5 Beauty Innovations That Could Impress Even the Trendiest Friend of the Group

Ever wish you could apply self-tanner minutes before bed and emerge from your slumber as radiant as the sun? Before the St. Tropez Self Tan Purity Bronzing Water Gel ($44), you couldn't without also ruining your 600-thread-count sheets. Now, this innovative gel-to-water formula exists, and it goes on completely clear, develops in mere hours, and doesn't need to be washed off. Just as revolutionary: there's no telltale "self-tanner" smell — just a light fruity-floral you'd want to wear on holiday.

Let us be clear: we don't want to live in a world without the convenience of makeup wipes. But as the future of our beloved planet earth becomes increasingly muddy and waste continues to permeate our landfills, it's now even clearer that something's gotta give. Enter: Simple Skincare Compostable Wipes ($11), the first eco-friendly, biodegradable solution to our lazy person problem to hit the masses. Soaked with the same gentle formula you know and love about the OG, these cloths win big on the sustainability front — eventually disintegrating into nothing rather than taking up more space. Someone call Discovery.

Customised skin care is the wave of the future, and the Clinique ID Custom Blend Dose Serum ($39) is leading the way. First, you pick your preferred base of Clinique moisturiser (jelly, gel, or lotion). Then, you select your custom cartridge "booster" based off your skincare needs, like uneven skin tone, lines and wrinkles, pores, dullness — you name it, they have a treatment for it — of which you'll get 10 percent of concentrate in every pump. Add to cart, head home, and apply to your skin day and night. By week two, you'll marvel at the difference.

We wouldn't call the Tan Luxe Super Glow Hyaluronic Self-Tan Serum ($49) a self-tanner, necessarily. Rather, it's a brilliant formula that combines all the good stuff you'd want from a hydrating face serum — hyaluronic acid, antioxidants, vitamin E — with a small percentage of DHA, a combination of which had never been done before, until formulators tinkered with the chemical makeup so they wouldn't cancel out the other's effectiveness. It makes it easy to build a believable tan that'll last long after Summer ends.