Things I Buy As A Civilian Substack by Amber Katz | Insights from Sidestack

Things I Buy As A Civilian

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I've tested thousands of products in nearly two decades of beauty writing and blogging. Eighty percent are aggressively medium, 10% are actively bad — and 10% are AMAZING. This newsletter is about that last 10%.

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About Amber Katz

I've moved on to beehiiv: http://civilian.beehiiv.com! OG beauty blogger. Content strategist. Writer. Editor. New(ish) old mom.

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