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We made a little trip out to Maui (see my previous travel guide for Maui here) for my college roommate’s wedding in September, and we happened to take advantage of the setting to do a little maternity shoot with the amazing Jess. I wanted to share some of these photographs because the setting was stunning, […] Read more…

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Maui Maternity Shoot
Originally posted here: https://www.teawithmd.com/2019/10/maui-maternity-shoot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maui-maternity-shoot

  It’s already that time – fourth year medical students are getting ready to interview at programs across the country, and residency interview and pre-interview attire is again a hot topic! I posted about residency interview attire in the past but I wanted to give my old post a facelift by sharing some new links to […] Read more…

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Residency Interview Attire Style Guide
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I’ve been obsessed with rose gold accessories for a few years now, and today I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces! Rose Gold Earrings Last weekend I attended a beautiful wedding in Half Moon Bay, and, being 33 weeks pregnant, I chose a forest green Isabelle & Oliver form fitting ruched dress. To […] Read more…

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Rose Gold Accessory Heaven
Originally posted here: https://www.teawithmd.com/2019/10/rose-gold-accessory-heaven/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rose-gold-accessory-heaven

Fashion month is upon us! For some of us, that means a hectic schedule jumping from event to event, and that can entail multiple outfits with different makeup looks.

Here are three tips to keep your skin happy and healthy!

Cleanse thoroughly and gently.

When you’re removing makeup multiple times of day, you want to make sure you’re doing so as gently as possible. (You should be cleansing gently, anyway, but it’s even more so the case when it comes to multiple times a day!) We can’t stress the double cleansing technique enough for this—use an oil-based cleanser to remove all your makeup gently but thoroughly, then follow it with a water-based cleanser to make sure everything has been removed.

The point is to ensure that your skin is clean without being stripped dry or running the risk of over-cleansing. An oil-based cleanser helps remove things like makeup and excess sebum while also keeping skin hydrated, and, when you’re on the go, we recommend one that comes in solid form to reduce the potential mess of dripping, like the Peach Slices Peach Pudding Makeup Cleanser.

Follow that with a gel-textured water-based cleanser like the Peach & Lily Power Calm Hydrating Gel Cleanser. We specifically recommend a gel-textured cleanser because they tend to be less stripping and more hydrating than, say, foam or cream cleansers. Power Calm, in particular, also helps calm skin, even when removing makeup multiple times a day. You want to prevent skin from becoming irritated or sensitized as best you can, and this gentle double-cleanse will help keep skin happy and hydrated.

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.

Properly hydrating skin is one of the key pillars of skin health, and that’s even more so when you’re constantly removing makeup, which is why we say—don’t forget your essence!

Once a secret in Asian beauty routines, essences blast skin with hydration, which helps keep skin happy and healthy. Properly hydrated skin is less prone to becoming sensitized or irritated, and it’s better able to maintain its natural skin barrier. That means that skin is better able to fend off bad bacteria and environmental stressors and remain calm and balanced even during a hectic time like fashion month.

When skin needs an extra boost, we recommend patting on 2-3 layers of an essence. That ensures that skin gets the deep hydration it requires, and it also helps skin better absorb other products you might apply after! We particularly like the Peach & Lily Wild Dew Treatment Essence for busy, stressful times because Wild Dew also has the secondary benefits of helping calm skin, reduce visible signs of redness, and soothe skin.

Protect your natural skin barrier.

A compromised skin barrier can cause all kinds of havoc, so it’s essential to maintain and protect that barrier. Cleansing properly and keeping your skin hydrated are both ways to help keep your natural skin barrier intact, but we also recommend giving your skin an extra boost at night!

Your body goes into rejuvenative, healing mode as you sleep, so use a super nourishing product in the evening, whether it’s a sleeping pack or, say, the Shangpree Marine Jewel Capsules. These decadent ampoules are packaged in individual, biodegradable capsules, and the thing that makes them so unique is that the ingredients help reset and fortify the natural skin barrier.

Twist off the end of one capsule after you cleanse, tone, and apply essence. Squeeze the ampoule onto your hand and massage it onto your skin. Follow with a lightweight moisturizer if you think your skin requires it; the Marine Jewel Capsules are rich in texture and may be sufficient!

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Do you have any special tips to get through hectic schedules like fashion month?

