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Affordable August 2025 Faves ☀️
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items These are the best products for an effortlessly chic August 2025! I live in a hot and humid downtown city area during August, so these are my faves to keep me looking and smelling fresh at all times, while also not breaking the bank. Gotta keep the b...
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Makeup / Beauty / Hair
Fragrances
Books for Baddies
Hidden Gems
Makeup / Beauty / Hair
This mascara gives a hefty addition of volume! I personally have the length myself so this mascara is great for filling in gaps or making my lashes extremely thick and dark, it’s amazing!
tartelette™ tubing mascara
Does NOT smear when I sweat, and the color is super dark and pigmented. Have been loyal to this eyeliner since 2016.
NYX Epic Ink Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner
This blush lasts forever on me!! It is perfect for hot days too and is pretty sweat proof in my experience. I love coral clash and I feel like it goes beautifully with my olive skin tone. Also, it’s a powder blush which gives my skin a velvet soft fi...
Blush Subtil Powder Blush - Now in 6 New Shades! - Lancôme
This is my holy grail lip balm! I bite my lips a lot but this always heals them and keeps them moisturized even longer than Aquaphor can! I love this four pack because I throw one in my makeup bag, backpack, gym bag, and one for my home desk.
Bag Balm Original Skin Moisturizer 4-Pack
These are my favorite affordable lip liners! They feel extremely smooth and never crumble or show any sort of dry effect. They last super long, but reapplying is never a problem with how durable these are even if you press hard, and how pigmented too...
NYX Slim Lip Pencil Long-Lasting Espresso
There's 330 pimple patches in here for an extremely low price! They also are invsible and help to hide my active pimples so much better than starface. I love how you can see absorption easily as well, and you know when you need to replace the patch. ...
330 CT Pimple Patches w/ Salicylic & Oils
I use these tiny Nivea creme tins to moisturize my hands after washing them after a workout or if I'm out and I start feeling dry. One of these fits super easily into any gym bag or purse since they are travel sized.
NIVEA Skin Creme 1 oz (Pack of 7)
Fragrances
These fragrances are perfect for the summer- not too cloying, very comforting, fresh, and outdoorsy!
THE Summer Perfume! It's much stronger than the mist, and it performs longer as well. The notes of salted caramel and pistachio are perfectly beachy and this scent makes me feel so feminine and delicious, I absolutely love it.
SOL Cheirosa '62 - Summer Eau de Parfum
Diptyque's L'eau Papier is a very calming, neutral scent that will not overpower the room, but still leave it better smelling than prior to you entering it. It is a beautiful freshie, reminding me of a sheer, powdery, airy, and clean space. Time slow...
L'Eau Papier 100ml | Eau de Toilette
This perfume smells like your hair straight after washing it with the most beautiful, soft, floral wash. It is a very clean scent, that I reserve for the hottest days where I think other scents may be too cloying. This one is perfectly floral and sli...
Eau de Parfum Giulietta 50ml | TOCCA Beauty and Home Fragrances
Books for Baddies
Books of the summer!! Mostly classics.
Love reading this book when I need some perspective chance in my word view. This book includes the thoughts and POVs of various people in Marcus Aurelius' life, and really has shown me some new ways to think that I never would have approached prior t...
Meditations (Penguin Classics)
Started and finished this book in one day on a flight… it made me sob on the plane. It is beautiful but incredibly sad and introspective.
Metamorphosis & Other Stories - Kafka
Loved this short story- definitely is one of Kafka's lesser known works, but it is just as good as the rest. It follows a Western tourist who visits a colony that has had customs of unique punishments that were upheld by supporters in the colony unti...
In the Penal Colony
Hidden Gems
This eyelash serum works within a week and does not cause fat loss around the eyes! I use this alllll the time, twice a day <3
Terez & Honor Eyelash Serum 3mL
The only cleanser that is gentle enough to not break me out! It’s lightweight and does not foam as well, and feels slick on the skin. I feel so clean afterwards and would recommend this to anybody with acne prone, dry, and sometimes flaky skin!
La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Facial Cleanser
This oil keeps me moisturized after my showers, and gives me a beautiful natural glow. I remain glowy for hours after putting this on, and it has a subtle creamy shea butter scent that I absolutely LOVE! I layer it with vanilla perfumes, or you can g...<3
Dr Teal's Shea Butter Moisturizing Bath & Body Oil, 8.8 fl oz.