K-Beauty Forecast of 2024 - The Best Korean Skincare To Try This Year! AD

I tried some kbeauty products before and always loved everything. This year I decided to go fully kbeauty. I got a lot of stuff from skin1004 and their products are amazing. I especially love the probio-cica line. It really changed my skin and evened out the texture.

I’m using the Mixsoon Bean for 2 weeks now and my skin love it so much. Brightening and helps hyperpigmentation. ❤

Lady's mantle = Alchemilla mollis

Literally typed in “Best Korean Skincare of 2024” and - low and behold - JAMES ALWAYS DELIVERS. Why didn’t I just check here first?!

Can you do videos on the VT Reedle Shot?

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Lol I feel like I'm back four years ago

I'm so glad I follow you. While we may not have the same skin problems, we both have overly sensitive skin. This means I can trust your recommendations more than other people's; you're less likely to recommended something that irritates my skin.

Would love to see your opinion of the viral Qure microneedling system.

I love the 1004 Centella Asiatica serum, it’s really good. I’ll have to try the cleansing oil. I started using a cleansing oil years ago (Shu Uemura) and loved it because it rinses so cleanly. However, it smells very much of chemicals. It may just be the smell of the ingredients, and I wouldn’t want it to have added fragrance, but it’s something like light diesel. I switched to cleansing balms which I really do like but they’re harder to rinse off. Thanks for the suggestions!

I loved the mixsoon essence bean, my skin literally glow and is really flawless and poreless, but sadly as I continued to used it I noticed this weird dry, flaky red rash almost like eczema around my mouth and under my eyes. I stopped using it then and it went away, if not, it would been such a holy grail for me.

Have you tried the VT Reedle Shot essence?

Would you be able to at some point if you feel like it (😅) make a video of what the different steps are, like 1) exfoliate 2) ?? Etc like I don’t know when to use essences or serums or toners. I want to look like the glass skin thing , my skin has rosacea and is quite dry right now and I want to pamper it but trust you the most ☺️

Love all your videos!

I purchased the Prequel cleanser per your recommendation and love it!

You make me wanna buy them all 😊 I have a ampoule by skin1004 with niacinamide and I love it. If you wanna try another cleansing oil , Patyka is great!

I recently swapped to a k-beauty cleansing oil because I felt like my Then I Met You balm didn't last as long as I wished it did, which made it expensive to repurchase. It was between the Mixsoon bean one and the Skin1004 one (I already love their sunscreen and pro-bio cica moisturiser they're amazing!). I chose the Mixsoon one in the end but I feel like I really need to try this Skin1004 cleanser. My skin just seems to love their products a lot from what I've tried so far.

I know this isn’t a KBeauty brand but Fourth Ray (sister brand to Colour Pop) makes lip balms in a tub that have that softer feel because I know exactly what James means 🫦

Ooh I am with you exactly on the cleansing oils - I was over them and only balms, had a sample of another brand and thought 🤔 I should give cleansing oils another go. I’ll def try Skin 1004 as they make one of my all time fave sunscreens! 💜

I found the Round Lab cleanser made my skin feel really dry and tight which was a shame because I love the texture of it. The moisturising sunscreen is a bit hit and miss on my skin as well, sometimes does the same thing where it makes my skin feel really tight and it then becomes greasy to try and re-hydrate itself. I have dry-combination acne prone skin so have to use a lot of actives so I really try hard to find hydrating or skin barrier repairing products. I loved the texture and feel of the mixsoon bean essence but I think it made my other skincare pill? Maybe I rubbed it in too much so it became the exfoliating phase rather than the essence phase but I’m not sure. I’d like to give it another go though.

I was using micellar water as the first step of my double cleanse for a hot minute because every balm I tried would always make me feel ick when it would get in my eyes, but I got the Anua Heartleaf cleansing oil and I LOVE it. It reminds me of the Dermallogica one in terms of how silky it feels and how good it smells but once you add water it emulsifies beautifully and doesn’t really leave residue behind like most cleansing oils. Honestly I’ve been loving Anua in general lately, I use their Heartleaf toner layered with the Skin1004 Poremizing toner and the Anua Heartleaf Soothing Ampoule. It’s done amazing things for my rosacea and sensitive but combo acne prone skin.

man.. i thought you're gonna review the dokdo toner too, since from what i heard, the dokdo line is the brand's bestseller. best part is that the toner has a big size version that can last you many months!

