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What is the best luxury beauty brand?

By YPB Team

Counter institutions your mother used, plus newer names priced somewhere between a good dinner and a short flight.

  1. Chanel Beauty — ranked #11
    Chanel Beauty
    Rouge lipsticks, Le Lift skincare and a beauty counter that funds a lot of the house.
    1000pts
  2. Estée Lauder — ranked #22
    Estée Lauder
    Advanced Night Repair has been the brown-bottle benchmark for serums since 1982.
    811pts
  3. Clarins — ranked #33
    Clarins
    Plant-based French skincare with a Double Serum that sells a bottle every few seconds.
    595pts
  4. Armani Beauty — ranked #44
    Armani Beauty
    Luminous Silk foundation is the reason half of Hollywood's skin photographs the way it does.
    595pts
  5. Pat McGrath Labs — ranked #55
    Pat McGrath Labs
    The industry's most decorated makeup artist selling the pigments she uses backstage.
    595pts
  6. Tom Ford Beauty — ranked #66
    Tom Ford Beauty
    Heavy gold cases, saturated lipsticks and a fragrance wing that outgrew the clothes.
    463pts
  7. Clé de Peau Beauté — ranked #77
    Clé de Peau Beauté
    Shiseido's top tier, best known for a concealer people buy in multiples.
    463pts
  8. Hourglass — ranked #88
    Hourglass
    Ambient powders and vegan formulas that made a newer brand a counter fixture.
    463pts
  9. YSL Beauté — ranked #99
    YSL Beauté
    Touche Éclat and the gold-cased lipsticks that made makeup feel like jewellery.
    379pts
  10. La Prairie — ranked #1010
    La Prairie
    Caviar and platinum in cobalt jars, positioned at the very top of the skincare shelf.
    379pts
  11. Lancôme — ranked #1111
    Lancôme
    Génifique and Teint Idole anchor the most reliable mid-luxury counter in the business.
    278pts
  12. Charlotte Tilbury — ranked #1212
    Charlotte Tilbury
    Pillow Talk turned one lip shade into a global shorthand for polished.
    278pts
  13. Sisley Paris — ranked #1313
    Sisley Paris
    Family-owned phyto-cosmetology with a cult following for Black Rose cream.
    278pts
  14. Shiseido — ranked #1414
    Shiseido
    A century and a half of Japanese formulation, and the sunscreen everyone copies.
    278pts
  15. Augustinus Bader — ranked #1515
    Augustinus Bader
    The Rich Cream arrived in 2018 with a professor's name and a waiting list.
    278pts
  16. La Mer — ranked #1616
    La Mer
    Crème de la Mer sells a broth, a legend and a price nobody can justify twice.
    278pts
  17. Guerlain — ranked #1717
    Guerlain
    Two centuries of perfumery plus Météorites pearls, the most French object in makeup.
    0pts
  18. By Terry — ranked #1818
    By Terry
    Terry de Gunzburg's Baume de Rose and Hyaluronic Glow, born from her years at YSL.
    0pts
  19. Dior Beauty — ranked #1919
    Dior Beauty
    Rouge Dior, Backstage foundation and Capture skincare, sold in every duty-free hall on earth.
    0pts

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Comments

Beauty is the cheapest thing either house sells and a large part of what pays for the runway. Chanel and Dior measured thirteen ways: https://youpick.best/articles/chanel-vs-dior-ranked

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