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Halloween isn’t a huge thing in New Zealand, but even I feel a bit more spooky once October 1st rolls around… To fit the festive mood for this month, I’m going to be reviewing some Halloween themed items from The Face Shop today!
The Face Shop is a pretty popular roadshop brand so I’m sure you’ve heard of them before! They’re known for cult classic products like their Rice Water cleansing range, as well as more trendy products like their recent collaborations with Kakao Friends (some of which I’ll be reviewing today!).
If you haven’t read my previous reviews with BB Cosmetic, I’ll be happy to tell you about them! They’re a relatively new Korean beauty store compared to some of the big favourites like Roseroseshop, but they have a pretty big variety of products and they keep pretty up-to-date with the latest releases. Another bonus with BB Cosmetic is that they offer free shipping worldwide, plus if you’re in the US, they use a USPS shipping partner so your order will come super quick. Prices do vary of course, but their prices are competitive and in line with other free shipping stores like Jolse.
Personally, I love BB Cosmetic and even though they do send me products to review, I also shop there often! Living in New Zealand, my orders typically take around 2 to arrive with standard shipping – the one time that I thought my package was lost, their customer service was super nice and in the end my package ended up coming super late anyway. They frequently have events on their social media, so I’d suggest following them to keep up to date with those!
So today, I’m going to reviewing 3 sets of Halloween-themed items from The Face Shop: Pumpkin Hand Creams, the Pumpkin Lip Balms and the Kakao Friends Water Tints.
Disclaimer: These items were sent to me for review and consideration by BB Cosmetic. I am not being compensated for this review and opinions are always 100% honest.
REVIEW: THE FACE SHOP HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN HAND CREAM
First up are the Pumpkin Hand Creams and Lip Balms! As well as the hand creams and lip balms that I’m reviewing today, The Face Shop also released a hand soap (link on BB Cos). All the lil pumpkins together look super cute, and the different products have different faces too 🎃
Even the boxes are festive! In the pictures, the hand creams are the large pumpkins and the lip balms are the smaller pumpkins. The packaging is very good quality and they twist open and close nicely, plus they all have a cute face. 😊
Here are the features of the product, according to The Face Shop’s website and BB Cosmetic:
Soft, light hand cream
Sweet-scented like Halloween desserts
The hand creams come in two different scents, unfortunately, neither of which is pumpkin-scented. The first scent is Vanilla Chiffon, described as a sweet, floral, musk scent, and the second scent is Bubble Candy, described as an apple, fruity, floral scent.
Vanilla Chiffon smells like a clean, fresh, vanilla scent as the name would suggest. Bubble Candy has a very artificial candy smell. Out of the two, I would definitely recommend Vanilla Chiffon.
The cream itself is really nice, surprisingly. It definitely moisturises and soothes dry hands, and isn’t too sticky. The smell doesn’t linger either.
Pricing / Where to find
BB Cosmetic: $6.88 (free shipping worldwide) Beauty Box Korea: $6.58 (shipping by weight) The Face Shop Korea: ₩6,500 / $5.75 (flat rate shipping, Korea only)
Out of these options, BB Cosmetic seems to be the cheapest since their prices already include worldwide shipping.
Ingredients
For the full ingredients list, please view over on cosDNA!
The hand cream contains some nice moisturising ingredients like shea butter, which is 2nd in the list, glycerol and squalene. The only potential irriant is denatured alcohol.
RATING: THE FACE SHOP HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN HAND CREAM, 4.5 / 5
Overall, these aren’t a must-have hand cream. To be honest though, no one was really buying these for the hand cream, just to have a cute pumpkin to sit on your desk and fill you with Halloween spirit through October. If you’re looking for something like that, this would be great. The packaging is actually very well made and it closes securely – unlike some other novelty hand creams I’ve had that never properly twisted shut ☹.
