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Without the immense influence that Asian skin care has had over the past decade, the beauty industry would be nothing like it is now.
Asian beauty ingredients, traditions and sensibilities have had a significant impact on everything we do for our beauty routines, thanks in part to brands like Tatcha, Then I Met You and Glow Recipe. The popularity of beauty influencers like Bretman Rock, Patrick Starr and Nabela Noor has even further cemented the authority that Asian Americans have in the beauty world.
But it wasn’t always this way. Daniel Martin, the celebrity makeup artist and global director of artistry and education for Tatcha, remembers when Asians had extremely limited visibility in the beauty industry. In the ’90s, when he was just getting started, the only two Asian beauty brands that were known in the U.S. were Shiseido and Shu Uemura, and neither was a household name like Revlon or CoverGirl.
TikTok is home to a lot of things, but something we can always count on the app for is introducing us to all kinds of wacky but mostly effective beauty hacks that inspire us to rethink our entire routines. The bobby pin eyeliner hack is just one example of a trend that s proven to be life-changing for us, and more recently, we ve noticed another unsung hero in acne treatments popping up on the platform: Band-Aids.
Yes, thousands of TikTok users have recently started sharing videos of themselves putting hydrocolloid bandages over their acne when they re experiencing breakouts in attempt to clear up their skin. The hack may sound strange, but think of it this way: you d put this type of bandage over a blister or wound expecting it to eventually heal underneath, so why wouldn t the same rules apply to pimples and blemishes? TikTok may be onto something here.