UPDATE March 2016:
In Feb 2016 Lancome released (in Asia) a novel version of its Blanc Expert Cushion Compact.
The novel version is labeled every bit "cover" too has SPF 50.
The one-time version reviewed below has been re-labeled every bit "natural".
The novel Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact SPF50 (cover) uses the same non-woven fiber matrix applied scientific discipline every bit the cushion from some other L'Oreal build - Shu Uemura (this one.
Sponsored too paid reviewers too seemed to conduct maintain fallen for the "new too revolutionary drinking glass wool inwards the cushion technology" PR spin. Oh well...
And this is what it looked similar within the sis brand's cushion (Shu Uemura blanc:chroma), which uses the same "revolutionary" concept:
That's the halt of the update.
If Lancome makes a lighter shade, I volition totally purchase it.
But every bit it is now, I'll pass.
Continue below for the review of the "natural" SPF 23 version released inwards 2015:
Lancome Miracle Cushion review tin live constitute reviewed here).
Non-woven fiber matrix is basically a fancy bring upward for fiberglass (including drinking glass wool, a mutual wall insulation material). Yep, instead of a slice of sponge, these cushion conduct maintain chunks of wall filler inwards them. I suppose nosotros should consider it a pace upward from the depression quality, extremely porous sponge of the "natural" version cushion.
The folks at L'Oreal Group were careful to embrace it amongst a net, no dubiousness to disourage people from investigating what's underneath.
This is the surface of the novel Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact SPF50 (cover version):
Using wall filler, oh pardon moi, fiberglass, instead of sponge allows for packing the cushion amongst much heavier foundation. That inwards plow allows for fuller cover.
I was rattling interested inwards this "new too improved cover" version too I was gear upward to purchase it, but...
The shades exercise non stand upward for to the "natural" version.
Let me repeat it - they exercise non match.
The embrace version is a lot darker. Because evidently Lancome thinks at that topographic point are no people inwards Asia who are exactly about NC15 or NW10. Well played, Lancome!
So hither y'all conduct maintain the argue why I didn't purchase this novel cushion.
Hence y'all volition non acquire a total review.
And hither y'all conduct maintain a closeup of the netting - y'all tin clearly encounter the fibers below:
For what it's worth, sponsored shills are bending over backwards to praise this cushion, for example, this one.
Sponsored too paid reviewers too seemed to conduct maintain fallen for the "new too revolutionary drinking glass wool inwards the cushion technology" PR spin. Oh well...
And this is what it looked similar within the sis brand's cushion (Shu Uemura blanc:chroma), which uses the same "revolutionary" concept:
That's the halt of the update.
If Lancome makes a lighter shade, I volition totally purchase it.
But every bit it is now, I'll pass.
Continue below for the review of the "natural" SPF 23 version released inwards 2015:
Lancome Miracle Cushion review tin live constitute here.This is a side past times side comparing of Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact (Japan version) too Lancome Miracle Cushion (European version).If this is the outset fourth dimension y'all are hearing most cushion foundations, delight click on the "Cushion Foundations" tab inwards the pinnacle carte to larn more.
Recenzja poduszki Lancome - Lancome Miracle Cushion jest this one.
Sponsored too paid reviewers too seemed to conduct maintain fallen for the "new too revolutionary drinking glass wool inwards the cushion technology" PR spin. Oh well...
And this is what it looked similar within the sis brand's cushion (Shu Uemura blanc:chroma), which uses the same "revolutionary" concept:
That's the halt of the update.
If Lancome makes a lighter shade, I volition totally purchase it.
But every bit it is now, I'll pass.
Continue below for the review of the "natural" SPF 23 version released inwards 2015:
Lancome Miracle Cushion review tin live constitute tutaj.Wpis ponizej to porownanie poduszki na rynek azjatycki (japonski) - Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact z poduszka na rynek europejski - Lancome Miracle Cushion.Jesli to pierwszy raz, kiedy czytasz o podkladach w formie poduszki, kliknij na zakladke "Cushion Foundations" w gornym menu, aby dowiedziec sie wiecej.