As a hand cream though, they work pretty well too. The texture is on the lighter side so it sinks into your hand quickly – I hate super thick hand creams because you have to wait a while before you can actually touch other things. However, it still does a good job with moisturising your hands, and honestly, my hands felt so soft after I used them. Vanilla Chiffon is slightly thicker in texture than Bubble Candy.
While I do like the scent of Vanilla Chiffon, it’s a classic vanilla scent, the smell of Bubble Candy is my only real downside for this product. It might smell different for other people but for me, it just smells super artificial, although the good thing is that the scent doesn’t linger for too long.
💖 Pros: Cute packaging, quality packaging, light cream that sinks into your hands easily, gives you super soft hands 💔 Cons: Bubble Candy smells very artificial
REVIEW: THE FACE SHOP HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN LIP BALM
Next up we have the lip balms, the small pumpkins in the first picture.
Here are the features, according to The Face Shop and BB Cosmetic:
Moisturises your lips
Absorbs easily like melted cream
Contains pumpkin extract (100ppm)
There are three colours in the range, and I have two of them: 01 Pure Moisture, basically just a clear lip balm, and 03 Maple Pink, a light pink balm. The other colour that I don’t have, 02 Pumpkin Orange, is a light orange balm.
I did some swatches on my arm – 01 Pure Moisture is very hard to see, obviously because it’s clear, so I hope you can make out where the glossy shine is, haha.
The colours looks basically identical on my lips, haha.
Pricing / Where to find
BB Cosmetic: $5.99 (free shipping worldwide) Beauty Box Korea: $6.84 (shipping by weight) Korea Depart: $5.31 (shipping by weight) The Face Shop Korea: ₩7,000 / $6.20 (flat rate shipping, Korea only)
Again, BB Cosmetic is the cheapest option if this was the only thing you wanted to buy since the other sites have shipping by weight which is super expensive if you're not buying a lot.
Ingredients
For the full ingredient list, please view over on cosDNA!
The ingredient list is pretty typical for a lip balm. There is Titanium dioxide, which helps protect your lips from UV rays. There’s also a ton of emollients.
RATING: THE FACE SHOP HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN LIP BALM, 3 / 5
Again, this is a pretty basic lip balm. It's not amazing but it keeps my lips moisturised. My point stands from the last review that you probably aren't buying this for the balm, you just want the packaging, right?! The packaging of the lip balm is just as well made as the hand cream, just in a smaller size.
This definitely isn't as moisturising as Carmex or anything like that, but it's on the thicker side of lip balms. It still abosrbs nicely though! They have a very light scent that I can't quite make out the notes of.
The only real downside to these is the format. Personally, I really don't like pot-type lip balms where you have to dip your finger in to apply it. I just hate the feeling of lip balm on my fingers afterwards and it's just a bit messier than a stick format would be.
💖 Pros: Cute packaging!, moisturising 💔 Cons: Coloured balms barely have any colour, pot format
REVIEW: THE FACE SHOP X KAKAO FRIENDS HALLOWEEN WATERY TINT
The Face Shop has had a long-running collaboration with Kakao Friends, and these lip tints are part of their Halloween collection from last year. There are three colours in this collection of lip tints and here are the features:
Vivid colour effect
Long lasting
Water-gel type
The packaging features some cute artwork for the Kakao Friends in their Halloween costumes. Apeach and Muzi are both wizards and Ryan is Harry Potter.
They all have a doe foot applicator which is pretty easy to use.
From left to right, these are 08 Bloody Red, 09 Maple Orange and 07 Pumpkin Orange. On the left, I had them freshly applied and the right is after dabbing off excess.
I also want to say that these swatches were extremely hard to remove - I had to exfoliate in the shower to get the rest off after trying to use a eye makeup remover - so the lasting power promise is real 💦
Ryan is 07 Pumpkin Orange, which is a bright orange colour and tends a little coral on my lips. It has a nice watery-gel consistency and was easy to deal with in general but a little hard to blend because it dried down quite fast.
