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5th Bloganniversary & Giveaway Day 1

2. April 2018

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It’s Berries in the Snow’s 5th Bloganniversary! I can’t believe that it is 5 years ago that I started this blog. Back then, I never thought that anyone will be reading my reviews. In first line, I wanted to have a space to write down my personal experience with asian beauty products and beauty products in general that I tested myself. Shortly before I wrote my first blog post I was looking for a BB cream that would suit my skin tone, without being too heavy and clogging on my troubled skin at that point. After some online research I read my first review about a Korean BB cream from the brand Missha. I was so intrigued that I looked up more reviews for the BB cream, and finally ordered my first asian beauty product on ebay.

5th Bloganniversary

This BB cream was exactly what I was looking for, and, driven by that positive experience, I started to look for other skin care products from Missha. But it was not easy to find many English reviews at that time…and even fewer German ones. And that was the time, when I decided to write down my own very first “review”. It was not a professional one, and neither a long one, simply a “here, look at this product, and this is my impression”. Some time later I added a few more sentences and an ingredients list to the post and some other of my first reviews. When looking back at these first posts (I haven’t deleted them), they are not very informative to be honest. If you are curious, here is a link to my first review on Berries in the Snow. I sometimes thought about deleting these old posts and simply redo the reviews, but on the other hand they have a personal value to me, and they reflect the way that my blog has changed over the past years. Apart from the text, that became more informative (I hope so at least), I was also trying to improve my poor photography skills over the years. I went from “simply take a picture of the product on your desk”, to “white background and product pictures only” first. Then, I started to pay attention to social media, especially Instagram, and my mind was blown...all these pretty pictures! Flatlays were getting big on Instagram, and since my pictures were basically boring flatlays already I tried and I am still trying to improve as much as I can.

5th Bloganniversary

What did change in the 5 years for bloggers generally? In my opinion, blogging became widely accepted and known in the past years. There are people who can make their living on it, and I’m happy to see that. But, this makes it harder for small bloggers, too. If you want to be noticed, and you want that your opinion on a certain product is read and spread, it takes so much more effort than some years ago. If you get paid for your effort, you probably are more happy to do so. But most bloggers are not paid for it. They spend their free-time on advertising their writings and work. Many bloggers are utilized by brands as a (mostly cheaper) way to advertise a product. I started blogging in order to spread my honest opinion and experience on a certain product, and until now I was able to hold up to it luckily, and many of the other asian beauty bloggers I discovered throughout the years are doing the same. But yet, the amount of people who start blogging and buying a ton of followers and likes on social media channels, simply to have a higher reach and be noticed by brands, has highly increased, too. After 5 years of blogging I still do not have reached these (insane) numbers, as some ‘newer’ ones have. This makes me feel demotivated sometimes, for all the work that it put into this blog, although I know on the other hand, these are only numbers.

5th Bloganniversary

Would I like to change something in future? Of course! I think it is human to need a change once in a while. I think that many things can still be improved. I would like to write more about the ingredients, and I would like to make more professional pictures, and make my blog design more modern, too…But, as with many things in life, time is my limiting factor. Working a full-time job makes it really hard to be motivated. There are times, when my free time is so limited, that I do not want to spend it on blogging, but rather on living my life and enjoying my family and friends, and also take time for my other hobbies. Blogging started as one of my hobbies, but the more professional and perfect you want to be, the more it feels like a second job, too. And it needs a lot of attention and time!

5th Bloganniversary

A glance into the nearer future…

First of all, I want to thank YOU! You are reading my blog, maybe only stumbled upon it by chance. Some have returned to read more, and even leave comments occasionally. I’m more that happy about every single one, and therefore many thanks to everyone! I’m also very grateful for all the interaction on my social media channels. Thank you for all the likes and comments there! Also, my apologies for being always so slow on responding, although I’m trying to improve myself! In order to show how much I appreciate all of your love, likes, remarks, and critics, I want to give something back in return. Therefore, I have planned some upcoming anniversary giveaways (all are international, btw!) and post for the following days. There will be a total of 5 giveaways, some will be on my blog, and some will be on my Instagram only.

