So it looks like I won’t be getting much sleep tonight. Sucks for Near Future Me, but guess what? The peace and quiet (and the foreboding drone of Forensic Files in the background) provide the perfect conditions for me to finally open up and share my feelings about my new favorite brand, Tosowoong, and some of the really impressive Tosowoong products I’ve added to my routine.
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6/23/16: Soo Ae, the manufacturer of these masks, recently updated their packaging for the US market. I’ve compared the ingredients lists and verified that it has not changed, meaning that the mask’s ingredients have always been compliant with US regulations regarding ingredient order. Woo! I’ve also updated purchasing links and stuck a gallery of new packaging images at the bottom.
Opinions about products change all the time. If they didn’t, there’d be no flux in the cosmetics industry and we’d all stick to the same regimen for years on end. But there is and we don’t. We fall in love with things and later change our minds; we pick favorites, then forget them.
That totally hasn’t happened to me with the Soo Ae Freeset Donkey Milk line of gel sheet masks, which have been on my mind a lot lately because they keep coming up in AB discussions. A long-ass time ago, I raved about the Donkey Milk Aqua masks. Today I want to talk about the Donkey Milk Healing Skin Gel Mask Pack, the anti-trouble entry in the line. Is it as great as the Donkey Milk Aqua? Does it help to heal skin troubles like acne and irritation? Come with me on a journey of discovery, and please don’t mind the late hour. I can’t sleep because of bodily troubles that no mask can heal.
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a sheet mask or hydrogel mask review, and that vexes me. It vexes me terribly. Sorry, Gladiator is on.
I still love these one-use wonders just as much as I ever did, and probably even more now that I’ve been using them in the mornings whenever I wake up early enough. So let’s take a look at some of the winners and losers I’ve tried recently! This post is all about the hydrogels.
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As lots of you already know, lately I’ve been all about two amazing DIY skincare items whipped up for my by my friend Chel at Holy Snails. Her Vita-Sea-Rum vitamin C serum and Shark Sauce sea kelp and niacinamide ampoule have been the superstars of my skincare routine ever since I got them, and using them has helped me clarify a lot of dissatisfaction I have with commercial cosmetics products.
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Crazy Snail Disclosures: Samples of the products featured in this post were sent to me by The Beauty Shelf for testing. If you have any questions about my standards for accepting press samples, please see my sponsorship policy or contact me directly.
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Of all the beauty tools I’ve tried since I started my journey into Asian skincare, the most indispensable has definitely been the soft, squishy, gentle, humble konjac sponge. Nothing else I’ve tried has been as undeniably useful. A konjac sponge can make a mountain of satisfying foam out of the most gentle and poorly foaming face wash. It can sweep away flakes of dead skin without irritating the more sensitive new skin underneath; it can help smooth your skin without putting you in danger of overexfoliating, no matter how many actives and prescription topicals your skincare routine contains. And konjac sponges are affordable, too!
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Disclosing Snail Discloses: The product reviewed in this post was given to me by Cupidrop for my feedback and unbiased review. If you have any questions about my rules for accepting press samples, please check out my sponsorship policy or get in touch with me directly.
For something that comes in such small quantities, eye cream sure can cause big arguments (among people like me, people who have skincare arguments). Some people believe that eye creams as a category are entirely pointless, that eye creams are just overpriced face creams in tiny jars. All anyone needs to keep the skin in the eye area healthy, these people claim, is regular old facial moisturizer. Other people believe that the eye area requires special care. The skin is often thinner, drier, more prone to wrinkling, after all, and it’s beset by unique concerns like dark circles and undereye puffiness.
When a line’s eye cream is as similar to its face cream as COSRX Honey Ceramide Eye Cream is to COSRX Honey Ceramide Full Moisture Cream, it can be even more challenging to decide whether the eye cream is necessary. That’s why I decided to take a slightly different approach to my review of COSRX Honey Ceramide Eye Cream. We’ll take a closer look at the ingredients than usual and figure out just what makes this eye cream different from its face cream counterpart.
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These days, it seems there are two kinds of people: those who love a good old-fashioned facial scrub, and those who either won’t, or can’t, take so much as a single exfoliating grain on their skin. (A damaged acid mantle and/or prescription retinoids can make skin extremely sensitive to abrasion, for example.)
Mizon’s Seaweed Jelly Scrub is a scrub for those of you in the second group, who want to smooth away some stray flakes of skin but can’t just pick up any old scrub and scrub away.
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There are plenty of giggles to be found in the AB universe. Here’s one I ran across today, drawn by Redditor /u/fatmarker. It’s so cute that I had to share.
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As you may have noticed, my routine is an ever-evolving thing. Our skin condition isn’t static, and for best results, we should adapt our routine on a day-to-day basis to account for things like weather and other environmental changes, as well as for our own health and skin conditions and anything else that might affect our complexions.
(I know, it sounds really complicated, but in practice it’s intuitive. Just listen to your skin and take your schedule into account.)
