What to Buy From the Nordstrom Summer Beauty Event

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This weekend, Nordstrom is hosting its summer beauty event (by event, it meansmassive sale). The event has a primary focus onhair care, and so far I’ve spottedshampoos,conditioners, andstyling toolsfrom some of our most written-about brands — at considerably reduced prices. But there are plenty of deals in the skin-care and makeup departments too, from Clinique cleansing balms to themicrocurrent devicethat’s become part of half a dozen Strategist writers’ daily routines.

To help you browse the offers, I’ve separated them into categories below. Simply skip to the area you’re interested in, or scroll on to find a bargain. And once you’re done, you can browse absolutely everything on sale in theNordstrom summer beauty event.

Hair care

Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Replenishing Moisture Shampoo
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Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Replenishing Moisture Conditioner
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Alterna seldom offers major discounts across its entire range, so not only is this deal good: It’s rare. Take advantage by stocking up on its caviar-infused shampoo and conditioner.

R+Co Television Perfect Hair Shampoo
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R+Co Television Perfect Hair Conditioner
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R+Co is another brand that features heavily in ourhair-carecoverage. Its television-perfect shampoo and conditioner — great for wavy to coily hair — are also considerably reduced.

Rizos Curls Refresh & Detangle Spray
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Pair it with this refreshing Rizo spray, great for smoothing your curls after a trip to the beach.

Drybar Cocomint Float Scalp & Body Scrub
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Drybar makes some of our favorite beauty products, fromblow-dryer brushestohair detanglers.” Once this scrub is done ridding your scalp of buildup, it can be used to polish your skin, too.

Hair tools

Drybar Mermaid Waver
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Drybar One Inch Curling Iron
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Drybar also has some significant offers on styling tools. I have beach hair on the mind, so its mermaid waver and one-inch curling iron caught my eye — but the brand also has offers on flat irons and other styling tools.

Mermade Hair 4-Pack Jumbo No-Crease Hair Clips
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Clip your curls in place with these no-crease hair clips, currently on sale for less than $10.

ghd Duet Style 2-in-1 Hot Air Styler - 2.5 Inch
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This GHD styler is a twofer: It blows smoothing air as it straightens to tame pesky flyaways.

Beauty

Armani Luminous Silk Bronzing Drops
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Georgio Armani’s luminous silk foundations have plenty of avid fans — including actressSydney Sweeney.As they’re 40 percent off, there’s no better time to pick up some of the bronzing drops from the same line.

Lancôme Hypnôse Drama Instant Full Volume Mascara
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I love spotting high-endmakeupat drugstore prices — like this Lancôme mascara for $16.

MAC Mineralize Skinfinish
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Luminous highlighters are one thing that M.A.C does very, very well — and the 25 percent discount is also pretty pleasing.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Luminous Foundation
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This was one of the best deals I spotted: a glowy Anastasia Beverly Hills foundation for less than $20 (yes, that’s half-off!).

Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Eye Pencil
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This creamy, smokey eye pencil is essential if you want to have aCharli XCXsummer (but it’s all-smokey-eyes-appropriate, really).

Skin care

Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm
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This pot of Clinique’s gentle cleansing balm is $40 — very reasonable, as it’s the jumbo size.

True Botanicals Skin Barrier Sun Shield SPF 30
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I actively enjoy reapplying this subtly tintedSPFfrom True Botanicals — and I’ve noticed the difference in my complexion since switching to the formula, which is packed with zinc.

Kylie Skin Vanilla Milk Toner
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I hear good things about this pore-minimizing, gentle toner from Kylie Skin.

BeautyStat Universal C Skin Refiner - 1 Oz.
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Our colleagues at the Cut tell us that this BeautyStatvitamin-C serumis worth the splurge — so it’s definitely worth purchasing on a weekend that splurge isn’t quite so eye-watering.

True Botanicals Vitamin C Booster
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This is another vitamin-C product that we like. Vitamin C is quite volatile, but as this booster is water-activated, there’s less chance of it spoiling in storage. (And the bottle is dark, another plus for prolonging the life of your actives.)

Skin-care devices

NuFace Mini+ Starter Kit
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I’ve quickly become aNuFace convertafter getting my own device in March. It’s unclear if they’ll be on sale again this coming Prime Day — but this 25 percent discount is a pretty safe bet.

Solawave 4-in-1 Skin-Care Wand
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WriterDiksha Basutold us that the Solawave has made her skin look better at 40 than ever before.

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