Giveaway No. 1

I will start with the first giveaway today, which is a set of various Kbeauty samples and products. You can win this bundle containing:
I’m from Rice Mask
Klairs Supple Preparation Toner (travel size)
Wishtrend Hair Ties
Shara Shara Blotting Paper
Etude House Age Defense Essential Emulsion (deluxe sample)
a bunch of asian beauty samples from brands like Skinfood, by Wishtrend, Klairs, Purito, Nature Republic, Too Cool For School, Benton, and many more!
Simply enter via the Rafflecopter form below to enter the giveaway. Good luck everyone and thank you!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Disclaimer: The entries will be checked (cheaters will be excluded), before a winner is selected randomly. The products are not sponsored. Entrants have to be 18 years old, or need the approval of their parents to submit their address in case of winning. I’m not responsible for any loss or damage that occurs during shipping. The giveaway is open internationally, where shipping is allowed.

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♥ Thanks again at this point for everyone who read and reads my posts! I really appreciate it! ♥

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Wishtrend Coupons October 2017

3. October 2017

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Here are the new coupons for Wishtrend in October. If you don’t know Wishtrend, but love Korean or Asian cosmetics and skin care products I can recommend you to check out their online shop, especially for some of my favorite products, e.g. the O.S.T. Vitamin C Serum,  Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin C serum or the ElishaCoy Moist Up Hyalurone Ampoule ToneAlso, they have listed brands like COSRX, Klairs and Mizon. You can find a list of all the products I reviewed from Wishtrend at the bottom of this post. Furthermore, they have really a great affiliate program for blogger and I can advice you to join it if you are one. So here we go:

Wishtrend Coupons

As usual, I’ll start off with the 5 US$ referral coupon you can receive if you are a new customer. The principle is easy as this: If you use my invitation code 17939205 upon registration you’ll receive a 5 US$ voucher immediately. There will be a specific field in your registration form called “friends invitation program” where you can put the code mentioned above. This way new customers can get 5 US$ off, which is a great to save some money on your first order.

This month you can safe 10%  on the newly launched Skinmiso Spot Repairing Serum. I already received the mask for testing and since Klairs is one of my favourite brands I cannot wait to share my experience with you. Below, you’ll find the coupon code for this:

  • Coupon Code: WISHVite10
  • Only valid until the end of October 2017

The second promotion code is a special gift! You will receive one free tube of the Skinmiso Spot Repairing Serum (worth 24.99 US$) by using the code below. The only thing you have to pay are the shipping costs!

  • Voucher Code: SPOTFREEOCT
  • Only valid until the end of October 2017

If you cannot decide what to order here are some suggestion:

I’m still very happy with the Mandelic Acid 5% Skin Prep Water by Wishtrend. This watery preparation toner is applied directly after cleansing and acts as mild chemical exfoliator. I will write a review soon, but I can already tell you that if you have avoided BHAs and AHAs this might be a consideration since it is much more gentle.

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Also, I discovered new products from Chica y Chico. The first one is a cooling peel-off mask called Cool Night Peel-Off Mask. It has the function of tightening pores and removing skin waste. It retails for 19.90 US$.

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The second product is a mattifying loose powder called Chica y Chico Matt Powder. It is a transparent powder, but with color correction available in mint or pink. Like for the product mentioned above I like the packaging design. The powder retails for 12.90 US$.

Wishtrend Coupons

I would advice you to check out their  “Free Shipping Area”, if you do not want to make use of a voucher or coupon code. They have quite some nice items available there, changing from time to time!

