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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Gmarket Tips 6 - Beauty ♥

♥ THE BEAUTY/ BEAUTIFULER ♥
There's a beauty club of sorts on Gmarket called "Beautifuler". If you join, you can can get discount coupons each month for certain brands under "The Beauty", which is a group of beauty brands that have an official shop on Gmarket. Not all of these brands are Korean, they include Japanese/German/French/American and other international brands as well.

A shop under The Beauty basically gives assurance of the genuineness of their products, these shops are officially by the brands themselves, not middleman or second-hand dealers. The items you buy are delivered directly from the company.

Most brands under The Beauty usually give free samples with each purchase and extra gifts when you purchase above certain amounts.

You can sign up at the following page:

Click the purple button and you'll have to complete a poll/survey to be able to join.
Here's the tutorial for filling in the survey and accessing the coupons. You can click the image below to enlarge it.

When you finish the survey you'll be able to access the coupons by clicking the brown button then clicking "GO" (see above). Also, if you buy a certain amount of items from The Beauty shops every month, you can enter draws to win items. These items change every month and are shown at Beautifuler main page.

Here's a list of all of the official shops under The Beauty on Gmarket. Gmarket classifies them into 4 categories: Roadshow, Locally-produced, Word-of-mouth and Foreign. Basically the first 3 are all Korean brands. Note that some of them do not ship overseas.

♥ ROADSHOW BRANDS



♥ LOCALLY PRODUCED BRANDS

♥ Amore Pacific and brands under the company


♥ LG 생활건강 and brands under the company

♥ VOV and brands under the company

♥ Beyond and brands under the company

♥ Rest of the local brands



♥ WORD-OF-MOUTH KOREAN BRANDS






♥ FOREIGN BRANDS

♥ French brands

♥ German brands

♥ Japanese brands

♥ Johnson & Johnson and brands under the company


♥ P&G and brands under the company


♥ Rest of the foreign brands


Don't expect "high end" counter brands like Sulwhasoo or Ohui to have official shops on Gmarket, that's like expecting Dior or SKII or Chanel to have official Ebay shops.

I'm not sure how the brands are classified, I just followed whatever category they're under on Gmarket ^^ I think roadshow brands are brands like Etude, Nature Republic, TFS etc targeted at youths in their teens, with cutesier packaging, and they usually endorse idols.

Locally-produced would be ones that have been around longer, targeted at an older crowd, owned by larger Korean companies? Their "faces" are usually movie actresses or non-idol famous people, eg Song Hye Kyo for Laneige, Kim Yuna for Lacvert, Han Ye Seul for VOV.

(I know Etude House and Innisfree are "owned" by Amore Pacific as well, but they have their own shops and are listed as roadshow brands on Gmarket so I'm listing them as Gmarket lists them (:)

Word-of-mouth brands are those I think that started out selling over the internet before actually selling in physical stores, and are spread via word-of-mouth? And foreign brands are obviously brands of non-Korean origin.

For now, these are all of the 90+ brands listed under The Beauty. I don't know if there'll be more added in the future, shall try to update if they do!

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♥ Translations/ Vocabulary help

For a list of helpful beauty related vocabulary and their Korean translations, you can refer to Gmarket Tips 5 - Useful Words and scroll to the Cosmetics section (:

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♥ COUPONS for Cosmetics/Beauty

For beauty related coupons, you can draw them at these pages.

♥ Brand Coupon Book (coupons of up to 20% for brands under The Beauty)
♥ Beauty Diary (new version)
♥ Beauty VIP Zone (old version)

Note that Beauty Diary is the "new version" of Beauty VIP Zone. So if you've drawn coupons from the Beauty VIP Zone one day, you might not be able to draw it from Beauty Diary on that same day. For the Beauty Diary page you have to scroll down quite a bit to reach the coupons part, so Beauty VIP Zone is less of a hassle for me ^^ I'm lazy!

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