Best of - Koh Gen Do

Mind-blowingly good -

Moisture Foundation (red tube) - deserves all the praise and the cult status amongst top tier makeup artists. It is hydrating, smoothing, light buildable coverage, skin-like. Not overly glowy, and stupidly long lasting with powder on my oily skin. My dry patches love it, my oily patches love it. It’s like a lighter weight version of 2 layers of MAC Face & Body, but less shiny even before powder. The only down side is the limited shade range, though understandable since it’s a Japanese brand, and Japan is a highly homogenous society (around 98% of population in Japan is Japanese).

The outshined -

Aqua Maifanshi Foundation - is a bit more matte. It’s also great, just not for my needs. It blends and stretches beautifully, dries down to a semi-matte but non-artificial finish, reasonable light to medium coverage, very buildable because of the lightweight formula. I do prefer this formula over the “eye-dropper bottle, volatile-oils-evaporate-and-leave-skin-with-pigments formula” on the market like the Armani Maestro, because this doesn’t settle into pores. Down side is again, lacking on the shade range, though understandable since it’s a Japanese brand, and Japan is a highly homogenous society (around 98% of population in Japan is Japanese).

Too expensive and too many options out there -

Cleansing Spa Water Cloth - I don’t use wipes much, but got a pack of these as a gift with purchase. They are nice and gentle, but its a whopping $59 USD for 30 pieces. I just can’t justify. Some things I will splurge on, but not wipes.

These are the only products I have tried from the brand because the others don’t really speak to me, and that the brand is hard to get here in Vancouver without a retail point. They do offer concealers and powders that I might try in the future.