Just around the corner from the MAC pro store in Auckland’s Chancery is Kosmakit - a cosmetics store full of amazing and sometimes bewildering beauty treats from Asia. I did recognise a few brands among them, like Make Up For Ever, Shu Uemura, and SKII. These are the kinds of brands that are sometimes difficult to find in New Zealand. So if you’ve lived in Asia and miss your favourite brands you could be in luck. And if you just love trying new stuff this store is certainly worth a gander.

The staff seemed really friendly too, so you shouldn’t feel intimidated by all the new products and packaging you’ll see.

Though can anyone tell me what the product pictured below does? I tried Google Translate to figure it out myself, but it gave explanations like “Using a simple hair can also replace the belt, not to destroy not crushed bangs” so I’m still a little confused…

Black Opal is a brand of cosmetics and skincare from New York, made exclusively for women and men of colour. All cosmetics are richly pigmented and technologically advanced to enhance and beautify brown skin.

Black Opal has been used in the Miss Indianz 2008 Beauty Contest, as well as the Miss Asia Pacific 2007 and Miss Africa NZ 2007/06, and now it can be used on you too!

Thanks to the lovely people of Amaka Beauty, we have two vouchers for a makeover worth $80 and a lipstick worth $20 you can select at the makeover to give away. The makeovers are available at Life Pharmacy Manukau, Life Pharmacy St Lukes Metro and Unichem West City Pharmacy (There are other stockists but not who are doing the makeovers, so sorry, non Auckland readers! We’ll have something for you soon), and if you want to win, all you gotta do is leave us a comment and we’ll draw two winners next Tuesday with the help of the randomiser. Hurray!