I did many reviews on various Wishtrend products in the past. You might like to check these out, if you are interested in purchasing these:

Klairs Midnight Blue Youth Activating Drop

I’m from Ginseng Serum

Klairs Rich Moist Soothing Serum

Jungle Botanics Natural Body Glow Nutshell Scrub

Jungle Botanics Forest Leaves Cooling Shampoo and Warming Treatment

COSRX Oil-Free Ultra Moisturizing Lotion

COSRX Propolis Light Ampule

Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream

Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin C Serum

Chica y Chico Astazet 4.0

Delight 18 I.U Whitening Cream Glutathione

ElishaCoy Moist Up Hyalurone Ampoule Toner

Skinmiso Pore Corset Serum

Lailly 7 Seconds Make-Up Booster

Pongdang Mulbit Glow BB Cushion

COSRX BHA Summer Pore Minish Serum

COSRX AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner

I’m from Honey Mask

Boutique Bebe Hair Salon Protein Treatment

COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch

ElsihaCoy Aloe & Lavender Mask Sheet

Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack and Lip Tint Cleanser

OST C20 Pure Vitamin C21.5 Advanced Serum

Confume Argan Treatment Oil

Pongdang Donkey Milk Emulsion

Klairs Rescue Moisture Kit Part 1 and 2

Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack

CareLab Powerful Pudding Mask

Klairs Gentle Black Deep Oil Cleanser and Sugar Facial Polish

Rojukiss Multi Vita Cleansing Powder

Klairs Rich Moist Soothing Sheet Mask

Damoae Therapy Shampoo and Tonic

Skinmiso Rice Foam Cleanser

Klairs Illuminating Supple BB Cream

O.S.T. Pure Vitamin C20 Serum

Wish Formula Panda Eye Essence Mask

ONL Saladit Essential Juice Sheet Masks

Do you have any favourite item from Wishtrend? What would you love to try from their products?

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Wishtrend Coupons August 2017

17. August 2017

// AFFILIATE LINK / AD //

New month means new coupons for Wishtrend. If you don’t know Wishtrend, but love Korean or Asian cosmetics and skin care products I can recommend you to check out their online shop, especially for some of my favorite products, e.g. the O.S.T. Vitamin C Serum,  Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin C serum or the ElishaCoy Moist Up Hyalurone Ampoule ToneAlso, they have listed brands like COSRX, Klairs and Mizon. You can find a list of all the products I reviewed from Wishtrend at the bottom of this post. Furthermore, they have really a great affiliate program for blogger and I can advice you to join it if you are one. So here we go:

Wishtrend Coupons

As usual, I’ll start off with the 5 US$ referral coupon you can receive if you are a new customer. The principle is easy as this: If you use my invitation code 17939205 upon registration you’ll receive a 5 US$ voucher immediately. There will be a specific field in your registration form called “friends invitation program” where you can put the code mentioned above. This way new customers can get 5 US$ off, which is a great to save some money on your first order.

This time there is no 10% discount coupon but a coupon to save $3 on your purchase at Wishtrend.com without any minimum order! Below, you’ll find the coupon code for this:

  • Coupon Code: WISH3AUG
  • Requirement 1: no minimum order
  • Requirement 2: coupon code cannot be combined with any other discount or voucher code.
  • Only valid until the end of August 2017

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Since the promotion with the I’m from Magnolia Essence was so successful last month Wishtrend created a similar promotion for August. The second promotion code is a special gift again! You will receive one free jar of the Vitamin 75 Maximizing Cream (worth 27.90 US$) by using the code below. The only thing you have to pay are the shipping costs!

  • Voucher Code: WISHMAX
  • Only valid until the end of August 2017

If you cannot decide what to order here are some suggestion:

Wishtrend has a newly launched product again, called Mandelic Acid 5% Skin Prep Water. This watery preparation toner is applied directly after cleansing and acts as mild chemical exfoliator. I will write a review soon, but I can already tell you that if you have avoided BHAs and AHAs this might be a consideration since it is much more gentle.

Wishtrend Coupons

Another recently launched product which I reviewed a couple of days ago is Klairs Midnight Blue Youth Activating Drop. This watery serum reminds me more of a first essence, and also has to be applied early in the skincare routine. It has a light blue color and contains peptides, blueberry fruit extract and guaiazulene and acts conditioning and smoothing on the skin. Read my review >>here<<.

