Image via Aveeno

I know so many women (myself included, at one time in my life), that see a trip to a beach destination as not only an opportunity to relax, go swimming, spend some time on the beach playing with family and friends, and all that other good stuff, but also as some kind of vanity project--as in, okay, here's my chance to get a summer tan in one go!

Not so fast, missy.

Image via Laura Mercier

Thank christ the weather is getting warmer, and I don't know about you, but my pasty ass has definitely been spending a little more time outside lately. This brings us to a particularly Product Fiend-esque dilemma: How much sunscreen is enough?

Introducing Beauty Ambush, where hostess Saryn Chorney and aesthetician Nathalie DiNoia prowl the streets for unsuspecting victims. This week: curbside SPF/bronzer application for sunny spring days.

Image via Cosmedicine

In an ideal beauty world, every moisturizer should boast all the benefits that this newish Cosmedicine goody-two-shoes does. Sure, it contains the broad spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreens we should all be wearing everyday (rain or shine!), but it also contains anti-agers like vitamin C, wrinkle-filling sodium hyaluronate, and anti-inflammatory palmitoyl tetrapeptide. All this for under $50, plus it feels incredibly lightweight and doesn't smell like coconuts. Sold.

Image via Clarins

Trust me, I know how important it is to wear sunscreen everyday. But that all falls out the window when I visit a hot, humid climate, because I already have oily skin, so it tends to melt right off, and then I break out. Instead of being able to wear a product, I have to resort to an unsightly, large, floppy sunhat, the kind your mom wore in the '70s. Now, thanks to Clarins's brilliant new HydraQuench line, there's a solution for us oily, sensitive, acne-prone types.

Image via La Roche-Posay

People frequently ask me what beauty product I would take with me if I were stranded on a desert island. "Sun-In," I yawn. Okay, not really. If I were forced to trim the fat from my entire beauty closet, my Crème de la Mer would have to split and in its place would be my one, my only, sunscreen. You know the facts: Ninety percent of wrinkles are caused by the sun's UVA light. Sun damage is the number one cause of premature aging. Skin cancer. And don't even get me started on Brigitte Bardot, Donatella Versace and Bob Barker (put a fork in 'em, they're done!). I know, it's not fun news for you sun worshipers out there. But hello! We gotta get with the program here people! So what's the best one?