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This weeks TL;DR is a lonely just Martina TL;DR
because somebody here [S] Boring! [M] didn't want to talk about Korean beauty product stuff with me
[S] Boring. [M] So rude.
So yes today I'm talking about Korean beauty products and how confusing their labels can be
So for some of you that may have ordered Korean beauty products online or if you're living in Korea it can
be a little bit confusing sometimes when you try to buy something and it says something like,
'Emulsion with whitening and pore tightening.' and you're like, 'What's emulsion and what's the difference between a pack and a sheet?
I wanna talk about those things today.
Let's start off in the hair world shall we?
Okay, got my shampoo, okay that's weird they don't have any conditioner here.
Turns out rinse is conditioner
So if you're looking for conditioner in Korea don't be surprised when it says, rinse
literally means conditioner.
In the realm of Korean hair beauty
if you want to get a perm done in a Korean hair salon,
You might be thinking of perms as like a really old fashioned thing that only like grandmas do but
Korea and Japan have that kind of technology down pat.
A long time ago I wound up getting a magic perm done, and a magic perm is when you have your hair pin straight.
It took me like 3-4 hours at the hair salon and I didn't know what I was getting into, but my hair was like, Cleopatra level completely straight
is that right? Did Cleopatra have straight hair?
Was her hair in like braids? Perhaps that was a bad example.
Okay, I had like Lady Gaga pin straight hair and it stayed like that for like six months
Later on I dallied in the world of digital hair perms
and digital hair is when you have those kind of spirals, not like the really really tight ones, and
there's different levels as well, there's like ones that are like volumizing, there's C curls, there's like S curls, and those ones might be like a wave vs round vs mermaidy hair.
So all these different terms will have a different perm but all of them will cost you a minimum of $100 and up.
Some can cost like 500 and if your hair is bleached or damaged in any way they will refuse to do it and rightly so because I heard your hair can break right off
So I have been devastated because I wanted to do these big mermaid curls for so long
Every hair salon was like, 'We're not doing it Martina, it's gonna ruin your hair.'
One day
So there are a couple things for your skin that you can kinda figure out on your own, like
for example if you want to remove your makeup you might be using lip and eye remover. Which I'm sure you can figure out means makeup remover
but you wouldn't exactly say that it's eye and lip remover cause you're like,
'Ahh, My eyes are gone!'
There's also a difference between remover and cleansing oil
I thought these were the same things just disguised in a different way but
cleansing oil is something you actually put on in advance before you actually use soap on your face
So you like put water on your face, pump out this cleansing oil and you use it to remove your makeup
and it's supposed to be that the water and the oil mix together so it's not like sinking oil into your skin
and then after you do that you rinse it off. Then you use the cleanser to actually wash your face, and after that you can still use a makeup remover
or should I say an eye and lip remover? and that will be like the final way to get rid of your makeup.
but oh no, you're not done yet
Now we have to get into the world of
Toner, essence, emulsion, cream, lotion, sebum
yes some people do that many things when they're cleansing their face
to begin with toner is actually I think the correct phrase in a lot of countries, and I don't know what it's for
No matter how many times people explain to me that it's some kind of pH stuff but, whatever I use it whenever I get it for free
but this one is confusing. I've been getting a lot of free samples that say emulsion of essence
You actually put it on in the typical commercials, you know the ones
mmm, just applying my essence.
I feel like there's a good quote here that I'm forgetting.
'Man is water, water is the essence of man.'
Isn't there like a merman joke in here?
After your emulsion or your essence you have a couple of options regarding different kinds of serums.
So is you have like, oily skin, or you have like blackheads and stuff like that
there are different kinds of products you can apply before your final lotion
So i literally don't even know how to say this word, I had to google it to figure out what it was
Its either 'sea-bum' or 'seh-bum' which I think should be like a member of a Kpop band
You'd be like, 'C-bum!' It has a great feel to it, it's like Ki-bum's best friend.
It's Ki-bum right?
Rose, fact check. Ki-bum right?
Ki-bum bffs with C-bum.
Anyways sebum, or however you say that, I looked it up online to figure it out
Is actually the oily waxy stuff that comes up on your nose or comes up from your hair
and supposedly it's supposed to help waterproof you.
but we're all like, 'Eww, we're glossy and shiny, need to get rid of that,'
and we like powder it immediately. So there are some products that you can buy that will say like sebum control
and it's supposed to help you with the oil and that situation.
So that can cause people to have some really bad acne.
I like how I'm leading into like a dermatologist talk, is that right? Dermatologist.
Anyways that's sebum. Now there's lotion and there's cream
Well essentially cream usually comes in a jar and is a lot more expensive
and it tends to be more like a night cream, it's not something you would put on and the put makeup on top of.
It would be a little bit too oily and too intense. So if you have oily skin and you use a night cream it might cause you total chaos.
For me I like to use Korean creams in the winter time because I tend to get super dry skin
but I can't use it in the summer time or my BB cream and everything just melts off my face.
So lotion is more of the light stuff.
If you tend to get free samples they usually give you like three little things
and it'll be like, toner, essence, lotion, and I never know which one to use. So now I know
it's first toner, then essence, then the lotion.
and if they give you a cream it's gonna be something you want to put on at nighttime.
Now there are a couple of other terms that are confusing like, peel and whitening and brightening, dewy finish
mask sheet vs the pack, 'Here, take this, it's the Pearl Aura Brightening Cream Pack.'
I don't know what you're trying to say to me!
I'm gonna talk more about it in the blog post, so make sure you click the link here and I will give you the whole breakdown
of what order of operation you should be doing with all your stuff.
Also, my question for you today is;
Do you have and eight step makeup removing routine or face washing routine?
I mean I know not every country is as into the whole cleansing process as Korea is, but Korean people have amazing skin so
maybe they are right with what they are doing. I think it comes down to sunblock
I think if you wear sunblock, or you avoid the sun, you're gonna look great. Let me know in the comment section below,
and let me know if anything in your country has strange names that you don't quite understand either.
Now it you'll excuse me I'm gonna go remove my eyes and lips.