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Nadine Baggott
Beauty Journalist

Nadine Baggott.

Nadine Baggott is a health and beauty journalist and TV presenter with 35 years in the industry, covering moisturizers, retinoids, serums, and concealer through the lens of real-world wearability and the idea that age is no barrier to looking good. Her channel draws on decades of product testing and editorial experience to flag what is actually worth buying.

Why Is She A Guru?
Her authority rests on a 35-year career with bylines in The Times, Marie Claire, and Hello, alongside two decades as the resident beauty expert on This Morning.
84Products
79 yay100% approval rate
0 nayNothing panned yet
0 hot takesRuns with the consensus

Nadine Baggott's top picks.

The products Nadine Baggott has crowned best in their category, and brings up again and again.

★ Best budget retinol
Retinol 1% in Squalane
The Ordinary Retinol 1% in Squalane
Brought up 2 times
If you're really on a budget, absolutely a gold standard is The Ordinary Retinol 1% in Squalane, and I would go with retinol rather than Granactive because I think Granactives are unproven.

Nadine Baggott, in short.

What does Nadine Baggott recommend?

Nadine Baggott has reviewed 84 products. Of the ones she gives a clear yes or no to,she approves 100%. The products she rates highest and brings up most are The Ordinary Retinol 1% in Squalane.

Which serums does Nadine Baggott recommend?

She has reviewed 14 serums and approved 14 of them. The ones she rates highest are SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic, La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 Face Serum and Jordan Samuel Skin Antioxidant Treatment Serum.

Which retinoids does Nadine Baggott recommend?

She has reviewed 13 retinoids and approved 13 of them. The ones she rates highest are The Ordinary Retinol 1% in Squalane, e.l.f. Youth Boosting Advanced Night Retinoid Serum and The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion.

Which moisturizers does Nadine Baggott recommend?

She has reviewed 12 moisturizers and approved 12 of them. The ones she rates highest are SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Cream, La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream and Naturium Multi-Peptide Moisturizer.

Which sunscreens does Nadine Baggott recommend?

She has reviewed 8 sunscreens and approved 8 of them. The ones she rates highest are Biore UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence SPF 50+ PA++++, Garnier Ambre Solaire Super UV Invisible Serum SPF 50+ and The INKEY List Polyglutamic Acid Dewy Sunscreen SPF 30.

What does Nadine Baggott say no to?

Nothing yet. She has not skipped any of the 84 products she has reviewed here.

What they review most.

Every review.

All 84 products Nadine Baggott has reviewed, grouped by product type. Click a product to see the full guru consensus.

