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This will feel like a big of a negative review but it'll get better! Cost  $27.44 from KoreaDepart (plus shipping, no taxes) Introduction I got this to do a full routine of The Black range and hoping it would help with redness, like The Black Serum originally did. I thought using all four products - essence, serum, moisturiser and cream - would be delightful as a routine. I suspected that the products wouldn't be siliconey enough to help with sleep creases, knowing the cream was actually quite light.  And knowing the essence would be watery, I potentially felt that I would be annoyed by it because I find watery products annoying to apply and take ages to absorb. Packaging It's interesting that the serum, even the 60ml, comes in a plastic bottle, where as the essence and moisturiser are both glass bottles. The essence has an open top with one of those plastic covers so it doesn't just pour out but it does still just pour out because it's super watery. Regardless of t...

Image of Sooryehan The Black Fine Shampoo (right) and Black Fine Treatment (left). Gold fading into black ombre colours, the shampoo has a pump and the treatment has a flip top Before I continue with this review, I am in the process of mentally getting to grips with not purchasing any more LG products - AB Muse makes a very eloquent argument on the blog about the greenwashing of their AI marketing announcement and the effect it'll have on human employment: https://www.abmuse.net/2024/11/lg-h-using-ai-for-marketing-and-why-i.html I'll keep posting reviews because almost all of my core routine products are LG (I have a lot to go through before I start replacing them) and you, dear Reader, may want to use them. No judgement and the purpose of this blog was to review these products so I'll keep posting. I'm sure other companies make questionable choices and it's all about the money money money nom nom nom, and they may be using AI but we just don't know about it, et...

In honour of my panic that it had been reformulated, here is my update post! Whilst being a very nice product that I enjoy using no end, the headline of this update is that I forgot that extracts could deliver specific results. The Black Serum has a variety of anti-inflammatory ingredients and that is likely to be the reason that it calms down redness for me. Why only The Black Serum works but nothing else must be down to the ingredients it has that other products don't or higher quality extracts than previous things I've tried with some of the same* The rest of this post is about why I'd forgotten this key fact. *A note: going back through Reddit posts, I've claimed a couple of times that other things have calmed my skin! However, a combination of drier skin, hard water and medication have totally borked my skin so now it's just The Black Serum (or other products from the range in conjunction with the serum). Highlights from the last review and link Link to Soorye...

This is a meandering post on face creams, it's not a review as such but some general comparisons of beautiful creams - mostly about textures. (If anyone wants swatches, please comment. I personally don't find them that helpful but the real reason I haven't done them is that I'll never actually get this post up otherwise! I may be going largely photo-free in future because it's even more time-consuming than the writing...) I'm slightly obsessed with categorising products as I like a framework that I can slot creams into because it refines my thinking about products.  I find it helpful to think about how textures compare as it narrows down what I'm looking for and gives me something a bit more defined to work with when I'm making comparisons for people. Naturally, my categories are a personal shorthand and if you have thoughts on how to name these, let me know! Some of these creams may straddle more than one category so I've gone with the predominant f...

Little bottles of the Sooryehan Hyobidam Fermented Emulsion in a plastic package, on a cute potato cushion. Not my finest photography but too cute not to use Introduction  So, I've obviously written at length about my love for the Sooryehan Bon Firming cream. Several times now! Link to the Bon Firming cream first impressions post Link to follow up post on the Bon Firming cream And I'd tried an emulsion before, I thought it was fine as a first moisturiser for my neck but I didn't think it had any dramatic benefits.  The problem is that my neck is a tricky beast - very little seems to please it beyond. So I try not to judge neck products on efficacy, just on whether they irritate me. Woe is my neck is not what I came here to write about... This Sooryehan emulsion is very well formulated and a decent emulsion that now has permanent slot in my routine as my AM summer cream.  Or at least it did, until the hard water affected my skin and now I need much more moisturising produ...

Gold Sooryehan Ginseng First Essence bottle and box (also gold) on a rich blue background  Here's the link to the original post Highlights from the first review The packaging, texture and ingredients were far in advance of things I'd used before - at the time . It's a serum texture rather than the watery texture I'd associated with first essences. I am a total sucker for this kind of texture now . I had thought the fragrance was noticeable but now I am accustomed to fragranced products, I'd describe it as light !  I stand by my previous comments that this product is luxe but I've tried many more luxe products since and so my frame of reference is a little different now. I'd put this as entry level, with, however, a caveat which I'll come back to in the conclusion. This product gave me my first taste of a more effective routine, meaning that I could reduce how many products I use without losing efficacy. Even though it's not quite right for my skin n...

Sooryehan The Black Serum  Sample sachets of Sooryehan's The Black Serum on white silky material. The packet is in the shape of the full size bottle. About my skin I used to stick to more affordable products and use a lot of different products to address features like signs of aging, larger pores and CCs, redness and dull skin. But better products means less products - and also far more enjoyment - in my experience, YMMV! I'm going to call these things I'm addressing "features" rather than "concerns", which is just a personal preference. My skin doesn't need fixing, I just tailor my routine to address certain aspects of it. This may seem a pedantic choice of words but language matters! I'm 40 with combination to drier skin plus dehydration after moving to a hard water area. Generally prone to texture and CCs but not acne (unless I've used a product that disagrees with me). My neck is dry, dry as a desert, and can be sensitive, so I use an e...