Obsessed with Asian/Korean stuff - taking your skincare to level 3!

[FrugalFashionista]

Asian and Korean skincare products are big thing right now. We love them!
Tailor your multistep skincare routine here! (or see this pic)

Some of our favorite products so far...
Biore UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence SPF 50 Sunscreen
Missha Magic Cushion BB Cream #21
Lioele Dollish Veil Vita in Purple
Holika Holika Petit Jelly BB Cream
CosRx Returning A-sol
Scinic Propolis Serum
Mizon Hyaluronic Acid Serum
Missha Time Revolution Night Repair Science Activator Ampoule
Missha Super Aqua Cell Renew Snail products & trial kit
Mizon Snail Repair Cream
Mizon Returning Starfish Cream
Mizon Good Night White Sleep Mask
Innisfree Wine Jelly Sleeping Pack
My Beauty Diary Imperial Birds Nest and Hyaluronic Sheet Masks
Innisfree Trouble Care Sheet Masks
Innisfree Real Squeeze Sheet Masks
Tony Moly Avocado Mask
Nexcare Acne Patches

Our favorite sellers:
UK-based Bits and Bobs of Beauty
EU-based Missha.ee, Missha.de
Korean Innisfree
On eBay f2plus1, sing-sing girl, Iamlove, blueprint21
Orders from outside the EU: £15 or less are VAT free!

Blogs and other resources
Reddit Asian Beauty, Fifty Shades of Snail, Snow White & Asian Pear, Skin & Tonics
more resources here...
Vol 2 of this thread here and Vol 1 of here

Please come and share your questions, experiences, links and best shopping tips!

By the way, niacinamide is a form of Vitamin B3, so maybe taking B vitamins will also help combat oiliness?

Lucysmam I am off out tonight trialling a Dr Ampoule sebum control sample that I received. It can be worn over or under makeup. I have gone for the under option so will let you know if I don't end up an oil slick.

Scrambled, they call them racist on reddit because of the black/white names

Skin & Tonics is back - though I hope it's not going to be just about selling us stuff.

Beauty Wolf is back too, I love her artwork.

It might be no surprise to anyone but I make my own niacinamide serum!

Just catching up with the thread...

Bigbuttons so glad to hear you love the Sulwhasoo eye cream too, I've been using it for about a month now, its amazing stuff, great for hydration with none of the negative effects I've experienced with every other eye cream I've tried. I'm also using a couple of other Sulwhasoo skin products, the Essential Balancing Water and Lotion in particular are lovely and light but (again) very hydrating. I'm pretty sure the smell is ginseng...

The prices of full size products are enough to make your eyes water, but buying samples make them much more affordable

moomin it's gorgeous stuff. I have samples of the ginseng super expensive rejuvenating cream too. One sample lasts me 2-3 days as it's so rich.
These last couple of days alot of people have told me I look REALLY well. One guy at work today kept saying it and giving me a close looking at ( no funny business though!).
I'm sure it's combination of giving my acids wait time and using the sulwhasoo cream

bigbuttons, do you have any diy links for niacinamine serum?

GERTI, the waiting drives me nuts too...I do like getting parcels through the post though.

I made a fiver today fixing up a prom dress with some loose threads and a zipper that was coming loose - thinking about spending it on a couple of essential oils and some more compressed sheet masks. Can't decide which oils though.

Can't be loving my tony moly panda white sleeping mask more.
My skin loves it. Plus the pot is the cutest

May I ask.. The Cosrx A sol is this a pre toner? Is it for lowering the ph of your skin I mean? I'm looking for one to get my skin's ph low enough for my actives to work at their optimum..

50 shades of snail review here Coconut. If you scroll a bit she says it can be used to return your skin to the correct ph but may slightly reduce the penetration of the acids.

Coconut, have a look at this snow white and the pear review - comparison of COSRX and Mizon toners for the step you want (you could just wait though - it's cheaper ).

GERTI my sympathies, I had to wait 25 days for my CosRx stuff and 26 days for my capsule pods. It was good that the CosRx shipment arrived as my Dragon's blood pads aren't here yet although I purchased them a week ago from the UK. Monday is a public holiday in Rome (with late night fireworks!j so nothing will arrive before Tuesday... Except my MIL who will be here Monday night Our last houseguest...

I think the CosRx AHA/BHA toner is meant to be pH adjuster. I use it that way anyway. Not sure that I need it, I tend to integrate the waiting times in my routine anyway.

Today I promise to do some heavy lifting for the move. I will tackle the walk-in closet... I'm not allowed back here before there is some significant progress

scrambled could I ask you where you bought your innisfree samples from please ? I've has a scroll back but must have missed it

Frugal are dragons blood pads from secret key like the essence I was looking at? What do they do?

Good luck with the walk in closet...am of walk-in-ness!

Thanks for the links lucysmum. I'll check them once im home.

Yay! The postie has just been with my (twice) missed parcel - it was my diy mixing bowl/measuring spoons/mask brush/mixing stick set - not bad for all of 99p! Just need something to mix up in it now

oh, and Frugal, I have started a thread about nose.fr if you'd have a look

I think I need to stop trialling so many things at once as my face is a bit sore today. I used an its skin msg get mask the other night and have loads of spots now. Plus it was really sticky even after i patted it in.

I did get another parcel today though! A sleeping mask from étude house that's in a spoon!

Can I ask, why do a lot of the products leave a tacky feeling to the skin? I really don't like it much. I do love my Mizon Aqua cell cream and banila co zero cleansing balm though!

lucy this is there one I make. It's a recipe from the wonderful EDS forum. I do use the Dimethyl Isosorbide but it would work fine without it., this is much easier and quicker to make than the c serum. The glucosamine works very well with the B3 and really ramps up the effectiveness.
You can buy the b3 pretty much anywhere. I got my glucosamine from active formulas and the Dimethyl Isosorbide from ebay.

G & N Serum 1oz/30ml

5 tsp. Distilled water
3 ml Dimethyl Isosorbide(for penetration (10%)
½ tsp. Glucosamine (5%)
¼ tsp. Niacinamide(b3) (2.5%)
1 tsp. Glycerin

Product details

Solubility: water

Suggested percentage:4% to 5% (4% Glucosamine with 2% Niacinamide)
Storage: Cool, dry place. Do not freeze. Keep away from light and moisture!

Hi mulberrybag, I bought the Innisfree Lucky bag mask offer from Innisfreeworld here. I got an offer on the postage costs when I signed up to the website, and some more money off because it was my first purchase, but I really got stung by customs charges. So the 'saving' wasn't worth it at all! However it is a lovely selection of masks and I bought the Super Volcanic Jeju clay mask too.

Next time I would order a selection of masks from eBay sellers, to stay under the £15 limit (and also some sellers mark parcels as 'low value gift' for everything).

Ooh, spoon mask! I love those, they look so cute. Which one did you get, Fallen?

I've been using the homemade 5% Vitamin C serum every morning now, but I'm not sure it's making much difference. Is this the stage where I'm getting my skin used to it, and I'll see more of an effect as I up the percentage?