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Skin care from midrange Korean brand Mizon.
As a beauty blogger, I make a lot of skincare purchases. Many more, I imagine, than a typical non-blogger beauty consumer would. We've talked a bit about blogger shopping habits here and there on the Snailcast, and I'm sure I've mentioned mine in passing elsewhere, but I don't think I've ever sat down and walked [...]
There are certain brands I constantly overlook. Like Mizon. I just don't think about them much these days, which is a shame. Mizon might be easy for a fickle blogger to outgrow in the quest for exciting new things, but the brand's solid if unglamorous products have a lot to offer at really reasonable prices (if you buy [...]
Mizon's Returning Starfish Cream was the first moisturizer I ever liked enough to repurchase when I ran out and the first heavier cream I ever really enjoyed. It made my skin so nice. Also, I liked its bizarre jelly texture. So I made a video to show what happens when you jiggle a jar of [...]
The thing about skincare, which I've said before and will say again, is that there's nothing universal about it and there's nothing truly objective about it, either. A product that works amazingly well for 90% of people may work really poorly or not at all for the other 10% (and that's not the product's fault, [...]
These days, it seems there are two kinds of people: those who love a good old-fashioned facial scrub, and those who either won't, or can't, take so much as a single exfoliating grain on their skin. (A damaged acid mantle and/or prescription retinoids can make skin extremely sensitive to abrasion, for example.) Mizon's Seaweed Jelly [...]
Crazy Snail Lady Note: The cleansers discussed in this post were given to me by retailers for review. To learn more about my sponsorship policy and testing schedule, please visit this page. There are no referral or affiliate links in this post. About a week ago, I posted some teaser news about one of my [...]