This year has been a plot twist that I never saw coming. Yes, this is happening: a post, on my blog, shambling out of a dusty corner of empties and snarled with torn webbing of sheetmask silk. Even though this year has been non-stop and the most transformative and momentous period of the decade for me, I couldn't let this year pass without an update +  some thoughts about the past and future of K-Beauty. The pacific northwest is so much more beautiful than any photo can convey. Many of you have sent me messages and emails asking what I've been up to, why I haven't been posting, and if I'm going to be posting again. Here it is, and this year has been wild. In this post: What I've been doing instead of blogging aka "The Year Life Yanked Me Out of One Timeline and Shoved Me Into a Totally Different One" What hooked me on K-Beauty & why my loins are no longer aflame about it What soured me on the K-Beauty scene & beauty blogging Where I think K-Beauty is going in the next decade if it lasts Have you ever had the experience of having the next, say, 5-10 years of your life plotted out, and you're minding your own business, living day to day, and then suddenly, something happens that snatches you up by the nose hairs and hurls you, metaphorical pants around ankles, into a completely new reality? (Seriously, drop me a comment if you have had this happen to you. Because, wtf, man.) Read more »

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