?She get it from her mama” is more than just a line in a Juvenile song. Just as we learned how to walk, talk and tie our shoes from our moms, we’ve also picked up some beauty lessons from them along the way.
Think about it, before we were old enough to read a fashion magazine or even buy our first lip gloss, we could still watch mom at her vanity doing her daily makeup routine. We’d marvel as this woman with her arsenal of beauty tools, each with its own mystical purpose, who somehow knew how to perfectly use each and every one. You could almost say moms were our first YouTube tutorials.
That’s not to say that mom was always right. “Only shave up to your knee cap!” Please, mom. As grown women, now with our own vanity and daily beauty routine, we wanted to reflect the lessons our mothers passed down ? some of which we still follow to this day, and others we’ve chosen to ignore.
Sarah Ban, Editor

?Use essence? it?s better than moisturizer or serum or oil.?
The only beauty advice my mom?s given me was to use essence no matter how tired or broke I am. Hell, if I get deserted on an island I better find some water and plants and somehow DIY an essence. Turns out she was right — because I don?t have innately perfect skin like many Koreans do (damn you, gigantic pores), and I?ve had some shamefully poor skin-killing habits in my lifetime that should?ve turned me into the Crypt Keeper by now. Despite that, I don?t even have the fain...