The Best of K-Beauty Is About to Hit a Drugstore Near You — These Are the Products That Will Blow Your Mind!

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The Best of K-Beauty Is About to Hit a Drugstore Near You — These Are the Products That Will Blow Your Mind!

By now, you know all about K-Beauty (short for Korean beauty): the adorable animal-shaped packaging, high-tech makeup textures and sheet masks galore that have been seen on every celebrity’s Instagram account. Case in point: the lip-plumping patch Emma Stone posted showing her Golden Globes red carpet glam prep (hers was by KNC Beauty and cost $25 for 5.) Well, a good thing just got better.

While many vendors including Nordstrom and Sephora have been touting K-Beauty lately, it’s about to get even more accessible (and affordable!) than ever. Starting in April, CVS will integrate a collection of K-Beauty products into stores, and they aren’t playing small — the 100-product collections will live in a whopping 2,100 stores across the country, as well as on cvs.com. All products will be under $30. And that’s not even the most exciting news!

If you’re a fan of K-beauty, you’ve hit up Peaches & Lily at least once — it’s the ultimate online destination for Korean beauty products. Well, CVS enlisted Alicia Yoon, aesthetician and creator of the Peach & Lily brand and site, to curate their K-Beauty collection, which includes her new lower-priced Peach Slices line exclusively!

Stylish ran into Yoon at a press lunch and she shared one of her favorite K-Beauty skincare secrets. Sheet masks are super popular in Korea — apparently there’s even a hashtag that reads #1day1mask in Korean, because many women use a sheet mask a day! To get more out of a mask, Yoon offers this hack: “Put your sheet mask on. Because your skin is getting super soaked with hydration, it’s prepped for more ingredients. After about 10 minutes, peel the mask back a little and put one of your favorite serums on skin, then replace the mask. I call this the Sheet Mask Bandage, and you’re getting the serum to go a lot further for you, because your skin is primed to absorb."

Read on for some of Yoon’s favorites from the CVS K-Beauty collection! 

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The Best of K-Beauty Is About to Hit a Drugstore Near You — These Are the Products That Will Blow Your Mind!

By now, you know all about K-Beauty (short for Korean beauty): the adorable animal-shaped packaging, high-tech makeup textures and sheet masks galore that have been seen on every celebrity’s Instagram account. Case in point: the lip-plumping patch Emma Stone posted showing her Golden Globes red carpet glam prep (hers was by KNC Beauty and cost $25 for 5.) Well, a good thing just got better.

While many vendors including Nordstrom and Sephora have been touting K-Beauty lately, it’s about to get even more accessible (and affordable!) than ever. Starting in April, CVS will integrate a collection of K-Beauty products into stores, and they aren’t playing small — the 100-product collections will live in a whopping 2,100 stores across the country, as well as on cvs.com. All products will be under $30. And that’s not even the most exciting news!

If you’re a fan of K-beauty, you’ve hit up Peaches & Lily at least once — it’s the ultimate online destination for Korean beauty products. Well, CVS enlisted Alicia Yoon, aesthetician and creator of the Peach & Lily brand and site, to curate their K-Beauty collection, which includes her new lower-priced Peach Slices line exclusively!

Stylish ran into Yoon at a press lunch and she shared one of her favorite K-Beauty skincare secrets. Sheet masks are super popular in Korea — apparently there’s even a hashtag that reads #1day1mask in Korean, because many women use a sheet mask a day! To get more out of a mask, Yoon offers this hack: “Put your sheet mask on. Because your skin is getting super soaked with hydration, it’s prepped for more ingredients. After about 10 minutes, peel the mask back a little and put one of your favorite serums on skin, then replace the mask. I call this the Sheet Mask Bandage, and you’re getting the serum to go a lot further for you, because your skin is primed to absorb."

Read on for some of Yoon’s favorites from the CVS K-Beauty collection! 

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Saem Eco Soul Glameyes in Jack Rose, $9.49

When we met Yoon, she was wearing this gorgeous glimmering eyeshadow, which contains shimmer suspended in a unique gel that stays put all day. 

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Peach Slices Firm Mask, $2.49

Anti-inflammatory pomegranate, nourishing honey and Asian mountain mushrooms seeped in an organic cotton mask turned our Beauty Director’s skin taut in 20 minutes.

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Elisha Coy Snail Hydrogel Eye Patch, $13.99 for 5

The anti-aging ingredient that Korean women rave about, snail serum, is embedded in these eye patches that help regenerate skin cells to plump and hide fine lines.

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Holika Holika Pig-Nose Clear Blackhead 3-Step Kit – Box Set, $9.99 for 5 kits

This three-step ritual isn’t exactly an express treatment, but it certainly does the trick for clearing, purifying and minimizing the look of pores on the nose. 

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Frudia Blueberry Hydrating Cream, $19.99

Even if the adorable packaging of this waterless cream doesn’t call to you as it does Us, 77 percent blueberry extract and tomato seed oil nourish skin and lock in moisture for hours without feeling greasy. 

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Peach Slices Acne Patches, $4.49 for 30 patches

Sticker-like hydrocolloid absorb a developing blemish so that it disappears in a day or two — plus, they’re just plain chicer than acne medication.