the skin feel oil or tacky. This one definitely does that - spraying it on virtually doesn't feel like anything on the skin at all and it smells really nice!

Tea Tree Toner ~ A'Pieu

I always feel like my toners run out waaaay faster than my moisturizers. This one is huge (275 mL) and tea tree is good for oily and acne-prone skin so I thought I'd give this one a try. So far it's not bad - not particularly amazing as it's slightly drying I feel so it's not the best for dry or sensitive skin.

Powdery wood eyebrow pencil #3 Grey brown ~ It's Skin

My Face Shop eyebrow pencil is running low and they're always out of stock so I though I'd try something new! I haven't gotten around to really using this one yet but I've tried it out a bit - it's still a little hard to get used to using a pencil shape brow product vs. the usual slanted/flat tip kind, but the pigmentation is definitely just right for an eyebrow pencil and it conveniently has a screw brush on the other side that it pretty nice for using

HD Perfect BB Cream ~ The Face Shop

I think I also picked this one up because it's on sale (lol) but it's pretty nice but has very low coverage compared to the purple bottle one (the cover power BB cream I think it's called).

And finally, here's all the samples I got! The stores here are definitely super generous with samples - especially at amore pacific considering I only got two lip products and they gave me a pile of Laneige samples :)

So that's it for this post, I've been doing lots of shopping in the past few months so I'll be posting lots of haul and review posts soon!

Thanks for reading,
Suzy