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BPAL giveaway winners! | @BPAL

I know tons of people are waiting to hear about this, so for a change I won't talk forever.

We had a contest. Winners get BPAL. Winners chosen:

1. Bite Me  winner - xxladyluck13xx (via Twitter)
2. Suck It winner - Rose Ray (via Facebook)
3. Lambs Wool winner - Ashly  (via comment on original post)

Thank you everyone who participated, and congratulations to the winners! If you won, please contact me at [email protected] and provide me with your full name and mailing address.

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The boring stuff: Winners were chosen at random using our patented highly-scientific technique in which my daughter, Ara (3 years old) picks names out of a hat. In full disclosure, it's not really a hat. It's a bowl. Which I then tossed our dinner salad in. After taking out the pieces of paper with all of the names, of course.

Guess who's hosting a BPAL giveaway? | #fb, @BPAL

 OMG! SQUEE! Right!?

I just reviewed these three scents.

Wanna try 'em for yourself?

THREE winners will be randomly selected to each win one of these perfume oils.
I'll randomly pick names and randomly match winners with a bottle.

SEVERAL WAYS TO WIN!
Each method below equals one entry.
Feel free to enter every way,  but only once each way except the last one!

• Add yourself to our Google Friend Connect (see sidebar on left)
• Subscribe to our feed* (see sidebar on left)
• Subscribe to our email list* (see sidebar on left)
• Friend us on Twitter (and post your Twitter name in the comments)
• Tweet this: RT@jen_bsb Visit Beauty School Blog (http://tinyurl.com/nt84kr) for your chance to win 1 of 3 @BPAL Halloweenie perfume oils! #BSBcontest
• Become a fan of BSB on Facebook (and we promise to remember to update it!)
• In the comments below, give your most creative explanation as to why you deserve to win
• Promote this contest on your blog or website (link to it in the comments)
• Refer a friend who is new to our site and who enters the contest (the friend must give your info, letting me know who referred him/her - can email me the deets). Referrer gets one entry per friend referred, but your friend may enter any and all ways!

*subscriptions must be verified/completed, so follow all steps!

For any questions or issues, please contact me via email.

Contest ends Sept. 30th at midnight, EST. No exceptions.

Giveaway time! Lisa Hoffman Spa Bath & Shower Collections! Post a comment to enter...

AND THE WINNER IS:

GAIL!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Gail, please email me at [email protected]

so we can get your prize to you!

YAY! Another contest!

 

On April 3rd - FRIDAY - Lisa Hoffman will be launching on the Canadian Shopping Channel! You can catch her at 9AM, 12PM. 4PM, and 9 PM, while she introduces her Spa Bath and Shower Collections. She's also adding Japanese Agarwood and Madagascar Orchid to her Fragrance Variations...

These products are designed to be travel-sized luxury items, and are completely airline-friendly (not to mention luscious).

To celebrate this launch, I have the opportunity to give away these:

 

Each Spa Bath & Shower Packet, shown above, is worth $35, and we're giving away TWO! 

Spa Bath Packette: Each airtight ampoule contains the following products: Bath Soak, Body Wash, Body Polisher, Body Cream, and Hand & Foot Butter. Each product aims to cleanse, protect, nourish and moisturize for a softer and more radiant finish

The Spa Shower Packette features all five of the Spa Shower formulations (Cleansing Gel, Body Scrub, Body Oil, Body Lotion, and Hand & Foot Cream.). Each product aims to cleanse, protect, nourish and moisturize for a softer and more radiant finish. Plus, each formula contains ingredients harvested from the rainforests in a sustainable manner.

And you don't have to enter a pie-eating contest to win, either. Simply enter a comment here or anywhere else on the site between now and midnight on April 3rd (EST). As always, our very exclusive advanced and scientific selection process* will be utilized.

*Ara will pick a name out of a hat (or maybe an Easter basket to add some seasonal flava).

Good luck!

And be sure to tune in to see Lisa Hoffman

on the Canadian Shopping Channel this Friday, April 3rd!

NARS Smokey Eyes - winner selected

My new profile pic is at the right ----->

I'm an airhead, and forgot to post our winner!

Here was the contest.

Here's the prize:

In case you weren't sure, it's an eyeshadow duo, an eye makeup remover, a mascara, and a black pencil liner. It's NICE.

 

And the winner is....

KELLY!!!!

