With nearly 2,500 new beauty products appear in stores every year, Allure's Beauty Issue reveals the ones that truly deliver.

Allure's editors and more than 5,000 of its readers award 129 products the Best of Beauty seal in 2002. Included is Pantene Pro-V Conditioner, the only contender to win seven years straight.

What all the winners have in common is a real ability to solve problems.

Ten of the winning products:

1. Lancome Magnificils mascara
2. L'Oreal Plentitude Eye-Makeup Remover
3. Olay Total Effects hand lotion
4. Neutrogena On-the-Spot Acne Treatment
5. Estee Lauder DayWear Creme SPF 15
6. Clarins Gentle Exfoliating Refiner
7. Revlon Skinlights Illusion Wand
8. Cover Girl Outlast Lip Color in Timeless Ruby
9. Matrix Amplify Volumizing shampoo
10. Chanel Chance fragrance

The October issue also features breakthroughs in beauyt, the latest advancement in beauty products which include genuine scientific milestones as well as small marvels of engineering or ingenuity.

Allure identifies some of the biggest makeup, hair- and skin-care innovations of 2002 which include the Osmotics Follicle Nutrient System and Skin Medica TNS Recovery Complex.

There is also a feature on Debra Messing, star of Will & Grace.

Once just a mousy-haired ingenue from Brooklyn, Debra Messing has become television's favorite redhead, quickly being dubbed "Juicy" (the Jewish Lucy).

In the October issue of Allure, the Will & Grace star explains that her ascent has required a lot more than hair dye and good luck.

For her first show, the 1995 sitcom "Ned & Stacey," she recalls, "They brought in these gelatin falsies ... I was convinced I would not be funny with huge boobs."

Messing's clearest sign of success came when Barbra Streisand knew who she was.

"She was introducing all her New York friends in the audience," Messing says of Streisand's farewell concert.

"And she asked 'Who else is here?' Someone yelled 'Will & Grace.'

And she said 'Debra? Debra Messing?' and I jumped out of my seat!"