 The 2010 Winners
| | Thankyou to everyone who nominated and voted for their favourite UK beauty bloggers. After 3 weeks of voting with over 1,600 individual voters voting for their favourite nominee in each category, BeautyJudge is pleased to announce the winners! The winner of The Beauty Leader Award With an astounding 615 votes, is Zoella. Congratulations Zoe! Click here to see what Zoe receives with her award. Of winning this award, Zoe said:
"I am so overwhelmed that so many people thought I deserved this award, I only started this blog as a hobby on a boring evening so I'm extremely happy to have helped and inspired so many girls/women & I will continue to try." Her best tip for new bloggers starting out is: "Just be yourself, enjoy what you're writing & appreciate every follower you have..even if you only have 3, this doesnt mean you are a failure. Blogging is not about failing and winning & it's not a popularity contest. These 3 people like to see what you write, even if they don't comment."
The winner of The Everyday Woman Award Is Of Faces and Fingers and is written by Jerlene. Despite only starting her blog in December 2009, Jerlene received an incredible 174 votes. That's 52% of her readership who took the time to vote her 2-month old blog as their favourite! Congratulations Jerlene!
Click here to see what Jerlene receives with her award. When told she had won this award, Jerlene said:
"This award has honestly come as a total surprise to me. I am overjoyed, humbled, and indescribably thankful to all my readers who voted! I'm also grateful to everyone who has interacted in some way with my blog, be it leaving comments, twittering me, asking for swatch requests, or simply reading my blog! Without them blogging would not be half as fun as it is for me. I really owe it all to them."
Jerlene's best tip for new bloggers starting out is:
"First and foremost, focus on content and writing. I know that's a really slow and uphill road, and it's tempting to look for shortcuts, but in the long run this is probably the biggest factor for any blogger, because at the end of the day, it's the content that gets people to return to your blog and become regular readers. Also, in this era of ever-abounding get-rich-quick-schemes, I'd like to stress that blogging isn't a quick route to fame, fortune, or even free stuff, and blogs which blog just for one of these reasons aren't going to survive long - it really has to come from a passion for whatever you're writing about."
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The Award Winners' Prizes | The Everyday Woman Award Jerlene from Of Faces and Fingers will receive: The Award badge to display on her blog ***
A feed of her winning blog added to the BeautyJudge site for 3 months, for all our visitors to see. ***
Winner's choice between the following: £75 (UK pounds) to spend on cosmetics/beauty brands of her choice within the UK OR $75 (US dollars) to spend on USA cosmetics/beauty brands from either Sephora.com or Ulta.com The Beauty Leader Award Zoe from Zoella will receive: The Award badge to display on her blog ***
Winner's choice between the following: £75 (UK pounds) to spend on cosmetics/beauty brands of her choice within the UK OR $75 (US dollars) to spend on USA cosmetics/beauty brands from either Sephora.com or Ulta.com ***
Opportunity to review an at-home tooth whitening treatment worth £275, courtesy of London walk-in smile centre Smilepod.co.uk "Using the same system as seen on Extreme Makeover the Smilepod™ home whitening treatment can gently whiten your teeth 8 shades. Use our ultra thin customised whitening trays for just 1 hour a day for two weeks and your teeth will be gently whitened to enhance your smile. Then just top it up every 3 months to keep your smile sparkling white for years to come."
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Because where would blogs be without readers?!
| All voters were given the opportunity to enter our competition to win The Voter's Prize. The prize was a gorgeous beauty hamper worth over £100, stuffed full of some of the most-loved and highest-rated products on BeautyJudge.com! These are all products which have been extremely honestly reviewed - and loved - by our members. The lucky winner was laurenrhiannon. Congratulations! |
The nominees and who took part
| The nominees for The Beauty Leader Award were:
The following bloggers also received Beauty Leader Award nominations (thanks to all who took the time to nominate them!), but declined to take part in the awards this year: A Touch of Blusher, Amy Antionette, Ella, Gems Maquillage, Get Gawjus!, Goldbeauty88's makeup blog, Hele Says, I heart Cosmetics, Iheartmakeup, Kelanjo19, Let There Be Shopping!, Lollipop26 Writes, Mizzworthy's Stuff, Natalya's Beauty Blog, OxfordJasmine, Peachykeencheeks, Style Suzi, The Gloss Goss, Vex In The City.
The nominees for The Everyday Woman Award were:
The following bloggers also received Everyday Woman Award nominations (thanks to all who took the time to nominate them!), but declined to take part in the awards this year: <3 Lucy, A storm in a teacup, All the Vanity, Asian Beautifier, Becky's Beautique, Birds Decorate Branches, Butterfly Wings, CarolineXO, Elle in Wonderland, FAB, Fern Laura, Hell Candy makeup, It's a Girl Thing, Jennifer Rosellen, Just a girl in the world, Kerry's Beauty Blog, Kiss and makeup x, Lipglossiping, Lipstick and Lightsabers, Little Miss Beauty Junkie, London Makeup Girl, Love At First Bite, LucyMarie85, makeuploveer, me love makeup, Oh Make Me Up, ohmyskele!, Panda Does Makeup, Perfectly Polished, Pretty Geeky, Saskia the style fairy, Secret Diary of a beauty addict, Sugarplum fairy, Swalkermakeup, That One Girl, The Obsessions of a Shopaholic, TheBeautyCrush, Vanity doll Also nominated were the following blogs which did not meet this year's criteria: Londons Boutique, Thumbalins, Lipstick Rules, FashionFace.tv, Raw Vegan Londoner. Shakepeare and Stilettos was also nominated but we were unable to contact the blog writer. |
2010 Nomination criteria
| | The nomination criteria for the 2010 awards were:
- Bloggers or vloggers must be currently resident in the UK.
- The content of the Blog or Vlog must be mainly or wholly on the topic of cosmetics, hair or beauty.
- The Blog or Vlog must have been active and regularly updated within the period January 2009 to January 2010. (It doesn't matter how new the Blog/Vlog, as long as it has been in existence within that period.) - To be nominated for The Everday Woman Category, the Blog or Vlog should have FEWER than 500 followers at the time of nomination. - To be nominated for The Beauty Leader Category, the Blog or Vlog should have MORE than 500 followers at the time of nomination. |
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