Where To Buy Asian Makeup In Vancouver

*Update: I’ve compiled a list of my all-time favourite products as a bridal makeup artist: read here if you’re looking for some recc’s!

Update #2: Newly added: Online Stores section of this post!

Note for purchasing from Amazon, only purchase from authorized retailers like Oomomo or brand stores or if the “ships from” seller looks legit. There are lots of third party sellers on Amazon and there are fake products so beware!

H-Mart - Downtown Vancouver, Lougheed, Port-Coquitlam, Richmond

Downtown Vancouver Robson H-Mart carries a large selection of korean skincare and makeup products (prices are a bit inflated from what you might find online - Amazon, Yesstyle, StyleVana etc, but you can sign up with Hmart to collect points)

Brands carried:

• Large selection of Cosrx skincare - their low pH cleanser (reviewed here), pimple stickers, BHA lotion (reviewed here)

• Innisfree skincare lines - orchid line (eye cream reviewed here), green tea line, olive line, etc

• Banila Co cleansing balms

• Missha BB Cream, brushes & tools

• Various other skincare brands and LOTS of sheet masks

• Nature Republic aloe vera gels

• Clio eyeliners, kill cover concealer, kill cover liners

• Tony Moly

• Ryo Shampoos

• Richmond H-Mart carries: Innisfree lines, Skin Food Peach Emulsion, Rice Daily Brightening Cleansing Water, Lettuce & Cucumber line products

• Port Coquitlam H-Mart carries quite a bit of skincare and high end brands as well
  

T&T - Chinatown, Metrotown, Landsdowne, Coquitlam

Most locations have a variety of korean, japanese skincare, haircare and even some popular c beauty tools now.

Chinatown T&T has a decent selection but Metrotown T&T and especially Richmond Lansdowne Centre T&T has the largest selection of Japanese and Korean asian makeup products:

• Beauty of Joseon is NEW!! At Lansdowne T&T

• Banila Co cleansing balms

• Innisfree skincare (sometimes they carry value packs with minis sets, so cute)

• SKIN1004 Centella line (now at Lansdowne T&T)

• Laneige skincare (they currently have a few cute sets, including a set of the lip sleeping masks)

• DHC cleansing oil

• Naturie

• Hada Labo hyaluronic lotion, cleansers line

• Skinfood moisturizers, sugar masks

• Shiseido Whip Cleansers

• Sulwhasoo

• Naruko

• Dr Jart Sheet Masks

• Dr Wu skincare

• The History of Whoo skin care line

• Mentholatum Skin Aqua SPF

• Anessa SPF

• Ryo Shampoos

• Nature Republic

• The Saem

• SNP

• JM Solutions

• AHC

• Nature Republic pencils

• Innisfree eyebrow pencils

• SANA New Born eyebrow pencils (this is a Japanese favourite)

• VDL primers

• Etude House Play 101 Contour Duos

• 3 Concept Eyes Lip Tints, Matte Lip Colors, Inks, Richmond Lansdowne T&T have the eyeshadow palettes

• Canmake Color Mixing Concealors, Canmake Eyeshadows, Canmake Glow Fleur Cheeks Blushes

• Kate Designing Eyebrow 3D Palette

• Dollywink Eyeliners, Dollywink Mascaras, Dollywink False Lashes

• Dejavu Fiberwig Ultra Long Mascara

• Kiss Me Heroine Make Long N Curl Mascara #1 and #2, Kiss Me liners

• Richmond Lansdowne Centre T&T Now Carries DUP Lash Glue

• Marvis Toothpastes

• Clio - Kill cover liner, concealer

• Miche Bloomin Lashes (#6 is really pretty)

• IOPE cushions

• Hera (cushions mostly)

• Missha (Select items, I’ve seen the M Perfect Cover BB Cream at the Chinatown location)

• Osaka T&T (update from Jan 2023): This store has more color cosmetics now! And less crowded than the Landsdowne location. They have 3CE eyeshadow palettes (and a decent selection of lippies) in All Nighter, Dry Bouquet and Overtake (love this one!). Also in stock is Too Cool For School shading palettes, Etude House Loacker Berry Eyeshadow, Vanilla Eyeshadow, Napo blush, and only 2 tints. I’m really excited because they are also stocking AMORTALS makeup puffs (these are amazing), and some UNNY Club (a few individual eyelash boxes too)!

*Thanks to KY Trading LTD at perfectskinstation.com for this info, they are a wholesaler based in Richmond BC!

Tokyo Beauty - Metrotown, Aberdeen, Richmond Centre

This is an update from one of the comments below! Tokyo Beauty at Metrotown has 3ce (even lower price than T&T!) plus some sunscreen options as well!

