Don't Miss Glamour's Month of Beauty Giveaways

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We're about 2/3 of the way through Glamour's month long celebration of beauty giveaways, but it's not too late to get in on this, ladies and gents.  Each day, now through June 9th, beauty products in all categories are being awarded.  Still to come:

DHC's Iconic Deep Cleansing Oil - 25 will win!

Perfect Formula's Pink Gel Coat - 30 will win!  I love this product; has done wonders for my thin, peeling nails.

Brow Queen Anastasia Soare's Beverly Hills Brow Gel - 25 will win!

L'Occitane's Angelica Protective Lotion with SPF 15 - 25 get this!

and more ...

All the details are in Glamour magazine.  You can access the giveaways online here.  Good luck, everyone! xo

Source: Glamour, Conde Nast

Allure Month of Giveaways: Prizes - Rest of the Week!

Here's what's up for grabs (and more) this week at Allure.com. Beauty and fashion from Bebe, Lancome, Make Up For Ever, Living Proof No Frizz, Sexy Hair, TS-2, Bliss Spas, Aveeno, Benefit, Olay, Moroccanoil, and so much more!

Enter HERE for a chance to win loads of phenomenal beauty and fashion loot all week long! It's the last week to get in on these. Be sure to check out the Allure Giveaway Schedule too for times and dates of prize giveaways.

Win $1000 for a New Look This Summer with YMI Jeans and Flirt! Cosmetics

At the peak of summer fashion, the chance to revamp your entire makeup drawer and closet all at once is just a click away. YMI Jeans and Flirt! Cosmetics have teamed up to launch the "Summer Flirt! with YMI" sweepstakes offering three (3) entrants the chance to win $1000 worth of prizes. The sweepstakes runs from June 8th through 12:00am EDT on June 28th.

Enter here and invite friends to get 25% off any item available at the YMI online shop at YMIJeans.com.

This sweepstakes isn’t just for one winner, THREE lucky ladies have the chance to completely transform their summer look. This could be your opportunity to restock your fashion and beauty essentials or push the boundaries and try something completely new, such as a Rihanna-esque ensemble!

The prize breakdown is as follows:

• One (1) grand prize winner receives $500 worth of YMI merchandise and Flirt! Cosmetics

• Two (2) second prize winners will receive $250 each of YMI merchandise and Flirt! Cosmetics

No purchase necessary. Sweepstakes open from 6/08/10 to 6/28/10. Void where prohibited by law. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States 18 years of age or older.

Win a $195 Clarisonic Classic Brush in Pink‏: One More Reason to Love b-glowing

b-glowing, the ultimate in niche beauty, is giving away a free Pink Clarisonic Classic worth $195!

They'd like your help in spreading the word about b-glowing.com. In order to enter they need your help with the following:

*Follow b-glowing on Twitter (bglowingcom)

*RT to one of their messages on Twitter

*Follow them on Facebook (b-glowing)

*Re-Post this message on your Facebook

*Send them a b-glowing product review to use on their blog (approximately 200 words)

b-glowing will pick a winner on Friday, 6/7/10. Good luck and thank you for helping to spread the b-glowing love! xo

LUCKYMAG GIVEAWAY: Enter to Win One of 40 Beauty.com Shopping Sprees

We all know the selection at Beauty.com is staggering: more than 250 brands, from high-tech skincare (Perricone MD, Kinerase, Peter Thomas Roth) to lavish perfumes and beautifully packaged gifts (like the lovely Fresh soap you see here). There’s also an impressive natural section, with sleek eco lines such as Origins, Intelligent Nutrients, and Ren Skincare (love all three of those brands by the way). And we love the new iPhone app, which effectively allows you to shop...anywhere. Get out! Really?

Lucky Mag always brings the goods and the month of June will be no different. Enter now for your chance to win one of 40 fantastic Beauty.com shopping sprees worth $250. Contest ends June 28, 2010.

Click HERE to enter!

