January Final Week K-Beauty Makeup Releases

Hi everyone, I have a quick update for you today on the new K-beauty products that were announced or released over the past week.

Most are freshly announced, or only available on their official Korean websites. These products can be purchased through using a buying service like the one provided by KoreanBuddy.com or Avecko.com. One of the first stores with international shipping to carry new releases is Tester Korea. At times, new releases will start popping up in their store within a couple of days, so make sure to check them out!

Etude House Updates: Berry Delicious 

Berry Delicious Sweet Box Etude House x Margarin Fingers 

The Berry Delicious collection has launched. Etude House is offering two special sets.

The first is a Strawberry Knit box on sale from 59000 KRW to 39000 KRW at Etude House Korea. (Still available as of 1/31).

The kit contains a knit half-sleeve shirt that says Strawberry on it. It also contains a liquid lipstick, the Color In Liquid Lips Juicy in shade RD305 Berry Berry Much (Regular Price 9500 KRW). The liquid lipstick contains strawberry and raspberry extracts. Fantastic Color Eyes eyeshadow palette in Strawberry Fondue (Regular Price 14000 KRW). And the Berry Delicious Fresh Cream Blusher in shade 1 Ripe Strawberry (Regular Price 8500 KRW).

Unfortunately the Raspberry Knit box is sold out.

Play Color Eyes Juice Bar (22000 KRW) is the name of the new eyeshadow palette from Etude House for Spring. There are 10 shades. The colors are light neutrals with orange and peach accent shades and some deeper browns. Check out true-to-life swatches of the palette at Memorable-Days.

Balm + Color Tints (8000 KRW) by Etude House are moisturizing tinted lip balms that are two-toned to make for applying an easy gradation lip. 1 Casual Speaking Terms 2 Bittersweet 3 Love Lifts Half 4 Half My Apple 5 Half Glass of Wine at Night.


3 Concept Eyes New Lip Glosses now Live at Stylenanda

Stylenanda teased about releasing new 3 Concept Eyes lip glosses last week and this week they are now live on the site. The swatches above are from Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Baby Punch, Pink Polaroid, Hooray, Heart Attack, Angela, Friday Night, Gypsy Bloom. The glosses contain quinoa extract and argan oil to moisturize the lips.

Lapcos x Smiley Collection Further Details

In the collection are the:
Sticky Pri-dation Cushion (25000 KRW/15g)
Tok Tok Cream Blusher (16000 KRW/15ml)
A 5 shade Khaki Eyeshadow Kit (25000 KRW/1.5g*5)
Real Color Lip Gloss (15000 KRW/2g)
3 Nail Lacquers (15000 KRW/2g)
Smile Nail Sticker 4000 KRW/1 sheet
This collection is available in store now and will be online at Lapcos Korea here on February 1.
There will be a special launch set the includes the cushion, the palette, and three lip colors on that day.

Unpretty Rapstar x SSIN NIM collection


Youtube Beauty Creator SSIN NIM has come out with a box of products called the BHBOX (31500 KRW)
In it are a contour kit, and 3 eyeshadows as described in detail above by SSIN herself.

Aritaum Shine Fix Eyes: 7 New Shades

The Aritaum Shine Fix Eyes are affordable eyeshadow glitter pigments. Aritaum has added 7 shades to the line, they are soft beiges, pinks, oranges, and browns. The colors are: 29 Romantic Garden, 30 Pink Whale, 31 Play Mode, 32 Mambo Mood, 33 Candy Glow, 34 Brown Market, 35 Jazz Lounge. True-to-life swatches can be viewed here. These will be available shortly at Aritaum here.

The Catrin Illustar Luminous Face Fit Foundation

The Illustar Luminous Face Fit Foundation contains highlighter, color corrector, and foundation to get strobed without any additional products. The foundation also features botanical oil capsules. The violet shade is present to neutralize warm skin tones. Also new is the Two-Way Brush which is included in order to apply the foundation. The brush folds in half to cover even the hard-to-reach areas of the face. 42000 KRW here. Also new are an eyeshadow palette Illustar Luminous Multi Palette 45000 KRW and lip pencils Illustar Color Fit Lip Rouge 18000 KRW.

New at Espoir

Espoir Silk Smoothing BB Cream SPF33 PA++ 30000 KRW/60ml (sold out)
Espoir Lighting Powder 30000 KRW/10g a highlighting powder in a natural beige shimmer
Espoir Contour Powder Duo 30000 KRW/10g 2 Shades Medium and Medium Deep 2 Contouring Powders
Espoir Color Coating Liquid Eyeliner Waterproof in Brown and Black 15000 KRW / 2ml
Espoir Brow Master Concealer 17000 KRW/6.5ml is useful for concealing the brows and coloring them a lighter shade
Espoir Perfect Fix Eye Primer 10000ml/9ml
Espoir Pro Extra Moisture Stick 32000 KRW/10g is a primer stick that moisturizes and helps makeup last longer

Innisfree Glow Tint Sticks

Innisfree has a new set of lipsticks out called the Glow Tint Sticks (10000 KRW). There are 10 shades in the range:
1 Coral Tint Spring, 2 Tangerine Spring Sunshine, 3 Rippling Coral Lake, 4 Watery Spring Rose, 5 Girls Pink Cheek, 6 Warm Coral Spring Sunset, 7 Pink Tinted Cloud, 8 Exploding Sunset, 9 7pm Dinner Sunset, 10 Rosy Spring Sunset. For true-to-life swatches please visit here.

