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December 2007
VAVOOM WINS AGAIN
View Coverage In honor of 2007's truly breakthrough beauty products, Redbook editors present their favorites in the December issue. It's no surprise that Vavoom Gold Heat Iron-In Volume was featured among "The Best Beauty Booty of 2007", winning the RedbookMVP...


October 2007
MATRIX MEN WINS ESQUIRE GROOMING AWARD
View Coverage From hundreds of products submitted, tried and tested only 14 are able to call themselves winners and “worth your money” according to experts at Esquire. Included amoung the elite - Matrix Men Form Putty which took home...

BIOLAGE RECEIVES COSMOGIRL'S KISS OF APPROVAL AWARD
View Coverage On Sept 20th, CosmoGIRL and keynote speaker Tim Gunn hosted their 2007 Kiss of Approval Beauty Awards in honor of this year’s winners. Biolage hydrathérapie Conditioning Balm received a Reader's Kiss of Approval for Richest Conditioner and voted...

BIOLAGE WIN NATURAL HEALTH AWARD
View Coverage Every year Natural Health editors, a panel of dermatologists and more than 700 readers test hundreds of products to determine which are the safest and most effective in their category. This year Biolage volumathérapie Bodifying Crème Gel...

MATRIX TAKES HOME 20 BEAUTY LAUNCHPAD READER'S CHOICE AWARDS
Beauty Launchpad asked readers to choose their favorite products and the simple answer was anything Matrix. This year Matrix had 20 wins in 32 categories, including Favorite Styling Aid – Vavoom Gold Heat; Favorite Shampoo for Curly Hair –...


September 2007
Top Magazines Vote Amplify Stylers 'The Best of Beauty'
View CoverageView Coverage On September 17, Allure Magazine - the beauty authority - held their annual Best of Beauty awards in Manhattan. The editors' top pick for Best Wave Enhancer - NEW Amplify Full Body Texturizer, which "endows waves...


August 2007
Sleek.look Wins Glamour Glammy Beauty Award Third Year In A Row
View Coverage For the THIRD YEAR in a row, Sleek.look Shampoo and Conditioner have won Glamour Magazine's Glammy beauty award in the prestige category for Favorite Shampoo/Favorite Conditioner. Ballots were sent to 1.4 million subscribers and more than 91,000...


June 2007
Vavoom Take Me Higher Root Riser Takes Home Behindthechair.com Stylist Choice Award
View Coverage On June 10th 2,500 of the industries crème de le crème gathered for the 7th Annual Behindthechair.com Stylists Choice Awards. This spring stylists were asked to vote online for their favorites and chose Vavoom Take Me Higher...


May 2007
Matrix Takes Home Self 2007 Healthy Beauty Award
View Coverage More than 1,000 new products from the last 12 months were submitted and a thousand plus Self readers from all 50 states tried and voted on their favorites. Biolage Volumatherapie Bodifying Crème Gel won for Best Volumizer....

Matrix Men Wins Two Men's Health 2007 Grooming Awards
View Coverage On April 10th Men's Health, held their 2007 Grooming Awards in NYC. The editors asked America's top barbers to identify the best products to solve men's biggest grooming problems. The panel of judges selected Matrix Men for...


February 2007
Matrix Nabs 2007 Salon Plus Editor's Choice Awards
Just days into the New Year, Matrix has won three 2007 Salon Plus Editor's Choice Awards. Best Volumizing Shampoo and Conditioner: Vavoom Bust Out Body Shampoo Vavoom Bust Out Body Conditioner Best Smoothing Shampoo and Conditioner: Sleek.look Shampoo Sleek.look...


December 2006
Redbook names Sleek.look Smooth Recovery treatment MVP
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Matrix Takes Home 13 Beauty LaunchPad Reader's Choice Awards
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October 2006
Biolage colorcarethérapie Color Care Shampoo & Conditioner receive Allure Best of Beauty Reader's Choice Award


Matrix Men Moisture Rev and Energel receive Style award by Stuff magazine.



August 2006
Biolage smooththérapie Smoothing Shampoo wins Star Magazine - Superstar Beauty Award 2006


Sleek.look voted favorite Shampoo & Conditioner 2nd year in a row by Glamour readers


Vavoom Take Me Higher Root Riser wins Shape Magazine - Shape of Beauty Award


Matrix Men Nominated for FHM Grooming Award
Two products from the NEW Matrix Men collection are already being singled out as best-in-class by the experts. Matrix Men Form Putty and Thick Surge Thickening Shampoo are finalists for the 2006 FHM Grooming Awards. Winners will be announced...

Child Readers Pick Biolage
Biolage has the vote of the 1,600 moms surveyed for Child Magazines Beauty Awards. The September issue reveals that hydrathérapie Conditioning Balm is one of their favorite go-to beauty products....


May 2006
Biolage Smooththérapie Smoothing Shampoo wins Self Healthy Beauty Award.



