- honestly if someonetold me rubbing cow shit on your face would get rid of acne. i'd be like, "let's split theuber to the nearest farm." (edgy techno music) - we're trying koreanskin care for a week.
beauty boxes for women of color, - i am pretty obsessed withall skin care products. i'd say most of mymoney goes towards that. - i have combination skin. dry on my cheeks, andcompletely oily everywhere else.
- i have been gettingrandom breakouts since i was about 19, 20. i just don't want acneanymore, come at me. i'm ready to be a k-pop star. - i'm dr. annie chiu andi am a dermatologist. korean women are very, very committed to beauty and skin care. everyone's heard by nowabout these 10 to 12 step korean skin care ritualsbecause they really enjoy
and feel like they'retaking care of themselves really inside and outside. - oh, oh. - oh shit. - that's a lot. - a two-step cleansingritual or double cleansing basically you wash your face, first with like oil-based cleanser which takes off eye makeup, eyeshadow.
- i'm lauren conrad in my home right now. (cissy laughing)(sheridan sobbing) - then you follow it with a secondary step that cleanses the more organic residues that are on your face while leaving it still really sort of ph balanced and nourished without stripping it ofall its natural oils. - do you hear this?
- i know we're literally churning butter. - i'm making butter. - oh my god you go crazy.- it's so foamy. - acne prone skin tends torun a little bit oilier. you wanna look for exfoliating products or products that have retinoids. these products turn overthe skin a little bit faster which prevents pore clogging,and dissolves dead cells. - i feel like a puppy is just rubbing
its body against my face. time for toner, let's do this. - let's tone it up. - they may be in korean skin care as well, but they tend to have slightlymore gentle formulations because asian skin is more irritable. - it smells so good. essence for you, serum for me. - an essence typically is alittle bit lighter in texture.
it usually doesn't havea very high concentration of active ingredients, but more it's about rebalancing the skin. - mine doesn't smell like anything. - well you just gotreally good smelling ones for the last two so just calm down. - a serum is a super potentstep in a skin care regimen. - oh. - that's nice.
- oh, that smells like, suede.- yeah. - you do end up strippingthe skin of its natural ph so they'll have multiple stepsjust to reestablish that ph. - bringing out the baskinrobbins sample spoon. - should we go get ice cream,let's go get some ice cream. - let's get ice cream. - we deserve it, this was a lot of work. - there's also a much heavier emphasis on sunscreens and spfs whichis probably why they
continue to maintain looking so fabulous. - it's super like waterywhich i'm a fan of. - that was long, but there's more. bring on the mask, thank you, thank you. - sheet masks are kind of alike a cheat way of getting high quality ingredients in really quick is based around an occlusive effect. so whenever the skinhas an ingredient on it driving the ingredientsdeeper into the skin.
- i love this, it's gonna belike a nice solid 30 minutes. - i'm looking forward to this week, but if i ever wake up latethis is gonna be a problem. - let's do it. - let go. - the fact that the routine is so long had its pros and cons. i'm home, and i'm very tired, and now i have to do like a
fucking 20 minute skin care routine. - let's talk about how long it takes to double cleanse am and pm. i literally can't, that'sjust too much time. definitely woke up late this morning and i have to go through myentire korean beauty routine before i head out. i'm going to be even morelate than i am already. so that' great, but at leasti'm taking care of my skin.
you know. - loves the mask. i was like a rave on my face. usually like sheet masks arevery soothing and moisturizing. it feels minty, my face is tingling. - pumping that littlewhipping maker every morning was the most monotonous,but like weirdly satisfying moment of my morning and night routine. - i noticed how a lotof like my little bumps
started to clear up. my face feels so glowy rightnow, that mask was bomb. - one thing that i really amexcited about using more often were the sheet masks that we had. the directions recommendedputting it in the 'frigerator beforehand so that it would be cold. and it was the mostrefreshing feeling ever. - it has been a week,it was a very long week. mostly because i suddenly had to do
like five hours worth of skin care. - definitely found out thatmy routine isn't as extensive as i thought it was comparedto the korean version. - i noticed as the week progressed that a lot of my acne was kinda going away. - i've really noticedoverall color correction. the redness and the patchinessof my skin has evened out, but i'm very excited toget back to my old routine
and just incorporate thesunscreen and the sheet masks every once in awhile. - i'm definitely gonna keep doing it. my face has never been cleaner. oreo, do you think i look like j.lo?
say nothing if i look like j.lo. oh. i don't need a halloweencostume next year. i'm just gonna go as a slutty bear.
