CPR for Your Mascara, 7 Beauty Breakthroughs You Need This Season

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This is your mascara at 6p.m.: crunchy, dry, and feels like petrified wood. Am I right? It's not a problem when you're going home to cook dinner, but it's a bummer when you're going out and want to refresh your makeup. That's where Urban Decay Resurrection, $16, comes in. It's a clear serum you apply with a comb that softens your mascara and brings it back to life. After a few swipes of Resurrection, you can pile on as much new mascara as you'd like, and that crunchy feeling is gone. As an added bonus, it even moisturizes your lashes to -- over time -- get rid of brittleness for good.

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If you have one wrinkle that drives you crazy (or, OK, maybe a few), but you're hesitant about going to a derm for a little Botox, then Rodan + Fields Acute Care Patches, $220 for 10 packs of two, are for you. You apply a patch directly onto a wrinkle before bed, and while you sleep the patch infuses the wrinkle with skin-plumping hyaluronic acid and peptides. (Each patch is made up of pointy cones that conform to the shape of the winkle for maximum results.) In the morning, the wrinkle is noticeably smoother and far less crazy-inducing, and the results last all day. (Bonus: Use them three times a week for a month, and the results last up to eight weeks.)

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The Only Sonic Toothbrush You'll Ever Want to Use Again

Sonic toothbrushes aren't new, but if you've ever used one, you'll probably never go back to manual brushing (or when you do, you'll feel, well, dirty). What is new, however, is a sonic toothbrush that's incapable of harboring bacteria (because it's made of medical-grade silicone) and holds a charge for a year. That's the Foreo Issa Toothbrush, $199, which also happens to be especially cool-looking. It's great for your gums (it massages them to boost circulation), and is just as effective as other sonic toothbrushes.

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Back in the '90s, brown-eyed girls everywhere were going to school wearing unnaturally green or turquoise-blue contact lenses. Eventually, the trend disappeared, and no one missed it. Or, maybe people did because a new generation of color contact lenses launched within the last six months, and it's changing the way we think about eye color.

One-Day Acuvue Define lenses are designed to highlight the limbal ring (the band of color that surrounds your iris), which studies show can make people appear more attractive.

Meanwhile, Air Optix Colors contact lenses are slightly more dramatic, but the results still look natural -- there's no dark brown to neon green transformation happening here.

Each year, we test thousands of beauty products and research countless new treatments to report on the hottest trends and most exciting beauty breakthroughs.

These breakthroughs go beyond new products we love -- they're completely new categories; technologies that are shaking up the industry or inventions that are changing the way we think about beauty products. Take, for instance, long-lasting gel polish or even teeth-whitening strips. The biggest beauty breakthroughs of 2015 include sunscreens with iron oxide (spotted at the American Academy of Dermatology meeting), a game-changing in-office cellulite treatment, a serum that revives crusty old mascara, colored contact lenses that are actually cool, and many more. Here, the ones you need to know about now, and exactly how they're going to revolutionize your beauty routine.

7 Beauty Breakthroughs You Need This Season

From a high-tech toothbrush to a cellulite cure that actually works, these are the beauty inventions we're buzzing about

CPR for Your Mascara

A Patch That Erases Wrinkles Like Botox

The Only Sonic Toothbrush You'll Ever Want to Use Again

Color Contact Lenses Are Back

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