Canmake Creamy Touch Liner review

Canmake's Creamy Touch Liner

 In 2018 I discovered eyeliner. Once you see yourself with eyeliner, you can't go back. It is life-changing. It makes you feel awake and without it, you always seem to look tired.

Since I am still very new to all of this, I am constantly on the lookout for eyeliners (you will see my reviews on other eyeliners as I find ones that really stand out (good or bad)).

Canmake's Creamy Touch Liner was one of the first that really impressed me.

The promotions at the drugstore said that it is a gel liner in a form of a stick, making it easy to use.

There are two colours: dark brown and black. I have used both and both are good

dark brown on the left and black on the right

and a disclaimer, this product is new but very popular... I had to go to 5 drugstores to find them.

pros:

• glides on your eyes
• easy to control the consistency
• stays on and lasts all day
• doesn't smudge (but will fade if you rub your eyes)
• easy to use (I'm still a beginner and it was easy to get the shape I wanted)
• clean (just turn the dial and get 
• always sharp and stays the same diameter
• it is a gel eyeliner but you don't have to carry a brush and container with you, only a stick!

cons:

• easily dries out
• once you have gotten too much product out, you can't put it back in the stick (so be careful)
• you never know how much you have left
• not waterproof
• if you rub your eyes too hard, it will transfer (but you can still see the product on your eyes, faded)

I will definitely repurchase. Since I am still quite new with eyeliners, I can only give a score based on my limited experience with eyeliners.

score: 8.5/10
website: http://www.canmake.com/en/eeye/item_eye080.html

Twinings of London Peach & Orange tea review

I love tea. I mean... I love coffee... but it is something about growing up Chinese and the fact that it is in my blood, that I love tea, especially fruit teas. 

While shopping at Kaldi's, I came across these two teas (I will do the Apple one later).

I usually don't buy tea bags because they have given me such frustrations with quality... but since Twinings (of London) is known for their quality in teabags, they are probably one of the few brands I would actually buy my teabags.

I really like the packaging

type: red tea

country of origin of tea: China and Argentina

they recommend that this can be drunk: straight, with milk or cold

I drank half of it before I remembered to take a picture

impressions:

• very smooth (I wouldn't have thought it came from a teabag)
• peach and orange are a good mix
• only takes two minutes to make (follow the instructions and it will work)
• didn't have a rough aftertaste 
• Happy and Lively (it does live up to its description)
• quenches thirst
• given the taste, it will taste good with the recommended: straight, cold, with milk
• leaves a nice peachy aftertaste

I'm not sure whether this product is only limited to Japan because I couldn't find the specific product on their UK website.

My one and only complaint is that it seems the flavours were not from dried peaches/dried oranges. It would have been perfect if it were (might be wrong, but the packaging says "aroma").

score: 9.8/10 (that is very high)

website: https://www.twinings-tea.jp/products/peach-orange.html (in Japanese)

Saratoga Springs Made in USA Kettle Cooked Cheddar & Onion chips review

chip bag

While shopping at Kaldi's, the words "Kettle Cooked" caught my eye. For those of you who live in Japan, you know the frustration of finding kettle cooked potato chips... they are rare. So without giving it much thought, I went ahead and bought Cheddar & Onion. (I also bought Black Pepper, I will talk about it in another post).

There are definitely a few things I miss: real cheddar tasting snacks, onion tasting snacks AND Kettle chips... so this already had my name on it. 

As they claim, these were made in the US, a quick search on Google told me that Saratoga chips are famous and very well known. 

According to their website:

Saratoga Chips Original Kettle Potato Chips are as crisp and delicious as Chef George Crum intended when he invented the potato chip at the Cary Moon's Lake Lodge in 1853 in Saratoga Springs, New York.

I guess I was really lucky and made the right decision to buy them!

Their chips claim to be:
certified gluten-free no trans fats allergen free 100% all natural no cholesterol also non-GMO Verified.


The description on the bag also says

According to culinary legend, the potato chip originated in 1853 at a fashionable New York restaurant when railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt sent his potatoes back to the kitchen, complaining that they were too thick. Annoyed, chef George Crum scornfully sliced some potatoes into a kettle of boiling oil and fried them to a crisp. The result was a hit and the potato chip was born.

In succession to this traditional recipe, we kettle-cook select potatoes in small batches using vegetable oil. We use totally natural ingredients, hand-rake every batch, and test chips at every stage of preparation to ensure quality and taste. Enjoy our traditional kettle cooked potato chips. 

So after knowing ALL about these chips, how do they taste:

impressions:

• very solid 
• very crispy (even after leaving them out for a day (by accident) they were still very fresh)
• oily to the fingers
• cheddar and onion taste was very mild
• perfect combination with avocado
• does not leave you with onion breath but there is a slight onion flavour lingering

and last but not least, the ingredients:
potatoes, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil and/or safflower oil, maltodextrin whey powder, sea salt, dried cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey, buttermilk, disodium phosphate, lactic acid), natural & artificial flavours, onion powder, yeast extract, extractives of annatto, sugar, citric acid, lactic acid, garlic powder, extractive of turmeric. 

score: 9.5/10
website: http://originalsaratogachips.com/