Esprique Precious Loose Powder Review + Spring cleaning

In a bid to find more clarity (in work and in my personal life), I always start cleaning out my house. Sometimes I do it in small parts and it depends on what I find too cluttered. In May, I chucked out a whole bunch of things from my kitchen and wardrobe, and this June, I found my powder room over-flowing with un-used and un-loved beauty products so I threw those out too.

Hording is one of those things that disguises itself as being frugal or not being wasteful, but if something is not serving you, why let it hang around?

What does this have to do with my new loose powder? Well, if you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you would know I’m a creature of habit (for certain things) and this applies to my foundation and powder.

I used to be deathly afraid of breaking out because my skin used to be very sensitive like that, but honestly, since I cleaned up my diet in a big way, I find my tolerance for different brands to be better. I stuck with Clinique for ages before I switched to L’Oreal (a friend’s recommendation). But lately, I found L’Oreal to crease easily (or is my skin aging – quite possibly!) and I didn’t like how I looked. And in winter, I even found the liquid foundation to be drying so I had patches of peeling skin on my face. Sounds horrible? Well, only if you looked closely, I guess.

So, I decided to experiment with Japanese brands. Duh, I live in Japan but I haven’t tried any of the multitudes of foundation makeup available.

I took a punt and bought Beaute de Kose’s Esprique Precious Loose Powder.

I’ve been using it for two weeks and I love the texture — it’s finer than the L’Oreal Translucide Loose Powder. I’ve used both the puff and my MAC powder brush and I prefer to apply with a brush. The puff doesn’t spread the powder very evenly and I had to shake the powder onto the puff several times to get the amount I want which is quite time-consuming.