About Besides
Besides is a research aggregator for beauty purchase decisions. If you’re about to buy a product and want to know what people actually thought before you decide, this site compresses the discussion — scattered across thousands of retailer reviews and YouTube comments — into one scannable page.
What this site does
For every product in our catalog, we compress verified retailer reviews (Ulta, Sephora) and real YouTube comments about it into per-attribute summaries, and show comparable alternatives at the same price point so you don’t have to keep tab-switching.
What this site is not
- Not an editorial publication. No staff editors, no “our pick” verdicts, no top-10 leaderboards. If you want one editor’s opinion, Wirecutter and Allure are better places.
- Not an affiliate site. No affiliate links, no ads, no paid placement. We don’t make money →
- Not original product testing. We summarise publicly available reviews and link back to sources.
How to use it
Type a product into the search box. The page should give you the consensus pattern in about 30 seconds — what reviewers consistently say, where opinions split, and which alternatives at the same price people actually preferred. If the evidence isn’t there for you, don’t click anything.
More
- We don’t make money — full disclosure.
- Found something wrong on a page? Email hello@besidesguide.com.