Summer has a way of testing a beauty routine—heat, humidity, sweat, and a hundred reasons for makeup to give up by noon. This season, a handful of new launches actually held their own, and a few months later, they’ve proven they’re not just summer products. Here are the ones that made it into our fall routine for good.
SKINCARE
Tatcha Matcha Foam Gel Cleanser
A gel-to-foam cleanser that turns into an ultra-fine lather to decongest pores and reduce excess oil without stripping skin. Made with Kyoto-sourced ceremonial-grade matcha, prebiotic inulin and green clay, it’s built for sensitive, oily and blemish-prone skin.
Dermalogica Futurecode Booster
A damage-correcting longevity serum that targets fine lines and wrinkles, loss of firmness, and uneven skin tone and texture.
Lancôme Rénergie Collagen Lift-Xtend Cream
A firming, lifting cream with a first-for-Lancôme stretchy, thread-like texture inspired by thread-lift procedures. It’s built around Lancôme’s most advanced collagen complex, with collagen fractions, collagen peptides and copper tripeptides to target the visible signs of collagen loss. Lancôme says it helps rebuild up to 10 years of collagen loss with continued use.
Summer Fridays Mineral Milk Sunscreen
A lightweight, milky mineral sunscreen, newly upgraded from SPF 30 to SPF 50, made with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide plus ceramides, vitamin C, vitamin E and ectoin. It absorbs quickly into a soft, natural finish and layers under makeup without pilling.
COMPLEXION
YSL Skin Affair Soft Glow Cushion Foundation
A serum-infused cushion foundation inspired by Korean cushion technology, with buildable light-to-medium coverage and a soft, poreless glow. It’s made with amino acid-coated pigments, squalane, polyglutamic acid and niacinamide for 24-hour wear, in a signature YSL compact with a built-in blender sponge and 31 shades.
Rhode Pocket Bronze Cream Bronzer
An on-the-go cream bronzer with hydrating, buildable color that blends seamlessly and was clinically shown to last at least 8 hours. The lightweight, non-sticky formula melts into skin for sun-kissed warmth without feeling greasy.
Armani Beauty Dolci Blush
A pocket-sized cream-to-powder blush stick with a buildable soft-matte finish that can be worn on cheeks and lips for a monochromatic look. It’s scented with upcycled pear and fig and comes in five gourmand-inspired shades: Rose, Caramel, Apricot, Cinnamon and Mauve.
YSL Make Me Blush Cream
An ultra-creamy, buildable blush infused with rosehip extract that gives a lifted glow and wears all day. It launches in six shades
ILIA Soft Focus Finishing Powder
An oil-absorbing, talc-free finishing powder packed with hydrating ingredients. It melts into skin for a blurred, smooth finish and keeps shine in check.
EYES
Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Tinted Flexible Lifting Gel
A tinted expansion of Rare Beauty’s bestselling clear brow gel, in six natural shades. The weightless, water-based formula lifts, tints and sets brows in one step with a flexible hold that’s waterproof and sweat-resistant for up to 12 hours.
MERIT Clean Volume Volumizing Tubing Mascara
A Japan-made tubing mascara that lifts, separates and builds volume without weight. Its Lash Wrap Formula locks in curl and resists smudging and flaking for up to 16 hours, and it comes off with just warm water.
Chanel Les 9 Ombres, The New Smoky
A limited-edition, nine-shade palette of five colour eyeshadows and four metallic top coats, for looks that range from understated to dramatic. It’s the centerpiece of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle makeup collection.
ILIA Thru Line Waterproof Eyeliner
A waterproof, sweatproof pencil liner with smudge-resistant color that lasts up to 24 hours. It comes in 10 shades in matte and shimmer finishes: the mattes are perfect for precise lines and tightlining, and the shimmers add dimension along the lash line. It’s ophthalmologist-tested and safe for the waterline.
LIPS
Hourglass Phantom Blur Balm
A balmy lipstick for the blurred-lip trend that stays smooth and doesn’t dry lips out with wear, in five neutral shades.
Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Lip Oil Stick
A three-in-one hybrid that treats like an oil, shines like a gloss and delivers bold, buildable color in one swipe. Infused with apple seed oil and a fresh apple scent, it’s comfortable to wear for up to 12 hours.
HAIRCARE
Oribe Hair Alchemy Bond Building Elixir
A lightweight, fast-absorbing leave-in serum for clean, damp hair, clinically shown to reduce breakage by 71% with three replenishing actives. Its Holistic Rebonding Complex supports the hair’s hydrogen, ionic and disulfide bonds
K18 FutureIQ Biomimetic Hair Longevity Serum
A nightly serum aimed at shedding, early graying and scalp aging, powered by K18’s MultiVital technology. In clinical testing, users kept up to 19,000 hairs and 70% saw fewer grays after three months.
Gisou Hair & Body Mists
Alcohol-free mists enriched with Mirsalehi Honey Water, hyaluronic acid and peptides to scent and hydrate hair and skin for a honey glow from head to toe. Honey Dewy is a warm blend of honey nectar, vanilla milk and white musk, while Glazed Cherry is a fruity floral of juicy cherry, fresh raspberry and sweet caramel.
FRAGRANCE
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Crush Absolu Eau de Parfum
Olivier Polge’s intense ambery take on the classic, with a grapefruit-lychee fruity accord, a rose-jasmine floral heart and a patchouli base, deepened with vanilla and vetiver. It comes in a radical bottle with a contrasting label, crowned with a faceted cap.
Prada Paradoxe Sweet Chemistry Eau de Parfum
A long-lasting fruity floral that rethinks sweetness. An addictive drop of blackcurrant syrup is wrapped in neroli, expressed as a creamy milk accord, and lifted with radiant orange blossom absolute. It’s indulgent yet sophisticated, and it comes in a playful purple bottle that reimagines Prada’s triangle logo, resting tilted on its side, with a purple-pink juice.
Byredo Body Mist Collection
BODYCARE
Elemis Pro-Collagen Body Cleansing Balm
A 3-in-1 body cleanser inspired by Elemis’s cult facial balm. It melts into a silky milk, then a gentle foam, cleansing without leaving skin dry or stripped. It’s made with Padina Pavonica algae and a trio of botanical oils, and it’s clinically shown to deliver up to 24 hours of hydration.
Salt & Stone Lily & Yuzu Aluminum-Free Deodorant
An aluminum-free deodorant with 48-hour odor protection, formulated with prebiotics and seaweed extracts to neutralize odor while keeping skin moisturized. The scent is fresh and sparkling, with yuzu, green apple and bergamot opening into matcha, bamboo and jasmine, then lily, musk, amber and cedar.
Prada Paradoxe Hand Cream
A triple-care hand cream that smooths hands, nourishes cuticles and helps reinforce nails, with a lightweight essence-balm texture that absorbs quickly without greasiness. It carries Paradoxe’s floral ambery scent of fresh neroli, amber and soft musk, in a portable triangle-shaped tube.
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