EBay and Gooddealer haul =)

Some ladies requested that I should post haul pics like I used to do but stopped for no reason actually lol! 
I love looking at other people´s hauls (especially of my dear friend Iris of Rouge Deluxe hehe) so I can understand this request =)
I haven´t gotten really lots of packages over the past 3 weeks, just maybe 5 or so (that is extremely little for me haha) but yesterday I got 3 in one day, woot!

I got:
-Jill Stuart Blush Blossom in 04 Seductive Rose. I didn´t intend to get any of these at first as I am not a fan of loose powder products in general. However I couldn´t resist this after seeing it in this post on Rouge Deluxe =) I am so glad I got it as it´s absolutely gorgeous! Got this from Gooddealer for around US$46 & s&h, so I paid around US$51 (retail 4750 Yen = US$57) total for this...not bad!!
-RMK Nail Color EX in P-22 Red and P-23 Dark Purple, got them also from Gooddealer along with the JS blush.
-Esprique Precious Heart Graphical Mascara in black and
-Esprique Precious Heart Graphical Rouge in PK831, won them for less than half their retail price on eBay, yay!
-DHC Rose Beauty Eye Zone Treatment Retouch Q10 in Light Beige, this is the 3rd piece of this eye concealer. It´s my favorite and even though I use it about 3-4x a week 1 piece lasts me about a year! This and the following products were from Alphabeautyuk on eBay.
-Kiss Me Medicated Hand Cream, this smells like Vicks VapoRub to me lol...it´s a very thick petroleum-jelly like cream. Just sampled a bit of it so can´t yet say if it´s good or not but the smell is certainly strong!
-Lucido-L Designing Pump Hair Milk Soft Wave
-Sekkisei 25th Anniversary sheet mask tablets to make my own sheet masks
-Dariya pillow sheets with lavender scents, just put one into the pillow case for a fresh scent for the next 2 weeks. Contains 2 pcs
-Also got couple of hair elastics from Asience as a freebie. They are really cute! I ordered the Asience Shine Therapy Shampoo, Conditioner and Treatment set along with the other stuff but they came in a separate box (due to their weight) a few days earlier so I am guessing the elastics were a part of that set.
I officially declare the Asience Shine Therapy range to be the best Japanese hair care for dyed/very dry/damaged hair I have tried, that´s why I had to get the jumbo sizes (580ml each, the Treatment is a smaller special size). Whenever I use these products my hair gets super soft and silky with a gorgeous glossy shine. Love the cute pink pump-bottles, too!

Individual reviews of most items to follow (reviewed a few of them already before!).

Kao Asience Shine Therapy Shampoo & Conditioner + Inner Rich Treatment Set (revamped version 2010) - "Pink Asience"

I recently reviewed the Kao Asience Shine Therapy Shampoo & Conditioner and just finished the bottles maybe a month ago.
There I was innocently browsing eBay and found a new version of the same stuff available now! Hmmm..you can imagine the rest of the story (purchased, paid, waited for it about 10 days and finally could try the new things out!)


Anyway, what tricked me into buying the new shampoo & conditioner (and treatment) was the PINK packaging! Kao went from plain deep brown to pretty pearly pink! How sweet!
The Shine Therapy line is for permed, dyed and seriously damaged hair so it fits right for me (dyed and I love to use the flat iron and curling iron regularly!).


The one thing I had hoped for was an improvement of the scent as I just thought the older version had such a strong overpowering harsh herb scent. However I don´t feel a real difference in that department though I find I now somehow got used to the scent and actually like how my hair smells when it´s dry (very clean with a soft floral-herbal note) ...maybe the took out the harshness of the scent? I don´t have the older version anymore so I can´t really compare side by side.


Otherwise I don´t see how the formula changed. The Asience Shine Therapy has always been excellent and stays that way. Now that I also have the Inner Rich treatment (which - if I understand correctly - is to be used between shampoo and conditioner like it´s common among Japanese brands - as the treatment should nourish deep inside the hair whereas conditioner will put a coat on the outside of the hair) .

My 3 steps for wonderfully shiny and soft hair are: shampoo, treatment (3-5 minutes), conditioner (1-2 minutes). I might also use a leave-in treatment and/or styling products like hair cream and/or wax but if I leave my hair dry naturally the Asience stuff is easily enough to give me smooth and bouncy hair.

So this super rich hair care series is really great if you have damaged and/or dyed hair. If your hair is normal or oily I´d get one of the other series from Asience instead (Moisture Balance for normal-oily and Inner Rich for normal-dry).

Alphabeautyuk charges US$13.95 + US$9.50 shipping for the set of 3 (220ml each of the shampoo and conditioner and 100g of the treatment). You could also get the 3 goodies from Sasa but it´s now out of stock and price-wise actually Alphabeautyuk is better.

Kao Asience Shine Therapy Shampoo & Conditioner

I have been trying quite a few Japanese haircare items recently among them the Shine Therapy Shampoo and Conditioner from Kao Asience as they were some of the few Japanese haircare products available on Sasa.

I tried the Inner Rich series from Asience before and while I liked them the smell was just not nice.

Asience was especially developed for Asian hair but that doesn´t stop me from using their stuff =)


The Shine Therapy range is for permed/dyed/seriously damaged hair and contains 50% more "Repair & Revitalize Essence".
Some key ingredients are soybean and pearl essence, Korean ginseng, Camellia (Tsubaki) oil and Eucalyptus essence.

Now the shampoo and conditioner are of excellent quality and very rich and creamy in texture so they make my hair very shiny and soft. I have to admit I am still not fond of the scent as it´s a very strong unpleasant harsh herbal scent.
After drying my hair just keeps a light herbal scent which smells quite nice so I like the shampoo & conditioner set altogether and would repurchase. However I still prefer my Kose Salon Style set as it delivers the same result (super silky soft hair) but smells sooooo good!

I got both items from Sasa for about US$7/each. You can also get these on eBay.
I got the smaller bottles (220ml/each) but you can also purchase the jumbo bottles (half liter/each?)