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7 New July Products We're Fighting Over

New July buys that will fix your frizz, hide fine lines
Maybelline Falsies is, hands down, one of the best mascaras I've ever used. When I heard they were launching a new Falsies, I was skeptical. (Don't mess with perfection, right?) But then I tried it. Falsies still has the thickening, lengthening, lash-tinting business on one end, but the new release has a mini brush for bottom lashes. I've never been a bottom lash mascara girl, but this one completely converted me.

I'm a sucker for a delicious face oil -- especially one that sinks in quickly and has high-caliber skin care benefits. My most recent obsessions were argan and marula oils, but mark my words, Dilo is the breakout of the bunch.

Dilo oil is from Fiji, where women spend all day out in the sun without SPF and still have gorgeous, youthful skin. They get their sun protection from Dilo oil, which they extract from a local nut. Kate Somerville bottled the oil and is selling it on QVC -- proving, yet again, she reigns supreme when it comes to skin care we covet.

It was just a matter of time before the CC cream craze branched out to yet another category. (We told you about CC cream for your hair.) But CC for eyes makes so much more sense. Most of us are far more interested in hiding (oh, excuse me, "color correcting") those dark, punched-in-the-eye circles hanging out below our eyes.

This creamy formula covers up those haven't-slept-in-days circles, and makes my eyes look infinitely brighter -- like I slept for 10 hours on a pillow made of rainbows. I'll take this over a basic concealer any day.

Oribe pretty much invented the dry spray category with Oribe Dry Texture Spray, a dry shampoo-beach spray hybrid with the line's signature divine scent. It was a runaway success, which is why Oribe added two new sprays in the dry spray family. My favorite is this thickening spray. Mist it on your hair, and I kid you not, you'll see your hair double in volume. You really have to see it to believe it.

My skin drives me batty in the summer. My freckles are magnified, I'm constantly blotting my shiny forehead, and my pores feel like soup bowls when the mercury rises. But Nanoblur is easing a lot of my summer beauty angst. It's like a primer, except you can also use it over makeup, and it hides imperfections -- blurring them, if you will. Fine lines, freckles, pores, shine -- buh-bye.

July is the month of extremes in beauty reality. On the one hand, we're inundated with images of perfectly tanned, toned, flawless women cavorting on beaches. On the other hand, there's ... the rest of us. We sweat. Our makeup melts. Don't even get me started on the hair. And I shudder to think of the actual amount of time I spend slathering myself in SPF.

The only thing keeping me from turning into an unbearable summer whiner is this handful of fun, new products. From a skin care serum that hides fine lines and minimizes shine to a cream that smoothes the surliest, humidity-frizzed hair, these seven July beauty buys make me happy about the fact that its summertime again. Truckloads of summer-related products roll into the office, but these are the very best of the bunch -- the ones we're playing rock-paper-scissors for to see who gets to take 'em home.
BY DAWN DAVIS | JUL 2, 2013 | SHARES
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