Best Foundation
Editors' Pick Winner: VDL Perfecting Last Foundation SPF 30 PA++
Why: This hardworking foundation is basically perfect skin in a bottle: The coverage evens out your complexion and the finish looks oh-so natural. Bonus: It's SPF 30!
Buy nowReaders' Choice Winner: Laura Mercier Flawless Lumiere Foundation Radiance Perfecting
Why: Light as air with a gorgeous, skin-like finish, you'll find yourself falling hard and fast for this winning foundation.
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Editors' Pick Winner: Flesh Touch Flesh Highlighting Balm
Why: This balmy highlighter has a creamy texture that imparts just the right amount of pearly shine. Just swipe it on and blend it out and you'll look as dewy as can be.
Buy nowReaders' Choice Winner: Wet n Wild MegaGlo Loose Highlighting Powder
Why: Does it get any better than this? This highlighting powder has the finest, pearly shimmer to it, and can either be worn lightly for a natural glow, or built up to a megawatt shine.
Buy nowBest Lip Balm
Editors' Pick Winner: Weleda Skin Food Lip Butter
Why: Weleda's Skin Food has long been a cult favorite and its new lip balm is destined for similar greatness. It's got that same gorgeous fragrance you know and love and it uses natural ingredients to leave your lips comfy and kissably soft.
Buy nowReaders' Choice Winner: Milk Makeup Kush Lip Balm
Why: In 2019, all things CBD and CBD-adjacent (like this balm) trended big time. We love this balm for its ultra-hydrating, non-sticky formula and its fancy magnetic tube.
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Editors' Pick Winner: Pat McGrath Labs Lust: Gloss
Why: You'll be hard-pressed not to fall in love — or lust, rather — with this gorgeous gloss. It's perfection; non-sticky, ultra-shiny perfection. (And it's totally worth every penny).
Buy nowReaders' Choice Winner: Marc Jacobs Beauty Enamored Hydrating Lip Gloss Stick
Why: It might look like a standard gloss, but it's actually a stick! This handy lippie combines the ease of a lip balm with the mega-shine of a lip gloss and we're definitely not complaining.
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Editors' Pick Winner: Cle de Peau Beaute Refined Lip Luminizer
Why: With major shine and pigment and just about the comfiest formula imaginable, this lipstick is a holy grail, full stop.
Buy nowReaders' Choice Winner: Dior Rouge Dior Ultra Rouge
Why: No one does lipsticks quite like Dior and this new formula's no exception: It imparts lips with a gorgeous kiss of color that's as long-lasting as it is comfortable.
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