12 Months, 12 Products: Introducing... Frock & Roll's Best Beauty Buys Of 2010! ♥

And now, for the annual completely made-up Frock & Roll 'Best Beauty Buys Of The Year' awards!

Here's your host, Tom Cruuuuuuuuuuise!

Okay, so Tom couldn't REALLY make it over to Frock & Roll today (which is an enormous shame, because these babies are DEFINITELY worth leaping on couches for!), but a slew of exceptional beauty buys? Indeed!

From the ingenious creations that Palmer's consistently produce to that adorable little bottle of pink goop, Posie Tint, here's twelve products from the past twelve months which have provided me with much epidermal excellence!

1. Organix's Coconut Milk Shampoo & Conditioner

Oh, Organix Coconut Milk Shampoo and Conditioner, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways! Actually, let's not, because public displays of affection can make other people feel slightly n-a-u-s-e-o-u-s. Let's leave it at this: after years of dreadlocks, over-washing and straightening the bejesus out of every single strand, you've transformed my previously dry-as-grass locks into a well-nourished mane. Bravo!

2. Palmer's, well, anything

Why? Because after trying almost every single lotion and potion (shampoos! Conditioners! Lip butters! Body balms and oils!) that Palmer's has to offer and finding myself serendipitously humming The Wedding March upon each application, I'm convinced that they could devise a concoction from SHOPPING BASKETS and still produce something exquisite!

3. Fudge's 'Straight Hair' Mist

With swirling, whirling, wild curls, naturally the most intelligent and appropriate hair cut would be a dramatic blunt fringe, right?!  Wrong!  But of course, I didn't realise this until long AFTER I'd had half my hair lopped off in the name of completing Frock & Roll's June 1 Hairdressing Salon + You + Free Reign = ?! Style Challenge.

My saviour? Fudge's 'Straight Hair' mist. No, it didn't bestow instantly straight hair upon me overnight but by golly, when used in conjunction with my straightening iron, it 110% helped me to fake it!

4. Maybelline's 'Mineral Power' Liquid Foundation & Powder

Admittedly, Maybelline's 'Mineral Power' foundation collection is approximately as new as Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles, but what would a list of the best beauty buys be without it?! A list of foolery, that's what! Smitten with their fantastic coverage, the fact that they allow your skin to b-r-e-a-t-h-e and that you can snap them up and STILL snare change from a $50 note, I initially tried these two in 2008, and have been unable to develop a permanent relationship with anything else ever since!

5. Benefit's Posie Tint

Finding yourself orchestrating a search party for your blush or bronzer every afternoon? Me too! Or at least, I WAS, until Benefit's Posie Tint wiggled its way into my life in the most bedazzling shade of pink imaginable and doubling up as an ultra durable lip stain, too.

6. Benefit's Eye & Brow Kit

Two delightful eyeshadows? Check. An eyebrow powder? Check. A frying pan? Um, no. Wrong set! An eyeliner, two highlights, and a GORGEOUS pair of miniature tweezers, complete with a compact mirror to witness your make-up wizardry in?! You bet! 

7. Trilogy's Age Proof CoQ10 Booster Serum

There are numerous things I'll forget each morning (wallet? Keys? Wallet and keys?!), but I'll always remember to apply this. I've babbled about its perfection before and it's entirely worth mentioning again: Trilogy's Age Proof CoQ10 Booster Serum is radiance in a bottle. 

8. Le Tan's SPF 15 Coconut Lotion

It's non-greasy! It's moisturising! It's two hours water resistant AND it's coconut scented!  There would have to be a sun cream which came with free popsicles to even be marginally more impressive than Le Tan's SPF 15 Coconut Lotion.

9. Sportsgirl's 'Nail It' Products

When it comes to creating long-lasting, affordable nail polishes in an array of alluring hues, Sportsgirl have literally NAILED it. (Ba-doom-CHI!)

10. Smashbox's Photo Finish Primer

Now, I know you've fetched mixed reviews left, right and centre, Smashbox's Photo Finish Primer, but ooh, you'll always have a place to call home on my bathroom sink! 

11. Garnier's 48 Hour Mineral Deodorant

Unglamorous confession #4532526718: I can get a teensy bit sweaty. But Garnier's 48 Hour Mineral Deodorant, containing Mineralite, a naturally absorbent mineral from volcanic origin, which allows skin to breath? It works a treat! (AND It contains no alcohol and no parabens, whee!)

12. Bourjois's Eyeshadows

Bourjois?! More like gorgeous!  Rich in colour AND quality, brilliantly, at just over $20 a pop, you absolutely don't have to be rich to afford them. 

♥

Tell me, oh wise beauty brains! Which products have you tried in 2010 which have been utterly swoon-worthy? Have any of these items made an appearance in your bathroom before?

xoxo

(Images thanks to Sydney Glamour, Fish Pond NZ, Instyle, Pulse Pharmacy, Real Simple and Cosmetics 4 All.)