Korean makeup & skincare - my experiences and please share yours!

As well as snail lol

I've seen that but have too many eye creams!

Just my haul of new products from Wishtrend. Otherwise, nothing more from the AB category anyway.

I usually recommend Korean brands Cosrx and Klairs for newbies. I still use and love a lot of their products. Klairs, in particular, caters for a broad spectrum of different skin types. I am a dry skin type myself.

Ultimately, for a dry or dehydrated skin type, you should ideally be incorporating a lot of hydrating products into your skin care routine and Korean skincare products offer a lot of hydrating benefits. Three categories of Korean skincare products worth considering: hydrating toner (also called "Skin"), essences and sheet masks. Although I recommend more affordable Taiwan sheet mask brands like My Beauty Diary and My Scheming for regular sheet mask use.

I never go without using a hydrating toner. My current favourite is Dear, Klairs Daily Skin Hydrating Water: https://www.yesstyle.com/en/dear-klairs-daily-skin-hydrating-water-500ml/info.html/pid.1078583776. This is a bit expensive right now so I usually wait for a sale but 500ml is a HUGE bottle. I also highly recommend Laneige Cream Skin Refiner: https://www.yesstyle.com/en/laneige-cream-skin-refiner-150ml-150ml/info.html/pid.1069239779. I use and own several bottles of this and even have travel size bottles of it.

My moisturiser recommendations are COSRX Balancium Comfort Ceramide Cream: https://www.yesstyle.com/en/cosrx-balancium-comfort-ceramide-cream-80g/info.html/pid.1071622271, Laneige Cica Sleeping Mask (for night use only) https://www.yesstyle.com/en/laneige-cica-sleeping-mask-60ml/info.html/pid.1072762036 and/or I'm From Honey Glow Cream: https://www.yesstyle.com/en/im-from-honey-glow-cream-50g/info.html/pid.1078092210.

If you have perpetually red cheeks, then I suspect you might have rosacea. That is a more difficult skin concern to tackle. This link to the Asian Beauty subreddit post on product suggestions for rosacea is worth checking out: https://www.reddit.com/r/AsianBeauty/comments/4v2uii/best_products_for_common_skin_concerns_series/.

For wrinkles, I think you should look into products with bakuchiol or retinol. That is beyond the scope of this thread though. We did have a thread that had a lot of information about tackling pigmentation and discussed different sorts of retinol but I have not been able to locate it.

Yes to all of the above, except Heimish Bulgarian Rose Water Hydrogel Eye Patches.

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Otherwise, in short:

I love all the Huxley oils. Nothing bad to say about any of them. Klairs vitamin C is comprised of a vitamin C derivative so it is not a particularly strong vitamin C but I think there are visible brightening results with use over time. Oily consistency. I can't make up my mind about the Laneige Glowy Makeup Serum. It's pretty average. Definitely does not live up to its hydrating claims and certainly not enough to be something of a substitute for a hydrating primer.

Nudie Glow is not the cheapest place to buy these items. I would recommend something like Jolse, Roseroseshop, Sweetcorea and even Yesstyle (when they are on sale).

I wouldn't recommend using both an AHA/BHA toner AND the Drunk Elephant Glycolic Night Serum (which is an AHA). That's too much exfoliation in one routine for anyone.

Otherwise, it looks like the order should be after double cleansing, 1. Cosrx AHA/BHA Toner, 2. Cosrx 95 Tone Balancing Essence, 3. Klairs Blue Youth Activator Drop (I think the consistency of this is thin - correct me if I am wrong about that), 4. The Ordinary Hyaluronic Serum, 5. The Ordinary Niacinamide, 6. Vitamin Oil Serum (is the consistency thicker than the previous products, i.e. like an oil?), 7. Benton Snail Bee Moisturiser Cream.

If you're going to incorporate the Drunk Elephant Glycolic Night Serum, don't use the AHA/BHA Toner in the same routine. I would use it after whatever other toner you use and leave it (and perhaps only use 7. after that). I prefer to leave acids as undiluted by other products as possible and only use 1-2 times a week.

If you plan to incorporate vitamin C, it depends on what type of vitamin C it is. If it is ascorbic acid, you cannot use The Ordinary Niacinamide in the same routine or night. I also don't recommend using AHA/BHA Toner or the Drunk Elephant Glycolic Night Serum on the same night you use vitamin C. Alternatively, you can use the vitamin C in the mornings and then use the acid stuff at night and not the vitamin C. Again though, it depends on what kind of vitamin C you would be using. I am not going to go into the different types of vitamin C in this thread. There are other threads where we discuss vitamin C.