u/yaraniyoon

I’m a Southeast Asian living in both Asia and Australia. I wasn’t really into skincare until at the end of high school year. But with hormones, stress, aging etc, I started having acne and other skin issues. Not until 2016 that Kbeauty started to be really big in my country in Asia. And with cheaper price, somewhat natural and fairly safe ingredients. I was excited to finally build a skincare routine with them. Well… my skin has been really stagnant afterwards. No real changes for the better or the worse. Hormonal acne occasionally, not exactly bright or dewy but not extremely dull either.

I continue using it for a year even after moving to Australia. But the price difference of the Korean skincare compared to the ones in my country made me feel that I might as well try different ones. I changed my entire routine, and a much simpler one as well. I used a mix of French skincare and Japanese. My skin is SO MUCH BETTER. Moisturized, so much less dullness, soft, and just overall really healthy looking even without makeup.

The raise of social media and influencer made me believe of these fear mongering over the lack of safety ingredients in western skincare and Japanese ones (because they barely reformulated to mold into the modern skincare trend). Every time I wanna buy a skincare I overthink the ingredients list, thinking this, that, will irritate me etc. But I should put into consideration that the entire formulation changed the outcome for one single ingredient that people claimed to be ‘bad’. This sounds weird, but I’m glad of letting go Korean skincare almost completely. The over saturated market, viral products and fast changing trend of Kbeauty really starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I’m a Southeast Asian living in both Asia and Australia. I wasn’t really into skincare until at the end of high school year. But with hormones, stress, aging etc, I started having acne and other skin issues. Not until 2016 that Kbeauty started to be really big in my country in Asia. And with cheaper price, somewhat natural and fairly safe ingredients. I was excited to finally build a skincare routine with them. Well… my skin has been really stagnant afterwards. No real changes for the better or the worse. Hormonal acne occasionally, not exactly bright or dewy but not extremely dull either.

I continue using it for a year even after moving to Australia. But the price difference of the Korean skincare compared to the ones in my country made me feel that I might as well try different ones. I changed my entire routine, and a much simpler one as well. I used a mix of French skincare and Japanese. My skin is SO MUCH BETTER. Moisturized, so much less dullness, soft, and just overall really healthy looking even without makeup.

The raise of social media and influencer made me believe of these fear mongering over the lack of safety ingredients in western skincare and Japanese ones (because they barely reformulated to mold into the modern skincare trend). Every time I wanna buy a skincare I overthink the ingredients list, thinking this, that, will irritate me etc. But I should put into consideration that the entire formulation changed the outcome for one single ingredient that people claimed to be ‘bad’. This sounds weird, but I’m glad of letting go Korean skincare almost completely. The over saturated market, viral products and fast changing trend of Kbeauty really starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth.