In the past week I’ve walked into at least five Sephora stores looking for Rhode ’s latest drop, its peptide depuffing eye patches. They were sold out every time, and every sales associate gave me the same response: “The Topicals ones are basically the same thing if you wanted those instead.” One associate even went one to say that “I’m not just telling you that because they’re Black owned .” Turns out they didn’t need to convince me. I’ve tried Topicals’ faded eye patches before and know that they really are that good. But their responses echoed a similar conversation that’s been happening online — one that assumes the under-eye masks are the same. Wrong! Let me explain.

So why are people comparing Topicals’ and Rhode’s eye patches?

There are a few reasons. They’re both coolin

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