It affects skin on a cellular level, speeding your cell turnover rate which makes skin smoother and brighter. Soak your face in Missha First Treatment Essence, which many compare to the popular SK-II Facial Treatment Essence. Dispense the toner onto a cotton pad and wipe your face and neck-and don’t be surprised at the dirty streak left on the pad.Ĭonsidered the most important step to Korean women, yet still a mystery to many. Or the Son & Park Beauty Water that double as a toner and gentle exfoliator. I’ve found Korean toners are less harsh and drying than other kinds that I've tried, which is maybe why they're called "refreshers." And they're made from more interesting ingredients-the SU:M37 Waterfull Skin Refresher contains fermented bamboo extract. It soothes and preps your skin to absorb the next step-the essence. It's believed to help remove pollutants along with any residue from your cleansers, while also restoring your skin’s pH balance.
What we in America think of as "toning" is an essential step. When it comes to facial exfoliation, Korean women often believe less is more. Twice a month is plenty, just concentrate on the t-zone or where blackheads frequent. Koreans ( and Into The Gloss) believe that massaging the face increases circulation, which equals brighter skin.Įxfoliating with a natural scrub like the Skin Food Black Sugar Wash Off Mask or the Neogen Bio Peel Gauze Peeling Wine really brings your skin back to its glory days when it was as soft as a baby’s butt. Use an oil cleanser like Banila Co Clean it Zero Cleansing Balm and use gentle, circular motions with your fingers to massage and clean off that foundation and BB cream. Rule of thumb is, if you’re going to spend 30 minutes putting on your face, you should spend the same amount of time and care when cleaning it off. Also, use it to remove any long-wear lipstick. And the last thing you want to do is tug the skin around your eyes, because, like most things in life, it will hold up better if you treat it gingerly. Remove your eye makeup gently with good makeup remover or Skinfood Rice Brightening Cleansing Tissue, because expecting a normal cleanser to do a detailed job is what leaves you with week-old mascara on your lashes. But, like our American moms always said while shoving (their version of) Korean stir-fry into our mouths: just try, you might like it!
To those who believe they aren’t high maintenance enough for that bright, dewy skin: I didn’t either. They would say (rather bluntly) in passing, “I could see your dark circles from way over there,” or, “What is growing out of your skin?” or my favorite, “brush your hair.” So they obviously didn’t get the whole wavy California beach hair look, but their well-intentioned rudeness did get me thinking about my skin. And I’ll admit, I was (still am) shallow enough to be influenced by the flawless-faced actresses in Korean dramas-and I watch them all in HD! How Jun Ji-hyun has better skin in My Love From Another Star than when she starred in My Sassy Girl 13 years ago is just beyond my comprehension. When I first got to Korea, I was motivated to start up with a Korean-style routine because my coworkers thought I was so barbaric for my complete lack of one. Thorough skincare is really just a part of Korean culture-it's completely ingrained in your life since early childhood, when you're dragged along to the communal bathhouses by your mother to have your dead skin sloughed off with bright green viscose cloths. I guess the real differentiating factor between how Koreans take care of their skin and more Western routines is that in Korea, you’re programmed to start early- well before your first training bra-while our more American version of skincare tends to be a sudden mad dash to Nordstrom to buy $100 eye cream, hoping it will reverse some of the teenage UV damage when we hit the age of 30. Skincare in Korea is a somewhat exhaustive multi-step process, a fact that seems to have sparked a ton of intrigue in the beauty world as of late. To outsiders looking in, the “million-step” Korean skincare regimen sounds a bit extreme, but it all boils down to cleansing, exfoliating, treating, intensely moisturizing and applying plenty of SPF during the day. Since her article on the best Korean makeup was so well received, and you, our lovely readers, essentially demanded a skincare follow-up, the pore-less Charlotte Cho is back with a rundown of the beauty routine she picked up while living in Seoul.
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