On stage at Friday’s CEW Beauty Insider Awards luncheon, held at the Waldorf Astoria here in New York, Glamglow founder Shannon Dellimore brought her 7-year-old daughter with her to accept her award for best prestige antiaging skin-care product, the Glamglow Flashmud Brightening Treatment.
“She’s been with us since Glamglow was just an idea,” said Dellimore, who conceived of the company with husband Glenn while pregnant with her daughter. “I hope this is an inspiration to her.”
The juxtaposition of mother and daughter accepting an honor onstage at the 1,200-attendee luncheon was an apt symbol for how the rest of the ceremony panned out, with smaller labels clinching trophies alongside the established behemoths.
“There was a balance of the some of the classics and the [brands] who are really trending,” said CEW president Carlotta Jacobson, who noted that large parent companies like Estée Lauder are now reaping the benefits of some of their recent Indie label acquisitions. “Clinique won a lot of awards, but Glamglow has won the last two years — they also get recognized. It’s not that [just] the big [brands] get the big bounty. That’s a big change.”
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Another change this year was the introduction of the Best Beauty App Award, the winner of which was L’Oréal Paris for its Makeup Genius App.
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Also new was the Iconic Beauty Award, a consumer choice award honoring quintessential products. Votes were collected in partnership with the subscription database of the Meredith Corporation, a sponsor of this year’s awards. The Super Hero Beauty winner for mass was Neutrogena Makeup Removing Cleansing Towelettes and for prestige, Clinique Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief.
CEW’s more than 6,000 members selected 212 finalists from more than 800 entries. Entries were up 11 percent from last year, and the number of Indie brand entries increased between 30 and 35 percent. There was a 60 percent increase in new companies entering.
Winners were chosen by the CEW Board of Governors, along with a select group of beauty industry members. The CEW Beauty Insider Awards winners are:
SKIN CARE
Acne Treatment
Kate Somerville: EradiKate Mask Foam-activated Acne Treatment
Antiaging Mass
Sonia Kashuk: Detox Purifying Black Mask
Antiaging Prestige
Glamglow: Flashmud Brightening Treatment
Cleanser and Scrub
Simple Skin Care: Micellar Cleansing Water
Eye Treatment
It Cosmetics: Your Skin but Better CC+ Eye Cream SPF 50+
Lip Treatment
Fresh: Sugar Nourishing Lip Balm Advanced Therapy
Skin Care Tools
Clarisonic: Alpha Fit
Sun Product
St. Tropez: Gradual Tan in Shower Lotion
Moisturizer Mass
Neutrogena: Hydro Boost Water Gel
Moisturizer Prestige
Clinique: Dramatically Different Moisturizing Cream
HAIR
Hair Coloring Product
Oribe Hair Care: Airbrush Root Touch-up Spray
Hair Shampoo/Hair Conditioner
Living Proof: Perfect Hair Day (PhD) Dry Shampoo
Hair Style/Hair Care (Three-Way-Tie)
Bumble and bumble: Don’t Blow It (H)air Styler
Drybar: Triple Sec 3-in-1
Living Proof: Blowout
Hair Tools
T3 Micro Inc.: PROi Professional Hair Dryer
MAKEUP
Eye Product Mass
L’Oréal Paris: Voluminous Superstar Mascara
Eye Product Prestige
Dior: Diorshow Mascara
Face Product Mass
Sonia Kashuk: Undercover Liquid Concealer
Face Product Prestige
Laura Mercier: Silk Crème Moisturizing Photo Edition Foundation
Lip Product Mass
Flower: Lip Radiance High Shine Lip Lacquer
Lip Product Prestige
Charlotte Tilbury: Matte Revolution
SCENT
Men’s Scent
Dior: Sauvage
Perfumer: Christian Dior
Women’s Scent Mass
Sonia Kashuk: Eau de Toilette in White Etheriana
Perfumer: Robertet
Women’s Scent Prestige
Yves Saint Laurent Beauté: Black Opium
Perfumer: Firmenich
NAIL PRODUCT (Two-Way-Tie)
Butter London: Patent Shine 10x Nail Lacquer
Essie: Gel Setter
BATH AND BODY
Mass
Nivea: In-shower Body Lotion
Prestige
Fresh: Cocoa Body Exfoliant
INDIE BRAND BEAUTY AWARD
Color Wow
ECO BEAUTY AWARD
Jurlique
QVC BEAUTY QUEST AWARD
Trèstique
MOST BUZZED-ABOUT AWARD
Mass
Bioré: Deep Cleansing Charcoal Pore Strips
Prestige
Urban Decay: Naked Smoky
BEST-SELLER AWARD
Mass
Covergirl: The Super Sizer by Lashblast Mascara
Prestige
Urban Decay: Naked Smoky Eye Shadow Palette