Congrats!!!! Email me, Kelly, at [email protected], and give me your info so I can send this out ASAP!

xoxo
*jenjen

It's not smoke in your eyes - it's tears from forgetting our contest!

Win this.

Make a sexy smoky eye, courtesy of NARS.

Enter a comment here or anywhere on the blog
anytime this week (before Sunday night), and get entered to win.

Winner will be randomly selected using
a highly scientific method:
My daughter will pick a name out of a hat.

Don't forget - comment to win!

Win this.

Make a sexy smoky eye, courtesy of NARS.

Enter a comment here or anywhere on the blog
anytime this week (before Sunday night), and get entered to win.

Winner will be randomly selected using
a highly scientific method:
My daughter will pick a name out of a hat.

Win it! NARS Smokey Eyes set...

Win this.

Make a sexy smoky eye, courtesy of NARS.

Enter a comment here or anywhere on the blog
anytime this week (before Sunday night), and get entered to win.

Winner will be randomly selected using
a highly scientific method:
My daughter will pick a name out of a hat.

Hello Kitty Kontest (sorry - I had to do it)

 

Hey! MAC wants to hook ya up!

Obsessed with Hello Kitty? Or MAC? Or like many of us lately: both!?

You've probably already checked out the collection here, but now MAC is giving you the chance to win bits and pieces of the collection including some Kitty Kouture and a couture dress!

Here's the scoop on the prizes:

Grand Prize - the MAC Hello Kitty collection:

• 2 new Dazzleglass  -Kitty Kouture and Dazzlepuss in vials with a silver chain pendant featuring Hello Kitty outlined in white Swarovski crystals on black with a pink pink crystal bow
• 3 Sheer Mystery Powders in polished silver compacts featuring Hello Kitty outlined in white Swarovski crystals with a pink crystal bow on black.

Grand Prize #2:

• A one-of-a-kind, Swarovski-beaded silk party dress designed exclusively for MAC Hello Kitty by New York designer Tibi. Features dupioni silk at the neckline, and pleated grosgrain from empire linedown. and of course theirs our icon's signature bow in haute couture pink. Size 4.

Runner Up Mild Look:

• Eye Shadows 4: Lucky Tom
• 3 Lipsticks - Cute-ster,  Big Bow, Fresh Brew
• 3 Lipglasses -  Mimmy, Nice to be Nice, Sweet Strawberry
• Fun & Games Beauty Powder Blush
• 3 Glitter Eye Liners - Her Glitz, Kitty Power, Girl Groove
• Hello Kitty Lash
• Popster Tinted Lip Conditioner
• Tahitian Sand Beauty Powder
• Plushblack Plush Lash Mascara

Runner Up Wild Look:

• Eye Shadows 4: Too Dolly
• 3 Lipsticks - Fashion Mews, Strayin', Most Popular
• 3 Lipglasses - Nice Kitty, She Loves Candy, Fast Friends
• 2 Nail Lacquers - Someting About Pink, Vestral White
• 2 Pigments - Milk Pigment, Deep Blue Green Pigment
• 2 Reflects Glitters - Reflects Blue, Reflects Very Pink
• Tippy Beauty Powder Blush
• Pretty Baby Beauty Powder
• Pink Fish Tinted Lip Conditioner

Enter here to win:

So tell the class: are you going to enter? Which prize do you want most of all!? Am I the only one hoping to be Runner-Up Wild or Mild!?

Comment Challenge - win a prize!

Got something to say?

We know you do. Our readers are the most clever and sweetest readers in the blogosphere. To reward you for your greatness, we've got prizes! I've charmed all of the PR Reps I know and have gotten some really good stuff. So today begins our "contest" which involves: not much but you!

Simply comment on any post here at FCH and you're entered to win. (feel free to peruse the archives - this isn't just about recent posts!)

The first leg of our journey is Stila's Original Smokey Eye Palette. Comment before the end of the day on Labor Day (that's Sept. 1st) and you're entered to win. Results will be posted here on Sept. 2nd.

GOOD LUCK!

 

Do you cherish good skin? You may want to read this...

...because FutureDerm (one of my favorite bloggers) is giving away some massively excellent skincare products worth $500, thanks to the help of her contest sponsor SkinMedix!

You've gotta go check it out, but please don't enter because I really want to win this prize. I love SkinCeuticals! I don't mean to be selfish, but there it is right there in black and white: I want to win and therefore I don't want you to win. But you should go read about what you are missing out on... :)

Win a one-on-one consult with Dr. Murad!

