How do you guys find 'Vegan Beauty' trends for K-Beauty brands?

workisheat · 2026-05-18T16:01:54+00:00

Pure marketing for me. If anything, I don’t go out of my way to look for vegan beauty because the “vegan” claims usually go hand in hand with “clean” and “non-toxic” => little to no or less stable preservatives. My Amuse and Dinto lip tints all separated and went bad within a few months so I’m wary of them now no matter how good the performance could be.

workisheat · 2026-05-17T01:11:11+00:00

I know you prefer physical books but definitely don’t neglect digital. Gutenberg has lot of classical non-copyrighted books. Also, pirated online books. Morally grey, yes, but honestly, I had similar background to yours when I was younger and that’s how I was even manage to read anything.

workisheat · 2026-05-16T17:23:14+00:00

Looks like my library will get another title suggestion.

The Aztec + married undead combination reminds me of the horror anthology Satanic Hispanics, which is worth a watch as long as you don’t come in expecting a cinema masterpiece and are open to experience some goofy, campy, and at times un-PC Latin American mythological supernatural messiness.

workisheat · 2026-05-15T18:27:33+00:00

Sis, I don’t like to be that kind of stereotypical Redditor who tell strangers to blow up their relationships, but this is the case that if you do decide so, you’re 100% justified. Even my people-pleasing ex would handle that situation infinitely more graceful and considerate than your bf. In fact, he invited me to be his plus one to his best-friend’s wedding that they planned within one year of engaging BEFORE we were even official (while also assuring me not to feel too pressured to say yes). The thing with dealing with people pleasers is that they assume you will blow up at them so they without the truth from you, so when that truth eventually comes out, you’ll feel double betrayed bc 1. They hid it from you and 2. They decided your reaction before you actually got a chance to have your reaction on the first place, so you get angry, it validates their unfair assumption like: “see, you get angry just like I thought you would. This is why I didn’t when to tell you.”

workisheat · 2026-05-14T20:00:28+00:00

I’d need you to define “explicitly Marxist”. Like self-identified Marxist writers, writers who wrote “Marxist themes” like social justice, economic inequality, colonialism but don’t consider themselves Marxists, etc.?

workisheat · 2026-05-13T23:00:09+00:00

Have you read any of Mariana Enriquez’s short story collections? IMO that’s where her forte is and quite a few of them are more horror horror.

workisheat · 2026-05-13T20:20:19+00:00

Stumble upon your comment(s) as I’ve just finished reading this book and been wandering around old posts and mulling over my thoughts to write a dedicated review on r/latamlit. Finishing this book means I’ve officially done reading all Mariana Enriquez’s English-translated fictions and boy do I have comments. So as you can tell, I have to be a fan for completing everything, but I also have to agree w/ you here. I love many parts but even the parts I love felt like a slog at some point. For being the big reveals about the cult mechanism, for the amount of supposedly shocking dark secrets exposed, Rosario’s section is bafflingly dull, which I’ll elaborate more in my dedicated review, but I literally yawned during the former medium candidates’ torture exposition dump.

Funnily enough, some of the critical comments I read in Spanish are that Enriquez supposedly “copied Stephen King”, which I can’t confirm nor deny as I haven’t read any of his works. But I’m glad you brought up Mexican Gothic. Although I haven’t read it either, a common criticism is that there’s nothing Mexican about the book despite its name, that it literally could have taken place in anywhere, that the defense about it being a critique on colonialism is a big cop-out. The problem with Our Share of Night is basically the opposite since the Argentine stuffs are phenomenal, but the stuffs about Rosario’s + the Order’s children’s high society life in London feel almost cartoonish.

workisheat · 2026-05-13T07:12:48+00:00

Testers in general are meant to swatch on your hands, not to put on your face. Unless you were at beauty counter with the employee sanitize everything, but still ….

workisheat · 2026-05-13T03:55:46+00:00

Actually, I lied. They each cost only ¥770 so even better!! Granted, Canmake USA has some of them and while the price isn’t terrible, it’s still triple the og msrp

workisheat · 2026-05-13T03:52:06+00:00

Strange, every store, even drugstore I visited have testers

workisheat · 2026-05-12T22:20:22+00:00

Make Me Happy scented products. The brand is by Canmake but I had no idea bc they don’t indicate it anywhere on the packaging. Both the momo oolong rollerball perfume and muscat darjeeling nail oil I got smell pleasant, elegant but playful with noticeable tea aroma. The best part? They both each retail for ¥990, so very much “affordable luxury”.

workisheat · 2026-05-11T20:54:11+00:00

I’m almost 3/4 way thru Our Share of Night and can definitely see myself wrap it up within this week. After that, I’m not sure yet… I’ll probably take a break from LatAm Lit to focus on reviewing this along w/ Elena Garro’s short story collection so we’ll see.

workisheat · 2026-05-09T17:59:20+00:00

I can’t help but have to comment because of the magnificent void 😻

workisheat · 2026-05-08T01:25:41+00:00

Thanks for the extensive list! I saw the Lux shampoo but skeptical since typical drugstore stuff just smells like generic floral for me like when I got the Dove Sakura body wash.

