Shiseido Majolica Majorca Skin Lingerie Pore Cover

Review of a make up base which I received from Japanstore.

Product description: A makeup base that thoroughly covers pores for porcelain doll skin.

This make up base contains moisturising glycerin, skin smoothing silicones, silica to absorb sebum and combination of mica and tin oxide to lighten up the skin. The product also contain SPF - Octinoxate and Titanium Dioxide. You can find full loiste of the ingredients [HERE] and the ingredients analysis [HERE].

 The product is packed in soft, squezzy tube with capacity of 25g, so it's small and handy. It's unscented. After unpacking the product the first thing I liked about it was the pigment - I like coloured make up bases, they make my acne prone skin look much better. This one has a yellowish-beige colour, which helps to even out the skin tone and reduces redness. You can actually use this product on it's own to even out your skin - after application the skin looks bare, but smoother.

From the product's name and the description on the official website we can conclude, that the main role of this product is pore coverage and I must admit, that it's fulfilling this role very well. It creates the effect of perfect, smooth skin, it covers both enlarged pores and ice-pick type of scars. It creates fantastic duo with Lioele Dollish Veil Vita BB cream. The product is suitable for oily skin, even though the tin oxide is supposed to lighten up, I find it to be actually slightly mattifying. It does not control sebum production, but also doesn't make skin more oily.  As for the SPF ingredients - there are at the very end of the ingredients list and we also don't apply the base in amounts large enough to offer any real UV protection. To cover whole face I need to use about twice the amount of the picture, so sadly the small tube won't be very long lasting.

Skin Lingerie has one significant downside - it doesn't help out the make up as a whole. A lot of BB creams after some time seems to just disappear from the face and I usually make up base slows this down. In this case, Skin Lingerie maybe makes the BB cream to stay on a little bit longer, but at the same time it causes make up to be more cakey. During the first couple of hours the make up looks nice and smooth, then even the BB cream that itself was very good in staying put, suddenly starts to roll up in wrinkles. It created a very bad duo with my recent favourite, Innisfree Long Wear Cushion.

Price: around £12 on e-Bay, $18 in Japanstore.

Pros:
+ covers up the pores nicely
+ thanks to the pigment evens out the skin tone
+ mattyfies
+ no perfume, no parabens

Cons:
- doesn't help make up to last longer
- rolls up in wrinkles
- considering small capacity - a bit expensive

Summary
It's my first Japanese make up product, so I'm glad I had opportunity to try it out. It's a decent product, on a skin without wrinkles in which it could roll, it would be very good. It's definitely worth recommending  for people struggling with enlarged pores, as it really covers them up nicely. I will use up this tube till the end with pleasure, however I won't be re-purchasing - the search of perfect make up base continues :)