Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical was founded in the mid-19th century, holding the mission to make patch care available for all who seek it-anytime, anywhere. Hisamitsu has released products ranging from the collection of Lifecella to SALONPAS.

Lifecella include Lifecella Gel mask series and Lifecella Paper mask series. All Lifecella products are made in Japan and directly imported, and are the no. 1 bestseller compared with similar products in Japan. Lifecella mask is made with the latest ODT technology, enabling it to effectively moisten and soften rough skins, while enhancing the carrying capacity of every cell, so as to facilitate the essence to permeate into the in-depth layer of the skin. In firm and jelly texture, Hisamitsu Lifecella mask lets you feel free to do what you like while enjoying the mask!

 -source: Sasa
  

A box includes:

LIFECELLA Essence Sheet Mask Hyaluronic Acid (5 pieces)

LIFECELLA Essence Sheet Mask Ceramide (5 pieces)

LIFECELLA Essence Sheet Mask Trehalose (5 pieces)

LIFECELLA Milky Lotion Sheet Mask CoQ10 Squalane (1 piece)

LIFECELLA Milky Lotion Sheet Mask CoQ10 Squalane for Eye Contour (1 pair)

Price: US$ 25.50 (~ £ 16.50) from Sasa

The three boxes are stuck together but they can be bought individually.

LIFECELLA Essence Sheet Mask Trehalose

Hyaluronan: Strong moisturizing, only 1 gram can help outlayer and inner of skin to trap 6 Liters water, which allows skin becomes moisturized and full of vality.

Trehalose: Taken from bonectial, strong moisturizing. It can protect the sebum and cell to maintain skin healthy.

The mask is drenched and saturated in essence, so much that you will find excess left at the bottom of the packet ...which I ended up using on my feet. You can leave it on for about half an hour just make sure the mask isn't drying up on your face because that means the mask will try and transfer moisture back into itself so the results won't be as effective.

The quality of the mask is decent for a drugstore mask. The material is pretty strong and there was no tearing as I put on the mask.

The fitting of the mask is average, it's a bit too wide that it overlaps but I guess it's better than it being too small. I do like that it covers my eyes too. The scent I didn't like as much because it reminds me of a medicine, but it's not too strong so I was able to handle it and I managed to get used to it after a while.

This mask has moisturising qualities, results are not greatly shown on my skin because my skin only gets dry in the winter period, it's more oily at the moment so I'll keep these for the winter. Overall I do like these masks, I love the cooling effect the most, it's so relaxing.^^

I finally got my box this month. After receiving a dispatch notice I waited and anticipated only to find that it hasn't arrived the following day. I assume it must have been due to the Olympics that it arrived a day later than it would normally. Oh well, at least I got it now.







HD Brows | Eye & Brow Palette
I like this best out of the box, I got it in Vamp. I'm sure they had this in a previous Glossybox, I think it was some time last year but I hadn't subscribed then so it was nice that they brought it back. Not to worry because they made sure that you wouldn't get the same product twice if you had already received it the last time.

Jelly Pong Pong Cosmetics | Lip Frosting
I was surprised that this is a full sized product, it's so small! It costs £10 for this product. -jaw drops-

Monu | Golden Glow
It's an alarming yellow colour, similar to the Clinique moisturiser so I thought it was a moisturiser of some sort. Silly me didn't bother reading the description, all I picked up was "bronzer" so I thought: whatever, I'll test it on my hand. It looked clear so I left it there. Three hours later a section of my hand was brown and I was mortified as it didn't come off. Then I realised it was a tanning treatment. I'm not a fan of tanning, and a definite no no for tanning products. The smell is very unpleasant to me but if you often use self tanners then you might be familiar with the smell already and it might not bother you as much.







CLYNOL Salon Exclusive | Enrich Colour Shampoo
I wasn't bothered when I saw this because I see most shampoos to be the same. I do have colour treated hair so to make up for the last product that I didn't like they managed to pick one that is suitable for me. It's in a small bottle too so it'll be convenient to take with me when travelling.

