I Want to Maintain My Summer Glow All Year Long—Shopbop's Epic Beauty Sale Just Made It Easy
By now, we're all very aware that some kind of major sale occurs each and every day of the week. If you're like me, being constantly peppered with deals and steals has led to shopping fatigue, and most of these sales aren't anything to write home about. Sometimes, the offerings are minuscule or overly stocked castoffs. Other times, the savings are so pathetic that I find myself muttering "What's the point?" under my faintly ticked-off breath.
When I start perusing a sale and begin to hit "add to bag" with Sha'Carri Richardson level speed, it's a rare, albeit totally victorious, feeling. This week, it's all thanks to Shopbop. From August 12 to August 18, the retailer is running a 20%-off sale on select highly covetable offerings, including brands such as Augustinus Bader, Olaplex, Vacation, Supergoop!, Dr. Dennis Gross, and so, so many more. Simply use code BEAUTY20 at checkout, and you're ready to go. Oh, and because I have no self-control, please see all of my favorite picks and purchases below.
Not a lot of products live up to their hype and TikTok buzz, but this firming face primer and eye treatment truly walk the walk. If you're in the market for a tighter, brighter complexion, you're looking at the $39 answer—no Botox or office appointments required.
As someone who lives in a warm and sunny climate 365 days a year, SPF is an all-year-round nonnegotiable. Bask is the under-the-radar sunscreen brand that every beauty editor loves but a lot of people frustratingly still haven't heard of. This non-aerosol mist delivers a fine, ultra-even application, and the subtle vanilla-coconut scent is nostalgic, not nauseating.
I have very fair skin but always feel more confident when I have a little bit of a glow. This Instant Vacation Browning Lotion is such a throwback to my tween years of baking very unsafely on the back deck with friends, sans the sun damage. It has a tiny dose of self-tanning action, so you get instant and long-lasting color, plus a protective dose of SPF 30.
I absolutely love a blue-tinted clay mask. There's just something so early 2000s rom-com about it! This formula from The Outset isn't just fun to apply—it also reduces shine without drying out your skin and vacuums out your pores, making them look practically invisible.
There are body oils, and then there are Costa Brazil body oils. If you're familiar with the brand, then you already know what I'm talking about. If you're not, you're in for a treat. Lua's slightly shimmering finish and nutrient-rich ingredients will be your next infatuation. Watch your skin look firmer and healthier right before your eyes!
Once you've had your face professionally dermaplaned, you will never ever go back. Now that I'm obsessed with how much better my skincare products penetrate and how much better my makeup looks and applies, I've carefully trained myself how to dermaplane at home. High-quality tools, like these stainless steel razors from Jenny Patinkin, are a must.
I adore everything from celebrity hairstylist Mara Roszak's line, Rōz, but this treatment oil has truly transformed the lengths of my hair. If you know me, you know that I absolutely love a fabulous pre-shampoo hair treatment, and this yummy melding of botanical oils leaves my hair so much softer and shinier post-wash.
Biotin makes me break out like crazy (yes, it's a thing), and since practically every hair-and-skin supplement contains gobs of it, I haven't been able to use most of the products on the market. So I've had to look at other types of formulas out there. I'm a big fan of high-quality collagen, but this one from Agent Nateur is, in my opinion, truly the only one worth the money. It's a collaboration with renowned functional medicine expert Will Cole, IFMCP, DNM, DC, and features marine collagen and pearl powder as its two hero ingredients.
I was so obsessed with how good this resurfacing mask made my stressed-out skin look that I wrote an entire article about it. Trust me—it's the next best thing to getting a professional facial or peel.
Erin has been writing a mix of beauty and wellness content forBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing for over five years. Prior to that, she spent two and half years writing for Byrdie. She now calls Santa Monica home but grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and studied writing, rhetoric, and communication at University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She studied abroad in Galway, Ireland, and spent a summer in L.A. interning with the Byrdie andBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing family. After graduating from UW, she spent one year in San Francisco, where she worked as a writer for Pottery Barn Kids and PBteen before moving down to L.A. to begin her career as a beauty editor.