Before you get disgusted, enraged or simply curious, this piece doesn’t have anything to do with slugs or having them crawl on your skin. The only connection between slugging, the new trend in the realm of skincare, and the gastropods is well, in the name. The technique that originated in South Korea is supposed to leave your face feeling slime-y, in a good way. All you have to do is apply petrolatum/petroleum jelly on your skin, after your night-time skincare routine. When you wake up, the glow is real. In a viral post, a Redditor described her experience of going to bed looking like she came out of a “birth canal” to waking up the next morning, reborn. “I was not a slug; I was a caterpillar in the cocoon. I’ve emerged, a beautiful butterfly,” she wrote.

Beauty influencer Charlotte Palermino popularised the K-beauty trend. Pic/Instagram