Elizabeth Arden | Visible Difference Skin Balancing Line
This is a bonus product that includes 3 satchets: cleanser, skin serum and moisturiser. I don't use small samples in little satchets hence why I give most of them away. I don't think you can't judge a product after using it twice. But since this is an extra, I can't complain.

Elizabeth Arden | Visible Difference Skin Balancing Lotion SPF 15
It comes in a tiny plastic bottle holding 5ml of the product. The pump looks really cute on such a small bottle. The description reads: "Smooth onto cleansed face and throat." Well, how unique? The lotion is milky and smells a bit like cucumber.


I feel kind of neutral towards the July box; some (or should I say one) product I like and some, not so much. I felt a bit "meh" about most of them especially the tanning product but HD Brows palette's presence somehow pulled me out of that feeling. I do think everything else will go to waste. I secretly wanted the Monu eye gel instead of the self tanner and looking at the rest of the products of July I think there are more items I would use but I didn't get which is a little disappointing. I hope next month I will have a better box suited for me. :)

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For a short time only you can pick 2 free items instead of 1 (Those that are indicated by 2 red stars). No additional shipping costs for free items.

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Blog sale is open to UK residents only.

My Sasa order has arrived! I've not done a haul in a while so I thought I would show you what I've bought recently from sasa.com.

JEALOUSNESS (x 2) Assorted False Eyelashes - JS-688

Koji DOLLY WINK Liquid Eyeliner (Deep Black)

Koji DOLLY WINK False Lower Lashes (No. 14 Natural Cute)

Koji DOLLY WINK False Lower Lashes (No. 13 Baby Girl)

Koji DOLLY WINK Eyelash (No. 2 Sweet Girly)

Koji DOLLY WINK Eyelash Fix

SK-II CLASSIC CARE Facial Treatment Essence

SK-II ANTI-AGE Signs Eye Mask (14 piece)

SK-II CLASSIC CARE Facial Treatment Mask (10 piece)

Most are Dolly Wink products because I worship the brand and even just by looking at the packaging makes me happy! The power of Tsubasa Masuwaka lol. XD My order came to $251USD (~ £160), but I was also charged customs:

Import VAT £35.05
Clearance Fee £13.50
Total £48.55

Including customs charge I payed nearly £210. Bleh. But overall I'm still pleased with my order.

This isn't the first time I have been charged customs duty so it's not new to me but it has been the most I have had to pay so far. I have ordered from Sasa 5 times previously (this is my 6th order) and never got charged customs. This time I got stung quite hard so I guess it makes up for the times I got away with it!


When and Why Do you Have to Pay Customs Charge?
Any item you import outside of the EU and is over £16 will risk of being charged customs duty. It looks like more or less every order made in the past few months from Sasa where the buyer lives in the UK is caught up in custom charges. It really depends on where you live, sometimes you get lucky like the 5 times for me but I think they have just become more strict especially now that the UK economy is still struggling.

Customs charge has nothing to do with the company but the laws of your own country. So if you don't want to be charged customs you must understand the laws and regulations, which differs from country-to-country. I know must people like to stock up. I'm one of them. Who can limit themselves to buying less than £18 for one order that comes from the other side of the world? You might as well buy more while you're at it. Sasa doesn't always offer free shipping or the free shipping is only available when you buy over $75USD which then means you risk of custom charges. You can't win around it and Sasa won't help you either.

Part of Sasa's policy states:

Customs & Tax
When ordering from sasa.com you are considered the importer of record and must comply with all the laws and requirements of the country in which you are receiving the items. Your orders may be subject to import duties and/or taxes and any additional charges for custom clearance must be borne by you. Sasa.com has no control over these charges and does not assume responsibility for the ordered goods meeting local customs laws and/or duties and taxes. Custom policies vary widely from country to country, and you should contact your local customs office for further information.

When you pressing “continue” to place your order, this assumes you have accepted the responsibility for the import duties and/or tax, additional charge and Import Trade Declaration for custom clearance. If you have not been able to complete this statement of the aforementioned and the package is subsequently returned to sasa.com, you will be responsible for the return shipping charges and a re-stocking fee of 15% of the total product purchase price. The balance will then be refunded back to you.

