Tag: Cosmetics

Nail art is big in Japan. So is Purikura, the "print club" photo booths where you can take inventive shots with your friends. Combine the two and you should have a recipe for success. At least, ...

Flamboyant rock band KISS continue to conquer Japan. The makeup-loving rockers have for years been a staple of both summer music festivals and mainstream advertising campaigns. And now they have ...

Shiseido's Hanatsubaki digital archive is a fascinating glimpse back into Japan's cosmetics advertising past. Drawing on the graphic design and ads featured over the years in Hanatsubaki, ...

Japan has its fair share of wacky but fascinating beauty gadgets. There are also lots of inventive cosme items too. For example, we've already had the Cats Face Pack, the Kabuki Face Pack, and the ...

Japanese people like to dress up. Various commentators like to point to social phenomenon like cosplay (literally, "costume play") as examples of how people seek escape in role-playing and ...

Have you spotted this red bus? Shiseido is currently running a big SK-II Bihada Pitera-rium Dock campaign where women can see their "future skin" in 20 minute counceling sessions. A special pop-up ...

Do you remember in the 1990's when everyone wanted to have Jennifer Aniston's "The Rachel" haircut? Well, right now in Japan girls are also trying to copy a look. Nothing new in that, except this ...

Today Bandai continued its commemoration of 20 years since Sailor Moon's first TV broadcast with an interactive publicity event featuring the range of cosmetics released earlier this year by ...

This coming winter, Japan's iconic cosmetic brand, shu uemura, will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of its beauty boutique in Omotesando in central Tokyo with the Christmas collection "Six Heart ...

Having conquered the female market, Shiseido is next targetting younger consumers. It has created a beauty salon for kids since the children of today are the customers of the ftuture. The salon ...

The popular anime franchise Evangelion is well know for creating all kind of Evangelion-themed products. To promote the DVD and Blu-Ray release of the latest movie Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo ...

We've seen it around for a while overseas but we just read an interesting report about how so-called eyelash art is apparently starting to pick up more adopters among Japanese women in their twenties ...