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r/
Makeup
Makeup tips and advice from other people who have no agenda. Skip the misleading ads, paid bloggers, sponsored Instagrammers, and enjoy some real information from other redditors. Ask about anything you like, as long as it's related to makeup.
Subscribers
1.8M
Active users
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Category
fashion
Refreshed
1 day ago
Coverage score
2 / 4 evidence checks passed
Can you post here?
Thin data
Directional only
We do not yet have enough data to make a clean recommendation here.
Posting gates
- Min karma
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- Account age (days)
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- Submission type
- self
- NSFW
- No
Brands winning here
When cited Reddit discussions from Makeup show up in our LLM-observation dataset, these brands appear most often.
1. NARS
122
2. Maybelline New York
116
3. e.l.f. Cosmetics
108
4. M·A·C Cosmetics
97
5. Urban Decay
79
6. NYX Professional Makeup
60
7. Milani Cosmetics
60
8. Aquaphor
52
Based on 3705 observed brand mentions across all indexed citation history. Rankings prioritize the last 30 days. Last updated Apr 20, 2026.
See the broader citation datasetActivity
A simple read on whether the subreddit is accelerating, stable, or contracting in recent observed data.
We do not yet have enough observed activity to describe how this subreddit is trending.
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