Win LipSmackers

Hey moms – we’re running a cool giveaway for daughters over at Girlmogul.com – enter a comment to win a Paul Frank Julius tote filled with LipSmackers.  Head on over here to enter to win.

The game is for kids 5-12 and teaches children in a fun way the benefits of cleaning up after themselves. Kids Shuffle the cards, pick one and do what is on the card. Each card has a time limit on it. If you finish in time you get a prize (Mom and Dad do this part), and there are cards with unique prize ideas included that do not bring more clutter into the house.

Les Mess has donated a free game to one lucky winner at www.girlmogulmom.com.  For  a chance to win, tell us your messiest pet peeve in the comments below.  We will pick a random winner and Les is More will send you a free Les Mess Card Game (to US mialing addresses only.)

Bring the mess on…

Lip Gloss

Hey moms – spring has definitely sprung, so here are some great spring makeup tips to freshen you up – after all it doesn’t just have to be your house that gets spruced up).  According to celebrity makeup artist Christopher Drummond, creator of the all-natural, vegan, mineral makeup line Christopher Drummond Beauty, Spring 2010 makeup is all about beautiful but muted colors, coral lips, and the bottom eyelid. Here are Christopher’s trend predictions for spring 2010 – and be sure to check the end of the post for our Christopher Drummond Giveaway

*     Color: Colors such as a slightly shimmery baby blue, a barely there soft pink, and a softly noticeable tangerine color are going to be the “go to” colors for spring/summer. These colors work on everyone and bring more focus to the skin, cheekbones and lips.

*     Lips:  Coral, whether bright or muted, is the new classic that will be explored starting this spring/summer and throughout 2010. Also, anyone can wear coral because it is fresh and youthful looking and rich yet subtle at the same time.

*     Eyes: Spring/Summer 2010 will be all about the bottom lid.   Adding a light amount of colored liner on the bottom lid, which looks fresh and modern and is a way to add color to the eyes without going overboard. (Tip: this color should not match the top lid).

*     Another eye trend is no makeup at all on the bottom. A nice thick liner with rich mascara and a colored shadow on top paired with a bare bottom lash line will open the eyes up and look youthful and fresh.

You can find out more about the Christopher Drummond line at http://www.christopherdrummond.com/ and to win a $25 gift card to Christopher Drummond beauty, tell us about your worst make-up disaster in the comments below!

Have fun!

GirlMogul Mom

Win Noxicare Pain Cream

Noxicare and GirlMogulMom.com are teaming up to offer one lucky reader a free tube of Noxicare All Natural Pain relief. This unique, doctor-developed formula (Developed by Dr. Reza Ghorbani, a Harvard-trained physician board certified in pain management) combines all natural ingredients to effectively and safely fight pain in a simple to use cream. So why is Noxicare so different than what you’re used to?

Because it’s a proprietary blend of proven painkillers in precise amounts that:
• enable each ingredient to effectively alleviate a specific type of pain on its own
AND
• cause each ingredient to act as a catalyst to the others, actually BOOSTING the effectiveness of the ingredients as a whole.
The result is an extraordinarily potent, natural pain relief formula that relieves all 3 common types of pain: inflammation, muscle aches and nerve pain.

Ok, so want to try Noxicare out?- then to enter to win, post a comment below – tell us your happy place – whether it’s the sun-drenched beach, skiing in the mountain, chilling with the family, or an escape to Starbucks – let us know where you like to go to relax….
We’ll pick on random, lucky winner and send her (or him) one container of Noxicare.
*Sorry – this giveaway is for US based residents only!

Giveaway ends 3/15/2010!

You can read more about Noxicare here: http://www.noxicare.com/about/index.php

Cookbook Giveaway

And, Nielsen-Massey has kindly offered do sponsor a giveaway of 5 cookbooks. So for your chance to win: Tell us what your favorite recipe is using vanilla extract – it can be a cookie of course, but we’d love to hear something more exotic. We’ll pick winners randomly from the comments below. We can only ship to US residents for this one, but please feel free to add your favorite dish…

Since one good turn deserves another, I am giving away a copy of her newest book The Prince Harming Syndrome to one lucky reader. What is the Prince Harming Syndrome: Do you feel as if you have a KICK ME SIGN on your heart? Unfortunately PRINCE HARMING SYNDROME seems to be a syndrome that plagues women of every age in every kingdom near and far. This NEW book will break bad love patterns for good!

And while you may feel you really do have your Prince Charming, feel free to win the book and give to your best friend, your sister, even your mother… or that your second cousin twice removed who may just be a Prince Harming himself…and help them escape the syndrome.

Be sure to check out Karen’s blog and sign up for her weekly newsletter, Be Happy Dammit, filled with fresh bites of self help humor.

To win the book tell us your (least) favorite Prince Harming tactic below (and keep it clean, we’re a family blog, you know…)

If you’re a mom or parenting blogger, I would love to sponsor a blog contest.giveaway on your blog to get the word out about our great site: GirlMogulMagazine Insider Club – Encouraging Successful Tween Girls…

If you’re interested, please email with the subject: GirlMogul Blog contest at andrea@girlmogul.com and include your blogs name and url and I will send you all the details and we can set things up.

Thanks so much – appreciate your interest….

To have a chance to win the book, enter a comment below and tell us about your favorite place or way of bringing up touchy topics with your kid.

About the Book
A Q&A guide for mother-daughter conversations about female health and sexuality, this book targets both daughters and mothers. Start Talking contains more than 113 questions girls ask including questions about periods, sex, relationships, guys, eating, exercise, body development, along with similar questions verbalized by mothers. Each chapter contains basic information accompanied by real-life vignettes, questions and answers for moms, questions and answers for daughters, “”Table Talk”" suggestions for moms on how to engage each other around these topics. This book differs from books targeting just girls understanding their own bodies, and from books targeting just mothers on what they should know: it is deliberately meant to spark conversations.

To enter, drop a comment in below telling us your favorite way to motivate your Girlmogul’s academic success.

Giveaway ends August 26th – - winners will be notified by email.