The New Year is has arrived: It’s time for resolutions and for putting your best face forward.

But too often, jam-packed schedules, daily stress and the passing of time can take a toll on your skin, making you feel less than camera-ready. Thanks to Freeze 24-7, however, this no longer has to be the case: its revolutionary patent-pending Age-Less Technology helps produce a nearly instant visible reduction in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Freeze 24-7’s mission is to be on the cutting-edge of product development, uniting the latest scientific and cosmetic advancements to make products that deliver on their promises. In fact, in an independent study, 100% of the respondents (everyone!) experienced a 50-90% visible reduction in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles within ten minutes of a single application. These remarkable results have caught the eyes of leading beauty authorities worldwide and Freeze 24-7 has been featured in numerous magazines and television programs including Bazaar, InStyle, Lucky, Rachel Ray, Fox News and the Today Show.

Now one of my favorite sites, ideeli brings this breakthrough brand to you! In this exciting giveaway, FIVE winners will receive the Daily Essentials Skincare System , complete with Skin Glace Daily Detoxifying Cleanser & Mask, IceCrystals Anti-Aging Prep and Polish and IceCream Double Scoop Intensive Anti-Aging Moisturizer. Winners will be chosen at random from the people who register for the site through this link by January 10: www.ideeli.com/in/media?mi=ebeauty

After all, isn’t it about time you were ready for your close-up?

Images: Ideeli

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!

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.

Black Friday is almost upon us, and a lot of us will be waking up at arse-crack of dawn to pile our way through the masses.

I remember all through my younger years (and possibly to be repeated this year), I’d hook up with my mom at around 4 am, get coffee to go, and hit whatever random sale was tickling our fancy - and often leave disappointed.

Whether or not it is a worthwhile excursion is not my right to say - but I can help you be prepared when you get there!

I have eight $5 gift cards to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf - perfect to help you through any of your early morning shopping excursions this holiday shopping season. During a recent press trip to LA, I had my first experience at this chain and it is….out of this world! Better than even a certain Seattle chain. (Try their Swiss Mocha…trust me.)

Is this about beauty? Absolutely. We all look a lot better when we are well-caffeinated! But coffee doesn’t just wake you up. It has tons of great uses for beauty mavens:

1 - Rubbing coffee grounds on our hands helps deodorize them from various cooking scents. (Um, onions, garlic, etc? Gone!)

2 - Adds luster to hair! If you make a strong brew of your favorite bean (espresso is even better) and allow to cool before rubbing it onto dry hair, it will look more lustrous than you’ve ever seen it!

3 - It also is great as an exfoliant, body scrub, and cellulite buster!

Now, I’m not saying that those of you who win coffee should necessarily wear it (that would be somewhat of a waste when it tastes so delicious!), but it’s a great option for the multi-taskers within us all.

Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf exists at hundreds of locations worldwide and the gift cards will be good at all locations - but also for purchases online. To have your chance to win one of the eight gift cards, help me out with one of MY missions of the week:

1 -  - In your comment, tell us your favorite crazy Black Friday shopping memory!

Deadline to enter is December 19 (my birthday!). You are allowed to enter up to once per day. Good luck!

You are about to enter a time-machine to Aly-dom.

As you are reading this, I am on a press trip in Los Angeles, and probably having a lot of fun - but as I’m WRITING this - I’m super stressed out trying to get done with my projects before heading out.

I’m not sleeping enough, and working wayyyy too many hours each day, and thus, my eyes are making me look sort of like an afterschool special. On top of all that, we are minutes away from a decision in the biggest - and scariest - election in recent memory!

Clearly, I need to chill out…and in doing so, I’m going to help all of you mend your own damage as well. I also need to deal with this red-eye situation before people think I have a whole OTHER sort of problem.

So, whether you are dealing with dry eyes, tired eyes, itchy ones, or sensitivity, you are probably going to like what I’m about to say.

I’m giving away, to three lucky readers, a super awesome ROHTO “Cool for Eyes” gift pack, which comes in a trendy Sephora makeup bag, containing:

- Two bottles of ROHTO eye drops in Cool and Arctic

- Soothing gel eye mask
- Bliss Lid + Lash Wash makeup remover

- Skyn Iceland Hydro Cool Firming Eye Gels

- Sephora Lash and Eyebrow Mascara in Clear

- Scott Barnes Eye Ice eye shadow

- The Body Shop Elderflower Eye Gel

These “Cool for Eyes” gift packs are valued at approximately $180 each, and they shall be granted to the three best answers to this questions by November 10: What stresses YOU out? And how do you deal with it?