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How to Keep Skin Happy and Healthy Through Fashion Month.
Originally posted here: https://www.pibuu.co/2019/09/06/keep-skin-happy-healthy-fashion-month/

So, you’re back from traveling, or you’re back to school, or you’re just not getting enough sleep. Whatever the reason, your skin is feeling — and looking — tired and jet-lagged. What can you do to treat it?

Layer on hydration.

There’s a method in Korean skincare called the seven skin method. “Skin” in there refers to toners/essences, which Koreans simply refer to as “skin,” which means this seven skin method is basically layering on seven layers of toners/essences. That sounds excessive, maybe, but the principle behind it is sound — one of the key pillars of healthy skin is proper hydration.

It’s crucial to make sure your skin is hydrated, and we like to do that by layering on our essence. We won’t necessarily go as far as seven layers, but, when skin is feeling tired and jet-lagged, we recommend patting on at least two layers of your favorite essence. Go for something hydrating, soothing, and calming like our Peach & Lily Wild Dew Treatment Essence or Be the Skin Botanical Nutrition Power Toner.

Exfoliate.

One reason for dull skin can be dead skin cells that have accumulated on skin’s surface. Slough away dead skin cells to help encourage cell turnover and soften skin, as well as help skin appear brighter and clearer. We like a good, gentle chemical exfoliator like our Peach & Lily Super Reboot Resurfacing Mask, which has 10% AHA and 0.5% BHA to help unglue dead skin cells and clear out pores, while helping resurface, soothe, and calm skin.

Sometimes, though, we enjoy the feel of a physical exfoliator—however, with physical exfoliators, we can’t emphasize opting for a super gentle exfoliator enough! That’s why we love the Femmue Flower Infused Fine Peel (made of fine floral particles that oh-so-gently slough away dead skin cells) or the Eco Your Skin Butter Buffing Mask (made of nine kinds of gentle grains).

Be careful not to over-exfoliate, though. If you exfoliate too often, you can start removing layers of living skin and disrupting your natural skin barrier, so keep exfoliating to once, maybe twice a week!

Sheet mask! (And eye mask!)

Sheet masking is a great way to help skin get a boost of hydration. The sheet creates an occlusive barrier that allows the essence to sink into skin, and Peach & Lily founder and esthetician, Alicia Yoon, makes sure to do a sheet mask every day for 3-4 days after she returns from a trip. She says that helps ensure that her skin doesn’t skip a beat.

There are so many sheet masks out there, and we recommend looking for hydrating sheet masks when you’re struggling with tired, jet-lagged skin! Some of our favorites are the Peach & Lily Good Skin Day and Reset Button sheet masks, as well as the Shangpree Marine Jewel Hydrating Mask and the Pure Lotus Moisturization & Wrinkle Treatment Mask.

Our sheet mask secret? Place the Shangpree Marine Energy Eye Masks under your eyes, then put a sheet mask on top! The edges of sheet masks tend to dry out quicker, so layering the sheet mask over the eye gels helps eyes get some more love—which is useful when you’re feeling tired because it can help reduce the appearance of puffiness and shadows!

Do a sleeping pack.

As you sleep, your body goes into restorative mode, physically and mentally, so it can be helpful to ride that rejuvenative process with a sleeping mask when it comes to skin. Sleeping masks tend to be more concentrated, full of nourishing and hydrating ingredients, to help give you a more radiant complexion overnight. Our Peach & Lily Overnight Star Sleeping Mask is full of antioxidant-rich ingredients (including black ginseng root extract, a super luxe ingredient) that helps skin attain a beautiful glow as you sleep.

One of our favorite hacks for tired skin is to layer on 4-5 layers of the Miwaji Hyalu Serum Veil as a DIY overnight sleeping mask. The Hyalu Serum Veil was formulated to hydrate skin deeply, and, as you layer it on, it’ll start feeling a little viscous and sticky—it is the Hyalu Serum Veil after all, creating an occlusive layer and sealing all the hydration in.

DIY a bi-phase mist.

Shangpree is Korea’s top spa, and Ju Eun Kim, their Spa Director and Master Esthetician, shared this tip with us. When her sensitive skin starts acting up, she pours the Shangpree S-Energy Toner into a travel-sized mist bottle, then squeezes in one or two of the Shangpree Marine Jewel Capsules. (They’re biodegradable.) It becomes this DIY bi-phase mist that really helps calm her skin down, helping soothe, hydrate, and restore the natural skin barrier.

