8 New Beauty Products That Have Our Editors Fully Obsessed

As a beauty editor duo, both myself and Katie are particularly bad when it comes to hoarding new beauty products. The Marie Claire UK desk is in a permanent state of overflow when it comes to new launches we ‘set aside’ with the intention of taking home to try. In fact, right now, our respective shelves are overflowing with cleansers, sun creams, body creams, summer perfumes and summer candles—you name it, we’ve got it. The problem? Despite our intentions, we very rarely do take these products home.

At the start of this month, we realised that our ‘to test’ pile had become a sort of new beauty product purgatory—full of products impressive-looking enough for us to not want anyone else to have them, but not enticing enough to convince us to lug them home from the office. Our solution? Every time one of us caught the other adding a new product to the pile, we intercepted. “Do you need that face cream, Katie?” I asked countless times. While she stopped me in my tracks often with comments such as, “Shannon, can you really see yourself carrying nine candles home?” and “Just stop—I know you won’t use that.” The result was, for the entire months of July, we put ourselves on an unofficial new-beauty-product ban. Of course, we broke it—the following eight were just too good to turn down. And, my goodness, I’m so pleased we didn’t leave them on our shelves to gather dust. Behold—the absolute best new beauty products from July.

1. Victoria Beckham Beauty Portofino ’97 Golden Shimmer Body Oil