Do you ever randomly think of a brand you used to love and now hardly see anywhere? That’s Darphin for me. I actually had to look up whether it’s still owned by Estée Lauder. (It is.) In Spain, a handful…
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Because the Harrods 2026 Beauty Advent Calendar sets the bar for luxury. Few retailers rival the Harrods Beauty Advent Calendar. When it comes to curating a luxury holiday lineup, Harrods may even have Liberty of London beat. In past years,…
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Jones Road entered the beauty landscape in 2020, and I tried What The Foundation the moment it launched in 2022. It took me almost a full year to actually master the application and embrace it. Not because it’s a difficult…
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Over the last few months, I’ve been finishing off some fantastic products, and they’re too good not to share. So I’m kicking off an “Epic Empties” series: a couple of roundups a year. Revolutionary, I know. This mid-year check-in only…
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Ranavat, and How Far Back We Go I don’t often get to say my history with a brand goes back to the beginning. With Ranavat, it does. I remember the original packaging, back when there were powder masks and teas.…
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PDRN is the skincare ingredient the internet decided to call salmon sperm. Accurate enough to be funny, wrong enough to need correcting. Flip the bottle over, though, and the star ingredient is not even called PDRN. It reads as Sodium…
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I’ve been using the Sisley Black Rose Cream Mask since 2015, when it retailed for $162 and Barneys was still one of its primary retailers. Eleven years, one price increase, and one significant retail shift later, it remains a permanent…
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You may have noticed that Remedy released a Face & Neck Firming Advanced Serum Stick lately. Or what I now refer to as the Remedy Retinal Stick. Because while I’m all for marketing buzzwords, after a week of first impressions,…
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