Cult Beauty Guide: Is the future Korean Skin Care?
Korean’s are at the very top of their beauty game with a daily beauty routine consisting of a hell of a lot more steps than ours and here's some of their nifty little tricks to have the flawless skin of a 20-something supermodel even when your not.
Sheet Masks
More than just a chic way to up your Insta game.
These genius treatments are packed full of skin boosting ingredients, in a serum form to give you a superstar glow.
These masks are seriously on trend and can now be purchased for a broad spectrum of skin types. Think serious hydration and go-getting glow boosters, combined with skin tightening, wrinkle reducing potions.
Kimchi for your face?
Well not exactly but…All that fermentation that is good for your gut, we asked the question, so is it still the case for your face? Yes. Good bacteria has resulted in the skin care ingredients becoming smaller molecules, and just like a serum is better than a cream through super quick absorption due to the finer texture, this has the added benefit of helping those nasty toxins and bad bacteria out of the way.
If your still not completely sold you can look for a ‘starter’ cream with only a couple of added ingredients.
Essences
South Korean origin but don't be deceived by the name in thinking this is going to be like an typical fragrance lingo ‘essence’.
Highly active, high concentrated recipes containing multiple ingredients that actually work wonders for your face. These are the active ingredients like hyaluronic and Salicylic acid, (monohydroxybenzoic)mostly used as a drying ingredient in acne treatment, you see plastered over every other box in the beauty store isle, claiming to have large quantities of the ‘magic formula’ that's the game changer for 2017. Heads up these creams, lotions and potions don't actually contain much of the ingredient, its packaging uses as its Unique Selling Point that's USP to you non-marketing gurus.
Ampoules
Ooh time to get your geek on… this is a scientific one! Basically very highly concentrated serums. These are a boost treatment with a price tag to match is some cases but that's not to say you should be put off because just as a monthly facial extraction works wonders, these little beauties will re-new the skin surface and can be suited to your skin types and needs, dry, sensitive, oily, or combination. Think of them as a facial prescription. Now that's just what the doctor ordered!
