South Korea has clearly cemented itself as a hub for everything skincare and beauty related, what with its innovative products and many trends that have taken the world by storm. Besides its popular seven skin skincare method and glass skin hype, there’s now another beauty trend that’s quickly garnering attention. Known as the honey skin look, it essentially refers to skin that’s plump, dewy and healthy-looking.
Achieving this supple, dewy complexion takes time and effort, so don’t expect to receive immediate results in just one day. While glass skin focuses on achieving a poreless and flawless complexion, honey skin is all about getting healthy, smooth skin with a gorgeous, glowy sheen similar to that of honey itself.
How it works: apart from hydrating serums and rich creams, using facial oils, a good toner that will restore skin’s natural pH balance and a brightening serum are key to help you achieve the coveted honey skin. Below, we suss out the products you need to achieve this sought-after complexion.
The popular Korean brand released a line known as Soon Jung to cater to those with sensitive skin. This is formulated with 90 per cent plant derivative ingredients and panthenoside. With a pH level of 5.5, which is similar to that of our skin to strengthen skin protein, it helps restore skin to its natural healthy balance and provides skin with sufficient moisture without leaving it feeling greasy or sticky.
Infused with fine clay particles, this toner contains a nutrient-dense micro algae blend to purify and balance skin.
Made with mineral-rich seaweed, algae and cucumber extracts, this helps to rebalance and revive skin and is also suitable for those with oily and combination skin.
Great for women with sensitive skin, this refreshing toner contains antioxidant-rich natural litchi extracts and deep sea water, which helps to soothe, hydrate and restore skin’s natural balance.
Formulated with 97.5 per cent organic ingredients that are naturally fermented and distilled, this toner quickly hydrates and nourishes skin to reveal a dewy, hydrated complexion.
This is crafted with the brand’s Pitera infused GenOptics Complex to brighten, hydrate and even out skin tone for a radiant and plump complexion.
Formulated with the brand’s exclusive Light Reflecting Complex, wild thyme and plankton extract, this radiance-boosting concentrate will help you achieve clearer, brighter skin fast.
This is made with the brand’s Hydro Ion Mineral Water, which activates skin’s natural moisturising agents and repair damage, while extracts such as quinoa seed and tillandsia extracts supply immediate moisture balance for soft and supple skin.
Formulated with a host of powerful ingredients such as white ginseng saponin and white ginseng polysaccharide, this serum helps you achieve brighter, glowy skin fast.
With a light and cooling texture, this provides freshness to skin which has become dull from UV and environmental aggressors. It also contains bamboo sap fermented with three flower extracts to hydrate and boost skin’s moisture retention abilities, leaving skin feeling soft and supple.
Enriched with pure berries extracts, this lightweight cream helps to brighten as well as deliver long-lasting moisture to skin.
This gel-cream is super lightweight and is formulated with soothing and hydrating rosewater and Damask rose extracts to replenish essential hydration.
With a dermatologist-developed formula that combines oil-free hydration with skin-strengthening ingredients, this gel moisturiser will give you plumper, younger-looking skin.
This refreshing aqua gel mask is made with a unique complex of bamboo sap and fibres to help skin feel smooth, hydrated and plumped. It can also either be used as a rinse-off hydro-plumping mask or as a moisturising leave-on treatment.
This two-step rubber mask system includes a highly concentrated serum, which is formulated with green seaweed extract that is rich in vitamin C and minerals to maintain skin’s natural moisture balance for longer-lasting hydration, and a rubber mask that was developed to hydrate and soothe the skin for an instant pick-me-up. The hydrating rubber mask wraps the skin to prevent active ingredients from evaporating to help visibly improve the appearance of fine lines and pores, revealing a more supple, dewy complexion.
Made with the brand’s Jaum Balancing Complex, this helps soothe and smoothen skin texture for an overall clearer-looking complexion.
This unbleached cotton sheet mask is soaked in a rich serum that, thanks to the small, tight molecules of maple sap, sink through the surface of your skin to give tired, sallow skin a boost of energy.
This powerful facial oil is formulated with a potent blend of essential oils such as evening primrose oil and squalane to repair skin’s barrier, boost hydration and restore skin’s moisture balance.
This contains 100 per cent pure plant extracts to tone skin, boost radiance and upping the moisture levels at the same time. It is made with a cocktail of essential oils such as rosewood, blue orchid, hazelnut and patchouli to deliver moisture to ensure soft, supple skin.
With a concentrated formula full of vitamins, amino acids, minerals, organic acids, a blend of six oils and the brand’s powerful Pitera complex, this helps to deeply hydrate and nourish skin.
This rich oil is made with 100 per cent plant derivative oils and contains amino acid to plump and firm the complexion, leaving it with a healthy glow.
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