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this was originally titled in my drafts as "february perfume haul" but um somehow it's already APRIL? so despite the fact that i should really be doing something else right now (brainstorming how to quit my job) here is a much belated review of the perfume samples i got in feb!

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& i don't think i can rework it into anything else! so here is a crazy little haobin university au snippet....

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inspired by @permutative and @dementhe's posts! sorry just got possessed by the thought of doing this after watching a youtuber do a private lesson w/ a jung saemmool mua. some overlap from the previous makeup post but this one is more routine oriented...i don't really follow an order other than doing sunscreen first (or putting in contacts first, then sunscreen)

base

moisturizer: dr. g a'clear balancing lotion

sunscreen: round lab birch tree sun cream

concealer: back to using maybelline fit me in shade sand but sometimes i use the kosas concealer when

i can't remember where i put the maybelline concealer. the former is like drugstore naked dupe, i like to apply the tip directly to my under eyes, spread it out with my fingers, let it sit for a bit, then go back in with cushion puff + setting spray to buff it out evenly

foundation: usually don't use but if i do, the only one in the routine right now is the rom&nd bare water cushion. the finish right off the bat is beautiful and doesn't require setting spray while buffing b/c it's already super dewy but it definitely moves around the face if you don't set it.

powder: literally cannot find my etude house no sebum powder rn. but i need to get a pressed powder bc i hate loose powders......

setting spray: nyx dewy finish setting spray. tbh idek if it's that good i've just never used a setting spray other than this and the elf coconut one, which is pretty bad.

blush: fwee blusher mellow in sunshine guava...you already know. i wish more people talked about this but i also don't bc it's part of my identity rn....sometimes switch it up with the canmake cream cheek blush in #17 caramel latte (kind of patchy) and the glossier cloud paint in beam (which is still flattering but i hate the packaging so much)

contour: too cool for skool art class by rodin. og neutral contour that you can't go wrong with, gives me a marginal nose job when i go in with a small, fluffy eyeshadow brush etc. also good for setting brows!


eyes

eyebrows: espoir the brow balance pencil. still trying to get a good handle on this..recently reshaping my brows to be more straight to compliment my face shape + make more space for eye makeup, and i feel like my brows get a bit too dark when i go in fully w/ the eyebrow pencil? so i've been putting a lot of eyeshadow on my brows or sometimes the contour powder to fill it in while also lightening it.

eyeshadow: too faced natural matte palette that is like 20 million years old, discontinued, and needs to be replaced bc the fallout hurts my eyes. somehow i've yet to hit pan and i love all the colors in this....taking eye shadow palette recommendations (that preferably includes a dark brown/black shade!).

aegyo-sal: not to be cringe but literally drawing aegyo-sal is like the equivalent of botox to me it is so necessary......[faceism/lookism/cosmetic procedure whatever: jura v svanyyl trg ntr-nccebcevngr haqrerlr whinqrez obgbk be jungrire naq shyyl fynl zl haqrerlr znxrhc jvgubhg gur qnex ontf trggvat va gur jnl... arkg 3 lrnef va gur znxvat] also getting psychic damage thinking about how some girl in an asam class tried to make it a subject of discourse a la omi & winant SOME OF US JUST ARE JUST HAGGARD AND BENEFIT FROM UNDER EYE FAT....anyways where was i, ok my general routine for this is going in with the colorgram aegyo-sal maker in #3 real (goated), then going over that with the contour powder. then putting a base light shadow/highlight shade above the contour, focusing in on the center and lots of layered blending. then glitter on top. wait as i'm writing this i realized my eye makeup routine is so complicated, i also like to do under eye liner on the outer edges (occasionally leaving a gap to widen the eyes)!! i feel like i'm not doing a good job explaining this but um basically i just mishmashed techniques from tiktok douyin makeup tutorials and korean youtube muas....anyways i can't actually do aegyo-sal all the time because it needs to be balanced out by lashes, which i'm lazy to do half the time, so this is only incorporated into my routine like 70% of the time (math???)

glitters: actually not the biggest fan of the rom&nd glitter palette bc the fallout is annoying but it works well with vaseline + sponge-tip eyeshadow applicators. per last makeup post, i get way more use on this with my friend who has a thicker double eyelid than on myself (lowk hooded eyes and thin double lids), so if that's your eye shape/or you do idol makeup looks frequently it's much more cost effective. i'm learning that i like finer shimmers and glitters, so i've been returning to the elf liquid eyeshadow in moon and the peripera duo pocket glitter shadow in caramelized salt. the shimmer shade in the latter is a very beautiful burnt orange that's lighter than it looks in the pan. also begrudgingly using the 3ce eye glint stick in moon pie b/c i spent $$ on it even tho i feel like you might as well just eat the cost of getting the laura mercier eyeshadow stick / bobbi brown eyeshadow stick than deal with the fallout and patchy texture of this knockoff....never buy something u just swatch once in stores

mascara: holy grail kiss me heroine mascara. but now it's getting pretty clumpy so i'm excited to try the etude house mascara. in terms of eyelashes, i'm truly suffering fr (poll: should i just get a lash perm/extensions...) but i think 50% of it could be solved if i had an eyelash curler that actually fit my eye shape!!!!!! for my routine, it's just a battle with using a lighter to heat up the useless missha curler and then putting on mascara and then curling again while trying not to rip off my lashes....also been attempting to shape my lashes with my tweezers but much practice still needed


lips

balm: rip to jaemin but i hopped on the lanolips bandwagon first......nothing else fixes my chapped lips

color: rom&nd juicy lasting tint 5ever. i use nucademia religiously + occasionally been switching it up with dark coconut. also sometimes use this random 3ce lipstick that i find once in a blue moon when i'm switching bags.


