K-beauty

[RayRay87]

Where is the best place online or in store to purchase k-beauty products. I'm new to this and really want to get my skin looking fabulous again

[layersoftoner]

Besides buying in person (Koreatown, Little Tokyo, various places in SGV), I shop on Amazon (via trusted buyers usually vetted by r/AsianBeauty), Jolse, or directly from the brand website. I've also heard good things about ohlolly, wishtrend, and have ordered from cali-j as well.

[wanderingpirate]

Surprisingly, there are a few pretty great k-beauty brands at target like missha and caolin (not sure on the spelling) and such. I think that Target is collaborating with a k-beauty brand as of right now for their own line. 

[jenniilyn]

peach and lily is amazing, but also try searching k-beauty on iherb. it seems kind of basic, but they have an awesome selection and decent prices!

[Lovepizza]

Sokoglam is one website that has a variety of K-Beauty products, I love their website. There is also Glow Recipe and Peach and Lily.

[Serena160]

I love the tony moly sheet masks. Pro tip, you can order 11 masks for 12 dollars on amazon and the masks are legit. 

[Ladyflower]

I always order on jolse or koreadepart. Jolse gives a lot of samples, and they have really nice sales. Koreadepart maybe has a little expensive delivery cost, but they always have limited collections first.

[adiaphane]

I'm really picky about skincare quality so I'll usually only order K Beauty from places like Soko Glam, Memebox, and Peach & Lily. I need skincare curated because one wrong product can cause long term problems. I wouldn't risk playing it by ear with untested Asian products. But that's just my opinion. You can also get a lot of things off Amazon but do your research! I really love beauty vlogger TheBeautyBreakdown for k beauty tips. 🙂

[TrishFishM]

SokoGlam is very reputable and also has great blogs, so you can learn about kbeauty at the same time!

[therealstella]

I've ordered from Vuty Design and Peach & Lily. Vuty Design carries a ton of brands. Peach & Lily has less but I feel like they carry brands that other K Beauty sites don't. 

[Taemii]

Sephora has some Korean brands on here like Amore Pacific, Laneige, Dr. Jart, etc.

I usually get my K-beauty stuff from twofacemall, memebox, sokoglam, koreadepart, and yes style.

[RachelSham]

My advice would be to shop by product, and not by website or retailer. In other words, if you come across a product you're interested in it, look up the ingredients (cosdna is a favorite for ingredient-by-ingredient analysis for irritation and comedogenicity), reviews and you can always hit up the Asian Beauty subreddits. From then, I like to google the product or search Amazon or retailers in Korea like Jolse, Beautynetkorea, Testerkorea, Stylekorean and so on for the best prices/shipping deals. In my personal experience you can get more bang for your back that way than heading to US based retailers.

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RayRay87 wrote:
Where is the best place online or in store to purchase k-beauty products. I'm new to this and really want to get my skin looking fabulous again

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[evie49]

I've used memebox and soko glam, they always send me coupons in my email too. And I've been able to find a lot on amazon! Ive used urban outfitters and yesstyle back when I had a harder time finding korean items but nowadays you can find them in a lot of places. I got an email even cvs will be carrying korean skin care products.

[wonbunny]

Sometimes I like to use Gmarket. 

[aimology]

my favorite sites are Jolse - love love this site. sales can be good, and I have had great customer service

Amazon! i just research to make sure i'm getting a legit product, but so much K beauty and Japanese skincare on amazon and ebay

and my third is beautibi

i do use sokoglam, glowrecipe, ect for when they have a sale or brands I can't find anywhere else, but the prices I think are over marked. i have found similar stuff on amazon for cheaper. 

[Rachel83706]

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aimology wrote:

Amazon! i just research to make sure i'm getting a legit product, but so much K beauty and Japanese skincare on amazon and ebay

i do use sokoglam, glowrecipe, ect for when they have a sale or brands I can't find anywhere else, but the prices I think are over marked. i have found similar stuff on amazon for cheaper. 

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How exactly do you research? Amazon has great prices - but I am really scared I will get ripped off! (I am on such a tight budget) I don't want old product or worse (counterfeit)!

[Kat8thedreamer]

I wish I saw this earlier!! For me, I get my stuff from Forever21 (weird I know), TesterKorea and StyleKorean. Forever21 has a lot of face masks!! I think lady time I was there I got 30. Testerkorea and StyleKorean have a lot of brands and they do have fast shipping if you are willing to pay. Another site is KollectionK that I believe is new. I suggest shopping around and finding the store that has all the products you want so you can get if from one place.

[volcaniclungs]

I always order from Wishtrend. They don't carry every Korean skincare brand, but I love the ones that they do! They also have really great customer service and their shipping is usually fast (about 2 weeks to come to Canada from Korea).

[safthegiraffe]

I buy everything online from ibuybeauti, it takes a while for stuff to arrive but if you spend over 50$ there is free shipping, and I find the prices are some of the cheapest I've found online! 

[tethys180]

If you know what you want and have some time to wait for shipping, then I highly recommend Jolse. They don't have every brand that I like (Belif and eNature, for example), but they've got most of the major ones plus a lot I haven't heard of. They include tons of samples and free gifts as you spend more, they run a lot of sales (so many it's kind of confusing), and their prices are usually the cheapest around. If you spend $150 you get free faster shipping to the U.S. (regular shipping takes 3-4 weeks to me). The only downside is that they don't have customer reviews, so you have to do your research somewhere else.

[MarieBeee]

I really love SokoGlam besides getting products from Sephora. Charlotte Cho is so sweet and amazing! They have a blog called the klog that talks about skincare and I learned a lot from it. Charlotte also curates some k-beauty products for Sephora. 🙂

[katgoulding]

Peach and Lily and Soko Glam both have a ton of different brands and options!!! 🙂