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Nov 13 PRODUCT REVIEW: SKIN AQUA UV SUPER MOISTURE MILK PINK SPF 50 – ONE OF THE BEST SUNSCREENS FOR OILY SKIN

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SKIN AQUA | SUPER UV MOISTURE MILK PINK SPF 50 / PA ++++

My review of the Skin Aqua UV Super Moisture Milk (blue) was originally part of my blog article titled, A Complete $100 Skincare Routine with The Inkey List, The Ordinary, Benton & More! You can catch the full piece here.

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For years, the Skin Aqua UV Super Moisture Milk (blue) has been one of my favorite sunscreens.

There’s just something about it — or a lot of things about it — that I love. The texture, of course, has always blown me away. From the very first time I tried it, it seemed to be some sort of alien technology to me. I had never tried anything like it. Neither of the Skin Aqua sunscreen milks are perfect formulas. They’re both flawed.

Each is a chemical-mineral sunscreen hybrid and doesn’t exactly rely on the newest sunscreen filter technologies coming out of J-beauty.

What is J-beauty?

There’s an insightful piece on the Coveteur website by Katie Becker titled, J-Beauty is Like Marie Kondo for Your Skin-Care Routine. The article’s sub-head says it all: “How Japanese beauty products can spark joy, and why it’s worth opening your wallet.”

In the wake of Korean K-beauty mania (sheet masks that look like kittens! snail slime extract! jelly putty powder melting essence balm!), a new single-letter beauty trend came into the industry lingo in the last year.
The term “J-beauty”—Japanese beauty—arrived in our inboxes and in article headlines, and Sephora deemed it as the next big thing. J-beauty is more restrained, more science-y, and more high-design, as I learned on a trip to Tokyo with Shiseido in the fall.
But what beauty insiders already knew is that J-beauty has been the big thing for forever. When I started going backstage for fashion week about a decade ago, I quickly learned that if I didn’t recognize a product that a makeup artist or hairstylist was using, it was probably from Japan.
Elegant black cotton buds, magically effective makeup wipes, the *best* eyelash curler, invincible hair gels, perfectly designed hair combs and makeup brushes—a backstage artist’s answer was always “I picked it up in Japan.” So to Japan I went, to see what I could find.

Read more here.

And in classic J-beauty fashion, the Pink version contains some drying alcohol — as do so many inions of Japanese skincare. But both feel amazing on the skin and are the perfect sunscreens on both hot, humid days and rainy, damp days.

I recently got around to trying the Pink version for the first time. I guess it’s the mica in the formula that leaves behind a healthy radiant shimmer to the complexion that isn’t over the top. It doesn’t look like I’m wearing makeup, something I loathe.

As with the classic blue (formerly gold) Skin Aqua Super Moisture Milk, the formula is a blend of zinc oxide and chemical filters.

There are also two molecular weights of humectant Hyaluronic Acid and even bio-compatible replenishing amino acids. Again, it’s not perfect.

But if you’ve tried it, you know what I mean when I say I kinda love using it! “How Japanese beauty products can spark joy, and why it’s worth opening your wallet.”

On the other hand, formulated without alcohol, the Skin Aqua Super Moisture Milk blue is a whole new level of awesome. To this day, I have never experienced a sunscreen like it.

This Skin Aqua sunscreen is, as the name implies, as light as water. It’s literally the most watery sunscreen I’ve ever used — with a texture like an ultra-lightweight serum. Because it’s so super light, it’s really easy to spread over the skin. With an SPF 50+ and PA ++++, it’s also powered by two forms of humectant Hyaluronic Acid and Glycerin — as well as replenishing amino acids and collagen.

As I said in my previous article on the original Skin Aqua Super Moisture Milk, “it goes on like magic and just feels like it was made in some off-planet laboratory.”

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