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Everything you need to know about products launched by Etude House in April-May 2014 #etudehouse #bbloggers #makeup

Spring, Summer and the Holidays are the best time of the year for makeup lovers. There are new product launches happening left and right! Etude House has launched many new products in the first Quarter of 2014 and I have already covered the makeup and skincare launches until March so today, I am going to share details about the what’s new at Etude House right now focusing on April and May 2014…

Etude House BB Magic Pact!! I have been using this compact powder for awhile. Though I have tried 1 or 2 others in between I am most happy with this one. Being Etude House, it has cute packaging and soft powder smell. The one I use is in No.1 Light Beige. The powder is smooth and light. I like this pact because it is a more neutral beige, while I find a lot of powders have a pink tint to them and it really shows on my face and the makeup is too dark. I first picked this product up when I was in Korea over the summer of 2012, and I absolutely loved it!

The left side is BB pact, the top left has no BB cream underneath and the bottom had BB cream underneath. You can kind of see how it looks with the BB cream but it blends fairly well that you don't really notice a major difference.

Product Description:

Pressed powder compact absorbs oil and supplies long lasting coverage with smooth, moist finish for a natural look. This product is free of oil, talc, and wax for sensitive skin.-Safe for Problematic Skin -Talc & Oil Free to Alleviate Skin Irritation-Applied after base/foundation application.

Pros:

Good Coverage

Light Weight powder

Smell is light

Blends well

Nice Matte Finish

Inexpensive (15$)

Good for any skin type

Lasts a long time (I've had mine for 4 months now)

Cons:

Not necessarily good for oil control, but is pretty effective for most of the day

Only comes in 2 shades

Overall: 4.5/5 

When Etude House arrived at the Philippines, I hurriedly grabbed my boyfriend to its store in SM Manila at bought these products. You can see the things that I bought during that day in a different post, here.

For someone who doesn't know yet the difference of BB pact to BB cream, the answer is very simple. BB pact is in compact form like make-up foundations while BB cream is in liquid form like tinted moisturizer or liquid foundation.

That is the BB Magic Pact itself. A puff is included and there is also this plastic film that supposedly separate the puff from the powder itself. 

Product Description:

Pressed powder compact absorbs oil and supplies long lasting coverage with smooth, moist finish for a natural look. This product is free of oil, talc, and wax for sensitive skin. 

-Safe for Problematic Skin

-Talc & Oil Free to Alleviate Skin Irritation

-Applied after base/foundation application 

Available in 1 Light Beige (lighter) and 2 Natural Beige (darker) 

Vol. 15g (0.53 fl.oz.)

Price: P678.00 - I find it a bit pricey ^_^ but I realized it is worth it!

Packaging: I bet you know why I gave it a perfect score. It is from Etude House and expect that ALL their products are super adorable and princess-like. The cover is a shade of pink and purple and have embossed swirls. Super love!

Shade: This BB pact comes in 2 shades only: #1 Light Beige (lighter) and #2 Natural Beige (darker). I got the #1 shade because I thought the "darker" means really dark for me but I was wrong. I forgot that this product is originated in Korea and people there are so fair so always bear in mind that their dark shade is still light for us. Even though I bought the lighter shade, I'm still happy with it because it blends in my skin color after a few minutes and I didn't look white lady at all :p

Smell: It is lightly fragrance. Other's would find it annoying because it has fragrance but I totally love it! It smells so good. Don't worry because the smell will fade after seconds you put it.

Staying Power: Most of the time, when I'm in a air-conditioned room, it would last me for 6-8 hours and when I'm outside, meaning hot sunny weather, it would stay for only 4-5 hours which is not bad.

Oil control:  Perfect! It's oil control is really good that I only need to retouch after work meaning after 8 hours. I can say it is really really good. After 4-6 hours, my skin is not oily at all but a bit dewy which is not really bad.

❥ What I love:

- it is 100% talc free.

- oil control is really good since I have oily face

- it moisturize my skin very since the active ingredients are Chamomile Extract, Aloe Vera Gel and Centella Asiatica.

- it made my skin look so flawless

❥ Cons:

- breaks me out. And because of that, I seldom use it until now that I realized it's not the pact that really breaks me out but the facial wash I'm using that time so in short, no cons for this product! :P

Overall Rate: 

How about you dear? Have you tried using a BB pact? How was it?