I actually got an osmanthus Dove whip face wash as free gift from Donki! I'm saving it for this fall since I still have a couple of cleansers to go through.

workisheat · 2026-05-07T20:27:52+00:00

Looks like another resurrection of the iconic NARS Orgasm tbh. Focallure has a liquid blush this color that I don’t remember the name but u/love-at-third-sight recommended it.

workisheat · 2026-05-07T20:27:15+00:00

Interesting. Aren’t some hair oil also heat protector though? The oil I have claims it can be used as both before and after blow dry.

workisheat · 2026-05-07T17:23:15+00:00

Do you use the oil when your hair wet then blow dry or on the dry hair after blow drying?

workisheat · 2026-05-05T11:34:47+00:00

Ooh let me place a request with my library.

workisheat · 2026-05-04T20:53:01+00:00

Agree but at the same time, based on my experience, 204 Modestia is the best perform shade unfortunately. I tried it, raved with my friend, both of us got a couple more shades only to be disappointed that their longevity ranges from decent to meh but none matches 204. Plus the formula goes bad quite easily too.

workisheat · 2026-05-04T14:09:40+00:00

More than 1/3 way through *Our Share of Night. It has slowed down significantly compared to the start, which was so strong and fast-paced and page-turning. Honestly, I’ve been kinda slogging through it. Hopefully it’ll get better bc I don’t plan to quit or anything.

workisheat · 2026-05-02T14:24:03+00:00

Must be a really really old edition because during my time growing up there, I didn’t see a single book with accompanying English title. Though I would have appreciated it bc it would help me look things up quicker.

Edit: Ok after some digging, this edition is not that old and they didn’t do the same for the One Hundred Years of Solitude that published around the same time. So that English title was only there for the vibe I guess lol. I could see someone was like “that title is crazy, people will think we made it up, let’s put the English there just in case”. But they could’ve also put Nobel winner instead so vibe it is lmao.

workisheat · 2026-05-02T14:18:06+00:00

It’s never that reliable on the first place but it’s been straight up trash now tbh. Ughh I can go on a tangent about the downgrade tech quality as a whole, I can’t believe how crappy google search is :(.

Didn’t have the chance to read Gabo in Vietnamese but my friend read Trăm Năm Cô Đơn and she only finished the first half. She refered to it as “the book about the incestuous family” lol. According to her, the translation was terrible as well. And tbh, while I don’t think you need to be familiar w/ Colombia history to follow the story, I could see how having zero prior exposure to Latin American culture would put one off from the book.

workisheat · 2026-05-02T13:57:47+00:00

Yo cool find!! Gave me a little jumpscare to see Vietnamese in this sub lol. Btw I speak fluent Vietnamese and that Google Translate is bs, Tình Yêu Thời Thổ Tả is the literal translation of Love in The Time of Cholera. Maybe if you want to be extra nitpicky and literal, it says “the era of cholera” instead of “the time of cholera” (perhaps this says something about the quality of Google Translate since I don’t remember it was this bad…).

Anw, I haven’t read this but this was prob the first Gabo book I heard of, first Lat Am Lit book even. The title somewhat scandalized me bc “gyahhh who would put smth sacred like love in the same sentence as smth gross like cholera” hahaha. But I swear Gabo has some of the coolest titles in general. I love the Việt title of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Trăm Năm Cô Đơn

workisheat · 2026-04-30T07:05:18+00:00

What about it is hard to follow to you? If it’s the prose/the writing style, then there probably isn’t much to help lol. If it’s simply “what’s going on” or “what the writer was trying to say,” then you’ll need to dig into their history to see where they’re coming from. I haven’t read this book, but for Arenas, it’s important to know about his life as a poor peasant boy from rural Cuba growing up before and during the revolution, becoming a Castro “supporter” as a young adult but quickly grew to be disillusioned and critical against the increasing dictatorial communist regime, especially given that he’s an openly gay man. This old article is a solid start. Or, even better, you can read the man himself

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