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Calling all mascaras, eye creams, acne treatments, and more!
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Best of Beauty Awards 2023: Breakthroughs

Meet the year's biggest beauty innovations.
BREAKTHROUGHS

This R+Co Dry Shampoo Is the Most Unique Formula I've Ever Tried

Goodbye white, powdery patches.
LASTS FOR DAYS

Maybelline New York's SuperStay Vinyl Ink Is Everything a Lip Product Should Be

Maybelline New York was just awarded a Best of Beauty Breakthrough Award for its innovative formula. Here, we explain why. 
It's all a blur

My Skin Looked Filtered After Using Danessa Myricks's Blurring Balm

Would the Best of Beauty Award winner be able to blur my blemishes and pores?
THE A LIST

Growing Ingredients in a Lab Could Lead to Better, Safer Beauty Products

Genetic modification could lead to improved sunscreen, deodorant, shampoo, and so much more.
Best of Beauty 2021

A Peek Inside Allure's Best of Beauty 

Come along as we walk down memory lane.
BEST OF BEAUTY

The Winners of Allure's 2020 Best of Beauty Awards

The full list of every hair, makeup, and skin-care product our editors couldn't get enough of.

ManiMe's Stick-On Manicure Designs Gave Me Salon-Level Nail Game

An accessible alternative to an appointment, all in the comfort of your own home.
Best of Beauty 2021

The Most Innovative Beauty Products of 2021

We questioned. We tried. We tried again. And we were completely blown away.
BEST OF BEAUTY 2020

I Finally Found a Lip Tint That Won't Budge Under My Face Mask

Wonderskin's Wonderblading formula lets me wear color on my lips without worrying it'll smear under my mask.
BEST OF BEAUTY 2020

T3's Lucea ID Hair Straightener Is Changing The Way I Style My Hair Forever

The high-tech flatiron customizes the heat setting according to my hair type.
A GUIDING HAND

Makeup Artist Terri Bryant Is Using Her Parkinson's Diagnosis to Reinvent Makeup

Here's everything you need to know about her new brand for people with shaky hands. 
Drumroll Please

These Are the Winners of Our Allure Readers' Choice Awards for 2017

All the biggest breakthroughs and most beloved beauty products, as voted on by our readers.

2015 Best of Beauty Breakthrough Product Winners

Check out the new inventions in beauty: a cellulite treatment that works, a dry shampoo that cleans hair, the best self-tanner, and more.

2012 Readers' Choice Breakthroughs

What's a 13-letter word for innovations? Breakthroughs. Our readers voted for the year's top innovations, and the winners make looking good as easy as the Monday crossword.

2016 Readers' Choice Breakthroughs

We asked our readers to pick the best beauty innovations of the year, and boy, did you guys deliver for us!

It's On: 5 Weeks, 25,000 Free Beauty Products

Starting September 28, 25,000 products from P&G Beauty are up for grabs! Get the full lineup here, then visit allure.com/bestofbeauty every Monday at noon ET to enter for your chance to win.