Elle Beauty Awards 2011

The second annual Elle Beauty Awards took place last night at the St Martins Lane Hotel in London. The event celebrates brands and products that have launched in 2011.
Elle has put the winners together to bring us a definitive guide to the best new products of 2011 for people like us to drool over!

I had a flick through all 66 winners and picked a few of my favourites, enjoy!

Of course I skipped through to the best nail products first..

Best Nail Treatment
Nails Inc Oxygenating Rescue Treatment, £12


Best Top Coat
Orly Polishield 3-in-1 Topcoat, £8.50, at BeautyBay.com

Orly is an amazing Nail brand!


Best Base Coat
Lumos Instant Impact Bottom Coat, £8.94, at The Day Spa, Hair & Beauty



Best Nail Varnish
Revlon Topspeed Fast Dry Nail Enamel in Storm 820, £6.49, at Boots

And onto the make up...

Best Lipstick
Dolce & Gabbana Gloss Fusion Lipstick, £24 at Harrods




Best foundation
Dior Diorskin Forever Flawless Perfection Fusion Wear Makeup, £29.50 at Debenhams


Best Concealer
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer Kit, £23.50

I agree with this winner for sure, it had to be Bobbi Brown!

Best Mascara Lancome Doll Eyes mascara, £20.50 at Boots

I havn't tried this mascara yet but I've only heard good things about it!


Best Bronzer
By Terry Teint Terrybly Soleil SPF15, £61.50 at Space NK

By Terry products are created by Terry de Gunzburg, she worked as an International Makeup Designer with Yves Saint Laurent and played a major role in the development of fabulous products such as Touche Éclat. Terry lauched her own brand called By Terry and has a smiliar product to the Touche Éclat called Touch-Expert Advanced... With over 15 years of expertise with YSL you can imagine what went into developing her own line!..Amazing stuff!

Hair care....

Best Shine Serum
Kerastase Elixir Ultimate Versatile Beautifying Oil, £28.50, at LookFantastic.com

Fragrance...

Best Oriental
Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial EDP, £37 for 60ml

Remember these are just a pick of the best products launched in 2011 they are most definetly are not the all time greatest products out there!

You can see all 66 winners on the Elle Website or in the November issue of ELLE which will be on new stands tomorrow (5th October 2011).

I voted this year, did you?
Are there any products you think should have been chosen for these categories instead?..

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