r.e.m Beauty R.e.m Beauty: a Guru Score of 70% from 2 experts

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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~Yay

"As a beauty founder, as the founder of r.e.m Beauty, I think it's important to have transparency. [...] I am still four years clean. You see the lines? I love them. I [...] think it's nice to hear a celebrity with a [...] beauty brand say that she doesn't use Botox, but when she does, she'll let us know."

Robert Welsh

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~Nay

"It just doesn't feel like a brand that has the excitement around it that it did when it launched. Like a lot of brands, this one feels like they launched with loads of exciting different products. Like we had those highlighters that were unique in color and it was all quite exciting. And now they've released their foundation, it kind of just, it's like, okay, basics. We're going for the basics. And I feel like we need to see something exciting again because they're going to get boring, they're going to get stale, they're going to get stagnant. And I feel like nobody is interested in the brand as much as they used to be. [...] The packaging is cute, it's a cute concept of a brand. But it's that thing of a brand releasing what every other brand does and it's kind of becoming a bit copycat like or a bit like, oh, we have to do this. We have to do this."

All 4 takes from Robert Welsh

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"The brand actually looked really exciting. I quite like its like 60s, 70s-esque vision of space. And one of the lipsticks is really cute. It looks like it's like a little lipstick looking out a peep hole of like a spacesuit. However, the products, don't get me wrong, there's some good products in there, in the brand. But a lot of the stuff again, is quite chalky. It's not so great. A lot of reviewers online also agree in terms of, there's good and bad, there's bad and good, there's chalky and not chalky. And it's not the best brand ever."

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"r.e.m Beauty is good in comparison. It's not great, but it's good. [...] I wasn't expecting much from the brand when it came to complexion products, [...] but I was very, very pleasantly surprised with the concealer. It sat really nicely under the eyes. It looked beautiful. It looked like skin. [...] It also has a great shade range, including a black and white that are made for shade mixing. They're not pretending they're skin tones. And their satin matte blush powders are beautiful, really, really nice on the skin. Again, great shades. They just sit really nicely on top of makeup, on top of foundation. They just do what a blush should do."

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"r.e.m Beauty is another brand that I think do some great products but aren't really people's go to for makeup. [...] When it released, it did give off like a merchandise vibe. It's like, this is Ariana's makeup, and [...] she was in all the visuals. I don't think we had any other models, which would have been quite nice."

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"It just doesn't feel like a brand that has the excitement around it that it did when it launched. Like a lot of brands, this one feels like they launched with loads of exciting different products. Like we had those highlighters that were unique in color and it was all quite exciting. And now they've released their foundation, it kind of just, it's like, okay, basics. We're going for the basics. And I feel like we need to see something exciting again because they're going to get boring, they're going to get stale, they're going to get stagnant. And I feel like nobody is interested in the brand as much as they used to be. [...] The packaging is cute, it's a cute concept of a brand. But it's that thing of a brand releasing what every other brand does and it's kind of becoming a bit copycat like or a bit like, oh, we have to do this. We have to do this."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is r.e.m Beauty?

r.e.m Beauty is a cosmetics brand offering lipsticks, blushes, concealers, foundations, and highlighters with space-themed packaging.

Is r.e.m Beauty worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 70%.

What is r.e.m Beauty's Guru Score?

r.e.m Beauty holds a Guru Score of 70%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 2 expert reviewers we have collected.