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Skip-care: is the Korean routine getting shorter?
For years the "10-step routine" was the image of Korean skincare. Lately beauty press keeps pointing to the opposite idea: skip-care, cutting a routine down to the steps that actually do something. What skip-care usually
0 0First skin treatment in Seoul, no Korean: how do you avoid the big upsell?
Someone on the Tripadvisor Seoul forum was flying in for a wedding and wanted a "glass facial" for the first time. They don't speak Korean and had found very mixed Google reviews for med spas, so they asked who had actua
0 1Are Korean creams still worth it in Thailand's heat and humidity?
On Pantip, Thailand's biggest forum, someone in their 40s asked whether Korean creams are still popular in Thailand and which ones to try for wrinkles. They remembered hearing years ago that Korean creams were good and w
0 1Did K-beauty actually change your skin, or was it just more of the same?
Someone on r/AskArgentina asked a simple question: who has really seen Korean skincare work? They'd noticed wildly different results (some people's texture and hydration improved, others saw nothing) and wanted to know w
0 0Is Korean skincare really better? An old thread says "it depends"
On Mobile01's women's forum in Taiwan, a discussion started in late 2020: the poster said their friends used to buy Western department-store brands such as Estée Lauder and Lancôme, but in recent years had found Korean s
0 0Six weeks before the wedding: should you skip a first-ever skin treatment?
On theqoo's beauty board, someone six weeks out from their wedding was thinking about getting Rejuran (an injectable made from salmon-derived DNA fragments, popular in Korea) about three weeks before the day. Searching t
0 1Korean "glass skin": is it clinic treatments or the climate?
On Dcard's girls' board in Taiwan, someone asked about the Korean influencers they follow: in photos their pores are barely visible and their faces glow, while the poster's own mirror shows pores, nasolabial lines and ma
0 0Starting skincare late with oily, breakout-prone skin: r/indonesia's advice
On r/indonesia, a man said he'd put off skincare for years, until a reunion where an older friend looked exactly the same as eight years earlier. His face gets oily and he sometimes gets deep, painful spots on the chin.
0 1How to check if a Korean clinic is registered to treat foreign patients
When picking a dermatology clinic in Korea, it's easy to go by social media reviews or an agency's say-so. There's one official check you can add: whether the clinic is registered to attract foreign patients. What is it?
0 0In your 60s and want a skin analysis and facial in Seoul, not procedures?
A traveller in their 60s posted on the Tripadvisor Seoul forum. They'd be in Seoul for a few days and felt overwhelmed: most clinics they found seemed built around fairly invasive procedures. What they wanted was a skin
0 1The VAT refund on cosmetic procedures for tourists has ended (for now)
If you're planning a skin treatment in Korea, here's a change to know. The special rule that refunded VAT to foreign tourists on cosmetic and dermatology procedures has ended, and a bill to bring it back until 31 Decembe
0 0Tiny white bumps that will not budge: how do people deal with milia?
A Mumsnet user asked about getting milia removed. Clinics near her were quoting £85 and up, and she wondered whether salons still deal with them during a facial, as they did twenty years ago. There were 18 replies, with
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