#fermented soybeans

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07.01.17. // Photos from when my brother was visiting. Our sashimi breakfast. We ate the nattō mostly as me daring us to eat it. It was pretty gross looking/smelling, but very interesting. The taste was bland. It gets more mucusy the more you stir it. 🤢

Good lord it seems like it's been *actually forever* since I did a nighttime facial with a sheet mask, and truth be told, I'd kind of forgotten how much I enjoy the process and the ritual of it all before tucking in for the night. I haven't had the time or the energy to do a big mega-routine lately, but this quick, sugar-based routine was just what I needed to refresh and reset. I started out with The Skinfood's Black Sugar oil cleanser and foaming scrub face wash—usually I would throw the wash-off scrub mask in there too, but I didn't want to slough off too many layers all at once despite how grimy and clogged I felt after so long without a good nighttime exfoliation. So to up the cell turnover, I used Mizon's AHA & BHA toner, which I'm always a little afraid to use during the day so I save it for before bedtime just in case. I'm always pleasantly surprised at how little it burns and how well it preps for additional steps. Next came this Holika Holika Strawberry sheet mask. It was super saturated with lots of essence, but I got next to no strawberry scent out of it and the nose and mouth holes were comically large, leaving whole sections of my face uncovered. Still, it absorbed nicely and was the perfect complement to my beloved Botanic Farm Fermented Soybean Pudding Sleeping Pack. I slapped on a hearty dollop and woke up the next morning to a slightly brighter-looking and definitely more refreshed and rejuvenated mug. I've got to get my nighttime skincare routine back in the zone—it's been too long, y'all!

It's fucking horrible! It doesn't taste of ANYTHING, so you really get to focus on the texture. The texture is very very very very very very bad. Awful. No good. Terrible. Horrible. BAD.