Recently I attended an
RMK workshop. The venue was held at
San Francisco Steakhouse upstair, very nice place, overlooking the
beautiful gardens of
KLCC.
RMK is relatively a very
new brand for me, as I have not come across until this workshop. From what I gather, their
popular item from their skincare range is the
SkinTuner (a
combination of toner and moisturiser).
Lazy people like myself, I was super
excited to learn more about RMK!
Every table at hands reach, are their whole range of
skincare and
makeup for us to
play with. Even cleansers and makeup
brushes are available. Their makeup items are mostly
new, fresh from the box to play with. Finger
foods are deliciously displayed and not to forget, their
goodies bag (acclaimed worth RM200 goodies).
There was a
Japanese makeup artist, and his english translator is around to walk us through the step by step in creating a
flawless autumn look with RMK. He is ruggedly
handsome ^^ but I wish he is taller and speak english lol. Anyhoo, these are their 4
Autumn Brown eyeshadow
palettes (they have 6 actually, but only 4 at my table). Colours are nice but abit
redundant because they are all shades of
browns, all have the same white highligher and at RM150, I reckon there are other brands more worthy. This is a
splurge buy, and the
steal buy would be
Kate brown eyeshadow palettes at RM50 or the
Maybelline palettes at RM35.
Left: Clean face from using RMK cleansers.
Right: Full on makeup from RMK!
Since the
invention of BB creams, I hardly go through the
ordeal of base/primer->sun screen->concealer->liquid foundation->loose powder, unless on special occasions like
weddings and
functions that I required my makeup to
STAY all day and night, with little need and time to retouch up. So, it is kinda
fun to play with so many items at that time, testing out shades of foundations, etc.
*But deep down in my heart, I was feeling abit icky because I had so many thingy on my skin! I actually can't wait to go home and wash my face squeaky clean!
Close up on the eye, it is a brown smokey eyes look. Can I
redo these colours with other eyeshadow paletts?
Yes.
So what's in the
goody bag? Everyone got a full
bottle of
RMK SkinTuner, a tiny bottle of liquid foundation sample, a tiny tube of cleanser, a tube of
sunscreen, 3 makeup
vouchers, 1 eyebrow fix voucher, and RM10 borders voucher (min RM100 purchase, good for my dad and his crime novels!).
Prior to the workshop, at the purchase of the workshop entry (RM50), participants can choose an
additional item from lippies, lipgloss, liquid foundation and eye gel. So I was
advice by beauty bloggers to get the
eye gel because it is worth RM180!
After the workshop, we get to
redeem RM50 for an RMK item. Since I went to the
afternoon session, I was told that all the sharpeners and lip care (less than RM50) have all been redeemed by the
morning session participants. I totally doubt that, because that is such a
bad thing to say about your supportors, RMK! Here is to RMK staffs (not that I know you are reading my blog, just my
personal note): You should
never imply or suggest to other potential customers of yours, that you have
cheap customers, because it says what
lousy staffs you have (for
accusing the morning sessions supportors) and basically, you just look
down on people who comes to your workshops!
RMK just probably think we are all
losers, a bunch of no gooders looking for freebies, can be
manipulate to be on their side. Well, hello?!?!
RMK, if you are
not well equipped with your
items after every workshop, does it show you are
not sincere when setting up workshops? Do you even know what is the
real purpose companies have workshops? To
promote your stuffs and increase sales! But you have
insufficient stuffs at your counters, because everything I asked for, is
not in stock.
OK, so I went with an RMK pencil (
lipliner) in lovely light
pink. Not my first choice but they don't have many selections. And since I went to the workshop with a friend, we both got a
pink nail polish as well. Later I heard there was
not enough nail palishes to give out to those who came with a friend to the workshop. Hmm, another
proof of
poor management. I wonder who is trying to rip off who.
Oh, you think this is the
end of it? Wait till you
see what's next:
See what those
red arrows are pointing at? The freebies Skin Tuner and eye gel was
manufactured in
2007, which is more than 3 years! Probably they were thinking, hey it's free, so what's the
big deal. Hey, no one sells
expired products except very
unscrupulous companies. Oh the lipliner that I purchased after the workshop, that I paid with my
good money, was manufactured in
2005!
Unbelievable! My god sister, authorised representative for an
expensive skincare company,
advised me best to just throw it in the bin, because it is just too
rotten to put something like that on my lips. Did I tried to contact
RMK? Yes, called them and they are willing to change it to products manufactured in
2006! That's the
earliest they have on their stocks.
Very very dissapointing. I am going to stay
far far away from
RMK. Who wants those makeup
vouchers, please
email me. They are an
eyesore yuck.
So, what's your
experience with
RMK? lol
