Get Your Skin Festival-Ready With These Pre-Game Essentials From Ulta Beauty

Before you hit the desert in your best boho ‘fit, there’s one necessary pit stop: Ulta Beauty. Because while music festivals may look carefree and effortless, anyone who's been knows they take serious prep — especially when it comes to your skin. From planning travel to finding a crash pad, there’s a lot to coordinate, but don’t let 72 hours of sun, dust, and dry air sabotage your glow.

Consistent hydration and sun protection are the name of the game when it comes to festival planning. Flaky skin and dry patches thrive in the dry desert air, and the scalding temperatures mixed with airborne dust exacerbate the process of dehydration. Add on being in the sun for hours, and you've got the perfect recipe for a dry, damaged skin disaster.

No need to panic, though. While the risk of dry skin sounds scary, it shouldn't be a deterrent to see your favorite artist live. You just have to go in with a game plan, and Ulta Beauty basically wrote the playbook on hydrated skin. From easy-use SPFs to luxurious body butters, add these skin essentials to cart right now to get ahead on your festival prep.

The best way to prep your skin for a weekend of outdoor concerts? A moisture-packed face mask, of course. This brightening collagen mask changes color when it's ready to be removed, so it's pretty much foolproof. Plop it on for three to four hours while you finish any last-minute packing, and take it off to reveal visibly brighter, glass-like skin that is primed and prepped for whatever your festival weekend might bring.

Long desert weekends call for long-lasting moisturizers. This hydrating gel cream penetrates the skin's surface for 100 hours and delivers noticeable hydration in just three seconds. Fast-acting and long-lasting? That's a desert-ready duo you just can't beat. The lightweight moisturizer also contains hyaluronic acid, the ultimate antidote for dry skin. In addition to its major moisture technology, it also makes the perfect base layer for your festival glam.

This restorative body butter can bring even the driest of skin back to life thanks to its stellar lineup of ultra-moisturizing ingredients, including mango seed butter, coconut oil, and hyaluronic acid. In addition to deep-penetrating moisture, these creams come in an array of Kopari's signature scents, so you can look like a snack and smell like one, too.

They say the eyes are the window to the soul, but we’d argue the under eye area tells us even more. At least as far as our hydration is concerned. This triple-action eye cream doesn't just brighten your under eye area; it also depuffs and tightens the skin around the eye for a subtly refreshed look. The hydrating, lightweight formula is packed with brightening ingredients, including diglucosyl gallic acid, a Korean herbal eye complex, and caffeine. Yup, that's right, caffeine isn't just for your festival energy drinks; it's also great for brightening your under-eye area. Dab a bit of this on before applying your concealer for the supple under eyes of your dream.

The sun is nothing to play with in general, but the desert sun is especially harsh. This light sunscreen face mist offers SPF 50, providing a high level of sun protection that blocks both harmful UVA and UVB rays while remaining gentle enough for daily use on your face. The mist also gives the skin a light satin finish, which pairs well with makeup. Plus, its spritz nozzle makes it easy to apply as you run out of your tent to catch your first show of the day.