My Face Smells Like Straight Honey
You know what I’m really bad at? Taking pictures. I’m so uncomfortable with all forms of picture taking. Idk it just makes me feel so awkward to just like whip my camera out and take a picture of something. WHY? WHY AM I LIKE THIS? I feel like everyone is judging me for taking a picture, which I know is so like utterly ridiculous. But, anyways, the point of this spiel (yes, I had to look up how to spell spiel) was to justify the lack of pictures on my blog. There you have it.
Anyways, so I’m not completely horrible, and I think I’ve been doing a pretty good job keeping this blog up to date with things I do that aren’t entirely unsubstantial (like, today I bought cotton balls in case you were interested). Either I’m doing a good job or my life is so boring that it’s not that hard to keep up with. Anyways, as I’m sure you can tell from my latest edition of Clubbing Korea Do’s and Don’ts, last weekend I went to this hip hop club called Cakeshop. It’s in Itaewon (the tourist-y town that I mentioned before), and let me just say: it was so lit. There was an event there on Friday (Bromance Night??? idk what it was really) so they had a bunch of different DJs, and they all played good music. ALSO IMPT, I wasn’t aggressively groped at all, which was so nice. ALSO ALSO, we somehow managed to get a free ride home from a nice taxi man. Great night.
The rest of the weekend, I didn’t do much besides aimlessly walk around and procrastinate doing my Korean Cinema essay that was due on Sunday night. Sunday day, though, Jennifer and I went shopping! …and made many poor financial decisions.
Okay, so if you don’t know, Korean skincare stuff is actually bomb. Beauty and makeup and skincare in general is just a really big deal here. So I wanted to pick up this cleansing balm/makeup remover and maybe a new BB cream from this brand called Banila Co. It might be common knowledge already, but I don’t really use that much makeup because I’m a failure and don’t know how to do anything besides put on eyeliner (and dark lipstick when I go out #advanced). But, I’m really interested in it and open to trying whatever bc like I want to be beautiful and stuff so yeah.
Anyways, I walk into this store (luckily with Jennifer, who can speak Korean, or it would have been impossible) and ask for BB cream for dry skin (MY SKIN IS DRY ALERT), and next thing I know, I’m sitting in this chair and this small Korean women is doing my makeup and putting all sorts of things on my face. And, real talk, it’s dank. #princessstatus She mostly just used some toners and moisturizers and primers(?) on my skin rather than doing any actual makeup stuff, but anyways, my skin looked flawless. Basically, I was just like lol ok give me it all. I dropped like.. a pretty penny on it, but now I have really nice skincare stuff! She was so good, though omg. She was like “You don’t really wear make up right?” and I was like “lol no, so I don’t need to buy anything fancy” and she’s like “This is just the basics….” and starts listing what girls who actually wear makeup have: mascara, eyeliner, highlighter, bronzer, eyebrow pencil, eyebrow mascara, blush, etc etc. Then, she points to the 5 items in front of me like “This is nothing.” And I’m like fuck it, yeah I’ll take it lol I’m so weak.
Anyways here’s what I got (prior to this I didn’t know what half this stuff did so bear with me through my brief descriptions lol):
CLEAN IT ZERO Cleansing Balm
So this was like the one thing I actually meant to get when I walked into the store lol. A lot of people use it and say really good things about it (Jenn Im from clothesencounters aka my hero) so I thought I’d give it try. It’s like a similar texture to coconut oil? You just rub it on your face, and it turns more liquidy and takes off all your make up.
MISS HONEY & MR. FLOWER CREAM
Ok literally it felt like Jesus was blessing my face with puppies when the lady put this stuff my face. I didn’t even know what it was, but I was like yes please give this to me. But, basically, it’s like a moisturizing balm made of honey and other good stuff (clearly I am very knowledgeable about beauty ok), and it smells like straight up honey. I’ve been using it for like 2 days, and my face literally feels like a baby’s butt.
MISS HONEY & MR. FLOWER TONER
After you wash your face and before you moisturize, you’re supposed to use toner. This one also smells like honey.
PRIME PRIMER BLUR
I probably could have done without this one tbh, but I’ve always wanted to try a primer type makeup thing that smooths your pores. SO yes this is that. I haven’t used this one yet, and I probably will only use it whenever I go out to help my makeup survive the trashy club air.
IT RADIANT CC CREAM
I was really confused on the difference between BB cream and CC cream, and actually I’m still not really sure their exact differences lol, but this CC cream works kind of like a brightener? I’ve been using this with my cheapo drugstore BB cream for the past two days for my “everyday makeup” and my skin looks really nice and healthy. Also, in Korea, the sought after look for makeup is “dewy” rather than matte. So, this makes my skin look kind of shiny? In a good way, though. Like, in a moisturized way not an oily one.
COVER 10 PERFECT CUSHION
I still don’t actually know what this is lol. I think it might be like a cross between BB cream and foundation? Idk the sales lady actually mixed this stuff with the CC cream and then put it on my face sooooo yeah. This thing is really interesting because it’s in like powder compact form, but it’s a liquid? You like press down on the pad part and it dispenses product out of these little holes, and then you dab it on your skin with the round pad thing IDK. Sorry my terminology sucks. I also will probably only use this one when I go out.
SO YES, that is what I got. Some of the stuff I couldn’t find links to on their website srrrrrry. Anyways, I’ve only been using (some) of them for the past couple days, but I’ll let you know how they all work long term down the road. I’m like blown away because this isn’t really makeup either. It’s like skin prep?? For actual make up?? Which I also kind of want..??? How many products would I actually have used on my face if I did a full face of makeup??? Idk but I kind of want to find out.
I feel cool after I go to the gym now because after I shower, I have more than just moisturizer and eyeliner to put on eee. Usually in the locker room, all the counter space is filled with girls doing their makeup, and I feel like a potato. BUT NOW, I can be cool. Also, side note, everyone just walks around naked in the locker room. The first day I was like oh okay…….yolo and got super naked and uncomfortable, but NOW I love it. Seriously, walking around naked after you workout is magical. Seriously. Believe me. It is. I go to the gym solely so I can prance around naked afterwards. Ok sorry this is getting weird.
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