Beauty

La Bonne Brosse Hair Care and Brushes: Cair Rituals, French Craft

La Bonne Brosse brings traditional French brushmaking and its Cair haircare line into the everyday getting-ready ritual. This edit moves from travel-size formulas and practical tools to full-size brushes, with room to choose the part of the routine you care about most.

SSAINT Fragrances: 10ml Perfumes and Discovery Sets

Founded by lifelong friends Elle Wallace and Ciara Mahoney, SŚAINT treats fragrance as a way to hold onto a mood or memory. I explore its small perfume formats, discovery sets and select apparel, with a few practical notes on choosing a size and making scent feel personal.

STARSKIN Face Masks: Bio-Cellulose Rituals and Sets

Launched in 2015, STARSKIN draws on Korean skincare inspiration and made Bio-Cellulose masks a signature focus. I look at single face, lip, eye and foot treatments alongside multipacks, tools and sets, with a gentle reminder to check ingredients and introduce new products slowly.

Susanne Kaufmann Skincare: Alpine Botanicals and Spa Rituals

Susanne Kaufmann’s line grew from spa treatments in Austria’s Bregenzerwald, where Alpine plant knowledge meets modern science. This edit moves from everyday lip and hand care to bath products and more considered face care.

Nurse Jamie Skincare Tools: Rollers, Masks and Oils for Daily Care

Nurse Jamie brings the perspective of a registered nurse and skincare professional to a shelf of tools, treatments and small routine-builders. I would shop this edit by the habit I want to keep, not by the promise of a more complicated regimen.

Sol de Janeiro Black Friday 2026: Scent and Gift Set Sale Notes

Sol de Janeiro Black Friday 2026 is a practical guide to signature body care, fragrances, and holiday sets. I separate the scents I would buy early from routine products I would watch for a markdown, using last year’s published coverage and the brand’s current terms.

Vitamin E Oil, the Old-School Fix That Never Left

Vitamin E oil is the bathroom-cabinet classic that quietly survived every skincare trend. Pure tocopherol is thick and rich, while blended face oils use it as an antioxidant alongside lighter oils. These vitamin E oil picks run from a simple pure bottle to luxury face oils.

The Best Korean Night Cream Is Really a Sleeping Mask

The best Korean night cream usually comes labelled as a sleeping mask, a leave-on layer you apply last and sleep in. It is the step that made Korean skincare famous for the morning-after glow. These best Korean night cream picks are the sleeping masks and night creams I would put at the end of a routine.

Rich Mom Energy: Tote Bags, Activewear and Coffee Cups

Rich mom energy comes down to tote bags, activewear and coffee cups. I gathered the pieces, from a Staud mini tote to a suede belt, that carry it.

Hair Care Essentials: Scalp Oil, Growth Serum and More

Hair care essentials in this edit run from a rosemary and biotin scalp oil to a growth serum and an LED hair growth helmet.

Pillow Talk Lipstick in Every Finish, and Pink Nudes Like It

Pillow Talk lipstick is the nude pink Charlotte Tilbury calls everyone's perfect shade, and it now comes in matte, satin, balm and blur. Here is how I would choose a finish, what to pair it with, and pink nudes from other brands that sit close by.

How to Prep Lips Before a Matte Lipstick

Lip prep before lipstick is two steps: a gentle sugar scrub, then a rich balm that fills the tiny lines the scrub reveals. I pick scrubs, balms and comfortable matte lipsticks that reward the prep, all in about two minutes.

Benefit Lip Tint: Benetint vs Plushtint Compared

A Benefit lip tint comes as sheer Benetint, dewy Splashtint or matte Plushtint. Benetint is the original, a waterproof stain that is smudge-proof and transfer-resistant once it sets, so it is where I would start.

Charlotte Tilbury Lip Liner: The Lip Cheat Shades I Reach For

The Charlotte Tilbury lip liner called Lip Cheat is the pencil that started the brand's lip story. I sort the shades by undertone, cover the Pillow Talk and Super Nudes options, and add liners from other brands for comparison.

Charlotte Tilbury Magic Water Cream and the Glow Creams Beside It

Charlotte Tilbury Magic Water Cream is the fragrance-free gel moisturizer built to continue the Magic Cream story. Here is the rest of the Charlotte Tilbury skin care line, plus glow creams, illuminators and hyaluronic serums that work in the same hydrated, dewy spirit.

Makeup For Hooded Eyes: What Actually Stays Put

Makeup for hooded eyes stays put when shadow and liner sit above the fold, crease resistant layers stay thin, and mascara is kept clean at the roots.

Fenty Beauty Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint: the Light Base

The Fenty Beauty Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint arrived in March 2021 in 25 shades, and it is Fenty's lightest take on a base. Here is the tint and its Fenty siblings, other blurring tints I like, and the liquid blushes that go over any of them.

Laura Mercier Setting Powder, the 1996 Powder Made for Close-Ups

Laura Mercier setting powder was one of the brand's four launch products in 1996, made to set skin without showing on camera. Here are eight Laura Mercier powders and tools, and eight more setting powders I compared them with.

The Ordinary Lash Curl Finisher: Using It With Mascara

The Ordinary's directions never mention using Lash Curl Finisher with mascara, because the gel is designed to replace it. Curl your lashes, comb it on from root to tip, and start with lashes that have no mascara on them.

Wedding Makeup That Lasts, and the Royal Bride Who Did Her Own

Wedding makeup has to last through tears, hugs and flash photos and still look like you. Here are sixteen long-wear picks, from gripping primers and waterproof foundations to kiss-proof lip stains.

Best Rare Beauty Highlighter Shade: Positive Light Picks

The best Rare Beauty highlighter shade depends on undertone: Flaunt, Reveal or Mesmerize for warm skin, Enlighten or Transcend for cooler skin. I go through every Positive Light liquid and Silky Touch shade, the rest of the glow kit and eight highlighters from other brands.

Powder Foundation That Looks Like Skin, Not a Mask

Powder foundation looks like skin, not a mask, when the prep and the brush are right. I cover loose, pressed and baked formulas, plus primers, setting sprays and buffing brushes.

Holiday Gift Sets: The Beauty Box Has a Long Memory

Holiday gift sets have a long memory, from Coty's powder box to the skin, scent, makeup, hair, and candle collections I would choose now. I start with what the recipient already likes, then choose the box that gives her a natural next step.

Best Stick for Lips and Cheeks: Blush Sticks, Peach to Cherry

The best stick for lips and cheeks is a multi-use cream blush stick, like Fenty Beauty Match Stix or Bobbi Brown Skin Enhancer. I sort cream sticks, multi-use sticks and longer wearing ones, then say how I pick a shade.