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Vitamin C

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🍊Some of the best vitamin C products aren't a serum
LockSimple

Oct 14, 2025

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4 min read

🍊Some of the best vitamin C products aren't a serum

The vitamin C industrial complex has lied to you.

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Skincare

🧖‍♀️ The best moisturizer is a mask
LockSimple

May 22, 2025

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2 min read

🧖‍♀️ The best moisturizer is a mask

+ The best Memorial Day sales

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Evening Skincare Routine

+4

🧴A Sponsored Thing: Meet AV Laboratories Serum and Cream + a giveaway worth $780!

Feb 3, 2025

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4 min read

🧴A Sponsored Thing: Meet AV Laboratories Serum and Cream + a giveaway worth $780!

The only serum & moisturizer I'm using for the forseeable.

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Skincare

💡 GBeauty: The best serum I've used in my life
LockSimple

Nov 7, 2024

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3 min read

💡 GBeauty: The best serum I've used in my life

I hate when expensive things work.

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Skincare

🔥 A Trifecta of Tinted Eye Creams
LockSimple

Aug 23, 2023

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1 min read

🔥 A Trifecta of Tinted Eye Creams

Conceal Without Cakiness

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Skincare

+1

What Jim O'Connell Buys With His American $
LockSimple

Jun 26, 2023

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1 min read

What Jim O'Connell Buys With His American $

The OG Blogger Edit

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Skincare

+1

What Lindsey Whitehouse Buys With Her American $
LockSimple

May 31, 2023

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3 min read

What Lindsey Whitehouse Buys With Her American $

OG Beauty Insider Edit

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Skincare

Your Tech Neck Solution
LockSimple

May 26, 2023

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1 min read

Your Tech Neck Solution

Protect Ya Neck

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Makeup

+2

What Julia Coney Buys With Her American $
LockSimple

May 22, 2023

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3 min read

What Julia Coney Buys With Her American $

The OG Blogger Edit

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Skincare

+1

What Gina Way Buys With Her American $
LockSimple

May 9, 2023

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2 min read

What Gina Way Buys With Her American $

The OG Beauty Writer Edit

Amber Katz
Amber Katz

Things I Buy as a Civilian

I've tested thousands of products in nearly two decades of beauty writing and blogging. Eighty percent are aggressively medium, 10% are actively bad — and 10% are AMAZING. This newsletter is about that last 10%.

© 2026 Things I Buy as a Civilian.
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