How this works
We buy it for you. We do not sell it to you.
This is a buying service wearing a shop's clothes. Browsing, the basket and the checkout all work the way you expect, but what you are buying is the errand: we purchase the item at Korean retail on your behalf, at the price you see, and charge a service fee on top of it plus what it costs to carry the parcel to you. We never mark the goods up. The fee is the price of the service, and carriage is charged above what the parcel costs us to send — those two are where this shop makes anything, and the arithmetic of both is published on the model page.
What you pay
Three lines, never one.
A single total would read as a reseller's price and, once you worked out what we are, as a concealed one. So the goods, the fee and the carriage are separate everywhere they appear — on the product page, in the basket, and at checkout.
The goods
$18.00
What it costs on the shelf in Korea. Passed through at cost — we never mark it up, which is what makes this an errand rather than a shop that owns things.
The service fee
$2.70
15% of the goods. This is the whole of what we charge for doing the buying, checking and packing.
The carriage
$32.00
One box per order, charged once however much is in it. Buying two things costs the same to carry as buying one.
The routine
Ten steps, compressed to four.
The famous ten-step routine is a shelf, not a method. Four steps is what people keep doing after week three, and it is what the catalogue is organised around.
01
Cleanse
Twice at night, once in the morning. The step most often done wrong.
02
Treat
One active, chosen for one problem. Not four at once.
03
Seal
Where the glass-skin look actually comes from.
04
Protect
Every morning, including the grey ones. Undoes the other three if skipped.
Where it goes
Anywhere a parcel goes.
There is no home market. Orders have gone to Japan and to Mexico, and the shortlist is the same one wherever you are — what changes is carriage, the time it takes, and what your own customs will want. Consolidation is the point: several items, one parcel, one carriage charge.
Read this part
That distinction matters when something goes wrong. You are the importer of what you buy, so your country's rules on what may be brought in and what duty is owed apply to you. We say what we know about that before you pay rather than after.
The one door still shut
Browsing works. Our checkout does not, yet.
This shop's own till cannot take a card until a payment provider is connected — you can fill a basket and see exactly what the errand would cost, but you cannot yet pay us. Where a product also stands on Amazon's shelf, the Amazon door on its page works today, and that purchase is Amazon's end to end. Everything else is real: real products, real Korean retail prices, real photographs from the brands. Some products carry a written reason and most do not yet. Where there is one, an AI agent wrote it, working in a defined curator's persona: it reads the product's name and its rating at the Korean source we read, and nothing else. It has tested nothing, and every one it wrote is marked 🤖.