Beauty, food,
and everything
in between.

I didn't stumble into skincare - I grew up in it. My mom and grandmas were my first teachers. Born in Japan and raised in Hawai'i, I had two sets of traditions shaping how I thought about beauty from the beginning. SPF before it was cool. Matcha and green tea before it was a trend.

When I started my corporate job, I found myself spending hours researching the ingredients behind the routines I'd always taken for granted. What was actually in those products? Why did certain foods make my skin glow? The questions my grandma couldn't always answer sent me deep into ingredient decks, dermatology journals, and Japanese beauty counters.

In 2020, during lockdown, I started sharing what I was learning and the response surprised me. Turns out, a lot of people had the same questions I did.

A platform,
not just
a page.

Four years in, content creation is my full-time life. What started as a skincare diary has grown into something I couldn't have mapped out if I tried - a community of women who care about what they put on their skin and what they put in their bodies, and how those two things are more connected than most people think.

That idea is the thread through everything I make. It's why I started Eating My Skincare - a weekly series where I cook recipes inspired by the ingredients in my routine. Retinol in your serum? Let's roast some carrots. Ceramides? There's a miso soup for that.

I'm based in New York City now. I travel a lot, I cook more than I probably should, and I share most of it - the good products, the bad ones, the honest takes, and the occasional chaotic kitchen moment.