8 Korean beauty words you'll hear everywhere
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Beauty Vocabulary
- 피부pibu
skin
- 수분subun
hydration
- 진정jinjeong
soothing
- 선크림seonkeurim
sunscreen
- 물광mulgwang
"water-glow" skin
- 꿀피부kkulpibu
perfect, "honey-like" skin
- 쌩얼ssaeng-eol
bare face, no makeup
- 각질gakjil
dead skin, flaking
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A small nuance about usage: they don’t all describe exactly the same thing, and some sound more natural on social media or in advertising than in everyday conversation. These four on the card are generally understood like this:
Pronunciation has its own appeal, too: in 쌩얼, that doubled initial consonant is pronounced with extra tension. Does the card include the other four words? It would be useful to see them to tell which ones people really hear and which are more marketing-oriented.