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We’ve cherry-picked the best boosters to customise your ritual

You needn’t overhaul your summer skin care ritual or daily make up menu when equipped with these brilliant boosters. From SPF drops to glow-giving elixirs, these heroes upgrade your face care and allow you to build a bespoke beauty wardrobe…

From dermatologist to the stars {Dr. Barbara Sturm} comes an all-star selection of drops to adapt your go-tos and address the (ever-evolving) needs of your complexion. From {SPF} to {Anti-Pollution}, these brilliant boosters are packed with the finest, high-performance extracts to upgrade your favourite base or moisturiser. Indecisive? Try this cute, {travel-sized line up}. 

Odacité’s pure, potent phials of plant-derived oils can be used neat or mixed with your favourite day cream to address your specific concerns. A summer essential, try supplementing serum with the brightening {Hyperpigmentation Serum Concentrate} – a super-charged blend of papaya and geranium extracts which combine to lessen dark spots and maintain skin’s uniformity. Or add a drop or two of the {Hydration} incarnation – a heavenly-scented cocktail of pomegranate and rose geranium oils – which will quench your cells’ thirst and maintain moisture levels. 

Want a radiance boost? Oskia’s {Adaptive Tri-Phase Self Tan Drops} are best used with your night cream to bestow a believable, holiday glow while you slumber. With tanning agent DHA to guarantee a realistic, olive-toned tan, alongside amino acids and melanin boosters to leave your skin beautifully sunkissed.

And if you’re looking sun-startved you *need* ZOEVA’s stunning {Liquid Light Drops} – shimmering bottles of molten metallics that make skin look ‘lit from within’ or lend cheekbones a head-turning highlight. In four shades to flatter a spectrum of skin tones, opt for the glorious ‘Astro’ to give every complexion a soft, summer lustre.

Want a lighter-weight base now the heatwave has hit? NYX Professional Makeup’s ingenious {Total Control Drop Foundation} allows you to build bespoke coverage. Completely customisable, mix two shades together for a perfect colour match, then supplement with glow drops, serum, oil or moisturiser for a sheer, full, matte or dewy finish. Defining ‘as you like it’, we like to add The Ordinary’s {Hyaluronic Acid} for a shot of plumping, line-smoothing and bounce-bestowing moisture.

Weekending in the city? Combat the metropolis with The Ordinary’s brilliant, free radical-fighting {EUK 134 0.1%} – a potent antioxidant which magically neutralises elemental stresses. Binding DNA-damaging oxygen and hydrogen together to make water (it’s MIRACULOUS), this wards against the everyday environmental onslaught so your cells can go about their business unencumbered.



Verity Douglas

Verity Douglas

Content Editor

Cult Beauty’s Content Editor and a Cult Beauty OG, Verity loves nothing more than the marriage of language and lip balm. A quintessential Libran, she’s a self-professed magpie for luxury ‘must-haves' and always pursuing the new and the niche — from the boujee-est skin care to cutting-edge tech. Balancing an urge to stop the clock with her desire to embrace the ageing process (and set a positive example for her daughter), Verity's a retinol obsessive and will gladly share her thoughts about the time-defying gadgets, masks and treatments worth the splurge...