Every woman could use another pair of shoes, right? As you may (or may not) know, I’m the blogger over at Shoe Blitz and this week, we are giving away FREE SHOES!

Heels.com was generous enough to donate a pair of Naughty Monkey Nookie wedges for our giveaway.

Cute, right? Want them? Head over to Shoe Blitz now and enter.

Photo credit: Heels.com

Thanks to everyone who commented in the Clinique The Kissers giveaway.

Two random winners were selected from all the entries and the winners are …

Terri who posted:
“I love Burt’s Bees lipgloss. Thanks for the contest!”

and

Cherrie who posted:
“I love Clinique products, I have used their lipgloss before. I also like Burt’s Bees, MAC and Estee Lauder.”

Terri and Cherrie will be contacted via email and shipped the lip glosses.

Check back in on Monday because were will be running another contest. I’m only handling this blog for another week or so (I’m the channel editor, just filling in for the new blogger who starts on November 1st). So, I’ll get one more contest in before I go.

I’m sure that Aly, the fabulous new blogger, will offer a lot of new tips, tricks, advice and yes, more contests, too!

If you are looking for another giveaway, the b5media Sports Channel is running a contest where you can win a $200 Amazon gift certificate. Head over to Thoroughbred Fever or any of the other sports blogs and find out how to win.

Photo credit: Clinique

Clinique Superbalm Moisturizing Gloss hydrates and protects your lips, while also adding some color and shine. It’s one of my favorite Clinique products.

The Kissers set features four mini shades of the lip gloss - Apricot, Raspberry Lilac and Grapefruit in a cute orange floral bag. You can purchase The Kissers online at Clinique.com or at local Clinique counters for $25.

Right now, we are giving away The Kissers set to two lucky ebeautydaily readers.

How do you win? It’s easy!

Just leave a comment here on this blog post about your favorite lip gloss or a give us a tip about keeping your lips looking beautiful.

On Friday, October 24th at 10:00pm CT, two random winner will be selected from all the commenters to receive The Kissers. Please only enter once and leave your email address in the appropriate spot so that we can contact you.

Comment to enter!

Thanks for participating!

Photo credit: Clinique

The daily fashion bible, Women’s Wear Daily, has had a total site redesign (that is fabulous, by the way – kudos, WWD!), and you might be interested to know that they are wide open to the public (non subscribers) for this week only. 

In celebration of their new site, the editors at WWD have offered up 75 Defining Moments in Fashion – which you can vote on for the next three weeks (yes, even after WWD closes back down to only subscribers).  Here is how it works:

The 75 Defining Moments in Fashion poll will be fielded in conjunction with Entertainment Tonight, the #1 syndicated entertainment newsmagazine in the world.  WWD Executive Editor Bridget Foley will announce the contest on this evening’s show and will explain the month-long voting process.  At the beginning of each of the first three weeks, 25 new “moments” will be revealed on WWD.com/definingfashion for readers to vote upon.  On August 25^th, the top 15 moments from the previous weeks will be voted on to reveal the #1 Defining Moment in Fashion, which will be announced simultaneously on Entertainment Tonight and WWD.com on September 2^nd.

And I have to say, the best part about this is that when you cast a vote, you will be entered into a drawing to win a handbag worth $2500.  Sweetness!

So do check out WWD – I have been a subscriber for a very long time, it is a great read every day (I don’t even read my local newspaper every day – pitiful).  If you’re interested, a year online subscription is $100 – about $8.50 a month.  Well worth the price if you ask me!

Now don’t go vote, so Ill have a better chance of winning the bag, mmmkay? 

Image: WWD

The fabulous Chloe has another great contest over at Her Accessories - to win a rhinestone charm from Twisted Silver.  Here is what you have to do:

You’ve got to go to Twisted Silver, choose your favorite piece of jewelery and then come back to this post on Her Accessories.  Leave a comment here with a valid email (it’s hidden and you won’t be spammed!) with an explanation of why it’s your favorite piece of Twisted Silver jewelery.

The contest ends March 20th, so hurry on over there and join in!

Image: b5media