Canmake Powder Cheeks Blush PW20 review/ swatch

I went through a phase of Canmake blushers and collected quite a few colors. This particular shade was one which I reached for quite often for about a month.

Canmake 'powder cheeks' are small compact blushers housed in a plastic container and also contains a very small blush brush. It's handy to have the brush inside but it's definitely nowhere near the convenience or ease of use of a proper full sized blush brush.

This shade is "PW20" , which is a soft candy pink in the pan:

You can see in the pan there's visible shimmers in the blush, sort of silvery shimmers:

Some swatches (below on the left is Chanel irrellee blush #80 tea rose, just as a random comparison), on the right is Canmake PW20 blush.

All swatches below are Canmake PW20 blush.

You can see it's really finely milled and does have a slight silvery sheen (rather than visible silver flecks). It's a true soft, milky candy pink, adds that pop of innocent pink on the cheeks.

While it's a rather adorable shade, after a while I got a bit bored of it- I think Jill Stuart blushes often have a quad in this particular pink (e.g. #13 milky strawberry mix blush), which is more flattering than Canmake in general because Jill Stuart blushes have a bit more 'translucency' to the finish which looks even more natural than Canmake. Of course, Jill Stuart blushes are like about 4 or 5 times the cost of these..

Nevertheless I would still recommend getting one or two Canmake blushes to have a try- they are good quality drugstore blushes that retails for like less than $10USD in most places. These are also sold in Taiwan.

Rating: 3.5/5.

Canmake Shimmer Jelly Eyes Sugar Milk Tea eyeshadow/ Kiss me Heroine Make Mascara volume up & curl review/ swatch

Canmek Shimmer Jelly Eyes are Canmake's liquid eyeshadows. They retail for a tiny 600 yen each (which is like 7-8USD).

There are 6 shades in total,
01 White Frosty
02 Sugar Milk Tea
03 Strawberry Parfait
04 Frozen Melon
05 Caramel Chocolate
06 Crystal Gold

shades are below, from RIGHT to the LEFT are 01~06. I'm reviewing 02 Sugar Milk Tea here.

Here's what it looks like. it doesn't come boxed, just sold like this (sealed with an extra few stickers outside)

The back: the color code 02 is written on the label.

Comes in doe-foot applicator- 

Swatches: on left is when applied directly, on right when blended. The shade is a champagne beige, once blended out the color is a bit lighter but there is still some pigmentation. The shimmer is gorgeous and even, there are a few more sparkly bits inside though (but not quite glittery). It dries quickly yet still manage to look moist.

Here's my bare eyes. The dot is a freckle. It's already prepped with some powder foundation and concealer but it's been a few hours so there's some wear off.

With a good 2 coat of the shimmer jelly eyeshadow in #02 Sugar Milk Tea. Also lined with the De Javu liner in Dark brown (reviewed previous post) and the Kiss Me Heroine Make Volume & Curl Mascara in black.

I added just 1 extra layer to show the sparkles better. Sorry didn't blend too well closer to the lash line.

Now to the Kiss Me Heroine Make Mascara in "Volume & Curl Up" (I think the other version is the Length & Curl). It's been a long favorite mascara in Japanese drugstores and is often voted number 1. I've used 2-3 tubes over the last 5 years (I change around for fun but like this one enough to go back to it every now and then). It really great at volume, you can see how dense my lashes look at the roots after application. I didn't apply with that much care either otherwise the length can go even more. In terms of curling I would still stick with an eyelash curler. (In the photos above I didn't curl my lashes).

Here's the Kiss Me Mascara. The packaging is very old school Japanese manga style drawing which doesn't appeal to me that much. It retails for around 13USD in drugstores in Japan and are easily sourced on ebay.

Comes in a unique applicator- it is sort of skinny in the middle and wider on both ends.

You can see it is a fibre based mascara so there is a bit fibre inside. I do not have too much issue with fall out but it still does happen. If applied carefully this can lengthen a fair bit too.

It is quite durable and it doesn't dry out too much despite having opened it for about 5 weeks. After a good 12 hours day I do get some minor smearing under the eyes but I get that with almost every single mascara out there. It does take a proper eye makeup remover to remove properly too. It is very "black" so a few proper removals is highly recommended.

Overall both items get a 5/5 from me. For girls with paler skins the Canmake will show up with better color. For tanned girls it will be more of a shimmer/sparkle than color (however you can always try other shades from the line). It is a gorgeous liquid/cream eyeshadow and you can wear it alone or use it as an eyemakeup base before other eyeshadows. It helps to hold other colors very well without interfering with the colors.

Canmake Cheek & Cheek Blush Duo #01 Candy Flowers review/ swatch

Canmake Cheek & Cheek blushes are little duo blushes released in early 2011 I think. The old single blushes were still available in the Japanese stores (single color ones in the grid patterns).

The Cheek& Cheek blush duos comes in 4 permanent shades currently (and shade #05 limited edition for holiday 2011 I think).  The color names are:
[01] Candy Flowers

[02] Rose Tiara
[03] Kiss Gerbera
[04] Love Blossom

I'm reviewing #01 Candy Flowers here.

Despite having 4 shades currently, in picture above from the website, you can see once you have maybe 2 out of the 4 the shades are somewhat similar and it is unlikely you really need all 4.

#01 Candy Flower below: comes in a light plastic (but not too cheap looking) compact. These retails for merely 714 Yen full price RRP in Japanese drugstores so that's only less than 8USD. Absolute bargain!

#01 Candy Flowers up close: the left hand side is a soft pastel pink, it's quite a pure pastel pink and does not have peach tones or rose tones inside. The color on the right looks a bit more true orange in real life but in photos it looks more like an orange coral. Both shades have some shimmers inside (mostly silver) , while visible in compact and in photos I consider it subtle on well primed skin.

Also comes with a very miniature blush brush- I consider it rather useless since it is just way too small. Nevertheless for touchups I think it's sufficient. The bristles are very soft which means it often doesn't pick up quite enough powders.

Back of compact, the color code (01) is on top right corner.

I've taken quite a few swatches, the left shade is as I described, a true pastel pink. It doesn't look very 'fake' on the skin as pastel shades sometimes would, as it is sheer and translucent enough.

The right shade applies quite corally peach/ orange on the skin (and very pretty IMO), especially when blended with the pink slightly.

On the bottom of the swatch is the shade when both colors are blended together.

The blended shade outcome is more visible in swatch pic below: you get a soft peachy pink shade. You can add more peach into it by applying a bit more of the orange side.

You can see the very sparse shimmers are only slightly visible in photos.

Overall 5/5 for these blushes, especially given the price. I mean they are not going to be better than Jill Stuart blush quads (which these were often initially compared with), but the pigmentation is decent and colors are gorgeous. The finish is also lovely if you use a proper blush brush.

I do not experience fading or oxidation with this blush even after a full 8 hour wear.

I picked a few of the other colors from the same range which I will review overtime.