All takes Yay takes Nay takes Against the gurus
Serums14 reviews
"I use the 100% squalane to shave my legs with, shave under my arms with. I'm happy for the kids to use it. Biossance created hempsqualane, which is a squalane molecule which they derive from corn and then they basically feed the corn to the bacteria, the bacteria produce the squalane and then it's half the size so it goes into the skin more, hydrating, amazing."
✓Yay
72%Guru Score
"I use my vitamin C first, then I use an all-in-one antioxidant on top. It's a lovely rich cream antioxidant that just goes on top of a vitamin C, super lovely, really nice light gel texture."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I used the Dear Lucy one. Can't get enough antioxidants in your life right. Well, I think if you're a fan of heavy creams, obviously not, even at this time of year. Then you've got tell you what I did like about it, I don't have it here but I did think it was lovely."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I really like Dr Sam's Flawless Brightly Serum which has the azelaic acid and niacinamide as well and it just goes on really nice. It's [...] a perfect example of [...] a formulation with additional things like niacinamide that help soothe if you have easily irritated skin."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"You can also use a peptide at night. This is the Medik8 Liquid Peptides, and I would happily put that all over my face before putting on a retinol. You can easily use peptides, which are signaling ingredients, and they basically signal for the skin to repair itself as you sleep. You can wear them during the day as well. I just want something to give my skin slip to put the retinol or retinaldehyde over the top."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"This is the brand new La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 serum and I love it. I know it's had mixed reviews actually but I really love it. It's a beautiful milky serum."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"I really love it. It's a beautiful milky serum, very similar in texture to one of my other favorite ones, which is La Roche-Posay Dermalergic serum. I would put this all over, like drench my skin in it, including my eyes, neck, chest, everything in preparation for a retinol or a retinaldehyde."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"I know, I know, it's expensive. This is 15% L-ascorbic acid with ferulic acid and vitamin E. A lot of people don't like the smell; I've just got over it. I've used it since it was launched, it's probably 12 years now. I swear it's one of the reasons my pigmentation and my sun damage isn't as bad as it is, but I get that it's expensive. It's a pure L-ascorbic acid, so it's the active form of vitamin C, meaning your skin doesn't have to work hard to access what it needs."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"The Allies of Skin vitamin C, slightly more expensive but I love it. It's a blend of L-ascorbic acid and other forms of vitamin C that have to be converted on the skin by your skin's enzymes naturally, so it takes slightly longer to deliver but actually makes it better for sensitive skin if skin's irritated by vitamin C."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"It was the first multimolecular hyaluronic acid I ever fell in love with. It's not sticky. I use it right up and over my eyelids, over my lips, under my fine lines here, right up and around my eyes to prep my eyes for concealer so the concealer doesn't sit in the fine lines."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"Do look at the ethylated ascorbic acid it's beautiful it's a really lovely easy to use light vitamin C that's only 23% but"
✓Yay
67%Guru Score
"The Rhode Peptide Glazing Fluid is just a really beautiful lightweight gel cream with peptide and hyaluronic acid, super lightweight and lovely."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"It's their cult serum, it's lightweight, it goes up around your eyes, it suits guys, it suits girls, it suits all ages. [...] It sits beautifully under makeup and it works really really well right up and around your eyes and onto your neck. Three different molecular weights of hyaluronic acid so that it hydrates the surface of the skin and then the very top layers of the skin and then very slightly deeper within the skin. It's just beautiful, it's lovely, it's a bestseller for good reason."
✓Yay
Notverified
"This vitamin C is definitely worth testing. It's stabilized, non-reactive. Vitamin C stuff can scare me, but this one did not. It's not the way you'd expect from vitamin C products, and it's versatile enough that you could use it all day and night because it's not quite as heavy."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
Retinoids13 reviews
"If you want a beginner retinol, I would probably recommend The Ordinary Retinol 0.2% in Squalane."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"This is 0.2% retinal Emulsion and it's a retinoid and in my opinion it's the strongest and the best value for money retinoid that's currently available. [...] Retinal [...] is the next metabolic step on from retinol. [...] Traditionally in skincare [...] we had retinol esters, which your body then has to convert from a retinol ester to a retinol to a retinal to the active form of vitamin A in your skin called trans retinoic acid."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I recently mentioned the 1% retinol in squalane on TV as being the best value for money 1% retinol on the market."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I like this around the eyes because it does not irritate your eyes, especially if a lot of people had really bad experiences with [...] retinoids. [...] Retinaldehyde is actually more potent than retinols but tends to be more gentle on the skin. [...] I like this around the eyes because it's also got the ceramide so it's very kind of soothing. I've had problems with retinols but I've never had any problems with retinaldehydes."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Geeking gorgeous have a 0.05 retinol and it's brilliant value for money"