May 2005
Matrix received two awards at this year's Men's Health "Best Looks Grooming Awards"
Matrix was thrilled to receive two awards at this year's Men's Health "Best Looks Grooming Awards," held Tuesday at NYC's Lever House. The May issue announces all winners, listing Amplify Gel-Wax as "Best Wax Runner-up" and DirtyTrix as "Best...

Matrix Wins Top Beauty Awards from Self Magazine
The self proclaimed SATs of beauty, Self Magazine's Healthy Beauty Awards separate the good from the great. While 1,000 new products were nominated, just 75 of the newcomers were selected as the winners currently featured in the magazine's 6th...


April 2005
Matrix wins at the BTC Stylist Choice Awards!
Twenty-five years later, Matrix is still true to its "for stylists, by stylists" roots. So what better award to win than one given by stylists themselves! This past weekend, Matrix took home three awards at behindthechair.com's 5th Annual Stylist...


March 2005
Teen People Beauty Awards
Just three months into the new year and Matrix is already an award-winning sensation. The Teen People Beauty Awards were recently announced in their March issue and Matrix walked away with a first place prize as well as a...


February 2005
Matrix Color.smart wins Best Hair Product for Color-treated Hair
Click here to see the Slide Show Awards season has kicked into high gear and Matrix - like Leo DiCaprio and Hillary Swank - is a front-runner thanks to the recent launch of the Color.smart Protective Luminating System. Though...


December 2004
Redbook MVP Awards: Sleek.look!
As one of Redbook's elite 2004 Most Valuable Product (MVP) Award Winners, the Sleek.look line has again received praise from national press. Following coverage in the magazine's September issue, the honors officially came December 1st at a Bryant Park...


November 2004
Matrix Wins Again at Health's Healthy Beauty Awards
For the second year running, Matrix is the proud recipient of a Healthy Beauty Award from Health magazine. The most recent in an increasingly long line of awards and accolades, the honors came October 27th at the Rainbow Room,...


October 2004
Matrix Deemed a Winner by Cosmopolitan Magazine
Matrix is being recognized throughout consumer and beauty magazines as a consistent winner in the beauty products category . Fresh on the heels of recent awards in Allure, Self and Child, Matrix's latest accolades come in Cosmopolitan 's October issue,...


September 2004
Matrix Wins ALLURE Magazine's Seal of Approval
Just in time to go back-to-school in style, Matrix earned a pair of accolades from Beauty Expert ALLURE at the magazine's annual Best of Beauty Breakfast. Held Wednesday, September 8th, in Manhattan, the ultra-competitive, prestigious event praised Matrix Biolage...


July 2004
Matrix wins at the 54th Annual National Paperbox Association Packaging Competition
The boxes and cartons were assessed and the prizes awarded. When all the votes were counted, the prestigious 54th Annual National Paperbox Association Packaging Competition awarded L’Oreal USA/Matrix, in conjunction with Diamond Packaging, five Gold Awards and six Excellence Awards....


June 2004
Self Beauty Awards 2004 names Matrix Curl.life Contouring Cream as the best curling product!
Just out on newsstands is the May issue of Self Magazine. This year, Self had 1,200 readers test more than 900 beauty products that launched in the past 12 months. After going through all the testimonials and feedback, the...

Matrix wins at the Stylist Choice Awards
Paul Smith, VP of Matrix Education, received the awards for best Volumizing product and best non-chemical straightening line, as chosen by salon professionals at behindthechair.com's 4th Annual Stylist Choice Awards. Brand Managers, Carrington Cole and Jennifer Ocean are also...


May 2004
Town & Country
Conditioners and Treatments- Biolage Daily Leave-In Tonic Matrix Biolage Daily Leave In Tonic is named among Town & Country magazine 's 150 Best Beauty Products in the new May issue. For the first time in nearly eight years, the magazine...


April 2004
Behindthechair.com's 4th Annual Stylist Choice Awards
Favorite Straightening product- Sleek.look Favorite Volumizing Product- Amplify These awards are considered the most powerful in the industry because they are voted on by stylists that use Matrix products on a daily basis. Over 100,000 stylists are given the opportunity...


March 2004
Teen People, Spring Trendspotter Awards
Hair Care- Curl.life The new Matrix Curl.life product line has been chosen by Teen People's Trendspotter report as their "Hot Pick" for Spring in the hair care category. Teen People compiles this quarterly "hot picks" list featuring products that are...


February 2004
Dallas Morning News
Favorite Conditioner: Biolage Conditioning Balm Favorite Volumizing Products: Amplify line Dallas Morning News reports the winners of a nationwide contest appearing in Cosmetics Counter Update. A survey of 75,000 stylists nationwide names Matrix a winner in two categories. Matrix Biolage...

Teen People: Trendspotter Approved Beauty Award: Favorite Conditioner - Sleek.look Smoothing Conditioner
Teen People readers chose Matrix Sleek.look Smoothing Conditioner as their favorite for the Teen People Beauty Awards 2004. One reader says, "This conditioner made it easy to take out knots from my hair and it rinsed out quickly." Even the...