A twosome of years ago, spell reading diverse blogs written past times foreigners living inwards Japan, I constitute i authored past times a immature adult woman from Eastern Europe. One twenty-four lx minutes stream she posted something most her massive collection of Kanebo lipsticks. Her readers, mainly young, impressionable women inwards her habitation country, were suitably awed as well as amazed, as well as treated the blogger amongst all the reverence as well as abide by that mortal amongst a whole collection of Kanebo lipsticks deserved.
What the crafty blogger did non explicate was that spell Kanebo, her lipsticks were non from the global, high destination division store brand. That business office was conveniently left unsaid, or rather, unwritten. What she failed to advert was that her lipsticks came from the Media sub-brand, which is Kanebo’s super budget drugstore line. So spell the readers assumed fancy, high destination products amongst every bit fancy, high destination cost tags, the blogger inwards fact had a collection of lipsticks that cost less than 8 dollars per piece.
That was non the first, as well as non the terminal time, when foreigners, either living inwards Japan, or shopping inwards Japan, intentionally misrepresented Media products on the internet. Heck, entire online stores based inwards Eastern Europe do the same. They know Kanebo has an immediate squall recognition. They too know that it’s tardily to clit a fast i on the unsuspecting masses into believing that all Kanebo products are high destination as well as expensive. The same has been happening to Shiseido. The give away of Asian beauty fans that are unaware that both Kanebo as well as Shiseido acquit a multitude of budget as well as drugstore brands is genuinely astounding. Google much? Apparently not.
Kanebo Media is a rattling hitting or immature adult woman brand. I bring roughly Media products, as well as spell I am pleased amongst some, others are beak junk.
Kanebo Media misses - lipsticks! They are dreadful, erstwhile grandma formulas amongst horrible vesture as well as feel. Lip glosses aren’t whatsoever better.
Budget Kanebo Media hits inwards my possession are: eyebrow pencils as well as loose powder. Ridiculously inexpensive as well as quite good.
What I squall back fondly are Kanebo Media color bases. They were my rattling offset foray into color base of operations territory as well as spell currently I exercise products that accommodate me better, I squall back them as good, budget starter cosmetics.
So it was amongst slap-up involvement that I read that Kanebo Media was releasing an SPF50+ PA++++ makeup base. I went as well as bought it as well as bring been using it for nearly all of March.
Yes, at that topographic point is a bell taped to the package. Most drugstore cosmetics are equipped amongst this super depression tech method of theft prevention. Because, yes, fifty-fifty inwards honorable Nippon people do shoplift. Imagine that!
Here is my story.
Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ (a.k.a. Media UV Protect Makeup Base, according to the English linguistic communication squall on the dorsum of the package) is a non-color type makeup base of operations amongst high Sun protection.
In illustration y'all are novel here, I bring dry out peel (not dehydrated, merely dry) that is prone to redness, outbreaks, zits as well as all sorts of horrible stuff. Rosacea amongst sensitive peel is no fun. Some inwards my shoes would avoid all products amongst alcohol, but inwards my experience, alcohol inwards a good formulated production does non bother me. What bothers me is the odor of alcohol. If a sunscreen reeks of ethanol, that is an automatic “no” from me.
Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ does bring ethanol pretty high on the list, it’s the 3rd ingredient, but based on my previous experiences amongst Media base of operations products, I wasn’t overly concerned most what ethanol mightiness do to my skin. Most probable it would do nothing, as well as I was right inwards this assumption. It did nothing.
What I was concerned most was the stench of alcohol. Luckily, Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ passed the odor test. Despite the claim that it's fragrance free, it does bring a faint scent of something, but it’s non the full-on “here comes the booze” stench of hence many inexpensive sunscreens. The scent does non linger, which is a big addition inwards my book.
So far, hence good.
And hither is where it all gets rattling convoluted. You see, as a makeup base of operations Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ is a total disaster. I know I should non compare it to to a greater extent than expensive products, similar Albion, or Les Merveilleuses LADURÉE, both of which bring magnificent makeup bases amongst SPF50+ PA++++. I know that Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ is a budget product, but c’mon now. If Kanebo is going to marketplace position it as a makeup base, at the rattling to the lowest degree they should endeavor to teach inwards human activity similar a makeup base.
Unfortunately, as it is now, Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ fails miserably at beingness a base.
First, the consistency. It is non rattling gel-like. It’s quite tacky to the touch, as well as that is the feeling y'all teach when y'all apply it to the face. It feels similar a layer of glue. Is this what inexpensive makeup bases are similar these days? I don’t know. And frankly, I don’t desire to know.
Usually, when applying a makeup base of operations first, as well as hence foundation, y'all await your pores to endure minimized as well as the foundation adhering nicely as well as evenly to your face. Not inwards this case. The pores remain huge as well as rattling visible, as well as the foundation merely form of smudges as well as sits awkwardly on top.
The overall resultant is quite disgusting, to endure honest. Both visually as well as when it comes to vesture comfort. Despite the manufacturer's claim that it's comfortable to wear, inwards reality it's not. At to the lowest degree non as a base.
The alone means I could build Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ travel as a makeup base of operations was to exercise pulverization foundation on top. Then the gel’s glue-like properties showed what they could do. I too tried it amongst merely a setting pulverization as well as the results were decent enough, as well. But that is non plenty for a makeup base of operations inwards my book. I desire it to travel amongst anything as well as everything else I mightiness want to apply to my face.
As a sunscreen, Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ has an impressive listing of UV blockers as well as absorbers:
- zinc oxide,
- Octinoxate,
- Uvinul T150,
- Tinosorb S
- and Uvinul Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Plus.
Ratzilla has the ingredients hither - Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ cistron list - link.
I entered them into cosDNA for your convenience - cosDNA analysis - link.
The highly touted pearl poly peptide (hydrolyzed conchiolin protein) is hence far downwardly the listing that it’s at that topographic point merely for vanity purposes. Similarly amongst collagen. These 2 ingredients are 3rd as well as 4th respectively - from the bottom of the list.
So, that’s what nosotros bring here. xxx grams of affordable, decent Japanese sunscreen as well as pretty crappy base.
The listing cost for Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ is 900 yen addition tax, but it tin unremarkably endure constitute for less. I bought mine for 720 yen, taxation included.
Swatch of Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++
Kanebo Media UV Cut Gel Base SPF50+ PA++++ dries to a transparent, but slightly tacky as well as sticky finish. You tin definitely experience a layer of “something” on your skin. Personally, I don’t actually similar it, but I know many people are non bothered past times it.
Final verdict?
Plus:
- good UVA as well as UVB protection
- affordable
- easily available
- minimal fragrance
- crappy makeup base
- poor wearing comfort
- minimal skincare benefits
- alcohol (if y'all assist most materials similar that)
I’ll stick amongst to a greater extent than cosmetically elegant makeup bases amongst high SPF protection, fifty-fifty if they cost more. For me, the overall results are worth spending to a greater extent than coin for a amend product. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 practiced base of operations tin build fifty-fifty a crappy foundation aspect good. But a crappy base… Well… y'all know what I mean…
In conclusion, it seems I grew upwards to endure a base of operations snob. But I volition ever squall back Media fondly.
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