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This time I have brought some lip products to compare. Then, let’s take a look, how all the cosmetic companies plagiarize, improve and differentiate from each other.

Many times, French luxury brands are market leader of a certain product family. So, most of times Korean brands copy & improve the concept of French or US products but nowadays, we can easily see the copy & improve the other way around.

This time, I brought 7 cushions to review, and most of them are not sold on masksheets.com. In other words, this blog will be relatively objective and unbiased.

Well, again, mutual concept-plagiarism is unspoken truth in Korean beauty industry for sure. It’s not a praiseworthy phenomenon, but lets look at it as a customer’s point of view.

Mineral oil is a representative victim of “organic & natural band wagon.” It has been appeared in “must avoid” list for past few years, mainly by the “organic” and “natural-friendly” cosmetic brands. You may wonder as “why on the earth this guy is talking about mineral oil in this posting?”

Chemical peel is one of the most performed cosmetic procedures (or sometimes non-elective medical procedure) in history, even though laser treatments are gaining more popularity from late 90s due to their convenience.

Masksheets.com carries only limited number of makeup products. Unlike sheet masks or skincare products, makeup products have very wide range of colors...and sometimes online makeup shopping turns out to be an epic failure.

I am sure many of you already heard about horror stories about hydroquinone from multiple sources, such as “hydroquinone induces skin cancer” or “I have a severe allergy when I apply hydroquinone.”