As promised last month, I will only reveal the Japanese magazine that is giving away a set of Coach travel brush AFTER I’ve gotten my magazine copy and the brushes passed my QC. I hope you can understand why I’m not willing to reveal earlier. I will and would not want some of you to rush over to Kinokuniya, placed an order for the magazine, get disappointed with the brush set and then BLAME ME. Can you see where I’m coming from?

So to cut the story short, my magazine order finally arrived after waiting for a month. I was told that MORE May 2014 X Coach Travel Brush Set will arrive either end of March or early April since the magazine is May 2014 issue. As I mentioned before, Japanese magazine released their magazine about 2 months earlier last time, now it’s just one month earlier. I received the collection sms on a Saturday morning and I collected it on Sunday afternoon, right before I head to Carlo Rino “Spring into Summer Dreams” Fashion Show at Pavilion. Will talk about that later.

MORE May 2014 X Coach Travel Brush Set magazine is priced at the price I had in mind. I knew the cost would be roughly RM30+ and not exceeding RM40. If you’ve been buying Japanese magazine as frequent as I do, you’ll be able to guess the magazine price roughly. Some guess it based a hardcore calculation from Yen to RM etc, I guess it based on the magazine title and the supplement included. No calculation needed 😀

Now, the Coach travel brush set. You’re reading this means I think it’s good and worth to buy even just as collectible item. I like to collect Coach magazine supplement from Japan but I don’t buy it all, especially some which I think is not something I would use like table clock. I’ve seen and bought numerous Coach magazine supplement but never ever ever have I encounter something related to beauty or even a brush set. This, is right down my alley. The supplement comes with two travel size brush consisting of a face/blush brush measuring at 12cm and an eyeshadow brush measuring at 11cm. It also comes with a plastic zip lock pouch, bearing the latest Coach Madison Gingham print which measures at 9.5cm height over 20cm width.

When I first saw the teaser from Amazon a month ago I knew these brushes will be in travel size. Usually magazine supplement don’t do full size or give out retail/boutique item. What this means is you have understand that the quality is not at the same par as boutique one (if they have similar product selling at boutique). Japanese magazine publisher usually mass manufacture these magazine supplement items. With nearly 2-million of these being produced, it will not be in superb condition or even quality. I’ve been greeted with glue over a pouch or crooked stitching and even crooked bag alignment before. This is also a reason why I said I need to see these brushes first before recommending to you here!

These brushes is not as small as I think it would be. It is the same length with my MAC travel brushes and the brush quality is surprisingly good too. The face/blush brush bristle is quite soft while the eyeshadow brush bristle is quite stiff. Eventhough so I have no complain at all on them as I’m not very particular about makeup brushes.

The pouch included is obviously 10 times larger and bigger than the brushes duo, which means I can store every other makeup stuff in the pouch as well. I only wish they have the pouch in cloth material or if not, in thicker plastic material. The zip lock on top will tend to spoil in no time as well. So I would rather keep it instead of using it.

When I picked up my reserved magazine on Sunday around 1.30pm, there is only 3 copies left on the shelf. Usually Kinokuniya use two different shipment for the same magazine. I’m not going into detail on Kinokuniya shipment and total quantity per shipment etc because that’s for me to know 😛 . I suspect this is the first shipment. In another few more days there might or might not be a second shipment. It depends on the quantity that Kinokuniya is bringing in. You can always give Kinokuniya a call and make a reservation on a copy or ask about this magazine if it’s sold out.