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Best Powder
Why: This pore-blurring, skin-perfecting finishing powder sets makeup without looking cakey, controls shiny skin and doesn't settle into fine lines.
Honorable Mention: Paul & Joe Beauté Pressed Face Powder
Readers' Choice Winner: Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder
Why: I've been using this product for a year and I can no longer imagine doing my makeup without it. It is light, invisible, yet somehow smoothes skin texture and disguises flaws. Lasts all day.
Honorable Mention: Physicians Formula Mineral Wear Talc-Free Mineral Loose Powder
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Best Primer
Why: It was love at first sight with this primer, which makes skin look impossibly radiant with illuminating, color-correcting particles (and probably witchcraft). The gel formula provides a satiny base for applying makeup, and contains absorbent powders that keep skin shine-free and luminous throughout the day.
Honorable Mention: Dermalogica Hydrablur Primer
Readers' Choice Winner: Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer
Why: This formula goes on smoothly and feels like silk on the skin. My foundation goes on smoothly after using this. It makes my skin look flawless.
Honorable Mention: Benefit The Porefessional Face Primer
Look out ladies, the best makeup of the year is here -- so start making room on your vanity. After testing hundreds -- yes, literally hundreds -- of makeup products, we compiled a list of all the latest and greatest beauty products out there. Since we're beauty over-achievers, we didn't stop there. We turned to our readers to tell us their ride or die makeup products, so we could provide you with the best of the best shopping lists for the next time you make a Sephora run. Ready to see the all-star products? Read on to see all the makeup winners from our 2016 TotalBeauty awards.
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