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K-beauty box with no Korean on it: counterfeit or EU export pack?
A question on r/AsianBeauty: with their usual European shop out of stock, someone bought Illiyoon Ato Cream on Amazon and received packaging they'd never seen, printed in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, wit
0 1Amazon Prime Day: Medicube out-searched the iPad, K-beauty sets records
At Amazon Prime Day (June 23–26), K-beauty set new records again. Highlights APR's Medicube was No. 1 in overall Amazon US search terms, ahead of iPad, Lego and AirPods. Its Zero Pore Pad topped beauty for a second strai
0 0Dry, itchy skin in the family: which body lotion for autumn and winter?
On theqoo's beauty board, a Korean community, someone asked for help for an older parent whose body skin had become very dry and itchy. They wanted something gentle enough for a baby, listed three candidates, and welcome
0 0In an Olive Young haul, the item everyone argued about was a setting spray
On Taiwan's PTT forum (MakeUp board), someone shared an April haul from Olive Young in Korea: Espoir's glow foundation, Clio's snowflake highlighter, So Natural's setting spray, a Too Cool For School aegyo-sal pencil, Ba
0 0Perimenopause dryness plus fragrance allergies: which face creams are left?
On Mumsnet's menopause board, a woman in perimenopause asked for help with a face that had become severely dry. She also has eczema and several contact allergies, fragrance and linalool among them, and said the usual ecz
0 0Breakouts and dryness at the same time in your 40s: which moisturiser?
A Mumsnet user in her mid-40s, going through perimenopause, described a frustrating mix: blackheads and deeper hormonal spots on one side, and skin that was getting drier, sore and more sensitive on the other. She could
0 0Red and itchy when it gets hot: which lotion for sensitive skin?
On Taiwan's PTT forum (BeautySalon board), someone with sensitive combination skin said it easily gets itchy and red in hot, humid weather. They had two affordable candidates in mind, Curél's Intensive Moisture lotion an
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