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The #ProductEmpties We Loved to the Last DropFrom new finds to longtime favorites, these are beauty products that our editors use until the bitter end (of the tube) |
This Highlighter Was the Smartest Thing I Bought on Vacation If you love beauty products, you need to visit Seoul and you need to go shopping in Myeong-dong. Not only will you find stores for just about every K-beauty brand worth knowing, you'll find multiple locations for every K-beauty brand worth knowing, some just three or four blocks apart from one another. Myeong-dong is brightly lit and crowded, and it's loud, and everything is open late, and the salespeople are insanely pushy, and there is delicious street food everywhere you look, and it's fun but, damn, good luck if you can focus.
Sensory overload caused me to make some rushed purchases on my visit to Myeong-dong. And I didn't really know what Too Cool for School's Dinoplatz Pearl Bay Invasion Highlighter, $33, was when I threw it in my basket. (A salesperson was trailing me throughout the store; TBH, I flippin' panicked.) I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be the prettiest highlighter-meets-glowtion, a product that looks and feels just as great applied as a face lotion, mixed into BB cream or dotted on as a cheekbone luminizer. I was also thrilled to find out it's packed with vitamins, omega fatty acids, and a bunch of lovely, skin-nourishing oils (olive, rosehip, peppermint, avocado and argan). Now I use it almost every day. If only all impulse buys had such a happy ending. --Katie McCarthy
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Sensory overload caused me to make some rushed purchases on my visit to Myeong-dong. And I didn't really know what Too Cool for School's Dinoplatz Pearl Bay Invasion Highlighter, $33, was when I threw it in my basket. (A salesperson was trailing me throughout the store; TBH, I flippin' panicked.) I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be the prettiest highlighter-meets-glowtion, a product that looks and feels just as great applied as a face lotion, mixed into BB cream or dotted on as a cheekbone luminizer. I was also thrilled to find out it's packed with vitamins, omega fatty acids, and a bunch of lovely, skin-nourishing oils (olive, rosehip, peppermint, avocado and argan). Now I use it almost every day. If only all impulse buys had such a happy ending. --Katie McCarthy
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