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"Elf have an amazing value for money retinol. I remember putting this on this morning and I was most impressed. I know it's stronger than 0.05, I think it's 0.1 with a granactive as well. It's stronger than the 0.05 and it's got a granactive activity as well."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It's a perfectly formulated product in slightly imperfect packaging so you do need to squeeze it down to get the last of it out. Crystal Retinal 20 is the equivalent of a two percent retinaldehyde so we're talking basically 10 times the strength of that, 20 times the strength of that. You need to work up slowly, don't start on the 10 or the 20 like me because I've been using retinals and retinols for years work your way up go three six eight and then up basically."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"If you're on a medium budget look at the No7 Advanced Retinol 1.5% Complex. It also comes with a buffering cream if you're not used to using a one percent retinol."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"Naturium have just launched one in the UK and this is also 0.05 still reasonably priced even though it's in Space NK."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This is Paula's Choice Clinical 1% Retinol Treatment with peptides and vitamin C. I swear by it. It's wonderful, I would go back to it in a heartbeat, and it's absolutely brilliant. I've probably been through at least 20 tubes of it in my time. [...] The way vitamin A is metabolized within the skin is what makes it your skin's cheerleader. It balances the overproduction and underproduction of melanin, it balances barrier function, it balances sebum production, and it boosts collagen production."
✓Yay
67%Guru Score
"If you love The Crystal Retinol and I've been using it for quite a few years now I really love it, there is now a Crystal Retinol 24, obviously that's a play on the fact that it's 2024, but that is 0.24% retinaldehyde. Retinaldehyde as I've mentioned before is the next metabolic step, so retinol is metabolized to retinaldehyde, that then gets metabolized to retinoic acid which is the active form of vitamin A in the skin. This is the strongest one you can get in the UK."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"With ferulic acid, so if you worry about using vitamin C and retinol together, and you trust a really good formulator, and Beauty Pie have the best formulators, then you get it all in one product. You haven't got to think about it. [...] I did a live with a really, really prominent UK consultant dermatologist, and that was one of the few retinols she recommended you buy over the counter."
✓Yay
Notverified
"This is the Max Hydration, and I just think it's beautiful. It's for somebody who is not, I'm not a scientist and I'm not interested in as much of the research, doing it on my own. I want a brand you can trust. It's just the perfect weight, it's the perfect amount of moisture. It mixes beautifully with a touch of water, so if you don't want it as heavy, it's not heavy anyway, but it is a true traditional night experience."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
Moisturizers12 reviews
"My absolutely favorite high street moisturizer of all time is The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors. It's basically a tick list of everything your skin needs to hydrate itself. It's got a beautiful mix of humectants to lock in water, emollients to keep your skin smooth and soft, and then it's got a little bit of an occlusive in it to lock everything in place. It's beautiful. You can use it morning and night."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"I prefer the water cream moisturizer."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"This is the night cream, the Toleriane night cream. They have a day cream as well. I would use that night and day. It doesn't sting your skin because when you're getting a breakout of perioral dermatitis, virtually anything, even tap water, can make it itch and sting so much it's just really unpleasant. It's very light."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"If you get it around your eyes, I was prescribed Elidel cream, which is pimecrolimus, and this is actually an immunomodulator. It works on the T cells and the cytokines within the skin to stop your skin from overreacting to something."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I love La Roche-Posay Lipikar really, my like one of my favorite moisturizers, and I'll use it top to toe. I'll do that in the morning after I have a shower and I'll do it in the evening as well. I'll usually have a very short quick shower [...] and then I'll apply it on slightly damp skin. [...] You want to get it on and always go downwards, don't do lots of rubbing up and down because you might trap the hairs on your body and get little bumps everywhere."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
"The Naturium Multi-Peptide Moisturizer is a beautiful texture. Everything I've put on my face so far has been watery super lightweight, so this I go in with and it's very hydrating, instantly plumps fine lines. It's quite cooling on the skin. For a lot of people that wouldn't be enough hydration, but I'm going to get a lot more hydration from my SPF. I love that."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Their hero product is Skin Fix Barrier Plus, and it's gorgeous. If you're on a retinoid journey and you want something to buffer it out, this is perfect. I love the fact that it's in a pump action dosed little pot. Really nice range, I think well worth going in and well worth braving the crowds and going and checking out Sephora for it."
✓Yay
91%Guru Score