Have you ever wanted to ask one of those famous skincare gurus to give you solutions to your skin questions? I know I have!

Well, now you have a chance to do that very thing. Simply log on to Total Beauty and find a product you love/like/loathe that hasn't been reviewed yet by anyone. Post the first review, and you're entered to win!

Feel free to then search for another un-reviewed product and post your opinions. You will be entered into the contest once per every 1st review you do!

GRAND PRIZE (two winners!) Receive a one-on-one telephone consultation with top dermatologist Dr. Murad and a basket containing all the products comprising the day and night Murad product regimen he recommends.

FIRST PRIZE (five winners!) Receive a collection of free Murad products comprising a Murad regimen for the winner's skin type.

SECOND PRIZE (ten winners!) Receive one full-size Murad Intensive Wrinkle Reducer, worth $150.

Visit TotalBeauty.com ASAP for this amazing opportunity to vie for these prizes.

 

Want a lovely NY makeover?!?

I don't know if I want to tell you about this. That may sound stingy, but hell: I want the daggone prize!

But I want to be a good blogger and a good beauty friend, so I will tell you about this anyway. If you win- I need to be one of your prize-sharing friends! ;)

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Have you been over to TotalBeauty.com, yet? If not, you're really missing out. It's a great community-type site that offers beauty tips, product reviews, customized product suggestions, and CONTESTS! (It also has a link area to guide you towards great beauty blogs like this one!)

This contest is amazing. Simply join TotalBeauty.com as a member, write three (3 isn't a lot!) reviews of products you love, like, or loathe, and you're entered to win!

Oh, wait. I haven't told you what you'll win, have I?

1. GRAND PRIZE WINNER (1): You and TWO FRIENDS (me?) will spend a weekend in NY city, touring the hottest beauty spots in the town. You'll also get head-to-toe makeovers! You'll be the recipient of round-trip airfare, two nights' hotel accommodations in a three-person "girlfriend suite" and the makeover which includes hair styling, makeup, and a mani/pedi and an astounding $1000-worth of beauty products!
2. FIRST PRIZE WINNERS (3): You get an all-inclusive four-day, three-night trip to a spa resort for you and a friend. And your airfare is taken care of for you, too!
3. Runners-up (100): Not too shabby- you'll get a $50 gift certificate to Sephora.com!

Now seriously, don't you have some reviews to write!? I know I do...

La Mer for free!?

Allure magazine is giving us the chance to try the famed La Mer moisturizer. This product, made with a proprietary marine extract referred to as "miracle broth", has a cult following. Wondering if it's worth the hype (and the $1350 price tag)? Enter the contest here.

e.l.f. collaborates with Carson Kressley to help you Look Good Naked!

Carson Kressley's was my favorite Queer Eye guy- and you know he was yours, too! Well, now he has a new show on Lifetime is called How to Look Good Naked.  In an effort to promote said show, Mr. Kressley has entered into a collaboration with e.l.f. cosmetics . Check out the How to Look Good Naked Mineral Makeup Starter Kit, and enter the contest by providing your email address on the website. You could win makeup for a year!
 

Origins Contest

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More information can be found here.

Clinique Cuteness

Clinique wants you to be happy, and Clinique wants to know how happy you are!

What makes you happy? Share a photo of whatever evokes happiness for you—family, friends, pet, even your favourite place—along with a short description of why it inspires you to be happy. You could win the Clinique Happy Moments Grand Prize, and share the happiness with 5 of your friends!

Keep reading to find out what the prizes are, and how to enter.

• Grand Prize: One winner, chosen by Clinique from the top 50 highest scores, wins a $300 shopping spree on clinique.com. Plus Clinique Happy™ fragrance favourites, digital cameras and more—for them and 5 friends! ($2240 value).
• Most Viral: One winner, whose entry gets the most attention on the Internet, wins a $200 shopping spree on clinique.com, a Perfectly Happy fragrance gift set, two Clinique Happy bath and body favourites—and more! ($311 value).  About Most Viral.
• Runner-Up: One winner, chosen by Clinique from the top 50 highest scores, wins a $100 shopping spree on clinique.com plus a Perfectly Happy fragrance gift set. ($147 value).

December 12, 2007 06:00 PM (PST) - January 23, 2008 11:30 PM (PST)

Visit Clinique's Brickfish page to submit your entry or check-out the other entries!

