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Cosrx Light Fit Real Water to Cream Review | A Product to Replace all Products?
How do you feel about the concept of “skip care?” The concept is rooted in the idea that you don’t have to put all those products on your face to achieve results; rather just use a few, powerful and well-formulated products and you’ll get the same results. Now, I’m an avid 10 stepper, so skip…
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Cosrx Balancium Comfort Ceramide Cream | A Cream For All?
Do you have any skincare pet peeves? I have a few, but one of mine is when a product is listed as being appropriate for: oily, combo, dry, acne prone and sensitive. Come on, really. ALL skin types?! And sometimes it’s true. Sometimes there’s such a thing as a universal product, good for all skin…
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The Complete Guide To Healing Your Moisture Barrier
It seems like the hard work is done once you finally realize what is happening to your skin. It’s all of a sudden tight, dry, itching, burning even, like, all the time. Not only that, but it’s red, riddled with clogged pores or inflamed acne and pretty much just pissed off. You have a damaged…
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Whamisa Organic Flowers Toners | Deep Rich, Original or Refresh?
I think we all have those products that follow us, haunt us almost, with their amazing reviews, popularity and hype. Those products you can’t help but get interested in from your repeated exposure to them. For me, one of those products is most definitely the Whamisa Organic Flowers Toner. I have had this baby on…
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Treating Acne Without Chemical Exfoliation? | Gentle Skincare Shopping Guide
The last year of my skincare journey has definitely shattered some of my deepest-held beliefs about how skincare should work and what I need to do for my skin. A few of them include: “Hey, I can layer up toner as much as my heart wants! I can even layer different toners!” “Oil doesn’t make…
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Iunik Propolis Vitamin Synergy Serum | Effective and Affordable?
What was your skincare routine like when you first started to get into K-beauty? I like looking back at my routines to see how far I’ve come (some big mistakes) and what similarities there are (things my skin truly loves). Looking back I see snail, always lots of snail, and that hasn’t changed too much.…
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Makeup, Confidence and Korean Skincare
Makeup. It can make us look put together, emphasize our favorite traits, make us feel powerful or just plain pretty. But makeup is also a tool we use to cover up things we don’t like; acne, scars, dark marks, dark circles, the list goes on. In my early twenties I got very much into makeup.…
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Skincare Showdown! The Ordinary v.s. Drunk Elephant Marula Oil
It seems like facial oils are the hottest thing in skincare these days. Gone is the time of thinking oil was the cause of acne and clogged pores, only to be used by those poor individuals whose skin was too dry. These days our thinking has changed and there seems to be a facial oil…
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The Best Korean Hydrating Toners for Your Skin Type
Anyone remember the Clinique three-step skincare routine? Cleanse, tone, moisturize? Toning in Western skincare, growing up in the late 90s and early 00’s, meant an astringent, cleansing and oil-removing formula that probably contained alcohol. This scarred me for life! No, not really, but it definitely left a sour taste in my mouth about toners and…
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Asian V.S. Western Skincare
It’s pretty obvious that I love Asian beauty products. I mean, look at this blog! I’ve been in deep with my Asian beauty going on six years now and I can’t get enough! But, being that I don’t live in Asia or am of Asian decent, many of my friends and family are curious to…
