The Year’s Best in Beauty

Results from the Inaugural Daily Glow Awards
Celebrating the Best of the Best Beauty Products from 2011
With Editor Liesa Goins

DailyGlow.com, the leading health and beauty authority, has scoured the market to identify the most inventive, state-of-the-art and truly original beauty products of the year. These products are the winners of their inaugural Daily Glow Award for excellence in creating an innovative beauty product.

Daily Glow, where health meets beauty, is unlike any other beauty magazine or site and so are their awards which are judged by beauty AND medical experts: Daily Glow curated a prestigious panel of judges which include dermatologists, a cosmetic chemist, plus makeup and hair styling experts. Winning products represent ground breaking formulas and ingredients, original approaches, and their ability to deliver results above and beyond other products within their category. In an editorial feature on DailyGlow.com, each expert explains why each winning product is the best of the best.

Here Liesa Goins, Editor of DailyGlow.com, reveals some of the GlowGetter Award winning beauty innovations and tips that will help your viewers get their glow on this winter and all year round.

One of the biggest complaints we hear from readers is that they have dark under eye circles, so the first winner I’m going to share with you goes to the two in one Olay Total Effects Line & Dark Circle Minimizing Brush for the best Under Eye Treatment. Now you no longer have to buy a separate concealer and under eye cream! It’s actually a light, daily, tinted moisturizer that instantly reduces the appearance of wrinkles and darkness under the eye – all in one sweep of a brush! It continues working to fight the signs of aging for younger, brighter-looking eyes, by hydrating the skin, evening skin tone and reducing the look of puffiness. And even better, for only $18.99 it is a great value! Available at Olay.com

We included a section of winners for the Biggest Breakthroughs in beauty this year, and for the category of “Sunscreen with Superpowers” the clear winner was Avon’s ANEW Solar Advance. It provides anti-aging suncare through two parts – a photostable broad spectrum sunscreen, and it’s RepairShield technology which is designed to help stimulate skin’s natural antioxidant defense system and activate the natural repair process to reverse skin cell sun damage. Together, this dramatically reduces the appearances of wrinkles and diminishes visible discolorations. It comes in both a face and body lotion, and both are available at avon.com.

Our awards also included the best products as nominated by bloggers, and our friends at Beauty Blogging Junkie just loved Dove Visible Care Renewing Crème Body Wash. It actually gives you visibly more beautiful skin in just one week with daily use, while making it softer and smoother. The active ingredient, NutriumMoisture technology, contains a combination of skin nourishing and skin moisturizing ingredients that help skin retain its natural moisture by replenishing lipids lost during cleansing. VisibleCare has the highest concentration of NutriumMoisture across the entire Dove portfoliio, penetrating surface skin deep down to replenish skin where it is needed most. The formula has a thick and luxurious lather while still rinsing cleanly - and costs only $7.99. Available at Dove.com

For more info on all the winners, visit DailyGlow.com!

About the Talent: Liesa Goins [LEE-sa GO-ins] has been covering health and beauty for more than a decade, and her first reporting assignment was on red lipstick. Currently she is Editor, DailyGlow.com, where health meets beauty. Previously, she has written about beauty for Allure, Cosmopolitan, In Style, Prevention, Real Simple and Self among other top publications. Liesa also spent three years as the beauty editor for Women’s Health where she won an American Academy of Dermatology Award for her reporting on sun protection and she also was nominated for a Fragrance Foundation (Fi Fi) Award. As a health and beauty expert, Liesa has been interviewed by media on various topics from shampoo ingredients to skin cancer prevention. As a Texas native, Liesa is a fan of sunscreen, big hair, and even bigger lashes. She now resides in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and rescue puppy, Paco.