Imagine you’re at home or in a hotel, getting ready for the day ahead. Maybe you have a crucial business meeting first thing, or a Shinjuku shopping spree planned. As you open your concealer, you realize the product is dried out or worse, you left your makeup bag in your home country.
It’s early, and the drugstore down the street isn’t open yet. Neither are the department stores. What now? There’s no need to panic as Japanese convenience stores have got you covered.
To help out, I went around Tokyo’s major convenience store chains — Family Mart, Lawson, Ministop and 7-Eleven — to pick up some makeup items to test. In this article, we’ll dive into what I found and see how these products measure up. The Best FamilyMart Makeup First, I asked my two close girlfriends what their go-to makeup would be at a convenience store.
They both replied “concealer,” so I begrudgingly doled out more than ¥1,800 on Sopo’s liquid concealer. FamilyMart was the only convenience store offering this kind of product. Available in two shades (Fair Light 01 and Light 02), I chose the second one.
I then crossed my fingers hoping it would slightly resemble my skin tone. Sopo’s concealer leaves the skin with a hydrated silky matte finish and is by no means heavy or cakey. A little product goes a long way, as the formula effortlessly blends into the skin, offering a natural medium coverage.
While I found this concealer corrected pigmentation, the downside was that it slightly accen.
