Yves Saint Laurent Le Cushion Encre De Peau - Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation
Yes, this is indeed my review of the long awaited as well as much praised Yves Saint Laurent cushion foundation.
Please, don't ask. I don't know how it happened. I approximate I secretly must relish the feelings of hurting as well as disappointment, because despite my previous experiences alongside cushions from the identify of L'Oreal, I proceed buying the damn things.
You know, it's similar when people tedious downwards to spotter auto wrecks, they are both drawn as well as repelled past times the gory mayhem. I'm similar that alongside cushion foundations from the many L'Oreal brands.
Yet, of course, all these cushions (I hateful high end, let's pretend that L'Oreal as well as Maybelline never happened) got glowing reviews past times sponsored as well as pro bloggers, who were literally bending over backwards to delight the brands' PR overlords.
And hence in that location was Yves Saint Laurent as well as its magical Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation.
Like a skillful lemming that I am, I obediently marched to the nearest YSL counter (which precisely happened to live at Tobu subdivision store) on March 18th (the release appointment inwards Japan) as well as got me one.
The L'Oreal Inc beancounters inwards Paris must live laughing all the way to the bank. They know they receive got me past times the balls. Or cushion puffs. Or both.
I had a run a peril to play alongside this cushion a distich of weeks earlier the launch hateful solar daytime as well as I was real cautiously optimistic. The color seemed all right. The staying powerfulness was fine, too. The complete was acceptable. Only the cost wasn't.
Holymotherofbatman, that thing was bloody expensive! Breathtakingly expensive. Stroke-inducingly expensive. 7500 yen plus tax.
Yet inwards the goal the pros outweighed the cons, as well as fifty-fifty though initially I was proverb I'd rather chew my leg off as well as bleed to decease than purchase some other L'Oreal branded cushion, it turns out that I am glad I did. (Yes, inwards illustration you've been living nether a stone inwards mesh - Yves Saint Laurent is a L'Oreal brand).
And hither I should precisely collapse as well as self-combust, or something, because it seems that I precisely said that I truly similar a western, L'Oreal branded cushion foundation.
Shocked?
Don't worry! No ane is shocked to a greater extent than than me.
Basically, y'all could precisely halt reading correct here, correct forthwith as well as larn as well as purchase yourself your ain Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion (you even hence here? what are y'all waiting for? larn on as well as purchase ane already! as well as no, this is non a sponsored review), but if y'all desire to stick unopen to for the details, hither they come!
So, let's larn this YSL cushion political party started, shall we?
The goods come upward packaged inwards a shiny, gilded box. I suppose it meant to evoke the feelings of luxury, but instead made me hollo upward of sometime ladies who attempt likewise hard. Real luxury doesn't demand to demo off.
As y'all tin see, I bought color release 10, or rather B10, every bit they telephone telephone it inwards Asia.
Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation comes inwards vi shades inwards most Asian countries, though alone v are available for purchase inwards Japan.
The compact is dark as well as gold. Again, I approximate Yves Saint Laurent was going for rich as well as fancy, but instead ended upward alongside high-end hooker esthetics.
On the dorsum of the box it tells us that:
Yep, this cushion is supposed to perform all kinds of makeup sorcery:
The cushion is made inwards Korea:
There are fourteen grams of production packed inside.
The YSL cushion compact is interchangeable alongside other L'Oreal branded cushions as well as alongside some Korean cushions (most those manufactured past times Cosmax).
Oh yes, the compact.
It's black. Nearly all black. Which makes me desire to larn a silvery fern decal on the illustration as well as forcefulness my guy to do the haka every fourth dimension I apply makeup.
The puff is average. Rubycell it ain't, that's for sure.
And compassion that the application side is nearly white. Buuu... So much for my All Blacks fantasy.
In Nihon the bottom of the illustration has a Japanese-language sticker. I was likewise lazy to attempt to peel it off.
And speaking of cushion cases, Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion came fully assembled. The refill was pre-loaded inwards the case. When I asked to purchase precisely the refill, I was told that wasn't possible. There was no alternative to purchase the illustration separately, either. How real unjapanese, YSL!!! What were y'all thinking???
So let's opened upward this baby, ok?
White sticker? How anti-climactic.
