12.31.2018

My most played K-pop songs of 2018

Hey Subbies,

I hope my post before held all over. I literally wanted to get that post done before the new year and like I said before I had to wait till all the K-beauty enthusiast had a chance to get their two cents in. Okay, back to music and what I've been listening to this whole year. My Spotify playlist was pretty much on heavy rotation when I'm at the gym or at work this past couple of months. When I finally saw my final verdict I was like yeah that made sense. Most of my playlist was a mix of J-pop and K-pop because of my trip to Japan in October to help me learn Japanese for the trip. I'm kind of sad because I don't have a lot of time to practice anymore let alone go to the gym because of my new job.

Anyways, if you want to check my last years list then here your link to it. While you're at it you might as well check out my very late Halloween picks for this year too since most of the favs are on there too. I'm a little salty because I'm going miss hearing some of my favorites in the upcoming new year because they have been let go or left their companies. Omg for this list I had to break out an excel sheet because I had to figure out which ones I liked and listened to the most and wished YouTube would generate my own very song of the playlist for each year base on my history. Also, I would like for this new year for companies to stop sleeping on their girl groups and give them proper albums.

  1. Ikon - Love Scenario
    & Killing Me 
  2. Red Velvet - Bad Boy 
  3. LOONA Oliva Hye - Egoist 
  4. Junoflo - Real Ones 
  5. YunB - Yellow Up 
  6. Jackson Wang - Fendiman 
  7. BlackPink - Duu-du-duu-du (All of Square Up
  8. K.A.R.D. - Ride on the Wind
    & Dimelo 
  9. Jay Park -Yacht 
  10. BTS - Idol 
  11. Super Junior - Animals
    & Lo Siento (KARD ft. version)
  12. Pentagon - Shine
  13. Chung Ha - Roller Coaster 
  14. EXID - Lady 
    & I Love You 
  15. NCT - (Empathy album in general) Baby, Don't Stop
    Boss
    Go 
    Regular [English version]
  16. (G)i-dle - Haan 
  17. APINK - I'm so Sick 
  18. Momoland - Bboom Bboom
Bonus: Triple H - Retro Future (love the grand master flash sample)

I hope you guys enjoy my list for this year.

Happy New Years!

12.28.2018

Korean Skincare Must Haves (2018-2019)

Hey Subbies,

I almost forgot that I still need to do my end of year Kbeauty must-haves. I was trying to wait long enough so that I see what people on the tube were also raving about. I had to make sure I had got it, everyone, I could this year. I really happy because this year Neogen came thru to slay. If your new here to my blog then you must read last year's post. I've talked about K-beauty for a while, as well as, J-beauty since the inception of this blog. You can just click my #Skincare tags and it will take you to the older post. Also, some things are back on the list again this year so look out for (**). I am really happy to share with you this year's top K-beauty picks so without further a due let me introduce the muse (MVP) of the year finally...


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BEAUTY GURU FAVES

  • NEOGEN Real Cica Micellar Cleansing Oil 4.5
  • NEOGEN Real Ferment Micro Essence 4.4
  • NEOGEN Dermatology Real Ferment Micro Essence 4.5
  • NEOGEN Gentle Gauze Peeling 3.6
  • NEOGEN x Joan Day & Night Cream 4.5
  • NEOGEN Bio-Peel Gauze Peeling - Lemon 3.0
Cult faves for this year...

TEN STEP SKINCARE 

Cleanser

  • Oil: TROIAREUKE #Acsen Oil Cut Cleansing** 4.7
  • Solid/ Cream: Banila Co Clean It Zero Original Cleansing Balm 4.5
  • Foam: Innisfree Rebalancing Blueberry Cleanser 4.5
  • Gel: KraveBeauty Matcha Hemp Hydrating Cleanser 4.7
  • Wipe/ Tissue: Skinfood Rice Brightening Facial Cleansing Tissue 4.8

Exfoliate

  • KraveBeauty Kale-lalu-yAHA 5.0

Toner/ Water

  • Acwell Licorice pH Balancing Cleansing Toner 4.3
  • TROIAREUKE Lip & Eye Micellar Cleanser 4.9
  • Benton Tea Tree Cleansing Water 4.7
  • Mamonde Hydrating Beauty Water 4.5
  • NAKEUP_FACE PHA Water-Tox 4.4
  • NAKEUPFACE Stress 0 Toner 4.7

Lotion/ Cream / Gel


  • Laneige Water Bank Moisture Cream 4.2
  • SKINRx LAB MadeCera Cream 4.6

Serum / Essence /Ampoule / Oil

  • TROIAREUKE A.G.T Hydro Essence 4.9
  • COSRX AHA Whitehead Power Essence** 4.3
  • COSRX Snail Mucin Essence** 4.6
  • Purito Centella Buffet Serum 4.7
  • THE PLANT BASE Time Stop Collagen Ampoule 4.5

Mist/ Spray



  • ACWELL Licorice pH Balancing Essence Mist 3.9

Moisturizer / Eye cream / Lip

  • Innisfree My Lip Balm 4.7
  • Belief Moisturizing Eye Bomb 4.2

Sunscreen/ SPF



  • KraveBeauty The Beet Shield (US) 3
  • LANEIGE | Anti-Pollution Two-Tone Sun Stick 4.5

Skin Treatments / Repair

  • TROIAREUKE Acsen Recovery 4.0
  • Benton Aloe Propolis Soothing Gel 4.3
  • Dr. Oracle A-Thera Tea Tree Peeling Stick 4.4
  • Easydew EX Repair Control EGF 3.6
  • The Face Shop Damyang Bamboo Fresh Soothing Gel 4.0

Mask

  • Skinfood Black Sugar Mask** 4.8
  • Laneige lip sleeping mask** 4.3
  • LANEIGE Sleeping Mask 4.5
  • KLAVUU Nourishing Care Lip Sleeping Pack 4.5

Sheet Mask

  • TROIAREUKE GPS Mask 4.5
  • Innisfree It's Real Squeeze Mask [Rose/ Rice 4.5 | 4.3]
  • Whamisa Organic Seeds & Rice Fermented Hydrogel Sheet Mask 4.6
I hope this helped.

12.23.2018

Life Update + Tokyo Trip

Hey Subbies,

As you can read from the title this is a little life update. Since I had some time off I can finally update you guys. Recently, I was able to find a job in my perspective field finally. However, I can't leave my old job because I have better benefits with my first job and other things tied to that job that my new job does not have on top of the pay is less than my first job however, I have more hours and opportunity to get over time. I pretty much have my hands-tied with my new job since it is thru the week and I had to cut my hours at my other job just enough to keep my benefits. In addition, I'm learning a new programs which is not the industry standard Adobe Suite and also learning how to do prints on different manufacturing materials. I'm pretty beat once I come home from work. This job is very much like the internship I had during my final semester of University so its very familiar yet it is a bit of a learning curve and immersive with a lot distractions from other coworkers in the office I have to really get use to. I bought some Starbucks coffee grounds to make my own coffee in the morning and thankfully, there is one across the street from my new job too and just received a Starbucks card for Christmas. However, I don't know about y'all but caffeine is not really helping sadly though. Anyways, I added some of the Tokyo Vlogs down below if anyone is interested in my trip also add a voice over so I hope you guys enjoy it. I need to still upload the last couple of videos to YT so if you want to subscribe you can. Lastly, I going to be doing my favorite/most played Kpop songs of 2018 so look out for that probably by Christmas or New Years.