to be honest not too much has changed from my last update… but start of the new year quarter just feels like an appropriate time to drop some new products i’ve introduced into my routine.

am

• CLEANSER: water - this still has not changed
• TONER: muji light toning water moisture - fancy water
  
• ESSENCE: numbuzin no.3 super glowing essence toner
• SERUM: goodal green tangerine vitamin c serum
• MOISTURIZER: aestura atobarrier 365 cream
• SPF: skin aqua tone up uv essence mint green - reliable color correcting spf though i want to try the skin1004 one after

pm

• OIL CLEANSER: kose softymo speedy - still using her. tried and true.
• CLEANSER: herbivore pink cloud jelly cleanser - i still do love her but maybe time to try something difference…soliciting gel cleanser recs <3
• TONER: sana nakamera honpo soy milk micro lotion mist
• TONER: mediheal madecassoside blemish pad - these are like microdosing sheet mask
• AMPOULE: vt reedle shot 100 - changed my life maybe. i use this every other day but the 100 doesn’t seem to be thatttt strong / doesn’t really give me too much of a prickly sensation so i feel like i could either graduate to 300 soon or just start using this one every day. 
• AMPOULE: skin 1004 madagascar centella ampoule - same old
• SERUM: vt pdrn serum - bought this with the reedle shot and well i assume it’s working with it to have such a good effect
• RETINOL: prescription tret 0.025 - ummm when did this get so expensive 😭
• MOISTURIZER: aestura atobarrier 365 cream - my winter moisturizer that saved my skin during dry asf december.. i do still think it’s kind of boring though. in the hotter months i’ve been using the illyoon for a lighter ceramide cream
• EYE CREAM: strivectin intensive eye concentrate - i kind of have more eye creams than i know what to do with and admittedly it’s not a step i always remember to do… 😭 so i alternate between strivectin, trader joe’s super hydrating eye cream, and clinique all about eyes eye cream.  

assorted products at the top of my to-try list (if anyone is familiar with any of these lmk ur thoughts):

• celimax noni ampoule - idk i just want to try it. 
• laniege glaze craze tinted lip serum - i knowww i thought i was free from the clutches of laniege lip products as well after not giving a fuck about the past 20 new lip mask flavor drops but.. well.. this is kind of a product designed to bait me specifically. squishy round donut applicator.. and i want that cinnamon sugar so badge...
• again repeating my request for gel cleanser recs… i’m almost out of my beloved herbivore jelly cleanser and have been eyeing a couple of drugstore and kbeauty options but nothing’s moving me yet
• soliciting scalp serum/treatments recs as well… i think ideally i’d want a leave-in product that i can just put in after i’ve towel-dried or blow-dried my hair, but i’m open to recs of any kind. i’ve been looking at the a’pieu raspberry hair vinegar and aromatica rosemary root enhancer, kevin murphy scalp.spa serum and perhaps the cecred clarifying shampoo scalp scrub (i am almost running out of my ouai detox shampoo so… maybe this would kill two birds with one stone..?)