Yesterday the long awaited Lancome cushion finally hitting the stores inwards Japan. Having had a jeopardy to play amongst it rattling briefly a calendar week before, I thought it powerfulness live a goodness thought to stick it side past times side to the European version of Lancome Miracle Cushion too encounter what happens.
And this is what happened:
Wczoraj, dlugo wyczekiwana poduszka Lancome w koncu trafila exercise sprzedazy w Japonii. Mialam okazje pomacac ja juz w zeszlym tygodniu i pomyslalam sobie, ze moze warto byloby postawic ja obok Lancome Miracle Cushion dostepna w Europie i zobaczyc co wyjdzie.
H5N1 wyszlo to:
Ha! Ten points if y'all tin spot the difference.
Yep. You're right. It's "same, same" but different.
The same outer packaging, a unlike name.
Europe - Lancome Miracle Cushion.
Japan - Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact, which too claims to conduct maintain a "fresh brightening effect".
Ha! Ekstra punkty jesli zauwazysz wszystkie roznice.
Tak, zgadza sie. Niby taki sam, ale jednak inny.
Takie samo pudelko, ale inna nazwa produktu.
W Europie - Lancome Miracle Cushion.
H5N1 Azji - Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact, ktory ponoc ma nam dac "swiezy, rozjasniajacy efekt."
According to the Lancome website, "the Blanc Expert make features the latest brightening applied scientific discipline designed to regulate melanin production too awaken the luminosity of the skin."
OK, thus it would seem that Europe got the no frills version, spell Nippon - the brightening bells too whistles.
I wonder why? Was it the convoluted logic of a Western cosmetics companionship convinced that if y'all label it "blanc" or "brightening", too imply peel whitening properties, it would sell improve inwards Asia?
Or was it merely the fact that at that topographic point was no other agency to clothing upward this rattling average, drugstore lineament production to acquire inwards seem worth the high-end price?
Your gauge is every bit goodness every bit mine.
This is interesting:
Wedlug strony Lancome "linia Blanc Expert zawiera najnowsza technologie rozjasniajaca sformulowana exercise regulacji produkcji melaniny i exercise obudzenia naturalnej jasnosci cery", czy jakos tak.
Wiec wychodzi na to, ze poduszka na rynek europejski to nic szczegolnego, ale ta na rynek azjatycki ma dzialanie rozjasniajace.
Ciekawe dlaczego? Pewnie dlatego, ze zachodnie firmy sa swiecie przekonane, ze Azjatki kupia byle g*wno, jesli tylko w nazwie bedzie widnialo slowo "rozjasnianie".
H5N1 moze dlatego, ze po prostu Lancome nie moglo wpasc na zaden inny pomysl jak usprawiedliwic wysoka cene tej bardzo przecietnej poduszki w Azji, gdzie tyle innych, duzo lepszych poduszek jest dostepnych o wiele taniej.
Ciort ich wie.
Ale to jest ciekawe:
While initially the component division lists seem unlike (due to a slightly unlike layout, which fooled me every bit well), they are inwards fact identical.
You conduct maintain Miracle Cushion on the left, too Blanc Expert on the right. They're the same. Only the rattling concluding item, inwards the "may contain" category is different.
Yet the i on the right, upon landing inwards Japan, all of a abrupt acquired a fancy "Blanc Expert" title.
Hmmm... the plot thickens...
There conduct maintain been voices that Lancome Miracle Cushion is nix else that Teint Miracle Foundation inwards a cushion form. H5N1 quick await at the ingredients lists for both products tells us that that is non true. Despite sharing the bring upward "Miracle", those are, inwards fact, ii unlike cosmetics.
Na pierwszy rzut oka, lista skladnikow wydaje sie byc inna (to z powodu innej czcionki, sama nawet sie na to nabralam), ale w rzeczywistosci obie listy sa identyczne.
Miracle Cushion po lewej, Blanc Expert Cushion Compact po prawej. Takie same! Tylko ostatni punkt w liscie skladnikow, na szarym koncu w dopisku "moze zawierac" jest inny.
Ale jakims cudownym trafem, poduszka po prawej, po wyladowaniu w Japonii nabrala nagle mocy rozjasniajacej i dostala nowa nazwe - Blanc Expert.
