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Shopping Guide East Village, New York

Store Visit: Chi Snack Shop in St. Mark’s NYC

Store Visit: Chi Snack Shop in St. Mark’s NYC

Chi Snack Shop is in the heart of St. Mark’s, East Village where it not only sells popular Asian Snacks but shelves and shelves of Korean Beauty and Japanese Beauty. I’m really impressed with their selection in skincare and makeup! This isn’t your average Asian supermarket selection. They carry low to high-end items and even brands I haven’t heard of! Chi Snack Shop actually opened primarily as a snack shop, like it’s namesake. Initially, they had only a small section of K-beauty/J-beauty and as those items flew off shelves, they expanded the beauty selection to almost 80% of the store. I think they even played around with changing their store name to Chi Life Shop as their inventory grew to included fun cellphone accessories, knick-knacks and other character items but last I checked, the store signage was still true to Chi Snack Shop. Let’s take a look inside – and yes, even their snacks impress me! [caption id="attachment_3125" align="aligncenter" width="1080"]Chi Snack Shop - 3CE cosmetics makeup Popular Korean cosmetics brand, 3CE has its own shelf inviting you to try its testers.[/caption]…

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Event The Flat, 23 W. 24th Street, NYC

Event Update: 4th Annual Peach & Lily Sample Sale – The Aftermath!

Event Update: 4th Annual Peach & Lily Sample Sale – The Aftermath!

Hey Peaches! The best K-beauty sample sale of the year from Peach & Lily is BACK and got pictures, prices and tips to share! The sample sale is always amazing because you can find the same products that still being sold at Bergdorf Goodman and on Peach & Lily’s website for much, much less. Expiration dates are very generous – it averages about a year to two years left until expiry but always check because some sheet masks I picked up had 3 months left until expiration. Products are arranged per colored table, by price. It was one-day only and they only announced the sale five days ahead of time this year (but at least it was on a Friday). Click down below to see all the brands, new and old and my take on the sale.

[caption id="attachment_3024" align="aligncenter" width="777"] Main Peach. Founder, Alicia Yoon was on-site to help answer questions.[/caption]…

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Event

Announcement: Peach & Lily’s 4th Annual Sample

Announcement: Peach & Lily’s 4th Annual Sample

I anticipate the Peach & Lily Sample Sale every year because they have THE BEST deals on mid to luxury K-beauty brands. The sale is one-day only and they don’t tend to announce it with too much lead time (this year, only 5 days ahead and information was at the bottom of a what looked like a normal Monday marketing email). Thanks to the head’s up from beautyandthecat.com, I was able to find it eventually. Don’t think of this as a junky sample sale where products are already expired or dare I say, already used (AHEM 260 Sample Sale). Products aren’t store returns; they are unopened and from experience, expiration dates were very generous, lasting another one to two years (but of course always check!). Click on to see the location and more tips!

Peach and Lily 4th Sample Sale Sept 2018 New York City

Date: Friday, August 24th from 8AM – 9PM

Location: The Flat NYC, 23 W. 24th Street, NYC 10010…

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Shopping Guide L'OVUE, 324 5th Ave, New York, NY 10001

L’OVUE Biggest K-Beauty Store in K-Town, NYC (Over 80 Brands!)

L’OVUE Biggest K-Beauty Store in K-Town, NYC (Over 80 Brands!)

L’OVUE is a massive, two-story K-Beauty store opened right in the heart of K-Town in New York City this month. L’OVUE is pronounced “love you” and I was fortunate enough to be invited to a blogger’s preview this month! I’ve updated my NYC K-Beauty Shopping Guide with this location making it the sixth K-Beauty retail store on 32nd street. I used to recommend coming to Chinatown for K-Beauty needs, but this addition sky-rockets K-Town as my top recommendation. I think it can compete with the Everyday Beauty Lab in terms of sheer square footage because after all, Everyday Beauty Lab has four legit beauty counters for O HUI, Sooryehan, ISA KNOX, and The History of Whoo. However, L’OVUE wins in terms of having the most variety of K-Beauty brands, carrying over 80 of them, with some I haven’t even heard of before! Click through for a quick tour! P.S. Their prices are VERY reasonable.
[caption id="attachment_2984" align="aligncenter" width="800"]Lovue Kbeauty Ktown NYC Recognize any of your favorite bloggers here? I’ve met some new IGers![/caption]…

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Event Samsung 837, 837 Washington Street, NYC

Glow Recipe K-Beauty Masterclass at NYC’s Samsung 837

Glow Recipe K-Beauty Masterclass at NYC’s Samsung 837

Glow Recipe occasionally hosts K-Beauty masterclasses with Sarah Lee and Christine Chang speaking at the event directly. I remember my first masterclass with them before they ever held their Soho Pop-Up, before they were featured on Shark Tank (they later address their current status with Robert in the Q&A). They held their first masterclass at a hair salon in Ktown where they brought in my favorite celebrity nail artist to speak, Eunkyung Park, creator of Unistella. I’m so proud now to see their masterclasses being held at such a cool and high-tech venue such as Samsung 837 in the trendiest part of town, Meatpacking District. Sarah and Christine have really taken wild strides most notably with their own branded products that pretty much broke the Internet: the Watermelon Sleeping Pack, Watermelon Moisturizer and Blueberry Cleanser. I’m actually quite surprised that these two Girl Bosses are still personally speaking at their masterclasses as I can imagine that they are both quite busy jet-setting and running their business. After all their hard work and rise to success, they both still remember me from their early days (I was able to say a personal hello after the session). See my YouTube video of the event! Please give a comment or a like so I can see if these videos are worth editing (they take a bitch-ass long time).

Glow Recipe Kbeauty Masterclass Samsung 837…

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