Keeping your skin looking fresh and radiant during the summer months can be a real challenge especially when you're battling heat, humidity, and oil buildup. Add in the stress of summer travel and exposure to the dry, recycled air of airplanes, and your skin can quickly go from dewy to dull or greasy. The true test isn't just maintaining a healthy complexion it's making sure your makeup stays intact through it all. Sweat, oil, and dehydration can cause foundation to slide, concealer to crease, and overall coverage to break down before your day even begins. The goal is to create a skin-smart routine that keeps you hydrated, balanced, and glowing while helping your makeup stay put no matter where your summer takes you.
Fresh-Faced Without the Fuss: Hair, Body & SPF Must-Haves for a Makeup-Free Summer
If you're someone who prefers to go makeup-free during the summer, you're not alone. When the temperatures rise, many people opt for a more minimal beauty routine that lets their natural glow shine through. But just because you're skipping foundation and concealer doesn't mean you have to sacrifice looking polished and put-together. With the right hair and body care products plus a reliable SPF you can achieve a fresh, radiant look that lasts through even the hottest, most humid days.
Whether it's a lightweight body lotion that gives your skin a healthy sheen, a hair mist that tames frizz while adding shine, or a multitasking sunscreen that hydrates while protecting, the key is to focus on products that enhance your natural features and keep you feeling confident. We’ve curated a list of summer essentials that will keep your skin glowing, your hair smooth, and your overall look effortlessly refreshed no makeup required.
Below we gathered products that will make your summer glow last throughout the hottest heatwaves.
Sunscreen:
Designed for actinic damage-Eryfotona Actinica is an ultralight, fast-absorbing emulsion providing all-mineral broad spectrum sun protection for daily use.
Its innovative formula contains patented DNA Repairsomes®, clinically proven to help repair existing sun damage.
Jane Iredale Powder-Me SPF 30 Dry Sunscreen Brush + 2 Refills
A weightless, dry, physical SPF 30 broad spectrum sunscreen for face, body and scalp in a refillable flow-through vegan brush. Wear alone or over makeup.
Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50
A lightweight mineral sunscreen with tinted color coverage immediately evens skin tone for a flawless look. This hydrating, antioxidant-rich all-mineral formula is powered by patented EnviroScreen® Technology - which means comprehensive defense against UVA/UVB, Blue Light, Pollution, and Infrared radiation, combined with advanced antioxidants and nourishing, hydrating ingredients for long-term skin health.
A glowy tinted sunscreen with a luminous, sunkissed finish that primes for makeup, visibly evens tone & is clinically tested to deliver all-day hydration. This cult fave glowy SPF features light-reflecting pearls designed to work with your skin, not just on it, for a sunkissed glow without the sun damage.Â
Eltamd UV Clear Broad-Spectrum SPF46
EltaMD UV Clear Broad-Spectrum SPF 46 is formulated with 5% high-purity niacinamide (Vitamin B3) to help reduce the appearance of blemishes, discoloration, and photo-damaged skin. Vitamin B3 has been shown to help effectively reduce the appearance of blemishes associated with acne. In a clinical study, as many as 82% of patients with inflammatory acne showed improvement after using niacinamide as a treatment after several weeks.
Hair:
Color Wow Texas Hold'Em Big Hold Hair Spray
Less wet, fast-drying, flake free formula. Deposits up to 50% less alcohol than leading sprays. 82% style retention in high humidity* 2 forms of heat protection + UV protection.Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily (all hair types)
Easy, instant, precise: just press, no mess! Temporary color stays until shampoo’d out (you can swim in it!) Reflective mineral powder for a multi-dimensional, natural look. Never stiff, sticky, or waxy like mascaras, crayons and sprays. Great value! 6 months to 1 year usage for one compact. Easy to travel with!Â
Created with all hair types in mind, it’s the ultimate multi-tasker, delivering the shine, softness, and moisturizing you’d expect from a hair oil and the damage repair, strengthening, and environmental protection that only our human protein can provide. Healing Oil is formulated with clear oils, never yellow, so it glides on light and clean for a glossy finish that won’t alter your color or weigh down your hair. Color-safe, paraben-free, gluten-free, vegan.