body

deodorant: maybe tmi but i need to put everyone onto the kosas aha serum deodorant bc why did it change my life. maybe kosas doesn't flop at everything!! the texture when u put it on is annoying bc it's a gel that needs to dry but once it does it lasts for the whole day and leaves no scent which is perfect for layering on perfumes

perfume: going back to the basics with the jo malone peony and suede perfume that friends got me for my bday last year. my thing with scents is that i love trying out new things but i sometime get sick of scents after a few hours and start getting a headache...this is the only one in my rotation (other than dedcool milk) that doesn't do that to me because it's just a basic floral perfume with banal notes. also recently swatched the lush lust solid perfume and i might buy it!! couldn't tell if it smelled that good on me but it faded ok

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was going back and forth on whether there is even a point in making this primer because i feel like haobin and hao / hanbin respectively are already so popular!! but also i’m trying to manifest an ao3 user predebut fic in the ao3 tags so. #letswalktheflowerpathofhyperspecificpandering

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hellooo back again with a post on one of the few things that brings me joy these days: spending exorbitant amounts of money on skincare and makeup <3 blaming this on tiktok, etc.

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missed doing these travel logs but also they're really time consuming but also they're fun to read back on.....
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2022 books

Jan. 2nd, 2023 06:53 pm
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my reading was so bad this year.
books completed

picture us in the light by kelly loy gilbert

★★★

she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan

★★★★ 💗

a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki

★★★★.25 💗

winter in sokcho by elisa shua dusapin

★.5

the memory police by yoko ogawa

★★★

bunny by mona awad

★★★.75

afterparties by anthony veasna so

★★★★.5 💗

the friend by sigrid nunez

★★★★

time is a mother by ocean vuong

★★★★

the idiot by elif batuman

★★★

my body by emily ratajkowski

★★★★

disorientation by elaine hsieh chou

★★★★ 💗

america is in the heart by carlos bulosan

★★

no-no boy by john okada

★★★★

spinning by tillie walden

★★★★.5 💗

the magic fish by trung le nguyen

★★★★ 💗

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

★★★★ (reread)

bliss montage by ling ma

★★★★.75 💗

snapdragon by kat leyh

★★★★ 💗

you have a friend in 10a by maggie shipstead

★★★
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icb i'm still heejaywon-ing in the year 2022.....
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beauty haul

i want to start using dw more bc i got so harrowed listening to jia tolentino's trick mirror on the drive back to school after thanksgiving break like. 4.5 hour drive deepthinking on internet personality formation is no joke!!

anyways, in the same ironic vein, i actually bought a bunch of things during holiday/black friday sales this year.

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i've been procrastinating on this post forever...here we go:
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- cravity concert + busan log
- non-comprehensive list of cafes i visited in february + life updates from feb
- existential rants [2]

remember when i lied and said i'd do more dw posts about study abroad....as it turns out i barely have time to string together a cohesive thought here but umm some quick life update stats for now:

- number of times i've been to the hospital: 3
- concerts i've been to: 2 [+1 for future txt in seoul]
- visits to the convenience store: 23512673271
- harrowing encounters with men at clubs: somewhere between 5 to 10
- iced americanos consumed: too many....
- days left until i go back home: 40. omfg
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supposed to be packing rn BUT THATS A PROBLEM FOR TOMORROW....anyways i'm no true skincare enthusiast but i've acquired a few things over the past week [gurl who has gone to 5 different olive youngs so far and has never walked out with empty hands] and i thought i'd share them here <3 also i miss writing dw posts
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2021 books

Dec. 30th, 2021 01:55 pm
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just now
kidhood finished:

2

0

2

1

26 out of 21 books

8451 pages

lgbt / historical / contemporary / literary / young adult

average of 4.41/5.00 ⭐

was thinking about the type of media i could do a yearly round-up post for but i have no interesting taste in music, watch too many trash shows, and wrote practically nothing this year.....so books it is!

this post is basically just going to be my storygraph rehashed (as one can tell from my clapped attempt at imitating the formatting) but let's get into it

local person with no tastes has opinions on books )
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hi and sorry for a late as usual media round-up post um i've experienced....a lot in november 😀 i don't even think i've consumed that much media in november but i wanted to just do a separate post now that i'm done with finals since i feel like i'm (hopefully) going to be watching/reading a lot of stuff in december! anyways lets get into it

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go girl give us nothing pt. 2

just the bare bones here )

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