If you have problem skin, it’s probably the main thing on your mind every single time you look in the vanity mirror.

Acne can be a personal horror story, and can be aggravated by anything from stress to hormones to genetics (yes, you can blame your parents!!!).

Plenty of my readers swear by Proactiv, and their 3-step system is undeniably awesome.

Step 1: Renewing Cleanser

This cleanses but  also exfoliates dead skin cells, and contains benzoyl peroxide, which helps to attack bacteria.

Step 2: Revitalizing Toner

You know how I’m always saying how important toner is? This one contains glycolic acid, which helps balance skin tone and the skin’s natural acids. The witch hazel in it also refines and purifies pores; aloe and chamomile to soothes, plus removes excess surface oil without drying.

Step 3: Repairing Lotion

Finishing touches are super important, as is a smooth, soft surface. This is a light, oil-free lotion with milled 2.5% benzoyl peroxide to help heal blemishes.

Five winners will receive this three-step system, chosen at random from the entries below. To have your chance, please share your biggest skincare concern! Deadline is June 20.

Image: Proactiv

As a beauty maven, we may have the market cornered on powders and potions, and be lost souls when it comes to choosing gifts for our guy.

To that end, eBeautyDaily has partnered with Buy.com and the eBillme Debt Free Mall to give Dad something great for Father’s Day. Win your favorite guy an awesome Father’s Day gift – a 16GB SanDisk USB Flash drive!

This USB flash drive is great for home, work or travelling – to store your favorite photos, videos, songs and backup files and more.

Entering is easy - just tell me the best (or worst) gift you’ve ever given a guy in your life. Or, if you are guy, likewise, tell me the best or worst gift you’ve received.

One winner will be chosen at random from all entries by June 1.

Image: Buy.com

Do you have a fabulous mom?

Well, thank her for it…twice!

I am thrilled to be a celebrity judge in Vivabox’s Mother’s Day contest…and I’d love any of you who want to celebrate Mother’s Day in style (and not have to actually buy a gift) to go enter…and give me judging to do!

The vivabox Thank Her Twice Contest started today and runs through May 1.  The winner will receive two vivaboxes of their choice for the special Mom in their life: One to be delivered in time for Mother’s Day and a second to be delivered in time for her birthday.

I love the concept of this product - it’s sort of a “gift within a gift”. There’s spa and beauty options, but there’s also prizes that will be loved by wine lovers, coffee addicts, or even a big barbecue fan!

To enter, simply submit 200 words or less on why the mom in your life (your mom/sister/grandmother/friend, etc.) deserves an extra special gift this year. What has she done over the past year that’s been so remarkable that thanking her once is just simply not enough?

The vivabox staff will carefully review all entries, and the top ten essays will then be vetted us celebrity judges.

To enter, email contest@vivaboxusa.com and include:

*Your Full Name

*The Name of your Chosen “Mom” and your relationship to her

*Daytime phone number

*Mailing Address of where you want the boxes sent

*Two vivaboxes of your choice

Good luck! I really want one of my readers to win!

Image: Vivaboxusa.com

Happy Friday!

To celebrate it being the weekend, I figured we were due for a new contest. And so I’ve teemed up with Neutrogena to celebrate their brand ambassador Emma Robert’s April Teen Vogue cover with tons of goodies!

Our 1st prize winner will receive

· A copy of the April issue of Teen Vogue signed by Emma Roberts

· A set of the Neutrogena products used to get Emma’s cover look (see attached scan)

o Nourishing Eye Quad in Tea Biscuit

o MoistureShine Lipstick in Berry Burst

o Healthy Volume Mascara in Black

o Oil Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Facial Cleanser

o Healthy Defense SPF 30 Daily Moisturizer

And one second prize winner will win:

· A set of the Neutrogena products used to get Emma’s cover look (see attached scan)

o Nourishing Eye Quad in Tea Biscuit

o MoistureShine Lipstick in Berry Burst

o Healthy Volume Mascara in Black

o Oil Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Facial Cleanser

o Healthy Defense SPF 30 Daily Moisturizer

We all had our favorite teen magazines growing up - so, to have your chance to win, share your favorite teen magazine memory? Was there one that you subscribed to and would read straight out of the box? Or loiter in the supermarket to flip through? Winners will be chosen at random from responses.

Deadline April 20th.

