Korean artist Na Young Wu has recently unveiled a series of illustrations which combines well-known western fairy tales with the Korean manhwa (the equivalent of manga in Korean) as well as the traditional Korean drawing style! They’re quite stunning, to say the least.
The Princess and the Frog:
The Little Mermaid:
Snow White:
I'm on day 4 of (what I believe to be) a bad case of food poisoning. My poor tummy. My poor plumbing system. My poor family. Anyway, because today is the first day since last week where I felt semi-human yet still suffering a bit (and out of blogspiration) — and because so many of you seem to like my beauty recommendations, I wanted to share with you my holiday sales (all the Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and numerous F&F sales) - slash - birthday present to myself haul! 1. Banila Co It Radiant CC Melting Foundation, $36 I've been using the Laneige BB Cushion Pore Control ever since I ran out of the Innisfree Long Wear Cushion. (My thoughts after trying both? The...
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Happy Halloween! My last two posts have been Halloween-related, but I unfortunately have nothing to add to the holiday today. Instead, I wanted to share with you...
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You probably presumed from the title of this post that I will be talking about plastic surgery. ;-) Well, you're partly correct. My intention behind this post is to share with you an article published in today's WSJ: "The Changing Face of South Korea," which discusses how Korean faces are changing over time — from tens of thousands of years ago to 100 years into the future. The Korea Face Institute (only in South Korea would such a thing exist :-P ) has taken 20,000 photographs and skull measurements, then factored in interracial marriage, plastic surgery, and nutrition in order to create the following "past," "present," and "future" pictures: The Korea Face Institute's assessment of a typical Korean face in 12,000 B.C. <a...
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It's been almost 3 months since I ventured into the wonderful world of Korean skincare products. (Not sure what I'm talking about? See here and here.) And because I have tried a few new products since my last post on the subject, I wanted to give you guys an update. :-) First things first: how is my skin holding up? I think I've mentioned before that in the past, after about a month or so of using a new product, my skin seems to adjust and adapt, somehow making the product less effective.This hasn't been the case with my Korean skincare routine at all! My skin remains softer, smoother, and more supple than I can ever remember. In fact, my skin probably hasn't...
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