Best Beauty Products in Japan: Japanese Cosmetics Ranking 2019

The Best Cosmetics Awards is hosted by @cosme, Japan’s biggest and the most influential cosmetics and beauty portal website. The awards cover rankings of popular beauty items in Japan of each year listed by category such as skin care and make-up products. The awards also reveals the grand prize winner, the best newcomers and Hall of Face winners which are all based on real users’ votes.

The Best Cosmetics Awards is held twice a year in mid-year and year-end, and recently the latest rankings of the best cosmetics products of 2019 have been revealed.

In this article, I’d like to share the beauty products which won the most honorable titles on the Best Cosmetics Awards 2019: the Grand Prize, Hall of Fame and Year-End Best New Buys. Let’s find out the best cosmetics products to buy in Japan in 2019–2020! If you wish to check more ranking of the awards in different categories, I have links to them on the bottom of the page, too!

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🏆 Grand Prize 🏆

The Grand Prize award goes to the three beauty products which have received most positive feedback through the year. The winner of the @cosme Best Cosmetics Awards 2019 is CEZANNE Pearl Glow Highlight (Highlight & Contour category) followed by excel Skinny Rich Shadow (Eyeshadow category) and LANCÔME TEINT IDOLE ULTRA 24H LONG WEAR FOUNDATION (Liquid Foundation category).

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Winner: CEZANNE Pearl Glow Highlight (600 yen)

Runner-up: excel SKINNY RICH SHADOW (1,500 yen)

Third Place: LANCÔME TEINT IDOLE ULTRA 24H LONG WEAR FOUNDATION (6,000 yen)

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Hall of Fame

The Best Cosmetics Awards “Hall of Fame” prize goes to the products which have won the awards multiple times and are considered as all-time best products. Every year, several honored products are added to this list, and 7 new products have joined the others in 2019.

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Lipstick: OPERA LIP TINT N (1,500 yen)

Massage: est activate circulator (4,500 yen)

Face & Body Wash: COW BRAND Beauty Soap Red Box Moisturizing (100 yen)

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Cream & Gel: naturie SKIN CONDITIONING GEL (900 yen)

Mascara: OPERA mylash advanced (951 yen)

Fragrance: DIOR MISS DIOR BLOOMING BOUQUET Eau de toilette (6,000 yen)

Massage: LUSH FULL OF GRACE (1,010 yen)

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Year-End Best New Buys

The Year End Best New Buy Award goes to the products which has been newly released in the second half of the year. You can the check the most trendy, latest beauty products in Japan with this list. Here are 15 best new-buys of 2019 year-end.

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Cleanser: LECHÉRI ENZYME CLEANSING OIL (2,500 yen)

Face Wash: FANCL DEEP CLEAR WASHING POWDER (1,800 yen)

Lotion: ALBION FLORA DRIP (7,000 yen)

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Emulsion: DIOR CAPTURE DREAMSKIN Care & Perfect (12,000 yen)

Serum: LANCÔME ADVANCED GÉNIFIQUE YOUTH ACTIVATING SERUM (25,000 yen)

Face Mask: ELIXIR REFLET BALANCING OYASUMI MASK (1,800 yen)

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Face Primer: LANCÔME TEINT IDOLE ULTRA WEAR BLUR & GO PRIMING STICK (5,000 yen)

Foundation: NARS NATURAL RADIANT LONGWEAR CUSHION FOUNDATION (5,000 yen)

Setting Spray: KOSE COSMENIENCE MAKE KEEP MIST (1,200 yen)

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Eyeshadow: MAQuillAGE DRAMATIC STYLING EYES S (2,800 yen)

Blush: CEZANNE Pearl Glow Cheek (600 yen)

Lips: B IDOL Tsuyapuru Lip (1,400 yen)

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Mascara: ettusais lash version up RICH-LONG (1,200 yen)

Shampoo & Conditioner: Diane PERFECT BEAUTY MIRACLE YOU SHAMPOO & TREATMENT (880 yen)

Body Wash: Bioré u The Body Foaming Type Body Wash Purely Savon (822 yen)

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The full list of the Best Cosmetics Awards 2019 can be found at the @cosme website! → https://us.cosme.net/bestcosmeRankings/2019

For more cosmetics rankings from other categories on @cosme Best Cosmetics Awards, please check out listed articles, below!

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