By the time this gets published, I will be 39,000 feet up in the air, hoping to dear God I don’t catch a cold for the third time in six weeks.
One thing I’ve noticed since I started writing about makeup and skincare is the move toward real beauty.
It’s the age of reinvention. Case in point: Taylor Swift returns with a choppy chant track, a curly mane and a foolproof smoky eye.
My skin gets bored easily, and it shows. One day, it responds glowingly—I mean it literally—to my Missha The First Treatment Essence Intensive Moist. The next, my skin refuses to light up from the niacinamide, and instead craves for new products to try.
I was 12 when I nagged my mom to get my hair curled at the salon for the first time. I was hoping that in three hours, I’d walk out looking like Vanessa Hudgens in “High School Musical.”
I’m the biggest scaredy-cat you’ll ever meet. But ask me to try a product or a beauty service that my pocket and time can afford, and you’ll see how I can practice as much daring as any skydiver out there.
It’s easy to pick up on trends. Everywhere we look, the media, a beauty guru or a YouTuber hypes an item as “the next big thing,” and in a heartbeat we’re flocking to stores to get our hands on it.
Sheet masks are the new gift mugs. It’s what everybody who has recently visited Korea brings home to their family and friends.
After flaunting chicken skin on my arms for 13 years, I finally took seriously the most basic lesson in skincare: Pamper the body as much as the face.
The year 2016 is about to close, and if I had to single out one small but significant wonder this year, it’s the boom of beauty e-commerce. God knows just how grateful I am for the convenience that Sephora, Althea and BeautyMNL.com brought.
