About r/beauty
In its own words:
A place for beauty-related discussions, questions, and advice.
Community guide
r/beauty (#593, about 1.9 million subscribers) is oriented around: A place for beauty-related discussions, questions, and advice. Recent activity samples show 21 posts/day in recent samples (~61% text, ~22% gallery, ~16% image). Public rules we collected include: High quality on-topic posts ONLY.; NO SPAM.; Self posts, pictures, and videos are allowed as long as they're your own content.; NO PORN.; Harassment of other users and mods can get you banned. Permanently.. Directory metadata files it under “Lifestyles”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and advertising are tightly limited—read those rules before linking your own channel, shop, or site. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Seeking Advice, Haircare, Discussion, Makeup.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Aug 19, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 661 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/MemeEconomy (#592) and ahead of r/chess (#594) in our ranking.
What sets r/beauty apart
r/beauty is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.0 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.1. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (15:00 UTC) sees about 12.0× as many posts as the quietest (09:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/beauty grew from 1,855,420 to 1,859,788 subscribers (+4.4K, +0.24%). That is about 99 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/beauty talks about
We read the titles of 134 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “hair”, “help”, “skin”, “lash” and “body”. Other frequent themes are face, makeup, lip, serum, dry and looking. Recurring phrases include “lash serum”, “blue contacts”, “face fat” and “eyelash lift”. By format, 61% are text posts, 22% are galleries and 16% are images.
Popular post flairs: Seeking Advice (50), Haircare (11), Discussion (10), Makeup (8), Random (4), Fragrance (3).
Activity and best time to post
r/beauty gets about 21 new posts a day. The public archive holds 396,422 posts and 1,996,379 comments in total, about 5.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (26 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (13). Posting peaks around 15:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/beauty
The moderators of r/beauty list 6 rules. In short:
- High quality on-topic posts ONLY.
- NO SPAM.
- Self posts, pictures, and videos are allowed as long as they're your own content.
- NO PORN.
- Harassment of other users and mods can get you banned. Permanently.
- Moderator discretion.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/beauty and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/beauty have?
r/beauty has 1,859,788 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #593 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,368 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/beauty created?
r/beauty was created on Aug 19, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Aug 26, 2008.
Is r/beauty still active?
Yes. r/beauty gets about 21 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 396,422 posts and 1,996,379 comments. In a sample of 134 recent posts we counted 125 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/beauty?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 15:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/beauty?
The community describes itself as: “A place for beauty-related discussions, questions, and advice.” Recent post titles often mention hair, help, skin, lash and body. Most posts are text posts (61%).
Is r/beauty SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/beauty as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/beauty?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/beauty accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “High quality on-topic posts ONLY.”; “NO SPAM.”; “Self posts, pictures, and videos are allowed as long as they're your own content.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/beauty?
Communities with similar topics include r/AsianBeauty (3.8M), r/BeautyGuruChatter (3.1M), r/AdviceAnimals (9.9M), r/self (1.8M) and r/Makeup (1.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/beauty.