At BeautyBets.com, we believe that reviews should be candid, news should be fresh, and blogs should be written with honesty and wit. The only thing we dig more than pretty packaging and products that actually deliver is sharing them with our readers. When we’re not blogging, you’ll find us on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram or “working” at some undisclosed spa. To contact Beauty Bets, click here.

Beauty Bets founder Elizabeth Dehn, aka Bets, is an editor, lifestyle writer, and beauty enthusiast who worked for Aveda, Kiehl’s, Target and several magazines before launching the blog in 2009. When not schmearing on face masks or battling her new body wave, she covers the beauty and wellness beats for Mpls.St. Paul Magazine, Marie Claire, Divine Caroline, and Twin Cities Live television. Her work has also appeared in Minnesota Monthly, the Star Tribune, Sotheby’s Artful Living magazine, Fashion Weekly, Everyday with Rachael Ray, Rue Magazine and Glamour.

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The editor-in-chief of all things cheap at Beauty Bets, Meghan McAndrews spends her free time scouring vintage shops and drugstore aisles. A magazine editor by day and the voice of High Plains Thrifter by night, she’s also been known to snap photos of herself wearing $3 turbans. Her Beauty Thrifter column appears on every other Wednesday.
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Hannah Kuhary is a freelance writer and aesthetician student in Sacramento, CA. When she’s not elbows deep in facials or microdermabrasions, Hannah is a full-time military wife, dog wrangler + frequent Napa Valley loiterer. She regularly contributes to DIY Beauty, Natural Beauty and Ask An Esti.
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An admitted girly-girl and Bare Escentuals fanatic, publishing darling Danielle Bruflodt talks about the latest from the cult-favorite brand in her column, BE Girl. Dani also adores Moscato, a good dose of retail therapy, and anything with lace. For a daily dose of her witty musings, visit Life’s a Journal.
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Deven Hopp is a recent grad navigating the real world as a marketing assistant for Delta Sky Magazine and blowing her paychecks on nail polish and NARS. A makeup minimalist, she can often be spotted bare-faced—but never without lashes curled coated in mascara. Deven would love to be a beauty editor someday, but is currently still trying to master the curling iron. She shares her beauty steals in Girl on a Budget.