通过“颜色和香味”来掌握大人的性感,The美容巡航 – GINZA SIX | GSIX | 银扎西克斯

GINZA SIX EDITORS

时尚、珠宝&手表、生活方式、美容、食品…
精通各种类型的个性丰富的编辑们,在GINZA SIX上闲逛
记述走路发现的乐趣。

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GINZA SIX EDITORS Vol.40

无论哪个楼层都很宽敞,充满解放感的GINZA SIX,是大人和孩子都能享受的馆。和孩子一起去的时候,B2F的食物楼层和6F的常春藤书店,银座大食堂,屋顶的花园是固定的路线。但是一个人的时候……在银座,为了培养“大人的性感”,要端正姿势坐高跟鞋前往(bishi!)。

在银座30分钟,如果有时间的话,就跑进13F的「GRAND CRU CAFÉGINZA」。咖啡店,用一句话无法表达的特别场所。对我来说,这里也是一个空着头松一口气的治愈和恢复清澈感觉的空间。

咖啡其实也是美容饮料。特别是这里的咖啡,因为只使用高密度的熟透豆,所以即使冷了也没有杂味,富含多酚,对美容也有好处。按照我自己的解释,确实是“美容饮料”。不能喝咖啡的女性,在这里也能喝几杯,真是不可思议。虽然有深度的香味和余韵的味道,但是会比水更渗透到身体里。简直就像特别的美容液一样。

虽然长大后感到惊讶的事情变少了,但是我第一次吃这里的咖啡的时候,因为它的香味和味道,各种各样的世界都在眼前展开,惊讶和感激。例如,白马笔直前往古城的风景、幕布上升管弦乐团开始华丽演奏的声音等等……感觉五感不断磨练。

像香槟一样在瓶子上做,是为了不让栽培咖啡豆的大地、太阳、风、空气不留余热地传递给客人。打开软木的瞬间,说到散发的香味……！平时紊乱的自律神经整顿,变得温柔。正木先生为我求婚的正木先生,是根据豆子的种类来提炼提取时间和量的精选手。

订购一瓶装焙煎豆100g的瓶子(\10000~※以下全部不含税价格),可以保持两周的瓶子,不需要追加费用,最多可以喝6杯幸福的一杯。1年的约1/3是为了追求最高品质的咖啡而在世界各地奔走的咖啡猎人José.川岛良彰选出的富有个性的咖啡。还有老则武的美丽杯子、笨蛋的玻璃杯、不使用化学药品的素食蛋白的皮革墙等,用“格兰克隆的大人的性感”来招待来访的人。

身心都充满了美容和快乐的话,接下来是B1F的“熊矿物质”。在美国,认知度将近8成的旧金山开发的矿物质化妆品品牌。

近2~3年来,无论是美容还是时尚,都不会把商品目录全部采用,而是“了解自己的个人色彩”的热潮,在这里可以选择适合自己的粉底和化妆颜色。

顺便说一下,这并不是手相占卜。看了4万人肌肤的美容专家岸野先生给我们看了“个人色彩”。根据血管的颜色来判断是蓝底还是黄底色。在没有被晒太阳的指尖内侧看是最好的。

顺便说一下,我常年说“我是黄牛。但是很合适,喜欢的是蓝贝司”,这一天终于从黑暗中脱颖而出。

马上选择了3根适合“中间色的蓝色底色”肌肤的唇膏。根据颜色的不同,可以自由地操纵可爱、自然、感官的演出。……！这天的主题是“大人的性感”,所以选择了右边的一根。

GINZA SIX限定的完全预约制“化妆个人课程”的人气菜单“Ber完美”(90分钟JPY¥21000~)。实际上,咨询费是免费的,您可以购买这个JPY¥21,000以上的熊矿物质项目。请提出恢复肌肤本来健康状态的护理和护肤品,护肤和粉底都是这个阵容。选择化妆品的时候,为什么心情会这么激动呢! 这也是让女性变美的化妆品魔法。

快到回家时间了。特产是B2F创业67年,在东京唯一的店铺“点心匠末广庵”。以前,大阪的朋友选择“只有银座才有的特产”的是“银座店限定菓生大师祈愿饼折”(\800)。以美味大米闻名的滋贺甲贺的羽二重饼,使用北海道产秋田大豆、冲绳波照间的黑糖和阿波的和三盆,是从大人到孩子都能享受的年糕。

这个年糕为什么和这次GINZA SIX邮轮的主题“大人的性感”联系在一起呢? 那是因为这个年糕是理想的女性形象本身。年糕有细腻的丝绸般的口感,黄豆粉在店里用石磨磨磨着当天的份,香喷喷得想深呼吸,砂糖因为清爽的甜味不会残留下来。

还有一个,为纪念GINZA SIX开业1周年的“黄豆糖”(JPY2,500)和稀有的特产。使用日本最古老的糖果店“高桥孙左卫门商店”的糖稀,还有一个,是停不下来的美味。

买的时候的快乐和送礼物的时候看到的对方的笑容,两次幸福。每周去一次GINZA SIX,因为是这个所以不能停止。

Text：Kyoko Ukai Photos：Hidehiro Yamada Edit：Yuka Okada

GINZA SIX has a free and open feel on every floor. It’s a great place for both adults and kids to enjoy. When one arrives with children, the standard route takes in the food floor on the second belowground floor, Ginza Tsutaya Books and Ginza Grand Premium Food Hall on the sixth floor, and the rooftop garden. But when I come by myself, I adopt a different proper posture; I come in high heels to nurture an adult’s sensibilities. It’s Ginza, after all.