Maybelline New York, CVS Pharmacy Be Sensational and Win Contest

Hot off the press! The "Cell Block Six" finalists of the Maybelline New York, CVS Pharmacy Be Sensational and Win contest have been announced. The finalists are from NY, FL, CA, NJ, MI and TN.

After an exciting, nationwide search Maybelline New York and CVS/pharmacy have announced the “Cell Block Six” finalists in the Be Sensational And Win Contest. The contest, created by Maybelline New York in partnership with CVS/pharmacy will land the grand prize winner in a performance of Broadway’s Chicago the musical.

Maybelline New York Color Sensational Lipcolor

The Six finalists’ audition videos can be viewed by visiting BeSensationalAndWin.com. Fans are asked to vote for their favorite contestant before May 7th. Each voter will automatically be entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win their own trip for them and a guest to New York City, including air, hotel, and tickets to Chicago, the musical.

Ultimately it’s the voters who decide the Grand Prize winner. The votes for each performer will be tallied and the contestant receiving the most votes will be Broadway bound. I've viewed all six audition videos (they are very brief) and I've got a favorite!  These ladies are all very talented; very fun to watch. Tell me who you vote for and I'll tell you who won my vote.

To cast your vote, visit BeSensationalAndWin.com and help decide who will razzle dazzle the audience in an upcoming performance of Broadway’s Chicago the musical.

GIVEAWAY: Light, Camera Lashes! Tarte MultiplEYE Lash Enhancing Mascara

Ooooooh la la ... Wow-Factor Lashes!

We know how fabulously innovative Tarte Cosmetics is; we know how devoted to green beauty Tarte creator Maureen Kelly is; and we love that with Tarte we can have the best of both worlds.

MultiplEYE lands on the heels of Tarte's Light Camera Lashes, the wildly popular 4-in-1clinically proven natural mascara that lengthens, curls, volumizes and conditions eye lashes.

This is the brand new lash enhancing mascara from Tarte, and now is your opportunity to win one of your very own.

MultiplEYE™ Clinically-Proven Natural Lash Enhancing Mascara

A one-of-a-kind mascara that is clinically proven to immediately increase the appearance of lash volume by 638%, while also increasing the appearance of lash length with regular use.

Fortify lashes by naturally increasing the appearance of lash volume by 638%, while also increasing the appearance of lash length and growth. Using a unique blend of high-performance natural™ botanical nutrients, tarte has engineered a nourishing onyx-black mascara base infused with their proprietary HydroPlant™ peptide (a soy-amino super protein) to help stimulate lashes for a 638% increase in the appearance of lash volume and increased appearance of length, growth, and strength.

To achieve maximum results use as a part of the multiplEYE™ 3-step regimen for naturally enhanced lashes without the prescription or the harmful side effects. Use with multiplEYE™ clinically proven natural lash enhancing primer for an incredible 1102% increase in the appearance of lash volume! The towering spiral brush separates and envelops each lash in the nutrient-rich formula to help promote the appearance of sky-high lashes.

To enter:
We want to know why you'd like to try MultiplEYE Lash Enchancing Mascara or why you simply must have MultiplEYE . Share your comments in the entry form below along with your email (won't be shown online) so we may contact you if you win. One winner will be chosen at random to win this prize. This contest is open to residents in the USA only. Good Luck!

NOTE: Your entry acknowledges permission to provide representatives for Tarte with your contact and mailing information if you win this sweepstakes. One (1) winner will be chosen to receive this prize. Mascara shade is black. Contest open to residents of the USA only. Contest ends Sun., April 11, 2010 at 11:59 pm.

And for a yummy exfoliating treat to soothe and prepare lips for a healthy showing for spring and summer months, be sure to check out Tarte Frxtion, an award winning duel-sided stick that's both a natural sugar exfoliator as well as a lip balm. Use the sugar crystals to exfoliate your lips, then apply the vanilla scented lip balm on the now-smooth surface to condition and protect lips. Sugar craving anyone?

VOGUE: Enter to Win "The September Issue: Anna Wintour & the Making of Vogue"

As the cover implies ... "if fashion is a religion, THIS is the bible!"

