Hello you beauties,

This December brings the last month of the whirlwind that has been 2020, and we are choosing to go out with a bang by announcing tomorrow our last beauty awards for the year: The 2020 Scandinavian Global Makeup Awards.

In this beauty magazine, you can read all the winners for 2020.  It is so much fun doing our makeup and beauty awards region by region.  In this year's Scandinavia region, we see the hottest brands from the brassicaly cold Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

The Nordics opt for a cleaner, and more eco friendly type of beauty - with product packaging often being recyclable, and the products itself often organic, non toxic and also usually non harmful to the environment.  The products themselves are usually of extremely high quality and they tend to prefer a more minimalistic approach to beauty.  Less is more, and the Scandinavians tend to prefer less bottles over more.  Packaging, like the number of beauty products in their cabinet, is scaled black.  There is more monochrome, more simplicity and yet more style.

There was a myriad of entries in this years 2020 Scandinavian Global Makeup Awards and we had so many notable winners. For Hair and Body brands such as Rosenserien, to Sweden Eco, Eleni & Chris and Zenz Organic to makeup brands such as IDUN Minerals and Karmameju's beautiful new BB suncreams.  We were excited to welcome this year SkinChemists, Dr Botanicals and Esse to the skincare categories along side past winners such as Barr Sweden and FOREO (who have launched their incredible beauty gadgets BEAR and UFO2. 

Other notable winners are Icelandic luxury skincare brand Taramar - which uses algae at the forefront of their science.  Primex Iceland - which uses Chitosan as its unique ingredient (sustainable prawn shells from the Atlantic Ocean). Marina Miracle showcased their incredible range, from their lash and eyebrow serum which was a winner in previous awards as well as showcasing their skincare range - we loved their sweet and creamy oil cleanser.   Aiia was also a strong winner in this years awards with its high end skincare founded upon water based serums.

Winners in our beauty awards receive an entry on our website, an image and text in our online magazine and a certificate.  Brands can even choose to further promote their win with a perspex trophy.  The 2021 Scandinavian Global Makeup Awards will return September 15th 2021.  With over 300 entrants it's impossible to name them all in one post, but we hope you enjoy reading our favourites in Global Makeup Magazine.

Who knows what next year will have in store for us and the world.  We were so impressed with all the brands ability to go with the flow all with the backdrop of a global pandemic which impacted staff working from home, warehouse organisation and postage logistics.  In the face of such uncertainty, we know next year will be bigger and brighter as we saw such an impressive range of products entered.  Products that can provide that much needed pick-me-up for those who have had to close themselves up at home with lockdown after lockdown enforced.

To all our readers - Thank You!  We are so happy so many of you tune into Global Makeup Magazine, and we wish you the happiest of Christmas Holidays and New Years.  The Global Makeup Awards commences again from January 1st, launching with our biggest region for the Global Makeup Awards and then followed shortly after by Global Green Beauty Awards - which celebrates all green beauty and eco beauty award winners.

Wishing you a safe December
Dominique
Editor of Global Makeup Magazine