The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino
by Jessica DeFinoThe Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino
About the Substack
A critical review of the beauty industry that prioritizes people — not products.
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- Access to all public articles + The Review of Beauty archives
Paid Subcription Benefits
- The Don’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
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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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