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Store Visit: Innisfree Union Square, New York City

Store Visit: Innisfree Union Square, New York City

Much loved eco-forward brand, Innisfree, opened it’s first flagship in New York City. This will be the first location out of five to eight planned openings in the next year! Innisfree sources all their ingredients responsibly from Korea’s richest natural resource, Jeju Island. Jeju is unique because it’s a volcanic island which makes the island’s soil dense with minerals and vitamins. The island’s climate, soil richness, and preservation efforts from being a UNESCO World Heritage Site gives the island the ability to grow incredibly potent and lush plant life. Although many of you may have already ordered your precious Innisfree products online, there are store-only offerings like customizing your own mix-in clay masks, building your own palettes and BB cushions, and not to mention using the store’s digital shade finder tool to help you choose your perfect foundation shade out of 14 choices! Click through to tour the entire store and see my first YouTube video!

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Shopping Guide

Store Visit: LINE FRIENDS – New York City Times Square

Store Visit: LINE FRIENDS – New York City Times Square

LINE Friends opened their first USA store in New York City’s most popular tourist trap, Times Square! The massive store opened in July 2017 and sells gift items like stuffed dolls, phone cases, housewares, clothing and other useless (but cute) items printed with lovable LINE characters like Brown, Cony, Sally, Choco, Moon, James, Boss and newer characters like Leonard (frog) and Pangyo (panda). LINE is the messaging app that originated in Japan and uses hilarious stickers featuring characters that depict my everyday emotions and behaviors like disgust, narcissism and gluttony (with some love sprinkled in). The LINE characters became so popular that they have their own offline animated series called LINE OFFLINE where they are in an office setting of “Line Corporation”. I took some 360 photos and an insane amount of regular photos with an unBEARable amount of original LINE stickers, click on to view!

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Event

Event: Club Clio NYC Union Sq. Flagship Reopening

Event: Club Clio NYC Union Sq. Flagship Reopening

If you’ve seen any of my Instagram Stories, you’ll know that I visited a lot of the Club Clio sample sales in the summer because they were in the middle of renovating the space and clearing out old merch that couldn’t sit on the shelf any longer. The moment is finally here to unveil the new look and there’re amazing incentives when you visit 11/17 – 11/30! Firstly, there will be 50% off ALL purchases! This discount will get you close to Korean retail prices so head over there for the best selection! Forget waiting for Black Friday when you can shop Club Clio, Goodal, Peripera, L.O.C.K. Color, Dr. G, Derma Dr. Lab, SooAE and a couple of new brands they’re stocking. Click through to see the other store specials during this two week period. 
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Blogging Life/Personal

Greece Vacation: Mykonos, Santorini and Athens

Greece Vacation: Mykonos, Santorini and Athens

I haven’t blogged anything “lifestyle-ly” so here’s a quick post about my vacation on the Greek Islands: Mykonos and Santorini with a pit stop in Athens! Of course, I also put together a quick traveler’s guide and things I learned while I was there so this isn’t just a brag post about my “wonderful” life. There was an Emirates companion fare deal for $799 flying out of Newark airport to Athens, Greece so I just had to jump when I was figuring out what to do with my remaining vacation days. The Fiancé and I are just going to call it our Engagement Moon. The flight going to Greece was cheap but the hotels, island transfers and dining was NOT. I have some pre-booking tips and some while-you’re-there tips so you don’t get a rude awakening.
[caption id="attachment_2481" align="aligncenter" width="5312"] Ornos Beach, Mykonos Island[/caption]…

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Shopping Guide

Tokyo, Japan Beauty Shopping Guide (With Google Maps and MEGA PHOTO TOURS)

Tokyo, Japan Beauty Shopping Guide (With Google Maps and MEGA PHOTO TOURS)

I was on a mission to visit as many beauty stores in Tokyo during my one week stay because your girl has a small hoarding problem. Although most of my google searches told me to go to a Japanese drugstore for all J-Beauty needs, I wasn’t satisfied with the results. I looked up beauty haul and shopping guide videos on YouTube where I was able to find better information and compiled a list as best as I could from various sources. I think it helps to know the type of shopper I am so you can gauge if this list fits your taste. I tend to buy low to mid range products because I believe there are very effective products out there without the luxury mark-up. I’ll occasionally buy a luxury branded item if the hype is real. You can see my Japan beauty porn from Haul Post and below are most of the stores I raided in Tokyo. The post ahead has general tax-free shopping tips as well (you’ll be glad you read it here first)!

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