Sea Breeze Smooth Hand Gelato

On a whim, I picked up these two tiny 18g tins of Sea Breeze Smooth Hand Gelato via Amazon JP for my gym bag. There were two scents available, Botanical Sweet and Pink Grapefruit, and I got both.

Nest Fragrances Hand Cream

These 133mL/4.5fl. oz. aluminum tubes of Nest Fragrances Hand Cream in Black Tulip, Citrine, and Wisteria Blue were impulse buys, and I ended up trying just one tube (Black Tulip) for just a few times before passing all three of them on to my mom. 

Kyobian Body Cream

Here's a super short post for these 35g jars of Kyobian Body Cream in Ocha, Sakura, and Yuzu. Kyobian is a sub-brand of Kyoto Kurochiku, so you can guess where this is going, right?  

Maiko Cosme Hand & Body Cream

Maiko Cosme is another sub-brand of KyoMaiko, and I had zero expectation for this 70g jar of Hand & Body Cream Kinmokusei (kinmokusei, osmanthus, 桂花). Actually, worse than that. I was all ready to "demote" it the same way I did both the Maiko-san Sakura Cream and the Moisture Cream from the sister sub-brand Mamisango.

Why would I think this Maiko Cosme Hand & Body Cream would be any different? Over the decades, there have been facial skincare products that were so wonky, be it the formula or the texture or the scent, that I couldn't stand using them on my face. At the same time, they were fine and weren't expired or had gone bad or stale in any way, so I passed them on to family and friends. And when no one wanted to try them, and when throwing them out would be too wasteful (don't get me wrong: I have hated some things enough to have simply tossed them), that was when they got "demoted" to my hands, or worse, my feet. 

So imagine my shock: just when I thought that this hand and body cream(!) would end up being used for my feet, it got promoted to exclusive use on my face! Totally did not see that coming, did you?

Mamisango Maiko-san Moisture Cream

Here are two 30g jars of Mamisango Maiko-san Moisture Cream in two varieties: Komenuka (pink) and Matcha (green) that I finished long ago. These were facial creams that, like the Maiko-san Sakura Cream, were soon "demoted" as I didn't love them.

 

 

 

Mamisango Maiko-san Sakura Cream

Like Kyoto Kurochiku, KyoMaiko is one of those niche Kyoto-based brands that's geared towards touristy gift shops and sells sometimes gimmicky products like tiny little 5g jars of hand cream (guess who fell for it anyway? :P), small and flimsy reusable bags (guess who bought those too? =.=), meh supposedly facial creams (and bought these T.T), and smaller-than-credit-card packets of paper soaps for travel purposes (and totally obsessed with these, ha!). Yep, I'm guilty through and through. Hence this post for the 60g jar of Mamisango Maiko-san Sakura Cream, Mamisango being a sub-brand under KyoMaiko. 

Prreti: Moisturizing Multi Stick Balm

Speaking of super duper strongly scented products, here's another example--this 15g/0.52oz. tube of Prreti: Moisturizing Multi Stick Balm.

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream Part II

After many a jar and tube of the original First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream, I was happy to have received a 56.7g/2oz. tube of the scented version, Sugar Plum, from a generous Mystery GWP promotion they ran in Oct 2022. Yes, it took me this long to use up the tube and post about it :( 

Paul & Joe Makeup Collection 2021

Here's to add to the many posts for Paul & Joe Makeup Collection 2021, this one for the many non-makeup knick knacks that were included. I'm only 4 years late to post this, but better later than never =.= I bought the 2022 version too, which I haven't even gotten around to photographing. Ha.