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Korean Beauty Haul: My Favorite Products, Part 2

see:Korean Beauty Haul: IntroductionKorean Beauty Haul: My Favorite Products, Part 1Korean Beauty Haul: My Favorite Products, Part 3 Laneige Water Sleeping Pack_EX, ($23 at Target)(As far as I can tell, the Water Sleeping Pack_EX is the Asian version of the American Water Sleeping Mask — same formulation but different names. If I am wrong, please correct me.) I've wanted to try this "sleeping mask" ever since Target began to carry Laneige, a popular Korean beauty brand, earlier this year. This is supposedly one of Laneige's best-selling products across all of Asia, and after a couple of weeks' use, I can definitely see why! The Water Sleeping Pack_EX is a thick cream that looks like a translucent blue gel. It glides on smoothly and...

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Korean Beauty Haul: My Favorite Products, Part 1

In my introduction post, I revealed how Korean women can use 14-17 skincare products throughout a typical day. And if you're anything like me, you're probably wondering what you could possibly do to your skin aside from cleanse and moisturize! Luckily, for the clueless like myself, Charlotte Cho of Soko Glam has shared with us a wonderful tutorial on The 10-Step Korean Skincare Routine. No, you do not have to follow the steps to the T, nor do you have to use the exact products mentioned in the article. And some of the items (like masks) are not meant to used every day. Additionally, because many Korean skincare products — especially emulsions and serums — tend to target only one or two skincare issues (but...

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Take the “It Can Wait” Pledge and Win a BlackBerry Q10!

Confession: I have texted while driving. Have you? (YES, texting at a red light counts!) If you have, consider this sobering fact: more than 100,000 crashes a year involve drivers who are texting. Wanna know something that's even more alarming? Nearly half of all adult commuters and 43% of teens admit to texting while driving (TWD). And, as the highest consumers of smartphones, Asian-Americans are at an increased risk to the dangers of texting while driving. (But don't think that just because you're not Asian, you can get away with it!) This needs to stop. NOW. AT&T's It Can Wait campaign seeks to do exactly that by asking drivers to take a pledge to never text and drive. When AT&T contacted me about promoting the It Can Wait...

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Taking Care of My Contacts and My Eyes, FOB-Style

Gather ’round, boys and girls! It’s time for show and tell: contact lens and eye care edition.

I’ve been wearing soft contact lenses for almost two(!) decades now, and I can’t believe I only just discovered the following contact lens care products. Yeah, yeah…a good portion of my readers are Asian and most likely have known about these for years. But I love them so much that I felt the need to write rave about them for those who might not be in the know.

First up is the iPool Contact Lens Auto Cleaner:

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The iPool uses a combination of vibrations and silver nano-particle technology to thoroughly clean your contact lenses. It doesn’t matter if you wear hard or soft lenses, regular or disposables — just drop your lenses inside the cute animal case, fill it with contact lens solution, place it onto the AAA battery-powered base, press the button and wait for at least 3 minutes.

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