Ejae, Rei Ami, and Audrey Nuna Reveal Their Favorite K-Beauty Products—and the Secret to “Cuteness Fat”

Hi, Vogue! Hi, Vogue!

I m Ejae.

I m Audrey Nuna.

And I m Rei Ami.

And we re here to show our skincare and makeup routine!

My voice is gone. Sorry.

[all exclaiming]

Cleanser. Cleanser.

Oh yeah, it s pink. [jabbers]

A little bit.

[soft music]

What s next?

I use my toner.

This is Anua pore care pad.

I found that this really helps me so much.

Hyaluronic B5, it s a serum.

Before that because hyaluronic acid is a humectant,

which means it draws moisture from the air.

But it needs something wet.

Wet-ty to cling to.

So I ve been trying out this product.

My go-to for this step is the InCellDerm balancing gel.

But I am trying this product out.

And then it s a morning routine, so I just go in

with this Tower 28 Hypochlorous spray protector,

which like kind of kills all the bad bacteria off your face.

So I just do that.

And then I follow it with a vitamin C serum.

What s your next step?

Hyaluronic acid. Ooh, yummy.

I love that one. Oh, yes!

I love that one too. It s really good.

Okay. I used to have this Japanese, like melanin.

Yeah, I know that one! That works well too.

This is so, so nice.

This one.

Wow. Torriden.

I love the applicator. You just like put it on your face.

I have dry skin. What do you guys have?

Super. I have combo.

Really?

Dry. Yeah.

Like two years ago, I had a really horrible eczema attack.

And for a month I literally couldn t leave my house

cause I was in pain and I just-

Where do you have eczema? Felt horrible.

It was on my face.

[both exclaim]

Mostly, I have it on my neck.

See right there?

And then I use a hyaluronic serum, aestura.

I think that s the brand?

Brightening serum, the Caudalie.

The SkinCeuticals Phyto Corrective gel.

Look at this color.

I like to put it straight.

Just wanna-

Looks delicious.

[soft music]

How has like the crazy schedule

affected like your beauty routine?

Like has it changed it?

Have you simplified it? Like how do you feel?

Oh, there you go. That one.

I simplified the crap out of it.

I ve been like, depending on face masks.

The ones your mom got me for Christmas,

I ve already ran through.

I love facemasks. Shout out to Audrey s mom,

she s an amazing mom. Amazing.

Amazing woman, honestly. She s her mom.

She is the best.

What s next?

I don t-

Another serum.

Aye! Back to serum. This is more like oil serum.

So I did it like a little later.

This is the Clarins Double serum. This is incredible.

Okay. That looks really yummy.

My next step is a moisturizer.

It s the Laneige Water Bank

Hyaluronic intensive moisturizer.

My next step is InCellDerm Dermatology Cream.

Whoa.

It s very thick and viscous.

If you look inside.

Oh!

It s great cause for anyone who has eczema,

like locking in the moisture is really important.

[soft music]

Yes. Oh yeah, I forgot.

I like guasha.

That I use like throughout my skincare process.

I ll just-

On morning.

I don t know about you guys.

My mom has like a Korean skincare product hoarding problems.

Well- Same!

Where we just have-

Like, growing up we had a closet

full of just all of these Korean skincare products

that she wanted to try.

And like the sample packs?

Yeah.

And I would just go in and like, Oh, what s this?

Like, Laneige. Okay, that s cool.

Yeah. I saw Laneige a lot.

Try a lot of different ones.

She still has that.

So after all those serums, I do my moisturizer.

It s like not too thick, not too watery.

Thin, should I say?

[soft music]

These are great for neck dryness.

Followed by a sunscreen!

My Sulwhasoo, my favorite of all time.

Ginseng infused!

This is our favorite sun-

[Ejae jabbers]

Cheers!

Cheers!

If you guys can use only one skincare product,

I do a lot.

Like you can only use one for the rest of your life.

What would it be?

Sunscreen.

Right? Yes!

Mine s sunscreen.

Oh...

I think sunscreens the most important.

I think it would be this.

It would be this.

Yeah, this exact product here.

Yeah.

So, Golden broke history as what guys?

