How TirTir Became a Global K-Beauty Phenomenon Through Shade Diversity
From Seoul Startup to Amazonโs Top Foundation Brand
Can you believe a Korean cushion foundation topped Amazonโs entire foundation category?! ๐โจ 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 ์์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ธ๋๋ ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด๊ฐ K-๋ทฐํฐ ์ญ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ก ์ผ์ต๋๋ค! 2024๋ , ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด์ ๋ง์คํฌ ํ ๋ ๋ ์ฟ ์ ์ด ์๋ง์กด ํ์ด๋ฐ์ด์ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ 1์๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์งํ ์ต์ด์ ํ๊ตญ ์ฟ ์ ์ ํ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ฅธ K-๋ทฐํฐ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ด ์คํจ์ผ์ด์ ์ง์คํ ๋, ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด๋ ๋ฉ์ดํฌ์ ์ ๊ณผ๊ฐํ ์น๋ถ์๋ฅผ ๋์ก๊ณ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ๋์ฑ๊ณต์ด์์ต๋๋ค!
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The Secret Behind the Mask Fit Red Cushion
So what makes this cushion so special? ๐ The Mask Fit Red Cushion, priced in the high-20,000 won range, offers thin yet long-lasting coverage with a โno-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!
๋ง์คํฌ ํ ๋ ๋ ์ฟ ์ ์ ํน๋ณํ ์ ์ ์๋ ค๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค! 2๋ง ์๋ ํ๋ฐ์ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋์, ์์ง๋ง ์ง์๋ ฅ ์๋ ์ปค๋ฒ๋ ฅ๊ณผ 72์๊ฐ ํ ์คํธ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น โ๋ฌป์ด๋จ ๋ฐฉ์งโ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ์๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ ํนํ ๊ณ๋ ๋ชจ์์ ์ผ์ด์ค๋ 18๊ฐ์๊ฐ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋์ด ์ผ๊ตด ๊ณก์ ์ ์๋ฒฝํ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๋๋ค. SPF 40 PA++, ๋ฏธ๋ฐฑ, ์ฃผ๋ฆ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ๊น์ง ํ ๋ฒ์ ํด๊ฒฐ๋ฉ๋๋ค!
The Viral Moment That Changed Everything
Hereโs where it gets REALLY interesting! ๐ฌ In 2023, Canadian beauty creator โMiss Darceiโ posted a review saying even TirTirโs 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 ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค! 2023๋ , ์บ๋๋ค์ ๋ทฐํฐ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์์ดํฐ โ๋ฏธ์ค ๋ค๋ฅด์ธ์ดโ๊ฐ ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ด๋์ด ์์ด๋๋ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋ค๋ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด๋ ์ด ํผ๋๋ฐฑ์ ๋ฌด์ํ์ง ์๊ณ 20๊ฐ ์ด์์ ์ด๋์ด ์์ด๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ์ฌ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ์ง์ ๋ณด๋์ต๋๋ค! ์๋ฒฝํ ์์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์ ํ์ ์์์ ํ๋ซํผ ์ ์ฒด์์ 5์ฒ๋ง ์กฐํ์๋ฅผ ๋ํํ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ฐ์ด ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค!
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Shade Diversity as a Core Value
TirTir now offers 40 shades globally and 45 in Korea! ๐ โLee Sun-young,โ TirTirโs CMO and creative director, explained their philosophy perfectly. โThat 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: โYour Shade, Our Standard.โ
ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด๋ ํ์ฌ ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก 40๊ฐ, ํ๊ตญ์์๋ 45๊ฐ์ ์์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค! ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด์ CMO์ด์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์์ดํฐ๋ธ ๋๋ ํฐ์ธ โ์ด์ ์โ ๋์ ๋ธ๋๋ ์ฒ ํ์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ค๋ช ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. โ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค ๊ฒ์, ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๊ฒฝ์ฒญํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ด๋ค ๊ณํ๋ ์บ ํ์ธ๋ณด๋ค ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.โ ์ด ๊ฒฝํ์ โYour Shade, Our Standardโ๋ผ๋ ๋ฉ์์ง์ ํจ๊ป ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ #FindYourShade ์บ ํ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
BTS V and Global Expansion
The brand took another huge step by partnering with BTS member โVโ as their global ambassador last November! ๐ TirTir has been hosting pop-ups from Los Angeles to Dubai, focusing not on spectacle but on hands-on shade testing experiences. โThe core experience โ understanding our philosophy through trying โ stays the same everywhere,โ Lee shared.
ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด๋ ์ง๋ 11์ ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ ๋ฉค๋ฒ โ๋ทโ๋ฅผ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ฐ๋ฒ์๋๋ก ๋ฐํํ๋ฉฐ ๋ ํ ๋ฒ ํฐ ๋์ฝ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค! ๋ก์ค์ค์ ค๋ ์ค๋ถํฐ ๋๋ฐ์ด๊น์ง ํ์ ์คํ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ํ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ คํ ๋ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ง์ ์์ด๋๋ฅผ ํ ์คํธํด๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ฒดํ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. โํต์ฌ ๊ฒฝํ์ธ โ์ง์ ์๋ํด๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฒ ํ์ ์ดํดํ๋ ๊ฒโ์ ์ด๋์๋ ๋์ผํฉ๋๋คโ๋ผ๊ณ ์ด์ ์ ๋์ด ๋ง์ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค.
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The Future of TirTir
Looking ahead to 2026, TirTir isnโt just about louder messaging โ itโs about deeper resonance. ๐ 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: โTrue growth comes when the brandโs direction is felt in the product and the experience, without needing explanation.โ
2026๋ ์ ์๋๊ณ ํฐ๋ฅดํฐ๋ฅด๋ ๋ ํฐ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ ๊น์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐํฌ ์คํจ๊ณผ ์๋ก์ด ๋ง์ฐจ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ ๋ฑ ์คํจ์ผ์ด ๋ผ์ธ๋ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํฌ์ฉ์ฑ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ทฐํฐ ๋ธ๋๋๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ ๋์ ๋ง์์ฒ๋ผ โ์ง์ ํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ธ๋๋์ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ฑ์ด ์ค๋ช ์์ด๋ ์ ํ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํตํด ๋๊ปด์ง ๋ ์ต๋๋ค.โ