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Your Under-40 Festival Beauty Survival Kit From Ulta Beauty
Everything you need for your festival kit from Ulta Beauty under $40.
If you’ve got a festival on your calendar this summer, then you’ve likely already dropped a small fortune on your wristband, travel, sleeping arrangements, and outfits. Luckily, your beauty look doesn’t have to be the thing that pushes your budget past its breaking point. Ulta Beauty has everything you need for glossy lips, glistening lids, and protected skin — for way less than what you’d spend on anything at the merch tent.
To help put together an ultracool yet affordable beauty kit, we tapped content creator Kim Ramcharitar, who treats music festivals as a place where her alter ego gets to shine. “The clean girl aesthetic goes out the window and I go for more full-coverage makeup and get more experimental with my eye makeup,” she says. “I love a good colorful graphic liner with some shimmer on the lid or inner corner.”
For Ramcharitar, looking “confident and cute” is always the goal. “I want to be able to trust that the products I’m using will last all day and night and not weigh me down or make me look crazy by the time I get home.” Below, she shares her under-$40 must-haves from Ulta Beauty.
“This shimmery gloss is the perfect finishing touch to any festival look,” says Ramcharitar. Wear it on its own for a sheer sparkle moment, or layer it over your favorite bold lip liner or lipstick to dial things up. Unlike other glitter glosses, this one is non-gritty and non-tacky, so you don’t have to worry about sticky strands every time the wind blows.
“Festivals can feel like a workout and Liquid I.V. is the perfect drink to replenish your body’s energy and hydration,” Ramcharitar says. With a science-backed ratio of electrolytes and essential B vitamins, it helps your body hydrate more efficiently than water alone — extra important when you’ve been sweating under the sun all day. Sure, it’s not a beauty product, per se, but hydration impacts everything from skin texture to how your makeup wears, so pour it in your bottle and sip often.
Your festival fragrance should be both a crowd-pleaser and a little off-center (in the best way). With bright mandarin and crisp apple blossom up top, and a warm, sultry base of skin musk and vanilla, Detour strikes that balance perfectly. “It’s an unexpected fragrance that draws people in... you’ll be getting compliments all day long,” says Ramcharitar.
If there’s such a thing as a nice bathroom at a festival, we’ve never seen it, which is why this pocket-sized sanitizer mist is critical. Beloved by influencers and editors alike, it blew up during the pandemic (for obvious reasons) but didn’t fade out like most functional products do. Chalk it up to the formula — aloe vera and radish root ferment filtrate help keep hands soft and hydrated, never dry or sticky — plus the unexpectedly great scent and modern packaging.
We love a product with range. Use this shimmer-packed formula to create sharp graphic lines, tap it into the inner corner of eyes for a subtle highlight, layer it over black eyeliner for extra depth and dimension, or blend it out as eyeshadow. No matter how you wear it, “it adds the perfect pop of color and shine,” says Ramcharitar.
Derms love to say that the best sunscreen is whichever one you’ll actually reapply, and this ultra-fine face mist with a weightless, makeup-friendly finish and the dreamiest tropical scent makes it all too easy. Ramcharitar’s a fan because “there’s zero white cast, so it works for all skin tones, and it gives the skin a very subtle glow — it’s stunning.”
