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I know that they
have Korean cosmetic stores outside Korea but mainly in Asia. I found The Face
Shop from Abu Dhabi during my holiday a couple of months ago and boy let me tell you the products
were pricey! I bought 4 mask sheets and I paid £7 O_O When you buy them online
you often get a deal of 3pcs for £3-4 or each mask sheet is about £0.5-1. The
prices might have just been unusually high in Abu Dhabi but I have heard that
the prices are a bit higher in other Asian countries and especially in America (correct me if I'm wrong here!).
Anyway…I have
been buying Korean cosmetics online for 4 years now and I have bought them from
plenty of different places. It seems that there are a lot more places to buy
them now than there were a couple of years ago. You can definitely see that the
popularity is rising! When I first started buying I got everything from ebay.
There were two shops on ebay that I used to buy consistently from and they were: RubyRuby and F2plus1
They both have
free standard shipping and fairly cheap prices. You also get a couple
of samples from both sellers though I did find that I only received samples
with my first two purchases from Rubyruby. They both are extremely quick when
it came to shipping. I think that almost always my products were shipped within
the next day or two and I always used standard shipping. Since I live in
the UK it usually does take a week and a half or two weeks in total for the
parcel to arrive from the day of the purchase. With ebay the best way to pay is by Paypal
which is very easy to use these days (if you’re not aware how to use Paypal I
suggest you check out their site since it is very easy to understand).
I switched to using Cosmetic-love for a long time because I found that they had an excellent reward system and also free shipping. The prices are in USD so a currency converter does come in handy if you’re not from the US. They also had very fast shipping and I always received free samples. The easiest way to pay again is Paypal.
I am always
trying to find the best deals out there and so I ended up finding even better
sites with cheaper prices. The more recent places that I have got my Korean
cosmetic fix are RoseRoseshop (which also has the ebay store that I mentioned Rubyruby) Beautynetkorea (which also has the shop f2plus1 on ebay) and Testerkorea. Beautynet has free shipping whereas Testerkorea and Roseroseshop have shipping
fee.
I always do a
comparisons between these sites when I want to buy a lot of stuff and I always
end up finding that Testerkorea has most of the products that I want to buy and often a bit cheaper
depending on the weight. Testerkorea recently changed their shipping fees a bit and
now small packets are priced according to the area and between 100g and 1800g. Usually if
I want to buy many heavy things, it is better to get them from Beautynet because
I end up saving with the shipping fee. Roseroseshop has a free shipping on
some of their products but not all of them. They do not state very clearly how
much the shipping comes down to until you have products in your shopping
cart.
I would say
that Testerkorea takes the longest to ship their products and usually I have to wait for around 3-4 days
after they have received my payment. Roseroseshop states that they ship within
3 business days after receiving the payment (and they do) and with Beautynet I
find that they ship their products within 1-3 business days as well. I really
don’t have anything to complain with the shipping speed as I find them all to
be pretty fast (it’s just the post office that takes time to deliver them). You also get plenty of samples from all of these shops which is a huge plus :) These shops also have different types of payment methods but again I find Paypal to be the easiest.
Obviously there are plenty of other shops out there like Koreadepart and Gmarket but for me the above mentioned stores are the best and easiest once to shop at. Some other shops might be better for you depending on your location like for example Gmarker has much lower shipping fees for Asian countries than other countries etc. Should check the shipping fees from each site to your own country! I live in the UK so it might be very different to other countries.
Thank goodness for Korean cosmetics becoming more popular and even easier to get. I know I could just got to my local Superdrug or Boots to get tons of similar stuff but to me they're not the same. There is just something so special about Korean cosmetics that I wonder whether I am addicted :D
Obviously I use other cosmetics as well but Korean ones are extra special to me :) Plus they are often a lot cheaper and sometimes work better as well!
If you have any questions about shopping for Korean cosmetics or would like to share your Korean cosmetic shopping experiences, let me know :)
your article is very informative about online Cosmetic.. thanks for sharing it..
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the information. Very detailed.
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