Our baby is live for you to see!  Please check out Who’s the Fairest?, the new blog I’m Editorial Director of (no worries, I’ll still be blogging it up here, too) and go nuts over on our sister, The Fairest, a private sale site dedicated entirely to beauty.  The first two sales are Stila (do I even need to explain why this is exciting?) and COOLA Suncare, an amazing organic sunscreen line that smells divine and is chock-full of antioxidants.

Like it?  Tell your friends!  As you know, there are a billion and one beauty sites out there–most of them pretty damn fabulous–so we need your support to stay alive.  Thank you for your help and kind thoughts this past month as I’ve been having nervous breakdowns trying to get it off the ground - I love you all!

Join The Fairest and invite friends here.

We’re big believers in “You get what you pay for” when it comes to hair styling.  Much as it pains me to admit it, the highlights you’ll get from a quality salon or the cut you’ll rock after visiting a gifted stylist are, 9 times out of 10, worth every penny–and will be vastly superior to what you can get at Supercuts and from that drugstore box.  When it comes to haircare products, however?  Drugstore it up!

That’s why I’m super excited to be partnering with got2b all month to give away oodles of fabulous styling products.  Starting Monday, one winner each week will be picked on Fridays (until September 21) to win a goodie bag of got2b products.  Then, on September 21–in honor of their US Weekly Hot Hollywood Hair-Do Rescue Contest, where you have a chance to win a trip to LA and visit the US Weekly Hot Hollywood party–we’ll randomly choose a grand prize winner to receive a year’s worth of got2b styling products!  (Pretty cool, huh?)

To enter this week’s giveaway, simply post a comment below with the name of a got2b product and the name of your favorite celebrity hair-spiration.  This week’s contest is open to all North American residents, and we’ll pick a winner Friday at 11:59pm pacific.  Meanwhile, enter below for the grand prize!  Good luck!

I’ve missed you all!  My blog has been down for the past week, and you wouldn’t believe how much I’ve been tearing my hair out over it.  (Thank you a million times over to my little brother, P., who spent hours fixing it.)  Luckily, it happened while I was in New York, so I’m betting most readers probably just thought I was too busy living the high life to get to my computer.  Not the case!  I actually spent an hour posting on Tuesday night, only to have my hard “work” (okay, I was posting about a hair giveaway, but still) vanish into thin air.  Alas.  Them’s the breaks!

New York was amazing but exhausting.  I traveled with my business partners in our new skincare venture, JolieMD, to present the products to magazine editors, which brought everything full circle.  Standing in the lobby of the Conde Nast building, where I first stepped foot as a 20-year-old, was quite a trip as I reflected on what’s happened these past four years.  It was very much a “Nadine, this is your life” moment.  I also turned 29 while in New York (um…I mean, 23) so now begins the last year of my twenties.  Hoping to make it one for the ages!

On Tuesday, The Fairest launches.  I’m nervous and excited, and have my unmanicured fingers tightly crossed that it all goes off without a hitch.  (Of course, it won’t, but that’s to be expected.)  Please join me there on Tuesday–TheFairest.com–and for those of you on Twitter, be sure to follow @the_fairest for a fantabulous kick-off prize!

Love in lipgloss!

xo, Nadine

Calling all beauty lovers–The Fairest wants you!  If you’re interested in being featured on Who’s The Fairest and spilling all of your hard-earned beauty secrets and best tips, send your picture to me at nadine@thefairest.com.  (Close-up photos showing off your hair, makeup and/or skin are best.)  Can’t wait to see them all!
xo, Nadine

Leaping lizards, what a day!  This week has felt like one giant meeting after another–trust me, I’m not complaining (better to be stressed from too much work than from a lack of it, right?) but I’m definitely hoping there’s a day in the not-too-distant future when I can take off the training wheels and trust that everything will ride smoothly without me hovering worriedly behind it all.  We’ve planted you, seeds! Now it’s time to grow!  (And how’s that for mixing different metaphors?  Jolie’s exhausted…)

Tomorrow morning, I’m off to New York City for yet another week of meetings!  Of course, even though I really shouldn’t take the time to do so, I’m a hedonist at heart, and so there will be excursions to the Hamptons for a polo match, and a beauty gathering/my birthday party on Saturday night.  (Plus, I get to see some extended family and, most importantly, my little bro P.)  Allegedly, somewhere in there, work will be had and things will get written, too.  We’ll see about that one.

Updates from the road forthcoming!

Mega-prize alert!  got2b haircare is sponsoring a huge Hot Hollywood giveaway in conjunction with Us Weekly.  One winner gets:

1) A trip for 2 to Hollywood
2) Invite (and red-carpet access!) to the Us Weekly Hot Hollywood event–one of the biggest LA parties of the year (seriously, if you’re a celeb lover like me, you’ll die)
3) $500 American Express gift card
4) A swag bag full of fabulous got2b styling products

There are a host of runner-up prizes, too (see prize details below the jump.)  Enter here…and stay tuned for some awesome surprises from got2b for Jolie readers all month.  Get cracking!  (And start practicing what you’ll say to Robert Pattinson when you see him…)

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