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Princess packaging, witch concepts, fruit tubes: miss "old K-beauty"?
A nostalgic post in r/AsianBeauty from a Korean user who grew up with these brands. They miss the K-beauty of around 2012–2013: Skinfood's fruit-shaped hand creams and food theme, cupcake lip balms, Etude's princess look
0 1Olive Young Hongdae Town: what's on each floor and what you can actually try
Olive Young Hongdae Town opened on April 26, 2024 at the entrance to Hongdae's "Walking Street," built as an experience-first store rather than a plain shelf-and-checkout shop. At three floors and roughly 991 square mete
0 0AK& Hongdae: a floor-by-floor guide to Seoul's youth mall by Hongik University
AK& Hongdae is the five-floor mall right at Exit 4 of Hongik University Station, the same corner K-pop fans, streetwear shoppers and late-night Hongdae crowds have used as a meeting point for years. Unlike the standalone
0 0Hongdae's photo booth street: how to work a strip of Life4cuts, Photoism and the rest
Hongdae stopped being just a shopping-and-clubbing neighbourhood a while ago. Around the alleys near Exit 9 of Hongik University Station, the last couple of years have packed in a dense run of self-photo studios — Life4c
0 0Only one beauty stop in Seoul: Daiso or Olive Young?
There's a debate that keeps popping up on travel forums lately: "If you only had time for one, Daiso or Olive Young?" Here's how the two sides line up: Team Daiso Low prices, so you can grab lots without thinking twice S
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0 0Wearing orthotics in Korea: where do you actually have to take your shoes off?
A traveller who needs orthotics in their trainers asked on the Tripadvisor Seoul forum: where do you have to take shoes off, just the odd temple or every palace too? And would fabric overshoes worn over trainers be accep
0 0Seoul Through the Lens of Hollywood Stars
The second installment of the sci-fi series Dune, Dune: Part Two, recently premiered in Korea and quickly became a major hit. With the film’s release, the Dune cast also came to Korea and drew considerable attention. Tim
0 0Olive Young Gangnam Town: shopping the big-format store near Gangnam Station
If the only Olive Young flagships you know are Myeongdong or Seongsu, you might miss that Gangnam-daero has its own large-format branch: Olive Young Gangnam Town, at 429 Gangnam-daero, Seocho-gu, within the Gangnam Stati
0 0A Lip Balm That Feels Cool and Tingly When You Apply It—Is That Always a Good Thing? Lips That Don’t Agree with Menthol Lip Balm
There are lip balms that make your lips feel tingly as soon as you apply them. They feel cool, like they’re doing something right away. So a lot of people deliberately look for lip balms with a cooling sensation. But tha
0 0Olive Young order under NT$2,000 but declared higher? Taiwan import tax
On Dcard's makeup board in Taiwan, someone placed an Olive Young Global order during a big sale and kept it just under NT$2,000 to get free shipping. But the declared value shown in the customs app (EZ WAY) came out abov
0 0How to Choose a Highly Moisturizing Lip Balm: Check Just Three Things in the Ingredients List
When you stand in front of the lip balm section, they all say “highly moisturizing” or “hydrating.” It’s hard to tell the difference from the claims on the packaging. In that case, turn the box over and check the ingredi
0 0Keratosis pilaris: tried almost everything, still bumpy — what actually helps?
On Mumsnet's Style & Beauty board, a poster who has had keratosis pilaris (the rough, red 'chicken skin' bumps) on her arms and legs all her life said she was fed up. She listed what she had already been through: urea cr
0 1Why Does Cheilitis Occur? Why Your Lips Keep Getting Chapped and Cracked, and How to Care for Them
If your lips crack every winter and still sting for days even after applying lip balm, you may have searched for the term “cheilitis” at least once. The name is complicated, but the meaning is simple. It’s a general term
0 0Propolis and honey in K-beauty: the "bee" ingredients explained
Amber-colored "propolis" toners and ampoules have been K-beauty staples for years, and they keep showing up in haul videos. Here's what the bee-derived ingredients are. Propolis extract A resin bees make from plant mater
0 0Seoul and Busan in one trip: how many days would you give each?
“Is Busan worth adding?” is one of the most common planning questions for a first Korea trip, followed straight away by how to split the days. What people usually weigh Travel time: the KTX makes it a comfortable train r
0 0Do you actually finish your cosmetics?
On 82cook's free board, a parent wrote that one look at their grown children's rooms explained why Olive Young makes so much money. The kids buy almost all their cosmetics there, yet the parent has never seen them finish
0 0Aftercare following laser toning: what do people actually do?
Laser toning comes up a lot in Korea for dark spots and melasma, and visitors are curious too. But the question communities ask most isn't about the procedure. It's "What should I do afterward?" Commonly shared basics Fo
0 0Visiting grandma for the holidays: makeup or bare face?
Around Chuseok, Korea's autumn harvest holiday, someone on theqoo's beauty board asked a simple question: when you visit your grandmother or relatives, do you go bare-faced or put on at least a little makeup? It was a th
0 0Damaged skin barrier: what should you switch your cleanser to?
A question on the beauty board of theqoo, a big Korean online community: the poster usually wears a mineral sunscreen plus cushion, removes it with micellar water and then washes with a slightly alkaline foam cleanser. L
0 1Parents hate white cast? Lotion-like sunscreens Korean forum users suggest
On the Korean forum theqoo's beauty board, someone asked for recommendations because their mother wanted a sunscreen that spreads like lotion instead of turning her face white (April 2025). It was a one-line question, bu
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