Enter to Win a New Women’s Health Contest: Facelift in a Bag (worth $100+) and a $50 Bruno Jamais Restaurant Gift Certificate
March 4, 2008 by Kristen King
Filed under Women's Health
We’ve had a great turnout for our last two contests (over 100 entries for the $50 Target gift card!), and I hope we’ll have some good competition this time around, too. Here’s what’s up for grabs:
Frownies’ Facelift in a Bag (retails at $139.00)
Here’s what Frownies has to say about their product: “This practical, easy-to-maintain skin care regimen incorporates the proven power of Frownies Facial Pads PLUS biologically active antioxidants, natural extracts and hydrators, visible results in as little as 14 days!” You can get more product details here.
$50 Gift Certificate to Bruno Jamais Restaurant in New York City
An award-winning contemporary French restaurant on the Upper East Side in Manhattan with a menu that makes me drool just reading it (and believe me, I wish I was eligible to win my own contest!).
Our winner will receive both the Facelift in a Bag and the gift certificate. If you don’t live in the NYC area and aren’t planning to visit, you can gift the card to someone else (not me, sadly) or you can decline to accept it and I will pick another winner from our list of entrants until I find someone who wants it.
How to Enter
This is so easy, you’ll love it. Between now and 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5) on Friday, March 14, leave a comment on this post describing one of the following (and cutting and pasting the examples obviously does not count — you have to tell your own story):
- Your best or worst skin care product or experience (like, “I will never use ABC again because XYZ”)
- Your best or worst restaurant or restaurant experience (like, “NAME is my favorite restaurant ever because BLAH BLAH BLAH”)
I will put the names of all of the commenters into the list randomizer at Random.org and the commenter who ends up in the number 1 position on the third randomization will be the winner! The winner will be announced on Monday, March 17. I am not eligible to win, but everyone else is! Each commenter gets one entry, so it doesn’t matter how many times you comment as long as you comment at least once. I will announce the winner and the decision will be final. It’s totally random, so how could anyone complain? The winner will be notified by e-mail and the prizes sent via postal mail.
Promotional comments will not be eligible to win. If you work for a skin care company, this is not the place to advertise your products in the comment. You can purchase advertising on this site if you want to reach my audience. Same with restaurateurs. Only real life experiences are eligible, and I reserve the right to reject any comment I feel is inappropriately promotional at my sole discretion, no exceptions, all decisions final.
So, leave a comment telling Lively Women readers about your best or worst experience with a skin care product/provider or restaurant, and be automatically entered into a random drawing to win a $50 Bruno Jamais gift certificate and Frownies’ Facelift in a Bag! What are you waiting for? Enter now.
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Worst experience with skin care – I’d bought a face cream. I thought it was okay – not great, but did the job. I noticed this phrase: “contains sphangolipids.” Yea, I’m not sure what it is, so I asked my scientific better half. His response: “Oh, that’s squid nerve cells.”
I cannot tell you how fast that jar hit the bottom of the trash can.
Worst skincare-product experience: ProActiv Repairing Lotion. Why? It bleaches fabrics. I didn’t know this until I was on a trip to Europe and was washing my fabulous new travel clothes along with a wet washcloth that had some Repairing Lotion on it. By the time I pulled the clothes out of the dryer, every single item in the wash had bleach spots on it. For the rest of the trip, I walked around wearing clothes with bleach spots on them. Nice. Oh, and the product gave me wrinkles. Double nice.
On a more positive note, my best dining experience was at a highway restaurant outside of Mexico City when I was 15. I don’t know the name of the restaurant, but the food was so good that for the only time in my life, I ate until my stomach HURT. It served mole — real mole — with chocolate in it, as well as macaroni and cheese made from scratch. Sooooo good.
Hi, Many thanks for sponsoring such a wonderful contest! My worst experience is with makeup.
I have a port wine birthmark on my face. It is quite extensive on the left side of my face. Trying to find a corrective concealer/foundation was horrid when I was younger. Even, now as I get older, it gets worse to have products work effectively! They would be too greasy, which would break me out or not cover well enough. A product called “Lydia O Leary” was my first attempt. It worked okay. Now, I have been using Dermablend and it is fine. Because it is harder to cover now, I use the Dermablend along with Estee Lauder’s maxium coverage foundation. Please enter me in your fabulous drawing. I appreciate it. Thanks,Cindi
Ooooh, I have several “best experiences” with skincare products. (If I’m only supposed to list one and by listing more I’m disqualified, then that’s OK because I’m enjoying the chance to spread the love I have for these, lol.)
* I LOVE Dermablend. Best concealer I’ve ever used – period. Discovered it when I was working at a makeup counter in college (taking home excess shipments of testers was an awesome perk) and even though I don’t use it anymore (kind of pricey for just a concealer), I’d still recommend to anyone.
* I LOVE Estee Lauder foundation and powder. I’ve tried a gazillion brands and lines of foundations and powders, and nothing beats it for me. Plus, your skin/complexion/makeup still looks great even after having it on for hours.
