Showing posts with label Style Nanda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Style Nanda. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Massive 3CE haul

Stylenanda is a Korean fashion store specializing in trendy and casual clothes and accessories.
This brand itself has also launched its own makeup brand, 3 Concept Eyes.
Thanks to Park Sora, the ambassador of this brand who is stunning. This brand has caught many attentions and became really famous through out Asia.

Since I was curious about this brand I picked up a junk load of 3 Concept Eyes items and here comes the massive haul that I did last summer.
Guilty as charged.
3CE items are pricier compared to most Korean roadshop brands but it falls in the mid-range.
Among all the products, their lip products are the most popular ones.

Photos seems really cluttered since I took the photos batch by batch according to my orders. I didn't order them all one short, it did take few orders through out summer to achieve such a big pile of 3CE items.

Firstly, I picked up their ever so raved Lip Pigment. Rumour has it that they work like the infamous OCC Lip Tars.
This is one of their more famous product and this is the product I wanted to try out the most.

Electro Pink, like its name, is a bright neon hot pink.
Bright hot pink is the 'hit' colour in Korea for the Spring/Summer season. It's such a beautiful bright statement colour that it complements every skintone well.
The goods about these type of colours on warm skintones, it just seem to brighten up the skin.

Bright Orange

Bright Orange is a beautiful cream orange.

Mellow Pink

Mellow Pink is a peach pink that is super sweet and cute.

Next, I also got their Jumbo Lip Crayon.

I was kinda skeptical in getting this because I am not a fan of sharpening but the colours just pulled me into getting it. There's a selection of beautiful colours from the lip crayon.
I guess I have to live with sharpening these lip pencils for the sake of the beautiful colours.

The colour I got is #Bohemian Pink

All 3 Concept Eyes cosmetics come with a seal.

Bohemian Pink is a nude pink. 


I've also ordered another colour in #Cream Orange but It was sent to my house after I left the country. I will include that in the next massive haul next summer. That's a year wait from now.

In the next batch I got 2 lipsticks and a highlighter.

Face Glow in #Monaco.
It is a shimmery nude pink highlighter. This colour would suit fairer skintones very well.

For the price I paid it only comes with 15ml for product. I would have expected more.

The packaging, isn't it super sleek?

The seal.

It comes with a pump dispenser.

Lipsticks.
I really like the packaging for the lipsticks, it is so creative and unique.

405 Glass Pink and 402 Fuchsia.



402 Fuchsia
Like its name, it is a fuchsia colour.

405 Glass Pink
A sweet glossy pink.

and then I went back to order more lip products because I just love lip products.

#504 Glass Pumpkin, #407 Cashmere Orange and #403 Glass Red.



#403 Glass Red
The Glass Series from 3CE are sheer tint lipsticks. The finish is a hybrid between a balm and lipstick. 
I don't know why it appears orange in the pictures but it is a red lipstick. A sheer red lipstick 

#407 Cashmere Orange
It is a statement bright orange.

#504 Glass Pumpkin
This is very unique shade, I haven't seen any brand putting out a shade like this.

Apple Tint in #pink

The packaging of the tint. It is also very sleek.

Like its name, it's a pink tint.

Glossing Waterful Foundation.

This is how it should look like if you order straight from Stylenanda official website. It will come with a plastic wrap and sticker with barcode.
This is the only item I ordered from the Style Nanda website because the seller who carries Style Nanda item for a slightly cheaper price than retail ran out of stock for this foundation.

The colour I got is 'Natural Ivory'. I was deciding between this shade and Milk Ivory but my gut feelings told me that Milk Ivory will be too white on me.


There's another layer of cardboard to hold the foundation together.





The foundation comes in a frosted gas bottle that makes it look expensive and chic. I am glad that it comes together with a pipette because I do not like foundation that doesn't comes with a dispenser. I find them utterly messy to work with.

That's all I got from 3 Concept Eyes.

Friday, August 16, 2013

To distinguish between Original 3CE (Style Nanda) and knock offs

3CE or 3 Concept Eyes is a Korean cosmetic line created by Style Nanda.

It widely known because of  its quirky fashion and many Kpop stars sporting the brand. Also,their gorgeous face of the brand Park Sora.
The brand has gained a lot of popularity in East and South East Asia because of that, there are many knock-offs of the brand in the market.

 It is very really easy to gain access and purchase Authentic 3 Concept Eyes Items since thei official website offers shipping wordwide. (Link here)

Comparing to roadshop brands such as Etude House, Holika Holika, Missha etc.
3 Concept Eyes products stands on the mid-range pricing line. More expensive than roadshop brands but cheaper than higher end Korean brands such as IOPE, Hera, Laneige etc.
The price range should match brands like Hanskin, VDL.

Knock offs are usually sold at a very cheap price compared to what you see on the official website. When the deal is too good to be true, there's a high chance that the product is a knock off. Please do some research on the pricing of 3CE items before buying them off the any site which isn't the official Style Nanda website.


 Here are some examples of knock offs.

Style Nanda has never released a BB Balm before.

The only BB Cream Style Nanda has released is their Back to Baby BB Cream.

This is how their Back to Baby BB Cream looks like. It comes in a tube form.


3CE has never released jumbo eyeshadow pencils before.

They have eyeshadows and cream eyeshadows but not jumbo eyepencils.
The closest product that comes in this form in their lip crayons.

This looks like the exactly like the original which can be deceiving.
The original comes with only 7 colours and the name of the colour will be printed at the back.

For the fakes all colours will be labeled # Modern White and the colours will be named as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.
The fake will also come with a lip brush and the original doesn't.
The fake one is also slightly bigger than the original.

Some of the lip color knock offs are deceiving as they look really identical to the original but some screams 'fake'.

Anyway the one in this picture are the ones closer in design to the authentic ones.
The lip colors should come with color code and name such as #402 Puchsia

They do not come in codes like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc.

Update :
3CE has changed their packaging of the lip colours. The new packaging looks like this.



3CE Jumbo Lip Crayon do not come in auto-twist up form. The original lip crayon are in a pencil form that needs to be sharpen.

EDIT: 3CE just revamped their Jumbo Lip Crayon line, they now come up with a twist up form.
The tip of the lip crayon is rounded and flat as compared to the knock-offs, which have a sharper tip. You can click here to check the new revamped lip crayons out.

Fake 3CE liquid foundation.

3CE carries 3 lines of foundation, The Glossing Waterful Foundation, Honey Chiffon Face Fluid and Liquid Foundation. 
Please do check how does the packaging of the foundations look like before purchasing other websites other than Style Nanda Official Website. 

Here are pictures of the original foundation. 
The Honey Face Chiffon Fluid. 

Liquid Foundation

Glossing Waterful Foundation. 

The lip tint is named 3CE Apple tint.
It only comes with two colours. Pink and Orange. No more.
If the seller has more than 2 colours available, it is highly that the seller is not selling an original.

Please refer to my this post, to have a glance on how the original looks like.


3CE do not sell anything in the form of sample sizes /miniatures. All those are fakes. 

There are more examples knock offs out there. It is advisable to do research before buying 3CE items from other websites other than their official website. 
Please be safe from buying a fake rather than being sorry.

For websites that sells authentic 3CE products
- honestskin
- roseroseshop
yesstyle
- Luxola
- eyecandys
- pinkyparadise
- imomoko
- Qoo10