From Korea Amongst Love

Ok, Ok, I've been habitation for a calendar week now, but alone now, finally, I'm sitting downward inward peace to write something well-nigh this trip. Because it was a really fruitful trip. But to a greater extent than well-nigh those lovely fruits adjacent time. Today I'm exactly going to tell a few things that most people don't desire to hear. No, I'm non going to tell y'all well-nigh how toxic together with harmful those awful Korean cosmetics are. 

(Note to my unusual readers - this is a running joke inward the Polish beauty blogosphere - 2 Polish women based inward Nihon dear to spew nonsense on their YouTube channel well-nigh how Korean cosmetics are toxic garbage together with drive everything from cancer to global warming. Ok, I admit, that global warming chip was from me, but y'all larn the see - 2 nutcases, who pretend to hold out experts).

Jah, jah, jestem juz w domu od tygodnia, ale w koncu sie zebralam create kupy, zeby cos napisac o tym wypadzie. Bo wypad byl owocny. Ale o tych owocach bedzie w kolejnym wpisie. Dzis, natomiast bedzie kilka slow, ktorych wiele ludzi nie chce uslyszec. Nie, spoko, nie bedzie o tym, jakie to toksyczne i szkodliwe te koreanskie kosmetyki sa, LOL. (A swoja droga, i tak przy okazji, to jedno dziewcze, ktore znam, jest w trakcie tlumaczen tych filmikow na jezyk koreanski i chce wyslac transkrypty create koreanskich pism kobiecych i prasy, no bo przeciez trzeba jakos ostrzec miliony tych nieszczesnych koreanskich kobiet zyjacych w calkowitej niewiedzy.)

Ok, ale gdzie ja bylam?
Aha, w Seulu, w dzielnicy Myeongdong, ktorej ulice to jedna wielka galeria handlowa - glownie kosmetyczna.

Ok, together with thus where was I?
Yes, inward Seoul. In Myeongdong, where the streets resemble 1 large shopping mall selling to a greater extent than oft than non cosmetics.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ile sklepow tych samych theatre mozna upchnac na jedno skrzyzowanie? Okazuje sie, ze calkiem sporo. Te same Tony Moly, Nature Republic, Missha, Innisfree, Skin-to-tamto-i-owamto sprzedajace dokladnie te same produkty, sa doslownie co krok. Az mozna sie pogubic, bo ma sie wrazenie, ze juz obok tego sklepu sie przechodzilo. Ale nie, to kolejny sklep tej samej firmy.

And how many stores of the same construct tin flame y'all stick on 1 street corner? Many, it turns out. The same Tony Molys, Nature Republics, Misshas, Innisfrees, Skin-something-or-the-other selling the same products are literally every fifty meters, or so. Very like shooting fish in a barrel to larn lost, because y'all ever accept this feeling that you've exactly passed this 1 shop, but no, it's a unlike store of the same company.

Nie wiem skad sie wziela opinia, ze te marki sa ekskluzywne. Nie sa. Nigdy nie byly. I nie maja zamiaru byc, bo ich grupa docelowa klientek jest inna. W Myeongdong wydawalo sie, ze te klientki to glownie Rosjanki. Kupowaly calymi kartonami, jestem niemal pewna, ze w celu sprzedazy w ich wlasnym kraju.

I accept no see where the myth that those are exclusive brands came from. Because they are not. Never were. And don't intend to be, because their target client base of operations is completely different. And inward Myeongdong it seemed that this grouping is to a greater extent than oft than non Russian. There were Russian women everywhere, buying whole cases of stuff, no dubiety to resell dorsum home.

Po moich pierwszych przygodach z niskopolkowymi koreanskimi kosmetykami, bo takimi wlasnie te wyzej wymienione sa, bylam w stanie zgodzic sie z opinia, ze to smieci. Przyzwyczajona create raczej bardziej ekskluzywniejszych produktow, nie wiedzialam skad ta fascynacja zwyklymi drogeryjnymi koreanskimi kosmetykami. Bo oprocz ladnych opakowan, nie mialy 1 mojej cerze nic create zaoferowania. Oprocz wypryskow, podraznionej skory i ziemistego koloru (tak typowego dla tanich marek koreanskich kremow BB).

Dla scislosci, poniewaz moja cera to prawdziwa bestia, podobne reakcje mam rowniez na pielegnacje chanelowska i kilku innych wysokopolkowych.

After my start adventures alongside Korean drugstore brands, because that's what they are - your Korean Walgreens together with CVS products, I could almost concord that this was garbage. Being used to a chip to a greater extent than fancier subdivision store stuff, I couldn't figure out why the obsession alongside low-end Korean cosme was together with thus widespread. Because other than cute packaging, they accept really lilliputian to offer, at to the lowest degree to me. Besides zits, acne outbreaks, irritated pare together with a zombieish "I've been dead for a few days already, but at to the lowest degree my complexion is oh-so-dewy" pare musical note (so typical of inexpensive Korean bb creams).

