Gvnkvn Vanity Mirror with Lights, 32 x 24 Tabletop Hollyhood Makeup Mirror, Hollywood Lighted Mirror with 18 Dimmable LED Bulbs,3 Colors Modes,Touch Control,Metal Frame,

Why it's worth it

Eighteen wide bulbs ring a 32-by-24-inch mirror, so light reaches your face from the sides instead of dropping on it from above. You get three color temperatures from warm white to cool daylight, dimming down to about 20 percent, and a memory function that restores your last setting.

Eighteen bulbs around the frame is the whole reason to buy this one. Marie Claire's testers found that tabletop mirrors ringed with 10 to 15 individual bulbs lit faces more evenly, with fewer shadows, than single-ring LED panel designs. This one goes past that count, and Gvnkvn says its bulbs are 4cm across rather than the 3cm ones common on cheaper Hollywood mirrors. Light hits your cheekbones and your jawline the same way, which is the part overhead lighting always gets wrong.

The color range is the other thing you're paying for. You can move from warm white at 2700K through neutral at 3500K to cool daylight at 5500K, and dim any of them. Byrdie's editors call roughly 3000K to 5000K the minimum useful span on a makeup mirror. That covers you whether you're getting ready for a dim restaurant or a fluorescent office, and it's wider than most mirrors this size offer.

From our review of 8 lighted makeup mirrors

What we like

• +Eighteen bulbs around the frame is the whole reason to buy this one
• +The color range is the other thing you're paying for
• +The controls stay out of your way
• +One spec here is rarer than it should be

What to know

• –It's big. At 32 by 24 inches this wants a real vanity, not the corner of a desk you also work at
• –Bulb-ring mirrors run warmer than flat LED panels, and this one is no exception