Section I

BEAUTY

Fourteen months of testing, three climates, one honest shelf.

5 stories
12 things recommended
3 award winners

The 7 Best Beauty Products I’ve Tried This Year

One year, one bathroom shelf, and the 7 things that earned their place on it.

I’ve tried hundreds. These are the ones I’d actually buy again.

Tested on a boat, in Bangkok humidity, and under a full face of makeup.

Four days, eleven clinics, one suitcase I had to buy on the way home.

Three went back. One made me stop wearing mascara.

Everything I recommend in Beauty12 things

01 Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream expensive, and I’ve bought it four times $290✦ Best Moisturizer

02 Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream winter face, saved $72

03 Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ the $18 one that beat the $60 ones $18✦ Best Sunscreen

04 La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 the $16 fix for everything $16

05 Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Toner the boring one that fixed my texture $20

06 Medicube PDRN Pink Peptide Serum the one people ask about $32✦ Best PDRN Product

07 Sweed Lash Lift Serum six weeks and I stopped wearing mascara $89

08 Oribe Gold Lust Dry Shampoo third day hair, no one knows $48

09 Nécessaire The Body Lotion smells like nothing. perfect. $25

10 Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40 the primer that happens to be SPF $38

11 Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Colour Correcting Treatment redness, gone by breakfast $52

12 Sisley Black Rose Cream Mask the splurge that works $142