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8 Beauty Trends to Get on Board With, Stat

The best beauty trends from our sixth annual TotalBeauty.com Awards

by Dawn Davis, Allie Flinn | COMMENT

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Make It Pop Kim Kardashian is undoubtedly patient zero for the contouring and highlighting trend, which -- whether you love or hate Kim -- isn't going anywhere (and we're okay with that). Editors' Pick winner Kevyn Aucoin's The Contour Book, $59, wowed us with its buildable contour color, shimmery highlighters, easy to follow instructions and -- as an added bonus -- brow colors to make sure your entire face is ultra defined. Marc Jacobs' #Instamarc Light Filtering Contour Powder, $49 was another submission that elicited oohs and aahs. The sleek packaging and blendable, buildable formula made even the contouring newbies among us look as skilled as Kim K.'s makeup artist.

More recently, strobing, a megawatt highlighting technique that uses intense shimmer to spotlight and define cheekbones, has come into vogue. You can achieve the effect with Editors' Pick honorable mention Rouge Bunny Rouge's Seas of Illumination Highlighting Liquid, $44, a glistening fluid formula that gives skin an oh-so-pretty glow. For a subtle take on the trend, we love Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush, $35, our winner in the blush category, which combines the brand's skin-perfecting finishing powders with flushed pigments for radiant, defined cheekbones.

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