No niezle, Lancome, niezle...
Pojawily sie rowniez glosy, ze poduszka Lancome Miracle Cushion to nic innego jak lancome'owski Teint Miracle podklad przelany w poduszkowe opakowanie. Ale rzut okiem na listy skladnikow obu tych kosmetykow i od razu widac, ze sa to dwa rozne produkty, pomimo tego, ze oba maja slowo "Miracle" w nazwie.
To fleece y'all inwards a typical Japanese fashion, this cushion is sold hither piecemeal - y'all conduct maintain to purchase a compact instance too a refill separately. While this is the park agency cosmetics are sold inwards Japan, this is nix but an elaborate scam to build y'all purpose amongst every bit much coin every bit possible.
Aby oskubac cie exercise maksymum, w typowym japonskim stylu, ta poduszka sprzedawana jest tutaj "po kawalku" - trzeba kupic osobno kompakt i osobno wklad. Innej mozliwosci nie ma. To jest normalny sposob sprzedawania kosmetykow w Japonii, ale w rzeczywistosci to po prostu typowa sciema, aby wyciagnac od klienta jak najwiecej kasy przy jak najmniejszej linii oporu.
And they don't come upward cheap.
The Blanc Expert Cushion Compact Case volition laid y'all dorsum 1300 yen summation 8% tax.
The Blanc Expert Cushion Compact Refill costs an outrageous 5200 yen summation 8% tax.
So, inwards all, later getting the entire laid y'all volition live 7020 yen poorer (tax added). That is nearly 52 euro, or USD 59.00 (according to Yahoo currency converter).
H5N1 kase ciagna az milo.
Blanc Expert Cushion Compact obudowa kosztuje 1300 jenow summation 8% VAT.
Blanc Expert Cushion Compact wklad to 5200 jenow summation 8% podatku.
Wiec aby zaczac uzywac ta poduszke, musimy pozegnac sie z 7020 jenami (podatek juz wliczony), co wychodzi przy obecnym przeliczniku na 52 euro lub 59 dolarow (wedlug Yahoo currency converter).
Unlike inwards Europe, where Lancome Miracle Cushion comes inwards half dozen shades, at that topographic point are exclusively ii available inwards Japan.
As y'all tin see, I got BO-01. I don't know, but somehow when I encounter "BO", I instinctively start sniffing. Despite this unfortunate color name, this cushion doesn't stink.
The other shade on sale inwards Nippon is this:
Choc w Europie Lancome Miracle Cushion jest dostepna a 6 odcieniach, w Japonii Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact ma tylko dwa kolory.
Jak widac, ja wybralam BO-01.
Ten drugi dostepny to O-01.
BO-01 has beige tones, O-01 is yellow.
The lovely ladies at the Lancome counter swatched them for me too fifty-fifty helped to conduct maintain a photo:
BO-01 ma bezowe tony, O-01 jest zolty.
Panie w stoisku Lancome byly bardzo mile i zeswatchowaly oba odcienie dla mnie i nawet pomogly zrobic zdjecie w jak najlepszym swietle.
I brought my Miracle Cushion for comparing purposes, too it turned out to live a great idea. The ladies were quite surprised to encounter that the cushion sold inwards Europe is "same, same, but different". You should conduct maintain seen their faces when I pulled out the A-True compact out of my purse. And the Banila Co compact. And thus my novel Hera. They honestly had no thought that cushion foundation was non a Lancome invention.
The sales lady assembled my novel cushion for me:
Wzielam ze soba moja Lancome Miracle Cushion dla porownania i okazalo sie to bardzo dobrym pomyslem. Panie w stoisku byly mocno zaskoczone, ze niby poduszka taka sama, ale inna. Wyraz twarzy mialy bezcenny, kiedy wyciagnelam z kosmetyczki poduszke A-true i poduszke Banila Co i moja nowa poduszke Hera Ultra Moisture.
Konsultantki Lancome nie mialy najbledszego pojecia, ze podklad w poduszce nie jest wynalazkiem Lancome i ze istnieje juz od paru lat.
