The non-fabrication rule
The single most important standard on this site:
If a claim cannot be traced to a primary source with a working citation, the claim is not published.
This rule applies to every entry, every quote, every social media handle, every product attribution. No exceptions for "but it's probably true" or "everyone else says it."
What we will never do
- Fabricate quotes, timestamps, or citations
- Publish "celebrity uses X" claims without a verifiable source
- Use AI-generated celebrity beauty content as if it were sourced
- Accept undisclosed paid placement
- Hide ambassador relationships behind editorial framing
- Misrepresent third-party summaries as primary sources
- List products that a celebrity is contractually paid to promote as "products they use"
Correction policy
When we find an error — or a reader flags one and we verify it — we do all of the following:
- Fix the source page within 48 hours of confirmation
- Log the correction publicly in the rejection log with date, page affected, and reason
- If the correction materially changes an existing claim (not just a typo), update the "Last verified" date on that dossier
- If the original error was a structural mistake (e.g., a categorization rule that produced bad results), audit related entries for the same error
To report a correction: contact@celebsourced.com with the page URL and what's wrong. We don't have a public bug tracker — small operation — but every email is read.
Conflict of interest
The editor has worked in the advertising industry for over a decade. Specifically:
- No paid relationship with any beauty brand featured on this site
- No equity, advisory roles, or undisclosed compensation from brands featured on this site
- No paid placement deals with any party — products are included strictly on editorial criteria
- Amazon Associates affiliate commissions are the only revenue from this site, fully disclosed in Affiliate Disclosure
- If a paid relationship ever exists in the future, it will be disclosed inline on the affected pages and on this page
What "ambassador exclusion" actually means
We explicitly do not list products as a celebrity's personal use when the celebrity is a paid ambassador for that brand. The list of excluded relationships is documented in the rejection log and includes:
- HERA × Jennie (since 2019)
- Tamburins × Jennie (since 2023)
- Chanel × Jennie (Beauty & Fragrance ambassador)
- Vaseline × Jennie (May 2026)
- Lancôme × Zendaya
- L'Oréal × Camila Cabello
- Rare Beauty × Selena Gomez (own brand — clearly labeled when included)
- rhode × Hailey Bieber (own brand — clearly labeled when included)
- Orebella × Bella Hadid (own brand — clearly labeled when included)
- Charlotte Tilbury × Phoebe Dynevor (campaign)
- Tatcha × Iris Apatow (March 2026)
- Sephora Collection × various
- Maybelline × Gigi Hadid
"Own-brand" entries (founder products) are sometimes included with explicit Founder labeling, since refusing to mention the brand the celebrity literally created would be misleading in the opposite direction. The reader is shown the relationship and decides.
Reader rights
- You have the right to know our editorial methodology — it's on the Methodology page
- You have the right to know who funds this — it's on the Affiliate Disclosure page
- You have the right to know what we excluded and why — it's on the Rejection Log page
- You have the right to verify any individual claim — every entry has a working citation link
- You have the right to request a correction — contact@celebsourced.com
What we expect from readers
Read the citation, not just the entry. If the linked source has been taken down, the celebrity has acquired an ambassador deal we haven't yet updated, or a quote feels weirdly off — tell us. The archive only stays accurate because real people verify their own corners of it.