The snail unit discusses the evolution of self-care from activist motto to marketing slogan.

canceling plans is ok. staying home to cook is ok. disappearing for a bit to get your life together is ok. resurfacing in a foreign country with a new name 10 years later is ok. it’s called self care

— Kevin Farzad (@KevinFarzad) January 13, 2018

What we’ve been up to

• Fiddy is now Director of Marketing at Beautytap
• Cat got a puppy!!
• Tracy is a journalist
• Chel has released new Holy Snails products and shaved her head

Links

• Chel’s scalp massager
• “But ultimately, choosing instant gratification has proven catastrophically destructive.” comes from “The rise of Donald Trump demands we embrace a harder kind of self-care“
• Chel and Fiddy’s Snailcast episode on motherhood
• Fiddy’s essay on how skincare helped her with depression
• Cat and Tracy on kbeauty shopping research
• “Women and people of color viewed controlling their health as a corrective to the failures of a white, patriarchal medical system to properly tend to their needs.” comes from “A History of Self-Care“
• “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” comes from A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
• McDonald’s self-care hashtag campaign mentioned in “The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care“
• College Humor satirical video on self-care
• Tracy on the lipstick effect in Racked
• Pat McGrath lipstick, Tom Ford lipstick
• The Holy Snail wine
• Lifehacker’s How I Work series
• CVS bans photoshopping beauty product ads
• The Hairpin’s self-care column: “This column has a singular purpose: to talk to women about navigating a world where they are their own savior.”
• Where to find The Tub in Philly (King Spa Room)
• “Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference.” Quote by Audre Lorde from A Burst of Light: and Other Essays.

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From the vault (April 2017): The snails gather at Tracy’s House and talk about the products they found inside.

First in-person meeting of @thesnailcast was a smashing success! Much food was eaten, much #kbeauty browsing was done, we recorded a couple of episodes, and we even went and caught EXO in concert! I love the girls even more now that I’ve squeezed them for real. Also, we’re doing a sheet mask exchange because of course. . #thesnailcast #snailsquad #snailunit #rasianbeauty #abcommunity #sheetmaskaddict #????

A post shared by Jude Chao (@fiddysnails) on Apr 25, 2017 at 10:49pm PDT

Resources:

• Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe
• Sephora spray blush
• The sunscreen Cat was testing
• Drama around Son & Park
• Skylake shampoo
• Skylake Green Energy Essence
• Skylake in Koreatown
• SN-T Plant Stem Cell Cream
• The Saem Canal Street
• Besfren Beauty
• Nature Republic in Koreatown
• #RAGRETS episode
• Papa Recipe Bombee Honey Mask
• How to verify Papa Recipe masks
• Jung Saem Mool makeup
• Macaron sheet masks
• Jung Saem Mool videos

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The Holy Fan duo discuss their adventures at the Cosmoprof beauty trade show, the most interesting products from the show, and the dangers of overly curious cleaning ladies when you have something to hide.

Resources:

• Tracy’s Cosmoprof post
• Honey Baby Naturals
• Nairian’s site
• The company that makes dissolving poof stuff and travel balls
• Tracy’s pussy cleanser article for Racked
• Company that makes konjac sheets (but we can’t find the sheets!)
• President Obama gave kpop band SHINee a shoutout

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Join the Snailcast for their first ever in-person recording. The team talks brick-and-mortar versus online shopping, ironic Instagram wine, dick-shaped bath bomb molds, and the compatibility of bb cream and foundation with sunscreen. Also food. Lots of food.

[Apologies for the extra bad audio quality of this episode; we literally sat around the dining room table and recorded this on a cell phone.]

Resources:

White Girl Rosé

The SHINee Minho poster under which Fiddy slept.

Places we shopped in NYC: map

Kim K’s foundation (well, one of them) Armani Luminous Silk

Klair’s BB Cream

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The snail unit dreams up fantastical futuristic skincare, and end up talking about catfishing, commercial cannibalism, and copycat curation.

Resources

• Tracy’s Avecko post
• Cat and Kahime’s Avecko post
• Snailcast sponsorship ep
• Tracy’s list of blogs and Instagrams to follow
• Fiddy’s cannibal mushrooms
• Tracy’s stem cell skincare article on Racked

Non-shady shop picks
Fiddy: Beautibi
Tracy: Vuty Design
Cat: RIP Via Seoul née Insider Beauty
Cat: Mishibox
Chel: Bisou Beauty Bar

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The whole Snail Unit is out in force to name our loved and hated skincare gimmicks. Start your dick count score cards!