Director: R.J. Cutler

Cast: Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, Andre Leon Talley, Thakoon Panichgul

Editorial Review

Vogue has been the most powerful and best-respected fashion magazine in the world for decades, and each year the journal devotes a fall issue to the designs and designers that the editors feel will be influential in the coming year. The September 2007 issue of Vogue, that year's annual Fall Fashion issue, became the biggest single issue in the magazine's long history, and filmmaker R.J. Cutler was given unprecedented access to Vogue's creative team as the issue was being prepared. The September Issue is a documentary which focuses on Vogue editor Anna Wintour as she visits the annual Fashion Week shows, accepts or dismisses the latest creations of the biggest names in fashion, works with the models, photographers, and writers who help bring her vision to the page, and labors with her staff to determine what the world's fashionistas will be wearing for the next 12 months. The September Issue received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where it received an award for excellence in documentary cinematography.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

The September Issue offers unprecedented access to the inside world of Vogue. It documents extraordinary talent working under demanding circumstances to publish an editorial product that consistently delivers the uncompromising vision and creative rigor you have come to count on month after month.

Vogue has teamed up with Barnes & Noble to give away 50 DVD sets of an exclusive edition of The September Issue -- complete with 90 minutes of new footage, including never-before-seen scenes from the annual Met Ball -- the fashion party of the year.

Click HERE to enter to win The September Issue special DVD 3-disc set

GIVEAWAY: NVPerriconeMD Cold Plasma

What's the hottest new product receiving rave reviews from NVPerriconeMD?

Cold Plasma
Five years of intensive research guided by a lifetime of scientific insight has yielded Cold Plasma, a breakthrough in skincare technology from renowned healthy aging expert Dr. Nicholas Perricone.
Formulated with Dr. Perricone's patented delivery system, Cold Plasma addresses the 10 most visible signs of aging: wrinkles, enlarged pores, dryness, discoloration, redness, uneven skin tone, impurities, loss of firmness, loss of smoothness and loss of radiance.

Our skin is the largest organ in the body and the barometer for internal health. As we age, our cellular metabolism changes, creating the need for easily assimilated targeted nutrients. Inherent in Cold Plasma technology is the understanding that your skin determines the nutrients it needs to stay healthy, supple and youthful looking.  The testimonials on this product speak for themselves.

What do you have to do to enter?
We want to know why you'd like to try Cold Plasma or why you think you simply must have Cold Plasma.  Share your comments in the entry form below along with your email (won't be shown online) so we may contact you if you win.  One winner will be chosen at random to win this prize. This contest is open to residents in the USA and Canada. Good Luck!

NOTE: Your entry acknowledges permission to provide representatives for NVPerriconeMD with your contact and mailing information if you win this sweepstakes. One (1) winner will be chosen to receive this prize. Contest ends March 21, 2010 at 11:59 pm.

One for the Guys: Gorgeous Orient Automatic Watch Giveaway

Orient is widely cherished in Asia, Europe, and South America, and is Japan’s largest producer of automatic watches. It is finally available in the United States. With more than 50 years of history and an annual production of over 2 million timepieces, Orient could quite possibly be the largest watch company you never knew existed.

I've been drooling over their offerings since first learning about them only days ago. I'm loving their automatic watch section. I wish I'd known about them for Valentine's Day as my sweetie definitely would have received one as a gift. Of course, there's always his birthday ...

Making their presence known in the USA, Orient has been featured in People magazine, The New York Times, WWD and other media. Now, they're giving one lucky For the Love of Beauty reader the fabulous white-faced automatic watch shown above! Another automatic to look out for is the Orient CTD09001B, one of their sporty varieties, which retails for $350.

What do you have to do to enter?
Just take a peek at the Orient website and tell us what you like best about their watches in the entry form below. That's it. One winner will be chosen at random to win this prize.

NOTE: Your entry acknowledges permission to provide Orient with your contact and mailing information if you win this sweepstakes. One (1) winner for this prize. Contest ends March 7, 2010 at 11:59 pm.

