When I did a major shopping haul from the Korean store Beautynetkorea (aka f2plus1 on eBay), I purchased a heck lot more makeup than I did skincare. The skincare choices in that store was overwhelmingly large and I didn’t know which ones were worth trying. The only skincare item I picked up was the Tony Moly The Chok Chok Green Tea Watery Lotion, simply because 1) it was a new product in store and 2) I like the word “chok chok”. Yeah I’m funny that way. 😛

The thing is, I didn’t actually check its reviews out prior to purchasing it so in my mind, I was expecting an essence or a toner. Given that it’s called “watery lotion”, and lotion in Korea and Japan is usually very runny or like water, that’s what you’d expect too, right?

Yeah … no. 😛

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This isn’t a new product from Hourglass. In fact, it’s been around since 2013 but it wasn’t till a few weeks ago that I finally gave it a go. I’m a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to lipbalms and try not to pay anything over $25 for a lipbalm. This definitely costs way more than that! 😛

It was at an Hourglass beauty event by Mecca that I decided to bite the bullet and grab the lip treatment oil. I had a girly day out with LeGeeque, who booked us in for the event, and we both ended up getting one each. After using it a couple of times, I was hooked. Big time. Why the heck didn’t I get this sooner?

Oh. Right. The price. 😛

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Not every beauty blogger is the same. We don’t all blog about the same things (even though it seems as though we sometimes do) and more importantly, our product review process differ from one another. Some take longer to do a product trial and some don’t require a long period of testing. Some has a long list of criteria to tick off the checkboxes and some have shorter ones. It’s interesting to see how other beauty bloggers approach product testing and review because it’s one of those things that few of us talk about. We may tell you what we think about a beauty product but we don’t actually reveal our trial process.

So today I thought I’d share my product trial and review process with you. Like I said, it differs from one beauty blogger to another; your trial criteria may be different from mine. 🙂

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