Sunscreen! Vitamin C! Lash Serums! This Short-Lived Dermstore Sale Is Giving Me Major Spring Fever
Here's my 17-item shopping list.
It's been a long, cold winter, and I'm officially ready for a spring reset. As a beauty editor, I truly believe that one of the best ways to do that is by making seasonal skin, hair, and makeup swaps. I'm sorry for my thick barrier creams and tired, old makeup products. They've served me well, but it's time to indulge my spring fever and inject some new energy into my lineup.
Luckily, I can do that for a discount. Dermstore's Beauty Refresh Sale is on now through March 12. During it, you can take up to 20% items when you use the code REFRESH at checkout. I've already added some highly-effective items to my cart, including undetectable SPFs, skin-brightening vitamin C serums, and growth-boosting lash serums. Keep scrolling to see my 17 editor-approved picks.
The Sale, at a Glance
- The Iconic, Celeb-Loved Face Cream: Augustinus Bader The Cream
($195)($156) - The Harry Styles– and Anne Hathaway–Approved Eye Patches: 111Skin Celestial Black Diamond Eye Mask
($120)($96) - The Editor-Approved Lash Serum: Revitalash Advanced Eyelash Conditioner
($100)($80) - The Undetectable SPF: EltaMD UV Clear Broad-Spectrum SPF 46
($45)($36) - The Luxe LED Mask: HigherDose Red Light Face Mask
($349)($279)
This iconic face cream is beloved by so many celebrities, including Victoria Beckham. It's powered by a proprietary complex called TFC8, which combines amino acids, high-grade vitamins, and other molecules to improve the skin's natural repair and renewal processes. There are also vitamins A, C, and B5, which stimulate collagen and moisturize the skin. If you've ever been curious about it, now's the time to try it. At almost $40 off, it's going straight into my cart.
I love Allies of Skin. There are so many products worth buying from the brand, but this high-tech Multi Peptides & Growth Factor Advanced Lifting Serum is at the top of the list. It features a 3% growth factor complex and a 9% lifitng peptide complex to address all signs of aging, including lines, wrinkles, and loss of elasticity. This supercharged serum is rarely on sale, so for me, it's a no-brainer.
Who What Wear editors love this TikTok-viral toner. Its antioxidant-rich formula makes the skin look smooth, plump, and glass-like. Don't believe me? Read this in-depth review.
If you want smoother, brighter, and all-around better-looking skin, then this two-step at-home face peel is for you. Step one uses powerful exfoliating acids to slough away dead skin and reveal a brighter, more radiant complexion. Step two uses a combination of chamomile (an anti-inflammatory ingredient), retinol, and green tea to provide smoothing, calming, plumping, and anti-aging effects. It's better skin in a box.
This is the eyelash serum that beauty editors trust to deliver a long, fluttery, falsies-effect look. It uses a patented BioPeptin Complex, plant-based liposomes, and botanical ingredients (ginseng and saw palmetto included) to dramatically improve the appearance of short, sparse lashes in eight weeks.
Fun fact: Celebrities like Harry Styles and Anne Hathaway use these exact eye patches. They're packed with powerful skin-boosting ingredients, like hyaluronic acid, hexapeptide, rosehip extract, and, apparently, actual diamond particles. Over the course of a 20-minute treatment, these eye patches promise to gently exfoliate, hydrate, firm, and brighten the skin. In fact, the brand says the hexapeptide ingredient will help tighten the skin for a Botox-like effect.
You know I need a new vitamin C serum to secure a springtime glow. La Roche Posay's features 12% pure L-ascorbic acid for antioxidant and anti-aging benefits. It's also formulated with salicylic acid to keep the pores clear, and neurosensine, a peptide that soothes irritation.
I've been dying to try this peptide-packed serum for months, and now's my chance. Medik8's Liquid Peptides Serum features a 30% multi-peptide blend to target signs of aging like lines, wrinkles, and loss of elasticity. It's apparently the "perfect complement" to vitamin C serums, so you know I had to buy it.
I am the queen of split ends, unfortunately. My long, dry hair loves to split and break, so I use Virtue's Healing Oil pretty religiously. It's packed with vitamin E, Kalahari melon seed oil, and other botanicals to strengthen weak hair and reverse damage. Oh, and it smells incredible. I only wish it came in a bigger bottle.
About 2000 people waited for this lip plumper to launch. It's inspired by in-office injections, and it targets eight signs of lip aging. It increases lip smoothness up to 40%, enhances lip volume up to 21%, and reduces lip lines up to 33%. It's all thanks to key ingredients like palmitoyl tripeptide-1, hyaluronic acid, squalane, ceramides, shea butter, and orchid extract
I've been noticing so much hair shedding lately, and since I want thick, luscious hair this spring, I'm incorporating Act+Acre's Cold Processed Stem Cell Serum into my daily routine. It was developed by a celebrity hairstylist and trichologist, and it's formulated to promote and extend the growth phase, decrease hair loss, and hydrate the scalp.
I'm not going to lie: When I saw HigherDose's Red Light Mask was on sale, I actually squealed with excitement. It combines red and near-infrared LED technologies to reduce lines and wrinkles, improve skin barrier-strength and firmness, and generally just boost the skin's overall glow.
If you deal with redness, dryness, or irritation, I can't recommend this skin-soothing cream enough. It uses a proprietary prebiotic complex to hydrate and soothe cracked, chapped, chafed, rough, sensitive skin and dry skin irritations on the face and body. I love using it as an overnight mask. It makes my skin look incredibly glowy by morning (here's proof).

Kaitlyn McLintock is a Beauty Editor at Who What Wear. She has 10 years of experience in the editorial industry, having previously written for other industry-leading publications, like Byrdie, InStyle, The Zoe Report, Bustle, and others. She covers all things beauty and wellness-related, but she has a special passion for creating skincare content (whether that's writing about an innovative in-office treatment, researching the benefits of a certain ingredient, or testing the latest and greatest at-home skin device). Having lived in Los Angeles, California, and Austin, Texas, she has since relocated back to her home state, Michigan. When she's not writing, researching, or testing beauty products, she's working through an ever-growing book collection or swimming in the Great Lakes.