Obsessed with Asian/Korean stuff - taking your skincare to level 4!

[FrugalFashionista]

Asian and Korean skincare products are a big thing right now. We love them!

Tailor your routine here!
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
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
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

Orders from outside the EU: £15 or less are VAT free!

Best blogs and other resources
Reddit Asian Beauty
Fifty Shades of Snail
Snow White & Asian Pear
Skin & Tonics
more resources here...

Vol 3 of this thread here, Vol 2 of here and Vol 1 here

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

Some sellers stop shipping to a certain country if a parcel is reported missing - Italy is often blacklisted because the customs process is unpredictable and super lengthy.

LadyErrant, they stopped shipping here (and maybe the US as well but I can't remember) a couple of months ago.

What are you looking for? Maybe one of us has bought the same product and could recommend a seller

jackie, I haven't forgotten - I'll put links up when I finally sit myself down!

Ah I see, I thought for a minute I was on the wrong page.

I was just browsing really and googling reviews of products as they're so cute and reasonably priced I have to order some I might try beautynetkorea which has been mentioned, are there any other big ones I should be obsessing over looking at?

jolse_cosmetics on ebay - good samples & usually free shipping. Mark all parcels as $7 value regardless of what they are.

rubyruby76 - reasonably priced as well, no samples if you order through ebay though & they are part of the fun. Usually free shipping.

I've not had any troubles with BNK but know a couple of others have waited a long time for delivery. They usually chuck in a couple of samples as well.

Testerkorea is another to have a look at LadyErrant. They had an offer the other day for new customers spending over 30000won, lots of samples. It wasn't hard to spend over 30000won

Not sure how long delivery will be as mine is still stuck at 'standby'. I keep refreshing the page and if it doesn't change quick I may not be able to resist the etude cushion on amazon that was mentioned earlier

Right, finally sat in one place!

jackie this is a review of COSRX's three bha products from Monday - very useful I thought. The blackhead one is the 'proper' bha treatment for blackheads/sebaceous filaments. The a-sol is a spot treatment, I've tried samples and was very impressed with it. Haven't tried or looked into the other one much.

50 shades of snail review of cosrx aha - for whiteheads/closed comedones. I have this one & have found it has helped even out my skin's texture over the past few weeks. It does have a funny smell all of it's own but that dissipates quickly so you don't smell it at all.

A glowing review of 8% aha peeling serum here from a reddit regular. This is the one currently hard to get hold of though. There was a thread about it on reddit earlier saying that it was being re-formulated.

There are non AB options but I have no idea about any of those, sorry! I think Bigbuttons was using a Bravura aha toner & there's a Paula's Choice one as well but that's more expensive.

Hth a bit - if you search Reddit AB for aha/bha, loads and loads of stuff comes up to have a mooch through

Blueprint21 on eBay.

Jolse's eBay store is iamlove-shop. I've had better service from the eBay store than I have from the Jolse site .

F2plus1 on ebay.

Um. Yeah. I like eBay...

I didn't know iamlove-shop was jolse! I thought they were two separate entities Learn something new every day.

So, we have a completion date but no exchange date yet. I've got chronic insomnia, probably due to the stress. And I'm frantically googling k-beauty products and blogs about them, but can't buy anything I want because I don't know where I'll be living in 2 weeks time .

Our current home has also never looked better. Bloody decluttering, making you appreciate what you already have .

That'd frustrate me Scrambled! Allll the pretties and no buying until you have an address for them to go to

What are you fancying?

I've done really well on my no buy and my parcels are nearly all caught up with me Couple of weeks and I will re-order some now essential bits and some new as well. I'm going to pick up a few sheet masks in town tomorrow from Savers though for the weekend.

Have finished my cheap tea tree serum this evening. I honestly don't think it does a thing for me so will not re-purchase that one & will instead try the Tosowoong Tea Tree Essence in my next haul.

Apart from the recurring cystic one, the majority of my hormonal break out are now just red marks along my jawline.

