BEAUTY'S BEST

The 16th Annual CEW Beauty Awards Product Demonstration

Innovative beauty products were on display at Cosmetic Executive Women’s annual Beauty Awards Product Demonstration on March 3 at the Metropolitan Pavilion and Altman Building. Industry insiders sampled a plethora of brands that were competing to be finalists for the CEW Beauty Awards Luncheon, which will be held on May 21 at the Waldorf=Astoria. Winners will receive the coveted CEW Winner’s Seal.

“The number of CEW Beauty Awards product entries reinforces the enormous number of new beauty products available to consumers this year,” stated Carlotta Jacobson, President, CEW. “In beauty, innovation is a key driver, and this event recognizes and celebrates the industry at its best,” she added.

Susan Bornstein, Vice President, Marketing, CEW remarked that the event was “the most successful yet! Almost 2,000 beauty insiders attended this demonstration that featured over 550 entries of the most inventive products from almost 300 brands. There was lots of great energy, fun, testing and tweeting going on.”


CEW’s Carlotta Jacobson with Jill Scalamandre of Chrysallis	Ms. Jacobson with IFF’s Matt Frost and mark.’s Claudia Poccia	Givaudan’s Yara Karmiloff (2nd l.) with Coty’s Lorrie King, Nicole Trager, Brooke Burdine and Lori Singer

Arcade’s Diane Crecca and Marine Ravera with HBA Global Expo’s Annie Scully	Coty’s Eli Jasie, Merilee Buckley and Marsha Brooks	Arcade’s David Teets and Larry Berman (r.) with Coty’s Ruth Sutcliffe

Takasago’s Claudette Belnavis and Liz Burke	Bevin Bailis and Bari Seiden of The Estée Lauder Companies	HBA Global Expo’s Rebecca Fraimow, Felicia Bonavita, Nicole Bullock and Jill Birkett

Meredith 360’s Jennifer Kalat, Linda Marshall of Elysée Scientific Cosmetics and Jennifer Utz of New Media Strategies	Giorgio Armani Beauty’s Tennille Kopiasz and Linda Santiago (r.) with GQ’s Karen Drechsler	Givaudan’s Rose Eckert and Maria Peterson with Mary Manning of Mary Manning Associates and Ildiko Juhasz of Scent Analysis