To hold out fair, my pare tin flame hold out a nasty creature together with gets pissed off really easily at high terminate brands also - for instance Chanel skincare turns my human face upwards into a raw pepperoni pizza.

I z tym w glowie, postanowilam dowiedziec sie, jakich to produktow uzywaja przygodnie spotkane Koreanki, w mniej wiecej moim wieku (choc przyznaje, trudno jest odgadnac ile dana babka moze miec lat, jesli stoi sie na ulicy, o zmroku).

Ustawilam sie wiec strategicznie w poblizu budki sprzedajacej lody w czyms co wygladalo jak pokrecona rurka, i wraz ze znajoma koreanska obstawa zaczelysmy zadawac babkom pytania.
Przepytalysmy xxx kobiet, z ktorych seven okazalo sie Chinkami, wiec ich odpowiedzi nie bralysmy pod uwage.

So, I laid out to notice out what form of products Korean women my historic stream (though, granted, it tin flame hold out hard to gauge somebody's historic stream at dark spell standing on a busy street corner) use.
I positioned myself strategically correct yesteryear a stand upwards selling H2O ice cream inward something that looked similar a twisted walking cane, together with together alongside a friendly Korean helper, nosotros started to enquire questions.

We polled xxx women, of these seven turned out to hold out Chinese, together with thus nosotros disregarded their answers.


I rezultaty?
And the results?

Z 23 Koreanek ani jedna nie wspomniala o Tony Moly czy It's Skin.
Out of 23 Korean women non 1 mentioned Tony Moly or It's Skin.

Nazwy, ktore padaly, to te:
Instead, they mentioned these names:

• - Ohui
• - Sulwhasoo
• - Iope
• - Amore Pacific
• - Su:m 37
• - Hera
• - Dior
• - Estee Lauder
• - Chanel
• - La Mer
• - La Prairie

i pare innych, ktorych nie moge odczytac, bo moja znajoma zapisywala je w hangulu po pijanemu.
And a yoke of others that I can't read, because my friend was writing them downward inward hangul, spell beingness somewhat drunk.

Ta pani lubi su:m 37 i Sulwhasoo i byla zdziwiona, ze cudzoziemka o nich slyszala.
This lady likes sum:37 together with Sulwhasoo together with was surprised that a westerner knew what they were.

Poniewaz ich odpowiedzi pokrywaly sie czesciowo z tym co sama chcialam kupic, potwierdzilo to tylko moje zamiary.
Because their answers overlapped to a greater extent than or less alongside what I wanted to purchase myself, it was that extra confirmation I needed when spending large sums of coin on materials that I am non 100% familiar with.

Pierwsze szesc nazw na tej liscie to marki, ktorych na prozno szukac na ulicach Myeongdong. Nie ta przegrodka i cenowa i jakosciowa. To kosmetyki sprzedawane w departamentach zaraz obok diorow i chanelow. Byc moze dlatego osoby trabiace o szkodliwych koreanskich kosmetykach nigdy o nich nie slyszaly.

The start six, or so, names on this listing y'all won't notice inward the inexpensive drugstores lining the streets of Myeongdong. Not that cost together with character range. And a unlike target market, it seems. Instead, y'all accept to become to fancy subdivision stores together with expect correct adjacent to diors together with chanels. So it's possible that vloggers preaching well-nigh harmful Korean cosme merely never heard that high-end Korean skincare brands also be together with offering character comparable to (if non higher than) western fancy schmancy products.

Czy wiec w ogole kupilam cos na ulicach Myeongdong, czy tez moze gralam kosmetyczna snobke przez caly czas? Oczywiscie, ze kupilam! Zawsze jestem chetna na wyprobowanie czegos co nie kosztuje 3/4 mojej wyplaty. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 nuz sie trafi jakas perelka?

So, did I purchase anything on the streets of Myeongdong, or did I human activeness similar a cosmetics snob till the really bitter end? Of course of pedagogy I bought something! I wouldn't hold out myself otherwise. I'm ever eager to endeavour something new, peculiarly if that something doesn't cost an arm together with a leg together with a lilliputian bit. Because buying expensive materials all the time, I'm going to eventually run out of arms together with legs together with organs to sell on the dark market.

Ta firma urzekla mnie swoja nazwa, wiec cos po prostu musialam kupic.
This company's scream I merely couldn't ignore. I had to purchase something.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 co kupilam, tak ogolnie?
Pokazywalam juz na instagramciu. Ale bedzie i oddzielny wpis wkrotce. Bo

So, inward the end, what did I buy, overall?
I showed most of the materials on IG, but I'll ready a special postal service hither equally well.


Milego tygodnia!!
Have a swell week!

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