Beauty products can be remarkable and magical tools that help you to express your personal identity and style, enhance what makes you unique, and feel your best. The way you do—or don’t do—your hair and makeup is one way to help you feel most like yourself. And as beauty companies focus more on inclusivity by offering a wider range of products, more people will be able to have access to those tools that help them feel most at home in their own skin.
So whether you have straight hair, kinky hair, brown skin, or freckles, we want to share information and stories that resonate with you, and speak to your look and lifestyle. For this year’s Healthy Beauty Awards, we made an effort to celebrate numerous brands that provide extensive offerings. More than 100 shades are represented in our foundation category, for example, and we’ve categorized our winners based on many different skin types and hair textures.
At SELF, healthy beauty is personal, and we’re always learning more.
Carissa Gallo. Wardrobe styling by Yuiko Ikebata. Makeup by Porsche Cooper. Hair by Jerome Cultrera with L’Atelier. Manicure by Yukie Miyakawa with Kate Ryan. On model: Top by TLK. Earrings by Cornelia Webb.
Whether brushing your teeth in the morning is the extent of your beauty routine or you’ve got a 10-step Korean beauty skin-care ritual, our goal is to help you find what works best for you along this journey.
Have a specific question that you want answered? Want to see something different? We’d love to hear from you. You can reach us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or via email at letters@self.com.

