Venus Wong is a freelance beauty, travel and food writer who splits her time between London and East Asia. She was most recently Senior Writer at Refinery29, and has bylines in British Vogue, The Telegraph, The Cut, Glamour, The Independent and The i Paper. Over the years she’s interviewed the likes of Venus Williams, Courteney Cox and KATSEYE about their beauty routines, and developed a reputation for spotting emerging trends across China, Japan and Korea before they hit the mainstream, such as the rise of toner pads and TCM ingredients.
Originally from Macau, she speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese and is currently brushing up on her Japanese and Portuguese. A self-confessed K-beauty obsessive and fragrance enthusiast, she can be found lingering around perfume counters at the duty-free and uses her frequent trips home to China to get acupuncture and cupping sessions.
