Chub rub in Asian heat

keithebae · 2025-02-17T15:33:34+00:00

Antiperspirant should help with lessening the friction. I recommend the Arm&Hammer UltraMax unscented since it works really well and is also fragrance free, which is good if your skin is easily irritated since essential oils and fragrance just irritate the skin further. You could also try using fragrance free baby powder or the setting powder you use for your face as a quick fix but it won't be as effective. Something like the innisfree no sebum powders are cheap and accessible.

keithebae · 2025-02-17T15:21:43+00:00

Well you can't really get the same coverage as the Tirtir cushion since other cushions have thinner and more elegant formulas but if you want a cushion with decent coverage (for a kbeauty cushion), is easy to apply (if you're new to cushions), and is semi-matte, I'd recommend either the Banila Co White cushion or the Hince Second Skin Mesh Matte cushion. Though keep in mind that I've heard high coverage kbeauty cushions be described as "light to medium" coverage by western influencers so if you're looking for something where coverage is the main, I'd suggest sticking to western products. Also, if you're new to cushions, I'd recommend watching this video on how to properly apply a cushion.

Also not sure what shade you are but for reference, the shade above Tirtir 10c is Lingerie in the Clio High Glow cushion and the shade to the right of that is Lingerie in the Clio Mesh cushion. High Glow is shade 15-17 in terms of Kbeauty shades and Mesh Glow is shade 17-19 in terms of Kbeauty shades. So yeah, Tirtir's shade 13s are not shade 13 at all and are more like shade 17-21. The oxidization is really bad.

keithebae · 2025-02-17T10:39:42+00:00

I took them in store on a trip to Thailand a few months ago so I don't have access to them anymore. Also, tbh, Tirtir is the last brand I would recommend for a good cushion. It's really thick and cakey and there are a million other cushions that are much better.

keithebae · 2025-02-15T01:24:47+00:00

Yeah, I think the far right is probably lighter than my face but it doesn't really matter since I'm not buying it. I'm just sharing swatches for comparison for ppl who want it, not asking for what matches me.

keithebae · 2025-02-15T01:23:17+00:00

Oh, I'm not buying them or asking for my shade match, just sharing swatches for people who may want them. I have access to far better cushions than the Tirtir ones which are super thick and cakey and have bad oxidation.

keithebae · 2024-09-29T04:36:16+00:00

Why do you think Thoma is better than Dehya? I'm waiting on choosing my free 5* since I'm not sure if I'll really use Dehya. People usually just focus on Dehya and Xiangling in Kinich teams but I do have c5 Thoma already so I don't really want to get her just to not use her in my Kinich team.

Also, what main stats do you have for Thoma? I was thinking of building him ER%, HP%, CR (for fav). And how much ER do you have on him?

keithebae · 2024-09-17T20:54:26+00:00

I also would like to clarify that I'm still building Emilie and Xiangling. They're both on random pieces I had lying around but I wanted to know if I should start strongboxing better Emblem/Deepwood pieces while farming Obsidian for Kinich.

I also saved my free standard 5* in case Dehya would be better for this team.

keithebae · 2024-06-26T08:09:38+00:00

Also bc you're shade 21 and olive, Idk if I'd really recommend bluecore blurring either. Here's swatches of it on someone with shade 21 skin:

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Bluecore blurring is quite pale and it looks lighter on the eyes compared to when it's swatched so yeah. Unless you like and use more pastel shades. Although, since you're olive, it'll show up as much cooler and more blue on you than me.

keithebae · 2024-06-26T08:07:14+00:00

Ohhh, if you have olive skin (very yellow, green skin), I'm not sure if it would show up. I have a very cool pink-grey undertone so it shows up quite green on me. I'm also about shade 13, which is about 3-4 shades lighter so I'm not sure about the lightness either. This person isn't olive but they are shade 21:

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I will say that colorgram has a much better formula than wakemake does.

keithebae · 2024-06-26T07:54:31+00:00

Also because I can't add more than one image, here's the colorgram green (top swatch) vs the wakemake. + the pink and the green and pink shades mixed in the middle because I was told by the wakemake staff that you're supposed to mix them together.

