Having a back-from-the-beach glow on your face year-round can lift your mood when Old Man Winter is having his way with your rays of sunshine. That’s where having bronzing drops on hand can help keep you looking fresh-faced and illuminated regardless of how the season plays out where you live.
Bronzing drops are a handy additive that can enhance your skincare routine when mixed with serums, moisturizers and liquid foundations. And when I went searching for a cruelty-free brand that makes awesome bronzing drops, I had to look no further than Drunk Elephant.
The Drunk Elephant’s D-Bronzi Anti-Pollution Sunshine Drops come in a 1-ounce bottle for $36, and while that might seem small, its concentrated blend only requires the use of one single drop. But the D-Bronzi secret is out, and thanks in part to TikTok, it has also gone viral. And once something goes viral, it usually becomes a rarity to find in stock at your favorite beauty store — and such is the case with Drunk Elephant.
If you’re as impatient as I am with waiting for these drops to come back in stock at Ulta, Sephora, Amazon or the Drunk Elephant website, there are other alternatives that may not have the brand’s cutie-pie elephant logo, but do offer similar glowing effects for your face.
What Are Drunk Elephant Bronzing Drops and How Do You Use Them?
Drunk Elephant’s D-Bronzi Drops offer a sunshiny glow to your face — sans the damaging effects of the sun. It contains ingredients to “replenish the delicate balance that supports a healthy barrier function,” according to Drunk Elephant. Plus, it contains a mix of protective antioxidants to boost your skin’s defenses against pollution and environmental stressors that result in a bronzy sheen.
For a gorgeously instant glow, add a drop of D-Bronzi to your serum or moisturizer. The formula is a concentrated mix, so don’t add it directly to your skin. It’s important to mix it with another skincare or liquid makeup product.
The sunshine-in-a-bottle bronzing drops are $36, but I’ve noticed an eBay seller actually charging a whopping $199 for the 1-ounce bottle.
So, instead of spending the equivalent of almost six Drunk Elephant D-Bronzi bottles for just one product, check out these dupes until the beloved original is back in stock:
1. Versed Mood Lighting Luminizing Glow Drops
Versed Mood Lighting Drops give you a no-makeup glow and tons of skin benefits.
The vegan, cruelty-free formula has superfine, light-reflecting pigments that make your skin look and feel radiant and enhance your skin’s natural glow while evening out the appearance of an uneven tone.
2. Perricone MD No Makeup Bronzer
This weightless liquid bronzer creates a subtle, sun-kissed glow, visibly evens and brightens your skin tone, plus improves the appearance of dullness and discoloration over time.
The formula protects your skin with mineral-based Broad Spectrum SPF 15. Add droplets to your moisturizer or apply it directly to your face.
3. Coco & Eve Bronzing Face Drops
Coco & Eve’s Bronzing Face Drops will give you a gradual, natural glow.
Its formula mixes Bali Botanicals and Hyaluronic Acids to up your skin’s elasticity and improves the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Just add a few drops to your moisturizer and wait for your tropical glow to kick in.
4. L’Oreal Paris Sublime Bronze Self Tan Drops
Give your face a golden sun-kissed glow with the fragrance-free L’Oreal Paris Sublime Bronze Drops that are made specifically for your face and neck.
The clear, concentrated self-tanning serum is mixed with your moisturizer to customize the intensity of your streak-free glow.
5. Caliray Just Add Rays Glow Booster Drops
Part of the Clean + Planet Positive at Sephora collection, this bronzing oil gives your skin a visibly toned and satiny finish.
Its lightweight luminosity offers a nourishing glow for all skin tones and types. The plant-based formula can be drizzled directly onto your skin or mix it into a primer or moisturizer for extra magic on your face.
6. Fenty Eaze Drop’lit All-Over Glow Enhancer
This subtle glow enhancer by Fenty Beauty is filled with skin-loving ingredients, leaving you with an all over natural-looking illumination.
The coverage is light but the results are simply radiant. Bonus points for it being vegan and cruelty-free.
7. L’Oreal Lumi Glotion Natural Glow Enhancer
The Lumi Glotion Natural Glow Enhancer by L’Oreal will instantly hydrate your skin while adding luminicity for an all-over, natural sun-kissed glow.
Available in four pretty shades, it flatters all skin tones a barely-there shimmer and a lit-from-within summer-like glow. Plus, 94% of customer recommend it.
8. LIVE TINTED Hueglow
Wear the LIVE TINTED bronzing drops under, in or over your makeup for a glow passerby will be jealous of.
The vegan serum-meets-moisturizer gives you a subtle, but super impactful micro-shimmer finish to your face or body.
9. TEMPTU S/B Shimmer Airbrush Bronzer
Create a sculpted look and bronzed finish with Temptu’s long-lasting bronzer.
The buildable formula gives you an instantly warm sun-kissed glow, which can be layered into a deep tan.
It’s available in a smaller size, too, for trying it before purchasing more.
10. Pai Skincare The Impossible Glow Bronzing Drops
With multiple ways to build and layer, The Impossible Glow Bronzing Drops from Pai Skincare is a vegan formula for bringing a touch of sun safely to your face.
It contains hyaluronic acid and sea kelp for hydrating and vitamin C-rich lemon fruit water for boosting skin’s radiance.
11. Flower Beauty Heatwave Bronzing Essence
Get a sun-kissed radiance with just a few drops of Flower Beauty’s Heatwave bronzer drops in your foundation or moisturizer.
The vegan drops leave you with refreshing hydration that boosts your skin’s natural radiance without the effects of the sun. And the luminizing pigments offer a buildable glow that will illuminate your whole face.
12. Indeed Labs Nanobronze Bronzing Drops
The Conscious Beauty at Ulta bronzing drops will instantly bronze, blur and hydrate your skin with a tinted serum that combats dullness and gives you a quick bronzy glow.
Just add a drop or two of Nanobronze to your moisturizer or foundation for a healthy, radiant, sun-kissed glow that also wards off environmental stressors.
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