MAC - ARE YOU AN ORIGINAL!?

 

Important breaking information!

 

A: MAC's collection The Originals is coming out TOMORROW - that's the19th of December! It's out EARLY! Take a peek online to see the items (but you can't shop, yet, as of this posting). And plan on getting up EARLY tomorrow. You can wear Parrot for Christmas!

B: MAC's The Originals is the inspiration for a contest! 

"The Originals pays tribute to popular product shades both discontinued or existing that consumers covet and can’t live without. The Originals, a collaboration of the new and the old, introduces new textures and modified formulations of must-have Lipsticks, Lipglass, Eye Shadows and Pigments." 

ARE YOU A MAC ORIGINAL???

Express your originality - something MAC embraces full-on.

Participate in the contest nationally (Sorry- US only): To enter the “Are  You A M·A·C Original?” contest on a national level, consumers can  visit www.maccosmetics.com beginning December 26^th to submit a picture of themselves wearing their favorite M·A·C products, along with 50 words on what makes them a M·A·C Original. The winner will be determined by votes online. The winner will receive  a $1,000 M·A·C gift card and the complete Originals collection.

Participate in the contest regionally: On a regional level, M·A·C will hold the “Are You A M·A·C Original” Contest in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Houston on the weekend of January 4^th-6^th. M·A·C customers can visit designated M·A·C locations for a complimentary makeup application and get a professional photograph taken. Customers can then enter to be the MAC Original winner of the city and will also be automatically entered into the national contest. The regional winner will receive a $250 M·A·C gift card, the complete Originals collection and a story  in a local publication.

Read more about The Originals here and here.

For contest rules and regulations, please visit www.maccosmetics.com.   

Philosophy - Your best cookie recipe in a bottle???

 

Philosophy has the cutest contest going on right now! If you have a great cookie recipe, submit it to philosophy and if it wins this contest you can have your recipe made into a shower gel.

Seriously! Your recipe will be a philosophy product!

Check it:

By December 2nd, fill out the form at this link to be entered into the contest.

If you win:

your recipe will be made into a 2008 holiday shower gel

you will receive 25 bottles to share with friends and family

you will receive a $500 shopping spree on philosophy.com

MAC - ARE YOU AN ORIGINAL!?

 

Important breaking information!

 

A: MAC's collection The Originals is coming out TOMORROW - that's the19th of December! It's out EARLY! Take a peek online to see the items (but you can't shop, yet, as of this posting). And plan on getting up EARLY tomorrow. You can wear Parrot for Christmas!

B: MAC's The Originals is the inspiration for a contest! 

"The Originals pays tribute to popular product shades both discontinued or existing that consumers covet and can’t live without. The Originals, a collaboration of the new and the old, introduces new textures and modified formulations of must-have Lipsticks, Lipglass, Eye Shadows and Pigments." 

ARE YOU A MAC ORIGINAL???

Express your originality - something MAC embraces full-on.

Participate in the contest nationally (Sorry- US only): To enter the “Are  You A M·A·C Original?” contest on a national level, consumers can  visit www.maccosmetics.com beginning December 26^th to submit a picture of themselves wearing their favorite M·A·C products, along with 50 words on what makes them a M·A·C Original. The winner will be determined by votes online. The winner will receive  a $1,000 M·A·C gift card and the complete Originals collection.

Participate in the contest regionally: On a regional level, M·A·C will hold the “Are You A M·A·C Original” Contest in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Houston on the weekend of January 4^th-6^th. M·A·C customers can visit designated M·A·C locations for a complimentary makeup application and get a professional photograph taken. Customers can then enter to be the MAC Original winner of the city and will also be automatically entered into the national contest. The regional winner will receive a $250 M·A·C gift card, the complete Originals collection and a story  in a local publication.

Read more about The Originals here and here.

For contest rules and regulations, please visit www.maccosmetics.com.   

Philosophy - Your best cookie recipe in a bottle???

 

Philosophy has the cutest contest going on right now! If you have a great cookie recipe, submit it to philosophy and if it wins this contest you can have your recipe made into a shower gel.

Seriously! Your recipe will be a philosophy product!

Check it:

By December 2nd, fill out the form at this link to be entered into the contest.

If you win:

your recipe will be made into a 2008 holiday shower gel

you will receive 25 bottles to share with friends and family

you will receive a $500 shopping spree on philosophy.com