I Tried Eadem’s Sunsuede and Can’t Imagine Going Anywhere Without It
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I don’t want to be vulnerable to the sun, and I absolutely don’t want to be flying too close to UVA and UVB rays like Icarus. I’ll dutifully applysunscreenat least 15 minutes before sun exposure, no matter the time of the year it is, but it’s reapplication that can be my Achilles heel. To help reapply sunscreen on my face, I use asunscreen stick. Before this summer,Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protector— which has ourBest in Class blue ribbon— was my favorite. But when I noticed it was making my oilier skin shinier than a bird in aButterball turkey spreadin June, I knew I needed something new.
When I saw Eadem’s Sunsuede, aSPF-primerhybrid stick, it took me all of five minutes to decide to buy it. I usually treat recommended products on Sephora’s homepage with a healthy dose of skepticism, but I’ve yet to try a bad Eadem product. NotCloud Cushion(thebestmoisturizer),Mami Wata(for redness),Smooth Slate(for in-grown hairs), orLe Chouchou(alip balmthat even impressed senior editor Crystal Martin, who helms ourBeauty Briefnewsletter). The Sunsuede was an easy sell, admittedly: a broad-spectrum, SPF 50+ formula that was marketed as simultaneously weightless and undetectable. When I first tried it and realized it took just a few swipes — if only Tinder was like this — for it to apply invisibly, I knew I met the sunscreen stick I was looking for.
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[Editor’s note: It’s currently sold out on Sephora — you can sign up to be emailed when it’s available — but you can buy it directly from Eadem’s website in the meantime.]
I hate the feeling of “wearing sunscreen” — and Sunsuede doesn’t feel like wearing sunscreen. It has a natural cast that’s in no way tacky. Other sunscreens resemble the texture of the custard filling of a Boston cream pie doughnut, whereas Sunsuede is lighter than a slice of angel-food cake. The ingredients are the usual suspects in chemical sunscreens — filters avobenzone, octocrylene, homosalate, and octisalate — plus the antioxidantresveratrol. Thanks to the formula’s shine-controlling kaolin andhumectant zinc pca, its priming capabilities are impressive, too. It helps keeptinted moisturizersmoother-looking, and doesn’t move concealer, either. In fact, fellow senior writers Lauren Ro and Emma Wartzman complimented my middle-of-the-day, Sunsuede-laden face on a day I came into theNew Yorkoffices recently.
As members of our beauty team repeatedly say, a sunscreen stick should bealayer rather than your primary defense. No matter if it’s layered after Hawaiian Tropic, Vacation, or EltaMD, Sunsuede goes right into the skin. The ultimate test came in July with my ten-day vacation to the Dominican Republic. I followed instructions for reapplying every two hours and after 40 minutes of swimming and/or perspiration on my face and neck (plus other areas arashguardandtoweldidn’t cover — the backs of my hands, some collarbone, etc.). The logistical nightmare of facial reapplication — rubbing spurts ofBeach Defenseinto my cheeks — was gone. I believe it’s the reason I didn’t come back with the patches of sunburn as my relatives on the trip did. I can’t imagine going outside without the palm-sized Sunsuede now. No more would’ve, could’ve, or should’ve about sun protection. I’ll be Sunsuede-ing year-round.
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