Special Invitations for You from Elle

Gonna be in Los Angeles March 3rd?

If so, here's an event you'll want to attend. ELLE issues you a special invitation to celebrate the 2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards along with celebrity host Rachelle Lefevre at The Beverly Center. Enjoy shopping, snacks, beverages, special discount and free gifts with purchases. The event will help to aid the American Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.

You are asked to RSVP by March 1st if you'd like to attend.

800.362.0766

Here's a fun opprtunity!

ELLE is looking for the next red carpet reporter to report from the action at one of ELLE’s upcoming star studded events! Do you love keeping up with your favorite celebrities? Are you a great interviewer? Whatever your specialty, we want to see. And as your reward for showing off, you’ll have the chance to win big!

Send in your 30-second audition tape showcasing your celeb interviewing skills for your chance in the spotlight!

Do you have what it takes?

Upload your videos HERE.

Matte Lips Right through Spring

Rachel McAdams and Scarlett Johansson

You know that matte lip look that won crowds over during the runway shows for Fall/Winter fashion week? Expect the trend to continue well into spring. Now, we're not talking about powdery, dry, chapped looking lips; this is a fresh, modern, approach to pretty lips with a modern edge, and oh so easy to achieve when you have the right product.


Lip Tech shades: Nude (creamy beige-y nude), Peony (rosy pink), Sangria (berry fuschia) and Maple (deep warm nude)

Enter Smashbox Lip Tech. Here's the scoop:
Lip Tech is a new weightless, satin-matte lip color that perfectly contours lips and comes in a mirrored compact with a unique silicone applicator. The formula contains Vitamin E and emollients to protect and provide a soft, cushiony feel. The silicone applicator is key to the application. Because it's not spongy, the product doesn't soak into the tip, allowing the ability to stack or layer lip color directly onto lips.

Spring runways were all about softly stained, satin-matte lips. In the short video above, Smashbox Lead Makeup Artist Lori Taylor shows us how to get this ultra-feminine, romantic look in just a few simple steps using Smashbox Lip Tech.

Great Freebie! Smashbox has a special beauty offer going on now where shoppers receive this gorgeous ready-for-spring Eyeshadow Trio in Glow FREE with your online Smashbox order of $65 or more. Hurry, though, expires 2/15/10.

Enter code: VDAYPNK at checkout

While you're checking out Lip Tech and other fab award-winning Smashbox products on their site, be sure to enter for a chance to win their Share the Love Sweepstakes partnering up with Lucky magazine. Smashbox and Lucky are giving away the ultimate swag bag, a Lucky VIP tote filled with $500 of Smashbox Cosmetics plus other goodies, to one winner and her BFF.

Click HERE to enter the Share the Love Sweepstakes now

Smashbox Lip Tech retails for $24 and is available through Smashbox and other retailers.

Elle's Spirit of Style Sweepstakes

Are you an indie film lover with a penchant for clothing black and white? If so, you don't want to miss out on this contest from ELLE magazine and White House Black Market.

White House Black Market invites you to win a stylish, star-studded trip for two to attend Film Independent’s 2010 Spirit Awards in Los Angeles. One lucky winner will receive roundtrip airfare to Los Angeles, two nights accommodations at a hotel, dinner at an LA hotspot, ground transportation to and from the airport, backstage passes to the coveted ELLE green room at the Independent 2010 Spirit Awards, plus a $1,000 shopping spree provided by White House Black Market!

Enter the Spirit of Style Sweepstakes for a chance to win!

Tarte Girl on Top Sweepstakes

In Girl on Top, career expert and best-selling author Nicole Williams takes 20 tried-and-true dating rules you know (and have probably used) such as "Play Hard to Get" and "Don’t Give Away the Milk for Free"—and shows you how to put them to use when the object of your affection is your job. With her ingenious approach—taking the tactics used to land a man and applying them to your career—you’ll be able to handle any work situation and come out on top. Here's the advice no one else has been willing to tell you, right at your fingertips!

