6 beauty tricks to get Song Hye-kyo’s look in Descendants of the Sun!

Love your lips!

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Kiss and “make up” like Hye-kyo by swiping your smackers with a trendy two-toned lippie like Laneige’s Two-Tone Lip Bar, $34. If you’re cautious with colour, simply stick with a “safe” satiny sheen in the rosy red or pink wheelhouse for the perfect jolt of “Kolour”. Swipe the angled applicator across your mouth, press your lips together and voila! A virtually instant ombre pout.

Peel away the past

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Dead skin cells can really dim your glow, so be sure to incorporate topical peels to resurface and rejuvenate – and make them a “regular” item on your routine, please.

These heavy-duty hard hitters are superb for purging congested complexions of gunk and grease. Plus, most peels are so easy to use too: Simply massage into your mien, then rinse off for a visibly smoother visage. To wit, try Kenzoki’s Amazing Exfoliating Water, $63 from June 2016, which comes packed with moisture magnets and lemon-derived non-abrasive exfoliators. Use this and with some luck, your skin should be feeling supremely soft, pleasingly plump and pore-free. Bonus points for the sensorial pleasure afforded by this treatment’s cool citrusy tang!

As always, crucial cautionary caveats apply: Be sure to spot test on the nook of your elbow and neck for any untoward allergic reactions, and ring up your dermatologist if your skin woes persist.

Play with your food

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Into Buzzfeed-ey beauty hacks? Try Hye-kyo’s ad-hoc acne-alleviating DIY mask that also doubles up as a brightening booster. Her recipe is embarrassingly easy: Dole out a good-sized amount of honey straight from the jar, smear on damp face, wait a couple of minutes, wash off. The glucose and trace minerals in honey are natural zit-zappers, and its moisture-drawing humectants help to seal off small nicks and cuts from infection. Wee word of warning: The warmth from your skin will cause honey to “liquefy” somewhat, so be prepared for a little messiness!

She’s a water baby

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The wetter, the better, apparently. “To keep the skin moist throughout my travels and within a tight schedule, moisture care is necessary,” Hye-kyo disclosed to ravenous reporters at a recent sojourn to Singapore. “Skin ageing originates from dry skin. So before I go to bed, I use my Laneige Perfect Renew Regenerator, and sometimes, I use Water Bank Essence, too.”

I suppose great beauties think alike because yours truly is also an enthusiastic endorser of the  Perfect Renew Regenerator, $88. Said serum is an intensive pampering potion packed with beautifying botanicals – think exotic galangal root extract – for a super supple and delightfully dewy finish.

Fun fact: The K-Beauty giant says the richly regenerative root extract tightens the “baby triangle” texture of your skin so that it resembles the creamy taut complexion of a toddler. How’s that for skin that’s smooth as a baby’s bottom – or Song Hye-kyo, for that matter?

Maximise your mask’s potential

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Suffering from dull skin that’s also slick as a frying pan? No fear, it’s multiple masks to the rescue. Take it from our idol du jour, who lugs along masks of every shape and stripe when she’s on the road.

Kick off your two-step multi-masking ritual by slapping on a clarifying clay mask to sop up sebum. My money’s on Etude House’s Wonder Pore Ultra Clay Pack, $25.90, which boasts a blend of degriming and degreasing clays that are said to alleviate acne and purify pores.

Nest, reanimate lifeless skin with an intensive brightening balm; try Innisfree’s Whitening Pore Sleeping Pack, $30, which boasts invigorating ingredients that promise to aid in the elimination of existing dark spots as well as the formation of future freckles.

Amped up with an arsenal of antioxidant actives, this juicy jelly has been an utter godsend for me when it comes to placating puffiness and shrinking pores – and literally overnight at that. Top tip: I like stirring in a dollop of pimple-clearing ceramide cream into the mix for a turbo-charged custom concoction. This is just one of the myriad mask medleys you can try your hand at, so have fun mixing and matching your masks!

What an “eye”-cellent idea!

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Ready to prettify your peepers a la Song Hye-Kyo? The only #swag you’ll need on hand is a (preferably water-resistant) creamy pencil in a delicious cocoa hue; try Tom Ford’s new High Definition Eye Liner, $56, which boasts a gorgeous glide that’s just perfect for this purpose.

Got your pencil? Good. With a steady hand, rim the entire upper lash and the outer third of your lower lash, following your eye’s curvature and getting as close to your lash line as possible. Restraint is of the essence here. Don’t wing it out; rather, stop lining at the farthest end of your natural lash line.

After you've reached the tail end of your line, work backwards to the inner eye again to thicken the line, gently sweeping and smudging your pencil in a windscreen wiping motion. This delicate diffusion of colour creates a soft wash that’s very Korean indeed.

And you’re done! Elegant, easy and very “visionary”, in every sense of the word – and OL-friendly, oh-so-Korean and utterly ulzzang at that.

Right, then. You know the drill: Sharing is caring, so if you’ve got any K-Beauty hacks of your own to recommend, go right ahead and spill it! Here’s to looking like my ultimate #GirlCrush – and snagging the Song Joong-ki of your dreams!