Late to the Party

From L-R: DHC samples, Rejuvenates Rosehip Seed Oil, Elizavecca sheet mask, TonyMoly lip scrub, Nature Love Vitamin C sheet masks, free samples, The Body Shop all-in-one BB Cream. Friday is pretty much my favourite day of the week because it's the day that my husband and I get to spend the day together not working. Youngest son has lessons in the city all day and as it's too far to drive him in and go back home we just spend the day together shopping, hanging out and finding somewhere nice to eat - kind of like a date day. But then P2 (husband) likes to go for a beer and I like to go off and look at the shops on my own! First stop is always T.K Maxx as you will pretty much always find some discounted K-beauty there. But, I must remember, NEVER think "I'll go back and see that thing I saw last week" as it's never still on the shelves when you go back! I never learn! The particular item that caught my eye last week was a charcoal-infused foundation brush ...

Hi, I'm Pea - 46 year old mother and wife, self-employed business owner, selling vintage and antique oddities and curios, books and ephemera. Why late to the party? Well, I've been wearing make-up since I was 16 and obviously doing the basic day-to-day skincare all my life, but I have only quite recently become just a little bit of obsessed with Korean and Asian skincare and beauty. The seven and ten step routines amused me at first, and then intrigued me, and then absolutely had me by the balls! I was initially piqued by the crazy and cute packaging (TonyMoly!!) and the curious sounding product ingredients and names. Snail mucin, bee venom, donkey milk - I had to try them out! And this stuff works! It's not only fun to shop for, fun to try out and makes your daily skincare routine a really pleasurable and oft-thought about process twice a day - but it really does seem to have proven results (well not all, but at lot of, and this is where this blog comes into it)...