Conair LED Vanity Mirror, Double-Sided, 10x Magnification, Satin Nickel

Why it's worth it

This one stands 16 inches tall on a weighted 6-inch base, so it fits between a faucet and a soap dish. The 8.5-inch glass spins a full 360 degrees between everyday 1X and a 10X side, with three color modes and three brightness levels.

Most bathrooms can't take a Hollywood frame, and this is what you buy instead. The base is weighted and only six inches across, so it holds still when you lean a hand on the counter beside it. The five-foot cord reaches outlets that sit behind a sink or off to one side. Nothing about it is dramatic, which is exactly why it survives on a shared bathroom counter.

Two magnifications on one swivel solves the real problem with magnifying mirrors. Vogue's beauty editors suggest pairing 1X for full-face work with 7X to 10X for detail work, and that's the arrangement here. You do your foundation on the flat side, then spin the head for tweezing or a lash line. You aren't stuck applying a whole face in a 10X view, which flattens and exaggerates everything.

From our review of 8 lighted makeup mirrors

What we like

• +Most bathrooms can't take a Hollywood frame, and this is what you buy instead
• +Two magnifications on one swivel solves the real problem with magnifying mirrors
• +The light is customizable in the ways that matter

What to know

• –The 8.5-inch viewing area is genuinely small
• –It's a single LED ring rather than individual bulbs, which is the design Marie Claire's testers found less even across a face