The temperature has dropped and your skin’s resilience has as well. For half of us on this globe, this winter has been a drastic change in humidity levels, exposure to indoor heats, and harsh winds that make skin drier and duller. The symptoms? Faces are feeling tight, itchy, and chaffed. Lips have gone full-on chapped…
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DIY Skin Healing Solutions – Minnavi Facial Oils
Minnavi is a customizable skincare brand that uniquely allows you to blend products from their line of essences & oils. Innovated by top dermatologists in Korea’s skincare R&D, Minnavi is a game changer using 100% natural, vegan, and cruelty-free formulas that can be individualized to fit all skin types. They offer healing formulas that revitalize your…
The 8 Best Makeup Removers Koreans Actually Use 2018
Properly removing your makeup is an essential step to keeping your skin clean. There are a variety of options from micellar waters to cleansing oils that can get the job done. And depending on how much makeup you use and your skin type, different products. However, below we’ve rounded up the 8 most popular and…
Korea’s Fave Summer Lipstick Drop – eSpoir’s NoWear Lip Toppers
K-Beauty lovers are raving about eSpoir’s latest drop in the lipstick department – NoWear Lip Toppers. Coming in 10 shades in matte and 12 in satin, NoWear wearers can get funky & sexy with the available colors tones. With new launches every season, one can get overwhelmed with the selection of lip products. eSpoir is…
Korea’s New Wave of Cleansing: the Cleansing Oil + Water Hybrid
When it comes to face wash, there are seemingly infinite options. If you want to cleanse your face like a French woman, there are micellar waters. And cleansing oils had their big craze a few years back. But what’s emerging out on the market here in Korea is a new category, a hybrid of the…
Etude House’s Active Proof Line is Your Answer to a Sweatproof Look
With summer in full force, Etude House has launched its Active Proof line – a collection of 9 products intended to combat summer’s biggest offenders to makeup – heat, sweat, and sun rays. Some are the sort of novelty items made for you to tote to the beach, but some are worth checking out as…
LabNo: What is this K-Beauty Brand Saying “No” to?
The “No” in LabNo’s brand name isn’t short for anything. It’s literally a big fat “No” to skincare practices LabNo has deemed unhealthy – namely the shortcuts companies take in developing products. The “No” encapsulates their uncompromising commitment to transparency and good ingredients. So what are they saying “No” to exactly? the 20 ingredients you should…
Meet Korea’s Favorite Lip Tint: Comparing the Peripera Ink Tints
Peripera, an offshoot of popular road shop brand Clio in Korea, has taken over the lip tint market with its affordable prices (₩9,000/$9 USD) and such long-lasting formulas that some even bemoan the difficulty of removing them. While a Korean lip tint might be synonymous with the lip gradient look, don’t let that stop you…
Customize Your Makeup with Innisfree’s New My Drops
Let’s face it – our skin is finicky business. A change in season is enough to render some of the beloved holy grail products we’ve spent ages on the hunt for less than perfect. That’s why Innisfree has come out with My Drop (14 ml, 10,000₩), a handy little product made to be mixed with your foundation…
Mediheal Masks: The Cost-effective Bulk Pack from Costco
Mediheal is one of the most dominant players in Korea when it comes to face masks. They have a variety of different types, so it tends to get really hard to choose even within the Mediheal brand! However, the Costcos in Korea take the trendiest and and most popular skincare products and sell them in…
Why Korea’s Cotton Pad Skincare Trend Actually Works
You might’ve seen Korean Youtubers with cotton pads all around their face. Sticking product-soaked cotton pads on your face has been known as a bit of a DIY skincare trick in Asia for a while. However, in the past year, it’s taken off more than ever as a trend in Korea with videos and tutorials…
Brand Spotlight: Moonshot is Bold Beauty for Beginners
Even before opening their first flagship store in 2015, Moonshot’s name was on everyone’s lips. The beauty community was abuzz with talk of the brand that was said to be backed by famous K-Pop conglomerate YG Entertainment, a company part of the “K-Pop Big 3”, a group of 3 companies including JYP Entertainment and SM…
Beauty Backstage: Emma Beauty, Model and Content Creator
Emma Beauty is a “Beauty Creator” on NaverTV, one of the biggest online channels and search engines in Korea (think Youtube + Google = Naver). Her channel features product reviews and makeup tutorials and follows her life behind the scenes as a model. Primarily a beauty model, she’s worked with Laneige, Estee Lauder, Espoir, Etude House, Stila,…
How Pantone’s Color of the Year is Popping Up in K-Beauty
Pantone declared Ultra Violet as 2018’s color of the year – a shade signifying intrigue and unconventionality. Naturally, variants of the dramatic purple shade have been making their way to trends everywhere. And Korea is no different. Well kind of. A true ultra violet can be a bit dramatic, and ultra violet in its absolute…