Image: Teen Vogue

As everyone is very much aware, I’m sure, for the entire month of March, every day we’ve been giving out AWESOME prizes as part of our March Madness event.

Well, today, in honor of the final day of March, I am giving out the grand prize - and it’s the most awesome one of all.

Behold the TRIA Laser Hair Removal System - worth close to $1,000 - and just about the best thing to come to laser hair removal ever. It takes the concept of the pricey salons, and brings it home (or wherever you are most comfy).

Basically, this couldn’t happen at a better time - it’s the recession. Professional hair removal can cost as much as 10K (per body part!!!), so it seems to make sense to just invest in something that can pay for itself over time. Plus, it’s sort of fun to play with and shows results the first month! (Complete results vary by person, but usually takes around six months of use.)

(I kid you not. It’s fun!)

We have one TRIA to give away to one very lucky reader - to have your chance, simply comment on any three EBeautyDaily entries from the past week including this one (remember to include your name and email address!) by 11:59 tonight (EST). Winner will be chosen at random from our responses. Thanks so much for playing, and good luck!

Image: TRIA Beauty

If you love going to the spa, but cannot bear the expense, you chose the right day to stop by eBeautyDaily.

Several lucky winners can be a goddess of the spa in the tranquility of their own boudoir, courtesy of Venus Spa Breeze.

Women can easily spend up to $150 on one spa treatment, but for a mere fraction of that price you keep your legs smooth for a year with new Venus Spa Breeze. Lightly fragranced with the fresh scent of white tea, Spa Breeze has built-in shave gel bars that provide skin-loving light lather for a close shave without shave gel.

As part of this awesome spa package (worth over $400!!!), you will win:

§ Nail polish

§ Spa Finder gift certificate

§ Silk robe

§ Foot spa

§ Cooling eye pads

§ Spa Breeze and Spa Breeze Disposables

To have your chance to win, tell me why YOU deserve (and NEED) a spa day!

Deadline to enter is April 1. Good luck!

Images: SpaFinder, Venus Spa Breeze, Bliss Spa

During the month of March, there’s madness going on at Splendicity - of the prize and contest variety! The reason for this craziness?

To celebrate the re-launch of Splendicity, we are giving away a prize a day for the entire month of March on some part of the site. Today, as part of the March Madness festivities, we are giving you the chance to win Eyes By Design Retouching Cream and M. Asam Tinted Day Cream from HSN.

As anyone who reads any of my blogs knows, I am crazy for giveaways, and I’m excited to participate!

HSN recently launched a series of Web episodes at www.FacesofBeautifulYou.com - these episodes are vignette-like sitcoms that follow the adventures of three best friends, Hallie, Smith, and Nicki, as they explore love, beauty, and careers, with Gen-Y angst and comedy sprinkled in. It’s pretty cool!

The episode that is posting today, titled Sleepy Beauty, will feature Eyes by Design Retouching Cream as well as M. Asam Tinted Day Cream - and to celebrate that, five of you will win one of each!

Eyes By Design Retouching Cream ($30): Diminishes the appearance of imperfections in the eye area. It helps make the entire eye area look more radiant - which god knows all of us can use in this bleak, dreary weather.

M. Asam Tinted Day Cream ($25): Moisturizes and gives skin a natural tint. Tinted moisturizer is the best way to maintain a flawless complexion with light coverage.

Here’s something else cool: If you are on Facebook, check out the Faces of Beautiful You Facebook Page - and join in on the fun. While you are there, you may want to play with the Interactive “Beauty Bag” Widget that you can place on your own Facebook or MySpace pages.

The widget lets you customize your own virtual beauty bag with tons of interactive features like reading and writing reviews on featured products, receiving fan-only offers and discounts, and getting the latest makeup and beauty tips!

I love when my love of makeup and cyber geek-chic-dom merge!

To have your chance to win, simply leave a comment below about how you value your best friends. Five winners will randomly be chosen to win both products. This is a one-day deal. Deadline to enter is tonight at 11:59pm. Good luck!

Images: HSN

JIM CARREY IS THE NEW YES MAN

WHAT DO YOU SAY YES TO?

