So I'm a bit upset with the Japanese cosmetics makers. They say one thing, but they do something else. The release date for these Lavshuca Pure Blossoming Eyes Limited Edition Sets is just one example. This screen cap clearly says May 1, and prior to this, the new release on Lavshuca's website also said May 1. It makes you think that these items are going to be released, i.e. going on sale starting May 1, right? Wrong.
***Picture from Lavshuca.
Friday night was N.'s birthday party in Shibuya. So while hubby was in class up in Ikebukuro, I went around Yokohama shopping for a bday present for N. As usual, in trip include perusing my favorite drugstore stops and foreign food shops, just to resupply our Twinings and jams. Then lo-and-behold I spotted the display for these Pure Blossoming Eyes Limited Edition! I checked my cellphone, thinking I'd been a vampire for so long I'd lost track of my time and date. Nope, it was friday April 27. And yet these limited edition sets were already on sale. The worst part? The displayed were completely empty - they were already sold out! My next rational thought was that this particular drugstore is somehow "special" in that it gets "first dibs," which explains why it got the merchandise so early on in the process that it had time to sell out the items! I went on to check out my other usual drugstores, only to find that they too had the same freakin' exact same emptied out display! Garrhhh!!! What is this, a bizarrely warped reverse Asian time continuum in which instead of being 30 minutes late to the agreed time you're a week early?!?
Pure Blossoming Eyes Limited Edition Sets PK Pink Variation and PU Purple Variation. All pictures taken in natural light without flash.
Luckily I have a small secret in a somewhat hidden drugstore that is usually the last place to sell out of anything limited edition. And what do you know, they have just 2 of the PK Pink Variation and exactly only 1 PU Purple Variation left! I grabbed 1 of each color, of course, still seething for being this close to missing out on them! Seriously, I feel deceived and lied to, because this is not the first time it happened. In fact, this happened with, like, every other popular limited edition item there was! They'd always say it'd be released on a certain date, but I'd be in the store on that day and the stuff would be sold out! Now either the ladies here just have lightning fast hands or the items came out early, and I'll bet my money on the latter. Grr...
PK Pink Variation
PU Purple Variation
Clear Stay Eye Base PK
Clear Stay Eye Base BE
- Middle: shimmery top wash, shimmer, very sheer. A warm petal pink. The finer and denser shimmers yield a semi-metallic finish with a brighter and cooler pink sheen. This shade is nowhere as sparkly as top washes go, so the result is a more sophisticated glow instead of magical sparkles.
- Left: liner shade, semi-metallic, high intensity. A warm rosy brown with silver shimmers. It is surprisingly more shimmery than most liner shades I've used. If you layer it you will see that it's semi-metallic. It is also very pigmented. Check out the swatch - that's just one layer!
- Right: base/highlighter shade, semi-metallic, low intensity. A pale shell pink that's on the cool side.
- Clear Stay Eye Base PK:
- With the creamy shimmers: a pale milky pink color with fine shimmers. It looks opaque at first, but after blending it becomes more translucent with a brightening effect.
- Without the creamy shimmers: a matte pinky nude skin color. Again, looks opaque and concealer-like but is also translucent after blending. No brightening effect here.
Base swatches on left half of the picture, far left swatch is without the creamy shimmers and next to it is with the creamy shimmers. See how the creamy shimmers totally lightens up the base?
- PU Purple Variation: a cool pink and purple palette with a gorgeous pairing of a lemony yellow top wash and a deep bluish purple liner color. In comparison to the PK palette, the top wash has larger shimmer particles but still isn't super duper sparkly, and no semi-metallic finish or different color sheen, the liner shade is not as shimmery, and the crease shade is neither metallic or as pigmented, which is too bad because it's so pretty.
- Top: crease shade, shimmer, low intensity. A shimmery lilac that's not as metallic or pigmented as I would like.
- Middle: sparkling top wash, high shimmer, very sheer. A lemony yellow. And while it has high shimmers, there are no wet diamond sparkles. But hey, the color is really pretty!
- Left: liner shade, shimmer, medium intensity. A gorgeous deep bluish purple. I don't care if it's not as shimmery as the liner shade in the PK palette. I love it!
- Right: base/highlighter shade, semi-metallic, low intensity. A pale and cooler shell pink that's not exactly discernible to the base/highlighter shade in the PK palette.
- Clear Stay Eye Base BE:
- With the creamy shimmers: a pale milky ocre with fine shimmers. Again it looks opaque, but after blending it becomes more translucent with a brightening effect.
- Without the creamy shimmers: a matte nude skin color that's only slightly less pinky than the base in the PK palette. Again, it looks opaque and concealer-like but is also translucent after blending. No brightening effect here either.
Same here, base swatches on left half of the picture, far left swatch is without the creamy shimmers and next to it is with the creamy shimmers.
4 comments:
argh, serious? I don't think I'm going to be able to find these then!
I'll take a look today but I don't have high hopes.
Oh well, my wallet appreciates these tactics :P
Hi Kuri,
I was in Shibuya Saturday night and saw these in stock in a couple of drugstores there. May be it's just the stores that I've been to, so don't panic ^.^
Cheers,
D.
The sets are very nicely designed! I used to stalk my neighbourhood Matsukiyoshi a few days ahead of any LE collection's official release dates as they usually arrive a few days early and you never know exactly when they will go on sale. Love the drugstores in Shibuya as they usually had the best freebies and deals.
Hi Iris,
And that's exactly what I'm going to do from now on, stalk the stores before the release dates -.-' I do wish I live closer to Shibuya, because the last time I was on the hunt for a LE item, I paid full retail and then stumbled upon the same items for 35% off at Shibuya. Sigh...
^.^
D.
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