People Think My 53-Year-Old Mom Is 20 Years Younger—Here's Her Product Wish List

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A few years ago, it seemed like my skin decided to go absolutely haywire all at once. My acne started flaring up almost daily, and my oily skin went into overdrive. Before I had the luxury of tapping into my colleagues in the beauty-editor world, my primary expert was always my mom. Even now, she's still my soundboard when I want the scoop on a new skincare product and don't want to bother deep-diving into online reviews. Quite simply, she's extremely into caring for her skin and making sure it's in tip-top shape. As a result of her well-curated routine, it's not uncommon for people to mistake her for someone decades younger.

I already shared her meticulous face-plumping and glow-inducing regimen here at Who What Wear, and the response was immense. After receiving so many comments requesting a follow-up, I asked my mother to share the products she's eyeing right now. Shopping for new beauty products is one of my mom's favorite pastimes, but she definitely doesn't just decide to try something without a good bit of research. She scans beauty forums, combs through ingredient lists, and reads several reviews before my mom makes up her mind if a product is worth trying out or not. In other words, it has to be promising in order to make her wish list. Below, I'm outlining the beauty products my mom is eager to try out next. While most skin types can benefit from reading this, if reducing fine lines and increasing elasticity and moisture are of particular concern, you'll definitely want to pay attention. Keep scrolling to see the full list.

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Fashion Market Editor

Indya Brown is a fashion editor, stylist, and writer living in Los Angeles. While going to school at Columbia University in New York City, she got her feet wet in the fashion industry interning at Elle magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and New York magazine's The Cut. After graduating in 2016, she joined The Cut as a fashion assistant, eventually working her way up to fashion editor. There, she worked on a multitude of projects, including styling inbook feature stories for New York magazine's print issue, writing and pitching market stories for The Cut, and serving as fashion lead for The Cut's branded content. While New York has been her home for over 10 years, she moved to Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic in 2020 for a new chapter. Now she is a fashion market editor for Who What Wear, focusing on emerging designers, rising trends on and off the internet, interior design, and BIPOC creatives and brands. Aside from her duties as a fashion market editor, Brown is also a freelance stylist and writer, working on national print and video commercial campaigns for Sephora, The Independent, and Cadillac. Her bylines also include Harper's Bazaar, Vox, and The New York Times. But once the computer goes down and the emails turn off, she's likely eating her way through Koreatown, hunting down vintage furniture, scoping out new outrageous nail designs to try, or taking a hot cycling class.