Paul & Joe Symphony Collection Haul

I was happily sleeping off my jet lag late in the afternoon when I received a text message from the Paul & Joe SA informing that the Symphony holiday makeup collection had just been released. So of course I hauled myself out of bed and zipped down to Isetan Scotts with my mom in tow.

The Face Color & Lip Gloss Sets and the Eye & Lip Color Sets all cost S$89 each while the five Nail Enamel C are S$22 each. The sets are more expensive in Singapore, compared to the UK where they are just £30 (about S$63) and the US where they are US$58 (about S$76). In Japan, the Face Color & Lip Gloss sets retail for 5775yen (about S$90) each while the Eye & Lip Color Sets are 6090yen (S$96) each. It's an oddity that the products are most expensive in Japan despite being manufactured there. You can find the Eye & Lip Color Sets on Asos.com and Beautyhabit.com. But Singapore usually has more attractive GWPs, so I held off from purchasing the sets during my London trip.

The sets are frankly not the best value for money given the scant number of products that are included and their tiny size. Compared to the holiday coffrets by other brands such as Lunasol and Magie Deco, you are getting much fewer products but I still find the Paul & Joe sets attractive because of the unique prints and design of the products.

I was initially intending to get only one each of the Eye & Lip Color Sets and the Face Color & Lip Gloss Sets, but Isetan was having a promotion for Citibank cardmembers who can receive a S$25 voucher with S$250 purchase. (Today is the last day of the Citibank promotion.) So I decided to get both the Face Color & Lip Gloss sets as I have a soft spot for the powder balls. The Face Colors are packaged in a sturdy metal tin and contain 15g of product, which is half the weight of Guerlain's Meteorites Perles D'Or. The lipglosses are quite sheer with visible gold glitter bits. The drawstring pouch is a soft satin that does not feel too thin or flimsy.

The satin purse in the Eye & Lip Color set has a bit of padding and also feels very well made. There is an inner side pocket.


I picked 002 Allegro as 001 Adagio had mainly brown and beige eye colours which I'm not fond of.

Most of the eye colors have a delicate shimmer when viewed up close.

The lip color looks pretty but I find it a tad inconvenient as you need to use a lip brush with this.

The gift with purchase of S$160 was this trio of notebooks and a plastic photo frame.


Love the clean lines of the photo frame! This may not be available anymore as the counter received very few pieces.

With this purchase, I think I'm pretty much done for the holiday collections as the Lunasol set looks quite boring in real life. My favourite P&J SA is Shirley at the Isetan Scotts counter. Do look for her if you're interested in P&J!