Posts by The Glow Recipe Team
Find Your Cleansing Twin!
Cleansing is mandatory- but K-beauty finds a way to make everything infinitely more entertaining. We’ve even coined a word for this phenomenon: cleanser + entertainment. Cleansertainment! There’s nothing more satisfying than melting away the day’s makeup, swiping the skin with a cotton pad, and knowing that you’ve really, really gotten everything off your face. We…
Read MoreProven on my skin: Artichoke Power Essence
Has everyone felt that moment, when you found the one? Recently, I’ve experienced the below: It was an instantaneous connection. The moment I stopped thinking ‘I’ and was always thinking ‘we’ ever since we met. I’m feeling I cannot live with this one. We go through so many skincare products, looking for that perfect one, eager to start seeing…
Read MoreIntroducing… #ButSkinFirst
We spend a lot of time thinking about how to help people make sense of Korean beauty. From all the different steps and products names to the unique textures, the K-beauty world can be difficult to navigate. That’s where our new video series #ButSkinFirst comes in. There is this preconception that K-beauty is overwhelmingly complex, or…
Read MoreProduct Review: Primary Raw Soy Milk Bio Lumpoule
I’m excited to introduce our newest treatment from Primary Raw – the Soy Milk Bio Lumpoule. The Glow Recipe team opens up every Monday morning with a product round table. We discuss the various products that we’re testing and also sort through our newest submissions and decide who will be testing what. I’m not ashamed to say…
Read MorePhoto Recap of Creatures of Comfort NYFW Backstage
How-To: DIY Unistella Glass Nail Stickers
We had a blast partnering with Unistella for her New York Fashion Week debut at the Creatures of Comfort show, where the phenomenon of #glassnails was re-interpreted with a NYFW spin. Glow Recipe is also excited to exclusively introduce – for a limited time only – a NYFW edition of Unistella’s glass nails stickers in celebration of her debut at…
Read MoreUnistella x Glow Recipe at NYFW Sneak Preview
Last October, we had our first ever pop-up shop in the heart of New York City. The event was such a blast as we got to interact with customers and hold K-beauty master classes. One of the highlights was inviting Eunkyung Park, the creative director of Unistella nail salons, to NYC for her first stateside…
Read MoreThe Glow Standard: Product Curation
It’s no secret that we’re extremely selective when it comes to the brands, partners, and products that we curate. This selectivity comes from a place of passion for skincare, but also from the knowledge that our customer base is extremely discerning. How Do We Curate? As the only US hub for Korean beauty founded by…
Read MoreMasking in the Office: Glow Recipe Team Roundtable
We’ve reached the halfway point in our #MondaytoFridayMasking Challenge! We needed a boost to get through our hump day, so we got the Glow Recipe team together for a masking roundtable. It’s Wednesday, aka hump day, and it feels like forever until the weekend. To boost morale, I gathered Glow Recipe team members Sheila, Kim,…
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