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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Category: Makeup
Makeup can be an amazing transformative tool with endless options, and the Japanese and Korean cosmetics industries offer some truly stellar products for skin, cheeks, brows, eyes, and lips.
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Of all the different product types assembled in my extensive skincare wardrobe, cleansing oil is the one I think about the least. I mean, there’s just not that much to think about. You’ve got your oils to break down and loosen up makeup and sunscreen, your emulsifier(s) to enable easy rinsing with water, maybe a…
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Quickie Snail Disclosure: This product was originally given to me by Peach and Lily for unbiased review. You know how sometimes you put something off for no real reason, and then the longer you put it off, the heavier the burden of guilt grows, until your mind has blown up the task so much that…
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Crazy Snail Disclosure: Some of the products in this post were sent to me for review. If you’d like to learn more about my personal rules for accepting gifts from retailers, read my sponsorship policy here. Once upon a time, I didn’t have much makeup, and what I had came mostly from the Walmart down…
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Confession: I didn’t know how to do my makeup well (I mean, relatively well–I still have lots of learning to do before my face starts sagging to the floor and creates entirely new makeup challenges) until earlier this year. The problem was that almost all of the makeup resources I’d seen were geared towards Western…
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Among the AB community, there’s a pretty commonly held belief that Western makeup is better than Asian. Asian skincare offers far more variety and customization than Western, which is why many of us find that it works better to solve our skin problems, but Western makeup brands tend to offer more color choices, allowing for…
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At long last, the day has come: Mr. Crazy Snail Lady has joined the Dark Side. I mean the Hydrated Side. The Balanced Side. The…the Bright Side? I don’t know, forget about it. I tried. His experiment with the Innisfree Green Tea samples I started him on went so well that by the second night,…
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For those who don’t share my passion, it must sound really weird to hear makeup called a hobby or an art. Over the last six months or so, however, those are exactly what the act of applying makeup has become for me. Makeup as art I can’t draw or paint or decorate a house to save…
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Tinfoil time! Innisfree either has psychics on staff or a deal with the NSA, because they always seem to have a great deal or promotion going just when I’m running out of my staples and looking for a change. Check out what I got and how my routine will be changing (spoiler: I’m replacing some…
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Blushes are cheap, and I’ve somehow accumulated a lot of them. I’ve gotten so many different colors and have become so comfortable with applying them that I’ve started planning looks around which blush I feel like wearing on any given day. And I like blush so much that storing them in a makeup bag out of…
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Sometimes there’s just nothing like sheer pink for a fresh and easy springtime look. Products used: Skin: Missha M Signature Real Complete BB Cream in No. 21 Cheeks: Milani Baked Blush in Dolce Pink, Benefit Watts Up! Brows: Maybelline Color Tattoo cream eyeshadow, Tough As Taupe Lids: Maybelline Color Tattoo cream eyeshadow, Inked in Pink…
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