And to celebrate the release of Girl on Top, Tarte is sponsoring their own girl on top contest free-for-all! I love a good giveaway, don't you? Here's the scoop:

Three lucky winners will receive a Tarte and Girl on Top prize package. The Grand Prize includes: (over a $1,250 value!)

Phone coaching session with Girl on Top author and career expert Nicole Williams
A signed copy of Girl on Top
Girl on Top reusable tote
Tarte's clean slate natural primer
Tarte's lash lights, camera, lashes! 4-in-1 clinically proven natural mascara
Tarte's picture perfect eyelash curler
Tarte's park avenue princess mineral bronzer
Tarte's natural cheek stain in dollface
Tarte's emphasEYES in black
Tarte's eye couture palette
Tarte's rise and shine in mauve

There are second and third prizes to win as well. Lots of goodness to be spread. So, what to do you have to do to win? Ohhhh, a whole lot! Alright, sorry, sarcastic, stupid mood has aparently taken over me tonight.

Just click HERE to complete the entry form. Yep, that's it.

Look for your special code for 20% of Tarte products after entering. Winners will be selected at random and notified via email. No purchase neccesary to enter. Contest closes on October 31, 2009 11:59pm EST.

Allure Virtual Store's Best of Beauty Sweepstakes

Win a huge suitcase full of Allure's Best of Beauty picks!

I like to pass along these little gems when I find them. This one sounds fantastic. Enter for a chance to win the mother of all goodie bags. Each year, at Allure's Best of Beauty party in New York City, they give their VIP guests a massive suitcase packed with past and present winners plus new favorites – more than 100 products in all.

Starting October 1st, enter for your chance to score this year's suitcase, valued at $3,330!

Click HERE to enter.

Discover Allure's Best of Beauty 2009 online now. There are 189 picks in makeup, skincare, haircare, body care, nails, natural wonders (yea!), men's stuff, best splurges and more.

The Mommy Glow Sweepstakes from Benefit x Serena & Lily

You already know about the goodness of Benefit, have you heard of Serena & Lily? As seen in Parents, Elle Decor, C Magazine and many others, Serena & Lily are, "what's hot!"

For Serena Dugan, a textile designer and artist, and Lily Kanter, a baby boutique owner and savvy businesswoman, "Children’s spaces that are fresh and style-driven, with dynamic color and pattern combination, timeless and comfortable through sophistication and simplicity… is what we both dreamed of."

What a great combination - The sisters of Benefit Cosmetics and the ladies of Serena & Lily offering moms a fantastic contest to win fresh treasures uniquely their own.

Enter for a chance to win a $2,500 gift certificate at Serena & Lily to design a one-of-a-kind bedroom for your child AND $500 at Benefit Cosmetics. 15 runners-up will win a Serena & Lily Gypsy Tote & top sellers from the Benefit Mommy Glow collection.

Click HERE to enter the contest now.

Contest ends 9/8/09. No purchase necessary.

For more information and to shop these great stores, visit Benefit and Serena & Lily online.

L'Occitane Provencal Tote Full of Goodies Sweepstakes

Enter to win L'Occitane's new contest for a teasure trove of Provencal best-selling products. This is a basket tote filled with wonderful L'Occitane goodies worth $250. The gift basket includes:

Shea Butter Hand Cream
Shea Butter Foot Cream
Aromachologie Volumizing Shampoo
Aromachologie Volumizing Conditioner
Olive Golden Branch Shower Cream
Olive Golden Branch Body Lotion
Shea Butter Extra Gentle Soap - Milk
Immortelle Brightening Cleansing Foam
Lavender Scented Candle
Verbena Shower Gel
Honey & Lemon Foaming Jelly
Lavender Bunches
L'Occitane Shopping Basket

The contest ends 8/31/09 so be sure to enter soon.

Click HERE to enter the contest and to learn more about these soothing, fresh botanical beauties.

Sally Hansen HD High Definition Nail Color

Introducing High Definition Nail Color from Sally Hansen.