This holiday season Yes To Carrots is launching its new holiday collections:

• Frosty Loves C Lip Butter Set

· Travel with C Shower Essentials

· Travel with C Body Essentials

I am super excited about this news of these new holiday items - and to celebrate will be giving away tix to the new Jim Carrey film Yes Man. For those who are unfamiliar, this is a line that is completely organic, and super affordable. (Plus, we all can use more veggies in our lives.) Whether you enjoy noshing on carrots or are nauseated by the thought of them (if you enjoy them, check out Yes to Carrots’ carrot recipes), don’t deny yourself the beauty benefits of applying them to your skin! I experienced only a small selection of the wide range of Yes to Carrots products and am delightfully pleased with the results. All you need to do is reply below with one thing you will SAY YES TO this holiday season.

Please comment below if you would like a chance to win tix to this movie - I have five sets of two tickets to give away (You’ll win a Fandango code, so it will work no matter where you live!). This movie opened 12/19, and so the contest will be a short and fast one so that you can see the movie while it’s still out - contest ends Wednesday 12/24!

Thanks and Here’s to a Yes Filled Holiday Season!

Some who know me may think my world revolves around me. That’s not precisely true: However, my mascara DOES revolve around me!

(Drum beat.)

For the past few months, I’ve been seeing these ads for this new invention called SPINLASH. I’ll be honest, I’ve been thus far too scared of myself, and my inherent klutzdom, to try it. This mascara has a rotating brush that simultaneously separates, organizes, shapes, coats, lengthens and volumizes eyelashes.

Allegedly.

Sounds amazing, right? But I’ve heard the same about hair brushes, and to be honest…they did nothing but cause my skull to feel like it was oddly pulsating. The same could be said for a mild migraine. But I digress.

So I got my hands (and lashes) on SPINLASH to see if the product lives up to the hype. And to my surprise, it did!

SPINLASH uses a rotating rubber brush that simultaneously combs and coats lashes. The motion of the rotating brush is slow and steady, so there’s no need to fear putting this near your eyes. The brush rotates 360 degrees in both directions for upper and lower lashes, and to accommodate right and left-handed users. It comes with either black or brownish black mascara that is safe for contact lens wearers…but the best part about SPINLASH is that you can use it with your favorite mascara! Just use your mascara’s regular brush to apply to the SPINLASH brush…meaning, when the mascara gets used up, you can still have your massively awesome vibrating brush. (Get your head out of the gutter…it’s not for that. I don’t think.)

SPINLASH retails for $14.95 and is available at Target, CVS, Claire’s and other mass retailers nationwide - as well as at SPINLASH.com.

Here’s even better news: I have three Spinlash units to give away! To enter, comment on this post and tell me what your biggest problem with mascara is. Does it always clump when you apply? Do you constantly miss those little lashes in the corners? I’ll choose three winners at random and send them a Spinlash to try. Deadline is January 5.

What a festively awesome idea is this???

Truman’s Gentlemen’s Groomers is offering the men of New York the chance to BE the Holiday window display, starring alongside a sexy Mrs. Claus – think Lucille Ball, but with a modern edge – in a playful male interpretation of the traditional Holiday department store window display.

For two nights in December, various New York men will be handpicked to step up into Mrs. Claus’ chair for a Holiday treat, with passersby watching as she pampers them with a complimentary street-front grooming session. The Truman’s staff will be in character, including an attractive Mrs. Claus with more body art than Tommy Lee and an elf, dressed in the Will Ferrell tradition.

The Live Window Holiday Series will showcase Truman’s Holiday Gift packages for men, which include a massage, a straight-edge shave, a shoe-shine, a haircut and Truman’s famous “Handshake Maintenance,” a.k.a. the manly manicure. Men will be slathered and groomed with products from the new men’s skincare range, ESHU, containing unique ingredients such as Kakadu plum and Paperbark oil, sourced in the rugged Australian Outback.

WHO WILL SIT IN THE WINDOW for Truman’s Live Window Holiday Series?

Do you have a man in mind?  Then nominate him for the Live Window Holiday Series.

Visit www.trumans-nyc.com to nominate someone who deserves the Truman’s treatment or to nominate yourself. Judges will consider:

- How much he is in need of grooming

- How much he deserves a grooming package (measured by how significantly he helped other people / contributed to the community in 2008)

New Yorkers can check out the action of the Live Window Holiday Series in the store’s front window at 120 East 56th Street from 6:30pm –8:30pm on Tuesday Dec. 16 and then again from 6.30pm – 8:30pm on Tuesday Dec. 23. Each Tuesday there will be something new in the window, with a cast of characters performing the services.