5 Beauty Finds I’m Shopping During the Nordstrom Fall Savings Event
The Nordstrom Fall Savings Event is officially here, which means I have a perfectly reasonable excuse to refresh my beauty routine. I went through the sale and narrowed it down to five beauty finds actually worth adding to your cart.
I love a sale. I love Nordstrom. I especially love a Nordstrom sale where I can convince myself that buying five new beauty products is actually a financially responsible decision.
Girl math, but make it beauty.
And apparently, I am entering my fall self-care era because this list has everything: better hair, glowy skin, fancy body wash, and makeup that promises to blur the evidence of whatever happened the night before.
Basically, we are fixing everything from the neck up and smelling expensive while we do it.
The Nordstrom Fall Savings Event runs through September 23, so if you have beauty products you’ve been waiting to try, now is the time to take another look at your cart.
What I’m Shopping During the Nordstrom Fall Savings Event
1. Living Proof Perfect hair Day™ Sheer Clean Dry Shampoo
Let’s begin with something extremely practical because I am nothing if not practical when there is a sale involved.
DRY SHAMPOO
More specifically, the Living Proof Perfect hair Day Sheer Clean Dry Shampoo.
I am always looking for ways to extend a blowout because washing, drying, and styling my hair every single day is not on my fall agenda. I have places to go. I have outfits to plan. I have iced coffee to drink. I cannot spend my entire life washing my hair.
What caught my attention about this Living Proof version is that it isn’t supposed to just dump a bunch of powder onto your roots and hope for the best. It uses a micellar-powered cleansing system designed to break down and absorb oil while leaving hair feeling clean and weightless.
And most importantly: the finish is sheer and invisible. Because there is nothing quite like using dry shampoo and realizing halfway through dinner that the back of your head looks like you lost a fight with a bag of flour.
This one is also designed to keep your hair feeling soft and moving naturally instead of getting that stiff, gritty feeling some dry shampoos can leave behind.
For me, this is the kind of product that earns its place in the bathroom because I would actually use it constantly. Fresh blowout on Monday, still trying to make it happen on Wednesday? Living Proof, you’re up.
2. Natura Bissé Diamond Cocoon Sheer Cream
Now we move from practical to a little ridiculous.
MY FAVORITE CATEGORY
The Natura Bissé Diamond Cocoon Sheer Cream is absolutely the luxury pick on this list, which is exactly why a savings event is when I start looking at products like this. If I am going to contemplate expensive face cream, I would prefer to contemplate it while it is part of a sale.
This isn’t just a traditional moisturizer.
The Diamond Cocoon Sheer Cream is a color-enhancing moisturizer designed to hydrate while giving your skin a subtle touch of color. The formula is meant to help skin look more luminous and even-toned, while blurring the appearance of imperfections.
Translation: I would like my skin to look like I slept nine hours, drank three liters of water, and have absolutely no stress in my life.
None of those things need to actually happen. I just want my face to suggest that they did.
The cream can also be worn underneath foundation, which is probably how I would use it. I love anything that makes the skin look good before makeup even starts.
Especially as we head into fall and my skin begins its annual tradition of asking me why I live somewhere with wind.
This is definitely the splurge of the five, but it also feels like exactly the kind of product you look for during an event like this. If you’ve already had it sitting in your Nordstrom cart or have been curious about Natura Bissé, this is your reminder to revisit it.
3. Clarins Cryo-Flash Instant Lift Effect & Glow Boosting Face Mask
This one had me at “10 minutes.”
I am obsessed with the idea of an elaborate skincare routine. In reality, if you tell me something needs to stay on my face for 45 minutes while I sit completely still, there is a very good chance I am not doing it.
Ten minutes? I can commit to ten minutes.
The Clarins Cryo-Flash Instant Lift Effect & Glow Boosting Face Mask is an icy-cold gel-cream mask designed to give skin an immediate lifted look while boosting radiance and minimizing the appearance of pores.
Yes, please.
This is exactly the type of product I want in my bathroom before an event, dinner, shoot or any situation where I need my face to pull itself together faster than the rest of my life.