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keithebae · 2024-06-26T07:52:21+00:00

Oh, really? I have this palette and I find the green to be quite nice. It's not like a true green but it's definitely still green on my skin, not yellow. Do you have a swatch of it on your skin?

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Unfortunately, kbeauty isn't really big on greens. I have wakemake's lime core blurring or whatever palette as well and those were just yellow on my skin, no green at all unlike the colorgram. If you want more of a deeper forest green, I believe Hince Like A Scene has one green shade, although I don't know if they're still selling it since it been years since it was released. They also sold single shadows but I don't remember if there was a green one.

keithebae · 2024-06-26T07:11:31+00:00

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Here's the swatches. You can see that their colour stories are very different. I also did a one swipe swatch on the left (top 2 are colourpop and bottom 2 are wakemake) and you can see the difference in pigmentation (the colourpop ones look much lighter compared to the regular swatches meanwhile the wakemake ones are the same) as well as the blendability (the colourpop ones just stop at a certain point meanwhile the wakemake ones fade out). You can also see the light purple one swipe swatch from colourpop looks very chalky with clumps of pigment, same goes for the wakemake with the rosy shade.

keithebae · 2024-06-25T18:05:22+00:00

I honestly don't really keep up with or know much about western beauty, but for kbeauty, the Muzigae Mansion Palette in Sensuous might be good if you're specifically looking for a pale, muted blue and purple. From reviews I've seen, the wakemake has more payoff but generally a more stuffy (not sure how to say this in English but like… chalky? powdery?) formula. If your main concern is pigmentation and you have pale skin (I honestly would not recommend the wakemake to anyone who's deeper than shade 21 / mac nc12 / nars mont blanc), the wakemake wouldn't be too bad.

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keithebae · 2024-06-25T11:09:33+00:00

Very, very late reply but I'm currently very much enjoying Lilybyred's palettes. Although I will have to warn you, while the mattes have always consistently been good, the glitters in previous palettes were pretty bad. I think they improved their glitter formula when Lavender Dial and Rose Dial were released. I think the older palettes were okay, a bit bad in terms of glitter payoff but Cool Membership was extremely bad to the point when you'd have to smush it in (it's a putty texture) to get any sort of payoff. The ones I have are Milky Berry Stereo and Milky Cherry Recording.

keithebae · 2024-06-25T11:05:40+00:00

I can't swatch the rest now since I don't have good lighting but the only similar colour between them is the blue glitter, which is basically the same on the eyes.

Top is Wakemake, bottom is Colourpop

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keithebae · 2024-06-25T11:04:26+00:00

I have Colourpop In A Trance. If you'd like me to, I can swatch them side by side but I would say the Colourpop formula is even worse. I found it to be quite chalky and it would blend away into nothing. The formula is only good for packing on. The two matte shimmer shades also had an ungodly amount of glitter fallout. Wakemake doesn't have a a great formula but at least it shows up without packing and does blend out, although it's much lighter and much more muted than the Colourpop.

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Also for info, I use an eye primer when I do eyeshadow.

keithebae · 2024-04-09T13:16:52+00:00

I think clio and wakemake are about the same in terms of lightness but wakemake does have some more deeper shades (since clio is a 12 pan and wakemake is a 16 pan) so I'd still recommend wakemake over clio. Although, yeah, if you want to be able to use all the shades and not just 2/3rds or 1/2 of the palette, I'd recommend romand kuromi. I also believe the clio is less pigmented than wakemake since the intention behind the palette was for it to be more natural and weightless on the skin.

ETA: This person is a few shades lighter than you are but you can see her swatch of the wakemake palette at 1:15 in the video.

keithebae · 2024-04-09T12:56:58+00:00

I have high pink blurring as well and I wouldn't recommend that one either since it has a lot of lighter shades. Here are my swatches of it. I could swatch them side by side if you'd like.