But yeah, if your cushion is build new, the surface of the sponge should live protected past times a sticker alongside the YSL logo. Any other generic sticker way that your cushion is no longer a virgin.
And nether the sticker?
The cushion inwards all its glory.
Yes, this is why a cushion foundation is called that. It's basically a chunk of sponge saturated inwards foundation as well as placed inwards a compact. It combines the benefits of liquid foundation alongside the ease of pulverisation application. And that's it, inwards a nutshell.
Ah yes, the same type of low-grade, extremely porous sponge that L'Oreal wants to live famous for.
I'll live the outset to complain that it's truly piteous that a cushion alongside such a high cost tag has something resembling a kitchen sponge inside. I b*tched as well as moaned nigh it lastly yr when writing nigh the Lancome cushions, hence I am non going to repeat myself this fourth dimension around.
However, it was interesting to read the sponsored apologists explanations every bit to why L'Oreal brands purpose such crappy sponges inwards their products.
Unfortunately, the laws of physics don't quite move similar that, no thing what them crafty PR folks tell us.
This is what bigger pores hateful for your cushion foundation:
The puff picks upward waaaay likewise much foundation as well as stamping it onto your confront is an practise inwards futility. To non waste product all this already-picked upward product, y'all gotta smear it the traditional way, which is damn difficult to do alongside a cushion puff. So y'all gently curvature it inwards one-half as well as start smearing. I truly caught myself doing that.
Anyway, where was I?
Ah, yes... The YSL Fusion Ink cushion surface.
I pressed it alongside my finger e'er hence gently. This is what happened:
See what I mean?
This is likewise much production for a gentle press. This is what large pores volition do.
The color looks lite enough, right?
It's B10, let's meet how it stacks upward side past times side to MAC NC15 as well as MAC NW10.
Taken inwards natural light, no filters.
The foundation within YSL Le Cushion Encre De Peau sets awfully fast, y'all gotta spread it out ASAP, otherwise you're gonna goal upward alongside a mask.
Here is a to a greater extent than blended shot:
I meet pinkish undertones inwards there, but hence again, that's me.
And because I am awesome similar that, I also swatched for y'all shades B10, B20, B30, B40 as well as B50. B60 is non available inwards Japan.
(click on the ikon for larger view)
I also did an oxidation test.
Here are the results afterwards ane hour:
So, what do y'all think?
Not hence bad, I'd say!
Now let's utter nigh the real misleading bring upward - Yves Saint Laurent Le Cushion Encre De Peau, or YSL Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation.
You mightiness live excused for believing that the cushion contains the iconic Fusion Ink product. In fact YSL makes us believe it truly does.
But does it?
Well... Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quick expect at the ingredients tells us otherwise.
Despite the Fusion Ink name, the production within is something else.
Don't believe me?
Here's a screenshot of what's within the Fusion Ink Foundation:
From YSL's official page.
And hither is what's within the cushion:
Yves Saint Laurent Le Cushion Encre De Peau ingredients:
Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation ingredients:
Quite different, wouldn't y'all say?
Here, I fifty-fifty entered it into CosDNA for y'all - link.
So yeah, whatever it is, it certain every bit heck ain't the master Fusion Ink. Nice attempt YSL! Next fourth dimension attempt harder.
What else?
Just similar Lancome Miracle Cushion as well as Biotherm Evermoist CC Cushion, YSL Fusion Ink Cushion also has SPF 23/PA++.
Of course, every bit alongside most SPF equipped base of operations makeup, this is precisely a vanity selling point.
Do NOT, as well as allow me repeat it in ane lawsuit again, DO NOT rely on makeup every bit your sole source of Sun protection. Unless, of course, y'all desire to historic menstruum inwards a hurry as well as entertain the possibility of peel cancer inwards the future. Then, past times all means, experience gratis to nous to idiots, who tell y'all that SPF 23/PA++ rating provides "an ample dose of Sun protection".
What else else?
YSL is touting the "rolling ink gel system" that this foundation supposedly has, as well as which provides superior spreadability as well as color delivery, every bit good every bit a soft focus outcome cover.
Whatever that means...
What else else else?
Oh, what the heck... I'm likewise lazy to interpret the official blurbs from the webpage.
Here.
This is what the real multi-lingual leaflet inwards the box says:
Yada yada yada...
My thoughts on YSL Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation.
Guess what???
