Last night Bauer Media held its annual Best in Beauty Awards to showcase the best, must-have products in the market.
Beauty experts from New Zealand’s favourite magazines – including Fashion Quarterly, Woman’s Day, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, Australian Women’s Weekly, Simply You, Good Health Choices and NEXT – shortlisted their favourite products and then it was over to the public to vote.
Congrats to our BD friends who took out awards!
Best Body Moisturiser: NIVEA Body Lotion Rich Nourishing
Who could look past this cheap and cheerful body moisturiser? Enriched with almond oil, this lotion nourishes skin incredibly well, leaving limbs silky soft.
Best Body Scrub: Pure Fiji Sugar Rub
This scrub gently buffs away skin cells and unclogs pores, leaving skin clean and deeply moisturised. Cold pressed virgin coconut oil and exotic nut extracts nourish and protect.
Best Hand Cream: Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Intensive Moisturizing Hand Treatment
The famous Eight Hour formula works to protect and calm chapped, dry and rough skin. This fast-absorbing gel works wonders on sore and cracked hands.
Best Luxe Buy for Body: Shiseido Future Solution LX Total Regenerating Body Cream
The ultimate moisturising power house, this body cream boosts the radiance and resilience of skin. Providing 24 hours of moisture, skin is left more hydrated, healthy and youthful.
Best Female Fragrance: Gucci Bloom Eau de Parfum
Housed in a vintage powder pink bottle, this perfume will look pretty on any dresser. The scent itself is a feminine floral with notes of tuberose, jasmine and Rangoon Creeper – a flower from India.
Best Salon Body Treatment: Pure Fiji Exotic Paradise Spa Pedicure
This sole-saving treatment includes a coconut sugar rub and foot massage followed by a warm body butter masque.
Best Self Tan: Bondi Sands Self Tanning Foam – Ultra Dark
Perfect for those who love a dark tan; this lightweight tanning foam is formulated with dual tanning actives and is scented with a delicious coconut scent.
Best Bargain Buy: Bio-Oil
This cult oil has scooped up another award. Gentle and quickly absorbing, it improves the appearance of scars, stretch marks, uneven skin tone and ageing and dehydrated skin.
Best Beauty Destination: Caci Clinic
Led by Jackie and David Smith, Caci has become one of New Zealand’s most well-known and recognised beauty clinics, offering appearance medicine, skin rejuvenation, laser hair removal and body shaping.
Best Face Oil: Goodness Certified Organic Chia Seed Oil
Free of any irritating colour or fragrance, this lightweight face oil nourishes and hydrates the skin, and provides anti-inflammatory support.
Best Exfoliator: Dermalogica Daily Superfoliant
This powder exfoliator combats dark spots, fine lines and uneven skin tone caused by pollution. Working to resurface, skin is left softer and smoother.
Best Salon Facial Treatment: Caci Skin Health Plan (REFORMASKIN®)
Tailored to your skin type and needs, Caci’s Skin Health Plan helps you achieve fresh, bright and healthy looking skin. Treatments include Rebuild Package, Conditioning Treatments and Restructure Package – determined during consultation.
Best Luxe Buy for Face: Elizabeth Arden Prevage Anti-Aging + Intensive Repair Daily Serum
The ultimate anti-aging product, this serum helps improve the appearance of deep wrinkles, skin firmness and age spots. It also soothes skin, reduces redness and increases luminosity.
Best Night Cream: Sukin Moisture Restoring Night Cream
Repairing and restoring skin overnight, this luxurious oil includes a blend of rosehip, evening primrose, borage and aloe vera to soothe tired skin.
Best Eye Cream: Dermalogica Stress Positive Eye Lift
This cooling eye cream is the ultimate stress buster. Visibly reducing the appearance of puffiness and dark circles, it immediately brightens, firms, lifts and energises the under eye area.
Best Cleanser: Trilogy Make-Up Be Gone Cleansing Balm
Watch makeup vanish when you use this all-natural cleansing balm. Formulated with rosehip, mango and coconut, it removes all impurities and leaves skin supple and smooth.
Best Day Cream: Clinique Moisture Surge Hydrating Supercharged Concentrate
This ultra-light gel moisturiser contains antioxidants to combat dryness and environmental stress, for instantly plumper smoother skin.
Best Conditioner: Joico K-Pak Color Therapy Conditioner
This colour-protecting conditioner does it all: fortifies, reconstructs, strengthens, calms, detangles, eliminates frizz and restores silkiness and shine.
Best Tool: ghd platinum styler
Where would we be without ghd? This revolutionary styler effectively straightens, curls and styles without compromising the health of hair.
Best Bargain Buy: Batiste Dry Shampoo – Original
You can’t go wrong with this cult dry shampoo that adds texture to and restores and revives hair, eliminating the need for a hair wash.
Best Eyeshadow: Revlon ColorStay Creme Eye Shadows
These affordable crème eyeshadows rival more luxe options. Longwear and waterproof, they are easy to apply and mess free.
Best Primer: Smashbox Photo Finish Radiance Primer
This moisturising primer gives instant glow and radiance, all the while providing a base for better makeup application. The formula contains hyaluronic acid and shea butter for prolonged moisture.
Best Brow Product: Benefit Goof Proof Brow Pencil
This pointed, wide tip pencil gives full and natural-looking brows and glides on to provide waterproof, long-lasting colour.
Best Nail Polish: OPI
OPI nail polishes include everything you could ever need and want in a formula: easy to apply, chip-resistant, non-streaky and fast drying. They also include a wide brush and are all ‘three-free’ – containing no DBP, toluene or formaldehyde.
Best Eyeliner: Revlon ColorStay™ 2 IN 1 Angled Kajal™
The angled tip of this eyeliner makes it incredibly easy to apply both on the lash line and waterline. Each pencil features an angled blending brush to smoke out the product.
Best Natural Makeup: Weleda Tinted Lip Balms
Providing just the right amount of colour, these vegan lip balms leave a subtle sheen, nourishing and protecting lips all the while.
Best Innovation: Bondi Sands Self Tan Eraser
This world first tan remover lightens and removes self-tan in just five minutes, meaning you can say goodbye to any harsh scrubbing.
Best New Zealand Brand: Linden Leaves
Linden Leaves products are made with high quality, natural ingredients and are often produced by hand. The range includes skincare, bodycare and lifestyle products that are all made in New Zealand.
For the full list of winners see here.
