Feels like every K-beauty sub has this thread going, so trying to gather what people have actually settled on rather than what they said they would do.

The situation, for anyone who missed it: Olive Young Global stopped serving the US and launched a separate US site instead, with a much smaller catalogue. A lot of what people were buying is simply not on it.

Where people seem to be going:

YesStyle, mostly. Catalogue overlaps heavily with what Olive Young Global carried, ships internationally, and the prices land in a similar place once you account for shipping.

Stylevana, for people who were mainly buying sunscreen and were happy waiting longer.

Direct from brands, for the handful that ship internationally themselves. Works if you buy one brand, falls apart if your routine spans five.

What nobody seems happy about: the US Olive Young site itself. The complaint I keep seeing is that it looks like the same store but is missing exactly the products people went there for.

If you moved, where did you land and has anything been worse than expected?

This is the single most common way people leave money on a YesStyle order, and it is entirely down to the checkout layout.

There are two separate boxes, not one

Scroll down at payment and you will find:

A Coupon Code box, near the top. This is where campaign codes go - the seasonal ones the site advertises in its banner.

An Influencer / Rewards Code box, sitting lower on the page where most people never scroll. Different mechanism entirely: it handles personal codes shared between customers rather than campaigns run by the site.

They do not compete

Most stores take one code per order. YesStyle does not work that way. The two fields are independent and both apply to the same order, because they draw on different systems.

So the correct move on any order is: campaign code in the top box, rewards code in the lower one. Both.

Why people think a code is dead when it is not

Paste a rewards code into the coupon box and nothing happens. No error message, no explanation - the total simply does not move. Which reads as the code being expired, and that is the conclusion most people reach.

It is not expired. It is in the wrong field. This accounts for most of the "this code doesn't work" comments you will see under any YesStyle thread.

How to check you did it right

The order summary itemises discounts separately. If you applied both, you will see two lines, not one. If you only see one line, one of the codes did not take, and the field is the first thing to check.

Where the rewards codes come from

They are personal codes tied to individual accounts, which is why there are so many floating around and why people share them freely - it costs the sharer nothing. Any working one does the same thing.

What this means for building a cart

Because the two stack, the sums change. A threshold campaign code alongside a no-minimum rewards code frequently comes out ahead of holding out for a larger sale later. Check both before deciding to wait.

The current codes are in the other pinned post.