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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Transparent Snail is Transparent: I am in no way affiliated with the brand discussed in this post, do not earn commissions from either seller discussed here, and gain nothing from any sales of the brand’s product, except the satisfaction of leading another person to a stellar skincare brand. In fact, I have never even gotten…
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Just a quickie today. My brain is fried from finishing up yesterday’s ampoule review megapost, but I got some great news from Lee Hye Young over at COSRX and had to share. The news is that they’re making progress on the development of their low pH facial cleanser! Hye Young wrote me: I just got…
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Good news for those of you who have been dying to try out the COSRX products I’ve been raving about, but who have been hesitant to order from Korean sites (or annoyed at the long shipping times from Korea to the US): A US-based K-beauty retailer now carries a nice variety of COSRX products! Cupidrop has…
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For most of us who follow the hybrid Western/Asian SCA and AB skincare philosophy, cleansers with a high pH are practically verboten. Snow White and the Asian Pear agrees. Skin and Tonics does, too. The natural pH of a healthy skin barrier is slightly acidic. Cleansers that are too alkaline–that have a high pH–disrupt the skin barrier,…
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Note from Auntie Snail: I wouldn’t know anywhere near as much as I do about Asian skincare if not for the amazing community over at Reddit’s /r/AsianBeauty. Today, one of those amazing community members, /u/GiveMeABreak25, gives us the scoop on the new My Beauty Diary masks she’s uncovered for 2015! It all started off as…
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Some time ago, I had a request on Reddit to make my sheet mask spreadsheet available. I’ve been thinking about the best way to do it, and I’ve decided to make it super easy for you! Click this link to download a copy of my current sheet mask spreadsheet. It’s in Excel format and hosted on…
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Happy Monday, everyone! Over the weekend, Fifty Shades of Snail hit 40,000 pageviews. I only started this blog in February, so this feels huge for me, and I’d like to hand out some gifts as a way of thanking you all for being such a great and loyal audience! That’s where this “My AB Story”…
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Aww yiss. After weeks in transit and customs limbo, my little RoseRoseShop parcel has arrived, containing two of the most exciting Korean skin care products I’ve ever gotten my hands on. I’m so stoked to try out the CosRX Natural BHA Skin Returning A-Sol and the Missha Time Revolution Night Repair Science Activator Borabit Ampoule! CosRX Natural…
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It’s amazing to see Asian skin care and cosmetics, especially the huge K-beauty side of it, making waves Stateside. Investors like Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang seem to agree, as the $29M that Korean beauty box company Memebox just raised to achieve its global ambitions shows. In today’s link, Forbes.com talks about Memebox’s rise and plans for…
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Those of us who’ve adopted the Korean skin care lifestyle have been watching its popularity rise in the West for some time now, but it’s always validating to see a major and mainstream media outlet talking about it. Fortune.com discussed it in “Beauty, Gangnam Style” earlier this week. Here’s a bit of what Christina Valhouli had…
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