Beauty Pie Japanfusion Products Review
I Was Only Going to Review 1 Product From This Line, but Eff It — I Love Them All
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I've never been totally loyal to just one beauty brand; I'm a mix-and-matcher. I love high end and low end, drugstore stock and spa grade. I love Dr. Jart's Cicapair Tiger Grass Colour Correcting Treatment for redness, Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel for hydration, and Glossier Balm Dotcom to sooth my dry lips — but I've always wanted to try a complete line.
Companies construct full lines of products for a reason, after all. The ingredients in each product are designed to work together to solve your skin woes, reacting off one another to create the perfect complexion. Ideal as that may be, how many of us collect every item in a line and let them all work their magic on our blemishes, wrinkles, and dark spots? I sure didn't . . . until I tried Beauty Pie's Japanfusion line.
I'm a big fan of Beauty Pie, and when it announced a line of skincare products infused with Japanese ingredients like pombe yeast and jabara extract, I was 100 percent down to try. The line includes four items: cleanser, toner, serum, and cream. Though this sounds a bit bare-bones, these products are far from simple. The formulas are rich in vitamins C and E and antioxidants. The combination is perfect for sensitive skin needing a little break from extreme peels and harsh exfoliants (read: my skin).
Here's the hitch: Beauty Pie is a membership program. If you're part of the club, you're looking at a price tag of £28 for the whole line (that's in addition to membership fees). Without a membership, it's quite a bit more. Not to sound like an infomercial, but if you're a skincare junkie like me, spring for the membership.
Pure Transforming Cleanser
All aboard the cream cleanser express! The Pure Transforming Cleanser (£6 with membership, £25 without) is a gel formula that goes on milky, then transforms into an oil on your skin.
Why I love it: While some oil cleansers can strip my skin of too much, this one sticks to clearing the gunk and leaving behind those good-for-you oils that my skin actually needs.
Step 1: Hydra Prep Lotion
You say prep lotion, I say toner. The Hydra Prep Lotion (£6 with membership, £25 without) is technically "Step 1" in the line, but you'd use it after cleaning your face with the cleanser.
Why I love it: My skin tends to be slightly sensitive, so some toners can make it feel attacked. This light formula makes my skin feel extraclean but not dried out.
Step 2: Deep Treatment Serum
Next up is the Deep Treatment Serum ($£8 with membership, £75 without). A little bit goes a long way, because this product packs a punch of grape and citrus antioxidants. Like all the other products in the line, it's free of parabens, sulphates, and phthalates.
Why I love it: I like to wait until that posttoner dampness is completely gone, then this stuff sinks into my skin like a glass of water into a sandcastle. (Weird metaphor? I'm sticking with it.)
Step 3: Supreme Cream
And now, the queen supreme. The final step in this hydrating process is the Supreme Cream (£10 with membership, £100 without). It's a whopping price tag because it feels as luxurious as the name implies. The silky cream contains "high-tech micro-molecular re-energising Pombe Yeast extract and brightening Jabara extract," which is one way of explaining that it's hydrating as hell.
Why I love it: Just putting this stuff on my skin makes it feel plump. The texture is soft, but not heavy like some moisturisers — more like vanilla pudding. Like the other three products in the line, it's not greasy at all; it really just feels like healthy food for my hungry skin.