We tried it out recently on our travels, spritzing the mist on between steps in our routine, throughout the day as our skin needed, and before going to sleep at night. It really did work like magic, keeping our skin happy, hydrated, and calm!

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Thoughts? Comments? What are ways you help care for your skin when it’s feeling (and looking) tired and jet-lagged?

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Tired, Jet-Lagged Skin? Here Are Five Tips.
Originally posted here: https://www.pibuu.co/2019/09/04/tired-jet-lagged-skin-five-tips/

We’re in those last days of summer, moving into that transitional season into autumn, and that means last trips (and last summer Fridays) before school and/or work get back into the swing of things. Here’s a look into our travel kit!

The full Peach & Lily Collection is all travel-friendly, under the TSA limit of 100 ml. That doesn’t mean we don’t like a good mini when one exists! Get our adorable mini Wild Dew Treatment Essence (and use it as your toner/essence!) in our Instant Rescue Kit.

We do like taking a more comprehensive routine with us because we really believe in consistency. Also, remembering to do your routine (even if it’s a pared-down routine!) even when traveling is one way to help keep skin from getting tired and jet-lagged. Make sure to layer on hydration to keep skin happy and healthy; we like to pat on 2 layers of the Wild Dew Treatment Essence and follow that with 2-3 layers of our Glass Skin Refining Serum.

Of course, we also take sheet masks along—as well as the K-Beauty Rescue Balm (also in our Instant Rescue Kit) for those skin emergencies! Our K-Beauty Rescue Balm is great for dry patches, cuticles, chapped lips, flyaways, anywhere on skin from head to toe. It’s also great for tired, dry skin; squeeze a tiny bit onto your palm, soften it by rubbing your palms together, and pat it into your skin. It’ll help fix things really fast.

Still not believing that all those liquid products are travel-friendly? They all fit in a quart-sized bag as per TSA regulations!

Happy late summer travels!

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What’s in Your Travel Kit?
Originally posted here: https://www.pibuu.co/2019/08/30/whats-in-your-travel-kit/

A clay mask that doesn’t dry out your skin? Yes! It exists!

We love clay masks because they’re powerful at decongesting pores, pulling out and absorbing excess sebum, and helping minimize the appearance of pores. We don’t love how clay masks can often be drying, leaving skin feeling tight and dry.

That’s why we wanted to develop a clay mask that would do everything for pores without drying out skin! We thought, how perfect would it be to use that time pores are getting a deep clean also to infuse skin with beautiful, nutrient-rich ingredients that help hydrate and nourish skin? Why not maximize that time as much as possible?

When we went to work on our Pore Proof Perfecting Clay Mask, we started with kaolin clay, the most gentle of clays, and bentonite, a potent detoxifier. Then, we added glycerin, a powerful humectant that helps bind moisture to skin, and shea butter, which helps moisturize and soothe skin. We didn’t just stop there, though — we added wild cherry extract, strawberry extract, and licorice root extract to help hydrate and soothe skin.

The result? Our Pore Proof Perfecting Clay Mask won’t dry into a hard shell on your face, and it rinses off so easily with lukewarm water, revealing soft, clear skin.

Pore Proof is super easy to use! After cleansing, apply a thin even layer to damp skin, and leave on for 10-15 minutes. The beautiful dusty rose shade is natural, too, and makes for fun selcas as Pore Proof helps clear pores and hydrate and soften skin. Rinse off with lukewarm water, then follow with your whole routine!

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Pore Proof Perfecting Clay Mask: Clarify and Soften in One.
Originally posted here: https://www.pibuu.co/2019/08/28/pore-proof-perfecting-clay-mask-clarify-soften-one/

Our Cold Brew Eye Recovery Stick was supposed to be an impossible thing to create.

We know dark circles and puffy eye areas are a struggle for many of us. We lead busy, tired lives, and we’re willing to bet that many of us don’t get enough sleep. That’s why we were committed to developing an eye stick that would instantly deliver a cooling feeling and help your eye area look de-puffed and tightened—all without any harmful ingredients like PEGs, Ceteth-10s, and so many others. And without menthol and peppermint extract because we did not want any potentially sensitizing ingredients around the delicate eye area.

