(image and info from www.chicca.jp)
The Kanebo-owned CHICCA has released its holiday 2008 coffret in Japan on November 12th. The coffret includes:
– Enthralling Powder Eye Shadow (EX05)
– Enthralling Powder Eyeliner (EX01)
– Enticing Lip Stain (EX01)
– Enticing Lip Gloss (EX01)
– Aroma Candle
All items/shades in this coffret are limited editions. The set is priced at 17850 JPY.
Related Posts:
CHICCA Fall 2008 Collection
CHICCA Summer 2008 Collection
New Brand Launch: CHICCA
(part of CHICCA’s fall 2008 collection)
(image and information from www.nikkei.co.jp)
One of Kanebo’s top-end brands, CHICCA, will release its fall 2008 collection in Japan on August 6th. The collection includes:
– Enthralling Soft Pencil Eyeliner (new, 5 shades)
– Enthralling Powder Eye Shadow duo (5 new variations)
– Enticing Lip Stain (5 new shades)
– Enticing Lip Gloss (5 new shades)
This collection focuses on the eyes, and each of the five shades from the four products will altogether create one of CHICCA’s five looks for fall 2008 (this is similar to how Lunasol’s new items were promoted in 2007):
– Night Glow (blue-based)
– Evening Party (green-based)
– Tête-à-tête (brown-based)
– Love Avenue (purple-based)
– Mysterious Love (lead-based (dark grey))
Since I came across the news of CHICCA’s launch earlier this year, I have been waiting to see a powder blusher and a loose powder (two of the makeup items that I have recently been interested in the most). The powder blusher is not featured in the fall lineup, but perhaps the fall/winter base makeup collection (if CHICCA is releasing one) will include a loose powder….
(The photo above shows the Love Avenue items (not the blue-based Night Glow look). Sometimes, photos on Nikkei Net do not do the products justice and the colors are not accurate. I look forward to seeing the items on the CHICCA website later on.)
Updated on August 26th, 2008:
The CHICCA website has been updated to include information on the fall 2008 collection. Please click on the link above to have a look.
Related Posts:
CHICCA Summer 2008 Collection
Brand Launch: Kanebo CHICCA
Lavshuca Fall 2008 Collection
Kate Fall 2008 Collection
(part of CHICCA’s summer 2008 collection)
CHICCA has updated its website to include full information on the summer 2008 collection: Love Island – Golden Sun.
Please see my previous post for quick details of the collection. For a brief brand profile, please have a look at this post.
Some of you have e-mailed me and told me that you would be travelling to Japan in the coming summer. (By the way, I envy you…) If you are planning to travel to Japan in the near future and are interested in testing out or purchasing some top-end beauty items, CHICCA is one of the brands you might be interested in.
The brand in under the Kanebo group, so the pedigree is there. I have not seen the items in person, but I’d think the quality should be similar to that of SUQQU (also under the Kanebo group), most of whose makeup items are outstanding.
CHICCA is currently only sold in two department stores in Japan: Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo and Hankyu Umeda in Osaka.
More upcoming collections:
Coffret D’Or Early Fall Collection
Sofina Aube Early Fall Collection
(image from www.nikkei.co.jp)
CHICCA will launch the summer 2008 collection in Japan on May 7th. The collection includes:
– Enthralling Powder Eye Shadow: 6 new shades, 4 of which limited editions
– Enthralling Powder Eyeliner: 1 new shade
– Enthralling Gel Eyeliner: 1 new shade
– Enticing Lipstick: 5 new shades
– Enticing Lip Gloss: 2 new shades
– Beauty Light Body Glow: new item, 2 shades
CHICCA, a top-end beauty brand under Kanebo, was launched in Japan on March 5th. It is already seen in Biteki’s (May 2008) mini-feature on three classy high-end beauty brands (along with Clé de Peau and SUQQU).
The summer 2008 collection mainly includes new shades of existing items. I am still waiting for CHICCA to release items like powder blusher and loose powder, which are items I often buy from a new brand. We’ll see what happens in fall…
Related Posts:
CHICCA Launches in March 2008
(with a brief brand profile)
SUQQU: Sensuality with an Attitude
(a profile on this popular high-end brand in Japan)
Clé de Peau Spring 2008 Collection
(soft and feminine)
(Kanebo CHICCA counter design)
(image from www.nikkei.co.jp)
(the classy detail of the packaging)
(image from www.chicca.jp)
On March 5, Kanebo will launch a new brand, CHICCA (pronounced “kikka”), which will have its own counters in department stores in Japan.
The brand image will be minimalistic and sophisticated.
Targeted at a more mature clientèle, CHICCA will be one of the most high-end brands under the Kanebo Company. In the makeup line, a lipstick will retail at around 50 USD and the pressed powder will retail at around 98 USD in Japan.
(CHICCA’s debut base and color makeup lineup)
(image from www.chicca.jp)
(CHICCA’s debut skincare lineup)
(image from www.nikkei.co.jp)
(part of the color makeup lineup)
(image from www.chicca.jp)
Following the debut of Coffret D’Or last December, this will be another important move from Kanebo, which was not doing very well financially and was purchased by Kao in early 2006. It would be interesting to see how CHICCA competes with other top-end brands in the future.
Updated on January 28, 2008:
CHICCA’s official website has been launched.
Photos of the details of the compact design and part of the color makeup lineup have been added above.
The brand is gradually appealing to me more and more. The Enthralling Powder Eye Shadow (particularly the duo in #02, beautifully named Chiffon Lavender Dress) and Flush Blush (a cream blusher) are just two of the items that have caught my eye.
(CHICCA Enthralling Powder Eye Shadow
and Flush Blush)
(images from www.chicca.jp)
Related Posts:
SUQQU: Sensuality with an Attitude
(another major high-end brand in Japan)
All About Japanese Cosmetics
(Can’t have enough of them…)
Loving Japanese Brands
(Read about my 7 favorite Japanese brands.)
(image and info from www.chicca.jp)
