Each year, the beauty industry releases thousands of products into the world, most of them forgotten by February. Irish Examiner beauty editor Sally Foran spent 2024 doing the quieter, more honest work — testing, discarding, and returning — until seventeen products proved themselves worthy of permanence. Her final list, ranging from an eight-euro Penneys foundation to a one-hundred-twenty-euro Victoria Beckham collaboration, is less a shopping guide than a meditation on value, trust, and the rare thing that actually delivers on its promise.