A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Aqua Nature Dew Drop Cream

For those that have read the blog entry prior to this, it was the twin of the featured product for today, that product was the A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan White Up Clouding Cream, click here to read all about it.

With similar packaging and design, this collaboration series also has the featured product of today which is. .

A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Dewdrop Clouding Cream

Today's product features the A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Dewdrop Clouding Cream.

To read the full review of the A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan White Up Clouding Cream, please click here.

Enjoy.  

Product Description: This product features the use of clouding principle with 80~90℃ high temperature to contain nutrition with concentrate moisture cream to give brighter and clearer skin.

Mineral rich Canada whistler glacier 10% and North Europe cold weather grown life cloud berry retains moisture.

Breakdown of the main ingredients for this product below:

Glutathione: a very powerful skin brightener and in many different cosmetics featuring this ingredient, the result is quite phenomenal.

Niacinamide: Also known as vitamin B3 and nicotinic acid, niacinamide is a very effective skin-restoring ingredient that offers multiple benefits for aging skin. Niacinamide can improve skin’s look and feel, brighten its tone and revive skin's healthy texture.

How to apply the cream: At the final step of cleansing, gently scoop cream and massage into skin from forehead to chin (neck if desired).

White-up cream (Left) & Dewdrop Cream (Right)
If you would like to read the full review of the White Up Clouding Cream, click here. 

A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan White Up Cream, to read the full review of this product, please click here. 

The packaging is simple enough, identical to the A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan White Up Clouding Cream.
To read the full review of that product, click here. 

Around the container are different images (see below) which are quite a nice touch on this collaboration.

Personal Experience: I was very skeptical of this cream, since the sister version of this cream is the A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan White Up Clouding cream, which I was fairly underwhelmed with (though shockingly surprised, click here to read that blog entry).

However, shockingly enough, this product doesn't leave a white cast on my face nearly as much. In fact, it does begin to show a bit of a white film, but after massaging it into the face it'll sink into the skin for a splendid absorption. Though, understand because this is a final step cream, naturally it's not going to be as light as one would imagine.

I had originally tried the White Up cream first and it didn't blend into my skin as well, in fact, it left a white cast and my skin type couldn't possibly ever apply it during the day.

As for this Dewdrop cream, I would recommend wearing it during the day, night as a last resort only. It's quite hydrating, now the difference between hydrating and moisturizing in my opinion. .

Morning skin care routine ft. Dewdrop cream: 

spray toner/toner > emulsion > essence (mine has SPF 50+ PA+++) > final step cream 

Hydrating your skin means from within, it'll sink into the skin and keep your skin from becoming dry in the long run. Where as, moisturizing is more towards immediate effect from the surface of the skin, not within which would help in the overall run. This varies per items, however in this case, it's true enough for the hydrating aspect of this product.

This item immediately brightens my skin as a final step cream, as well it doesn't leave my skin too oily which isn't bad either. In fact, it gives my face a bit of a dewy appearance too, which is even better in my own opinion. The cream helps nourish the skin while helping clear it up too, this applies to the following: dark spots, post acne marks, etc.

Personally, I've enjoyed using this cream and I'm glad that I love this cream, as I didn't want a repeat of the White Up Cream.

Since using this cream the overall texture of my skin has brightened immensely, as well my post acne marks have significantly lightened which is always a plus in my book.

I've used the Etude House Big Cover Cushion (Mint) concealer, as well a CC cushion or a BB cushion (depending on the occasion) over the final step cream and it has not at all disturbed my skin at all.

For some products, as a final step cream, it can easily mess with the application of concealer or cc or bb cream by the product rolling up, caking up or even peeling.

This is in fact a product that I may in fact repurchase, which is very rare to say the least, if I don't then it's probably because I'm trying out new products. Though there are sometimes products I would like to repurchase, I owe to all my readers to continue blogging about new products and creating new product reviews on my blog.

Ingredients: Water, Propanediol, Triethylhexanoin, Butylene Glycol, Dimethicone, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil, Niacinamide, Polyglyceryl-3 methylglucose distearate,  Sodium Hyaluronate, Glutathione, Fragaria Vesca Fruit Extract, Rubus Chamaemorus Seed Extract, Cyclopentasiloxane, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Betaine, Titanium Dioxide, Panthenol, Glyceryl polymethacrylate, C10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer, Dimethiconol, Propylene Glycol, Tromethamine, Pantolactone, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Disodium EDTA, Caprylyl Glycol.

