Beauty & Personal Care

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Hair dryers, flat irons, skincare devices and gift-worthy beauty tools. What is worth the money, and what ends up in a drawer.

The best beauty tool is the one you actually keep using. We look past the marketing at what each tool asks of you every day: how long it takes, what extras it needs, and whether the results are worth the routine.

Amanda Roberts leads this section, drawing on more than 25 years of judging products by how well they fit into real daily life. Every guide lists who each tool is for, what bugs us about it, and who should skip it.

We rely on published testing from beauty editors and labs plus each maker's own specs, and we say clearly where the evidence is thin.

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