Elizabeth Lilly

As a Deputy Editorial Director for BuzzFeed’s shopping team, I love to get into the weeds of why a product’s worth the money by deep diving into customer reviews, and product-testing as much as possible. I’m technically a generalist, but most often write about home, travel, and beauty products. So I have well-informed opinions on tubing mascara, but can also install a friend’s window AC unit before brunch. I majored in journalism at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I cut my teeth on intensive writing courses and got a little *too* into an extra credit assignment called “Copy Edit the World” that still has me spotting typos on restaurant menus, TikTok text overlay, and just about everywhere else. For the record, I will participate in your March Madness bracket pool. After college, I did an obscene amount of freelance writing and editing, and landed on the digital team of This Old House magazine (yes, like the TV show), where I eventually became the Site Editor and ran the YouTube channel. So if you want to know about emergency home preparedness, period holiday decorations, or backyard chicken coop essentials, I’m your girl. When I’m not ranting or raving about products, you’ll find me scoping out concerts, picking up books from the library, watching an obscure horror movie, plotting my next trip, haunting an antique mall for gems, or deciding to paint my bathroom last-minute over a long wee