Best Of Sensitive Skin More Better: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Best Of Sensitive Skin More Better is and who runs it

Best Of Sensitive Skin More Better is the annual favorites ballot published by Sensitive Skin Magazine, an independent magazine registered in California. The feature is published and hosted by the magazine itself, with no third-party balloting service in between, and the live ballot sits at sensitiveskinmagazine.com under the address the feature has used since 2015. The printed heading, as the editors wrote it, is Best of 2015 – Sensitive Skin More Better Favorites, and the piece is credited to The Editors.

Despite the 2015 in the address, the page has carried live ballots through 2025 and 2026, so the URL functions as a permanent home for the feature rather than a per-year address. The vertical is best-of: instead of a single winner-takes-the-cover contest, the magazine asks its readers to weigh in on favorites across the cultural territory the publication covers, and the comment thread under the list is part of how the feature stays alive between cycles.

Sensitive Skin Magazine publishes from California, and the ballot speaks to that readership. No city or county is named for this program, so the honest description is a statewide publication ballot rather than a town-level contest. The vote itself is a straightforward public poll: readers select their favorites and the choices accumulate on the page itself. What the ballot does not show matters as much as what it does. The magazine prints no category lineup, and neither a per-supporter limit nor an eligibility rule appears beside the vote, so the ballot page itself is the only place those details are settled in any given cycle.

The dated record of the More Better ballot

The dated facts behind this ballot run deeper than most magazine features manage. The editors trace the idea to 2014, when Sensitive Skin ran its earliest best-of post and asked contributors what they had liked best during the year, whenever it came out. The More Better edition followed in 2015 at the address the ballot still uses, and the editors' own recurrence note from that feature is plain and cheerful: this was so much fun last year, they wrote, I thought we'd do it again.

After 2015, the feature appears in every year from 2019 through 2026, an unbroken stretch of eight straight years on top of the early editions. That history makes the ballot a recurring fixture, not a one-off promotion. The 2026 cycle is the only fully dated window: voting opens July 1, 2026 and closes July 31, 2026, a single month on the magazine's own domain.

Nothing in the published material describes a nomination round before voting, and the magazine does not print round dates for this market. The ballot page publishes neither its category lineup nor any limit on repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Based on the run from 2019 through 2026, a 2027 edition would be the natural next step, but the magazine has posted nothing for that year yet, so the expectation stays an expectation until the editors say otherwise.

How a supporter votes in the More Better ballot today

Voting in Best Of Sensitive Skin More Better is a direct action on the magazine's own domain. The supporter's route in is the ballot page at sensitiveskinmagazine.com: read the favorites list the editors have laid out, and cast a public choice in each slot that matters to you. There is no external platform in between: no third-party contest host, no separate login portal, no partner site holding the vote. That makes the practical sequence short compared with ballots that route through a contest vendor.

Open the page, read the editors' picks and the reader comments underneath, back the favorites you want to support, and return as often as the printed rules allow. The page carries an active comment thread, and readers reply to each other's selections there, which is part of the feature's character: the vote and the conversation sit on the same page, and a pick that sparks discussion in the comments tends to stay visible through the window.

What the page leaves unstated is the part a careful supporter checks. Sensitive Skin Magazine does not say whether voting requires an email address, whether a supporter may vote repeatedly in a single day, or whether any eligibility rule applies. Those points belong to the live page alone. A supporter who wants certainty should open the ballot, read the instructions printed above the list that year, and follow exactly what the editors ask for in that cycle, instead of assuming a rule from a previous edition still holds. For readers weighing paid support in award ballots generally, the background at buy award votes covers the mechanics without promising any outcome.

How the More Better ballot sits beside its California neighbours

Within California, this ballot sits beside a family of regional best-of programs, each answering to its own publisher. The neighbours listed for this market are Best of Central Valley Business, Best of Marin, Best of Orange County, Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants, Best of Silicon Valley, and the North State Community's Choice Awards program. Each of those names the place it covers: Central Valley, Marin, Orange County, San Diego, Silicon Valley and the North State.

Best Of Sensitive Skin More Better is the odd shape in that set. It is not tied to a city or county at all. Its home is a magazine's masthead rather than a market map, and its subject is the cultural favorites the publication and its readers care about, discussed in the open comment thread under the list. That difference matters for anyone comparing ballots. In the regional programs, competition is local and category-driven, with businesses and venues fighting for a geographic readership. Here the field is the magazine's own editorial landscape, and the audience is whoever follows Sensitive Skin's writing.

The six neighbours also run on their own schedules and their own publishers' rules, so nothing printed for Best of Marin or Best of Orange County transfers to this page. A supporter comparing them should read each ballot separately; the links above and in the related contests list lead to each program's own reference page, where that program's window and rules are stated on their own terms.

Strengthening support in the More Better ballot

Support in this ballot works differently from a city-by-city contest, because the audience is the magazine's readership rather than a town's residents. A favorite gains ground when people who already follow Sensitive Skin Magazine hear about it: sharing the ballot link with readers who care about the same cultural ground, and doing it early in the July window rather than in its final days, is the honest path. The comment thread under the ballot is also part of the surface, since a pick that draws replies stays in front of later voters.

The magazine prints no rule about outside help for this feature, so the safe assumption is the strictest reading: anything resembling automated voting puts a pick at risk of losing the support it gathered. For readers weighing paid support, the general background sits at buy votes online, the legality question is covered at is buying votes legal, and practical rule-safe tactics are collected in how to get more votes online. None of those pages can promise a win, and no organizer guarantees one either.