APPLY wait ten minutes RINSE
We love an efficient queen.
The cooling aspect also sounds especially good after a long day or before getting ready for an event. Clarins uses ingredients including evening primrose extract, quinoa extract and horse chestnut escin in the formula, which is designed to target the appearance of lines while boosting hydration and radiance.
But let’s be clear about why I’m here.
I want the GLOW!
I want the pores to look like they have left the building.
I want to look in the mirror afterward and think, “Oh! There she is.”
This also comes in different sizes, so you don’t necessarily have to immediately commit to the full-size version if you want to test it first.
Consider this my pre-event emergency contact.
4. GOOP Black Pepper + Ginger Grounding Body Wash
Can body wash be sexy?
I vote yes.
The GOOP Black Pepper + Ginger Grounding Body Wash is probably the product on this list that feels the most like fall to me.
The scent combines black pepper, ginger, cedarwood and patchouli, which sounds like exactly what I want my bathroom to smell like when the weather finally starts cooling down.
Warm. Spicy. Expensive.
Like a very chic hotel where someone else is paying the bill.
The formula uses plant-based surfactants to cleanse and also contains aloe and green tea extract to help leave skin feeling soft instead of stripped.
I am very into turning completely normal parts of my day into unnecessarily luxurious experiences. Showering is happening regardless, so why shouldn’t the body wash make me feel like I’m staying at a $1,200-a-night wellness resort?
Exactly.
There are some beauty purchases that require a tutorial, three brushes and a degree in cosmetic chemistry. This is not one of them.
Get in the shower.
Use fancy body wash.
Smell amazing.
Carry on with your day.
This is also one of those little luxuries that would make a great gift, although I fully support buying it for yourself and telling everyone else to get their own.
5. Kosas Cloud Set Translucent Loose Setting + Blurring Powder
Finally, we need makeup.
And if you tell me something is going to blur my skin, you have my attention.
The Kosas Cloud Set Translucent Loose Setting + Blurring Powder is a talc-free setting powder designed to blur, brighten and control shine while still looking lightweight on the skin.
This is important because I want my makeup set.
I do not want my face to look “set.”
There is a difference.
I have zero interest in putting on makeup only to finish everything with enough powder to make myself look like an 18th-century aristocrat.
The Kosas formula is designed to give an airbrushed finish without looking cakey or overly powdery. It also contains bamboo stem extract to help reduce excess oil.
Another major selling point for me: it is designed without flashback.
If you take photos regularly, you know exactly why that matters.
There are few things more humbling than thinking your makeup looks incredible and then opening a flash photo where your under-eye area has apparently been replaced by two white triangles.
Absolutely not.
The Cloud Set Loose Powder comes in multiple translucent shades, so you can find the version that works best for your skin tone. You can use it lightly with a powder brush to set everything or use a puff if you want to bake specific areas.
This is probably the easiest product on this list to work into an existing makeup routine because setting powder is one of those products I reach for constantly.
And if it can blur things while it’s there?
Welcome to the family.
Shop My Nordstrom Fall Savings Event Beauty Picks
There you have it: five beauty products currently on my radar during the Nordstrom Fall Savings Event.
We have hair. We have skincare. We have makeup. We have a body wash that is going to make an ordinary Tuesday shower feel significantly more important than it actually is.
Balance.
If you’ve had any of these products sitting in your cart, now is a good time to check them out. The Nordstrom Fall Savings Event ends September 23, so don’t wait until September 24 and text me asking where the sale went.
I warned you.
You can shop all five products above, plus the rest of my Fall Savings Event picks, through my Nordstrom Storefront.
And as always, I only want you buying things you actually want and will actually use. A sale is great. A sale on something that ends up living untouched underneath your bathroom sink for two years is considerably less exciting.
Shop smart. Buy the fancy face cream if you want the fancy face cream.
Make your shower smell expensive.
Fall is coming. We deserve nice things.
If you’ve been following my latest beauty finds, you already know I’m always looking for products that make getting ready easier.
