I Thrive in the Heat—These Are the 14 Summer Beauty Products I Really Want You to Know About

As a beauty director who loves the heat, trust me when I say these are the best summer beauty products around this year.

@lucywilliams02; @kendalljenner; @smythsisters at the beach, along with the best summer beauty products
(Image credit: @lucywilliams02; @kendalljenner; @smythsisters; Dior Beauty; Caudalie)

As a beauty director, it's my job to bring you solutions to some of the biggest gripes about your beauty routine. Living in the UK, it often feels like winter is my busiest time of the working year—everyone wants to know what moisturisers to use and how they can adapt their skincare routine for their dry, winter skin. But, if I am being honest, summer is my real area of expertise.

While everyone I know right now is feeling exhausted, drained and overheated, I'm in my element. In fact, my ability to remain cool, calm and collected during a British heatwave has become a running joke amongst my friends. But I haven't always been this way—far from it. Sure, the boost in vitamin D and longer days helps my mood, but my ability to ensure my beauty routine doesn't just cope in the heat, but thrive, has taken many years of research. I have undertaken heaps of trial and error to find the beauty products that ensure my skin looks its glowiest, my hair its chicest, my makeup its most pulled together and my perfume its most compliment-worthy.

Shannon Lawlor

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And this year, I'd say my beauty routine has been particularly standout. I'm finding more joy in using new beauty products than ever before, and I truly believe I've been looking my best. So, as a beauty director who really knows her stuff when it comes to the very best summer beauty products, these are the 14 I think everyone deserves to know about.

1. Merit The Uniform Tinted SPF50

2. Dior Addict Lip Glow Butter

3. Clarins Sun Care Body Cream SPF50+

4. Beauty Pie Luxe Shine Blush Stick

5. Gem Skin-Loving Deodorant

6. Caudalie Vinosun Protect Invisible Stick SPF50

7. Ellis Brooklyn Salt

8. Dr Althea 345 Relief Cream

9. Victoria Beckham Satin Kajal Liner Terracotta

10. Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa 71 Body Cream

11. GHD Wave

12. CeraVe Balancing Air Foam Cleanser

13. Living Proof PhD Advanced Clean Dry Shampoo 

14. The Body Shop Tender Tonka Fragrance Mist

Beauty Director

Shannon Lawlor is the beauty director at Who What Wear UK. With over a decade of experience working for some of the beauty industry’s most esteemed titles, including Marie Claire, Glamour UK, Stylist and Refinery29, Shannon’s aim is to make the conversation around beauty as open, relatable and honest as possible. As a self-confessed lazy girl, Shannon has an affinity for hard-working perfumes, fool-proof makeup products and does-it-all skincare.