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Also, their is a limited edition cosmetics pouch by Klairs which looks pretty in my opinion and is also waterproof. Seems to be great for travelling, too!

Wishtrend Coupons

I would advice you to check out their  “Free Shipping Area”, if you do not want to make use of a voucher or coupon code. They have quite some nice items available there, changing from time to time!

I did a couple of reviews on various Wishtrend products in the past. You might like to check these out, if you are interested in purchasing these:

Klairs Midnight Blue Youth Activating Drop

I’m from Ginseng Serum

Klairs Rich Moist Soothing Serum

Jungle Botanics Natural Body Glow Nutshell Scrub

Jungle Botanics Forest Leaves Cooling Shampoo and Warming Treatment

COSRX Oil-Free Ultra Moisturizing Lotion

COSRX Propolis Light Ampule

Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream

Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin C Serum

Chica y Chico Astazet 4.0

Delight 18 I.U Whitening Cream Glutathione

ElishaCoy Moist Up Hyalurone Ampoule Toner

Skinmiso Pore Corset Serum

Lailly 7 Seconds Make-Up Booster

Pongdang Mulbit Glow BB Cushion

COSRX BHA Summer Pore Minish Serum

COSRX AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner

I’m from Honey Mask

Boutique Bebe Hair Salon Protein Treatment

COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch

ElsihaCoy Aloe & Lavender Mask Sheet

Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack and Lip Tint Cleanser

OST C20 Pure Vitamin C21.5 Advanced Serum

Confume Argan Treatment Oil

Pongdang Donkey Milk Emulsion

Klairs Rescue Moisture Kit Part 1 and 2

Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack

CareLab Powerful Pudding Mask

Klairs Gentle Black Deep Oil Cleanser and Sugar Facial Polish

Rojukiss Multi Vita Cleansing Powder

Klairs Rich Moist Soothing Sheet Mask

Damoae Therapy Shampoo and Tonic

Skinmiso Rice Foam Cleanser

Klairs Illuminating Supple BB Cream

O.S.T. Pure Vitamin C20 Serum

Wish Formula Panda Eye Essence Mask

ONL Saladit Essential Juice Sheet Masks

Do you have any favourite item from Wishtrend? What would you love to try from their products?

Wishtrend Coupons

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Announcement: Asian Beauty Blogparty

13. March 2016

It’s been long time since my last announcement on this blog :D This time I wanted to tell you about a project that has been planned for a while now: the Asian Beauty Blogparty! This blog hop was created together with 5 other awesome bloggers, and was initiated by Sophie from MapleTreeBlog. I’m super excited about this new project and I cannot wait to share with you the participants of this project.

Asian Beauty Blogparty

Probably you will know some of these bloggers already, but if not I can recommend you to take a look at their blogs!

And here are the participants of the Asian Beauty Blogparty:

Sophie from MapleTreeBlog

Asian Beauty Blogparty

Michele from Beautyfindsforme

Asian Beauty Blogparty

Julie from PDXBeautiful

Asian Beauty Blogparty

Amy from PeepingPomeranian

Asian Beauty Blogparty

Deborah from Adoredee

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and me :)

Asian Beauty Blogparty I linked all the ID cards above to the blogs of each person, so you can check them out.

Are you curious what to expect in future? Our first release from this collaboration will be interviews of each of us. There will be two interviews a week appearing on the blogs and hopefully you will follow us through this project. Afterwards we will be collabing on content posts on various topics and you will be able to get 6 opinions from all over the world with different skin types. 

