Keeping up with the Koreans

There’s no denying — or fighting — the pop-cultural domination of Korea. K-pop is a wave that has crashed over our daily lives, flooded our music playlists and washed the slate clean for new idols to obsess over.

It’s only natural, then, that our stash of beauty goodies is now looking decisively Korean.

Asian women have turned their search for camera-ready beauty secrets away from Hollywood and towards The Land Of The Morning Calm, in a quest to discover what sorcery is responsible for their fellow Asian beauties boasting clear alabaster skin that seems to glow from within.

The secrets to this covetable K-beauty, however, are not exclusive to the Korean demi-gods residing in magazines. We break down exactly what you need to do to achieve a radiant, luminous complexion worthy of a cover shoot of your own.