NOTE: As import duties and/or taxes and any additional charges for custom clearance must comply with the laws and requirements of the country, we MUST provide the product value for the customs clearance. In addition, some of the countries requested to attach the product details with value outside the parcel, thus, we will NOT amend the product value in any circumstances

It's understandable for them to state this in their policy as most companies do. You probably would have been quoted more if you bought from elsewhere because Sasa has the best prices for asian products.

Sasa.com - Website Review
I'm expecting this to be my last Sasa order (*coughs* if I can control myself). I should support the UK and EU businesses so I'm going to be rounding up Sasa the whole experience and the pros and cons of shopping online at Sasa.

The Bad..
The packaging. The thing that annoys me most about Sasa is that they have limited themselves to the same one size outer packaging box. It doesn't matter if you order just one set lashes (which I did once do; it was 2 pairs actually) they will still post it in the same, large, exaggerated box.. And then the rest of the parcel will be filled with packing peanuts which is a nuisance to pick up once they scatter around everywhere, and also not very environmental friendly since they don't use the biodegradable soluble types.

Out of stock products. Now I've complained for so long about this matter I feel that it's slightly improved because before it used to take weeks and weeks and weeks for a popular item to get back in stock they have improved in a way but not enough to make me feel impressed by.

Their reviews. It can be unreliable. Sasa reviews are all monitored before they are published. There is one thing I found out about Sasa which is quite sneaky. They don't allow reviews with less than 3 stars. I read this on a blog and later tried it out myself, I left a review with 1 star and it was declined however I did this a long time ago so I hope they have changed that. You wouldn't find a bad review in the past. You can now see one/two star products but they aren't actually reviewed I believe it's just computerised randomly.


The Good..
Competitive prices. Of course not the same as HK but still cheapest online. If you live in east asian you might get it for cheaper but it doesn't apply to most of us, unless you're on holiday there. The prices do however inflate just slightly when it's in demand.

Wide range of asian products available. Sasa.com is a good place to shop for their selection of products. There are a lot of Japanese products, Taiwanese products, and some Korean too. My favourite Dolly Wink brand, K-Palette, SK-II, Kose are all bought from there.

Reputable company. The company is legit, no fake products; you can buy with confidence.

Quick and efficient order processing. It usually takes 2-5 days for them to process your order and dispatch. I think that is pretty good. It takes one week for it to arrive here (longer this time because of customs - but only by a day because they sent me a letter instead of my package). Still very decent.

To conclude, I will always love Sasa but the online shopping journey ends here. Although it's unlikely I hope that one day Sasa will come to Europe. After all, western countries are catching on with bb creams at the moment so I don't see why not. It may take a long time but I do wish they would introduce more asian products to the western market.

Giveaway Details:-

• Open internationally
• This beauty giveaway is for my followers. Make sure you have followed me via Google Friend Connect (click here if you haven't) before you fill in the form at the bottom of this page. Remember you must be a public follower otherwise I have no way of verifying whether you followed or not, so this is an important step or your entry may not be counted.
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• 2 prize winners chosen by random generator.
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• Giveaway will end on: 24th August 2012, 11:59PM UTC (GMT TIME)

Prizes:-


There will be two prize winners, the prize will be split as follows:-

Prize No.1 

Prize No.1: Tony Moly Ice Queen Crispy Tropical Pack | SK-II Facial Treatment Lotion | Microline Comb and Mirror | Cyber Colors Blotting Paper | Tony Moly Puff | Chinese False Lashes | Samples: Nymph Aura Volumer x 2, Etude House Dressing Room, Etude House BB Cream, Etude House Black Charcoal Chin Pack, Missha Super Aqua Cell Cream

Prize No.2

Prize No.2: Tony Moly Latte Art Milk-Tea Morning Pack | Luminous Change False Eyelashes 05 - Natural Volume Eye | Kanebo Kate Gel Eyeliner BK-1 | Love Alpha Eyeshadow Palette | The Face Shop Charcoal Pore Strip | Samples: Skinfood Agave Cactus Toner, Missha Cho Bo Yang BB Cream, Missha Sosaeng, Scinic Aqua Ex Jelly Cream

The first winner of the giveaway can choose the prize.

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