Color Wow Dream Coat Supernatural Spray
Advanced anti-frizz formula leaves hair super glossy, glassy, ultra smooth. Groundbreaking humidity-blocking technology stops moisture from wrecking your style. Ultra-light frizz control spray feels like nothing is on the hair. Economical. Results last through 3-4 shampoos. For all hair types, ideal for dry, frizz-prone hair or color-treated hair. Perfect for extensions. Safe for Keratin-treated hair.
IGK Beach Club Bouncy Blowout Cream
A lightweight blowout cream that creates full-bodied volume and bouncy movement with style memory, while protecting against heat and humidity.
This salon-worthy lightweight hair blowout cream and heat protectant creates body and volume with style memory, allowing your blowouts to last even longer.Â
Makeup
Jane Iredale Pommisst Hydration Spray
A facial spritz with the added benefit of Pomegranate Extract, a powerful antioxidant that helps fight free radical production caused by sun exposure.
A lightweight liquid foundation that creates a smooth matte complexion for up to 12 hours. With just a few drops it conceals skin imperfections such as vitiligo, discoloration, varicose veins, bruising, scars, burns, and tattoos. Available in two shades, Sand and Bronze.
This is the very first eyeshadow with SPF! Created to protect the delicate, sun-sensitive skin around your eyes, this cream eyeshadow blends easily and wears beautifully for a buildable, shimmery finish.
Jane Iredale Glow Time Blush Stick
Creamy, multitasking blush stick for buildable, blendable color and a golden, lit-from-within glow.
St. Tropez Sunlit Skin Bronzing Tint and Tan
A complexion perfecting tint for an instant, bronzy glow and self tan results that last for days. A sun-kissed glow in as little as 1 hour and a medium, natural-looking tan that fully develops in 3 hours.
Cooling Masks & Cleansers
iS Clinical Hydra-Intensive Cooling Masque
COOLMINT REVITALIZING MASQUE is a rich, luxurious cooling treatment designed to reinvigorate, refresh and provide soothing hydration. This professional-strength formula features natural botanical antioxidants centella asiatica, green tea, aloe vera, and rosemary extracts, which are perfectly balanced with botanically-sourced hyaluronic acid - nature’s most powerful hydrator.Â
The PCA Skin Creamy Cleanser is a gentle, hydrating facial wash that effectively removes dirt, debris, environmental impurities and stubborn makeup, without stripping the skin of necessary moisture. The Creamy Cleanser contains Rose Hip Seed Oil, which strengthens the skin leaving it smoother and firmer, Sunflower Seed Oil, which is high in essential fatty acids helps to provide antioxidant power to the skin, and Yucca Extract that helps to prevent over-drying of the skin.Â
Within minutes, the mask absorbs impurities and dirt accumulated on the surface of the skin to reveal a fresh new look that's radiant, refined and revitalized. Can be used all over the face or on the T-Zone for combination skin.
Eminence Coconut Milk Cleanser
A gentle daily face and body serum that absorbs instantly to improve the appearance of scars and skin damage by supporting the skin’s natural healing process.
Eminence Organic Signature Stone Crop Duo
Eminence Signature Stone Crop Duo (Worth $98) Revitalize, hydrate and cleanse with a potent stone crop duo. One of Éminence Organics' signature ingredients, stone crop is known for its hydrating and nourishing properties. Pamper skin as you cleanse with the Stone Crop Cleansing Oil.Â
Peter Thomas Roth Baggage Blast-Off Six Pair Hydra-gel Eye Patch KitÂ
This mini kit of bestselling Hydra-Gel Eye Patches as everything you need to help firm, hydrate and de-puff the look of the under-eye area.
