Hey Readers! It’s been forever since I last posted. Finals and some craziness at my internship got in the way. While I can’t promise that big gaps like that won’t happen again, my goal is to have a post every week, posted on Monday or Tuesday. So we’ll see how that goes. Anyway, on to the post!

I am not a patient person and when I think something is really cool, I want to experience all of it immediately. Enter Asian Beauty (AB) into my life. It’s so cool and there are so many awesome sounding products it was sort of inevitable that I’d buy a bunch of stuff and start using it immediately. It doesn’t help that I ran out of both my serums and my morning moisturizer around the time I discovered AB. So I made the number one AB beginner mistake.

After some time using all the things and looking for more, I started to have some skin tightness and discomfort and realized I couldn’t really tell which product was causing the problem. I was 80% sure it was the Miracle Rose Cleansing Stick (MRCS) but I wasn’t positive and I couldn’t be positive because I started so many new things at once. So I decided to start over. I stripped my routine way down and started at the beginning just trying one product at a time.

It turned out it was the MRCS. I replaced with just a Konjac sponge and no cleanser in the AM and Hada Labo Hyaluronic Acid foaming cleanser in the PM and the problem got better. Though the Hada Labo, like the MRCS, makes my face squeak (which is bad) which is why I’m slated to try a gel cleanser starting on 12/28.

I have a ton of products at my house and I am only using a handful. My current routine is:

AM – Konjac sponge, Cosrx Snail AIO.

PM – Josie Maran Cleansing Oil, Hada Labo Hyaluronic Acid foam cleanser, 3 drops of Argan oil, Sheet Mask, Philosophy Renewed Hope in a Jar.

I am slowly slowly introducing new products. I’m currently testing the Cosrx Snail AIO and LOVING it.

I test cleansers for one week and other products for two weeks. I am about to run out of the JM cleansing oil so I will be adding Banila Clean it Zero to my night time routine during my 2nd week of Snail AIO testing. I don’t feel the need to test this on its own because I’ve used it before. I’m not in love with it, I like the JM better, but I have a whole tub of Clean it Zero and it’s not bad so I’m gonna use it until it’s gone unless I start to react badly to it. It’s not ideal to introduce it during the Snail AIO testing but so far I’ve had great results from the Snail cream and no bad reactions so hopefully it continues in that vein.

Slow and steady is pretty much killing me, but I know I have to do it. My routine will be better for it and my face will thank me in the end.

How did you start your routines? Did you buy all the things or did you take it slow?