Award Programs

Vettbeauty tracks the flagship annual awards programs of major beauty publications. Every winner is recorded from the publication’s own announcements and reviewed by a human editor. How we verify.

United States

Our consensus score counts these programs only. All twelve are national, long-running, and name specific winners in a formal annual program.

South Korea

Scored separately

Korean wins are counted in their own Korea score, shown alongside the US number on every product. They are kept out of the US consensus because consumer reviews and retail sales data measure something different from editorial testing — but they absolutely count.

France

Counted in consensus

Marie Claire's Prix d'Excellence is a Tier 1 program: its wins count toward the consensus score as part of the Marie Claire house, exactly like a US title.