How TirTir Became a Global K-Beauty Phenomenon Through Shade Diversity

How TirTir Became a Global K-Beauty Phenomenon Through Shade Diversity

From Seoul Startup to Amazonโ€™s Top Foundation Brand

Can you believe a Korean cushion foundation topped Amazonโ€™s entire foundation category?! ๐Ÿ†โœจ TirTir, a Seoul-based brand founded in 2017, made history in 2024 when its Mask Fit Red Cushion became the first Korean cushion to achieve this milestone. While other K-beauty brands were focusing on skincare, TirTir bet big on makeup โ€” and it totally paid off!

2017๋…„์— ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋œ ์„œ์šธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด๊ฐ€ K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! 2024๋…„, ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด์˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ํ• ๋ ˆ๋“œ ์ฟ ์…˜์ด ์•„๋งˆ์กด ํŒŒ์šด๋ฐ์ด์…˜ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ 1์œ„๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•œ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ฟ ์…˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์ด ์Šคํ‚จ์ผ€์–ด์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๋•Œ, ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฉ”์ดํฌ์—…์— ๊ณผ๊ฐํžˆ ์Šน๋ถ€์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋˜์กŒ๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋Œ€์„ฑ๊ณต์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

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The Secret Behind the Mask Fit Red Cushion

So what makes this cushion so special? ๐Ÿ’„ The Mask Fit Red Cushion, priced in the high-20,000 won range, offers thin yet long-lasting coverage with a โ€œno-transferโ€ promise tested for up to 72 hours! The unique egg-shaped compact took 18 months to develop and follows facial contours perfectly. Plus, it delivers SPF 40 PA++, brightening, AND wrinkle-improving benefits all in one tap!

๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ํ• ๋ ˆ๋“œ ์ฟ ์…˜์˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! 2๋งŒ ์›๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€์—, ์–‡์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€์†๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ปค๋ฒ„๋ ฅ๊ณผ 72์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์นœ โ€˜๋ฌป์–ด๋‚จ ๋ฐฉ์ง€โ€™ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๊ณ„๋ž€ ๋ชจ์–‘์˜ ์ผ€์ด์Šค๋Š” 18๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋์— ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋˜์–ด ์–ผ๊ตด ๊ณก์„ ์„ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. SPF 40 PA++, ๋ฏธ๋ฐฑ, ์ฃผ๋ฆ„ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

The Viral Moment That Changed Everything

Hereโ€™s where it gets REALLY interesting! ๐ŸŽฌ In 2023, Canadian beauty creator โ€œMiss Darceiโ€ posted a review saying even TirTirโ€™s darkest shade was too light for her skin. Instead of ignoring the feedback, TirTir developed over 20 deeper shades and sent them directly to her! Her follow-up video finding her perfect match went absolutely VIRAL โ€” over 50 million views across platforms!

์ •๋ง ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! 2023๋…„, ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค์˜ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ„ฐ โ€œ๋ฏธ์Šค ๋‹ค๋ฅด์„ธ์ดโ€๊ฐ€ ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์–ด๋‘์šด ์‰์ด๋“œ๋„ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ์ด ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  20๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์–ด๋‘์šด ์‰์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์‰์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์€ ํ›„์† ์˜์ƒ์€ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ „์ฒด์—์„œ 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ์กฐํšŒ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ŒํŒŒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋ฐ•์ด ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

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Shade Diversity as a Core Value

TirTir now offers 40 shades globally and 45 in Korea! ๐ŸŒˆ โ€œLee Sun-young,โ€ TirTirโ€™s CMO and creative director, explained their philosophy perfectly. โ€œThat moment showed us that listening, sincerely and quickly, builds trust far more than any planned campaign,โ€ she said. This experience evolved into the global #FindYourShade campaign with the powerful message: โ€œYour Shade, Our Standard.โ€

ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ 40๊ฐœ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” 45๊ฐœ์˜ ์‰์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด์˜ CMO์ด์ž ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ์ธ โ€œ์ด์„ ์˜โ€ ๋‹˜์€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€ ๊ฒƒ์€, ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์ฒญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์Œ“๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€ ์ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ โ€œYour Shade, Our Standardโ€๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ #FindYourShade ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

BTS V and Global Expansion

The brand took another huge step by partnering with BTS member โ€œVโ€ as their global ambassador last November! ๐Ÿ’œ TirTir has been hosting pop-ups from Los Angeles to Dubai, focusing not on spectacle but on hands-on shade testing experiences. โ€œThe core experience โ€” understanding our philosophy through trying โ€” stays the same everywhere,โ€ Lee shared.

ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 11์›” ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„ โ€œ๋ท”โ€๋ฅผ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์•ฐ๋ฒ„์„œ๋”๋กœ ๋ฐœํƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ํฐ ๋„์•ฝ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๋กœ์Šค์•ค์ ค๋ ˆ์Šค๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‘๋ฐ”์ด๊นŒ์ง€ ํŒ์—… ์Šคํ† ์–ด๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ง์ ‘ ์‰์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธํ•ด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฒดํ—˜์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ธ โ€˜์ง์ ‘ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€™์€ ์–ด๋””์„œ๋‚˜ ๋™์ผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ด์„ ์˜ ๋‹˜์ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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The Future of TirTir

Looking ahead to 2026, TirTir isnโ€™t just about louder messaging โ€” itโ€™s about deeper resonance. ๐Ÿš€ With skincare lines like Milk Skin and the new Matcha series gaining momentum, the brand aims to be recognized as a global beauty player grounded in inclusivity. As Lee puts it: โ€œTrue growth comes when the brandโ€™s direction is felt in the product and the experience, without needing explanation.โ€

2026๋…„์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ํ‹ฐ๋ฅดํ‹ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋” ํฐ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ€ํฌ ์Šคํ‚จ๊ณผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ง์ฐจ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ๋“ฑ ์Šคํ‚จ์ผ€์–ด ๋ผ์ธ๋„ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํฌ์šฉ์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์„ ์˜ ๋‹˜์˜ ๋ง์”€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ โ€œ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์ด ์„ค๋ช… ์—†์ด๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋А๊ปด์งˆ ๋•Œ ์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€