Do any of you use one of the green correctors & could direct me towards what to try to cover them? I don't have long in town tomorrow before coming back to pick up cakes to the reception venue. I do have the Etude House sample but am thinking a full size something would be useful for future breakouts.

Lucysmam I'm so glad you got the sleeping pack . The cards are from TK maxx - you get about 50 different coloured ones plus envelopes for about £6!

lucysmam what I really, really want is a cushion case so I can mix up my perfect base. I do like the one I have and don't want to repurpose the case but it wears off a bit oddly and I sometimes forget to reapply it.

So when I finally move in I'm going to buy an empty cushion case and make up my perfect long-lasting cushion foundation. Which will consist mostly of No7 Stay Perfect Superlight Foundation in Cool Vanilla with a dollop of Calico, plus a couple of highlighters and maybe, just maybe, a pinhead's worth of Clinique yellow makeup primer. Hopefully it will work!

Does anyone think the No7 foundation will be too liquid for this to work, btw? It's just an idea right now, I haven't bought the case (I have the other stuff).

Ooh, shiny. And cheap! Well, cheaper than the Missha one anyway.

Thanks Wombat, a trip out to TK Maxx is on the cards in that case!

Scrambled, what cushion do you have at the mo? I think I'm going to try the Etude House Precious Mineral one as a first and then possibly look at diy-ing using the Holika Holika bb cream I have been using.

I have the Laneige BB pore control cushion. It's one of the less dewy k-beauty ones, some of the others take the dewy look to the extreme.

I've been debating the Etude House one but I've got a couple of their products in sample format and have found I didn't like the scent of their BBs (am very sensitive to smells, certain scents trigger migraine). But since it's mineral I presume it won't have the same fragrance?

Does look good, I'm looking forward to your review when you get it!

I haven't had any samples of their bb creams - what do they smell like?

I actually don't mind scents really, nothing seems to massively irritate me or gives me headaches or anything.

Thanks, can't wait to have a browse of all those shops tomorrow

My overwhelming impression was sweet. Far too sweet!

I have an unopened tube of Mizon Snail Recovery Gel. Free to a good home.

PM me if you want it (will throw in a load of samples).

I have been trying to post a picture on the mobile site but it won't let me

I found lip patches in Poundworld this morning on my mad dash into town. Thought it'd be fun to try but maybe not tonight or tomorrow. Although it would amuse dp and the girls

Scrambled if no one else wants the snail gel could I have it please? Happy to do a swap if there is anything in particular you are looking for?

I started looking at cushion cases on eBay after following your link. Have you seen the special edition ones from Etude House they look really pretty but I think I'm too old for them!

There seem to be quite a few special edition cushions about (Garfield apieu, Betty Boop missha) and I guess the special editions make the cushions even more addictive!

Thank you Lucysmum for the links , yesterday I received the snail cream ( tiny pots ) goes as face moisturiser that you recommended . Must say I love love love it luckily I ordered 2 as it was only 2.28 £ , my acne has flared up so trying to figure out what causes it ????????

Of course mogz! PM me your address and I'll stick it in the post as soon as I can. I'm crazy-busy with house moving at the moment though so you may find that I'm about as quick as sending from Korea, I'm afraid .

And for the same reason, thank you very much for your offer of sending me something in return but can I put it on hold? We're at the 'anything could happen' stage and I don't want to jinx it!

I do love cushion cases. My favourite is the Hera UV Ultra Moisture one because of the holographic colours, but some of the ones with designs, e.g. Too Cool for School, are just amazing.

How have I missed lip masks! I have just googled them and also found a peel off lip stain that doesn't shift for 12 hours I need this as I always either forget to take my lipstick out with me or don't bother to reapply it. I wonder if they do a peel off bb mask that stays put for 12 hours im so lazy

I'm on the hunt for the lip stains now and came across some face masks with a difference berrisom horror masks may be suitable to use during October once small children are safely tucked up in bed!