ALL PHOTOS: COURTESY OF RINRIN DOLL/ELLEN FREEMAN. Ellen Freeman is a freelance writer whose work has been published on The Fashion Spot, the Matador Network, and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival ...

Cut.com looks at Japan in its latest “100 Years of Beauty” episode, and it asked video researcher Marina Taylor and her mother, Junko Taylor, to help with the project. “Western styles and western ...

I've waited half of my beauty editor life to make it to Japan. So it was a J-Beauty dream come true when I had the chance to walk into a Tokyo drugstore last year and survey the skincare, makeup ...

Beauty standards and trends differ from culture to culture, so something that’s fashionable and pretty to one woman can be bizarre, sometimes even ugly, to another half the world away. This is ...

Beauty in Japan is serious business. This might be the explanation for why “beauty salon” in Japanese shares a kanji character with both “graduate school” and “hospital.”* The treatment you’re liable ...

Double cleansing, toners, serums, masks, eye creams — and that’s just the half of it. While 10-step skin care regimens have become a mainstay of Korean beauty trends popularized in the U.S., ...

Asian beauty trends showcase Korea's supremacy in skincare over Japan, credited to innovation, marketing, and culture. Japan's rich skincare traditions, including geishas' rituals, are contrasted with ...

With the number of foreign visitors to Japan continuing to rise, the commercial sector is looking to open up consumer demand among inbound tourists. According to the Japan National Tourism ...

Japanese beauty, or J-beauty as it's known among makeup and skincare obsessives, has quietly risen in popularity over the past years, especially in the Western world. Beloved for its quality ...