• The Color: Pure, vivid pigments with multi-dimensional color & vibrance.
• The Technology: Patented formula with Real Liquid Crystals for multi-dimensional color and iridescent shine!
• The Result: Dazzling, Lustrous High-Definition Color.
  
  
  High Definition is the new standard for visual and audio entertainment. Now Sally Hansen translates this unrivaled clarity and brilliance into nail color!

Enter Sally Hansen's Hi-Definition Nail Color Sweepstakes!

July 8, 2009 - September 15, 2009

• One Grand Prize winner will receive a 32inch HD TV
• Three 1st Prize winners will receive an iPod Nano
• Ten weekly winners receive a Sally Hansen gift bag

For more information about Sally Hansen products, including their HD High Definition Nail Color line, visit them online at SallyHansen.com.

Chris Benz x Lancôme: Pout-à-Porter Lipstick Collection Continues

shade: Chris & Tell - a peachy, pastel carrot

Lancôme is thrilled to announce they're bringing back the Pout-à-Porter Lipstick series!

The previous four lipsticks in this collection were collaborations with celebrated designers Behnaz Sarafpour, Proenza Schouler, Peter Som and Thakoon. Thakoon's Pixel Pink and Peter Som's P.S. Kiss were my two personal favorites, though all four of them received lots of love from the beauty blogging community and from editorial print. All four of the lipsticks sold out in their heyday, and one Proenza Pink lipstick even sold for $122.50 on eBay.

For Spring 2010 Lancôme is collaborating with emerging designer Chris Benz and they want your help! They're doing a lipstick naming contest that was announced on Chris Benz’s Facebook fan page today and they're spreading the word to all the beauty blogging readers. The new shade will be inspired by Chris’ Spring 2010 collection and will be worn by the models at his show in September. The contest winner will receive five of the lipsticks plus a $500 Lancôme gift certificate. All you have to do is post your name suggestion on Chris’ Facebook fan page based on what you know about Chris and his fashion personality.

Waste no time as the deadline for submissions is Sunday, July 12th, at 5 p.m. EST.

Here’s the link to the Chris Benz's fan page. While you’re there don’t forget to become a fan:
Chris Benz - Facebook Page for Fans

Philosophy Favorites for July Sweepstakes

philosophy: summer fun has just begun

Did you forget to enter Philosophy's June Sweepstakes? Well, you've got another opportunity in July. Different products, but deliciously summer-ful (yes, I just made that up), nonetheless. Five lucky winners will receive this collection, worth a whopping $250. I love Philosophy! (heavy sigh)

Included in the collection:

Hope in Jar World Famous Moisturizer 1 oz

Purity Made Simple One-Step Facial Cleanser 8 oz
New Eye Hope Advanced Anti-Aging Eye Cream .5 oz
The Microdelivery In-Home Peel
Shelter Sunblock SPF30 4 oz

Amazing Grace Perfumed Shave Gel 7 oz
Kiss Me Clear Lip Gloss SPF 20
Senorita Margarita Shampoo, Shower Gel & Bubble Bath 16 oz
Melon Daiquiri Shampoo, Shower Gel & Bubble bath 16 oz
Black Philosophy T-Shirt (choice of sizes)

I've already entered and hoping to be one of the five, so good luck to you other Philosophy Girls who consider this a drool-worthy prize. The contest ends 7/31/09 and winners will be notified end of August. See website for details.

Click HERE to enter contest

By the way, if you're needing to restock your own Philosophy favorites, there are fab deals going on this weekend at QVC and SkinStore. I'm out of Amazing Grace Spray Fragrance, one of my all-time favorite fragrances, and took advantage of a fantastic boxed set on QVC just moments ago (see below). But you should also know that SkinStore is offering 20% off storewide right now, so nice savings there too.

Included: 16-oz buffing wash, 5-oz body butter, 8-oz body spritz, 2-oz eau de parfum
Bonus 2-oz perfumed hair conditioner - Introductory Price $64.62

Visit QVC for more information on this offer and many other Philosophy offers this weekend. To take advantage of SkinStore's 20% off celebration event (on Philosophy or any other brands), enter code: JULY20 at checkout.