as a skincare girly who gets so many compliments on my skin, here are some of my fav products that i use and love! i am also a physician associate student, with a love for dermatology, so you know i do my research 😉 some of my favorite brands are CO...
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First of all, I LOVE the texture of this. This is a must-try if you want brighter skin and for your skin to GLOW. It is so moisturizing, and you wake up w the softest skin! My skin gets dry every time I travel, so you already know I don’t travel with...
Water Sleeping Mask Brighten & Hydrate
This lip sleeping mask will make your lips soft and plump! It smells great too, which is a major plus.
Lip Sleeping Mask Nourish & Hydrate
This is a very popular K-beauty essence (and way more affordable than the SK-II essence). It fades dark spots, improves skin texture, has intense hydration, and is anti-aging.
COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence
Very moisturizing! It’s a toner AND moisturizer, so the texture is a slightly thicker liquid, which is nice.
This makes your skin SO SMOOTH and SOFT. If your skin is ever needs a hydration boost, this is definitely one of the go-to products.
Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Ampoule
This is termed “miracle water” for a reason! It improves skin texture, reduces fine lines and wrinkles, and evens out skin tone. It contains a high concentration of PITERA™, a natural bio-ingredient derived from fermentation, which is believed to hel...
SK-II Facial Treatment Essence
This cleanser provides deep hydration and is great for normal/dry skin. Great for those who have a weakened moisture barrier and dryness/dullness.
Innisfree Deep Clean with Green Tea Amino Acid Cleansing Foam
This spray has been one of my favorites for a long time. It boosts hydration and sets makeup for a dewy finish (glowing!)
Mario Bedescu Facial Spray with Aloe, Herbs, Rosewater
This is an amazing moisturizer! Neutrogena Hydro Boost moisturizers have different consistencies for all skin types: water gel for normal to oily skin, gel cream for normal to dry skin, and water cream for normal to extra dry skin. Great for acne-pro...
Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hyaluronic Acid Water Gel Moisturizer
I use a collagen and rose water spray in both my morning and nighttime skincare routines. Collagen helps retain moisture, keeping your skin plump and supple, while rose water's hydrating effects enhance skin hydration for a healthy complexion. Collag...
Advanced Clinicals Collagen + Rosewater Plump + Glow Face Mist
This toner is extremely popular and has won awards year after year. It offers deep hydration, gentle exfoliation, and a light watery texture. It is great for sensitive skin.
Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Toner
This award-winning K-beauty serum is one of my FAVS. It is the one and only special multi-peptide formula complete with multi-functions provided by 6 different peptides for solving diverse skin concerns. It provides skin elasticity and softness, tone and texture improvement, brightening, helps with pigmentation, pore and sebum control, anti-wrinkle, while hydrating and moisturizing the skin as well. Talk about an all-in-one!
COSRX The 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum
This cream makes your skin SO SOFT and bouncy! It's an anti-aging cream that helps with skin lifting, firming, brightening, and prevents pigmentation from blemishes. It's formulated with 20% Black Snail ingredients, Royal Jelly Protein and Black Bee ...
Dr.G - Royal Black Snail Cream
If you’re like me and don’t like greasy moisturizers, this is for you. This non-greasy moisturizer with lightweight texture and lasting 72-hour hydration is clinically demonstrated to hydrate 15 layers deep for softer, smoother, and healthier-looking...
Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream with Squalane
Sunscreen is SO crucial in your morning skincare routine and La Roche-Posay is the top dermatologist recommended brand. This is a *non-greasy* 100% mineral sunscreen for face and body that provides broad spectrum SPF 50 protection. It blends easily o...
La Roche-Posay Mineral Sunscreen & Gentle Lotion
This award-winning K-beauty best seller sunscreen is amazing. Sunscreen is SO crucial in your morning skincare routine, and this one is a must-try. This organic lightweight cream sunscreen has broad-spectrum SPF 50+ PA++++ to fend off UVA and UVB ray...
Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Sunscreen
You need a retinoid cream or serum in your skincare routine if you’re in your 20’s or beyond. This dermatologist recommended retinol serum is one of the best budget retinoids. Containing hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, and three essential ceramides, th...
CeraVe Skin Renewing Retinol Serum
Another dermatologist recommended retinol cream is this anti-wrinkle face cream with retinol and hyaluronic acid to help moisturize & smooth skin.
This K-beauty gel cleanser is a gentle daily cleanser featuring a bouncy jelly texture and is infused with Cherry Blossom Extract and betaine to leave skin feeling fresh, hydrated, and visibly luminous. It is also vegan & cruelty-free, sulfate fr...
Innisfree Cherry Blossom Glow Jam Cleanser
This gentle K-beauty peeling gel is great for eliminating dead skin cells, ensuring a perfectly hydrated peeling experience with the benefits of 8 variants of hyaluronic acid. It enhances skin texture, while being gentle on the skin, which is great f...
Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Peeling Gel
This micellar water is ICONIC. It is an all-in-one makeup removing and cleansing water that effortlessly removes 99% of makeup and dirt from face and eyes to gently and deeply cleanse the skin. It soothes the skin and reduces discomfort, so this is i...
Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water Face Cleanser for Sensitive Skin
You NEED a Vitamin C serum in your morning skincare routine. This K-beauty Vitamin C + Super Vitamin E + Hyaluronic Acid serum is a highly concentrated serum that fades acne scars and brightens the complexion to revitalize dull and dry skin. It also ...