Tutaj pani konsultantka sklada moja nowa poduszke:
And watching her exercise it, I got an idea.
You see, on the Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Case box it says this:
I kiedy tak na nia patrzylam, cos wpadlo mi exercise glowy.
Na odwrocie pudelka exercise Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Case (obudowa), mozemy przeczytac, ze:
It claims to live "specially designed for Blanc Expert Cushion Compact refill".
Of course of report that is non true. Lancome Miracle Cushion too its twin - Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion are both cheap, run of the mill, no frills, drugstore lineament (both ingredient-wise, every bit good every bit packet pattern wise) Korean cushions.
So it should live possible to fit whatever other refill of the same pattern into a Lancome cushion pact, too vice versa.
Let's check:
Ponoc jest to "specjalnie zaprojektowane dla Blanc Expert Cushion Compact wkladow".
Oczywiscie to bzdura. Lancome Miracle Cushion i blizniaczka Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion to tanie, typowe, drogeryjnej jakosci (i skladowo i opakowaniowo) koreanskie poduszki.
Wiec powinny pasowac exercise innych kompaktow tego samego typu i wice wersa. H5N1 kompaktow tego samego typu jest sporo. Ja mam dwa.
No to sprawdzamy:
Yep. It plant amongst my A-true cushion case.
Pasuje exercise A-true obudowy.
And it plant i time again amongst a Banila Co CC cushion case.
You should conduct maintain seen the faces of those misfortunate Lancome sales assistants when they saw it.
So... Specially designed? Nice try, Lancome. But side past times side time, essay harder.
While on the European cushion box nosotros had blurbs inwards a bazillion unlike languages, the Japanese version has a uncomplicated sticker:
I pasuje exercise kasetki Banila Co CC cushion.
Biedne panie konsultantki mialy niemrawe miny jak to zobaczyly.
Wiec... specjalnie zaprojektowane? Czy Lancome naprawde mysli, ze ich klienci sa totalnymi durniami?
Na europejskiej wersji poduszki mielismy opisy w kilku jezykach. Japonska wersja ma prosta naklejke.
I gauge this is yet some other agency that Lancome saves money. Since at that topographic point is no leaflet inwards the box, it seems to me that unlike countries exactly slap stickers inwards their ain languages on the dorsum too telephone telephone it a day.
Under the sticker (of course of report I peeled it off, duh!) nosotros conduct maintain this:
Przypuszczam, ze w x sposob dusigrosze lancome'owskie oszczedzaja kase. Nie ma ulotki w pudelku, wiec wychodzi na to, ze zamiast drukowac wersje papierowa w kilku jezykach, w roznych krajach po prostu naklejaja information w roznych jezykach.
Pod naklejka (oczywiscie, ze ja oderwalam) jest to:
The "air cushion" wording is nonetheless here.
You tin too encounter that it claims to conduct maintain "shades designed for Asian skin". And that's all fine too dandy, but what are we, Europeans? Chopped liver? For us, Lancome, y'all released nasty nighttime yellows too shades totally non suitable for rattling pale too fair skinned people. And yet for Asia y'all bent over backwards to acquire inwards coloristically half-way decent too wearable.
This convoluted logic of western brands volition never cease to amaze me.
Ok, let's become on...
Fraza "air cushion" nadal tam widnieje.
Jest tez zapewnienie, ze "odcienie sa specjalnie sformulowane dla azjatyckiej skory". I spoko, nie mam nic przeciwko temu. Ale co to my, Europejki jestesmy? Niechciane bekarty? Dla nas, kochany Lancome, wypusciles ciemne i ohydne zolte kolory, ktore zupelnie nie nadaja sie dla jasnych kobiet z polnocy. Ale dla Azjatek, to od razu - specjalnie sformulowane.
Ta logika zachodnich theatre nigdy nie przestanie mnie zadziwiac.
Ale, idzmy dalej...
Good grief, the fingerprints. I couldn't live bothered to wearable gloves. Sorry.
The Japanese (or is it "generic Asian"?) version is too made inwards Korea:
Srebrne pudelka i odciski palcow. Nie chcialo mi sie wkladac rekawiczek. Sorry.
