Skincare, beauty, and occasional mental health, productivity, and hamster butts
Applied as the last step in your nighttime routine, a Korean sleeping pack or sleeping mask can deliver a final dose of actives or hydration and will also help seal all your PM products into your skin, preventing overnight moisture loss and maximizing the effectiveness of everything you’ve put on before.
I'm upset. I'm upset to have fallen in love with a product. I haven't been this upset since the last time I fell in love with a lavishly priced Sulwhasoo mask, the Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Creamy Mask, and that was back in 2017. The only reason I'm not more upset right now is that while [...]
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 [...]
December 28 update: I've been told that the spatula may not be real jade. Checking on that now. Precious gems in skincare tend to leave me cold, since the skincare benefits of ground up jewelry are, at best, both questionable and temporary. But I have an irrational reverence for jade. My first piece of real jewelry was a classic plain [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I talked in a general way about how to decide whether to introduce actives into your skincare routine. Now, as promised, here are a couple of examples: one product that just didn't have enough oomph to get the job done, and one that doesn't need anything more than what it [...]
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 [...]
Some products in this post were provided for review by Fifty Shades of Snail sponsors and are individually disclosed below. All opinions and recommendations in this post are my own unless otherwise noted. Learn more about my rules for store partnerships by checking out my sponsorship policy and sponsor list. Let's do something a little different today! I recently [...]
My days of wildly hauling huge quantities of unfamiliar products are mostly behind me, but every once in a while, the urge strikes and then things like this happen: I'm set for months for new products to test and have already tried a few of the many things I hauled. Some have been winners that I've already [...]
Post updated 9/15/16. Still in love with Mr. Rx. There is really no way to say this without sounding like a total weirdo, so I'm just going to be blunt with you guys: I'm in love with a cartoon character. Not just any cartoon character, but a cartoon character who's not even my type. This [...]
Note: This post features products provided by Fifty Shades of Snail sponsors Jolse and COSRX. For more information about my rules for reviewing press samples, read my sponsorship policy. COSRX, one of my favorite Korean skincare companies (and a mainstay in my skincare routine), has been making some serious growth plays in the last few [...]
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: flexibility is critical to maintaining healthy skin. Your skin is a complex living ecosystem, subject to all sorts of ever-changing influences, like diet, lifestyle, stress levels, living environment, overall climate, and day-to-day fluctuations in the weather. And if that wasn't complicated enough, just about anyone's skin [...]
