Things I Buy As A Civilian

Substacknewsletter · by Amber Katz · English

I've tested thousands of products in nearly two decades of beauty writing and blogging. Eighty percent are aggressively medium, 10% are actively bad — and 10% are AMAZING. This newsletter is about that last 10%.

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Things I Buy As A Civilian is a Substack newsletter by Amber Katz covering beauty reviews, lifestyle and parenting. Its most recent indexed post is from Mar 21, 2026.

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