I am mega late on this this year, but I didn’t want too much more time to go by without talking about the 2008 CEW Beauty Awards winners.  These are chosen by executives in the beauty business - editors, owners and every other type of professional you can think of in the biz.  You can be guaranteed that these products are going to be the tops in their categories - and definitely worth a try.  Mass means you can buy the products (mass market) in the drugstores, prestige means that they are available at specialty/department stores and well, they cost more.  Prestigious, you know.

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The 2008 CEW Beauty Awards winners are:

BATH & BODY

Body Treatment – Mass - Olay Thermal Pedicure (love this!)

Body Treatment – Prestige - Dr. Andrew Weil for Origins ™ The Way of the Bath™ Matcha Tea Body Scrub

Scented Bath and Body – Mass -JOHNSONS® Softoil™ Melt Away Stress Massaging Moisturizer (love this whole line)

Scented Bath and Body – Prestige - Tom Ford Beauty Black Orchid Finishing Oil Spray (man, do I love Black Orchid)

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The first annual fashion blog awards, The Fabbies, are up and running! I had a hand in the planning of the beauty part of the awards (hence the lack of b5media blogs nominated, I just didn’t think it was right), so I am not here to pimp myself out to get votes for me, but for a pretty great range of other friends and coworkers that are nominated. Click on the accompanying images to vote for each blog. I am not sure when voting ends, but the ceremony is on Thursday night, so you don’t have a lot of time!

From b5media are:

HankeringForYarn.com - if you don’t know Noreen, she is one of the neatest people I have met in my 2 1/2 years at b5media. So much fun, and you can’t believe what that woman can make out of some of the most annoying materials in the world.

ThriftyMommy.com - Karen and Kelly have done SUCH a tremendous job growing this blog. Honestly, it is a wonderful resource for parents who are trying to stay on a budget and still have a great quality of life!

Charlene Polanosky works so hard at WearyParent.com, and this is so great to see her nominated as well, like Thrifty Mommy, in the Parents and Pets category. She is a wonderful writer with great insight and love for parenting.

Last, but OH SO not least, is Chloe Findlay-Harder at our very own beauty & style blog, Her Accessories. Chloe has really brought this blog into its own in the time she has written it. Her love and affinity for finding beautiful accessories is so great - and always very interesting. She really deserves this award - so a special congrats to Chloe for the nomination.

Outside of b5media:

Now, some of our great B&S bloggers are nominated in the beauty category with their own blogs - Shannon (from MakeupMinute) is nominated with A Girl’s Gotta Spa, her very own home away from home. Ellen Mirza (from Spa Beautifully) is nominated at Lipstick, Powder n’ Paint as well. Both blogs are so great and they have really hit their stride and are both so deserving. Since I chose most of the beauty category, each and every one of them are my favorites. I’m just not sure how to vote in the beauty section, I guess I am going to have to flip a coin. Or take bribes.

Best of luck to you all!!!