What happened?

Can t believe we were at the Grammys. Yeah.

First K-Pop Grammy in history.

Yeah.

[Ejae jabbers]

In history!

History!

Forever.

First K-Pop!

I mean, you can t redo the first. You know?

You were in the first.

Just six months ago, I was like crying

about like how shit wasn t happening.

And then, like, Grammys felt very far away.

Like, impossible.

Same.

So like to receive one, it feels like,

Oh shit, this is possible.

It was such a great year this year for representation,

and it was a very uplifting Grammys this year.

I agree.

My next step is Chapstick for lip.

Me too.

Same! Hey! Laneige.

Cheers.

Oh.

Aw. Ooh! Is that Prada?

Yeah.

I m trying this one out.

I like that.

I really like it.

What color is it?

It s clear.

This is a Japanese product

that my New York hair artist gave me.

It s technically a spray-on lotion,

but I just use it as like a facial mist

that s very moisturizing.

Oh, okay. Wow! I m gonna get that.

Yes. You guys can try it.

[face mist puffing]

That smells good. Mm!

Then just leave it for five minutes.

Hey, there s a movie called-

[all jabbering]

You voice who?

Rumi!

I m the same voice of Rumi.

Mira.

And Audrey voices is who?

Mira.

And I voice Zoey.

I m curious, What s your favorite?

Favorite song from the K-Pop Demon Hunters album?

Should we blurt it out in 3, 2, 1?

Okay. Okay.

Really? Okay.

3,

2,

1.

Golden How It s Done

What It Sounds Like

When we finished that song,

which was the last song of the film,

that s when I was like,

Okay, now it feels like the chemistry

with all the writers was like on point.

It just felt good, and we thought it was a smash.

And indeed it was.

Indeed.

I was right!

What It Sounds Like,

I think that that song is just such a beautiful symphony

of what the film is about.

It s like the culminating moment.

I feel like for all the characters

where they finally accept all the sides of themselves.

And you can hear that in the music.

Put some eye, under eye masks.

My dark circles are insane.

Why is yours How It s Done?

How It s Done because it s so badass.

I mean it s like the intro that we get with the girls.

I mean obviously through the little, through the dialogue,

but also through the music.

Like it really shows everyone s personalities, you know?

And just like how they fight their weapon of choice.

And fighting.

So everything, if you like watch it enough

and like you look at all the details,

it s such a distinct way to showcase

three different Korean women!

And I m just like, That s so badass.

It s true.

What kind of makeup look are we doing today?

I m doing my everyday-what-I-usually-do makeup.

Same. Same.

I don t know shit about makeup,

but I learned a lot from my makeup artist.

You can watch us too.

And I m about to learn so much from you,

cause I don t know how many people know this about you,

but...

I was a freelance makeup artist, actually.

Really?

So that didn t work out,

so you had to go with your plan B.

Yeah.

And you had to win a Grammy!

[laughs] The first Korean- [laughs]

First K-Pop Grammy.

[all jabbering]

You re like,

That s too hard. Let me go win a Grammy.

[all laughing]

Contour is too hard!

Oh my God. Literally.

For my primer, I use Rare Beauty.

And then I just-

Oh, I forgot to put my hair up.

And a curler. But I ll do that after.

But got to put this on first.

I ve been obsessed with makeup since like middle school.

I ve been watching YouTube tutorials,

like since I could.

Who?

Like Michelle Phan.

Shout out, OG.

But is that Korean Pony or something?

Yes! I love Pony! Yeah.

She s a Korean makeup artist.

I think my favorite now is just like kind of more Korean

and trying to learn how to accentuate

like my features naturally.

And with work or work stuff, like I can have fun.

But on my day-today stuff,

I think I ve learned trying to be more natural

and like chill.

My foundation is the Dior Forever Skin Glow.

I ve been loving this.

I have dry skin, so this is perfect.

I go in with my concealer.

Like 2.3 from Nars.

A lot of traditional makeup dries my skin out.

I ve been using this Elemis Superfood facial oil.

What I ll do is I ll mix that

with something from Make Up For Ever,

the HD Skin Palette.

Look how busted this shit looks. Oh my God.

