From Shake Shack to Krispy Kreme, Beyoncé to Mariah Carey and Mad Men to Big Little Lies, the US of A has given us plenty of delights. However, while we’ve maintained the upper hand in some stakes (we are the nation that produced David Attenborough, thank you very much) America has exclusively had some of the buzziest beauty brands – until now.

Forget French pharmacies, it’s the brands on sale in American drugstores and malls that have been squarely in our crosshairs of late. Glossier finally came to our shores last year (if you’ve yet to try its bestselling Boy Brow or Haloscope highlighter, rectify that ASAP), and brought thousands of visitors to its London pop-up.

In fact, Stylist’s beauty director Anita Bhagwandas has been known to stockpile so much Milk Makeup on trips to New York that she always leaves a chunk of space in her washbag for it. “There’s just nothing like it over here,” she mournfully explains.

Anita might have to wait a little longer for Milk Makeup, but there’s a bevy of other big names finally coming to the UK this year. Here’s what you need to know…

The cult US brands hitting the UK in 2018