Fifty Shades of Snail
Finding the best skin care products since 2014. Started with a focus on Korean skincare and grew from there. Skincare tips and beauty tips that work, maybe some hamster butts too
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about
Category: Korea
Korean skin care and makeup hauls, reviews, swatches, and how-tos.
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Lately it feels as if all of my writing is for outlets other than this blog, whether it’s for my Instagram (home for reviews and rants that can fit into a single caption and usually only require one picture) or for other sites (which I do have to do, because bills). But I am writing, and…
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Lately I’ve been realizing that my writing is spread across a few different sites, so I should be better at linking articles here when I want to share them. Here are two recent ones I wrote for Beautytap!
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One night a few months ago, a terrible thing happened. I went to put on my eye cream–at the time, I was using the Su:m37 Secret Repair Concentrated Eye Cream–and discovered that I’d scraped the entire jar empty. I further discovered a distinct lack of other eye creams in my beauty product black hole of…
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Skincare products come and go, but these regularly repurchased holy grails are here to stay.
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After all the salt I spewed over the weekend, I’m glad to have something positive to talk about. The Year of the Dog is almost upon us, and that means Lunar New Year promotions and specials. Sulwhasoo’s LNY promotions feature several of my longtime favorite skincare products, which I’m already determined to get onto as…
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Are the Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Creamy Masks worth the money?



