Comments on: Memoirs of a Geisha Beauty Products

By: remora

remora — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:53:54 +0000

Marie, I just ran across a rather odd Geisha Beauty Product and I couldn’t wait to share it with you

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/45598/

*you should do a post with some piccies*

remora

By: Secret Sake

Secret Sake — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:25:53 +0000

[...] today’s installment of mysterious Japanese beauty secrets that might or might not work, you will perhaps be somewhat surprised to learn that Oscar winning [...]

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:58:02 +0000

i think its wonderful that someone has been brave enough to expand the american “culture”.who cares if these girls are chinese, us americans would have never known the difference if Japan had’nt have brought it to our attention honestly, can we really tell? and i mean that in the most respect.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:52:24 +0000

I happened to stumble across these comments because I just watched the movie and remember seeing the geisha products in bath and body works. I just wanted to say, so what they made a couple of beauty products from the movie? The products might be really cool, so why don’t all you negative people get lives and find something important to bitch about.

By: shani

shani — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:21:17 +0000

yeah well however dated the “going geisha” trend might be its still gonna appear everywhere whch i think is good.. and as for obi’s being in or out theyve been in for a while all those shirts u see with a wide band starting nder the chest and a kimono type V-neck.. i think its about time the japanese culture take america by storm for once..and ive been looking for geisha makeup products so a big thumbs up to Fresh..

By: Japundit » Japana Republic

Japundit » Japana Republic — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:26:44 +0000

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The Memoirs of a Geisha movie product tie in juggernaut continues. The latest to get on the bandwagon is Banana Republic. I have [...]

By: andi

andi — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:35:12 +0000

Alice: Yes, Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh are not Japanese, anymore than Russell Crowe is Roman or Rene Zellweiger is British. Hollywood has always used Japanese and Korean actors to portray Chinese characters. Chinese movie stars are now getting a chance to play other ethnicities.

By: Marie Mockett

Marie Mockett — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:09:59 +0000

As near as I can tell, the maiko-shell lipstick is made by a company called “Ryukodo,” which is based in Kyoto and sells novelty products. A Google search on this company turned up that it is known for making “golden turds,” for whatever that is worth. I do not remember the exact store where I found the lipstick. However, I think that if you look at the shops in Kyoto station, you will probably find it, as the stores there carry most things you can find in the city itself.

By: franny

franny — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:29:19 +0000

what is the name of the japanese company that you saw the red lipstick in kyoto?

By: alice

alice — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:49:04 +0000

Yay. Some more orientalizing! Wow, hasn’t “going geisha” been done ten billion times? You’d think after ten-billion-and-second time, they’d think of a way to at least update an already dated beauty and fashion trend. Yay to beauty promoting a movie that homogenizes Asians in typecasting!!! Whooo! Last I checked, Ziyi Zhang and Michelle Yeoh were not Japanese.

By: mike thizz

mike thizz — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:28:04 +0000

Sorry folks, going oriental is old. This winter its all about going Cracka ass Cracka!!!

By: Eddie LaFlo

Eddie LaFlo — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:25:26 +0000

aha! so it IS a movie tie-in. Let the tie-in season begin! Oi!

neW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ —

Lev Glazman and Alina Roytberg, co-founders, Fresh, Inc., proudly announce an exciting partnership with Columbia Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment’s feature film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha debuting in theaters December 9, 2005.

By: Eddie LaFlo

Eddie LaFlo — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:45:40 +0000

I wonder if Fresh got a licensing deal from the movie’s producers or if they ripped if off without a copyright payment. This sounds weird. Who did they pay for the rights to use the name of the title? The novelist or the Hollywood producers? I smell something fishy here, and I aint talking about sashimi either.

By: Rosann

Rosann — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:55:01 +0000

Fresh… how could youuuuu…

By: Marie Mockett

Marie Mockett — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:42:06 +0000

I think it’ll be interesting to see if any other beauty/fashion trends follow from this movie. The “obi” thing has been coming and going for years here, and the cumberbund, which is sort of like a thinner obi, is supposedly in this year. We’ll see if anything else follows.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:39:41 +0000

This is excellent for my feminine side! >_> But truthfully I suppose a girl would enjoy this if such species exist