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 apply sunscreen at 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 a sunscreen stick. Before this summer, Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protector — which has our Best in Class blue ribbon — was my favorite. But when I noticed it was making my oilier skin shinier than a bird in a Butterball turkey spread in June, I knew I needed something new.
When I saw Eadem’s Sunsuede, an SPF-primer hybrid stick, it took me all of five minutes to decide to buy it. I usually treat recommended products on Sephora’s home page with a healthy dose of skepticism, but I’ve yet to try a bad Eadem product. Not Cloud Cushion (the best moisturizer), Mami Wata (for redness), Smooth Slate (for ingrown hairs), or Le Chouchou (a lip balm that even impressed senior editor Crystal Martin, who helms our Beauty Brief newsletter). 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 were like this — for it to apply invisibly, I knew I met the sunscreen stick I was looking for.
