The Week in Shopping: Beauty’s Red Light District

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Skincare, not makeup, is where the money is, and creators are now selling more expensive, medical-adjacent hardware, not just lipstick and foundation. Photo: John Sadovy/BIPs/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Sarah Shapiro
December 19, 2025

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Beauty historians will one day parse ShopMy’s list of top-performing beauty products to understand how influencers managed to reshape retail—and the culture—in their own image. Indeed, the top 10 affiliate beauty links on the platform for 2025, which we present here exclusively for Line Sheet readers, offers a unique reflection of our age, for better or worse: In short, those red light masks aren’t going anywhere.