Tag: K-Beauty
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A Basic Night Skincare Routine for Dry Skin 💧
Let’s go back to the basics. Simple is often the way forward to feeding your dry skin with only the essentials. Overcome skin dryness, roughness, and a flaky skin texture with this easy-peasy 5-step skincare routine comprised of K-Beauty and J-Beauty products which are readily available from most local and internationally established Korean and Japanese…
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‘Treat your skin with food’ – Skinfood 🍯🫒 – One Brand Review (#trymereviewme)
Skinfood is not only a classic Korean roadshop (highstreet) brand used by people of all ages, it is a 64 year old brand devoted to creating skin-loving skincare formulas since 1957. Their core focus is to extract the nutrients of various fruits, vegetables and plants, to deliver essential vitamins to skin in the simplest way…
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My Top 3 Innisfree Products 🌿
To begin the relaunch of SimplyEm’sBlog after my unintentional absence, we’ll be revisiting one of my old favourites: Innisfree 💚 Innisfree was one of the first K-Beauty brands I reviewed here on my blog. Looking back now, I realise that brand review wasn’t that interesting or insightful. However, Innisfree’s concept of using as many nature-sourced…
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StyleKorean x Cosrx – Advanced Snail Mucin Line
Rate it, or overrated??? StyleKorean x Cosrx #trymereviewme The Cosrx Snail Advanced Snail product line is undoubtedly the most widely recognised skincare line from Cosrx. If Cosrx’s pimple patches didn’t spark your interest in K-Beauty, then perhaps the Cosrx Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence got the ball rolling for you. Snail Mucin is one…
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[#Gifted]💙 The Multi-Award Winning Facial Oil Which Rocked The K-Beauty Community in 2020 🌊
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A sapphire blue facial oil composed of 100% vegetable oil pleasantly exceeded the expectations of many K-Beauty enthusiasts in 2020. Curated by a brand which primary meet the needs of combination and oily skin types, with a large portion of their consumers being based in humid Southern Asian countries, it was surprising to witness the…
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✨My Top 10 Korean Skincare Products of 2020✨
Some of you may be less enthusiastic about these blogging trends which circulate around the end of a year, but from memory I don’t think I’ve ever done a K-Beauty round-up post consisting of my favourite skincare products that year. So why now? Well this year, more than ever, has given me several opportunities to…
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Mask Mondays: Briskin Real Fit Second Skin Mask (Hydration version) 💗
The Briskin Real Fit Second Skin Mask (Hydration version) is Glam Touch‘s best selling sheet mask. I regretted not picking one up to try from Oliveyoung in Korea last year, so it’s great to have easy access to a variety of Briskin masks in the UK. About this sheet mask: 🌸 It’s a Bio-cellulose mask…
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[#Gifted] The Luxury Cleansing Water Free From Surfactants – Oolo
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It’s about time that we take look at a luxury innovative product which doesn’t follow the product creations which are trending among the majority of Korean skincare brands. The 𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐚 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝗪𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 contains only three ingredients: • Jojoba seed oil – an non comedogenic, antioxidant botanical oil rich in Vitamin E. It…
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[#Gifted] A Simple Way To Add Ceramide Into Your Skincare Routine
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It’s all well to talk about trending skincare products and newly developed formulas which are curated with unique and uncommon ingredients, but sometimes it’s good to spread the word about skincare which ultimately serves our skin in the long run and helps to diminish sensitivity issues cause by external factors. Which is why today…
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[#Gifted] Cellabel Skin Care – Relief for Sensitive Skin
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Today I bring two reviews in one blog post about a lesser known Korean skincare brand which deserve more recognition: Cellabel. Their skin care is mainly targeted a sensitive skin types. One of the products I will discuss is for sensitive dry skin, whereas the other is more suitable for sensitive combination and oily skin…
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[#Gifted] Aprilskin Real Carrot Serum Review 🥕
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Carrots in a serum? – Yes, it’s a thing and my skin is loving the addition of this ingredient to my morning skin care routine. I decided one of the most sensible things to do right now for transitioning into Autumn/Winter, is to apply a thicker/tacky serum rather than the watery ones I was using…
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Ingredient focus: 4-Terpineol 👩🔬
4-Terpineol, sometimes also referred to as Terpinen-4-ol, is gradually becoming present in skin care both in the Western and Korean beauty industries. Typically this ingredient which stems from Tea Tree Oil, is used in cosmetics to target blemishes and breakouts. 4-Terpineol is extracted from Tea Tree leaves and contains one of the most high concentrations…
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Is the COSRX Retinol Serum a Game Changer? 🤔
This is the 3rd and final review of the lastest 3 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐭 serums released by COSRX. As you can see from the title, we’ll be taking a look at the COSRX 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐦. The reason why it’s taken me some time to discuss this serum is because I thoroughly wanted to test it out…
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[#Gifted] Rovectin Cica Care Balm Review 💜
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Rovectin’s slogan is: “𝐃𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚+ 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞” and rightly so. They aim to provide Dermatologist grade skin care – removing all gimmicks and known harmful ingredients to improve skin’s inherent functionalities. More or less you can view 𝘙𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯 as essential skin care which is inclusive for all. As this is the first time that I’m…
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[#Gifted] MASK MONDAYS: JMsolution Water Luminous S.O.S Ampoule Double In Mask Review 💧
Welcome to my new weekly blog segment: “Mask Mondays“! As the title obviously suggests this blog series will specifically focus on mini sheet mask reviews. I’ve reviewed countless sheet masks here on SimplyEm’sBlog and Instagram over the last few years, but I don’t do that as often nowadays. So for those who have asked me…
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A Sheet Mask For Every Skin Type 💧
I’ve had this blog post in my drafts since the beginning of lockdown, so now it’s time to finish it off – otherwise by the time I get round to it, Summer will have already graced us and gone. The focus of this post is fairly simple, yet I hope it is informative. I’ve narrowed…
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Dear K-Beauty brands, diversity is this…
In consideration of the BLM movement, I had a further think about the issues surrounding the misrepresentation of diversity in the k-beauty industry. I’ve spoken about this concern in the past, but last night I stayed up to write this blog post. I’m not sure how my words will be persevered, however I hope I…
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[#Gifted] ✨Twenty or Something Mini Haul + Reviews✨
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In favour of supporting more small businesses during this time, I’d like to introduce you to Twenty or Something – the one stop online shop for K-Beauty. Despite the pandemic they launched just a few weeks back & are thriving. They kindly chose me receive some of their hand-selected products to discuss with you, and…
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[#Gifted] ✨Glamtouch – The One Stop Destination for K-Beauty✨
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I never get bored of K-Beauty, and hopefully neither do you, because today I bring you another Korean Beauty themed blog post. Today’s post will ‘touch’ on GlamTouch (…punny). I’ve been using products from GlamTouch – the one stop destination for K-Beauty since February of this year and have discussed both the brand and a…
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My Top Picks from Kōsame – The House of Korean Beauty™
Kōsame – The House of Korean Beauty™, is a reliable and affordable online shop catering to all your Korean Skincare and K-beauty needs – delivering to the UK & Europe. They stock several loved brands which are adored by those both fairly new to K-beauty, as well as by those who have been delving into…
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