Farewell 2017!

It’s been quite a year on allure.com. We banned the term "anti-aging" from our vocabulary, and championed diversity in beauty. Our cover stars went topless, bared emotional scars, refused to wear makeup, and defied beauty standards.

We envied the hair transformations of a ton of celebrities, including Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Angelina Jolie. We reported when Rihanna disrupted the hell out of the beauty industry with the launch of her ultra-inclusive collection, Fenty Beauty, and when beauty legend Pat McGrath released her long-awaited collection.

We watched Dr. Pimple Popper extract the deepest blackhead we’d ever seen, and this Korean woman’s "glass skin" skin-care routine go viral.

We declared 283 beauty products Best of Beauty winners and 54 beauty products Readers' Choice winners, including fan favorites:
• a Lancôme mascara that gives you enough volume to make people think you’re wearing falsies;
• a Tangle Teezer brush that'll let you skip the blow-dry bar;
• a Kiehl's spot treatment that can destroy a pimple overnight;
• a Nars concealer that'll make you look rested for days;
• a Charlotte Tilbury nude lipstick that every celebrity is obsessed with;
• a Covergirl concealer that gets rid of undereye bags;
• and a Babybliss blow dryer that dries hair in half the time.

Meanwhile, every social media platform you can think of was littered with trending beauty products. There were the $5 Essence mascara and the $6 Colourpop concealer that outdid more expensive options. There was the creepy Hanacure face mask that makes you look MUCH older without a filter. There were products that sold out, like the Farsali essence, Benefit cheek palette, Coloured Raine eyeshadow palette, Biossance eye gel, and First Aid Beauty moisturizer; and others that had huge waiting lists, like The Ordinary Colours foundation.