With These Tired Eyes*

*To be sung to the tune of "Hungry Eyes" by Eric Carmen, featured on Dirty Dancing.

This is the first post about the Korean beauty products I use in my everyday life. There are literally a bazillion different K-beauty products out there, but these are just the ones I've happened upon and will now share my opinions with you, dear reader. Before I came to Korea, I rarely wore make-up and my face routine was Neutrogena face wash and a moisturizer with SPF, for day and night. I have taken baby steps to get to where I am now, and so can you! K-beauty is hella overwhelming, and I usually end up looking at other people's blogs to get tips. These can also be a bit much as they are done by actual beauty bloggers that are discussing slightly more advanced products (not for beginners and/or lazy people), and often use terminology that I have to google in a separate tab.  Hopefully these posts will help other face care dummies/lazy fucks such as myself.

So yeah, I always have dark circles under my eyes. I am constantly being told I look tired, which, 90% of the time is true. Even on days when I'm feeling good, got some energy, ready to rule the world, someone still tells me I look tired. However, I will say that lately I have been getting a lot of compliments on my skin, so other than the bags, my face situation is going pretty well. And even luckier for me, Koreans value a small face, so I have gotten many a compliment on the actual size of my face. At home, I was embarrassed for my tiny head that had to wear kid sized hats, but not here! But that is a whole other post, this one is about eye bags.

I think they are hereditary, so there is little that can be done about them. Sometimes, when I'm feeling ambitious, I wear under-eye concealer but those days are few and far between. So, every now and then (when I remember), I use these little eye patch thingys that I think I saw on someone else's blog. You can be the judge if they do any good. (Forgive the photos, I haateee taking selfies)

Hydrogel Eye Patch by Petitfee, ordered from Gmarket

Before picture. I shouldn't have dark circles. I had slept in and relaxed all day. But such is life. 

Are they working? Is this the right way they go on? I don't know, I lost the directions. Leave on 10-15 minutes. 

After! Looks exactly the same, eh? Do I feel brighter? Not really. 

Like most things, if I did them consistently, I might see results. However, I'm the worst at following a routine. Mainly because my life is constantly being interrupted by travel or schedule changes. I'm not complaining because I love change, but it's not the best for routines. 

So there you go. I didn't necessarily look better, but I did feel fancy as fuck with black pearl and gold resting under my eyes.