Their promises are TRUE!!! Well, nearly all true.
And some additional thoughts:
And now, excuse me piece I collapse to the flooring as well as self-combust.
I've gone as well as done it.
I'm liking this cushion. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot.
Final verdict?
Yves Saint Laurent Le Cushion Encre De Peau (a.k.a. YSL Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation) is a bang-up cushion, western or otherwise. Few Korean cushions come upward fifty-fifty close.
The side past times side audio y'all listen is me fainting as well as hitting the floor...
Bang!
If y'all are novel to cushion foundations, delight start past times clicking on the "cushion foundations" tab inwards the transcend menu, though I'm assuming that past times forthwith most beauty fans unopen to the footing are already familiar alongside the concept.
Please, don't ask. I don't know how it happened. I approximate I secretly must relish the feelings of hurting as well as disappointment, because despite my previous experiences alongside cushions from the identify of L'Oreal, I proceed buying the damn things.
You know, it's similar when people tedious downwards to spotter auto wrecks, they are both drawn as well as repelled past times the gory mayhem. I'm similar that alongside cushion foundations from the many L'Oreal brands.
- First was the Lancome Miracle wreck of a cushion.
- Then came the Asian version, which was the same, but nether a dissimilar name.
- Maybelline as well as L'Oreal cushions were hence unspeakably awful that I decided to merely non speak nigh them.
- Shu Uemura's cushion compact filled alongside wall insulation fiberglass was precisely that.
- As was the novel Lancome Miracle cushion comprehend version.
- Biotherm's cushion, famous mainly for its powerfulness to leak from the case, is, mercifully, non available inwards Japan.
- Bobbi Brown's skanky attempt was likewise skanky, fifty-fifty for my ain incredibly depression standards. (Yes, I know it's non a L'Oreal brand, but it was awful plenty to bring together this elite cushion failure club).
Yet, of course, all these cushions (I hateful high end, let's pretend that L'Oreal as well as Maybelline never happened) got glowing reviews past times sponsored as well as pro bloggers, who were literally bending over backwards to delight the brands' PR overlords.
And hence in that location was Yves Saint Laurent as well as its magical Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation.
Like a skillful lemming that I am, I obediently marched to the nearest YSL counter (which precisely happened to live at Tobu subdivision store) on March 18th (the release appointment inwards Japan) as well as got me one.
The L'Oreal Inc beancounters inwards Paris must live laughing all the way to the bank. They know they receive got me past times the balls. Or cushion puffs. Or both.
I had a run a peril to play alongside this cushion a distich of weeks earlier the launch hateful solar daytime as well as I was real cautiously optimistic. The color seemed all right. The staying powerfulness was fine, too. The complete was acceptable. Only the cost wasn't.
Holymotherofbatman, that thing was bloody expensive! Breathtakingly expensive. Stroke-inducingly expensive. 7500 yen plus tax.
Yet inwards the goal the pros outweighed the cons, as well as fifty-fifty though initially I was proverb I'd rather chew my leg off as well as bleed to decease than purchase some other L'Oreal branded cushion, it turns out that I am glad I did. (Yes, inwards illustration you've been living nether a stone inwards mesh - Yves Saint Laurent is a L'Oreal brand).
And hither I should precisely collapse as well as self-combust, or something, because it seems that I precisely said that I truly similar a western, L'Oreal branded cushion foundation.
Shocked?
Don't worry! No ane is shocked to a greater extent than than me.
Basically, y'all could precisely halt reading correct here, correct forthwith as well as larn as well as purchase yourself your ain Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion (you even hence here? what are y'all waiting for? larn on as well as purchase ane already! as well as no, this is non a sponsored review), but if y'all desire to stick unopen to for the details, hither they come!
So, let's larn this YSL cushion political party started, shall we?
The goods come upward packaged inwards a shiny, gilded box. I suppose it meant to evoke the feelings of luxury, but instead made me hollo upward of sometime ladies who attempt likewise hard. Real luxury doesn't demand to demo off.
As y'all tin see, I bought color release 10, or rather B10, every bit they telephone telephone it inwards Asia.
Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation comes inwards vi shades inwards most Asian countries, though alone v are available for purchase inwards Japan.
The compact is dark as well as gold. Again, I approximate Yves Saint Laurent was going for rich as well as fancy, but instead ended upward alongside high-end hooker esthetics.
