In my dreams, my vanity looks like the workspace of a makeup artist at Jennyhouse, a full-service salon in Seoul's Cheongdam neighborhood with five floors devoted to hair, makeup, and nails. On the first floor, you'll find the designated makeup area with long counters neatly lined with open blush compacts and eye shadow palettes and drawers filled with brushes and lipsticks. Here, makeup artists adorn the faces of celebrities, like K-pop group Pentagon and actresses Park Shin Hye and Lee Sung Kyung. If you're unfamiliar with them, just know that I find myself bookmarking their makeup on Instagram for reference way too often.

While in South Korea recently, I visited Jennyhouse's Cheongdam Hill location and my dream makeup station in all its glory and met with members of its trend research team. Each season, six hairstylists and one makeup artist round up what they believe will be the most popular looks in Korea based on trends from around the world. Then they create reference photos for their clients to use.

K-beauty trends in America are 90 percent skin-care related, so I was interested in finding out what's happening in the makeup sector. Makeup artist Jo Hyemin shared stand-out trends of the moment beyond the usual berry-tone lip tints and the dewy skin we've come to know as the staples of Korean makeup.

1. “Thin” Lashes