“I’m an aesthetician’s nightmare, the person who circles all the concerns on the first-visit questionnaire. But I’m trying to lean in and embrace my beauty routine, even if it’s — how to put this? — a tad long”
Kathleen Hou, Senior Beauty Editor at The Cut Photo: Andre Wagner “Vanities” is a new feature in which the Cut’s editors obsessively detail their beauty routines. Next up: The Cut’s senior beauty editor, Kathleen Hou, whose glowing skin is the result of many — so many — French, Korean, and Japanese beauty practices.
Since I’m focused on skin care, I tend to gravitate toward products that are French, Japanese, and Korean, all cultures with skin-care-oriented philosophies of beauty. I also love to discover new products when I’m traveling. There is a CE Ferulic fan club among beauty editors but it took me a while to join because CE Ferulic smells unlike any other beauty product I’ve ever encountered.
Next comes moisturizer, eye cream, and SPF. In the colder months, I like creams, but now that it’s getting warmer, I switch to gels because heavy creams cause my makeup to drip when I sweat. I like the Fresh Water Gel from Cremorlab, a Korean brand that my friend Alicia Yoon of Peach & Lily introduced to me. Made from special Korean thermal water that allegedly contains 300 times the minerals of other waters, it’s lightweight on the skin but still packs a moisturizing punch.
For eye creams, I like the richest one possible. I have dark eye circles and an under-eye wrinkle I’ve named Fred, and literally nothing has made them go away except for giving up sugar for a few sad weeks. So I try to spoil my under-eyes in hopes that the extra TLC will work preventatively. Right now, I like Clarin’s Super Restorative Under Eye Concentrate. While I haven’t noticed it do anything to my dark eye circles, it does make Fred a little less prominent and my under-eye look less crepey.
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