"So it is super hydrating, goes on, slips over your skin beautifully, and I think is absolutely unique in texture. It's a jelly-like texture that is just so beautiful. This will suit summer skins so well. It's particularly suited to dehydrated, sensitive skin that don't necessarily want a heavy, oily occlusive moisturizer. It's just Heavenly. It will be the most perfect thing to take on holiday. It also sits under makeup, which is really rare for a gel."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"This is the best moisturizer to be launched this year. I absolutely love it. This is the bioactive ceramide repairing and plumping moisturizer and I've used it most days since it's been launched. It's absolutely brilliant."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"The RoC Multi Correxion Hydrate + Plump Daily Moisturizer is great. It's the perfect weight, the perfect amount of moisture, it mixes beautifully with a touch of water, so if you don't want it as heavy it's not heavy anyway, but it is a true traditional night experience. But it can be used on your hands, it could be used on a flight, it can be used before you go to work. It's just the perfect weight and I just think it's beautiful. It's a brand you can trust."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This is a Rhode Barrier Repair Cream. I'm fragrance-free and beautiful, and if you've got the budget, it's a great barrier repair product. It's unfragranced, gentle, absolutely no essential oil skincare ever."
✓Yay
72%Guru Score
"I genuinely do love this moisturizer. It's really lovely. It's Mineral 89, which is like their hero serum but in the cream form, so it goes on as a moisturizer. It's got niacinamide in it, bit of squalene, lots of hydration. It's perfect for winter months or if you just are having a bit of a rough time through the winter and you just need a moisturizer, or maybe your sunscreen isn't [...] moisturizing you enough."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
Sunscreen8 reviews
"I'm not a huge fan of Charlotte Tilbury skincare but it is amazing."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This is the Biore UV Aqua Rich [...] Watery Essence. [...] I've created lots of videos and I've written about this in The Times, but I don't think I've ever spoken to you guys on YouTube about it. [...] Let me show you the texture. [...] I will actually apply that to my chest as well, which is the one place I always forget to apply SPF. It's an SPF 50, they have an SPF 30 as well. It goes in so quickly, it's super light, lightly fragranced, without a doubt for me the perfect texture."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I love color science because it comes in different shades so it's a SPF 50 really high UVA protection but it blocks out your visible light which is really important. [...] It's called something like Flex, it comes in a bit like a medicate tube with a little pump and it goes on as a cream or fluid. [...] The reason they're tinted is because iron oxide has a rusty red appearance which doesn't look good on anyone so if you put a tint in it becomes more cosmetically acceptable."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I love this. [...] It has a really high UVA rating, five stars means the highest UVA rating. [...] I love this because it's really moisturizing and I get eczema, I have hay fever, very atopic skin, so I want something that's quite moisturizing. It doesn't leave a white cast, has a really elegant finish to it. I will often use this in the summer with no moisturizer underneath, whereas usually I'll moisturize throughout the winter and then put a sunscreen on."
✓Yay
63%Guru Score
"The original one that everybody recommends and I still really love is La Roche-Posay Anthelios UV Immune 450 Plus. This has got the brand new generation extra long wavelength UVA protection. Very similar texture to the other one - they're on your skin you're really not going to be able to tell the difference in terms of texture."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"The INKEY List have just gone into an SPF and I love this one, the Polyglutamic Dewy Sunscreen SPF 30. It's an SPF 30 so it's going to be an easier texture to formulate with. I'm choosing this because it's for those people who want a dewy finish because this is a much dewier finish. It's a beautiful moisturizer with a very slight sheen to it, really nicely formulated. It's about finding an SPF that you can afford that your skin really loves to protect you from pollution."
✓Yay
67%Guru Score
"Garnier this year have launched the invisible serum super UV SPF 50 which I know what you're thinking oh it's a serum it'll be lighter somehow it's thicker though right I don't know why it's like that see oh it takes a while to run down your hand that's how you can always tell and it's definitely definitely definitely a thicker richer consistency it all goes on beautifully still sits well under makeup better for dryer skins or for me in winter still love the original however what I have fallen in love with this is this this is without a doubt the best"
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I've long been a fan of the original Clinique Moisture Surge, and they've now launched it with an SPF 25 in. While you cannot get your primary SPF from a moisturizer because you don't apply enough of it, I do think there's nothing wrong with layering SPFs. This is a beautiful lightweight gel that actually has an SPF 25 in it as well, and if you want a really nice lightweight hydrating moisturizer, it's great."
✓Yay
58%Guru Score
Cleansers7 reviews
"Everybody knows I love the glycolipid cleanser. This was probably my absolute favorite high street cream cleanser of last year. It's beautiful, it's creamy, it basically melts away all your makeup. It respects your barrier function. I personally use it with a microfiber cloth, it gets rid of every scrap of makeup, and then I rinse it away at night. It leaves your barrier intact but cleanses your skin super gently."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I like this because it also takes all my makeup off, that's where that really comes into its own, it's lovely."
~Mixed
74%Guru Score
"We've got the gel cleanser which I have tried and I really like."
✓Yay
70%Guru Score
"This is jelly Joker I absolutely love it it's beautiful"
