Forty-five years ago, Shu Uemura released  the original cleansing oil designed by Mr. Uemura himself while working as a cinema makeup artist. It has grown to be a favourite over the years, and is still a staple for many makeup artists today and beauty nerds alike.  Today, his lineup of cleansing oils are very much his best sellers which make fried bananas shy away in despair. From oily, to acne prone, to sensitive, to dry to moisturising....there's always one that will suit your fancy.

Of course, many might wonder, why spends 100 bucks for a cleansing oil when you could easily buy another one for just 20-30 bucks? Even Guardian sells great ones for as low as 10 bucks, mind you.

Well, think all you want, but I am a firm believer that everything great justifies the price paid. And yes, this is no exception.

Located next to Top Shop in KLCC, the Shu Uemura boutique welcomes people who'd love to receive any skin care or makeup advice, to browse around or even to do your eyebrows! But as per today's post, my target is very much the cleansing oil.

Shu Uemura Cleansing Oil Range

At this point of time, Shu Uemura had launched their latest special cleansing oil, called the Ultime8 Sublime Beauty Cleansing Oil.

In a first glance, it looks similar to the other cleansing oils, except for the colour, which is Brownish. But once the SA squirted a small amount onto my hands, I was immediately in love! The smell was absolutely amazing!

The special thing about this cleansing oil is that not only it effectively removes dirt and impurities, it also has 8 botanical origin oils, which helps to nourish your skin to become more soft and supple. The smell which was totally divine came from the mix of oils i.e jojoba, olive, ginger root, shea butter and corn oil. So as you could see, that's the reason why your skin will be more softened and hydrated due to these beautiful properties.

Usage is so simple:-

1) Squirt a small amount on your dry hands, and gentle massage all over your face to remove all the makeup.
2) Next, slightly wet your palms and continue to massage your skin. The oil will become white in colour, almost cream-soap like.
3) Wash off all the dirt and grime. Fell your skin texture. Walla! Soft and smooth skin unveiled.

Effectively removing your makeup

At a retail price of RM150, I believe its a great investment. But even more attractive, the bigger bottle comes at Rm300, for 3 times the quantity. Like Wow!

So if you're interested, drop by Shu's counters at any malls to get a hand on this amazing experience. From the way I see it, Shu has definitely lifted the bar up for other cleansing oils to beat...

-Jue-

Don't Mousse Around...Or Thy Shall Not Be Rewarded!

As a woman, I'm pretty sure you always do run into situations where you ALWAYS plan on buying something that you have been researching AND eyeing on for quite some time...and YET, you end up straying and buying something that you haven't read about before and don't even think of buying in the first place!

I know I am ONE of those unfortunate ones... Sigh...

Started off on a fine daywhere I planned to re-stock my delicious and ultimately amazing Kiehl's Surface Brightening Exfoliator since the one I have at home has finished, thus I quickly made my way to KLCC that evening. In addition, I haven't done my eyebrows for quite some time, eversince I got pregnant and the morning sickness really got the better off me (Blearch...) So I had been mourning in despair and basically hindered my quest for Beauty Products. Now that my morning sickness had waned off, its time to continue my conquest. Woohoo!

In a way, being pregnant had been a wonderful experience since it gave me the opportunity to explore on what's OK and what's not for preggers.... FYI, I stopped using those amazing peels that I have been using to clear up acne and spots since AHAs and BHAs aren't friendly to us preggers.... Sigh....

So coming back to my KLCC escapade, before I walked to Kiehl's, I made a quick stop at Shu Uemura to do my eyebrows...Better start grooming again!

Whilst the salesgirl was plucking my eyebrows, she introduced me to a new product launched by Shu Uemura ....which is the UV Under Base Mousse....





Personally, I'm not a fan of mousse based products (Mousse cleansers, mousse foundation, mousse whatever) as I find them slightly wasting.... But the girl insisted that I tried since I had some "pregancy spots" developing on my face and needed to be "covered" by something that has UV protection as well..

Fineeeeeeeee... I gave in...

APPLICATION:-

When you squeeze the mousse, you actually get quite a substantial amount on your fingers.....its quite hard to control the amount. When she put it on my skin, it felt easy. However, when I tried it myself, it was a little messy to work with.

Feeling wise, I didn't exactly fancy it, it felt kinda dry on my skin....must wear loads of moisturiser before using this since its quite drying.

Costs RM 115. And I bought it.

Reason?

1) Pushy salesperson..(she even wanted me to spend RM600 for some crappy gift sets...)

2) I get my eyebrows FREE OF CHARGE. (Eyebrow service cost: RM25)

3) Probably I was too happy that I was feeling well thus, I pretty much felt like I wanted to spend....

I didn't leave feeling angry, but I didn't feel satisfied either. Why did I buy it? I guess probably cuz it comes up to around RM90, which is cheaper than my favourite makeup base Lancome UV Base Pro (heavenly velevety and smooth!) by about RM20....

So did I buy my Kiehl's scrub after that? Of course I didn't.... I felt kinda ripped off, thus dampens my mood to go further shopping....