2017 Readers' Choice Awards: Nominate Your Favorites Now!
It’s that time of the year again! It’s time to nominate your favorite products and brands from 2016 as well as your all-time favorite formulas. We have tried to make it easier for readers as well as on our end when it comes to compiling nominees. You can start typing your favorite brand or product, and it will suggest what you’re looking for using our product database, but as always, you can write-in your favorites as well. All of the nominations will be compiled and the top 10-15 (depending on how many ties there are) will make the voting ballot. You do not have to nominate for every category; fill in as many categories as you wish to participate in.
- Nominations: December 20th, 2016 through January 3rd, 2017 10AM PST.
- Voting: January 6th, 2017 through January 12th, 2017 10AM PST.
- Results: January 17th, 2017
Nominations are now closed.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Yes! I love this!
2016 has been a fabulous year for makeup!!
I had an opinion for everything but loose shadows! Whew! I’m super excited to see the winners this year. It’s been a crazy year for beauty.
Me, too, Kat! I don’t use them because I’ve got a super crazy kitty who will jump and pounce unexpectedly and knock stuff flying. He has *begun* to calm down a little bit now that he is almost 12 y.o.!
Haha! I have 3 cats Nancy, I have to lock them out of my room when it’s makeup time! Otherwise they’d knock all my stuff everywhere too. (Btw OCC loose colour concentrates are amazing and have sifters on them as well!)
Thanks for letting me know about the ones by OCC having a sifter, Bonnie! As for locking them out, Scunci will put his paw under the door and will shake it til it opens or I get so aggravated that I give up and let him in. I love him dearly, but he is a character! And very big, too, at around 25 lbs. ( I think he might have lost a little weight, but that may just be wishful thinking on my part).
I look forward to seeing the winners every year. I can hardly wait, LOL.
Gah! I’ve bought more makeup this year than possibly my entire life put together … but for the life of me I can’t seem to come up with anything when sort of put ‘on the spot’ I guess I’ll just wait for the nominations and results in a state of heightened anticipation 😀
OMG same here!!! I had to back to my sephora purchases list (and that’s only showing me the most recent from like this week. THAT’s how much I bought this year!!).
I can’t wait for the nominations!!!!
Out of curiosity, what do we do if there’s a product not listed?
Like, for liquid eyeliner, I’d love to nominate the Clinique Pretty Easy Liquid Eyeliner, but it isn’t available as an option.
Hi Ashlee,
We accept write-ins – I believe it says so right in the post as well as in the instructions 🙂
“You can start typing your favorite brand or product, and it will suggest what you’re looking for using our product database, but as always, you can write-in your favorites as well. ”
And then in the instructions for the categories: “If you don’t see your favorite auto-suggested, just write it in, and we’ll manually include it in the nominations!”
I can’t believe I had to type in clio eyeliner. It’s a korean brand but its the best I’ve found out there and doesn’t budge!
What do you mean by “Niche”. Can you revise that one.
Hi Anna,
We can’t change a category in the middle of nominations (would be unfair), and we have had this category awhile 🙂 I’m happy to clarify, though! Niche brands tend to be smaller, often specialized brands (say a brand like Bite Beauty, which is only available through one retailer, has primarily made lip products or a more “indie” brand like Fyrinnae), and are often more independent (e.g. not part of a larger conglomerate but not always). The goal of the category is to acknowledge smaller, up-and-coming, and independent brands.
Hope that helps!
I had to do a write in for Elizabeth Mott’s Thank Me Later Eyeshadow Primer. It’s completely cruelty free and such an awesome product. I can’t wait to see the winners!
Happy New Year 2017!
Mine way goofed. The site skipped to clarification for two entries, long before I was done. After you clarified, you had to click submit, and, whoops, you’re done. Suppose it doesn’t really matter. I can still think about it.
I wish to had asked for the most disappointing brand of 2016. I would have answered “Too Faced”.
No kidding, they really phoned it in this year.
100% you are so right. That totally could be an awesome category. 2016 was an epic fail across the board for Too Faced! I won’t even buy anything from them at this point.
‘Can’t wait to see the winners! Happy early 2017, everyone. <3
My favorite lip products this year were Maybelline’s Lip Studio Color Blur Pencils and Maybelline’s Color Jolt Intense Lip Paints, but neither of those product lines are listed on this site. Maybelline really changed things up this year when it comes to their lip products. People stop me all the time to ask what I’m wearing and are ~shocked~ when I tell them that it’s a cheap, drugstore Maybelline product. Sorry, not sorry! Their lip game was strong this year.
Honestly Maybelline has been staying strong lately.. I have been using their Primer/Loose Powder stuff since I saw it in stores and I’ve had people be like “Oh that’s just cheap” Ummm sorry my 12 dollar powder isn’t on par with your laura mercier, which made my brushes smell like vomit. It does what I need it to do, and I really like its performance – and smell. These are also people who have never seen my archive of makeup so cheap is just a dumb thing to say.
You might want to add the Physcian’s Formula Butter Bronzer to your list. 🙂 I have a feeling a lot of us will be putting that.
Yes!! I wanted to write that as well, but I didn’t bc it wasn’t an option! I should’ve penciled it in. I chose an old the Balm favorite instead, but honestly I’ve used the PF way more!
I always love seeing how many of my choices make the list. I think it would be fun to include some “worst product” categories because that kind of honest feedback can be very useful. Thanks for all your hard work!
I think overall Tarte and Anastasia BH killed it this year. Colourpop is going strong too.
It has been a good year!
? YAY!!! Finished with 2% battery to spare! lol I was sweatin it lol
I’ve been waiting for the results of these eagerly but can’t seem to find them 🙁