On the dorsum of the box it tells us that:
Yep, this cushion is supposed to perform all kinds of makeup sorcery:
- long lasting
- all-day wear
- shine-free (calling all nearly-matte complete lovers!!!)
- flawless coverage
- ultra-smooth texture
- weightless feel
- protection, hydration, blah blah blah...
The cushion is made inwards Korea:
There are fourteen grams of production packed inside.
The YSL cushion compact is interchangeable alongside other L'Oreal branded cushions as well as alongside some Korean cushions (most those manufactured past times Cosmax).
Oh yes, the compact.
It's black. Nearly all black. Which makes me desire to larn a silvery fern decal on the illustration as well as forcefulness my guy to do the haka every fourth dimension I apply makeup.
The puff is average. Rubycell it ain't, that's for sure.
And compassion that the application side is nearly white. Buuu... So much for my All Blacks fantasy.
In Nihon the bottom of the illustration has a Japanese-language sticker. I was likewise lazy to attempt to peel it off.
And speaking of cushion cases, Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion came fully assembled. The refill was pre-loaded inwards the case. When I asked to purchase precisely the refill, I was told that wasn't possible. There was no alternative to purchase the illustration separately, either. How real unjapanese, YSL!!! What were y'all thinking???
So let's opened upward this baby, ok?
White sticker? How anti-climactic.
But yeah, if your cushion is build new, the surface of the sponge should live protected past times a sticker alongside the YSL logo. Any other generic sticker way that your cushion is no longer a virgin.
And nether the sticker?
The cushion inwards all its glory.
Yes, this is why a cushion foundation is called that. It's basically a chunk of sponge saturated inwards foundation as well as placed inwards a compact. It combines the benefits of liquid foundation alongside the ease of pulverisation application. And that's it, inwards a nutshell.
Ah yes, the same type of low-grade, extremely porous sponge that L'Oreal wants to live famous for.
I'll live the outset to complain that it's truly piteous that a cushion alongside such a high cost tag has something resembling a kitchen sponge inside. I b*tched as well as moaned nigh it lastly yr when writing nigh the Lancome cushions, hence I am non going to repeat myself this fourth dimension around.
However, it was interesting to read the sponsored apologists explanations every bit to why L'Oreal brands purpose such crappy sponges inwards their products.
One of my favorite bloggers, commonly a real level-headed as well as to-the-point reviewer - Musical Houses, while talking nigh Biotherm Evermoist CC Cushion (Biotherm is also a L'Oreal brand) totally drank the PR kool-aid as well as said that the porous sponge was ane of the "features" of the Biotherm cushion.As nosotros tin see, that is patch non true, regardless of what Biotherm PR spin machine claims. All L'Oreal cushions are stuffed alongside the same sort of porous pseudo-features.
In her review, she goes on to quote Biotherm that the bigger pores "are able to trap to a greater extent than air, wet as well as formula for a light, breathable texture". Her approximate was that "because the sponge is to a greater extent than porous, y'all pick upward less (foundation) during application".
Unfortunately, the laws of physics don't quite move similar that, no thing what them crafty PR folks tell us.
This is what bigger pores hateful for your cushion foundation:
- Bigger pores hateful to a greater extent than foundation is picked upward during the application process.
- That way y'all waste product likewise much foundation alongside each application.
- That way y'all goal upward overapplying the product.
- Bigger pores hateful to a greater extent than air gets trapped within the cushion causing the production to dry out out much faster.
- Bigger pores are to a greater extent than suitable for thicker, heavier textures (but hence so are metallic plate cushions).
- Sponges alongside bigger pores are also cheaper.
This truly explains the infamous flake when the Lancome makeup guru, Lisa Eldridge, was seen applying the Lancome Miracle cushion piece bending the applicator puff inwards half.
It took me nearly a yr as well as a YSL cushion to finally sympathise why.
The puff picks upward waaaay likewise much foundation as well as stamping it onto your confront is an practise inwards futility. To non waste product all this already-picked upward product, y'all gotta smear it the traditional way, which is damn difficult to do alongside a cushion puff. So y'all gently curvature it inwards one-half as well as start smearing. I truly caught myself doing that.
Anyway, where was I?
Ah, yes... The YSL Fusion Ink cushion surface.
