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10 New Beauty Products to Scoop Up at the Drugstore This January

Next time you're buying toilet paper, toss some of these awesome new drugstore beauty buys in your basket, too
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Lip Balm or Toy? You Decide
This little blue Stitch (Lip Smacker Tsum Tsum Stitch Blueberry Wave, $5.99) has been sitting on my desk for the last month. Whenever I'm stressed, I pick him up, and he makes me smile. And whenever my lips feel dry, I apply the balm located in his tummy, which tastes like blueberry cereal and childhood. I'm not sure what a Tsum Tsum is, but apparently this lip balm will give you cred with the grade-school set.

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Toothpaste of the Future
I'm marginally obsessive about my teeth. I floss. I use a Sonicare. I even enjoy going to the dentist. So it's probably not surprising that I'm excited (like post-it-on-every-social-media-platform-level excited) about this new toothpaste. (Stay with me! You will be, too.) Plaque HD Toothpaste, $20, doesn't just clean and whiten your teeth. It contains a special plant extract that turns the plaque on your teeth and in your mouth a bright blue-green color. After you brush, you spit out the excess toothpaste and smile at yourself in the mirror. Every spot you missed is illuminated -- it's magic. You brush those spots and -- tada! -- you're done, and you know you've thoroughly cleaned every crevice. If you're an obsessive compulsive brusher like me, this will be your favorite new addition to your teeth cleaning routine.

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Hairspray for Hairspray Haters
I have a love-hate relationship with hairspray. I appreciate a bit of hold, but I can't stand a heavy, sticky formula, and I cringe at the thought of an alcohol-packed spray drying out my already dry hair. (Aerosols have to have alcohol to propel the spray. And don't even get me started on non-aerosol formulas, which inevitably leave me with patches of crunchy hair.)

Pantene Pro-V Air Spray Alcohol Free Hairspray, $6.99, is the first alcohol-free aerosol spray. The scientists at Pantene figured out a way to make the spray work with only water, which sounds like it would wet your hair, but it doesn't. Instead, you get a superlight mist of hairspray with just the right amount of hold and a really pretty smell (goodbye hold-your-breath alcohol stench).

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Lipstick Natural Enough to Eat
The average woman eats 100 pounds of lipstick every year. Actually, I made up that number, but it's true that we ingest a lot of what we put on our lips. With that in mind, I find myself reaching for my Burt's Bees Lipstick, $8.99, which is made with delicious-sounding ingredients like raspberry seed oil and moringa oil. There are 14 look-good-on-everyone shades, and the formula is incredibly moisturizing with plenty of pigment. I'm also a sucker for the recyclable honeycomb packaging, which weighs less than a penny (again, an exaggeration, but you get the point) -- seriously lightening the load of my makeup bag.

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Cure for the Common Cold
Last month, I had a cold for the first time in years. I'm not sure how I avoided the sniffles for so long, but I sure was happy I did -- and I sure was miserable when they finally infected me. After wallowing (and popping DayQuil) for a few days, I remembered I had a bottle of Oilogic Stuffy Nose & Cough Essential Oil Roll-On, $9.99, which just launched at Target. It's a blend of natural essential oils -- like eucalyptus, wintergreen and ginger -- that helps clear sinuses and soothe a cough. I started rolling it on my pulse points and breathing in deeply, and within a few minutes I stopped feeling sorry for myself. It even cleared the fog out of my brain, restoring my focus.

January is a big month for new beauty products -- and that's especially true at your local drugstore. After the stocking stuffers move over to the clearance aisle, the beauty section is restocked with a bevy of new beauty buys.

From the cutest lip balm you've ever seen to a fascinating new innovation in at-home hair color, these new beauty products are anything but basic. And at drugstore prices, you can afford to buy them all.
BY DAWN DAVIS | JAN 1, 2016 | SHARES
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