Our lab told us that would be impossible. If we wanted our eye stick to have the smooth glide we wanted, we’d need to compromise and allow for these ingredients. If we wanted it to deliver that cooling feeling and help the eye area appear less puffy and more tightened, we’d need to include menthol and peppermint extract.
Not ones to be deterred, we set out to create the eye stick of our dreams. We analyzed each iteration that didn’t work, identifying the ingredients, the formula, everything about it that would help us tweak and tweak and tweak again.

Finally, a few years and so many countless iterations later, we had it, an eye stick that glides smoothly over the eye area without tugging and immediately helps cool the eye area and visibly de-puff and tighten it, all without menthol, peppermint extract, PEGs, Ceteth-10, and 1,550 other ingredients. We did the impossible.

Of course, Cold Brew isn’t just about what’s not in it—we also packed it full of beautiful plant-based ingredients that do a lot for your delicate eye area. We started with cucumber extract, a gentle, antioxidant-rich extract known to have a soothing effect on skin, then added caffeine to help decrease the look of puffiness and kiwi extract to deliver even more antioxidants, including vitamin C, to help protect skin.

There’s also turmeric extract, which helps decrease UV damage and the appearance of dark spots, as well as niacinamide, a clinically-proven ingredient that helps brighten and even skin.

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Let us know how you like our Cold Brew Eye Recovery Stick in the comments below!

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The Cold Brew Eye Recovery Stick: All You Need Is One Swipe.
Originally posted here: https://www.pibuu.co/2019/08/27/cold-brew-eye-recovery-stick-one-swipe/

As you may know, we launched three new innovations at Peach & Lily at the beginning of the month … and they sold out within hours. We brought them back in stock over the weekend, so we thought we’d dedicate a little time to help you get to know each product better, starting with our decadent sleeping mask, the Overnight Star Sleeping Mask.

Here are three reasons to love our Overnight Star.

The Luxe Ingredients

We spare no expenses when it comes to any of our products, and our Overnight Star is no exception. It’s full of beautiful ingredients that help hydrate, nourish, and rejuvenate skin as you sleep, and it’s also rich in antioxidants.

Like black ginseng root extract. Black ginseng root is kind of the original superfood, and it doesn’t just have truly potent antioxidative properties that help protect skin from free radical damage — it’s also rich in vitamins and minerals and helps brighten and revitalize skin.

We of course didn’t just stop with one luxe ingredient, though. You’ll also find acai berry extract (another potent antioxidant that helps firm and revive the look of dry, dull skin), squalane (a non-comedogenic oil that helps moisture, soothe, and balance skin), and niacinamide (a clinically-proven ingredient that helps calm inflammation and reduce the appearance of dark spots).

Its Sheer Ease of Use

Overnight Star is so easy to use — and you might be saying that, of course, it’s easy to use — it’s a moisturizer! How complicated can it be to apply a moisturizer! What we mean is that it’s an overnight mask that really does a lot for skin, so you don’t have to worry. When you apply it at night as the last step in your routine, you can go to sleep assured that the mask will do the work of helping revitalize, hydrate, and brighten skin.

That Texture!

A bouncy jelly balm meets a whipped gel-cream — that’s the best way we can describe this truly unique texture. We obsessed over this texture because we wanted to get it just right, so Overnight Star would sink into skin without leaving a greasy finish or making skin feel weighed down. We also wanted it to feel like your worries were melting away as you applied it.

It took so many iterations, but we think we got it just right.

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Have you tried our Overnight Star yet? Let us know what you think in the comments!

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Overnight Star: Apply, Sleep, Glow.
Originally posted here: https://www.pibuu.co/2019/08/26/overnight-star-apply-sleep-glow/

Name: Sophie A. Greenberg, M.D.Practice setting and job title: Dermatology Resident at Columbia University (PGY-3)Fitzpatrick skin type: II Oily vs. Dry vs. Combination skin: Combination and acne prone AM Regimen: Cleanser: @cerave Hydrating Cleanser rinsed with lukewarm water. I use a fresh cotton washcloth each time I dry my face so that my clean skin […] Read more…

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#DermsHolyGrail: Dr. Sophie Greenberg
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