There have been some seriously wacky beauty trends in the past couple decades. Orange faux tans? A bad look. Overplucked eyebrows? Many still rue the day. And don’t get me started on lining the lips with black liner. More recently, there’s been contouring — that Kim Kardashian mainstay of shading and highlighting to create more definition in the face. Done right (and seen in the right light), contouring is supposed...

I’m excited to introduce our newest treatment from Primary Raw – the Soy Milk Bio Lumpoule. The Glow Recipe team opens up every Monday morning with a product round table. We discuss the various products that we’re testing and also sort through our newest submissions and decide who will be testing what. I’m not ashamed to say that once this bottle appeared on the table, I fell into what can...

The whirlwind of New York Fashion Week is finally over! Besides hosting events and our exciting Unistella partnership, NYFW was the stage for the newest fashion looks. The latest and hottest trends from the runway can be found in the new mask innovations; many of the textiles and techniques reminded us of fashionable and fun ways to treat your skin. As soft, rippling ruffles breezed past on the runway, we...

It began about five years ago. My husband, whose definition of skincare had been to quickly wash his face with soap in the shower (the soap he used on his body, naturally), one day suddenly asked me if I had any moisturizers he could use. After picking up my jaw off the ground, I began the interrogation. What are you using now? What kind of skin do you have? What...

The energy and craziness backstage with models, photographers, artists running around was unreal! Unistella & Glow Recipe were set up in the middle of the room. Eunkyung Park carefully applying #glassnails to a model’s nails. Multi-tasking backstage is a must 🙂 Blithe Patting Splash Mask and Unistella’s limited edition line of glass nail stickers were included in every VIP gift bag. Gorgeous model Charlotte loving our Glow Recipe gift bags...

We had a blast partnering with Unistella for her New York Fashion Week debut at the Creatures of Comfort show, where the phenomenon of #glassnails was re-interpreted with a NYFW spin. Glow Recipe is also excited to exclusively introduce – for a limited time only – a NYFW edition of Unistella’s glass nails stickers in celebration of her debut at fashion week. Recreate the look straight from the runway and...

Last October, we had our first ever pop-up shop in the heart of New York City. The event was such a blast as we got to interact with customers and hold K-beauty master classes. One of the highlights was inviting Eunkyung Park, the creative director of Unistella nail salons, to NYC for her first stateside beauty event. If her name is unfamiliar, maybe her insta-famous #glassnail ring a bell? As...

It’s no secret that we’re extremely selective when it comes to the brands, partners, and products that we curate. This selectivity comes from a place of passion for skincare, but also from the knowledge that our customer base is extremely discerning. How Do We Curate? As the only US hub for Korean beauty founded by women with extensive experience in both the Korean and US markets, Sarah and Christine have...

We often write Ingredient Spotlight posts to highlight unique, natural ingredients in our products and how they benefit your skin. In many cases, those same ingredients are as nutritious for your body as they are for your skin. This first installment features a traditional Chinese soup with the Tremella mushroom, also known as the snow fungus. Dried Tremella fungi The Tremella mushroom is a now-familiar ingredient featured in Earth’s Recipe’s...

We’ve made it to day 4 of our #MondaytoFridayMasking challenge! Have you been keeping up with us? Today, we show you a quick way to to make some do-it-yourself masks with products that are already in your skincare collection. It’s 3pm in the Glow Recipe offices and our skin would appreciate a little midday pick-me-up. Instead of doing full sheet masks like yesterday, we made DIY masks with soaked cotton...

We’ve reached the halfway point in our #MondaytoFridayMasking Challenge! We needed a boost to get through our hump day, so we got the Glow Recipe team together for a masking roundtable. It’s Wednesday, aka hump day, and it feels like forever until the weekend. To boost morale, I gathered Glow Recipe team members Sheila, Kim, and Katie for mini masking party where we checked-in on our #MondaytoFridayMasking challenge progress and...

It’s day 2 of our #MondaytoFridayMasking Challenge and Anna Park of Style Under Pressure show us how to make a toner-soaked coin sheet mask! Follow along this week as we blog about our masking adventures. A little about me: I have combination skin that has gotten, much to my delight, drier in the dry areas and oilier in the oily areas as I’ve gotten older. You’d think one of the...