As you can see from the photos, the actual product comes in a transparent plastic case and inside is just the blush, without any proper case. It is clearly designed to be put in some kind of other case, only problem is that this was not clear from any of the official product photos, nor does the Skinfood Flora Tea line actually contain any kind of case to put this in! I double-checked after I received the blusher to see whether I had possibly missed something, but there really isn't. I can only assume that there is some kind of case in Skinfood's permanent product line where this would fit into, though I do not know which one and, having only bought this because of beautiful floral design, it doesn't matter anyway as I would not buy any other case. I am so disappointed about this, because the product simply is not what I thought it would be at all. Once you throw away the outer packing - which is all you can do, because unpacking it from the outer card-box and then the plastic case each time you want to use it is really a lot of hassle - you just have a blusher refill without any kind of packing. If at least the blusher itself was somehow amazing, someone not interested in the packing design might still find this useful, but sadly it is not.
The color of this is quite pretty, a intensive peach shade, but the texture is very unpleasant. It is a cream blusher, which has a texture I only know from lip balms. It's very shiny and very oily/greasy. After applying this you have to wash your hands, not because you have color on your fingers, but because your fingers are sticky. Once you have applied it on your cheeks and worked it in your skin it is not so sticky anymore (still a bit, but not so that it would be a major problem), but I find the way to apply this sticky mess quite unpleasant. The color pay-off is nice and the blusher is build-able so you can get everything from a faint natural blush to a strong color on your cheeks, but this really cannot make up for the other disappointments this product brings.I do believe the extreme greasiness might have something to do that we currently have very hot weather and some of my products, especially lip balms, start to melt away, so the blusher might also have a better texture in colder weather. Nevertheless, having bought this basically for what I thought would be the actual packing of this product, and getting just a refill product without any case, this product is pretty much useless for me. I do not even know how to store it properly. I would never have bought this if I had know this before. I start to believe that the eye shadows from the Skinfood Flora Tea line are the same by the way, so, unless you actually own a Skinfood case where these would fit in, I strongly advice to stay away from the Flora Tea Cream Blushers and Eyeshadow.
COMMENTS ( 1 )
posted on 29 October at 01:21
Hi, I actually have this same product. This is actually not the refill, but the product itself. There is a blusher/eyeshadow case for this product under the my short cake series. I believe the case is around 3-6 dollars. It is a diy concept that a lot of Korean makeup now have. Missha does the same for their shadows.