Damn! I used it so much!

Damn, girl.

Wow! I was gonna buy that.

I just exposed myself.

I need to get a new one.

I put a thin layer for me.

All over like this.

Ah, I see. So that doesn t get cake-y.

I love this puffer. Really?

What kind of puffer is it? So good.

It s Studio 17. The Studio17.

It s in Korea.

It s so soft.

And this changed the game for me.

I get ready in like dead silence.

Do you prefer that?

Yeah.

It s nice to have like a moment of just quiet

for me before the day starts.

Cause like it s been so insane, and I m such an introvert.

Just to have that like stillness for a second is nice.

Etude Dear Darling.

The tint in Real Red.

Ooh!

And then I just had it on the inner [babbles]

And then...

Put it on here.

Oh!

I m like learning right now.

I use this facial oil again to create the blush.

Whoa!

Cause it s so moisturizing.

I would usually put concealer,

but I m very curious with that palette.

Yeah. Do you wanna try it?

Can I borrow? Yeah, of course!

That s so pretty.

So I have bad dark circles today,

cause I didn t get much shape, but-

That s so pretty. [jabbers]

It s cute.

It s like a natural highlighter, the oil!

This one?

I use this one, yeah.

Well, I m gonna use a salmon skin-

Salmon s color.

[all laugh]

Salmon skin. Salmon skin!

Salmon color...

Concealer here.

Cause that helps with dark circle.

The salmon sperm facials that they do in the-

That s fire by the way, yes.

I ve never done it. I wanna try.

You need to try it.

I ve never done it.

I ve done so many...

like skin stuff.

I ve done the salmon sperm.

Shots all over your face.

Salmon sperm!

I ve done- You re crazy.

Like the [unintelligible] Did it hurt?

Yeah.

It definitely hurts.

It s like constant.

It s like just needles all over your face.

But the results come out like in two weeks.

Every time.

Like my fiance s like, Whoa, babe!

Did you put foundation or something?

Really?

It looks incredible.

Well, I put concealer now.

I sharp my eyes now.

So I use the Elf concealer.

Is that Shiseido?

It is! It is?

It is. Oopsies.

Chanel balm in transparent.

Just nice for a little natural glow.

I underline with my Nyx Inky Stix liner.

What do you guys do?

I mean, Audrey s done, y all.

Basically.

Yeah.

[overlapping chatter]

Audrey is pretty much done.

I m gonna go, guys.

Are we matching?

Yeah.

I also use Charlotte Tilbury powder.

I use this as a brow gel, basically.

I do my nose contour.

Really?

That is like Colorgram? This is like Colorgram.

Hey, their palette!

Oh really? I love Colorgram.

You guys know how we didn t really have a lot of...

people who look like us represented in media...

beauty icons per se,

that we could really just like see and be like,

I see myself in this person.

Do you guys feel a sense of any kind of responsibility

to be that for this generation now?

100000000%. Oh yeah.

That s what, that s why the Grammys was important to me.

Yeah. Is for that representation.

Cause I never really saw like Asian women

kind of win that Grammy.

Yeah.

Especially- Cause you were the first.

[Ejae laughs]

Nyx Lift Snatch.

What are you guys doing?

Doing brows with Hera.

Oh, you put powder on.

And this is incredible,

the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless, yeah.

My favorite.

I don t know how to do my brows, so I just like-

Same.

I just fill in like the bald spots.

Yep.

And then I call it a day.

Yep.

You guys wanna know a hack?

Yes.

But sometimes the eyebrows like,

like go away throughout the day.

Yeah.

Put powder on your eyebrows first.

Oh.

And then you put the eyebrow.

Put it on.

And then you put a thin layer of powder over it again.

Then it does not budge.

[soft music]

Now I go for brows after that.

I use a Nyx eyebrow pencil.

Like you would just fill in the patches.

Very thin strokes.

I don t know what to do.

What else to do, you know?

And then I ll just use any kind of brow gel,

clear brow gel to go back in.

And just put it in place.

I use Gatsby.

Gatsby.

It is such a good hold. It stays the whole day.

I lighten my brows with this. This is the Etude.