Wersja japonska (azjatycka) jest rowniez robiona w Korei.
And it has the same lamentable SPF23 / PA++. No comment.
OK, let's await at the compacts:
Ten sam nedzny filtr SPF23 / PA++. Bez komentarza.
Ok, tutaj kompakty.
Lancome Blanc Expert on the left, Lancome Miracle Cushion on the right.
And the other side:
Lancome Blanc Expert po lewej, Lancome Miracle Cushion po prawej.
I po drugiej stronie:
And opened:
I otwarte:
Other than the lid, they seem identical. So far.
Oprocz koloru obudowy wydaja sie byc indentyczne. Jak na razie.
Same...
And suddenly:
Takie same.
Ale nagle:
Different!
Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact on the left, Lancome Miracle Cushion on the right.
As y'all tin see, the Blanc Expert inner sponge is marginally finer too improve lineament than Miracle Cushion.
And it powerfulness live exactly fine for most people.
Until y'all seat it side past times side to a rattling uncomplicated Korean cushion:
Inne!
Lancome Blanc Expert Cushion Compact po lewej, Lancome Miracle Cushion po prawej.
Jak widac Blanc Expert wklad poduszkowy, srodkowa gabka, jest odrobine mniej porowata i nieco lepszej jakosci niz Miracle Cushion.
I to pewnie zadowala wiekszosc kobiet.
Ale tylko dopoki nie postawisz poduszek Lancome obok bardzo zwyklej koreanskiej poduszki.
Ah, Lancome, Lancome...
You'd mean value that for the Asian market, a huge multi-national build that wants to live seen every bit high halt would unloose something a combat less bargain-basement looking, too something a combat to a greater extent than fancy.
But I suppose inwards the bring upward of maximizing profits too squeezing every lastly yen (cent) out of this deal, Lancome merely couldn't afford whatever higher lineament sponge for this compact.
If exclusively the foundation itself was worth the price...
Sadly, no.
The consistency of the Japanese version is a lot less runny than what's within the European Miracle Cushion. The texture is slightly to a greater extent than creamy than Miracle Cushion too on par amongst most mid- too lower-end Korean cushion brands.
Aj, Lancome, Lancome...
Ktos moglby pomyslec, ze wielka miedzynarodowa firma kosmetyczna, ktora zalicza sie exercise wysokopolkowych, moglaby wypuscic na rynek azjatycki cos bardziej ekskluzywnego i nie wygladajacego jak gabka z kuchennego zlewozmywaka. Ale wychodzi na to, ze w imie wycisniecia z tego kosmetyku ostatniego grosza (centa, jena), Lancome nie bylo stac na lepsza gabke.
Zeby choc sam podklad byl wart tych 7020 jenow...
Ale niestety nie.
Konsystencja wersji na rynek azjatycki jest ciut mniej wodnista niz to co siedzi w srodku europejskiej Miracle Cushion.
Tekstura jest tez bardziej kremowa i zblizona exercise tego, co oferuja typowe koreanskie poduszki.
In conclusion...
Lancome tried to reinvent Miracle Cushion every bit Blanc Expert Cushion Compact for Japan. It made a half-assed attempt to acquire inwards slightly to a greater extent than presentable too exciting for the naive too western build hungry Japanese women. But it's nonetheless the same mediocre cushion.
A cushion of this rattling average quality, amongst this generic design, too these bare bones ingredients too depression SPF, too without an extra refill inwards the box, shouldn't cost to a greater extent than than US$25.
Shame, shame on y'all Lancome.
Podsumowujac...
Lancome przeinaczylo Miracle Cushion na Blanc Expert Cushion Compact na rynki azjatyckie. Cos tam chcialo wizualnie ulepszyc, zeby wygladlo ciut lepiej dla bardziej wymagajacych klientow azjatyckich. Ale efekt koncowy to ta sama mierna poduszka.
Poduszka tak przecietnej jakosci, w tak przecietnym, masowo produkowanym kompakcie, z tak slabym skladem i niskim filtrem SPF, i bez dodatkowego wkladu w pudelku, nie powinna kosztowac wiecej niz jakies 25 dolarow.
Wstydz sie Lancome!
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