Prepare Your Skin For Summer With These Must-Have Beauty Finds
Summer is just around the corner, and that means it’s time to start thinking about your skincare and beauty routine. With warmer weather and increased sun exposure, it’s important to take care of your skin to ensure it looks and feels its best. To help you prepare for summer, we’ve compiled a list of must-have beauty finds that will keep your skin looking radiant and healthy all season long as well as for new summer makeup looks. From lightweight moisturizers that really hydrate your skin without being to heavy to sunscreens that don’t leave you with white streaks and beyond, these products will help you achieve a glowing, hydrated, and protected complexion ready for summer. So treat your skin to some much-needed TLC with these amazing beauty finds.
We're All About That 2-in-1
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Everyone is in a hurry to have fun in the summertime. Make sure you don't miss out because you're taking too long to get ready when you use this 2-in-1 cream cheek and lip tint as your blush and lipstick on the go!
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Clear Your Pores with Micellar Cleansing Water
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This is for the sensitive skin folks who always find an excuse to sleep in their makeup. With this gentle cleansing water, simply wipe a cotton ball on your skin (no water or rinsing needed) to reveal deeply cleaned pores in an instant.
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Stay Golden This Summer
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This bronzer trio includes a shade for every contouring, shaping, and bronzing need. There's a matte shade for every day, a slightly darker neutral shade for contouring, and a golden shimmering tan shade to blend it all together naturally.
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Get a Deeper Tan with Illuminating Self-Tan Drops
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Customize the depth of your summer tan with these TanLuxe self-tan drops that go on just like a serum underneath your daily moisturizer to reveal gradually glowing tan skin that has a natural bronze.
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Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm
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Nothing gets your skin as clean as a double cleanse at the end of a long day. Melt away your makeup before washing with your standard face wash when you use this pre-cleansing balm as the first round of makeup removal.
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Bestselling K-beauty Lips
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Soft, supple, moisturized lips are on the list when we talk about good summer skincare. Make sure you don't have a chapped lip in sight with this popular K-beauty secret, the NOONI lip oil that will nourish your pucker to perfection.
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The Power of Multitasking
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The super goop glow screen is a multitasking skincare product that protects your skin's barrier from harmful UV rays with built-in SPF while it also functions as a makeup gripping primer that has a pearlescent sheen under the foundation.
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Makeup To Heal Your Skin
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IT! Cosmetics knows how to develop full-coverage products without the risk of clogging pores. Their revolutionary CC cream includes color-correcting skin serums that actually heal the skin underneath your makeup and the built-in SPF makes protecting your skin easier than ever before.
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Use Mineral Powder SPF Everyday
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No one likes reapplying sunscreen throughout the day, especially if you have a whole face of glam on. But that doesn't mean we aren't at risk of damage from sun exposure. With this mineral powder SPF, simply throw the compact brush in your bag and dust on your sun protection as needed throughout the day.
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Protect Your Pout
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We spend so much time making sure we're protected from the aging impacts of the sun's UV rays that we sometimes cover every spot of our body except our lips! This tinted lip balm is like a sunscreen for your lips mixed with a hint of color for a summer pout.
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This Makeup Cleanser Leaves No Excuse to Sleep in a Full Face
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The key to glowing summer skin is a solid and consistent nighttime skincare routine. Make sure you're removing all of the makeup, dirt, sweat, and oil that gets trapped in your pores throughout the day with a face wash made specifically to break down makeup.
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Use Hydrating Milk For Soft Skin
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After cleansing, toning comes next in a complete three-step skincare routine but sometimes the standard solutions can be too harsh for those of us with more sensitive skin. This hydrating milk toner is a cross between a cleansing balm, moisturizer, and exfoliating toner all in one without the risk of irritation or drying from harsh chemicals.
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A Daily Face Scrub Will Get Rid of Impurities
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It's important to exfoliate regularly to remove any dead skin cell buildup or impurities, but we also have to keep in mind that it does more harm than good to over-scrub. With the Dermalogica daily microfoliant, you won't damage your skin and it's gentle enough to use daily to reveal a glowing complexion.
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Keep The Wrinkles At Bay With Daily Sunscreen
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Even if your skin hasn't shown any signs of aging, it's never too soon to start your anti-aging prevention. Add this buttery cream to your skincare routine to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles as well as boost the collagen production in your skin for a more youthful look.
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Blurring Face Primer is Great for Under Makeup
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Erase your imperfections and create a base on your face for the perfect makeup look with this bestselling mattifying, pore-minimizing blurring primer that acts as a canvas perfector that keeps you from having to touch up with powder throughout the day.
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Get an Even Makeup Application
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Glowing skin can be achieved with a combination of rich moisturizers, exfoliation, and liquid makeup products. Make sure you are blending everything in with this liquid-to-powder foundation brush that ensures an even application of all of your glowy cream products.
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This Gel Cream Contour Is Smooth
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Contour your face this summer with ease when you use this moisturizing bronze gel that includes a sponge tip applicator for even precision anywhere on the face. The easy-to-blend formula makes for the most natural-looking contour we've ever seen!
