Swag alert!  Jolie has partnered with Stila for a mega-giveaway!  As part of the Total Beauty Total Cure initiative to benefit Breast Cancer Research, one Jolie reader will win ALL the following amazing Stila beauty booty:

Smoky Eye Palette- The Original

Smoky Eye Palette- The Emeralds

Smoky Eye Palette- The Bronzes

Major Major Lash Mascara

Lip Glazes in Apricot, Grapefruit & Brown Sugar

Eye Shadow Quad in Montmartre

Glitter Eye Liner in Pink, Blue and Green

Kajal Eye Liner in Onyx

The total value of the prizes is over $350!  Now, I don’t know if you’re familiar with Stila–but the products are to D-I-E.  The contest ends tonight at midnight, EST, and you can enter by visiting the Total Beauty page on Facebook and then answering below with a fact about breast cancer gleaned from the pages (hey, you get gorgeous and you learn).  The winner will be posted tomorrow.  Good luck, my beauties!

We’re halfway through October, and I’d like to encourage all my readers who haven’t yet donated to please find it in your hearts (and wallets!) to spare $5.  You can donate directly to the Breast Cancer Research Fund below:

Today begins the Total Beauty-Total Cure awareness and fundraising campaign. Incredibly, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes. We all know somebody who’s been affected, and the somber reality is that we will probably be touched again and again by this plague in our lifetimes: our sisters, our mothers, our friends, even possibly ourselves.

Financially, it’s a tough time for all of us (um, I don’t know about you, but Jolie is totally unmanicured hand to glossy mouth right now!) but by giving even a tiny bit–no amount is too small!–you’ll be donating to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and will contribute greatly to making a difference. Please click below and donate whatever you can; it’ll go directly to the BCRF.

Each Total Beauty blogger involved in the campaign is hoping to raise at least $200, so if all my readers donate even just $1 or $5, we’ll blow that number out of the water and will raise thousands. Stay tuned throughout the month for daily giveaways from Total Beauty bloggers; today’s is courtesy of The Beauty Bunny, and you can enter to win a CHI flat iron, T3 hairdryer, Moroccan Oil Treatment and CHI Silk Infusion. I’ll be giving away goodies from Stila very soon, so check back!

As you may know, finding products designed for women battling cancer is very important to me.  I’m partnering with Total Beauty during October to help promote the Total Beauty Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, so stay tuned for more on that front.  Below, a great new find from Cologne, called Pristine Recovery:

When Blaire Kessler, new mother and former Miss Winston Cup, was diagnosed with breast cancer in her early thirties, she suffered hair and skin/scarring problems from treatment. After discovering that the only products available contained chemicals and carcinogens, she set out to create her own offerings that were 100% natural and safe in a quest to get hair and skin back in shape.

After some serious research–plus lots of trial and error–she created Pristine Recovery, her own line of effective, 100% natural, carcinogen-free solutions for her fellow cancer survivors, including a leave-in hair and scalp revival serum and décolleté and underarm massage cream for scarring and skin renewal. To ensure the line was up to snuff, Blaire contacted Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, the founder of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, who reviewed all of the ingredients and declared them are acceptable for safe public use, something critical to a cancer survivor in recovery. She has pledged to donate a percentage of the proceeds to two charities: the Young Survival Coalition and the Cancer Prevention Coalition.

Plus, this girl has some serious style and has designed all her products in an Old Hollywood Glamour theme, with names like ‘Brallywood Butta’ and ‘No More Scary Hair’. Blaire’s hope is “Pristine Recovery’s products promote a positive mind, a joyful spirit and a healthy lifestyle. There is finally a fun not depressing spin on a bad situation that has a touch of Old Hollywood Glamour!”

~Cologne Schmidt