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"I've got long nails so I don't like to put my fingers into tubs of cleanser, but this you just squeeze out. It's thick, it's gorgeous. You massage it into your skin and then it sort of turns from a balm to an oil. You rinse it away in water with a cloth. [...] It gets rid of every single scrap of makeup, leaves skin really fresh, really hydrated, really clean. It's a bestseller for good reason."
✓Yay
Notverified
"I've fallen in love with a lot of balm cleansers, and this is the Geek & [...] Gorgeous Mighty Melt. I love this for summer [...] because it's runnier than traditional waxy balm cleansers, which means it's lighter weight, which means it's much nicer when it's humid. Even though it's been raining in the UK, it's been really hot and humid, and it gets rid of every scrap of makeup. [...] I have to say, Geek & Gorgeous, I've not put a foot wrong. I really love that product."
✓Yay
94%Guru Score
"This is the Dermatica Balancing Glycerin Gel Cleanser. This is absolutely like all of my favorite gel cleansers. This is more of a rich one so this might be nicer in summer. Go and check out the Dermatica range particularly if you're on any prescription skincare that could be for rosacea, it could be for acne, it could be for sun damage, it could be for a whole host of reasons, psoriasis, eczema, check out their supporting skincare, but also if you're a first-time retinal user as well."
✓Yay
Notverified
Body & Tan5 reviews
"That is in my house all the time"
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"This is Naturium Glow Getter Multi-Oil Body Wash and essentially it's an oil but it's a cleansing oil for the face, super light but actually rinses away to milk and just leaves the skin perfectly hydrated. [...] It's loaded with glycerin and squalane but it's also got a super light oil to gel texture. I just love it, absolutely gorgeous."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"This is the Aquaphor Healing Ointment Body Spray, really good. [...] It's great for if you're just walking out and about, flip flops, you just want to make the heels look tidy or your shins look tidy, you can spray it on and suddenly you [...] look down and go oh my God, actually legs quick when you're already dressed."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"You need a urea cream for that really, but it's particularly good for things like keratosis pilaris. It's just really lightweight, can be used in the day, it just goes on and sinks in in seconds. Or use it at night and you don't have to wait for it to sink in before you slip between the sheets. It's just brilliant."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The Almond shower oil is the absolute classic if your skin is dry and you want something that's really soothing and calming, that's the one to get."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
Lip5 reviews
"I don't like the lip balms because I don't like the smell of them."
~Mixed
76%Guru Score
"The nutum are vanilla fragranced and they have a slight vanilla taste which isn't actually to my taste but I know a lot of people love it"
~Mixed
69%Guru Score
"There's one of the darkest shades but you can barely see the color on the back of my hand. They are very sweet and very sickly, so technically not something I would wear, but only because I don't like heavily fragrant scented things on my lips. But we have to give a shout out to the OG Clarins, they were there first before anybody else."
~Mixed
78%Guru Score
"This is the Jennifer Coolidge Dirty Pillows Lip Kit from e.l.f. It's their play, essentially, on pillow talk, but it's very, very tongue in cheek, and it's really lovely. The lipstick is just a perfect cool nude brown, and I love it. I absolutely love it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I think that this brand is so clever, it's barrier boosting, it's gentle, it's peptides, it's barrier protecting. I've not used a duff product, I love it, it's really nice. They are so good, this is the range your daughter should be using. The Peptide Lip Treatment, I don't like the smell of them but I totally get why you love them. The Rhode Peptide Glazing Fluid is just a really beautiful lightweight gel cream with peptide and hyaluronic acid, super lightweight, lovely lovely."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
Other4 reviews
"As long as you have a Philips Lumea that's all that counts and it's just absolutely brilliant and I swear by it. The secret is to get it when it's on sale because it's often reduced. You need to keep it charged basically near your magnifying mirror because the minute you see that hair come through, even if it's dark and under the skin, zap it then zap it then."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"I do love it because it's really hydrating. [...] It's vitamin C."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"Hydration Vaccine is a really unique beautiful moisturizer and it's unlike most moisturizers I love in that it tends to be quite thick. [...] What I love about it is it almost feels like a balm but it's got a soft focus effect on the skin. It does hydrate the surface of the skin, it's loaded with actives, but it's also got a silicon masking effect. [...] It doesn't peel under makeup. It's beautifully under makeup."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"Now I feel far more comfortable with it. I have good news: I think it works. I've been using it for six months, and I made sure I tested it for six months before telling you about it. It's £189, which is [...] expensive, [...] but for me, genuinely, it has affected the way I sleep in a positive way, with less puffiness and fewer sleep lines. And for me, genuinely, there's no tingling and pain in my shoulders and neck, and that's amazing."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
Foundation3 reviews
"Something very light and sheer, then I like Armani. [...] It's so great and I think the color matches are beautiful."
✓Yay
67%Guru Score
