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The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino

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The world's first Beauty publication! (Everything else is just about appearance.)

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Access to all public articles + The Review of Beauty archives

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • The Donโ€™t Buy List: a twice-monthly curation of beauty news, current events, trend reports, + rants (with zero product recs)
  • Access to the comment section and subscriber chats
  • A portion of proceeds donated to The Beautywell Project + Slow Factory

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $55 a year
  • $5 a month

About Jessica DeFino

Jessica DeFino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (The New York Times, Vice, Vogue). She writes the Guardian's beauty advice column, Ask Ugly, and has been called "the woman the beauty industry fears" by the Sunday Herald.

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