If you have any ideas or wishes for content posts that you’d love to read leave a comment. Until then, we will see you soon with the first interviews! ♥

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Wishtrend May 2015 Promotions and call for Wishtrend Affiliates

6. May 2015

It is time for the new May promotions and gifts for our shopping experience at Wishtrend, and moreover I’m making a call to all the fellow beauty bloggers who are interested in working together with Wishtrend. And there are some mother’s day special gifts until 15th May, too. If you don’t know Wishtrend, but love Korean or asian cosmetics and skincare products I can recommend you to check out their online shop, especially for one of my favourite products, the O.S.T. Vitamin C Serum. You’ll also find some products sold at Wishtrend on my Top 20 favourite product list for 2014, like the Klairs Gentle Black Deep Cleansing Oil. Also, they have listed the brand COSRX, which is gaining a lot of popularity these days. Recently they have even added Mizon products! Here are the coupon codes for May:

Wishtrend May 2015 Promotions and call for Wishtrend Affiliates

As usual, I’ll start off with the 5 Us$ referral coupon you can receive if you are a new customer. The principle is easy as this: If you use my invitation code 17939205 upon registration you’ll receive a 5 US$ voucher immediately. There will be a specific field in your registration form called “friends invitation program” where you can put the code mentioned above. This way new customers can get 5 US$ off, which is a great to save some money on your first order.

Second, there is also a 10% discount coupon available for April. Below, you’ll find the coupon code for this:

  • Coupon Code:  WISHMAY2015
  • Requirement 1: Shopping cart order must be  55 US$ and over to be able to use the 10% off coupon
  • Requirement 2: Coupon code cannot be combined with any other discount or voucher code.
  • Only valid until the end of May 2015

The second promotion code is a special gift you will receive by using the code below. The voucher is only valid on any orders at Wishtrend! You will receive in addition to the free samples you’ll normally get a 1 FREE Berrisom Animal Mask Sheet!

Wishtrend May 2015 Promotions and call for Wishtrend Affiliates

  • Voucher Code: WISHGIFTMAY2015
  • ANY ORDER
  • Only valid until the end of May 2015

There are also some extra vouchers for mother’s day, which can be used until 15th of May:

Wishtrend May 2015 Promotions and call for Wishtrend Affiliates

I would advice you to check out their “Free Shipping Area”, so you don’t have to spend the saved money for shipping costs. They have quite some nice items available there, changing from time to time. At the moment they are providing the OST Vitamin C serum for 14.99 US$ in their free shipping zone!

Now, here is the part where I’m calling my fellow beauty bloggers: Wishtrend is looking for new affiliates. You can sign up to their affiliate program here and take advantage of their affiliate program, which is one of my favourite affiliate programs so far. Here are the benefits from being Wishtrend affiliate:

1. Monthly contests, where you can win a product for reviewing or a giveaway sponsoring for your blog

2. Between 4-10 % comission. The payouts are made via PayPal and you can request a payout already for small amounts like 10 US$

3. You’ll have access to affiliate banners and to affiliate exclusive newsletters

4. You have the chance to upgrade to advance affiliate (more commission) as soon as you did your first sale, which brings you a shopping 25 US$ voucher for Wishtrend

I can really recommend you to join and check out their affiliate program!

Wishtrend May 2015 Promotions and call for Wishtrend Affiliates

I did a couple of reviews on various Wishtrend products in the past. You might like to check these out, if you are interested in purchasing these:

COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch

ElsihaCoy Aloe & Lavender Mask Sheet

Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack and Lip Tint Cleanser

OST C20 Pure Vitamin C21.5 Advanced Serum

Confume Argan Treatment Oil

Pongdang Donkey Milk Emulsion

Klairs Rescue Moisture Kit Part 1 and 2

Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack

CareLab Powerful Pudding Mask

Klairs Gentle Black Deep Oil Cleanser and Sugar Facial Polish

Rojukiss Multi Vita Cleansing Powder

Klairs Rich Moist Soothing Sheet Mask

Damoae Therapy Shampoo and Tonic

Skinmiso Rice Foam Cleanser

Klairs Illuminating Supple BB Cream

O.S.T. Pure Vitamin C20 Serum

Wish Formula Panda Eye Essence Mask

ONL Saladit Essential Juice Sheet Masks

Do you have any favourite item from Wishtrend? What would you love to try from their products?

Wishtrend May 2015 Promotions and call for Wishtrend Affiliates