December's Best Beauty Buys

Pore Thing

Once in a while I'm presented with a product that addresses an issue everyone's writing about. For example, I'd just finished reading yet another lament about large pores when a bottle of Perricone MD Intensive Pore Treatment hit my desk. The formula tightens pores, exfoliating with glycolic acid and helping control oil production with zinc and salycylic acid. You can't change pores' size—don't believe anyone who says you can—but tightening them makes them look smaller.—Val Monroe

$75; Sephora.com

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