Offsetting Ingredients:

• Titanium Dioxide: an inorganic compound used in a range of body care products such as sunscreens and makeup. It appears to have low skin penetration but inhalation is a concern, it's a low-moderate in overall hazard, however moderate under 'cancer' under the health ingredient. For a more detailed analysis, click here. 

Recommend? Yes, 4.5/5.

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A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan White Up Cream

Here comes another product review with one of my most favorite collaborations to date, if not my most favorite. . 

A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan White Up Cream

Product Description: Milky whitening cream makes the skin brighter, tone up with Niacinamide and Adenosine! Real brightening up with milk protein, glacial water, glutathione.

Note: In my own personal use, Glutathione is a very powerful skin brightener and in many different cosmetics featuring this ingredient, the result is quite phenomenal.

Niacinamide: Also known as vitamin B3 and nicotinic acid, niacinamide is a very effective skin-restoring ingredient that offers multiple benefits for aging skin. Niacinamide can improve skin’s look and feel, brighten its tone and revive skin's healthy texture.

Adenosine: Anti-aging ingredient, Adenosine is a yeast-derived ingredient that functions as a good soothing and skin-restoring ingredient.

How to apply the cream: After washing the hands, gently apply each fingertip on one hand and collect a minimal amount of product (less is more) and apply on the following five areas: Forehead, left cheek, right cheek, nose and chin. This product may be applied to neck as well, if the individual wishes to do so.

This product unfortunately doesn't come with a spatula, I personally always try to avoid placing my fingers directly into a tub as to preserve and keep the product as clean as possible.

Front of the White Up Clouding Cream, A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan edition. 

Personal experience with product: When I began using this product, I was very much underwhelmed and actually shocked because all my other experiences with A'PIEU products were magnificent. When I first encountered this product, I noticed it was a cream and what that translates to is final step of skincare, before sunscreen + any additional makeup products for any whom this may concern that's reading. Immediately I noticed this product doesn't absorb into my skin and is much too greasy for my oily prone skin to handle during the day, in fact I'm shocked it can even handle it at night. However, when I tried at night, I simply applied toner and the cream and it was still quite heavy on my skin. Since my acne is not very active, I actually can use this cream occasionally as a night cream. Since my skin type is post-acne, this product works quite well if I just remove it the next morning with cleansing cream. With my experience, water doesn't remove the cream quickly and I have to tug at my skin too much without the use of cleansing cream. Additonally, when I'm using the cleansing cream to remove it the next morning, I still see the effects of the cream, despise it staying as a film on top of my face.

For the record, this product cannot be stacked with any make-up base products if for some reason anyone would dare to use this cream during the day, which I would never recommend as it's not very hydrating.

As a night cream that I'll remove the next morning with cleansing cream, it's slightly better than average in terms of whitening.

In terms of hydrating my skin or helping control the sebum/oil product, it's exactly what you wouldn't want on your face.

Product price: $13.00 USD (online)

Close up of the design around the cream container, quite nice, don't you think?

The product itself has a sleek, fresh look that I personally enjoy, reminder that it'll always be a bit more pricey for the collaboration edition of the item, if it's been repackaged. 

Product testing period: 3 months - ongoing 

Ingredients: I apologize, after hours of searching online, I could not locate the ingredients of this product anywhere.

Offsetting ingredients: N/A, personally if I don't know the entire ingredients in a product, I feel fairly uneasy to use it. As well, using it once again without knowledge of the entire ingredients list is more than likely not to happen.

Texture: Semi-thick white cream, easy to blend but difficult for product to sink into the skin.

White Up Clouding Cream (Left), Dewdrop Clouding Cream (Right)
To read the full Dewdrop Clouding Cream review, click here. 

Recommend? 

In terms of whitening effect in this product, easily 4/5. 
However, in terms of moisturizing, being a lightweight night cream or even absorbing into the skin. . 1/5. 

This product is actually an exception where I'm going to say Yes and No for my recommendation, which I'll explain thoroughly below. 

