Professors are going crazy over an intense, 10-step Korean beauty routine

Business Insider - Screenshot via Sephora I first heard of what's known as the 10-step Korean skin care routine when my colleague Dorothy Kim, a professor of medieval literature at Vassar College, sent me a stack of peculiar-looking sheet masks along with some baby clothes her son had grown out of. "What the hell are these?" I asked. "I mean, thank you." The packets?with names like Bling Bling Hydro Gel Mask and Ferment Snail?were, as Kim explained, the "gateway" product into a complex and time-intensive beauty regimen that South Korean women have been practicing religiously for years. "They make you look like a serial killer," Kim warned, "but they're ultra-moisturizing, and you can wear one while you're breastfeeding!" So, whenever I happen to find 15 luxurious minutes to myself, I slapped one on. The change to my skin was instantaneous: My face felt more elastic, firmer, smoother, like it could breathe. It was as if I'd been a Korean beauty?or K-beauty?devotee my entire life but just hadn