Oh, yes. I ve seen one of those.

Oh, yeah. I ve seen that.

That s great.

I go in with my eyeshadow palette now.

From Colorgram and shade...

Pink 2.

Something.

Oh my God, they re heart-shaped!

Isn t it so cute?

This is you if you were an eyeshadow.

Audrey if she was an eyeshadow palette.

That is so cute!

I love heart-shaped things.

You have like a cool balance with like very feminine

and also like very tomboy.

Yeah.

Yeah, I really like that.

Thank you.

[Ejae jabbers]

Yeah, I love to mix things that don t belong together.

By the way, I use Rare Beauty highlight. This is amazing.

Oh, cool.

So after I do my nose contour, I put like a little this.

I put a little dot like this.

I m also learning today.

So what does that do?

Like is it like for the shadows?

It like reaches my nose.

Wow!

I would also put it here too if I have any left.

Just right here.

This is my last step, guys.

Ooh, what is that? What?

This [unintelligible] lip vinyl.

First of all, look how sexy this packaging is.

Yummy. Oof!

This is my favorite lip color from last year.

Ooh. Can we see it?

Yes.

Ooh!

Mm hm.

Oh!

That s a beautiful color.

Nice cause it just stayed on.

Wow! That looks good on you.

It s so surprising from like the actual bottle to like-

It s quite natural-looking.

Yeah. Yeah.

It s not as harsh as like,

or dark as you would think it is.

So I m using the Judydoll Super Thin eyeliner.

I do the both, the pencil and the defined tip.

One of my biggest like thing about me that-

What I wanted to differentiate myself

to make other makeup artists

was like how my makeup stays forever.

Oh! It does not smudge.

And it s cause of this.

What is that?

It s Etude eye primer. It s discontinued.

[Rae and Audrey gasp]

Bring it back! Cause this works!

Is this your last tube? Yeah.

[Audrey gasps]

I know.

My friend Marielle Co did my nails.

So cool.

And we do a lot of interesting structural stuff together.

If you can see from the side, they re balls.

I use a bunch of eyeshadows.

These are the shadows that I use.

Clio.

I use Charlotte Tilbury, love this one.

The Golden Goddess one.

This brown is my fricking favorite.

And then I also use the Dasique eye shadow for my aegyo-sal.

You ll see.

Aegyo-sal.

Aegyo-sal is like this-

Under my fat.

[all laughing]

That Koreans really love. They think it s cute.

Under eye fat.

[overlapping chatter]

And I put it all over my lid.

Mm!

It s okay.

Clio Kill Lash Mascara.

This is the best mascara to ever exist!

♪ Fit check for my nap- ♪

Was it?

Yeah.

[Audrey laughs]

I forget what it was.

Is it Spit check for-

For my napalm.

Is it for my napalm? Yeah.

♪ Fit check for my napalm era ♪

♪ Need to beat my face ♪

♪ Make it the cute and savage ♪

♪ Mirror, mirror on my phone, who s the baddest? ♪

♪ Us, hello ♪

Okay, now it s time for foundation.

I know! It took forever.

Now, Oh, so you go backwards.

I go backwards.

I ll get a clean puff,

and then I ll just dust off whatever it is here.

So I use my lash curler,

and I use a lighter to heat it up a little bit.

Like really quickly. Don t do for too long.

Make sure it s not too hot.

And then you just curl your lashes.

And it really perms it up.

And it stays like that for all like all day.

Oh, wow!

But another trick after this though

to make sure it stays all day,

I put the Etude eyelash primer. This is insane.

First before my mascara.

And then I put mascara, then locks it in.

And it doesn t smudge the mascara.

I use the Clio black brown eyeliner.

Put it on my water line like this.

This is super just fine and like stays all day.

I wanna try that one.

I m having the time of my life right now, guys.

I m learning so much.

This is a Korean brand, Too Cool For School.

I think that s what it s called.

And then I only contour like right here.

I m just observing.

Then I go like down here to my nostrils.

Hmm!

What s this part? What is this?

It s like to like accentuate like the bridge.

Why favorite mascara is this one.

That s mascara?

Oh, it s cute!

