My Desert Island Retinol Serum From a Bella Hadid-Used Brand Is on Rare Sale
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I am historically prone to shopper’s remorse. I see a discount with limited-time phrasing, panic, and purchase it without thinking it through. A week later, a home fro-yo machine arrives at my door and I’m forced to contend with the fact that I don’t really even like fro-yo! All that to say, thank goodness for early Black Friday deals—the head start allows me to make thoughtful purchases.
As a beauty editor with unfortunately expensive tastes, I’m paying special attention to skin care deals. I’ve looked through early Black Friday skin care, body care, and nail care deals for so long my eyeballs began to hurt. But my suffering bears fruit—below, I rounded up the six best discounted beauty products actually worth shopping.
Best Early Black Friday Beauty Deals
My Desert Island Product: U Beauty Resurfacing Compound Serum, $70 (Originally $88); ubeauty.com
Transformed My Nails: Dermelect Nail Recovery System, $50 with code BF15 (Originally $70); dermelect.com
Tightens “Turkey Neck”: Dermelect Self-Esteem Professional Neck Firming Lift, $50 with code BF15 (Originally $59); dermelect.com
Bella Hadid-Approved: U Beauty The Super Hydrator, $54 (Originally $68); ubeauty.com
Under $30 Retinol: Three Ships Skin Hero Calendula and Bakuchiol Bio-Retinol Serum, $28 (Originally $37); threeshipsbeauty.com
New Launch: U Beauty The Sculpt Neck and Décolleté Concentrate, $110 (Originally $138); ubeauty.com
U Beauty Resurfacing Compound Serum
U Beauty
I say this without a shred of exaggeration: if I could only use one skin care product for the rest of my life, it would be U Beauty’s Resurfacing Compound. It does the most you could ask of any singular product; it’s a texture-smoothing toner, brightening, wrinkle-reducing serum, and hydrator all in one sleek bottle. Retinol, hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, beta-hydroxy acids (BHAs), and alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) are to thank. The ultimate effect is decongested, brighter, plumper skin with smaller pores and a smoother texture.
Dermelect Nail Recovery System
Dermelect
Dermelect is having a tiered early Black Friday sale right now. Take 15 percent off purchases $50-plus with the code BF15, 20 percent off $100-plus with the code BF20, and 30 percent off $150-plus with the code BF30.
Out of its shopper-loved lineup, this nail set is what I’ll be purchasing. It comes with four products, including the Rejuvenail Fortifying Nail and Cuticle Treatment, Makeover Nail Concealer, Launchpad Nail Strengthener, and High-Maintenance Nail Thickener.
The first treatment is the love of my life—it turned my sandpaper-esque, Grand Canyon-ridged nails into the spitting image of pearlescent healthiness. It’s the product I credit for my transition away from fake nails. As for the other products, think of them as finishing touches for strong and naturally beautiful nails.
Dermelect Self-Esteem Professional Neck Firming Lift
Dermelect
Everyone is concerned about the state of their neck skin and no one knows what to do about it. This tube of Dermelect neck cream is the answer. The product claims tighter skin, fainter wrinkles, reduced tech neck lines, and improved elasticity via AHAs, BHAs, squalane, and agefinity (a collagen-producing ingredient). A shopper in their late 50s with “severe jowls…and significant turkey neck” said this cream “tightened up [their] problem areas so effectively,” that people assumed these were surgical results.
U Beauty The Super Hydrator
U Beauty
Bella Hadid, like me, is also a fan of U Beauty. In April she called its Super Hydrator the “perfect moisturizer.” Its name is not a hyperbole; it’s formulated with five types of famously hydrating hyaluronic acid plus peptides, argan oil, avocado oil, and more. Though it is mainly a moisturizer, it also plumps skin, reduces wrinkles, and brightens the complexion. A 51-year-old shopper called this a “game changer” for their “dull skin.” “The tone, texture, and appearance have never been better,” they wrote.
Three Ships Skin Hero Calendula and Bakuchiol Bio-Retinol Serum
Three Ships
Three Ships’s skin care products have a tendency to sell out even when full-priced—you’re welcome for not gatekeeping this sale. This Skin Hero Serum is fabulous for sensitive skin or retinol newbies. It’s formulated with bakuchiol—a natural retinol alternative with the same wrinkle-reducing, dark spot-fading, and skin-renewing properties. Not only is bakuchiol less irritating, but the calendula in this formula offers an extra boost of anti-inflammation and skin soothing properties.
Since using this serum, one shopper said, “I have fewer dark spots, lines, and wrinkles. People tell me that I look much younger than I am.”
U Beauty The Sculpt Neck and Décolleté Concentrate
U Beauty
I haven’t gotten around to trying U Beauty’s new neck and chest cream, but thanks to this sale that’s about to change. Formulated with peptides, horse chestnut, and stabilized superoxide dismutase, these ingredients jump-start the production of collagen and elastin. The results? Bouncier, firmer, and less wrinkled skin. They also reduce swelling and puffiness which helps make the jawline and décolleté look more contoured. “The change in my neck is undeniable…my skin is softer and the lines I was worried about are firming up,” one shopper wrote.
