Category
Beauty
7 reviews, each judged on owner reviews, spec sheets and the actual maths.
Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Cream: you are paying for the scent
A perfectly nice moisturiser wrapped around a famous scent. Whether it is worth $69 depends on how much you value the smell.
Revlon One-Step: the $79 tool that quietly outsells the $900 ones
One tool that dries and volumises at the same time, for a price that makes the premium stylers look absurd for most people.
Olaplex No.3: brilliant for the right damage, wasted on the wrong hair
A genuine bond treatment that transforms damaged, over-processed hair, and does very little for hair that was healthy to begin with.
The Ordinary Niacinamide: a $12 bottle with a job description
A cheap, single-purpose serum that does one thing well for oily and blemish-prone skin, as long as you know what that one thing is.
CeraVe Moisturising Cream: the $22 tub dermatologists keep naming
A plain, fragrance-free cream that does the one thing a moisturiser should, for a fraction of what the fancy jars charge.
ghd Platinum+: the boring straightener that keeps winning
It does one job, holds one temperature, and lasts for years. That is exactly why owners keep recommending it over cheaper rivals.
Dyson Airwrap: the $949 question nobody asks out loud
A brilliant tool that only makes sense for a specific hair type and a specific budget. For everyone else it is an expensive way to do what a cheaper dryer already does.