Metro Most Beautiful Korean Actresses: Park Min-Young And Her Beauty Secrets

Her beauty trinity? Sleep, sheet masks, and a no-excuses skincare regimen!

Metro.Style Team

September 18, 2020, 07:19 PM

Whether we're talking beauty, skincare, career milestones, or personal growth, patience is a virtue!

Park Min-young, an actress who waited for five years before getting her big break, knows you can't rush life's good—and more so its great—things. Trying her hand at show business as a 19-year-old in 2005 with no prior experience, she worked her way up from bit parts to supporting roles, and slowly but surely, to leading roles and coveted endorsement deals with brands like AvouAvou, Compagna, Shiseido, Vitabrid C12, Lanchen Cosmetics, A’PIEU, and Sooryehan. Her 7.5 million-strong IG following is also evidence of how hard she's worked to get to where she is!

She's traveled light years from her beginnings from 2006's K-Drama High Kick! to make it to her breakthrough roles in coming of age shows, drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal and manga adaptation City Hunter, the latter of which had her star alongside top Hallyu star, Lee Min-ho. The fact that she's had projects pour in every year since 2006, with each succeeding one bigger than the last mirrors her career's trajectory of only going upwards and forward.

Focusing on K-Dramas instead of film, Park Min-young's most recent projects include those that Filipino audiences will recognize; catch her in What's Wrong With Secretary Kim, Her Private Life, and When the Weather is Fine! These days she's more than just an industry success story. At 34-years-old, Park Min-young has become a beauty icon, too, as she manages to look absolutely glowing onscreen and in her downtime.

Celebrating her successes as an actress and a model of agelessness, we bring you Park Min-young's best-kept skincare, beauty, and self-care secrets in the gallery below!

Metro Most Beautiful Korean Actresses: Park Min-young

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We have to be honest. Park Min-young's skincare routine is not for the faint of heart. When she takes the time to care for her skin, she means it! Because she often works prolonged work shifts during filming (some even lasting for an entire 24 hours), she uses up to three face masks a day to revitalize her complexion. The combination of harsh lights, no sleep, stress, and layers of on-camera makeup does horrors to her skin, so she makes sure to counter them with an extra powerful, extra long treatments. Perhaps the lesson to learn here is the more your skin takes a beating, the more TLC it needs. Do your skincare in proportion to what your skin has gone through in the day!

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She's big on whitening masks, too, to give her skin an extra glowy boost especially when she knows she's going to do a ton of camera work for the day. Now we understand that not all women might benefit from or want to get in on the whitening product trend, so instead, what they can learn from this is to use a face mask with rejuvenating or brightening properties whose main job is to refresh tired-looking skin. Think masks with ingredients that include tomato, olive, and lemon extracts.

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If it's a product that moisturizes, Park Min-young is into it! Dewiness is the not-so-secret secret to her approach to beauty. She's not a fan of mattifying products as misuse or over-application can age you, so she's all about skincare that makes skin glow and bounce. She even brings a small bottle of essence in her purse when she feels like she needs to re-apply during the day! The same goes for her makeup choices. Cushion compacts and dewy lips and cheeks are her preferences and you'll almost never see her sport a heavy matte base.

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Given Korea's massive beauty market, there are products available for everyone depending on budget, but when it comes to Park Min-young's best suggested products, she definitely leans towards the mid to upper tiers of the market. She's a fan of (and an endorser of) Sooryehan's New Pure Performance Korean Herbal Medicine Cosmetics (Hanbang), Hyobidam Moisture Cream, and Red Biome Essence, to say the least.

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She's a four-step skincare routine kind of girl on a daily basis. They key, she says, isn't how many steps you follow, but how thoroughly you do each one. She begins with makeup remover (she uses Garnier micellar water), facial wash (she washes for at least 30 seconds to a whole minute), toner (no cotton pads, though, just finger application!), and then a face mask (but make sure to leave it on only for the prescribed amount of time for use). It's a routine she swears by and no matter how tired you are, never, ever, go to bed without doing this! Diligence is definitely something that's helped her look forever young despite being in her mid-30s.

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As for her makeup style, she prefers to highlight just two to three features at a time. She's never been keen on painting her entire face with heavy product application. Usually, she's a cheek and lip gal, using lots of pink and berry red shades that look amazing on her fair complexion. For more glamorous looks, she brings focus to her eyes, too with pearly shadows and brown liner. Overall, the look shouldn't be overpowering and too dramatic; the idea is to enhance facial features, not transform them beyond recognition! In fact, if you can with just a sheer, barely there base for your every day beauty look, go for it, she suggests.

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Her last and final self-care tip isn't exactly new, but for some reason, way too many women continue to neglect it! There's no getting around it: sleep is the fountain of youth. And she doesn't mean taking naps to throughout the day to make up for a late night, she means the real deal when it comes to sleep. Be in bed at around 10 p.m., and rise early to greet the day. Those are peak hours for skin repair (and overall cell regeneration, really), so whenever you can, don't deprive your body of this natural way to reverse the effects of time!

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