Illume – Korean women always surprise people with their youthful, flawless skin regardless of their age. Let’s learn the steps of Korean skin care with Illume!
Step 1: Remove makeup
Using a makeup remover is an essential cleansing step in Korean women’s “double cleansing” method. Accordingly, not only using face cleanser – the most basic cleaning product, women need to combine with a makeup remover to increase the cleaning effect to the depth of each pore. Therefore, whether you have makeup or not, you still have to use an extra makeup remover to remove dirt and excess oil.
Current makeup remover products are extremely diverse. Depending on your skin type, you can choose from different makeup removers. Corresponding to each type of makeup remover, the usage will not be the same.
Step 2: Cleansing
Washing your face with a cleanser seems to be the most basic skin care step every girl must perform every day. With the cleanser, the skin will be completely cleansed even with the makeup remover oil left on the skin. According to the conception of Korean women, proper skin cleansing will be the key to having beautiful skin as expected. What’s more, a clean skin is best able to absorb the following steps.
When you do this, wet your face, place the cleanser in your palm and lather. Next, use your fingertips to massage the cleanser gently on the skin with circular movements in the direction from the inside out.
If you do this wrong, there is a higher risk of sagging skin. After 30 seconds to 1 minute of massage, you can rinse your face with water (remember: water should not be too hot because it can cause dry skin) and pat dry with a towel.
Step 3: Exfoliate
Exfoliation is a seemingly unnecessary skin care step, but it plays a role in supporting the effectiveness of the subsequent balm steps. Our skin always produces dead cells, if not cleaned, it will lead to rough skin, and very unattractive. Therefore, in order to promote the production of new cells as well as the skin to be brighter and smoother, you must perform exfoliation for the skin.
You do not need to exfoliate your skin every day because it is very harmful to the skin. The best frequency of exfoliating needs to be based on the individual’s skin condition. If your skin is quite sensitive, you can exfoliate once a week. However, if the skin is in normal condition, 2 times / week will be most appropriate.
Step 4: Toner
When using a cleanser, the natural pH of the skin changes. Therefore, right after washing your face, you need to use a product to help your skin regain its balance more quickly and set the stage for better absorption of balm steps. That is the primary job of the toner in the care process.
However, with the development of the cosmetic industry, the toner is also “integrated” with many other uses. Typically, moisturizing, whitening, cleansing dead cells or simply the final cleansing step (after makeup remover and cleanser). At the same time, many toners also have the ability to effectively soothe the skin.
Step 5: Mask
Applying a mask is one of the important beauty steps in the female beauty process. Overall, the two most prominent effects that a mask can have on your skin are moisturizing and whitening.
Step 6: Moisturize
Moisturizer plays a very important role in the Korean beauty process.
Moisturizers are the types of products that all cosmetic brands invest in, so their types and uses are increasingly diverse. Besides its main use as moisturizer, the current cream also has many other great effects such as whitening or anti-aging.
When choosing a cream, the only thing you need to remember is it depends on the skin type. If your skin is dry or very dry, easy to flake during weather changes, it is imperative that you choose a cream that has a thick texture and contains as many nutrients as possible. On the other hand, if you have oily skin, you just need a gel-based, lightweight, fast-absorbing cream.
Hope that the information that Illume just shared will be of help to you. Thank you!