I didn't know propolis went away lol, Iv stayed using it.

My first and only oil cleanser is from Haruharu Wonder. All oils creep into my eyes and create a milky layer that i need to remove by applying eye drops. Thats also a reason that i cannot use waterproof mascara since it would be removed with an oil or bi-phase product.
I love K-beauty but will pass on the oil cleansing 😢

I bought that Tocobo Lip Mask as you had talked about it in another video and I LOVE IT! My lips are not dry in the morning! Thank you for the recommendation!!!!!!!!

I recently got the Skin 1004 light cleansing oil a few days ago and let me just say this oil is amazing, the scent is therapeutic. It really washes off so easily, and it’s great for massaging away those oil plugs. I had really congested skin and my pores are so clear now in just two days.

Amazing how koreans developed a lip mask as apparently their standard of beauty is to have super dry, peeling lips! just check the korean dramas... I'm always thinking of sending them a truckload of chapsticks!!

I Love this type of videos. I find them very interesting and informative. Is there any skin care products you would recommend for sensitive eczema prone skin?

Many apologies James but you saying propolis, cracked me up. Every time you said it and you actually managed to make an extremely sad person laugh ❤👏🇬🇧

I got the belif moisturizer in an ipsy bag way back in 2015, it was the first skincare I'd ever used that wasn't something like clean n clear or Neutrogena and it blew my mind how nice and smooth it was and how my skin just soaked it up instead of feeling greasy.

Belif is the brand that started me on Korean skin care, and is still one of my top favorites. ❤

Belif cream has alcohol denat at the top of the ingredients list 😐 Not ideal for sensitive skin

As soon as i saw you'd dropped a k beauty video - i stopped rewatching Elementary and clicked 😆
Popped a lot of your recommendations in my wishlist for when my other products run out.

I have a small request - started using the Pyongyang Yul ATO cream blue label, and it's become my HG. I have oily skin and live in a hot wirh high humidity environment, so my routine has been very much trial and error. A little goes a long way, and so nourishing but simple with it's ingredients.
Their toner is lovely - not aggravating but no WOW factor either.
I haven't seen much on the Pyongyang Yul brand, and would be very interested on your opinion 😊

I would love to try K beauty one day! Thanks for your review you make everything sound amazing x

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Shut out to James for telling us the names of the ingredients even though they are really hard to read😂🎉

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Hey James for those of us who have dry & flaky skin on face what cleanser or products you suggest we use to resolve the problem effectively? My dad struggles from this & frankly cerave moisturizing tub isn’t doing much for him. He’s been using 2.5% hydrocortisone &/or 2% ketoconizole cream in the effected areas but still isn’t resolved. Some parts of his face also has mild itch. Note he does shave occasionally too. 🪒

Thanks for the review and I love 💕 all K Beauty. Have added all to my cart. Excited 🎉

Hi! Love half of the products that you reviewed already! Thank you for your recommendation! By the way, have you tried any products from Bliv:U? Maybe I simply missed you talking about them, but I'd like to know your opinion on their masks and toner pads. Have a great day! ❤

Now I need to try everything I'm not already using!

I LOVE the skin 1004 cleansing oil! I've tried many but always go back to it. It really is the best IMO

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Agree about the Belif Aqua bomb! It’s a moisturizer I always come back to and I’m always reminded why I loved it to begin with!❤

Clicked open to watch so fast when I saw k-beauty 🥹

Yesss! The round lab cleanser is awesome great value!

Thank you, James ....more to buy !!!!!! Love the look of the cleansing oil !


f the cleansing oil

Thank you for talking about alcohol as a carrier ingredient. I believed another well known skin content creator hat would talk about alcohol being in the first five ingredients as a drying alcohol. Then I found Lab Muffin, and as a beauty chemist explaining there’s various alcohols that do different things besides being labeled as a drying ingredient.

Funny because it’s the opposite for me! I feel smothered by cleansing balms and it feels so gross! I prefer the oil!

Next update: STD outbreaks....