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From Grace's vanity in Fort Lee

Twenty-seven years at a skincare counter taught me that the expensive jar rarely matters. The order and the hands do.

For twenty-seven years I ran a skincare counter in Seoul, matching creams to thousands of women, most of them over fifty. Now I'm back in New Jersey, near my daughter, and my friends at church keep asking about my skin. is the hundred routines I'd teach you, made with things you can buy at the drugstore or at H Mart.

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Where you probably are

Your skin changed after sixty. The skincare aisle didn't.

The shelves are stocked for a woman of twenty-five: ten steps, strong acids, a new miracle every season. At my counter, the women over fifty told me the same things, year after year. Their skin felt tight after washing. Their arms and hands had started to look like crepe paper. And the jar that cost the most was rarely the one that made the difference.

This book is what I'd tell you at the counter: the Korean habits that are gentle enough for older skin, done with things you can buy here, and the plain truth about the ones that don't work.

Tight after washing

Your face feels stretched by bedtime, however much cream you put on it.

Crepe-paper skin

The skin on your arms, your chest and the backs of your hands has gone thin and crinkly.

Too many bottles

A cabinet full of jars and serums, and you still don't know which ones matter.

The honest version

The same face, two ways.

It's rarely the price of the cream. It's the order and the hands. Here's one evening done two ways, with every step on the right taken from the book.

The way most of us were taught
Ten steps and three serumsbecause more must be better
A thick cream first, the watery one on topin whatever order the bottles came out
Night cream on a face that's already dryafter the towel, the teeth and the news
Rubbed in, in little circlesthe way the advertisements show it
Same face: more bottles, and more rubbing
The Korean way, from the book
Five steps that are enough after 60wash, a watery layer, one extra if you need it, a moisturizer, then a seal
From the most watery to the thickestso each one can reach your skin
Cream on damp skinwithin three minutes of the towel
Warmed in your palms and pressed onnever rubbed, and a thin seal of petroleum jelly on the driest places
Same face, plus this book:

The order and the hands make the difference. The book shows you both, step by step.

Your skin is your own. Everything on the right comes from the book's routines: The Five Steps That Are Enough After 60, Thin to Thick, The Damp-Skin Rule, The Palm Press and The Thin Night Seal. Do the patch test before anything new, and see a dermatologist for anything that won't go away.

What the book is

Organized by the worry, not by the product.

Most skincare books are organized by product: cleansers, toners, serums, creams. That's the shape of a store. It's the wrong shape for the question we actually ask, which is "What do I do about my crepey arms?"

So this book has ten chapters, one for each part of the job, with eight short routines in each. Every routine is two pages: a real photo, where the habit comes from, and exactly what to do.

What you'll find inside

A hundred routines, each laid out the same way.

Every routine has the same parts, in the same order: what you need, what to do, the secret, who should be careful, what to do if your skin says no, and how often. A few of the routines inside, with the page they're on:

And that's a fraction of it.

80routines, two pages each
10chapters, one for each part of the job
1patch test, before anything new
0brand names: nobody paid to be in this book
One idea from the book

Thin to thick.

Line up everything you put on your face, and put a drop of each on the back of your hand. Watery ones run. Milky ones spread. Creams hold their shape. Ointments, like petroleum jelly, stay put. Number them from the runniest to the stiffest. That's your order.

In Korea a toner is simply called seukin, from the English word "skin", and the basic set goes skin, essence, lotion, cream: from the most watery to the creamiest. American dermatologists teach the same rule.

The secret, from the book

"A thin product can't get through a thick one."

The drop test

A drop of each on the back of your hand

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Watery: it runstoner (in Korea, "skin"), essence
2
Milky: it spreadslotion
3
Cream: it holds its shapeyour moisturizer
4
Ointment: it stays putpetroleum jelly

From the book's chapter 2. In the morning, sunscreen goes on last, over your moisturizer. At night, the thickest thing goes last.

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Is it for you

Written for one kind of reader.

It's for you if

  • You're over 60, and your skin has become drier, thinner or more easily upset than it used to be.
  • You'd like to try the Korean habits you've heard about, done gently, with things from the drugstore or H Mart.
  • You want the honest version: what a habit can do, what it can't, and who should skip it.
  • You'd rather have five steps you'll keep than ten you won't.

It isn't for you if

  • You want a makeup book. This one is skincare, start to finish.
  • You want a printed book in the mail. It's a PDF you read on a screen, though you can print any page.
  • You're hoping to look years younger overnight. Nothing in this book promises that, and nothing honest can.
  • You need treatment for eczema, rosacea, psoriasis or a spot that's changing. That's a dermatologist's job, and the book says so.
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  • 100 routines in 10 chapters
  • Korean habits most Americans have never heard of, from bansinyok to the mung bean pack
  • Every routine laid out the same way: what you need, what to do, the secret, who should be careful, and how often
  • Every fact checked against official health sources first (the American Academy of Dermatology, the FDA, MedlinePlus), with the sources at the back
  • Products named by type, never by brand: nobody paid to be in this book
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Who wrote it

Grace Yoon

I was born in Seoul and went to high school in New Jersey. At twenty-two I went back to Seoul, the youngest girl on a department store's cosmetics floor, bowing to the customers at the ten o'clock opening. For twenty-seven years I ran my own skincare counter there, matching creams to thousands of women, most of them over fifty.

What I learned there is not what the advertisements say. The expensive jar rarely matters. The order matters, and so do the hands.

When my husband retired, we moved back to America, to Fort Lee, New Jersey, to be near our daughter and our two grandsons. My friends at church kept asking about my skin, so my daughter set up a channel to stop me answering the same question at every lunch. This book is the long answer.

Be gentle, go in order, and keep the sun off. Most of Korean skincare is only that, done every day.
Grace
Questions

Before you buy.

Is this a printed book you mail me?

No, and I'd rather you knew that before you spend a dime. It's a PDF: a file you open on your phone, your tablet or your computer the moment you pay. Nothing arrives in the mail. You can print any page you like.

Is the type big enough to read?

Yes. It's set big on purpose, and every routine is laid out the same way, in short sections, so you always know where to look.

I'm not good with computers.

You don't need to be, my dear. You press one button and the book opens the way a photo does: no account, no password. If it doesn't open, write to me and I'll walk you through it, or give you your money back.

My skin is sensitive. Is this for me?

There's a whole plan for it in chapter 10: fewer products, no fragrance, a mineral sunscreen, and a test before anything new. Every routine starts with the patch test, the way the American Academy of Dermatology describes it.

Do I need to buy Korean products?

No. Every routine names products by type, never by brand, and nearly everything is at an American drugstore. If you'd like to try H Mart, there's a page on reading a Korean label.

Will it take years off my face?

No, and nothing honest can. What the routines can do is help your skin feel softer and more comfortable, and look cared for.

Is it medical advice?

No. Nothing in it diagnoses, treats or cures a skin condition. If you have diabetes, take a blood thinner, use oxygen at home, have eczema, psoriasis, rosacea or a rash that keeps coming back, or use a prescription cream on your face, ask your doctor or a dermatologist before you start anything new. The book says so on its first page.

Is this a subscription? Will you charge my card again?

No. You pay once. No subscription, no app, nothing to renew.

I'm buying this for my mother.

Good. Start her on Your First Seven Days, One Change a Day, in chapter 10: one small habit a day, and nothing new on her face, so she always knows what her skin is reacting to.

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Before you buy another jar

Start with the order. Everything else gets easier.

Line up what you already own. Put it on from the most watery to the thickest, on damp skin, and press it in instead of rubbing. That's three of the routines. The book has seventy-seven more.

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