"If I want something maybe if I'm out in the evening or something where I'm gonna have a lot of light in the face, I love the Pat McGrath foundations."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"There's just not enough superlatives for me to explain how much I love that product. It is without a doubt my go-to skin coverage. So don't panic about the reformulation as far as I'm concerned it performs in exactly the same way. It's just more suited for all skin conditions including very sensitive skin because of the 100 mineral pigments. The BB Cream goes on as a tint and just gives you soft focused skin."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
Haircare3 reviews
"I absolutely love my Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer. I love it because I've been through so much with this. Maximum wind minimum heat, which means it maximizes the drying power but minimizes the damage. I've never found a dryer lighter, more effective, more powerful than this. When you go to the hairdresser and they're drying your scalp and you think that's got a bit too close, that's burning my scalp, but imagine what that's doing to your hair."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"The shampoo that goes with it, which is downstairs, which I've nearly finished is amazing. It lasts for 72 hours because if you've got an oily scalp you have to wash your hair more often. [...] I cannot recommend this range highly enough. It's the best shampoo and conditioner I've ever used."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"If you want a really good High Street shampoo this is the one to go for. There is Pure Clean which is really great in the height of summer when your scalp is slightly oily and then there's another version that's more gentle on your hair if your hair is colored. I can essentially shampoo my hair with this and still brush my hair without any conditioner in it. Now I do have a Brazilian blow dry but that is my at the moment my number one sulfavorite shampoo that I'm using."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
Eye Care2 reviews
"The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream actually uses this one. [...] I like that product. I think it's very nice."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"There's a new dual eye cream that's really exciting and interesting because it also takes away all the questions that I have, you know, when do I use this and when, like how do they pair, how do they marry, how does it work. So it takes care of a lot. It's convenient, the packaging is great, it's simple, you understand what it is that you are putting on your face. This fits in a purse. I use it when I'm working and when we do touch-ups."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
Eye Makeup2 reviews
"It's so clever, [...] it must be the juice. [...] I have used it for about three days now. I've got two coats on today, not a single clog, pretty much unheard of, right? You have to go in, you know, maybe move lashes around, they stick together. It's so clever, absolutely brilliant. Last night I had supper with Monica and she said to me, 'You have lash extensions in, don't you?' I didn't. I just had L'Oreal Air Volume on."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
"This is peptides and lash conditioning ingredients alone, so it's not like the first generation prostaglandin analogs which there's been a lot of backlash with because they can cause discoloration of the lashes and irritation and all that. I had zero irritation with them. A cosmetic chemist told me they're a tick box of great ingredients, which is why I'm testing it."
~Mixed
69%Guru Score
Tech2 reviews
"It's really comfortable. It comes in close contact with the skin. In 8 weeks, it's proven to reduce the signs of fine lines by 30%, increase plumpness by 57%. It boosts brightness. I think it's particularly good at reducing redness. It's a 10-minute treatment three to five times a week, but most people I know use it five to seven because they just love love love the results. You've got a 16-week money back guarantee and a 2-year warranty. [...] FDA approved, cleared safe."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"I love this gadget. To me, it's the most pleasant at home gadget to use. [...] It's an electromagnetic wave that basically heats up the deeper layers of the skin. So that's how it can target those collagen boosting cells, those collagen making cells. It heats the skin to an optimum 43 degrees or 104 Fahrenheit to activate collagen. Five minute treatments one to two times a week, but the whole face is really going to take you down to here is really going to take you 70 minutes."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
Blush & Bronzer1 review
"Well, this one is smart enough to be flat. I break them and I get really annoyed when I spend the money and then I lose two-thirds of it on the bathroom floor. This is like someone did a moment for good packaging. This is just so good. With this one because it gives you almost that sun glow but covers and it's real. It comes in like a light, medium, dark."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
Concealer1 review
"If you're looking for a really good under eye concealer look no further than [...] the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer. It's incredible and really reasonably priced."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
Masks & Peels1 review
"I do love the original Good Genes lactic acid by Sunday Riley. Lactic acid is particularly good if you've got a drier skin that needs resurfacing. I love it if you've got an older drier skin that's a perfect thing to resurface your skin."
✓Yay
65%Guru Score
Mists & Essences1 review
"This is a cult bestseller, this is Curel and it's the Curel Deep Moisture Spray. It now comes in a miniature which is great for on flights or for just putting in your handbag. It sprays out pseudo ceramides and humectants and it basically locks water into the skin. Brilliant for flying, brilliant for this time of year. Keep it by the side of bed if you're having trouble sleeping, if you're getting a little bit of hot and muggy it's sort of night."
✓Yay
92%Guru Score

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