New at Labiotte

Labiotte has released a new Healthy Blossom Skin Fit Foundation (39200 KRW/4g+3.6g). It comes in a compact for portability, with refill. Some of the featured ingredients are natto, everlasting flowers, mushrooms. It comes in two shades 21 Light Beige and 23 Natural Beige.
There are also two new Chateau Labiotte Wine Eyeshadow Palettes (28000 KRW/8.8g). The Dry Wine Palette is full of beige and brown mattes and shimmers in both warm and cool tones. The Sweet Wine Palette has pinks and burgundy mattes and shimmers.
Chateau Labiotte Wine Lip Tints (12000 KRW/7g) comes in 6 shades RD01 Shiraz Red, RD02 Nebiolro Red, RD03 Merolo Burgundy, OR01 Chardonnay Orange, CR01 Rose Coral, PK01 Blush Pink.


O HUI Age Recovery Cushion

The new O HUI Age Recovery Cushion (60000 KRW/compact+refill), is a moisturizing dewy cushion with collagen for dry skin. Soon to be available at O HUI Korea.

New at Oseque 

Oseque has released a new makeup collection.
Shocking Booster Mascara (13000 KRW) gives volume and lasting curl to the lashes. It features ingredients "memory polymer" ingredients to boost and hold curl.
Shocking Lip And Cheek is a multi-use product that can be used on the lips, eyes, and cheeks. There is a tint gloss and an eye and cheek 'pudding' texture product.
Shocking Dual Eyebrow comes with a dark brown pudding texture eyebrow filler and a browcara.

Peripera Sweet Pang Jellys and Cushion Pangs

The new Sweet Jelly Pangs from Peripera, are tinted lip balms that give a light, glossy moisturizing tint to the lips in 5 shades: 1 "Cause for Flutter", 2 "Crush Appeal", 3 "Goddess Advent", 4 "Out of the Friend Zone", 5 "Pupil Earthquake" (rough translations).  They retail for 9000 KRW each at Club Clio Korea.

Next, Peripera has also released a new cushion tint called the Cushion Pang Tint. These tints come in vivid colors and have a cushion applicator to get a lovely gradation effect on the lips. The swatches are, from left to right: 1 Social Star, 2 Commonplace, 3 Cool Sister, 4 "Cool Pretty Chul Chul", 5 Fashion People Crowned, 6 Personal Collection. 12000 KRW each.

The Face Shop Ink Gel Lipsticks

The new Ink Gel Lipsticks (10320 KRW) are long-lasting moisturizing lipsticks by The Face Shop. They come in 12 shades. As shown above from top to bottom, left to right are:
PK00 Pink Balm, PK03 Pink Shock, CR01 Rocko Peach, OR01 Baby Orange
PK01 Pink Violet, PK02 Rose Peony, PK04 Pink Homage, BR01 Indian Rose
RD01 Ink Red, RD02 Red Sing, PP01 Bayberry, PP02 Talk Magenta


Laneige Lip Card

Thank you to blogger and instagrammer CutePretyBeauty for the news about Laneige's Lip Cards.
The Laneige Lip Cards are 1 time use portable lip stains that come in many different colors as shown above. They retail for 1500 KRW each here.

Nature Republic Pure Lipsticks

The Nature Republic Pure Lipsticks are 7700 KRW at Nature Republic Korea.
These lipsticks contain strawberry, hibiscus, raspberry, blueberry, and acerola extracts, avocado oil, chamomile flower oil.
The shades from Top to Bottom, Left to Right are:
2 Cashmere Peach, 07 Red Fantasy, 05 Show Me The Hot Pink, 08 Gorgeous Wine
09 Sugar Brown, 03 Orange Luna, 01 Rose Garden, 06 Miss Scarlet
04 Dolly Pink

Bandi Cosmic Cheek Nail Polish Collection

Bandi, a nail polish brand has released 12 new shades for spring 2016, inspired by this year's Pantone colors: Rose Quartz and Serenity Blue. All 12 are available in a kit with brushes and pouch here for 400,000 KRW. Bandi polishes are sold separately for about 50000 KRW each.

Modi Nails x Unistella version 2

A video posted by MODI (@modinail_official) on Jan 25, 2016 at 9:00pm PST

Unistella, the nail artist behind the glass nails trend is collaborating with nail polish and art brand Modi Nails. Further details to come.

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