KOREA VLOG ౨ৎ solo travel, seongsu cafes, squid game pop-up, perfume haul, skin treatments

This salt bread was buttery and delicious :P

Spent my first days cafe hopping & editing

I booked an airbnb in Seongsu~

Visited my friend's school to work together

Seeing my first snow in korea ❅

fried chicken for dinner

Watching I Am Solo! I love korean dating shows haha

Hello, I'm in Korea right now.

I got to Korea a couple of days ago,

but I've just been spending the past couple of days

editing my finals week vlog.

I had over 5 hours of footage for that vlog.

It was just a lot of footage that I had to sift through.

I think initially, the vlog was like 40 minutes long,

and now, I was able to get it down to 30 minutes,

but even that is just so long.

I don't know how I had so much footage.

I really do like how the video turned out, though,

so if you haven't watched that one, go watch it.

Today, I'm going to go to a skincare clinic in Gangnam.

It's called Muse Clinic.

And I'm going to get some skin treatments done.

I washed my face first!

Before the treatments - very nervous...

InMode FORMA, 0/10 pain level, just felt warm

ThermageFLX 300 shots

This was quite painful, but definitely worth the results :')

Certification for authenticity

Ultherapy 100 shots for my double chin

The sun had already set by the time I left

Daily convenience store run 🏃

Always go for those 1+1 deals

Ignore my under eyes.

I got Rejuran injections for my dark circles,

so they're very swollen and bruised up right now, but

I feel like my jaw is so snatched right now.

Like, it's crazy how instant the results are.

There's like no downtime whatsoever.

My double chin... is no longer there.

Mochi ice cream~

I got a haircut in the morning

I got the strawberry one 🍓

Iced americanos as always

Came to get my nails done 💅

Something like this..

Those colors?

Yes.

I usually can't have nail art during the school year

So I was excited to get my nails done for the few weeks I'm here.

They came out so pretty, I'm obsessed 🤩

Visited the mofusand pop-up in seongsu!

So many cute stickers T.T

- yeah, I think I'll get the strawberry.

Dessert after dinner, of course 🍰

HELLLL YAHHH 🕺

- wait, the close-up one is actually pretty cute.

We're looking for the door LOL

I was shook 🫨

- cheers! 🥂

- oh, it's really sweet

On my way to do some shopping in dongdaemun

This place had a TON of jewelry & accessories

This store was next door, so we stopped by!

Came to hongdae~

Using anything as a tripod is a universal thing haha

The owner gave us tea & hot packs 🥹

Just tested out a few scents!

Looking for a planner for the new year

They were all so cute, I was so indecisive 😭

photobooth time~

Cuteee

We attempted to make dalgona (but failed)

This guy gave us his dalgona LOL >>

Heating up my pastries

Studied a bit today 📚

Walking home...

It started snowing 🌨️

PIZZA ‼️

Zero sugar Milkis

I'm watching I Am Solo (again)

It's so good

I love korean potato pizza 🥔

Pretty christmas decorations ✨

I bought a perfume!

I have no depth perception.

My friend tried and got it first try lol

I love walking into random gift shops 🧸

I was craving kyukatsu 😋

Dasique was having a huge sale on select items

The waitlist to get in was 3 hours 💀

Ice cream for dessert

This hit the spot 🤤

On my way to Itaewon

Met up with my friend Joanne <3

- ok, we could do 1, 2, 3?

- white is a vibe

- this is a little too white, what happened?

- I know, it's so washed out.

Wait, it's stilll cute tho

I was craving a salad today haha

Just choose the "best"

wowow so healthy

Catching up with a long-time friend

Got a hot latte because I was cold

Is the photoshop on?

Yeah

Oh..hahahaha

Today's brunch menu

strawberry rice cake for dessert

= the best thing I ate

Seongsu feels like home at this point

Had to stop by a photobooth to curl my bangs lol

Overpriced christmas desserts for the pics

< my 4th grade frenemy
(we hated e/o lmao)

I'll eat the head.

This is gory.

It looks like blood.

The aftermath

Stumbled upon this Squid Game pop-up in seongsu

the double take LMAO

Entering the game 🙆🏻‍♀️

LOL this guard is so cute

In the box, there's a picture of two items.

We had to find the items from the cabinet in 10 seconds.

It's still a mystery to me where the other one is LOL

I still can't find it.

Squid game energy drink

photobooth with a ⭕️ guard

Trying the energy drink

Wow

It's good

Sniffed more perfumes

Looked around some shops in the area

boongeoppang in the winter is a must

These were so good & warm 🥹

I had so much sugar and caffeine today.

I'm just overstimulated.

I had to come back home early.

It's been over a week since I've landed in korea,

so I'm going to show you everything that I bought.

The first thing that I got is this scarf.

I wear it every day.

I was kind of hesitant to buy winter clothing items

since I live in California, and I know that I'm definitely not

going to be wearing this once I'm back there.

I also got this hair clip from Offline in Hongdae

I got this phone case from hongdae.

This planner is from Artbox. I wanted a 2025 planner.

It also comes with these cute stickers

and this mini calendar.

Every time I see a korean perfume store,

I like to go in and smell everything.

I got this perfume from Nonfiction.

It's in the scent Forget Me Not.

