Korea · 2026 week 37 (09.07 - 09.13) · 15 entries

Ranked the #1 riser in Shopee's K-beauty category in April 2026. The same brand's Best Glow combo also made the top five.

A two-step set: ampoule first, hydrogel mask second. Sold on fast calming and hydration.

A home-care device Olive Young flagged as a hot product, and the centre of the buy-the-machine, treat-yourself-at-home shift.

A Pro Eye Palette Air edition made with the Korea Heritage Service sold out in both colourways.
High in the Hwahae rankings, which sit on 1.03 million user reviews. Sold on low-molecular hyaluronic acid for absorption.

Both sit high in Hwahae's cosmetics Top 100, and both lead with ceramides and barrier repair.
Mediheal Essential Mask (#1 sheet mask, 3.1 billion sheets to date), Bioderma Hydrabio toner and Beplain mung-bean cleansing foam (20 million units sold) took the top of Olive Young's September list.
Daiso's June event brought roughly 290 new SKUs from brands like Klavuu, TWOEDIT and Bonsep; July added about 920 more under a "Summer Glossy" push, and sellouts ran across some 800 beauty lines.

Known for a vintage-can body toner, blending oils shaped like chess pieces, and a pouch-refill serum mist.

Olive Young took #1 in the September 2026 cosmetics-retailer brand reputation index, though total data volume fell 4.92% from the previous month.
Lush took #1 in the September 2026 vegan-cosmetics reputation index at 1,496,687, up 23.63% month on month.
Three of the top five fastest-rising products on Shopee in January 2026 were TIRTIR items, led by the Mask Fit AI Filter cushion. K-beauty e-commerce exports passed $1 billion in a half-year for the first time, at $1.0353 billion.

Past creams and sticks, sun gels, serums and ampoules are now on the popular lists — SKIN1004's sun serum, Botanic Farm's sun gel, Fromliere's sun ampoule.

Leave it on the face for a minute and it claims to clear pores, hydrate and firm. A standout at the Olive Young sale.
The axis of K-beauty as the Olive Young sale showed it: shoppers read the ingredient list before the brand name.
Sources · Olive Young Newsroom · Hwahae rankings · Shopee K-beauty report · Harper's Bazaar Korea · Ilgan Today brand reputation
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