24 Beauty Products Reviewers Say Are Worth The Splurge

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15-05-2025

A wildly popular Olaplex repairing treatment, aka the OG when it comes to products that help strengthen your locks. It features a highly concentrated formula designed to help rebuild breakage, reduce split ends, and prevent future damage. Plus, reviewers rave about the fast results!
A cult-fave Laneige lip mask, which really needs no introduction. With vitamin C, coconut oil, shea butter, and antioxidants, it nourishes and protects your lips while giving them a supple, glossy finish. It's truly a splurge-worthy staple you'll probably love as much as the reviewer who called it "absolute magic."
A Supergoop! glow-enhancing SPF 40 sunscreen because it acts as a sunscreen, primer, and BB cream with a light formula that protects you against harmful rays and blue light. Plus, it leaves you looking downright luminous. 😍
Or an SPF 46 EltaMD face sunscreen that's become a *favorite* amongst sensitive and acne-prone skin types. It's formulated with niacinamide to reduce redness and restore suppleness, all while leaving no residue!
Redken's All Soft Shampoo with an argan oil-enriched formula that helps soften and moisturize dry, brittle hair. Reviewers say they're obsessed with the results and rave about how many compliments they get on how amazing their hair looks and smells!
A compact, lightweight Shark FlexStyle air styling system that many reviewers are ditching their Dyson for (and this one's less than half the price!). It features five attachments that can dry, smooth, curl, *and* volumize your hair at maximum speed. The best part? It's got temp-regulating technology that reduces heat damage to your hair!
Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant, which has salicylic acid that penetrates your pores to help catch breakouts before they reach the surface. And bonus! Its green tea leaf extract quickly calms redness and soothes skin sensitivity.
Glow Recipe's Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops that will brighten both your skin and your day. It's infused with vitamin C, vitamin E, and moringa oil to help even out your skin tone and give you a dewy finish that's perfect for spring. It also has a lightweight texture that absorbs quickly, making it ideal for all skin types, so you can glow from the inside out.
A skin spatula to really and truly give you that feeling of ~clean skin~. This uses high-frequency vibrations to gently remove gunk and impurities from pores — not only will you feel refreshed, but it'll create the perfect canvas for your expensive skincare products to *actually* absorb.
A highly concentrated K18 Leave-In Molecular Hair Mask if you're trying to restore you're processed hair to its silky glory (we've all been there🥲). This mask is enriched with peptides that work their magic to moisturize and reverse the damage on your locks in just four minutes!
Color Wow's Dream Coat Supernatural Spray, which is made with a super lightweight, nongreasy formula that doubles as a heat protectant and basically transforms your hair into silk, all while giving it waterproof powers. Simply apply it to damp hair, comb to distribute, and blow-dry to activate its magic!
A popular pack of Skin1004 pore tightening and lifting masks that has surprised reviewers with its immediate results. These fast-acting masks are made with albumin, aloe vera, and centella asiatica extract to hydrate and lift your skin, tighten enlarged pores, clear small breakouts, and give you that "just came fresh from the spa" glow.
The Dewy Skin Cream by Tatcha, which is one of those beloved luxury brands that never disappoints! This is enriched with Japanese purple rice (packed with antioxidants!), plumping botanical extracts, *and* a replenishing hyaluronic acid-algae complex. You'll almost be able to hear your skin thanking you. 😍
An anti-frizz curl-defining cream if you want to activate and define your curls to achieve your ~bounciest~ look yet. This reviewer-beloved staple is infused with hydrating argan oil and vegetable protein to coat porous strands and split ends.
A Lancôme radiance-boosting face serum, which is commonly referred to as "magic in a bottle" by reviewers. It's enriched with 10% bifidus prebiotic to help support the skin's moisture barrier as well as hyaluronic acid and vitamin Cg to improve firmness and radiance. We love a multi-talented product. 😍
A NanoSteamer 3-in-1 Facial Steamer — it's just the addition you need for your at-home spa day! This helps really and *truly* unclog your pores anddd it doubles as a humidifier and a towel warmer!
Amika's talc-free dry shampoo for when you're at the final stretch of your non-hairwashing days and your locks could use some extra oomph. This is enriched with sea buckthorn (which is *packed* with vitamins and antioxidants) and rice starch to help absorb oil and restore some voluminous life to your hair.
A color light therapy mask that can adjust your skin's specific needs with the click of a button. Looking for some anti-aging properties? Red light. Trying to clear your breakout? Blue light. Want to balance and even out your skin tone? Green light. Reviewers are raving about how smooth, bright, and bouncy their skin looks! What's even better is that you can just sit back, grab a book or watch some TV, and have some ~me time~.
Fenty Beauty's Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer, because everything Mother Riri touches is gold. The best part about this? It feels as good as it looks, leaving you with all the explosive shine and *none* of the stickiness.
Or a lightweight, moisture-coating Laneige Lip Glowy Balm packed with murumuru (a palm native to the Amazon) and shea butter, making it the perfect daytime partner in crime to the cult-favorite lip sleeping mask. Be careful using this around your besties, because they *will* be asking if they can have some.
A reviewer-beloved Soft Pinch Liquid Blush from Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty because although a natural, glowy look is gorgeous year-round, there's something about spring that has me reaching for baby pink. This delivers long-lasting, buildable pigment in your choice of dewy or matte finish and lends you a healthy lil' flush if your skin's been counting down the days until it can see the sun again.
Briogeo exfoliating shampoo, aka what all dry scalps need for preventing flakes and buildup! It features a perfect blend of charcoal (to detoxify the scalp) and coconut oil (to moisturize and prevent dryness). Plus! It's got a cooling mixture of tea tree and peppermint oil that not only smells ~delightful~ but also soothes itchiness and helps balance scalp pH.
Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream has such a delightful scent that it might just make you ditch your perfume altogether. Enriched with caffeine, guarana extract, and coconut oil, this miraculous little jar of cream will help tighten *and* smooth your skin like nobody's business.
A luxe Medicube facial device — a high-tech K-beauty tool (which is used by Hailey Bieber!) that'll help you truly elevate your whole skincare game. This helpful little tool stimulates your skin to create electro-passageways so your skincare penetrates more deeply, leaving it plumper and brighter. Now you'll *actually* be able to achieve that "glass skin" look that you were hoping to get from that $50 serum you splurged on.
You having a proper self-care day with all your ~luxurious~ beauty products:
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