2026 Readers' Choice Awards Box

If there were report cards for lip products, YSL Beauty’s Loveshine Lip Oil Stick in Wet Guava would be bringing home straight As. Peachy-pink color, mirror shine, and an oil-infused formula make it equal parts makeup and lip care. 

With 10% alpha hydroxy acids (AHA), skin-smoothing exfoliants (glycolic and lactic), pumice beads, and a sweet strawberry scent, this scrub leaves rough, bumpy skin feeling softer and smoother. We love it because it makes even a quick shower feel like an everything-shower indulgence.

Packed with soothing colloidal oatmeal and barrier-supporting ceramides, this moisturizer brings dry, stressed-out skin back to itshappy place. The result is intense hydration, delivered with a surprisingly soft, luxurious-feeling touch.

Missed a color appointment? Color Wow’s Root Cover Up doesn’t judge. This no-mess mineral powder instantly covers grays, fills sparse spots, and blends seamlessly thanks to reflective pigments that create a natural, multi-dimensional finish.

A longtime beauty favorite, Philosophy’s Purity Made Simple feels right at home in this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards box. This silky, one-step cleanser melts away makeup, sunscreen, dirt, and daily buildup while leaving skin feeling clean, soft, and never stripped.

Honest Beauty’s Extreme Length Mascara + Lash Primer proves clean beauty can still bring the drama. This double-ended duo lifts, lengthens, and defines lashes to gravity-defying heights, with zero clumps or flakes—and no parabens in sight.

In Brazil, being “cheirosa” means smelling delicious from sunrise to sundown, and this perfume mist wears the title well. With notes of pistachio, salted caramel, and vanilla, it’s warm, sunny, and the kind of scent that helps you live up to its name.

Seeing Essie’s Ballet Slippers back in the Readers’ Choice Awards feels less like a surprise and more like tradition. Soft, sheer, and endlessly flattering, this iconic pale pink is the manicure equivalent of a little black dress: timeless, effortless, and always right.

When hair starts feeling dry, dull, or a little harder to manage, this conditioner knows exactly what to do. A nourishing, shea moisture-rich formula detangles, softens, and boosts shine, meaning fewer snags, snaps, and tugs. Even better, it’s lightweight enough to use every day.

You know those lip products that you always keep around? Burt’s Bees’ Tinted Lip Balm is that product. The Readers’ Choice Awards collection includes Daisy, a sheer berry tint made with shea butter for up to eight hours of moisture and that your-lips-but-better finish.

There’s something about cocoa butter that just makes skin care feel a little more indulgent. Vaseline’s Healing Jelly takes that familiar moisture-locking formula and gives it a softer, glowier twist, leaving dry skin comforted, nourished, and anything but dull.

Coconut, vanilla, and a lather so good it almost feels unfair. Thoughtfully formulated with clean ingredients, Native’s Coconut & Vanilla Body Wash brings soft skin and all-day freshness with the kind of scent that makes your bath or shower feel a little more like paradise.