Hello my fellow beauty addicts, as you are reading this I’m still in Hokkaido and about to be married a second time. I can’t ever get over how decadent it feels to be married twice! But when it’s all over, I would think it’s all worth it and bask in this new chapter of life.

No matter how organized or cool you may be, I think any bride would feel some stress in the lead up before the big event and I remember I needed some type of therapy that didn’t involve me hoovering junky carbs so I turned to my other non-caloric vice — puchipura cosmetics shopping (read here for puchipura explanation).

It sure did make me escape for a bit as I played with colours and debated which palette to get at the drugstore but I stowed these away and haven’t really used them much — I still intend to use them more though!

My BB cream fetish could not be tamed and no amount of logic could prevent me from trying the Visee Mineral BB Cream Baby Finish SPF25 PA++. Generally, I’m wary of BB creams in drugstores that do not have a tester and furthermore only one shade is available. However, I think this BB cream is marketed more as a makeup primer than a foundation — it really does give very light coverage and barely covers up the red areas around my nose. Another red flag was alcohol was listed as the fifth ingredient on the list (normally I would feel more comfortable if it’s in the bottom half) but I thought, “What the heck – it’s so cheap (about 1400JPY)!”

Another downer was it was not a match for my NC25-30 skin tone at all. It was too light and a bit too beige/neutral for me.

It does have a nice creamy finish that is not oily at all.

See – way too light for me…

If you can compare my fingers to my hand, you would see they are of different colours. I don’t think I would bin this BB cream just yet but it’s definitely one of those products that you have to make it “work” — I would use this in winter as a primer under a liquid foundation since this cannot act as the main base.

Some of my Japanese girlfriends prefer to use BB creams as a primer and not their main foundation. How about you?

The best part of the haul was this Visee Mineral Cheeks Baby Finish blush — a matte red that is a real gem. I have corals and pinks but no reds in my collection so I was pleasantly surprised by how nicely it swatched.

The pretty floral design is lovely but the low price point means the palette is in a cheap plastic casing which is par for the course.

This the a swatch of the colours all swirled together. I love it that the main red matte shade is just a pure red without any brown in it and the shimmers in the other quads tones down the redness — but I like how both look.

These Visee nail polishes were 350JPY in a bin, so I fished out two colours — a bright blue and nude that look like chic shades to have. I like the quilted pattern on the glass bottle, too. I haven’t used these polishes yet so have not much to report on these.

I’ll be back in Tokyo next week!

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