The College Beauty Awards:
Based on months of testing the best products for college women, and polling our college beauty obsessives to find out what they love most, the College Beauty Awards highlight products that check all the boxes for college women: they're at a reasonable price point, they're Instagram-worthy, they deliver the best results, and they come from brands and partners that our readers legitimately love using and supporting.
The College Beauty Awards could cover anything and everything under the beautysphere, falling under the following ten categories:
- Best Skincare Trends of 2022
- Best Haircare Trends of 2022
- Best Bodycare Trends of 2022
- Sunday Recovering Skincare
- TikTok Told Me To
- Dorm Essentials
- Night Out Makeup
- Drugstore Finds
- Morning Routine
- Nighttime Routine
This year, we’re looking to highlight cruelty-free beauty, clean/sustainable beauty, small businesses, and female- and POC-owned brands as much as possible.
The final package will be the definitive list of official recommendations that college women can rely on across every beauty category, whether they're looking to shop an affordable acne solution or just want to know the best long-lasting lipstick.
To submit, please reply to this thread with the following information:
- Brand:
- Product name(s) and link(s) (Sephora/Ulta/Amazon are preferred, but if your brand is only available on your site, that is fine):
- Is your product(s) geared towards a specific problem or skin/hair type, etc?
- Is your brand a small business?
- Is your brand minority/POC-owned? (This could mean 100% founded, led, OR owned)
- Is your brand women-owned? (This could mean 100% founded, led, OR owned)
- Is your brand cruelty-free (meaning you absolutely do not test any ingredients or finished products on animals and you don’t sell your products where it is required to test by law)?
- If your brand has a parent company, are they cruelty-free?
- Does your brand consider itself to be sustainable? If yes, why?
- Does your brand consider itself to be clean? If yes, why?
- Did your brand/product go viral on TikTok? Can you provide an example video?
- Does your brand/product fit into a trend that went viral on TikTok (for example, faux freckles)?
- Does your brand have any giveback initiatives?
- Are there any other members of your team that work on this account, or that we could reach out to regarding it in case you are unavailable?
- Is the brand willing to participate in a giveaway(s), should their product(s) be awarded in the CBAs?
- Do you have a high-quality product shot available to share if your product wins a College Beauty Award?
If your product is selected by, Her Campus Media, testers must be received by April 15th 2022.
All submissions that are approved to move forward will be required to send out their product(s) to a minimum of three of our student testers, to allow for multiple skin types/hair types/etc. to review them. The editor in charge of each category would also welcome samples, but brands are not required to send them to editors, and sending samples to editors will have no impact on the final winners list.
Finalists will be contacted in mid-September and editors will keep all submissions in mind – even if they aren’t deemed a winner here – for future projects.
Please submit ASAP.