COSRX The Vitamin C 23 Serum with Super Vitamin E + Hyaluronic Acid
If you have dry skin, this is for you. This moisturizer is clinically shown to reduce dry, rough skin and provide 48 hour hydration. It contains La Roche-Posay Prebiotic Thermal Water, Ceramide-3, Shea Butter, Glycerin, and Niacinamide. Its triple ac...
La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Body Cream for Dry Skin
There’s a reason Salmon DNA PDRN went viral. This mask contains Salmon PDRN and hydrolyzed collagen to help boost elasticity and smooth fine lines, and niacinamide to even out complexion, reduce pore appearance, and enhance glow. And it’s pink?!
medicube PDRN Pink Collagen Gel Mask
This is a cleanser that my dermatologist recommended for all skin types with no scent or irritants. I have used this for years, and I can attest that this is great, even for sensitive skin.
CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser
This toner helps improves hydration and moisture barrier. It balances/controls oil and water of skin, so this is great for all skin types! Helps make makeup last longer and keeps your skin GLOWING!
Glamfox Rice Niacinamide Toner
Collagen is amazing for anti-aging, and this K-beauty fav is packed with it so you can have firmer, plumper skin. It also brightens and evens out skin tone and texture. And a bonus: reduces fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging - which is inevitable, but...
SUNGBOON EDITOR Deep Collagen Retinol Power Boosting Spicule Capsule Cream
A more affordable - & TikTok viral - alternative is this global best-selling collagen cream. Medicube is another extremely popular K-beauty brand for a reason. This cream will make you have that “glass skin” effect - need I say more?
medicube Collagen Niacinamide Jelly Cream
Peach & Lily is one of the brands that I think of when I say Korean glass skin. This viral collagen mask has sooo many amazing ingredients that plump, hydrate, and smooth your skin.
Peach & Lily Korean Glass Skin Collagen Ginseng Face Mask
This ICONIC, best-selling serum is a must-have for glass skin. Containing peach extract, niacinamide, East Asian mountain yam, and peptides, this serum calms, brightens, plumps, and protects skin. Your skin will feel hydrated, healthy, and GLOW like ...
Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum
This lightweight, deeply moisturizing cream contains matcha, which is rich in antioxidants. It also contains niacinamide, cape lilac, and adenosine, which will brighten, firm, and hydrate to prevent visible signs of aging, while helping to protect sk...
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Peach & Lily Korean Glass Skin Discovery Kit
This full skincare routine kit with four ICONIC products is a must-have for calm, smooth, hydrated, and radiant glass skin. Your skin will look clear, smooth, and luminous. Thank me later ;)
Peach & Lily Glass Skin Routine Kit (Full Size)
Acne-Prone Skin
Along with the products above, these are products I specifically recommend for acne-prone skin (I, myself, have acne-prone skin).
Benzoyl Peroxide spot treatment cream is THE ABSOLUTE BEST when it comes to spot treating acne. It works (almost) miracles. It reduces acne size and redness overnight or throughout the day. This is a must-buy imo.
Differin 10% Benzoyl Peroxide Spot Treatment
Have acne scars (or any other scars in general)? This scar gel is the #1 recommended by doctors (recommended to me by my dermatologist)! It locks in moisture, promotes collagen production, cell renewal, and is clinically shown to visibly reduce appea...
Mederma Advanced Scar Gel
Rose water is a great addition to any skincare regimen, and this one doubles as a toner. Your skin gets all of the refreshing dew of rose water and aloe vera, while witch hazel works to soothe and reduce inflammation! It’s alcohol-free as well, so it...
Thayers Natural Remedies Witch Hazel with Rose Petal - Alcohol Free Toner
This formula containing volcanic clusters and salicylic acid lightly exfoliates, clears pores, and absorbs excess oils. It is not a scrub, so it can be used every morning and night.
Innisfree Volcanic BHA Pore Cleansing Foam
These acne patches are a LIFE SAVER. I have tried soo many different brands, but these consistently outshine them. Just put one on at night and leave on for 6 hours. Use my code “BRITNEY1” for a discount at checkout! Thank me later 😉
COSRX - Acne Pimple Master Patch
If you have cystic acne or acne in general - this is an absolute LIFESAVER. The microdarts help diminish and calm early-stage or below-the-surface deep zits. It contains 0.4% salicylic acid, tea tree oil, and willow bark extract to help clarify skin,...
Peach Slices Deep Blemish Microdarts Acne/Pimple Patches
Combo/oily skin girlies - thank me later. This wash-off, cooling clay mask with Volcanic Clusters and AHA and helps control excess sebum and visibly minimize pores while providing skin-smoothing exfoliation to improve texture without stripping your s...
Innisfree Super Volcanic Pore Clay Mask
This best-selling cleanser is basically a green juice cleanse for your face. It contains superfood antioxidants like kale, spinach, and green tea to effectively prevent buildup in pores, remove makeup, and balance pH without drying or stripping. AMAZ...
Youth To The People Kale + Spinach Superfood Face Cleanser
This combats inflammation and unclogs pores. Great for irritated or sensitive acne-prone skin.
This award-winding, iconic, global best selling salicylic acid toner is clinically proven to exfoliate, boost cell turnover, visibly reduces and quickly unclogs pores, controls oil, and support skin’s barrier for clear, glowing skin. It contains BHA ...