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Prep and Set With This 3-In-1
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Spray this product on your skin before, during, and after your makeup application for some seriously set foundation and bronzer. With this 3-in-1 prep, prime, and setting spray, you won't ever have to touch up your look once it's on! It hydrates your skin, illuminates and primes it. Sounds like a win to us.
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This Invisible Sunscreen Stick Won't Leave a Streak
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Don't forget to protect your skin from the sun's harsh rays this summer! If you avoid wearing sunscreen typically because of that ghostly white cast, try this nude invisible sunscreen stick that melts into the skin as clearly as a see-through moisturizer.
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Calm Down with Blotting Oil Sheets
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Hot and humid climates in the summer are not the best environments for those of us with super oily skin but these handy blotting sheets are our saving grace! Simply dab away the shine and see the oils from your skin absorb into the paper instantly.
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Look Glowing From an Illuminating Primer
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Get that popular glowing-from-within look when you prep your skin's base with an illuminating primer made just for long-wearing makeup in the summer heat and humidity.
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Full Waterproof Summer Coverage
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If you find yourself practically sweating off all of your foundation during those hot summer days, this waterproof and full coverage foundation by Cover FX comes highly recommended by makeup artists and beauty gurus alike!
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Stay Matte Girl Even in Summer Heat
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This lightweight loose face powder absorbs oil for long periods of time and won't clog your pores with its 80% mineral composition. Not only does this help prevent breakouts by pulling dirt and oil away from the skin but it keeps your makeup looking matte and seamless no matter how long you've had it on.
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Look Sunkissed with Powder Bronzer
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No one knows the right bronzing shade like the product development professionals at Anastasia Beverly Hills. Their signature powder bronzer is the perfect mix of a cool and warm tone for a natural sun kissed glow on any skin tone.
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Restore Your Skin with an Oil-Free [Hydrating Lotion
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Just as important as your nighttime skincare routine is that morning skin ritual. After you wash off your night serums and heavy moisturizers, restore your skin to a fresh state with a lightweight daily face lotion that locks in everything your night routine works to do.
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No Mess Sunscreen Stick
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Traditional sunscreen can be a hassle to carry around in your bag even though you need to reapply throughout the day. Not only is this dry oil SPF stick make for a much easier travel companion, but it is seriously dry to the touch without any mess.
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No More Scalp Peeling
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Just like our sometimes forgotten lips is our hairline. Our poor middle parts are getting a friend in the sun and the residual peeling looks like dandruff that is totally not a look for summer. Protect your scalp like you do the rest of your body with this hair mist.
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Get a Deep Clean with a Creamy Face Cleanser
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Even if you don't wear makeup one day, it's still a good idea to wash your face but with a more gentle cleanser like this simple formula that has been proven to remove deep set in dirt and oil from days past.
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Plump Your Skin with a Rosewater Spritz
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Refresh your skin's barrier in the afternoon with Mario Bedescu's rosewater facial spray infused with aloe and herbs to instantly plump your skin back up to its most moisturized state in just a few sprays.
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Complexion Correcting Night Serum
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Drunk Elephant's night serum has been formulated with glycolic acid to resurface dull skin and gently lift dead skin cells away to reveal a smooth, more even-looking complexion.
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Get Skin Smooth Like Butter with Lala Whipped Cream
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Imagine your skin indulging in the most fluffy, buttery, whipped yet lightweight moisturizer of them all with this Drunk Elephant Lala cream.
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Drench Your Parched Skin with Must-Have Cloud Cream
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If we haven't made it clear enough, moisturized skin is the secret to a glowing look. With the Peter Thomas Roth cloud cream, the hylauronic acid complex draws atmospheric vapor to lock in your skin's hydration for up to 72 hours. It's a miracle product!
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Get Brighter Looking Skin with a Dose of Vitamin C
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Part of a bright and radiant complexion lies in the amount of vitamin C in your skincare routine. It's easy to deliver serious brightening power with this potent power serum designed to even skin tone, smooth texture, and nourish dehydrated skin overnight.
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Brighten Your Dark Spots
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Say goodbye to dark spots with this concealer designed to lighten and brighten your under-eye circles instantly. It even comes with a blending tip on one end for an on-the-go awake look.
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Get Set & Get Glowing
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Physicians Formula face products are high quality, affordable, and smell like a tropical paradise! Get that rosy glowing makeup look with their Rose All Day set and glow powder.
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Blemish Camo Concealer
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There's nothing worse than having a huge breakout that scabs over with dry skin. Make sure you're giving that area the moisture it needs to look concealed with the e.l.f. hydrating full coverage camo concealer.
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Airbrushed Blending
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With all of the liquids, creams, gels, and serums for this summer's skin and beauty must-have list, make sure you have a fresh blending sponge for sanitary application and an airbrushed finish.
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Wake Up Your Eyes With Caffeine
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Part of a clear complexion is a healthy-looking bright under-eye area. Make sure you're preventing potential wrinkles with this eye cream formulated with caffeine which regenerates the skin and reduces swelling and puffiness.
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