Tokyo Beauty at Aberdeen Mall: Huge selection of Japanese skincare and select cosmetic products, including the Uzu Flowfushi Liners, new mascara, lipsticks. There is also a selection of medicines, home goods as well.I find that the prices are little higher when compared to online sometimes, but you might find a better selection of Japanese products in store.

Tokyo Beauty is also in Richmond Center Mall across from the Apple Store (a bit smaller than the Aberdeen location but a decent selection of items too - they have a better Canmake selection as of April 2022). While you’re in Richmond Center Mall - you can also browse the Sephora (they have more asian skincare brands) and also The Face Shop + Sulwhasoo store!

Kat from previous comments mentioned: Tokyo Beauty at Metrotown has 3CE (lower prices than T&T)! And various sunscreens as well.

Kiokii and.. in Richmond Centre

Kiokii and who?? I do not know. But this place is packed. Sometimes maybe even busier than Sephora these days. They have all the biggest brands in Cbeauty and Kbeauty right now.

• Medicube masks + also saw one of their devices near the front counter as well

• Dr Althea (love their moisturizer!)

• Anua

• SKIN1004

• COSRX

• Beauty of Joseon

• Round Lab

• Axis-Y

• Isntree

• VT Cosmetic

• TIRTIR

• &honey

• Etude House

• numbuzin

• Torriden

  and then makeup brands like

• Judydoll

• Flowerknows

• Fwee

• Mise en Scene

• Dasique

• The Saem

• Unleashia

• Etude House

• Romand

• KissMe

• Peripera

• Colorgram

• TIRTIR (but their cushions suck IMO don’t do it)

OOMOMO - Formerly Daiso in Aberdeen and Yokoyaya

Yokoyaya in Tinseltown is the sister store to Daiso (now both called OOMOMO) so they carry similar products - but the Richmond OOMOMO in the past year has REALLY stepped up their game. I’ll include some of what they have below but seriously they have ALOT of stuff now. Their online store on Amazon also has stock too!

• Huge selection of Japanese and Korean skincare

• Round Lab

• Skin1004 (Multiple lines)

• Kose SEKKISEI

• Dr Ceuracle

• Biore

• Hada Labo

• Torriden

• Purito

• Benton

• One Thing

• They also seemed to have some Rom&nd Juicy tints but all sold out

• Lots of Dasique products - eyeshadows, blushes, lippies

• In stock are the Rom&nd eye shadows and blushes

• Lots of lashes

• Lots of liners, KISS ME mascaras

• Kate brand cosmetics

• OOMOMO also carries an assortment of masks, cotton squares, cotton buds, although the prices have gone up significantly lately (I now mostly purchase the Muji cotton squares).

• Side note: The snacks here are really great - If you like chips you have to try the Calbee pizza chips!

Kiseki in Surrey - Guildford

I haven’t personally been here yet but have been seeing this come up on TikTok! This store carries a wide selection of J and K Beauty brands like:

• Beauty of Joseon

• Axis-Y

• Cosrx

• SKIN1004

• Roundlab

• Mediheal toner pads!!

• Tunemakers

• Shiseido

• Curel

• Decorte

• SKII

• Pyunkang Yul

• Goodal

• I’m From

Crystal Mall

There's a couple cube stores here that carry various popular asian products. Honestly though Crystal Mall has been disappointing the last few times I’ve been, you’ll find better prices and selection online or in Richmond.

• Dollywink

• Missha

• Iope

• Hera

• Kiss Me eyeliners, mascara

• SANA New Born eyebrow pencils

Aberdeen Mall Makeup Stores

Aritaum has a store here that carries:

• Aritaum

• SULWHASOO

• Laneige

• Iope korean bb creams

Tony Moly has its own store in the mall
There’s one store at the bottom level called Thinka that carries really affordable synthetic makeup brushes, false eyelashes (the ones made in Taiwan), and makeup sponges!

Foody World Richmond

Foody World really upped their game last year with a whole new reno! They have a huge beauty section now with haircare, asian skincare, makeup, tools, the whole meal deal!

For makeup specifically, they’ve got a really great selection of:

• Dollywink false lashes (#9, 10, 1, 2, 11, 17, 24, 22, 26, 25)

• Miche Bloomin falsies (#14, 18, 11, 18, 01, 12, 31, 25, 37, 41, 30)

• Fiberwig mascara

• DHC lip balm

• Leanani premium mascaras (never tried, first time I’ve seen this brand)

• Love Liner

• Kiss Me liners, mascaras

• Eyelid tape and glues etc

The Face Shop

Pacific Centre, Richmond and Metropolis's The Face Shop has a variety of their own line of cosmetics and various branded skincare items plus some of the Belif products.

