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MOVE OVER, KYLIE

Bretman Rock is a familiar name to makeup artists around the globe, but few knew the man behind the glamour lashes and contoured blush. Now the 19-year-old Native Pacific Islander from Hawaii and his nearly 20 million social media followers are changing the cosmetics game.

This year, the mogul made “30 Under magazine’s “30 Most Influential Teens.” Rock (born Bretman Sacayanan) recently debuted a tropical-themed highlighter palette, Babe in Paradise, with a signature palm tree-shaped brush as a collaboration with Morphe cosmetics ().

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