PDRN is the skincare ingredient the internet decided to call salmon sperm. Accurate enough to be funny, wrong enough to need correcting. Flip the bottle over, though, and the star ingredient is not even called PDRN. It reads as Sodium…
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I can’t remember the last time I posted a haul. It’s been years. But my recent K-beauty orders call for one. The re-emergence of Korean skincare across many markets has been impossible to miss over the last couple of years.…
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Every May, the beauty industry collectively decides to make your credit card uncomfortable. Memorial Day weekend sales tend to be legitimately good. Discounts that actually move the needle, not the usual 10% off dressed up as an event. I’ve pulled…
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My thirties were defined by acid toners and peel pads. Not in a reckless way, but in a very compliant, beauty-industry-trained way. Everything was about resurfacing. Exfoliate more. Brighten faster. Turnover, turnover, turnover. If your skin wasn’t tingling, it probably…
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I did not buy this cream. It came as a GWP with an online order, which is usually where my expectations go to die. Also, I tend to ignore viral skincare. Especially the kind pushed aggressively by very young creators…
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