Friday, April 13, 2012

Sasa Haul

Sasa is another Hong Kong based cosmetics company that sells all kinds of asian brands.  I found that Sasa had a much better selection of brands than yesstyle did, but the free shipping minimum was quite a bit higher.

I truly meant to try and purchase skincare products, but the mascaras and eye liners were just irresistible and calling my name!  How could I...wait...how could anyone resist?  Especially when everything was so cheap.  They were almost cheaper than any drugstore brand that I've seen.  Honestly, at anywhere between $8-$15 a liner or mascara, you just can't go wrong.  And when you add skincare into the mix, you would reach that free shipping in no time.  The shipping took a while.  Actually, the whole processing the order took nearly a week and I think that shipping took nearly two weeks.  If there is something that you need super bad....don't go here.  I'd recommend going to Yesstyle.  Both websites have free gifts with purchases.


Truthfully, though, I was on the Sasa website for a purpose.  In a previous haul blogpost about my purchases from yesstyle, I found out that in order to successfully remove the mascara that I had purchased, I need this magical mascara remover.  So off I went, searching for it.  (Yesstyle happened to be out of stock).  But lo and behold, i found it on Sasa.  And obviously a few more items....  I'm NOT good with resisting temptation.

I picked up three eye liquid liners.  I've come to the conclusion that pencil liners just don't like my oily lids.  So unhappy.  All three had really great reviews and ratings.  DejaVu's Perfect Liner, Dolly Wink's Liquid Liner and Koji SpringHeart Liners.  The packaging is so cute on all of them, it's hard to say no. 






It looks like I went overboard on the mascaras didn't I?  NOPE!  I only picked up two.  Both are from Deja Vu - one is a fiberwig (think Blinc or FairyDrops) and the other one is a regular mascara.  The Tiny Sniper mascara (on the right) looks like a liquid liner or something, but it's a mascara.  Even the brush is weird.  It's angled...so it'll be interesting to see how that will work and if I'll be able to get the little baby lashes on the inner and outer corners of my eye.  The pink bottles (from Kiss Me) contain the magic mascara remover (review coming up!).  You're probably wondering why any mascara would need this special remover...I read somewhere it's because asian mascaras are highly pigmented and VERY waterproof, so using regular eye make up remover won't do, or you'll come close to rubbing your eye area raw.  I just didn't want to risk it.  So, we'll see how this goes!



7 comments:

  1. U can NEVER have enough mascara! Gotta go check this site, but my favorite eyeliner is the Maybelline stilletto, $6 and it stays on my grease ball lids all day and the color pay off is intense :)

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    1. Oh I should try maybelline Stiletto...Thanks for the great tip!

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  2. I had really bad luck with Yesstyle's original Asian site, but the Canadian one looks better...Sasa looks good though and this haul looks awesome!!

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    1. I've never ordered from the original website - I'm often quite afraid to...you just never know with asian websites... (uhhh....paranoid much...maybe... :P) I'm already compiling my next sasa list! Skincare this time...I swear!

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  3. I have never ordered from Sasa before. How long would shipping be? I don't have much good luck with Asian cosmetic websites. Shipping time varies from 2 weeks to 2 months??!!

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  4. Shipping wasn't too bad. it probably took about two weeks. It's the filling of the order that I felt took a crazy amount of time! If you have friends that are similarly interested in purchasing from Sasa, i would recommend that you all band together and order because you might qualify for the expedited shipping (who doesn't want to get their goodies, like yesterday?) and that's pretty fast. Hope that this helps! - Jamie

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  5. Does Sasa charge any import taxes when shipping to canada?

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