5 Editors’ Choice winners everyone agreed on in the GLAMOUR Beauty Power List Awards 2022
The Editors' Choice category is new for this year's GLAMOUR Beauty Power List Awards 2022. In order to provide you with the crème de la crème of innovative skincare, must-have makeup, hair heroes, and perfumes worth your hard-earned cash, the GLAMOUR beauty team has spent the past month testing, slathering and spritzing. We have put over 200 products, across five categories, through their paces, judging them against strict criteria – efficacy, innovation, inclusivity and sustainability – to bring you the best in beauty right now. Discover all the Editors’ Choice winners the GLAMOUR team couldn’t get enough of…
We asked, our panel nominated, you voted and now we’ve awarded. Check out the rest of the GLAMOUR Beauty Power List Award Winners 2022.
Best body product
Kate Somerville Exfolikate Resurfacing Body Scrub, £48
Following the success of the brand’s best-selling facial exfoliator, LA aesthetician Kate Somerville has created a 2.0 version designed to buff away rough, dry skin below your jawline. The formula is charged with the Holy Trinity of exfoliators to slough away dead skin cells without ever feeling scratchy: physical (pumice stone particles), chemical (lactic and salicylic acid) and enzymatic (from papaya, pineapple and pumpkin enzymes). Better still, caffeine and honey step in to create a smooth, toned afterglow on even the scaliest of shins.
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Best makeup product
If you’re looking for a speedy way to add a sunshine glow, then this putty-to-powder bronzer needs to be on your radar. The semi-matte finish serves up a cloud of natural-looking warm colour, whether you opt for an all-over glow or a golden-hour contour to create instant chiselled cheekbones. The formula comes in five shades, meshes seamlessly with the skin and packs a hydrating punch with argan oil and vitamin E.
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Benefit BadGal Bang! Waterproof Mascara, £24.50
Best skin product
Chanel No1 de Chanel Revitalizing Serum-in-Mist, £67
No1 de Chanel is a new line of products that launched in 2022 and marks the brand’s first foray into sustainable beauty. Its star ingredient is the red camellia japonica, which is cultivated in an open field in the south-west of France, according to environmentally friendly agricultural practices, without the use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilisers. It is an eco-friendly approach that has earned Chanel a level 3 HEV (High Environmental Value) certification, the gold standard for farms. This instantly soothing bi-phase face mist contains 97% naturally derived ingredients, including red camellia extract. Rich in a powerful antioxidant known as protocatechuic acid, it may also slow down the onset of cellular senescence – a natural process in which ageing skin cells lie dormant, causing dryness, dullness and slackness in the skin. It is housed in a recyclable glass bottle and topped with a cap made of 48% bio-based materials.
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Best hair product
K18 Biomimetic Hairscience Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask, £55
Meet the hair world’s most exciting new mane-changing product. K18 isn’t your average fruity-scented hair mask that you apply for a few minutes while you brush your teeth and then rinse out. It’s a leave-on treatment powered by a science-backed, bond-building peptide formula. When strands become seriously damaged from too much heat, colour or general wear and tear, K18’s technology is able to penetrate the inner layer and repair the broken keratin chains, restoring hair to its original healthy state. This mask works for all hair types and leaves you with next-level glossy, bouncy locks in just four minutes.
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Olaplex No3 Hair Perfector, £28
Best fragrance
Experimental Perfume Club Signature Blend in Iris Carmin, £32
Iris Carmen is said to evoke a sun-dappled walk through a forest that’s changing with the season – and it’s not hard to see why. It feels fresh on first spritz, courtesy of orange blossom, neroli and a spark of fig leaves, before mellowing down to a warm, earthy scent trail that hovers close to the skin.
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Estée Lauder Infinite Sky, £138 for 100ml EDP
