Cosmetics are expanded as necessary commodities from luxuries in a society where creativity is more emphasized than efficiency.
Especially shade cosmetics show gradual growth thanks to increase of cosmetics application for enhancing appearances as pro...
Cosmetics are expanded as necessary commodities from luxuries in a society where creativity is more emphasized than efficiency.
Especially shade cosmetics show gradual growth thanks to increase of cosmetics application for enhancing appearances as product value with expansion of women's entry into work forces, enhancement of fashion consciousness of the youth, deepening tendency of creating one's own characteristic and expansion of concept of social contract.
Shade cosmetics that were considered to be women's exclusive possession, are now expanding its market to men and teenagers. As a result development of subdivided shade cosmetics is becoming active.
In these market environments consumers demand various personalized desires through beauty care, therefore enterprises have to establish marketing strategies to meet these desires.
Accordingly this research aims to provide information actually needed in cosmetics development by researching shade cosmetics in subdivision according to items and basic data that will be helpful in establishing marketing strategies of shade cosmetics.
The survey was conducted among adult females with age of 20 to 26, living in Seoul and the metropolitan area and some local cities. 387 survey papers are used in the analysis among 500 survey papers distributed.
Collected data was analyzed with SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) program. As an analysis method, frequency and percentage was calculated using SPSS. In order to find out actual conditions of women's buying and using shade cosmetics, χ² (Chi square) inspection and frequency analysis, t test(inspection) and One way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) were conducted.
The research result is summarized as following.
First of all, many women were doing overall make up generally and the younger they tend to do partial make up more and the older they tend to do overall make up more according to the analysis on actual conditions of using shade cosmetics.
Many women got information related to shade cosmetics from friends or family. This is an example of the fact that shows collecting information from human relationship such as friends and family played an important role and surrounding environment can be a factor that can have impact on purchasing behavior. Purpose of make up was mostly to show courtesy and the younger they tend to answer that they do make up to look beautiful.
The order of the most frequently used shade make up was make up base>foundation>two way cake.
The most important focusing point in shade make up was the eye. In choosing colors they chose their favorites colors most frequently.
Second, by subdividing and analyzing actual conditions of application such as texture touch, color, price range and container that women favor according to items, the result shows that:
1) In case of lipstick, pink tone, moist application touch and luminous texture touch, round shaped stick type container and price range from 10,000 to 15,000 won were favored the most.
2) In case of lip gloss, application touch of regular color, brow plus tip container and price range of 10,000 to 15,000 won were favored the most.
3) In case of eye shadow, color of brown tone, smooth type application touch with minute purl and price range of 10,000 to 15,000 won were favored the most.
4) In case of eye liner, liquid type and price range of 15,000 won were favored the most.
5) In case of foundation, liquid type, pump style container and price range of 15,000 to 20,000 won were favored the most.
6) In case of mascara, volume type, bullet style container and price range of 10,000 to 15,000 won were favored the most.
7) In case of face powder, color of pink tone and price range of 15,000 to 20,000 won were favored the most. And single color fill type and multi color fill type did not show much difference.
Third, the order of most favored purchasing place was department store > cosmetics discount store > online purchase. Women under 30, single women and women with higher income tend to purchase cosmetics at department stores and older women tend to purchase shade cosmetics from a visiting saleswoman.
Average cost of purchasing shade cosmetics monthly showed highest frequency at the range from 10,000 to 20,000 won and from 20,000 to 30,000. The most considered factor was quality > skin adequacy > application in case of base make up, and quality > color > skin adequacy in case of point make up.
And among domestic brand and imported brand, 51% of women chose imported brand of shade cosmetics showing slight favor to foreign brand. Among the women who had favor brand chose Chanel > Mac > Christian Dior as their favorite shade brand.
This result will be served as basic data in order to establish diversified marketing strategy on the shade cosmetics market and efficiently develop shade cosmetics market by providing basic information about general purchasing behavior of shade cosmetics and detailed application actual conditions according to items.