Last night marked the seventh annual Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) Beauty Biz Awards and we are incredibly proud to announce that No Frizz came away with the Breakthrough Product of the Year Award in the Hair category!

The crème de la crème of the beauty industry , including Fabrizio Freda, president and CEO of Estée Lauder, and Lynne Green, global president of Clinique, Origins, and Ojon, all gathered at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan last night to honor the best of 2009.

Peter Born, WWD’s Executive Director of Beauty, said, “During one of the most challenging business climates in decades, those who pushed boundaries won. Here, we celebrate the year’s best and brightest.”

The event also honored Sephora as the winner of the Specialty Retailer of the Year. Other winners included Maison Francis Kurkdjian for fragrance, Perricone MD Cold Plasma for skin, and Clinique Even Better Makeup SPF 15 for color cosmetics.

Last year’s winner in the Hair category was Intelligent Nutrients. Previous winners also include Aveda Men and Ted Gibson .