Rediscovered and Redeemed Makeup
I test new makeup products nearly every day and at this point if a product isn’t immediately promising or so offensive I…
Beauty Unhyped Field Notes #1
Welcome to Field Notes, where I share my latest (and always unfiltered) thoughts from my beauty shopping outings – aka hunting down…
PSA: MATTE IS BACK!
After a decade of blinding highlighters, dewy skin, glass skin, and all the iterations on dewy and glowy you can think of,…
For once I’m talking fashion – what’s on my wishlist
I am by no means a fashion authority or someone who even particularly enjoys shopping for clothes, but when I get on…
Is makeup boring right now or am I just getting boring?
For the first time in a long while, I’m not excited by new makeup, and with holiday products already launching, this is…
What Was Beauty in 2024?
How is it December? The year has passed in the blink of a bleph-lifted eye. Or maybe I’ve lost all concept of…
RFK Jr: America’s Beauty Czar
We’re back with another episode of The Review of Mess: a podcast collaboration between The Review of Beauty (by me, Jessica DeFino)…
We Should Be Ashamed Of Ourselves!
Hello and welcome to another edition of THE DON’T BUY LIST! It was only a matter of time until the lyrics to…
‘I’m Ugly. Can I Still Have A Good Life?’
The next installment of Ask Ugly, my monthly beauty advice column for the Guardian, is here! Hi Ugly, How do I reconcile…
Fake Teeth
The people want real-looking teeth. Not real real-looking teeth — fake real-looking teeth. Fake real-looking teeth that cost between $20,000 – $50,000….