Beauty brands aren’t just selling products anymore—they’re building entire worlds around them. And lately, that world comes with a coffee menu. From dedicated cafés to boutiques with their own coffee concepts, brands are turning the beauty-shopping experience into something you can actually linger in.
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Sunnies Coffee and Sunnies Cafe
Sunnies is a textbook example of a brand expanding beyond its original category. What started with beauty has grown into a lifestyle universe spanning accessories, tumblers, and food and beverage—with Sunnies Cafe and Sunnies Coffee becoming part of the experience.
At Sunnies Cafe, you can settle in for a meal, while Sunnies Coffee offers a more casual space to grab a drink and browse a selection of Sunnies products. Try on a few frames while waiting for your iced vanilla latte, or simply take a coffee break surrounded by the brand’s signature aesthetic.
Sure, you might be more tempted to spend—but at least you’ll look chic doing it.
Happy Skin Cafe
One of the beauty world’s newer café concepts, Happy Skin Cafe brings the brand’s skincare-first philosophy beyond the vanity and onto the menu in Robinsons Magnolia. In collaboration with Kim King, the “Broth Queen of Asia,” the café lets you customize your drinks with additions including niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, collagen peptide, and whey protein.
The coffee is just as considered, with Yardstick brought in for the café’s coffee program. And once you’ve had your fill, Happy Skin’s beauty lineup is right there for the browsing—or restocking, if your vanity is already calling for a refill.
blk cafe
Opened late last year, blk café brings the brand’s signature aesthetic into a café-and-beauty boutique concept at Ayala Malls Manila Bay. The menu goes beyond the usual coffee run, with americanos, sea salt lattes, tiramisu cream cheese lattes, butter cookie matcha lattes, and refreshers.
While your drink is brewing, you can browse blk’s beauty lineup or discover its fragrances—making it easy to turn a quick coffee stop into an unexpected beauty haul.
Budhaus
Tucked into Makati and Malate, Manila, Budhaus may look like an unassuming café from the outside, but step in and you’ll find something unexpected alongside your coffee: Skincare Bud Manila’s curated beauty selection. Beside the café is a little department store of skincare and cosmetics, with Western favorites like The Ordinary, CeraVe, and Rhode alongside K-beauty staples including Anua, SKIN1004, and Haruharu Wonder.
It’s the kind of place where you can come in for caffeine and leave with a new serum—because apparently, one kind of retail therapy wasn’t enough.
Matter by Issy
Issy has already made coffee part of its world with Issy Cafe in Glorietta 4. Now, that idea has expanded into Matter, its first flagship store in Greenbelt Hamilton—a space built around the idea of making room for beauty, creativity, and new possibilities. The boutique houses Issy’s familiar beauty lineup, from its popular foundations to its Liquid Paints and Daily Balm. But at the heart of Matter is another reason to stay: its coffee and pastry concept.
The menu leans experimental, with drinks and bites exclusive to the space. Think espresso with toasted croissant-infused milk and a pastry topping, and a grape-and-tea creation finished with pink foam and red rice crisps. There are also savory cookies for those who prefer their beauty browsing with something to snack on.
Is beauty having an identity crisis? Definitely not. It’s simply expanding beyond the vanity and into the lifestyle around it. With coffee, pastries, matcha, and a little retail therapy folded into the experience, these beauty destinations give us one more reason to stay awhile.
Because isn’t the best way to shop with a coffee cup in one hand and a shopping bag in the other?
Featured Image and Photos: BLK CAFE, SUNNIES COFFEE, SUNNIES CAFE, HAPPY SKIN, BUDHAUS, SKINCARE BUD MANILA (via Instagram)
Frequently Asked Questions
Beauty brands with dedicated café concepts in Metro Manila include Sunnies (Sunnies Coffee and Sunnies Cafe), Happy Skin (Happy Skin Cafe), blk (blk cafe), Budhaus paired with Skincare Bud Manila, and Issy (Matter by Issy and Issy Cafe).
Happy Skin Cafe lets customers customize drinks with skincare-adjacent additions like niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, collagen peptide, and whey protein, developed in collaboration with Kim King and featuring a coffee program by Yardstick.
blk cafe is located at Ayala Malls Manila Bay, combining a beauty boutique with a menu that includes americanos, sea salt lattes, tiramisu cream cheese lattes, and butter cookie matcha lattes.
Budhaus pairs its café with Skincare Bud Manila, offering both Western skincare brands like The Ordinary, CeraVe, and Rhode, and K-beauty staples including Anua, SKIN1004, and Haruharu Wonder.
Matter by Issy is Issy’s first flagship store, located in Greenbelt Hamilton, combining the brand’s beauty lineup with an experimental coffee and pastry menu exclusive to the space, expanding on the brand’s earlier Issy Cafe concept.
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