Sephora

The Sephora at PC carries:

• Shu Uemura

• Laneige

• Dr Jart

• Amore Pacific

• Sephora Richmond carries Sulwhasoo

Walmart

Huge surprise. Select Walmarts now carry various Korean skincare brands. At the Port Coquitlam Walmart, I’ve seen

• Cosrx - a big selection of their Good Morning Cleanser, their Salicylic Acid Daily Gentle Cleanser, Oil-Free Lotion among other popular products

• Innisfree - only their green tea line

Marshalls & Winners (select)

• Winners and Marshall visits are hit and miss, sometimes they’ll have the best prices on asian skincare products, masks, tools. But then usually it’s just a stray product or a random set or two so you just have to be careful they haven’t been tampered with. I had a wedding makeup client find huge jars of the Soon Jung 2x Barrier Cream for super cheap before at the broadway Winners.

Online Stores For Asian Skincare and Makeup

Here are my top recommendations for online purchases:

1) I always tend to check Amazon first because who doesn’t love 2 day shipping! BUT DEFINITELY CHECK FOR OFFICIAL SELLERS! I’ve had clients accidentally purchase inauthentic products on Amazon before! (It should be fulfilled by Amazon, an authorized seller or an official brand store), be careful!

For example, OOMOMO (carries Rom&nd) has their official store linked here, Klairs has their official store on Amazon here, and I’m from’s official store is here.

2) My previous go-to online shop to order from is: Stylevana. They have a huge selection of korean and japanese skincare and makeup and are my go-to if I can’t find something in stores or just looking for price comparisons. They usually are always cheaper than any other shop and carry all the brands mentioned above like COSRX, Beauty of Joseon, IUNIK, Isntree, Purito, Etude House, 3CE, Peripera, Romand Makeup etc! Free shipping in Canada over $85 is really nice as well and is a bit of a lower minimum than YesStyle:).* The only downside is that it takes about 3+ weeks to arrive and their customer service is non-existent :(.

2.5) If I’m wanting something to come in a bit sooner I’ll order from Esmea.ca - They don’t have as large of a selection as StyleVana but they also often run sales and products usually come in a week or so!

3) If you’re looking for an item that is more obscure - YesStyle has an even wider selection of both korean and japanese makeup and skincare products, if you can’t find anything from Amazon or StyleVana they will probably have it (they carry Beauty of Joseon, COSRX, Isntree, Canmake, Etude House and Pony Makeup too)! Shipping is at an atrocious 4+ weeks or so but they usually have 10%-15% off deals and various coupon codes going on so watch for those as they will be better deals than what you can find on Amazon or StyleVana.*

4) New addition: Dew Beauty is based in Vancouver, BC and is an online shop specializing in K-beauty products. They offer a curated selection of popular authentic products catering to various skin types and concerns (Abib, Anua, Goodal, Numbuzin, Mixsoon, etc they also carry my favourite Aestura and Etude House moisturizers too)!

The best part is their fast customer service and shipping! Once your order is placed, it typically takes 1-3 business to ship out but only 1-5 Business Days for standard delivery times. Last time I ordered, I received my items in about 4 business days!!

5) From previous comments: Sukoshimart has the lowest minimum for free shipping in Canada (CAD $65) and has a pretty good selection of kbeauty products from COSRX, Abib, Beauty of Joseon, Benton, Isntree, iUNIK, Jumiso and more. They have a student discount available as well.

6) I’ve heard good things about Chuusi - the pricing on Cosrx products are sometimes better than Amazon on here. They sometimes have better prices than YesStyle and definitely faster shipping times since their warehouse is based in Vancouver.

7) From previous comments: Mikaela Beauty has a decent selection of brands and offer free shipping in CAN for orders above $65.

8) New from comments: SokoGlam has free shipping in Canada for orders over $75. They carry Then I Met You products!

9)Tersono mentioned from previous comments: Bellbees (bellbees.ca) and Wandershop (wandershop.ca) have actually had the best prices on certain items and brands of any shop I've found anywhere in Canada. Great choices if they happen to have what you're looking for.

Did you like this list? Let me know if I've missed anything in the comments below and what your asian beauty picks are! :)

Again, here are all my favorite products in skincare and makeup: read here if you’re looking for some recc’s!

-T

*This post contains some affiliate links - however, these are my honest opinions on the stores I’ve shopped at.