Last week, in between fashion week craziness and nasal faux-pas, I had one high point: I finally got to experience the new Schick Quattro for Women product – Trim Style - a bikini trimmer and razor all in one!

This new razor is battery-powered and waterproof, which is cool enough - but it also is dual-sided! One side is a razor, the other side, a bikini trimmer.

Obviously, this is a good thing - how many of you have tried to use a regular razor in those “sensitive spots” and ended up having the scars to prove it? This way, you can be neat and pretty on all your parts without any icky cuts or scrapes. (How not sexy is THAT?)

The trimmer side also has a comb attachment that snaps to feature 3 different lengths depending on your preference. You must see for yourself: Schick is giving away three of their new Trim Style. To have your chance to win, please share your most devastating bikini line trimming experience. (Painful laser? Waxing gone bad?) Deadline is March 5.

Image: Schick Quattro for Women

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

First of all, I want to welcome Tris Hussey and Manscaping-101 to the Beauty & Style channel!

If you don’t know Tris, he is a well known blogger and photographer in the Canadian tech niche (well, really the whole tech genre).  He shows his beautiful photography off at A View From the Isle, and talks Canadian geek-speak at Maple Leaf Two, and now he is getting into the really fun side of blogging with Manscaping-101 - a grooming blog.  Fun fun!  I hope you will hook your men up with this blog, Tris is a wonderful writer and is quite passionate about looking good!  Check out what he has up already - coupons, tattoo shaving (??), and he has already broached my favorite man-scent-topic (are you listening Darren and Grant?) - Burberry Brit.  Yeah (yum!)!  Welcome Tris!  xox

We also have some contests going on around the channel that you might like to know about:

• Giveaway on Spa Beautifully! The prize is a grouping of delicious smelling bath & body products from International Orange. Feel free to enter from now until April 20th.
• Contest on Her Accessories. Win a sterling silver necklace from Island Cowgirl Jewelry (just remember to read the rules carefully Open from now until April 22nd
• And of course the contest I just posted on eBeautyDaily: Win the new Sephora book and a gift bag of goodies from Sephora

Best of luck to you - and get out that camera and that beauty bag - this book from Sephora is a DON’T MISS!

Coutorture has been sponsoring incredible giveaways each week for about the last month, and between my vacationing and catching up from it I haven’t been able to get it together enough to participate, but I am pretty well there now (I think!), so lets join in the fun!