I also got a ring,

but I literally lost it the same day I got it

cuz it was loose on me, so I can't show you that.

And then from Daiso, I got underwear.

I have yet to try these on,

so I don't know if this is actually my size.

I got 90.

They had 90, 95, 100.

I kind of have a big butt, so maybe this is not my size 😼

I also got these hair pins.

I only got this because my bangs were bothering me so much

that day that I had to clip them back.

These were also from Nyunyu.

They're so cute. They're little bears.

And then, I also got these from dasique.

So (not so) funny story:

My friend and I, we stood in line to go to the dasique cafe (2nd floor)

They were having a huge Black Friday sale on the 3rd floor.

And I had known about this sale cuz I saw it on TikTok,

but I wasn't really interested in checking it out.

I was only there for the cafe.

But, we waited for *3 hours

just to realize that we were on the waitlist for the wrong thing.

So we were like, 'ok, might as well just go in and check it out'

because we waited for so long for it.

So, I ended up getting two things.

I got this blur lip pencil.

I have a similar one that I'm currently using,

but it's not from dasique.

I'm currently using this one from rom&nd.

And I also got this juicy dewy tint.

I think I got both of these for less than 4,000 won combined.

It was so crowded in there that I didn't want to

hold up the line or anything,

so I was just moving really quickly through everything.

And I don't even know if this is my shade.

(I like the color 🤭)

I was craving a salad again..

My friend bought me this for christmas :')

Pop-up for Light Shop

(I didn't watch this show)

I'm trying to copy him lol

The cheesecake was so good

Showing my friend pics of me before vs after makeup

I wanted some authentic korean food

I loved the vibes of this cafe

The melon einspanner was really good :P

It was Christmas Day!

The prettiest cakes & scones

< my 6th grade friend :)

This place is really popular, so the waitlist was hella long

I heard the truffle is good.

I liked the truffle one the best 🥯

It would be nice if someone took a picture from here.

You should step out and take a picture of me.

This restroom was so nice.

It's in a hanok but open to the public

Got a scented candle instead of perfume

Stopped by Daiso

They had these cute stickers

I feel sick right now.

Also, the bagels were really good,

but I think that was my final straw.

I cannot have any more bread on this trip

or I'm going to throw up.

I think I've had bread/pastries for dessert

twice a day, every single day since I've landed in korea.

This was the day Squid Game 2 came out

I got kimbap from 3Bros in seongsu.

I watched the entire Squid Game season that night

I felt the fever and chills coming

I think I slept for 22 hours.

I didn't even think that was possible.

I was only awake for 2 hours in between to get medicine

and then I went back to sleep.

I'm usually good at taking pills,

but these are so big.

I met up with my middle school bestie ^3^

Is there a right answer?

They said to pick their real names.

Copying off of my friend's sheet LOL

I'll give you a stamp

또생네컷

Free stickers :3

Needed my daily dose of caffeine

This was my first time at The Hyundai

We walked around to see what they had

More cute stickers ~.~

Won a free perfume sample

Coffee #2

Another childhood friend 🤗

He's everywhere 🥸

Watched my first play! It was so fun 🤭

I want to watch more the next time I visit

Visited a cat cafe 🐈

Omg so cute..

Feeding them snacks <3

Grabbed dinner with a few of my middle school friends!

I want a cute one, too.

I want a cute one, not this one.

Cute- Oh, please.

One for fun.

No.

Please try it on.

*tries it on*

How is it?

photobooth time~

They said this is the trendy way to take pics now ⁉️

Gonna do another haul for you guys.

I feel like money that I'm spending in Korea

is not real money anymore.

Korea has really nice study planners.

This one is a 31 day study planner

that I think I'm going to use when I am studying for boards in May.

I got these stickers.

These three stickers are from the same artist.

I also got this (notepad).

I went to Point of View.

It's a pretty popular stationery store.

I think both of these are Japanese pens.

I just got them because the colors are cute.

They were doing this lucky draw event,

and I won a perfume sample.

Mmm~

I went to Tamburins.

I got the egg perfume in pumkini.

This is so cute

I need to use this sparingly

I think I need to stop buying perfumes

cuz I have another one, too.

I went to Youssoful, and I got Berry Sexy.

I went to Granhand.

I didn't get a perfume from here,

but I did get a scented candle.

I really like the packaging of this brand.

I have my name stamped here.

This one is Kyujang.

Honestly, this is not something that I would want to spray on myself.

The top notes are fig leaf, bergamot, pink pepper.

Mmm

Fig leaf!

My friend got me chicken.

I've been wanting to try this chicken for such a long time.

Since I don't have a korean phone number,

I can't order meal delivery services,

but I've been really really wanting to try this.

This is the supreme chicken from cheogajip.

So many cute desserts to choose from ~.~

💬 Talking about fried chicken

Bare footed experience, it was so cool

Each floor had a different theme

They had some tea 🫖

So peaceful & therapeutic

Even the restrooms were on theme

Washing my feet afterwards

Checked out a stationery store for their key chains and stickers!

I was craving jjajangmyeon

New Year's countdown in the middle of the streets

Happy New Year 🥳

Took pictures to capture the 00:00

Flight attendant recognized me and got me snacks 🫶🏻

I slept for most of my flight back to LA!