With a half hour free in Ginza, I rush to Grand Cru Café on the 13th floor. It’s a special space; the word “café” doesn’t quite capture or do it justice. For me, it’s a healing space that clears the mind and helps me relax. It’s a space that restores the pristine clarity of my senses.

You knew, of course, that coffee is a beauty drink? The coffee served here in particular is made with dense, fully ripened beans. There’s not a hint of bitterness, even after it cools. Plus, it’s loaded with polyphenols, so it’s a beauty boost, too. My personal take is that coffee confers a beauty charge. It’s strange—even women who prefer not to drink coffee will come here and have multiple cups. The coffee has a deep aroma and resonant flavor, and it courses throughout one’s body more readily than water. It’s a special beauty elixir.

You’re rarely surprised by anything once you’re well into your adult years, but the first time I tried this coffee, I remember sitting upright, considering the visions swirling from the aroma and flavor. A white horse heading directly for an old castle, the lustrous swell of the orchestra as the curtain rises—I felt a sudden clarity conferred on all five senses.

The coffee beans are stored in a glass bottle, like champagne, as if to serve the land itself where the coffee beans grow to guests: the sun, the wind, the air. The moment the cork is pulled, the aroma billows. It’s almost as if your normally disordered nervous system gathers harmony and purpose and you become a kinder, gentler person. Masaki-san, who is proposing to me (not actually, unfortunately), is the chosen evangelist, working out brewing times and quantities based on the bean variety.

You order one bottle with 100 grams of roasted coffee beans (from 10,000 yen; all prices listed before tax). The café keeps your bottle for you for two weeks. At no additional charge, you can then drink up to six wonderful cups. Coffee hunter José Y. Kawashima travels the world for a third of the year looking for coffee of the absolute highest quality. He’s the one responsible for procuring the café’s lineup of sensual, highly individualistic brews. Beautiful Old Noritake cups, Baccarat glasses, chemical-free, vegetable-tanned leather walls—guests are treated to an entirely grand cru tier of adult sensibilities.

Physically and mentally recharged, both beauty and sense of joy renewed, I head to bareMinerals on the first belowground floor, the boutique of the bareMinerals cosmetics brand based in San Francisco. The brand boasts an 80% recognition rate in the US.

For the last two or three years, both in beauty and fashion, the trend has been to find your own personal color, rather than simply incorporate the catalog unedited. You come here to have an expert select the foundation and makeup colors absolutely perfect for you.

This isn’t palm-reading. I’m having Kishino-san, a beauty specialist who’s peered at the skin of 40,000 people, determine my personal color. Based on the color of your blood vessels, he determines whether you need a blue base or a yellow base. Ideally, he says, one must look at the fingertips, on the side opposite the nails, which hasn’t been exposed to the sun.

It’s been a mystery to me for years. I’m yellow base, I thought, but blue base is what I like and what feels right. Finally, today, I emerge from the darkness!

Three lipsticks are chosen to match my skin—“blue base, leaning toward neutral-colored.” The colors give me the freedom to create different looks, ranging from innocent appeal to natural to sensual. Since my theme today is adult sensibilities, I go with the one on the right.

The popular barePerfect option (90 minutes; from 21,000 yen) of the Makeup Personal Lesson, a by-appointment-only service available only at GINZA SIX, involves getting your physique, color, skin quality, and maintenance habits read, just like fortune telling. The advice you receive is based on this careful individualized interaction. After the lesson, you can get these bareMinerals items equivalent to the counseling fee of 21,000 yen. You’ll get helpful product and care suggestions that draw on a lineup of skincare and fashion products to restore the natural health of your skin. Where’s the excitement in picking out cosmetics, you ask? Perhaps it’s the magical power of cosmetics to make women beautiful.

It’s just about time to head home. I go to buy a gift at Kashisho Suehiroan, a store founded in 1967. It’s located on the second belowground floor, the brand’s only location in Tokyo. Earlier, a friend of mine from Osaka gave me a gift “you can only find in Ginza”—this Fresh Daishi Prayer Rice Cake (800 yen), designed exclusively for the Ginza location. Made with Habutae rice from Koga in Shiga Prefecture, a region renowned for its rice, to which the confectioner adds Akita soybeans from Hokkaido, brown sugar from Hateruma, Okinawa, and wasanbon, or refined Japanese sugar, from Awa in Shikoku, these rice cakes are the ideal treat for everyone, children to adults.

How do these rice cakes fit with the adult sensibilities theme I’ve chosen for today’s GINZA SIX stroll? Well, that’s a good question. Perhaps it’s because the rice cakes themselves embody a feminine ideal. With a fine, silky texture and the roasted soy flour ground fresh only for the day at the store, the rice cakes have a fragrance one will want to inhale deeply. They’re also refreshingly sweet in a way that’s never excessive or cloying.

I also purchased the Kinako Ame (2,500 yen), roasted-soybean-powdered candies, to give as a hard-to-find gift. Made with starch syrup from Takahashi Ameya, Japan’s oldest maker of starch syrup, it commemorates GINZA SIX’s one-year anniversary. It’s also irresistibly delicious, something I always want one more of.

Gifts are double the fun. There’s the pleasure of the purchase and the joy of seeing the recipient’s face brightening. That alone is enough to keep me returning to GINZA SIX once a week.

Text：Kyoko Ukai　Photos：Hidehiro Yamada　Edit：Yuka Okada