I pressed it alongside my finger e'er hence gently. This is what happened:
See what I mean?
This is likewise much production for a gentle press. This is what large pores volition do.
The color looks lite enough, right?
It's B10, let's meet how it stacks upward side past times side to MAC NC15 as well as MAC NW10.
The foundation within YSL Le Cushion Encre De Peau sets awfully fast, y'all gotta spread it out ASAP, otherwise you're gonna goal upward alongside a mask.
Here is a to a greater extent than blended shot:
I meet pinkish undertones inwards there, but hence again, that's me.
And because I am awesome similar that, I also swatched for y'all shades B10, B20, B30, B40 as well as B50. B60 is non available inwards Japan.
I also did an oxidation test.
Here are the results afterwards ane hour:
Right - freshly applied (artificial light, no filters)
Center - afterwards setting (natural light, no filters)
Left - afterwards ane hr (natural light, no filters)
So, what do y'all think?
Not hence bad, I'd say!
Now let's utter nigh the real misleading bring upward - Yves Saint Laurent Le Cushion Encre De Peau, or YSL Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation.
You mightiness live excused for believing that the cushion contains the iconic Fusion Ink product. In fact YSL makes us believe it truly does.
But does it?
Well... Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quick expect at the ingredients tells us otherwise.
Despite the Fusion Ink name, the production within is something else.
Don't believe me?
Here's a screenshot of what's within the Fusion Ink Foundation:
And hither is what's within the cushion:
Yves Saint Laurent Le Cushion Encre De Peau ingredients:
Yves Saint Laurent Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation ingredients:
Quite different, wouldn't y'all say?
Here, I fifty-fifty entered it into CosDNA for y'all - link.
So yeah, whatever it is, it certain every bit heck ain't the master Fusion Ink. Nice attempt YSL! Next fourth dimension attempt harder.
What else?
Just similar Lancome Miracle Cushion as well as Biotherm Evermoist CC Cushion, YSL Fusion Ink Cushion also has SPF 23/PA++.
Of course, every bit alongside most SPF equipped base of operations makeup, this is precisely a vanity selling point.
Do NOT, as well as allow me repeat it in ane lawsuit again, DO NOT rely on makeup every bit your sole source of Sun protection. Unless, of course, y'all desire to historic menstruum inwards a hurry as well as entertain the possibility of peel cancer inwards the future. Then, past times all means, experience gratis to nous to idiots, who tell y'all that SPF 23/PA++ rating provides "an ample dose of Sun protection".
What else else?
YSL is touting the "rolling ink gel system" that this foundation supposedly has, as well as which provides superior spreadability as well as color delivery, every bit good every bit a soft focus outcome cover.
Whatever that means...
What else else else?
- It's a liquid-to-powder formula.
- The "innovative structure" of the liquid forms an ultra-thin veil on the skin.
- .... zonk.
Oh, what the heck... I'm likewise lazy to interpret the official blurbs from the webpage.
Here.
This is what the real multi-lingual leaflet inwards the box says:
Yada yada yada...
My thoughts on YSL Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation.
Guess what???
Their promises are TRUE!!! Well, nearly all true.
- - natural looking effect? YES.
- - long lasting? - YES.
- - lightweight? -Yeah.
- - matte finish? - Kinda.
- - coverage? - Sufficient.
- - moisturizing? - NO!!! Absolutely no!!!
- - comfortable to wear? - Yes.
- - light-diffusing? - How the hell am I supposed to know?
- - shine-free? - Absofreakinlutely.
And some additional thoughts:
- Did it interruption me out? - Too before long to judge, but hence far hence good.
- Accentuates fine lines? - At my historic menstruum anything accentuates fine lines as well as wrinkles. But this foundation did non build me expect 10 years older, hence I'm quite pleased.
- Emphasizes pores? - Well, non inwards my case.
- Scent? - Minimal as well as non-offensive.
And now, excuse me piece I collapse to the flooring as well as self-combust.
I've gone as well as done it.
I'm liking this cushion. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot.
Final verdict?
Yves Saint Laurent Le Cushion Encre De Peau (a.k.a. YSL Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation) is a bang-up cushion, western or otherwise. Few Korean cushions come upward fifty-fifty close.
The side past times side audio y'all listen is me fainting as well as hitting the floor...
Bang!
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