Jacqueline Kilikita is an award-winning beauty writer and Refinery29 beauty director with over a decade of experience in beauty journalism. When she’s not picking the brains of the industry’s top professionals or at her desk swatching and swiping the latest launches, she’s working on her Substack Beauty in Sight, where she explores the deeper, more meaningful side of beauty— and the beauty hidden in everything else.
Jacqueline has coined viral, trend-defining beauty terms such as the “J-shape haircut” and “cloud skin”, and has been recognised with the Johnson & Johnson Award for Best Beauty Shoot and the Skin Cancer Foundation’s Media Impact Award. Her words appear in EE72, GLAMOUR, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Stylist and Popsugar UK. Always curious, she broaches the beauty topics and questions people are thinking about but are often too afraid to write about—from plastic surgery and the male gaze to what lies beyond —bringing a distinctly human element to beauty.