Here are some other tints from my collection with a similar colour. In the middle is the Innisfree Eco Flower Tint in Calendula and on the right is Peripera's Peri's Ink in #4 Oh My!
The Face Shop's tint has similar lasting power to the Peri's Ink, if not actually a bit better.
Muzi is 08 Bloody Red, which is a softer blue-toned red. The consistency is a bit lighter than the other two tints, and you can kinda tell because it took a bit longer to try and thus was blended out way better. It’s also not as deeply pigmented as the other two are.
However, you can find this kind of tint in any brand for much cheaper.
On the left we have Etude House's Dear Darling Water Gel Tint in RD306 (Shark Red) and Peripera's Peri's Ink Velvet in #9 Love Sniper Red.
The Face Shop and the Etude House tints are pretty similar, with Etude House being a tad more purple than red. The consistencies are pretty similar though, and similar lasting power as well. The Peripera tint turned out a bit more different than I expected at first haha, it's a lot more pigmented than both.
Last up, we have Apeach with 09 Maple Orange. While the consistency was the same as the Ryan tint, for some reason, this one did not want to stay on my upper lip even the tiniest bit. It's a shame, because the colour is really pretty.
The only similar colour I had to this one was the Etude House Dear Darling Water Gel Tint in RD307 (Watermelon Red). The tones are quite similar, but obviously The Face Shop tint is much brighter and pigmented.
Piricing / Where to find
I can't seem to find these on other stores apart from BB Cosmetic, but these are currently on sale at BB Cosmetic for $4.88 each or in a set for $11.65.
RATING: THE FACE SHOP X KAKAO FRIENDS HALLOWEEN WATERY TINT
07 Pumpkin Orange: 4.5 / 5
If I was picking on colour preference alone, this one would be my favourite. I love orange lip tints and they look great on darker hair. I loved how lasting this tint was, it was still mostly intact after eating some greasy food.
My only complaint is that it dries quickly and is hard to blend out properly to get a nice gradient lip.
08 Bloody Red: 3.5 / 5
This tint was the easiest to use overall, however, I'm not a huge fan of the colour. I think it's a very common type of tint and even though these tints are cheap, you can find basic tints at Etude House or Tonymoly for half the price still. Nonetheless, it is a good tint for beginners. The problem with this one is that it didn't last as long as the other two.
09 Maple Orange: 3 / 5
I would've liked this colour so much if it wasn't for the patchy application. Even though it has great lasting power and is a pretty colour, the patchiness is such a turn-off. It also tends to wear away from the inside of my lip first, and my lips end up looking a mess.
In general, I liked the applicators as they were easy to use, and the packaging is super cute of course! They all have a similar sweet, fruit scent which is not noticeable once applied.
Overall, these aren't the best lip tints. The formula between the colours was hit and miss and the colours are run-of-the-mill, despite being a Halloween collection (I need Korean brands to release a brown lip tint pls). If you love Kakao Friends then these are cute, but I'd definitely recommend Pumpkin Orange the most, and maybe skip the other two.
💖 Pros: Very long lasting, pigmented colours, cute packaging. 💔 Cons: Inconsistent formula, some have patchy application.
Thank you for reading my review today!! Here are the featured items again, if you wanted to check them out:
The Face Shop Halloween Pumpkin Hand Cream The Face Shop Halloween Pumpkin Lip Balm The Face Shop x Kakao Friends Halloween Watery Tint
I also wanted you to know that BB Cosmetic currently has an ongoing promotion for their Halloween items, including all the ones included in this review! There are even some sets so you can save even more. Also, if you like Kakao Friends, BB Cosmetic has The Face Shop's new collection with Hoodie Ryan in stock!!
And don't forget, you can always use my code 'BBUYURO' for 8% off your orders on BB Cosmetic!!
Thank you again for reading, and I hope you have a great day! 💖
