2nd Gmarket Haul

Finally, after a lot of time I've made my second order. I spent a lot of time browsing as I couldn't decide what to buy. In the end I bought just 3 things.

•An Holika Holika Praha Blossom Essence
•The Holika Holika Baby Bloom Light BB Cream
• An LG Sooryehan Hyo Boyun set composed by toner, emulsion and and a mini set : toner, lotion and cream.

Initially it weighted 1 kg but it turned out to weight 3 kg somehow.

This time I had bad luck as my parcel was handed to custom and it stayed there 3 days T.T .

In the first box was my Holika Holika order: The Praha Blossom Essence and Baby Bloom Light BB Cream. The GWP were a Holika Holika make-up starter sheet, a Medi-Medi magnesium pack sample and a little cotton box.

In the second box was my LG Sooryehan set of toner and emulsion. As you can see, there were lots of gifts. A mini set of emulsion, toner and cream, an extra toner and emulsion (85 ml each), a cleansing foam and cleansing cream (30 ml each), a Sooryehan Boyun cream (25 ml) and another cream, Sooryehan Hyo Biyeon Palseon cream that I assume is an eye cream (long package).

This order cost me a lot. I think that with the extra shipping cost I paid aprox. 125000 wons.

The shops from where I bought:  Holika Holika

and LG.

There is actually another LG shop that has different things that you can find here.

My 1st Gmarket Experience

After weeks of browsing; hours and hours spent in front of my computer adding and deleting things from my cart...I finally placed my first order. I only bought cosmetic items as I´m almost out of mine so I needed new things, and with brands such as Holika Holika, Etude House, Tony Moly, baviphat, Dr. Jart etc. etc. existing I knew I should buy them at Gmarket.

I knew that I could get some great products at great prices as I had to convert the wons to dollars and then the dollars to euro, and I tell you you can get very very cheap things.

One of the things I hate from Gmarket is the EMS shipping prices to Spain.  They´re huge!! And as I bought things alone the price for my order was pretty high. But nevertheless, even with the huge shipping fee, it´s still cheaper than buying this things on ebay or on the official online shops.

For example I bought:

• 1 Holika Holika Peach Girl BB Cream
• 1 Holika Holika Baby Bloom Light BB Cream
• 1 Holika Holika Petit BB Cream
• 1 Holika Holika Baby Bloom Powder
• 1 Holika Holika Water March Moisture Full Cream
• 2 Tony Moly Baby Doll Pot Concealer

Holika Holika was having a 30% discount, but I had to pay domestic shipping for the concealers.
The final price with the shipping fee included was aprox. 75.000 wons (aprox. 68$ or 53€).

I ordered on Friday 13th as the Holika Holika promotion was only for 3 days. On 17th my package was already at the international shipping office so it´s a pretty great time as there was a Sunday in the middle ^^.

The Tony Moly shop sent the package the same day I ordered it (7 hour time difference with Spain) but the Holika Holika shop was slower. I know that maybe it was because I bought many products.

I didn´t realised that I made a mistake when I placed the order until almost all my products were at the warehouse. The mistake I did was that when you normally add a thing to you cart yo choose what option you want if it has, like almost all my products that you had to chose between one color or another. I didn´t noticed that when I placed the order only the products were there buy the options you had to write it down in a space they give you, so now with the exception of the Baby Bloom Light BB Cream that the name says it´s light I don´t know what I might get. I don´t worry to much as I have a 20-25NW depending on the season, I can make any makeup tone work. ^^

I´m so excited about this haul ^^ But I´m already starting looking for thing for a new one. Gmarket it´s addicting.

I´ll make another post when my package arrives with pictures and all so stay tuned ^^

Any questions, doubts... ¿Just leave me a comment?

Gmarket: How to Use?

Gmarket is a Korean online auction and shopping mall website, where people from all around the world buy and sell goods and services.
Aside from shipping fees , Gmarket does not charge any sort of fee for using their services.


After you registere (like on any site), it´s time to start shopping ^^.


When you start looking for something you can write it in english if you don´t know hangul. When the results appear you have to tick the "worlwide shipping" and then click go. You can also click "free domestic shipping" in order to get to pay less shipping, but then you don´t get as many products.


The domestic shipping it´s because when you order something, the seller sends it to Seul, to the central office, where the put all the products you ordered in one box , weight it and then they ship it, so you get all your products once. 
Some sellers have a domestic shipping charged, normally I think it´s 2500 wons; or they have a condition charge, *if you buy more than... free shipping*, or it´s directly free. 


There are two important things right here you need to know. 

• First: International Shipping. Unfortunately not every seller on Gmarket sells internationally so always make sure this says they do before you purchase an item. 

• Second: Item Weight. It´s estimated, but you have to pay it and then,so  when they weight your parcel if it´s less, they give you back money (gcash) and when it´s more you have to pay the difference (in gcash).

If the seller sells internationally, you can see,that in the description of the product before the weight it says "Available countries & overseas fees". Click that. This gets you to a chart that puts the prices for the EMS shipping, depending the region or the area. Spain, in this case it´s at the end, separated from Europe ^^.


When you decide to make an order, you go to your cart and click "Place an Order". They get you to a page where you have to write many things but don´t worry.


I recommend paying with Paypal as it´s safer.


 It's now time to enter in your information. It sounds easy enough, but yet again there is another odd thing about this form.

When you get to this section your e-mail will automatically be entered in where it says "sender's e-mail". And your phone number will be entered in as well under "Telephone".

Well that doesn't make sense does it. We are not the senders we are the ones who will be receiving the product. And that's another thing odd about this: it appears that there is a mess up and it should say "receiver's e-mail" instead of "sender's email". But for all other parts where it says "receiver's" put your info and senders put there info.

Now when filling out the form you will notice that it asks for the "sender's name". Here you can put anything like for example your favorite idol ^^ (I <3 Lee Taemin). You have to use Latin alphabet.

Once you have everything filled out look for your country. The shipping charge is only the estimated shipping charge , which could go up or down when the actual item arrives at the warehouse where they weight it.

In the warehouse they weight it, and if you have to pay more you have to purchase gcash (what they use on gmarket) and pay it with them. If they have to give you money back, they put the money in your gaccount, in gcash. 

If you pay with paypal, don´t forget to permit the pop-up. 

After you paid, the page should get you to your shopping list. There  you should see the following

[Date][Seller Info][Item][QTY][Payment][Shipping]

Shipping:it here will show you what step your product is in.

When you first order that spot will say Pre-Request . This means that they have notified the seller that you have purchased there product. Once the the seller returns the notification it will now say On Request or domestic shipping. This means that the item is currently on its way to the ware house. The shipping to the warehouse depends on the sellers or depends on how many products you bought. 


Once it arrives they will weight the item and notify you if there is any difference in the weight that would result in a change in the shipping charge. This you can see it if you click on any product from the order, at the downside of the page, before your data you can find the payment shipping info.
After you have payed or received any money for the shipping it will now say Now Shipping/Departing. 

You can track any shipping, whether domestic or international. 

Shops: 

• Etude
• Baviphat
• Tony Moly
• Dr. Jart
• Peripera
• Holika Holika
• It´s Skin
• etc.

There also many official shops, like skinfood, skin79, or innisfree that don´t sell internationaly, so in that case you would have to look for them at other sellers.



¿Any doubts?¿Questions?
 Just comment ^^