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Turn Up the Heat

Is there any better feeling than a night in early summer, when the fireflies are out and the air against your skin is just the right amount of balmy? This isn’t the time for complicated hairstyles or a full beat. These sheer, warm, effortless products are so much more appealing.
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Iris & Romeo

$48

Best Skin Days

I slap this on when I don’t want to wear foundation but also don’t want to be totally bare-faced. It’s a creamy tinted moisturizer with vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, and SPF 30.

Chanel

$45

Rouge Coco Baume

Delivering the perfect amount of pigment in a moisturizing formula, this is a summer classic, ideal for minimalists, brides, and minimalist brides.

Hermès

$59

Hermèsistible Infused Lip Care Oil

A lip gloss that hits the perfect balance of balm and color. The tints are ripe and juicy, taking their inspiration from nature (cherries, dragon fruit, Seville oranges). Each one has its own gentle scent.

Ilia

$36

Multi-Stick Cream Blush + Lip Tint

Here’s one way to pack light: Just slip this multipurpose wonder in your pocket. Dab a bit on the cheeks and a bit more on the lips for a natural, soft flush. One and done!

Milk Makeup

$24

Cooling Water Jelly Tint

This has gone TikTok viral, probably because it looks like a Push Pop and feels like Jello. Who can resist? It’s a true stain and won’t smear, so apply it judiciously. Just don’t take a bite.

Merit Beauty

$112

Summer Beauty Set

Consider this a summer survival kit, if survival means dewy skin, glossy lips, and a touch of bronzing. It includes the Merit Great Skin serum, a lip stain in oil form, a skin highlighter, and a sheer cream bronzer.

Caliray

$24

Come Hell or High Water Mascara

This volumizing mascara comes from Wende Zomnir, a surfer and the genius behind Urban Decay. It’s a tubing mascara that’s waterproof until you hold a warm pad on your lashes when it rolls off easily.

Hi Beautiful You

$57.50

Be You Body

Don’t be put off by the Nutella color and texture of this body bronzer. It’s intense, but trust me: it works if you apply it correctly. Dab it on sparingly then smooth and blend it. The shade looks right on almost every skin tone, hiding spider veins and bruises. Once it dries it won’t come off until you try to wash it off.

Victoria Beckham Beauty

$200

San Ysidro Drive Eau de Parfum

A scent that Beckham created with a perfumer to remind her of living in Beverly Hills in the mid-aughts, where the ocean air mingled with her flower-filled garden. Despite the sunny yellow bottle, this is a rich, mysterious scent, mixing saffron, rose, passion fruit, peony, and oud.

Tom Ford

$295

Neroli Portofino

The embodiment of summer, especially if you happen to spend summer on the Italian Riviera, as well you should. Orange blossom, lemon, rosemary, and amber are the dreamy, transporting blend that captures a little slice of paradise.

Christian Dior

$330

La Collection Privee Eden-Roc

A fragrance named after my favorite hotel; how thoughtful! It combines the salt air, pine, mineral, and white flower perfection of Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc. Christian Dior, take me away!

Chanel

$500

La Pausa

One of my favorite scents from Chanel’s Les Exclusif collection, this has a delicate powdery iris note mixed with pink pepper and vetiver. It’s meant to evoke the atmosphere at Coco Chanel’s villa in the South of France, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

Color Wow

$28

Dream Coat Supernatural Spray

This is a rare breakthrough that makes your hair impervious to humidity and its frizzing effect. Apply it to damp hair then blowdry with a brush—the tension allows the polymers to surround the strands and protect them from moisture. It lasts through three shampoos. In other words, wow.

Color Wow

$24

Dream Coat for Curly Hair

An alcohol-free spray that, when applied to damp curly hair, delivers bounce, hold, and frizz prevention. It might sound too good to be true but it’s true and it’s good.

Miu Miu

$395

Metal Hair Clip

The best way to make an ordinary ponytail hair look like a deliberate, refined style. Brush, clip, and be on your way.

Balmain

$146

Pince A Cheveau Claw Clip

One moment, a claw clip was what you tossed in your hair when no one was looking; the next, it was fashion. Balmain elevates the drugstore tool making it white with black edges and a gold “B.” It holds a chignon or an unbrushed mess with equal elan.


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