• Yes, I recommend this product if. . This product couldn't possibly be used during the day, this is out of the question completely if that's your goal because it is too thick and for certain individuals it may easily clog pores. I use this as a sleeping mask myself (Refer to my personal experience above) and though the semi-creamy texture allows this product to be spread around my face without much difficulty, it doesn't at all sink into my skin until at least 10 hours later. As well, it doesn't sink very much at all, rather it creates a film at the top of the surface which creates a powerful whitening effect. For a very long time I was in a mad dilemma because of this product, how on earth could I have the effects work when the cream can't even completely absorb into the skin? Mind you, if you don't wash it off the next morning, it'll leave an extremely obvious film and make you appear fairly unusual. As well, with my experience, washing my face of this cream will strip it's effects. Since this is the case otherwise, once I wake up in the morning, I will remove this very thick cream with cleansing cream and it works beautifully. 

Note: This product has very strong whitening elements, though most the time products under whitening are just brightening product, this product is intended and works as a skin whitening cream. I have a little post-acne and whitening the marks actually helps remove the appearance, I do not in any way mean to imply having fair skin is superior to any other skin color, that is not true and I cannot agree with that thought. 

• No, I don't recommend this product if. . You're looking for a moisturizing, non-greasy product. As mentioned above, this product is a very thick cream that can only be used overnight and it's fairly greasy, which I haven't encountered in many cream products. If you're looking for a moisturizing cream, this is definitely not it but don't let that discourage you! There's another product review from this collaboration series that I would recommend, it's the A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Good Night Sleeping Mask! 

Please note: I will not be repurchasing this product, however, it's always an honor to try out new products with my own money.

Product review for the White Up Cloud cream, if you want to read the full review of the A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Dewdrop cream, please click here. 

To read my latest new blog entry, A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Dewdrop Clouding Cream, please click here.

Did you know that this is my 2nd blog? 

My main blog is Travel/Lifestyle and I'm currently working on a massive 2-part Japan trip entry, I recently came back from Japan a few weeks ago. 

Click here to visit my main blog. 

Tonymoly x Pokemon Collaboration (Part 1)

Introducing the newest collaboration with a Korean cosmetic brand. .

☆ Tonymoly x Pokemon ☆

This Pokemon x Tonymoly collaboration (Part 1) consists of the following three groups of item, depicted below: 

1. Tonymoly x Pokemon Hand Cream 

The following below is the scents for each unique Pokemon in this hand cream collection: 

• Pikachu: Vanilla scent
• Charmander: Grapefruit scent
• Bulbasaur: Green Tea scent
• Squirtle: Lotus scent
• Jigglypuff: Peach scent
• Togepi: Lemon scent
• Snorlax: Lavender scent
• Eevee: Powder scent 

Please note, in Korea this product is currently Buy 1 Get 1 Free for the time being.

Which hand cream would you pick? Leave an answer on the comment section at the bottom of this blog entry! 

2. Tonymoly x Pokemon Foam Cleanser

• Pikachu Cleansing Foam (Moisturizing) 

☆ Contains Olive leaf extract & Lime (Vanilla scent)

• Squirtle Cleansing Foam (Hydrating) 
☆ Contains Hyaluronic Acid & Lotus Extract (Lotus scent)

• Charmander Cleansing Foam (Brightening) 

☆ Contains Grapefruit & Apple (Grapefruit scent)

• Bulbasaur Cleansing Foam (Pore care) 

☆ Contains Portulaca Oleracea extract and Egg White extract (Green Tea scent)

Featuring the 3 original starter pokemon, as well Ash's beloved Pikachu, this item is also buy 1 get 1 free in Korea.

Which would you pick? 

3. Tonymoly x Pokemon Cream

• Squirtle Water Moisture Cream ! 

• Meowth Butter Nutrition Cream ! 

• Psyduck Cheese Firming Cream !

• Pikachu Honey Moisture Cream ! 

There's unfortunately not enough information that I could find about these, though they're fairly self explanatoy.
However, I would definitely like to know what main ingredients are in these.

Which would you pick?

4. Pikachu Moisture Mask Sheet (Honey extract)

Source: Tonymoly Korea Official

That's it for part 1 everyone, what do you think about this collaboration? 

Is there any particular products that you've got your eyes set on? Let me know on the comment section below. 

Personally, I'm looking forward to see what other items Tonymoly will be releasing for this collaboration. 