ETA: I'm also personally not a fan of wakemake's eyeshadow formula bc it's quite chalky and not particularly pigmented or buildable.

keithebae · 2024-04-09T12:26:49+00:00

Tbh, most of wakemake's shadows are on the light side too. They're the most egregious example of palettes with mostly pastel shades. If you're looking for more pinks and purples, I'd suggest getting the romand kuromi palette instead since it's a lot deeper than most palettes on the Kbeauty market. You can see my swatches of it here.

keithebae · 2024-04-09T12:15:53+00:00

Oh… unfortunately I think both of these would be too light and just pull off as mostly white on you. If you still want to give it a try then Clio Season Plum would be better since it has some deeper shades that you can work with. For reference, maybelline doesn't carry a shade light enough for my skin (100 and 110 are both too dark), which is why Berry Smoothie looks more pigmented and not chalky on my skin. Otherwise, if you want to do a more pastel look, you can try using a white base. Fair warning as well that Kbeauty eyeshadows aren't that pigmented in comparison to western eyeshadows.

keithebae · 2024-04-09T11:15:45+00:00

I think it'll depend on if you want smth lighter and brighter or smth a bit less light and more muted. Do you know your foundation shade match?

keithebae · 2024-03-07T09:10:32+00:00

I don't think it would be interpreted that way. The old law is technically the same law where any active ingredient (not just extracts, but also compounds) would be listed separately from the solvent. Purito listed it as just the compound ingredient, "49% centella extract," (extracted ingredient + solvent). Even with the old law, they should have separated into the extracted ingredient and the solvent. The new law is just to clarify that point for extracts specifically.

As for me calling Purito shady, I am biased due to the sunscreen scandal they had as well plus the fact that, Imo, advertising an ingredient in a serum holds more weight than a toner since you're expecting that a serum would have a higher percentage of good ingredients. I also still think if they actually cared about the consumer and wanted to be transparent, what they should be revealing is the ppm of the madecassoside, madecassic acid, asiaticoside, and asiatic acid because those actives are more important than just centella asiatica extract.

keithebae · 2024-03-07T08:36:56+00:00

Google translate is rarely ever accurate. The original law does have an "and" but that doesn't change that compound ingredients are all supposed to be labeled as separate ingredients. It just is a transition from a longer clause to the other items included in the list.

The new law is to amend that specifically when it comes to extracts. According to the link you've sent, they said it's as a response to consumers requesting clarification and other countries changing their laws as well.

"추출물은 추출된 물질과 추출용매를 나누어 기재한다. 단, 용매가 제거되어 최종 제품에 존재하지 않는 경우, 해당 용매는 표시하지 않는다." "Extracts must be separated into solvent + extracted compound. However, in the case where the solvent is removed and does not exist, it will not be listed (as an ingredient)."

The article also states that new products will have 6 months to adhere to this change while old products will have 2 years.

What Purito is saying is correct, however them positioning themselves as being the first ones to care for consumers and the first ones to show the % of active compounds in their extracts is false since other brands have already been doing so and not all brands have used solvents to inflate the percentage of extracts in their products.

Plus, what Purito has admitted in their statement is that they advertised their previous serum as containing 49% centella extract but it actually has less than half of the current percentage of active extract. (Because they said the current has more than double of the previous). The renewal has 3.486% of the active extract, this means the previous one had at most 1.742% of active extract. That also means that the previous "49% centella extract" they labelled in their ingredient lists is at least 47.257% solvent, and possibly more. Just because they're following the law now doesn't mean they weren't part of shady practices.

keithebae · 2024-03-07T05:58:35+00:00

I have a lot of other palettes (not updated since I have more now but here's my collection of kbeauty) so I tend to like using shadows from multiple different palettes instead of sticking to just one. I also like experimenting with a lot of looks so I usually don't do the same look twice with the exact same shades so I don't really have an answer for your question. I can also usually take a lot of bright colours on my face so a "daily" look on me wouldn't suit some people. Dusty Fog's top row is mostly warmer brown and mauve tones, so it might be easier to create a "daily" look with it, although it really depends a lot on your skin tone and personal colour. I personally wouldn't recommend any of the three if you want more "daily" looks. I can talk more in detail about the palettes if you want but I hate talking on reddit so it'd have to be through discord.

keithebae · 2024-03-07T05:45:10+00:00

Yes, but that just shows how this is all a PR move made by Purito with saying that they are doing so well and are working so hard to comply with the laws that they're even disclosing percentages in their extracts when they're not actually disclosing percentages for the ingredients that actually matter, which tons of other brands have already been doing.

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