Here are some tips. I’ve been noticing more and more in these discussions that when asking for product recommendations, people are not sharing very much. If you are looking for product recommendations, please share the following: 

- what your skin type is 
- what skin concerns you have
- what you are looking for in a product (price range, ingredients, hydration, exfoliation, well-aging, etc)
- what products/ingredients did not work out for you
- what your current skincare routine is 
- what region of the world you are in (some brands may not be easily accessible to you)

Skincare is very subjective and there is no way to recommend products if we don’t know anything about your skin. It helps us out in the community if you are specific in your needs so that we may try to help recommend appropriate skincare products.

When asking for recommendations…

I’ve noticed this alot while reading reviews on this app, but it seems like alot of people do not know how to properly use korean cleansers (particularly  cleansers that foam up). If the cleanser isn’t foaming up as you would expect, you’re probably using it the wrong way.

The key is to take a bit of the product in your (clean) hands, add water, lather it up in your hands, then apply it to the face. I’ve seen people just apply the cleanser straight to the face and wonder why it doesn’t foam up, or doesn’t foam up enough. 

So just a tip: lather the cleanser in your hands first, then apply to the face.

How to use korean cleansers

Is it just me? I find that when I’m interested in a product and am looking for reviews here, an overwhelmingly majority of them just restate what the product description already states and not actually an experience of using the product. This is especially common with the gifted product reviews, it’s just a bunch of bs reviews. It’s wild that the app highlights those reviews as well. Makes me question if the algorithm or picky staff teams are even reading these reviews and are only choosing them for the quantity.

Disappointed in the quality of reviews

Like the title says. A theme that I have seen pop up in reviews is the idea that a product is bad if it made you have a reaction or didn’t work out the way you expected. Or that a product that is super viral didn’t have the desired effects and now it’s considered “overhyped.” 

Skincare is so subjective, and merely labeling products as “bad” or “overhyped” just because it did not agree with your skin type/concern contributes to misinformation and fearmongering. Not everyone is going to react the same way with a product. 

If a product didn’t work out for you, take note of the ingredients or type of formulation and move on.

Just because a product did not work out for you, doesn’t mean it’s bad

Just curious, if you’ve already done a review for a product or have gotten a repeat product through a giveaway, do you just write another review for it? I try to stay away from giveaways that I have already written a review for, so I am wondering what other folks are doing.

Repeat Giveaways

May need a more heavy duty cleanser if wearing sunscreen and makeup.

A nice, lightweight milk cleanser that does not leave the skin feeling dry or irritated.

As for application, the primer was extremely sticky and patchy. It felt like I was spreading jelly on my face. Application was uneven and enhanced my skin texture to the maximum. The finish though? It was alright once I rubbed it enough onto my skin. Unfortunately the product just sat on my skin and never really absorbed. 

I wondered if the primer didn’t absorb due to my skincare routine, so I used less products in future applications but that didn’t seem to change anything. I used a variety of foundations to test the primer: liquid, cushion, and powder. The primer worked best with the cushion foundation but not by much. All three foundations were split/patchy within a few hours. 

Overall thoughts: I am not sure why this product is so popular. The fragrance is sickeningly strong and feels like putting honey on the face. It left my face feeling extra oily and broke up all my foundations. I can’t believe I used it for three weeks. I rate this product 1/5.

I purchased this product and was excited to use it because I had heard good things about it. Not to mention it was pretty cheap. I had been looking for a dewy or glowy primer to wear in the winter and thought I’d try this one out.

This primer boasts a pearlescent glow with a hydrating effect due to the peach and lychee extracts. The limnanthes alba seed oil forms a moisture barrier on the skin to keep the oil-water levels balanced. The primer also claims to help to make makeup last longer.

Thoughts about the product: I used this product for about 3 weeks before ultimately throwing it out. Upon opening the product, I was hit with an overwhelming scent of excruciatingly sweet and artificial peach. That should have been my first red flag. I can handle fragrance, but this was on the same level as someone bathing in cheap perfume.



This product doesn’t provide any hydration and the pads itself were small. 

These toner pads are great for soothing the skin. I don’t use it for anything else though, so don’t expect anything else. 

The fragrance isn’t my favorite but it’s tolerable.

This serum is one of my new favorites. At first I didn’t notice anything after using it for about a month. However I received compliments on my skin and knew it had to be this product because it was the only new product I had been using. Alot of my skin texture had been reduced.

These pads are marketed towards pore care but honestly I didn’t see a difference. I used up two containers of these pads and nothing. 

The pads themselves were juiced up with toner with is great. I’ve used toner pads that almost seemed dry or were just barely damp. Though the product is targeted towards exfoliation, it was actually pretty hydrating.

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