Holika Holika. It s the purple one.

Whoa!

Oh, you see that? You see that?

Oh my.

Oh my God.

And then I bake my contour like this.

Bake you said?

Yeah.

Does that just mean like set it all in?

You bake?

Just my contour, my nose contour.

I use this Roman contour for contouring.

But also aegyo-sal.

Ooh! Back to aegyo-sal.

It all comes back to aegyo-sal.

[overlapping chatter]

I just contour my face again.

I use this color.

Mix it.

I smile,

and I do this.

[soft music]

It created eyebag!

Ooh!

Wait, let me see.

Oh!

It creates this eyebag.

Aegyo-sal!

Look at that. Aegyo-sal.

Should we teach a little Korean makeup terms?

Aegyo-sal.

Aegyo s super cute. Aegyo s like cuteness.

Aegyo-sal.

Aegyo. Sal is-

Fat.

[all laugh]

Cuteness fat.

Cuteness fat. Right here.

Some of the Korean lyrics in K-Pop Demon Hunters

My line is...

What is my line, guys?

Oh, Keud-eop-ssi on stage.

Oh, Keud-eop-ssi on stage.

♪ Now that s ♪

♪ Now that s how I m gettin paid ♪

♪ Keud-eop-ssi on stage ♪

Yeah.

Which means endlessly on stage.

Keud is end, eop-ssi is without stage of stage.

Endlessly.

I use this palette, this [unintelligible]

Put it right here.

You ll see.

And then I go in with Rhode.

Freckle. Freckle!

Boom. Oh!

Oh, that was a little too much. But it s okay.

Oh, also another blush.

The under blush and the over blush.

Yeah.

Just keep it in this corner.

Or you just chill in there.

Yeah. I m learning.

This eye contour.

Fenty Beauty is a very famous contour stick in amber.

Oh, that s iconic. I love.

Put it right here.

Okay.

A little crazy on the blush, but whatever.

Real light, real super Half Magic highlighter.

In the center,

on the nose bridge,

tip of the nose.

Boom.

And then most importantly y all, you ve gotta set.

One/Size, the best setting spray ever.

Can you spray me?

And then...

Oh, yes!

Oh, can you spray me after too?

Yes.

I usually go for like a glowy, dewy but-

Hold your breath.

[setting spray puffing]

I m on blush.

Okay.

It s just a style known, the 3CE.

And then clear gloss.

This is from Mac, it s so good.

But I don t know how to do my lips.

I just like a lip tin and a gloss situation.

I m still learning how to line my lips.

I never learned how to do it. I don t know why.

I don t know it either.

Okay, so that s like my-

Oh! Are you done?

The bang is bouncy!

Okay, I m almost done now too.

Hold on.

So this is the most Korean shit of all time.

I love it.

Just brush my hair.

Oh!

[Ejae speaking in Korean language]

[Ejae and Audrey laugh]

Damn, girl!

[Audrey speaking in Korean language]

I love your liner! I m done!

[Audrey speaking in Korean language]

[all speaking in Korean language]

Crying.

My lip is so simple.

It s just this...

Bottom lash. 3CE Double Win.

I m gonna do the bottom lash.

Mine s just this tint.

I literally just do this.

Whoa!

There we go.

Whoa!

Oh, that s it?

Mm hm. Done.

Look. Nice!

The bottom lash application skill is nuts.

She s just like this.

Now, dry shampoo. Show us.

This is also Too Cool For School.

Mm. So the same brand.

This is like a pencil.

And then you just like put it right here.

And it adds just like a little bit of more oomph to it.

Whoa!

Cuteness fat is cuteness fatting.

Can I use this too?

Yes, please!

I m done!

I didn t bring my fragrance.

I didn t either.

I like anything that smells like a fresh baby.

Oh.

I don t know this is [jabbers]

Kenzo.

Mm! That smells so good!

It smell sweeter.

You wanna?

Sure.

We match.

This is our final looks, guys.

Thank you so much, Vogue Beauty

Remember that the secret to beauty

is how you speak to yourself, how you treat yourself.

You guys are all beautiful.

We love you guys.

We love you. Bye!

Stay golden!