Is Clé de Peau Beauté La Crème worth it? For a small group of buyers, yes, but not for the reason the jar implies. What several hundred dollars buys here is an exceptional texture, a slow and pleasant…
Yes, belif’s Aqua Bomb is worth buying if your skin is normal, oily or combination. It’s a light gel-cream with hyaluronic acid, niacinamide and two herbal blends, and it hydrates without leaving shin…
Buy it, if your skin is dry, tight or flaky and you want one cream that works on your face and your body. First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream is a colloidal oatmeal skin protectant in a thick, whipped…
Buy the Mehron Paradise Makeup AQ Basic palette if you want one face paint kit that handles every Halloween look you're likely to attempt and then keeps going for years. It's a water-activated profess…
Buy the Madison Reed Radiant Hair Color Kit if you color at home every four to six weeks, you're covering gray, and you want a gentler-smelling formula with the barrier cream, stain wipe and aftercare…
Buy the Theragun Mini if you want a massage gun you'll use, not one that lives in a closet. It's the pick for someone with tight calves from running, sore forearms from a desk, or shoulders that knot…
Buy it if you want to try gel at home without committing to a drawer full of equipment. The Le Mini Macaron Rouge et Moi Deluxe kit is a small, pretty starter set: a matte red LED lamp, four mini gel…
Buy it. Clinique Almost Lipstick in Black Honey is a sheer, balmy lipstick that looks nearly black in the tube and goes on as a soft, see-through berry that picks up your own lip color underneath. Tha…
Buy the T3 Lucea 1.5" Flat Iron if your hair is long, thick, or both, and a standard one-inch iron turns every morning into a forty-section project. The wider plates cover more hair per pass, the Cera…
Buy it if your skin is oily, thick-skinned, sun-dulled or rough and you want one weekly treatment that does the work of three. Kate Somerville ExfoliKate Intensive stacks a fine physical grit, fruit e…
Buy the Hatch Restore 3 if the thing you really want is your phone out of the bedroom. It’s a sunrise alarm, a sound machine and a reading light in one handsome box, and its routines turn winding down…
Buy it, with one condition. The Dazzle Dry Mini Kit is the best way to try a polish that dries hard in minutes and holds up for about a week without a lamp, a soak, or a salon. It works because the fo…
Buy Benefit Hoola if you want a matte bronzer that's almost impossible to overdo and you're fair to medium. It's a soft, shimmer-free brown that warms the face without turning orange, and it blends ou…
Briogeo Don't Despair, Repair! Deep Conditioning Mask is worth buying if your hair is dry, brittle, or color-treated and you want a silicone-free mask that softens without coating. It won't rebuild br…
Buy Clinique Moisture Surge 100H if your skin is oily, combination, or dehydrated and you want a fragrance-free gel-cream that sinks in fast and plays well under makeup. Dupe it with Neutrogena Hydro…
Buy it, if your skin is dry, tight and itchy and you want one fragrance-free cream that can cover your face and body through the heating season. Avène XeraCalm A.D Lipid-Replenishing Cream is a thick…
The Mason Pearson Popular is worth buying if you have normal to thick hair, you brush it dry every day, and you want one brush that lasts decades. It’s the large oval with the dark handle and the mixt…
Hand sunscreen has a job facial sunscreen never has to do: survive being washed off five or six times a day and get reapplied anyway. That second half is where it falls apart. Nobody rubs a chalky bea…
The Dyson Supersonic dries hair quickly because of airflow, not heat. A small motor spinning at 110,000 rpm pushes roughly thirteen litres of air a second through a narrow ring, and a bead thermistor…
Indigo Overnight Repair is the Tatcha product people reach for when the rest of their routine has started stinging. Officially it's a serum in cream: thicker than a serum, lighter than a balm, with co…
Buy the Sigma Beauty Essential Kit if you own no brushes worth keeping and want the whole face-and-eye lineup solved in one purchase. It's a twelve-piece synthetic set with a cup to stand them in, and…
Libre is the one you smell in an elevator and can't place for a second, then place instantly: a sharp, almost masculine lavender laid over orange blossom, with vanilla holding the whole thing down. Th…
If you wear glasses, buy the waterproof one. That's the short answer. Lancome Lash Idole Waterproof Mascara sits at the usual department-store mascara price, and it's the version of Lash Idole worth y…
Cold weather doesn't just dry skin out, it dismantles the thing that holds water in. Chilled air carries less moisture, indoor heating pulls more of it off you, and the lipid mortar between your surfa…