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: News
News about the Japanese and Korean skin care industries and how Asian skin care is giving the Western cosmetics industry a run for customers’ money.
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Just a quickie today to announce a new thing I’m doing on my social media accounts: SNS Saturdays! Those of you who snagged Beautibi and Memebox coupon codes last Saturday have already experienced an SNS Saturday, but that initial code dump was just the beginning.
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I don’t usually do Instagram review roundups because I like to give you guys different things on different sites. I have a (half-assed but deliberate) system for deciding what goes where. But I don’t want anyone to miss out on the launch of the Mask Party sheet mask set at my favorite Taiwan-focused boutique AB shop, Beautibi!
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I don’t generally participate in team kill reviews, where shops send a specific product out to a number of bloggers to deliberately generate hype. But I recently made an exception for Wishtrend, owner of the Klairs brand, when WT got in touch to offer me a jar of the new Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream for review. I like Klairs products, and the…
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It’s my birthday! Today I turn thirty-six! SHIT! I wanted to share my birthday with you guys in a special way this year, since you all made last year so amazing for me. So I teamed up with Memebox to bring you…a catch and release shark hunt!
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…or any other ideological or political spin on skincare. Today, I and a couple members of the Snail Unit found out that we’d been mentioned in an article on a major online publication (which I’ll not be linking, because I don’t want to give them the traffic, but which I’ll screenshot below if you haven’t seen…
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Slap on a sheet mask and plug in your headphones, because the Snailcast is here!
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Real talk: Ever since I got into skincare, traveling has been one hell of a challenge. Here’s the thing. I love travel, even air travel, even air travel in coach with multiple layovers! I like going places! But uhhh…shoehorning even “just the necessities” (LOL) of my skincare wardrobe into a carry-on while leaving room for other…
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You ever have one of those moments where you realize you’ve neglected something that should have come naturally to you and you just feel like you’ve let yourself down in a huge and major way? I was finalizing some things with my Memebox US box curation contact tonight when I realized that they’ve been carrying…
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It’s here! The Fifty Shades of Snail/COSRX snail value set that I announced at the end of last week’s COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence and Advanced Snail 92 All In One Cream megapost has scooted and slimed its way onto Memebox US, complete with original Triangle Studio artwork, the fabled COSRX sticker sheets, and, of…
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Fiddy reviews COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence and Advanced Snail 92 All In One Cream.
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