#DamnGood K-Beauty Special! What to Buy (And What to Skip) at the New Olive Young Flagship

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Fashion, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Style541811, Carlenehiggins, Beauty, Arts, Jilldunn, Beautyexpert, Beautyeditors, Magazineeditors

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The #DamnGood K-beauty revolution is officially landing in North America! This week, we’re going deep into the highly anticipated US arrival of Korea’s mega beauty retailer, Olive Young with its first outpost in Los Angeles. From the massive grand opening in Pasadena to our curated edit of the best-selling products you need to add to your online cart, this is your ultimate guide to navigating the highly-anticipated K-beauty mecca.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

Olive Young 101:The scoop on everything you need to know about the mega-retailer’s LA flagship openings, including what you will and won’t be able to buy.
*The* top 10 bestsellers: We break down the official Olive Young best-sellers data, from the cult-favorite Mediheal sheet masks you already know to the get-it-now products you haven’t discovered yet.
Our next obsession—K-Hair: We reveal the bonding hair masks, overnight scalp treatments, and viral reedle shot hacks that are completely changing the game for hair thickness and shine.
Mind-blowing makeup: From blurring pudding pots to the 'juicy' cushion foundations causing a stir on social media, we’re running through the innovative makeup products that are making over our makeup bags.
K-Beauty for Gen X? The science-backed skincare we’re making room for on our own top shelves, from glutathione serums to pillowy “K-pharmacy” retinols
The wildcard: Stay tuned for our exclusive reveal of the surprising non-K-beauty brand that will be anchoring the Olive Young US launch experience—you’ll never guess who they partnered with!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:08.1	Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products,
0:12.6	and moments in beauty. We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
0:24.4	Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone.
0:29.6	I'm Carleen Higgins, one of your co-hosts, and this is my other co-host, Jill Dunn.
0:31.6	Hey, it's Gemini's season.
0:37.4	We are here in your feeds like we have been every single Wednesday for the past nine years. That's right. We are the
0:39.3	show all about the breakthrough people products and moments in beauty. And we have interviewed
0:45.1	everyone from, oh my gosh, Haley Bieber, Tracy Ellis Ross, Dr. Shereen Idris, makeup by Mario. The
0:51.6	list honestly goes on and on. We're up over 450 episodes now over
0:56.3	nine years. And once a month, we do what's called our hashtag damn good episodes. And this is
1:03.0	where we review products. And we talk about what we're loving, what we have anointed kind of
1:09.4	hashtag damn good based on our experience as editors
1:13.7	and podcasters over 25 years. That's right. So last month we did a whole roundup about the
1:19.1	best foundations for 2026, what we're loving, what we're not loving so much. We did like
1:24.6	Best of Spring earlier this year as well. And so we have a topic today for
1:30.2	our hashtag damn good episode that simply can't be ignored. And this is really all in honor of
1:36.4	Olive Young, the K-Beauty mega retailer landing here at North America. And this is going to be kind of like
1:43.5	your one-on-one K- Beauty
1:44.9	shopping guide to Olive Young. And by the way, this is not sponsored at all. We are sitting here in
1:49.6	Los Angeles, not in Seoul. Yeah, that's right. I think the general impression is it's going to be
1:54.9	like a Sephora, but entirely K- Beauty. How exciting is that? It's so fantastic. So in today's episode, we're basically going to give
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