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BEAUTY REPORTER
SEOUL
Searching
Glow Recipe founders Christine Chang and
Sarah Lee have racked up enough miles
(mostly between New York City and Seoul)
to never have to see the inside of a coach
cabin again; they’ve also tried enough sheet
masks to blanket Northeast Asia. If anyone
knows what’s next in K-beauty, it’s these women.
The New Layering From the country that brought us the 12-step
skin-care regimen now comes...efficiency. “The latest trend is
unexpected hybrid products,” says Lee. And it inspired her and
Chang to formulate their own products for the first time:
a sleeping mask that moisturizes and exfoliates and a cleanser
that pinch-hits as a toner or treatment mask. One and done.
The New Nails “Wire nails were pioneered by the same
manicurist who created glass nails,” says Chang. “They’re all
over the streets of Seoul.” Wirework is attached to the nails
(sometimes even extending beyond the tips) with gel polish.
The New Sheet Mask “We recently discovered double-layer sheet
masks,” says Lee. “The first layer is clear and very thin, like a second
skin, and the second is like a normal sheet mask—but with ear holes and a
neck flap.” (Glow Recipe now carries one, by Make P:rem.)
The Classic Facial (That’s Still the Best) “I go to a facialist in Cheongdam—it’s like the
Fifth Avenue of Seoul—and she swears by aqua-peeling,” says Chang. (Her name is
Misook Ko, if you have upcoming travel plans.) The traditional treatment involves
hydrating and loosening the top layer of skin with a mix of plant extracts and alpha
hydroxy acids, then lifting away the sloughed-off skin with a suction device. —LEXI NOVAK
Clockwise
from top left:
Sarah Lee
and Christine
Chang, Glow
Recipe
Watermelon
Glow Sleeping
Mask, and a
wire nail design
by Korean nail
artist Eun
Kyung Park.
Blue Crush
To all of you who’ve been desperately
missing Maybelline’s cult-classic ’70s-era
royal-blue Great Lash ever since its 2014
discontinuation: We have a hot lead.
Get thee to Walmart this month. It’s back!
ROSE TO POWER
Remember when all of southern California started smelling
like it had been at the beach rubbing itself with gardenia petals?
That was the phenomenon known as Kai—a scent so summery,
joyful, and sexy that a gazillion people didn’t mind smelling
like one another. If you make a fragrance that popular, you don’t
make another unless you’re sure. It might take almost 20 years.
Meet Kai Rose—or what we’re calling a rose scent for people
who don’t like rose scents (thank the clove and cedarwood
notes for that). It’s sweet, graceful, breezy—and for our money,
what most of California will smell like this summer.
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