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At a glance, these lipsticks look like any other you can find at your local drugstore. However, this Valentine’s Day, you can buy a whole set of them for your loved one and watch them chomp down on these deliciously colorful lipstick-shaped chocolates.
Although in Japan, the ladies are supposed to give men chocolates on Valentine’s Day instead of the other way around, who says you can’t get a box for your best friends or, guys, stock up in preparation for White Day? Besides, these are so adorable that there’s no reason your man can’t enjoy a good box of lipsticks too.
Produced by Kyoto Century Hotel’s fancy sweets boutique joie joue, this series of Cosme Chocolates are out to melt your heart – and in your mouth. First in the lineup are the aforementioned edible lipsticks. At 2,160 yen, you get a box set of five flavors: matcha green tea, sweet chocolate, orange, strawberry and white chocolate. It seems a little pricey to me for the tiny bits of ganache chocolate, but you get to keep the plastic lipstick holders, so if you’re up for the challenge you can probably recycle those and recreate your own lipstick chocolates…maybe.
If you want to send some kisses along with the lipstick, they also sell this super-kawaii and fashionable set of a lipstick along with three chocolate lips in passion fruit, orange and framboise flavors. You can see how much work has gone into these as the colors of the lips seem to resemble real lipstick colors exactly. At just 1,458 yen, this is a little more affordable than the lipstick set.
Things don’t stop with the lipsticks, either. For the first time, joie joue will release a cute set of bonbon chocolates based on nail-art as well. These cute little things, aptly named “Coffret du Chocolat” (little boxes of chocolate), come in either white or dark chocolate sets. The white chocolate flavors are framboise, orange, rum, passion fruit and sakura, while the dark chocolate flavors include framboise, orange and passion fruit. Although the five-piece set comes at 1,728 yen, you can grab a smaller three-piece set at just 1,188 yen if you’re on a budget.
But if shelling out more than 1,000 yen for chocolates is against your policy, you can also grab one of these dainty palet chocolates for an affordable 324 yen.
Source: Entabe
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Wc626
Japan got it all wrong. Its supposed to be the man who gives the woman a valentine. No need for white day, a date should follow next wkend. Right?
Why is everything here in japan catered to male dominance?
nath
I much prefer the way it's done in Japan. There isn't that uncomfortable situation where someone gives you chocolates... and you got them nothing. The girls can decide who they want to buy for, and a month later the guys know who exactly they have to give back to.
As far as relationships go, western Valentines day is all about the man having to do everything. It's nice in Japan where the girls are responsible for Valentines day, and the guys are responsible for White day.
I'll take the Japanese style any day... er, year.
turbotsat
And birthdays. And anniversaries. And Christmas!
Wc626
Westerners are way more romantic compared to Japanese men. I prefer the original way, how a Valentine was intended.
nath
That depends on the men. I know a few Japanese guys who are way more romantic than I am.
The current method of celebrating Valentine's day in western countries is NOT the original, and not how it was originally intended. Just like xmas, it's evolved to what it is, it didn't start that way. The Japanese version is just another evolution.
sighclops
@Strangerland
Or a two-day retail bonanza to milk it for all its worth ;) Differentr stokes!