Here Are Our Top 3 Biggest Articles Of 2025. And Our 3 Biggest Bombs
Ya win some, ya lose some.
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by The Candidly Team
We kind of love this part. The one where we get to turn the mirror back on all of you and reveal what you loved (and hated) most from our humble little site this past year.
If you hang out here a lot, you know we write in pretty much the same way that we’d talk to you, far too many made up words and stranded prepositions to be AI. So when you share in things we love, it feels to us like we’re swapping secrets with a friend. Mayyyybe even building a community. Ok, perhaps we’re getting a little sappy. We blame the rain. Or could be an odd hormone fluctuation.
Whatever it is, we thank you for cheering us on, or in the case of the last three articles, for keeping us grounded.
Enjoy!
#1 Biggest Article Of 2025: This Might Just Be The Perfect Nude Gloss We’ve Been Searching For Since The Dawn Of Time
Honestly, we have to attribute all the success of this article to a single set of lips. One of our editors tried on her usual nude gloss next to The Outset’s magical plumper, and documented the results, and by God, was it good?
Here, we’ll just save you a click and show you the side by side:
Left: Old gloss Right: The Outset gloss in Dune* with Merit’s Signature Lip Liner in Bespoke* (gifed)
If you go to the article, you’ll see we all now wear this perfect nude shade* with our favorite pinkish brown liner*, and the pout we get is astounding - each and every time.
#2 Biggest Article Of 2025: We Can’t Stop Thinking About Kristen Bell's Outfits From “Nobody Wants This.” So We Found Them.
This has been one of our most popular articles month after month after month. We even felt we had to follow it up with a sequel when season 2 was released. The clothes are indeed incredible, especially for over-40 women, with some true standout pieces like this $40 going-out top from Abercrombie:
And this, our favorite belt of the year/all time:
The point is we get why everyone wanted this. (Ugh, apologies for that. Clearly, it wasn’t the writing that kept you hooked.)
#3 Biggest Article Of 2025: I Lost 40 Pounds Doing These 8 Things. If Nothing Has Ever Worked For You, Just … Try This.
Writing honestly about weight loss on the internet is not easy, but our Editor-in-Chief, Audie, did it. And the interest and support she got back reconfirmed what we already knew. Our readers are amazing, nuanced, thoughtful people, who also appreciate a real, relatable conversation and a good laugh at all the weird pockets of life we deal with as women. Her path to losing now 60lbs involved zero drugs but loads of patience and some critical steps she called “simple not easy.” She outlined them in this article but also wrote about her journey HERE and HERE, and HERE.
And these other articles about her journey were very close behind in the rankings:
AND HERE ARE THE 3 THINGS YOU SCROLLED RIGHT PAST
#1 Biggest Bomb Of 2025: Does Alcohol Really Cause Cancer?
Perhaps you’ve had enough bad news this year. After all, we’ve written other articles about giving up drinking and never liking alcohol in the first place, and they’ve all done well. But the magnitude of alcohol being linked to cancer with no amount being considered “safe” is a hard reality to confront. So maybe next year we should keep things a bit more positive and focus more on mocktails? (…buuuuuut we’ll probably keep it candid and still also publish unsugarcoated things like this).
#2 Biggest Bomb Of 2025: How To Look Better Naked
This is mainly because we aren’t a giant company and rely almost entirely on our Instagram and organic search and this post was blocked by Instagram! For using the word “naked.” And that’s a real shame because this article was chalk full of our our favorite tricks and tips and $10 drugstore body products that make us the glowiest, summeriest version of ourselves, especially in the winter when we’re stuffed-up husks of ourselves.
#3 Biggest Bomb Of 2025:
We need to talk about skorts
No, we don’t apparently. Listen, sometimes we can get fixated on some very niche things like THIS and THIS and THIS. But maybe skorts were a little too niche? That said, if you’ve always sort of quietly loved the idea of wearing a short skirt with tights and boots in the winter but have steered clear for fear of flashing the entire baking aisle when you reach for the vanilla, there are some good skort options on this list. And they look just like skirts.
At The Candidly, we try a lot of stuff so you don’t have to. We only recommend things we truly love, and that we think you’ll love, too. All products are chosen independently by our creative team, and all details reflect the price and availability of products at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission.
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