[Review] A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Pure Block Sun Bling Balm SPF50+ PA+++

Hello visitors from around the world, 

Today's product review is actually one that I've been longing to write, though I took a long testing period with this product to ensure it's efficiency.

A'PIEU x Crayon Shin Chan Pure Block Sun Bling Balm SPF 50+ PA+++

Product Description: Triple treatment sun balm: Whitening /Wrinkle-reducing /Sun Protection SPF50+ PA+++ containing (60%) moisture essence.

Note: This product is available only in one shade: Apricot based texture helps to express healthy and clean skin, mild product for sensitive skin.

How to apply the balm: Carefully gather balm onto the puff, when a fair amount has successfully been transferred onto the puff, gently apply in a circular motion (inwards to outward motion) starting point from the middle of the forehead (apply onto left side, alternate to right), inner left cheek or inner right and going outwards. This product can be applied on the neck too, though I only use this product on my face as preference.

Application tip: Carefully apply the product along the jawline, generally I start from the left or right side and come to the middle, then simply alternate the side from the first you were applying on and repeat until complete. This actually creates a natural highlight effect when applied correctly. I generally do this to give the appearance of a slightly slimmer jawline, though it's just based on preference.

Back of the compact, quite a nice view from where the photo was taken too. 

credit: kyoubeauty

Personal experience with product: I was pleasantly surprised with this product, I actually purchased it on a complete whim when I purchased a haul of the A'PIEU x クレヨンしんちゃん (Crayon Shin Chan) collection. I've personally been a huge fan myself for a while now, additionally I discovered that A'PIEU is the sister brand of Missha!

side note: I just came back from Japan recently and I purchased the Missha Magic Moisture Cushion there, product review for that wonderful product will be up soon enough too!

The compact is similar to most brands, though the charm point was the クレヨンしんちゃん limited edition collection, I knew the product would be a sunscreen (hence, "sunscreen balm) but didn't know what to expect, I had never used anything then traditional sunscreen for sun protection.

When the product arrived I was very much content with the design, however, I was even much more surprised to test out the product on my cheeks!

This product has an Apricot based texture which worried me for a moment, I didn't want my face to appear as if I was wearing blush or any type of (extremely) notable makeup product. However, this product (balm) easily transfers onto the puff, which glides through my face and gives an instant glow/shine effect. The skin looks notably more "healthy" in a sense, definitely helps for instant brightening and just polishing the overall skin texture.

This product however offers little to no coverage for any type of acne marks, sun spots, etc. As much as it looks like a bb/cc cushion compact, it's just a sun balm (sunscreen coverage, natural facial enhancer) that offers sun coverage. Personally, this product is quite nice if you're just going out during the day and want a natural look. I definitely feel this product allows my skin (most importantly my pores) to breathe, in my opinion, in terms of breath-ability it goes: Sun Balm > CC Cushion > BB Cushion (I've only recently purchased my first BB Cushion which I mentioned above, though I can certainly tell the difference when using the product).

The product does moisturize the skin a bit, though it's definitely not a pool of moisture for your skin during application. Personally, I use spray toner onto the puff and then absorb, I personally experience an even better application with more moisturizing effect/dewy finish.

I don't have any complaints, this product melts into my skin with ease and enhances my natural facial features.

One more thing, this product can be (according to the claim) applied before makeup application and throughout the day as touch up, recall that we need to apply sunscreen every 2-3 hours of the day.

Product price: $13 USD (Online) 

Product testing period: 4 months - ongoing

Ingredients: Alaska Glacier Water Essence 60%, Fruits complex and Aloe Vera extract.
Note: After searching an hour, I was unable to find the full ingredients list and could only confirm the following ingredients above. 

Offsetting Ingredients: Based on the three listed above, there's absolutely no offsetting ingredients. However, I cannot confirm if there are any because I'm unable to locate a full ingredients list. 

I will continue looking for a full list of ingredients, I do hope it'll appear soon as I don't fancy writing product reviews without that information displayed. If i can locate it, I'll update this blog entry immediately. 

Texture: Sunscreen balm, easily melts into the skin.

Recommend? Yes, 4.5/5.

Please note: My recommendation of the product is based on the overall effectiveness only, please be mindful of the ingredients and decide whether this is a suitable product for your own use.

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