• Racked article on metal masks
• Tracy’s post on injection masks
• Chel’s post on the trouble with Vitamin C serums
• A’pieu Hole Cleaner
• Video of Lush employees making products without hair and facial hair protection

enjoy the free beard hair in your beauty products!

• Clay sheet mask on Beautibi
• Pore-cleansing dried biocellulose mask on Beautibi: Whitening” and “Firming“
• Cat’s post on clay mask pods
• Tracy’s review of Skylake shampoo
• Cat’s Sum37 powder cleanser review
• Fiddy’s Tosowoong powder cleanser review
• Come In The Sun dick-shaped sunscreen

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In this week’s episode, the HolyFan (Chel from Holy Snails and Tracy from fanserviced-b and fanserviced) sub-unit teams up for an enthusiastic round of shameless kpop music appreciation, confessions of plushie hoarding, and explaining why k-pop guyliner is #goals.

that’s EXO’s Sehun, leading you down the rabbit hole

Note: when we say “CF,” we mean commercial (commercials are called CFs, commercial films, in Korea)

Minho and Jonghyun from SHINee are eyeliner #goals for The Saem

Resources:

• “driving music” EXO Tactix (this embed is going to break, so get your fill now)

• “who is that in the middle?” SHINee’s Sherlock MV
• NYC Kpop Record Stores (Koryo Books, Bandi Books Flushing)
• EXO Baekhyun’s burgundry makeup look tutorial by Ssin
• Britney Spears’ perfume empire
• EXO’s Nature Republic look
• SHINee’s Etude House CF
• EXO Goobne Chicken CF
• Red Velvet’s Marie Antoinette makeup article by Joyce Kong
• Ferfree R’shyt White Milky Crystal Balm Cream
• SHINee Key’s skincare routine video
• Confessions of a Coordinoona
• Jessica’s Vogue skincare routine
• Blanc & Eclare
• Tracy’s post on Lipstick Chateau Wine Bit Color

• Kpoptown
• The Saem’s latest SHINee advertisements

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The snail unit talks self care, finding your porn, and our favorite moments from the last year.

Today is our first snailiversary by the way!!!

Resources:

• Cat’s Skincare SOS
• Cat’s non con Sulwhasoo soap review
• Tracy on skincaretainment
• Fiddy on how her kbeauty routine helps her fight depression
• Chel’s routine hack

A photo posted by The Snailcast (@thesnailcast) on Apr 20, 2016 at 10:39am PDT

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The Snail Twins subunit (Chel from Holy Snails and Fiddy from Fifty Shades of Snail) reminisce on pregnancy and new motherhood, and how that affects skincare – aka the episode that functions as inadvertent birth control.  Dick count is 0, but prepare for the barrage of nipple talk.

Resources:

• Fifty Shades of Snail:  How My Elaborate Korean Skincare Routine Helps Me Fight Depression
• Beautibi:  Maskingdom Having A Baby Mask
• Fifty Shades of Snail:  How to Build An Asian Skincare Routine
• Fanserviced-B:  Easy Starter KBeauty Routine For $100 on Amazon
• Snow White & The Asian Pear:  Beginner Friendly: Simple K-Beauty Starter Kit #1 – Oily & Acne-Prone Skin Type

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The Snow (Cat from Snow White and the Asian Pear)-Darling (Tracy from fanserviced-b) Sub Unit of the Snailcast talk about beauty boxes, fields of product zombies, and dicks.

Resources:

• spreadsheet post
• Amore Pacific Mall mystery box
• Mask Genie
• Mishibox
• 3B box
• Tracy’s Clio Beauty Box
• our amazon routine posts: Cat and Tracy
• Tracy’s Birchbox article for Racked
• Ipsy
• Birchbox
• Glossybox

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In this beauty roundtable with the ladies of the Snailunit, Tracy needs an intervention for her giant beauty stash, Chel reminds us that there’s more to K-beauty than cosmetics, Cat (fka Snow) whips out a seasonal skincare hack and talks pulling back on the acids, and Fiddy answers a listener question about brightening and hyperpigmentation.

Resources:

• Scroll through Tracy’s Instagram if you want an idea of the depth of her stash issues
• Cat’s giant stash reorganization project, part 1 and part 2
• Cat’s skincare wardrobe tag
• Fiddy’s (more or less) current beauty stash inventory
• Korean nail artist Unistella
• Cat plans her winter skincare routine (whilst sitting in a puddle of late summer sweat)
• Fiddy talks tretinoin skincare with her Curology provider

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