* I LOVE (and this is off the beaten path of the above two) Wal-Mart’s Equate brand “Night-Time Firming Cream” (the generic for one of Oil of Olay’s lines). I discovered it by accident and bought some for myself shortly after. My skin feels awesome and on particularly dry days I sometimes wear it as a day cream under makeup.
My best dining experience: A pint of Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heathbar Crunch eaten anywhere.
My best skin care experience: About a thousand years ago when I was in Jr. High, they used to make something called “Sudden Beauty” facial mask, which was basically a mud mask you get in a tube. I used it and afterwards I really felt like I was suddenly beautiful. Boys were checking me out and I was feeling it. (Probably didn’t hurt that I was young and skinny, now that I think of it.)
I have had terrible luck with face products. In about 2/3 of the cases, I swell my face up so much just trying them, I look really sick for days.
One place I complained to because they were so “adamant” that their products were spectular ~ but you know they didn’t give a hoot about my issue with it. Basically said, it didn’t really happen. I didn’t want anything from them — and still they really weren’t going to even give me the time to listen to the issue. However in their defense – I have issues because I am allergic to fructose(fruit sugar) and corn. What products really are made without either of these? Even toothpaste has fructose!
Resturants ~~~ hmmm I like Bertucci’s.
The best skin care experience I had was a makeover at a Clinique booth at Foley’s. Sadly this was 5yrs ago and at that time I didn’t have the funds to buy what they used. I don’t even remember what they used but I was very impressed with Clinique at that time.
IT WAS A SMALL, LOCALLY OWNED ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN MY AREA. I HAD ORDERED A SPAGHETTI DISH AND WHEN THE WAITRESS HANDED IT TO ME FROM ACCROSS THE TABLE – IT SLID OFF INTO MY LAP. I WAS WEARING A BEAUTIFUL CREAM COLOR DRESS WHICH HAD BEEN RUINED.
I swear by Ponds Cold Cream. So far, that’s the perfect cream for my face, which gets very dry during the winter. It’s a little greasy when first applied but it gets absorbed really well, and I have none of those dry areas around the mouth, which I had with other, more expensive products.
My best dining experience? It’s in a small place in Harford County (Maryland) called Bonefish Grill – great seafood, very friendly and experienced staff, and the presentation was just fabulous! The staff even pour wine like it’s the most precious liquid on earth!
Worst restaurant experience: we went to a fancy restaurant in a Swiss ski resort town for dinner one evening a couple years ago. We chose this particular restaurant because the menu outside mentioned they had a vegetarian prix fix meal. Sounded good to me! Turns out, everything but the main course had meat in it. When I complained, the waiter argued with me – like I should have known that ‘vegetarian menu’ doesn’t mean that the food is vegetarian. Right, buddy. I wish I remembered the restaurants name!
The best beauty product for me would be Dickinson’s Witch Hazel Toner. It has all-natural ingredients, non-drying ad won’t clog your pores. Plus, I notice that my blemishes have been gradually disappaearing. I bought a big bottle already.
Worst skin care product experience: I slowly noticed I had a sensitivity to benzoyl peroxide, but didn’t accept it until I used the Neutrogena Acne Mask. I woke up and my face was so irriated that I essentially had chemical burns on my face!
My worst skincare experience was with Clean and Clear Blackhead face wash. When me and my boyfriend woke up both of us had totally broke out like we were teenagers or something. This is th worst facewash I have ever used. Don’t buy it!
My best restaurant experience ever was at Nino’s on the Upper East Side because it was the best service I have ever had while dining. Everyone there is so attentive and kind and Nino himself even came to our table to chat with us, which really impressed me! The food was very authentic Italian , the wine fantastic, and the ambiance so old-school charming and romantic. All of those elements combined just made that my best restaurant experience ever.
My best experience with a skin care product is this terrific Patricia Wexler Skin Regenerating Serum I have been using since January.My skin has never looked better and it feels so smooth.I also love her under-eye brightening cream.It is the only product that has ever actually lightened my dark circles a bit.
Best Skin Care Experience – A recent trip to the spa at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, where I received a coco butter wrap and coconut oil massage. My skin felt glorius and the fragrance was delicious!!!
Worst Skin Care Experience – A homemade exfoliating scrub when I was a teenager – it was made from instant grits and brown sugar – it was a huge mess and my skin was raw for days after! Yuck!
I used to bartend at a fine-dining restaurant and the best experience for me is when customers either comes by the bar or send their server over to compliment my mixing skills.
My worst skincare experience must have been when I went to an Aveda salon and was talked into getting a facial with makeup afterwards. It was great to be pampered and felt wonderful. Afterwards, I chatted a bit with other customers and a friend I met on the street. I went home to get ready for a date, when I looked in the mirror and my face was fire-engine red with blotches! I had an allergic reaction to something, later on my friend who I had met asked me if I was feeling better!
A friend who was selling Mary Kay products did my face and I looked fabulous….But when I tried to do it myself– I didn’t look quite as good. Just didn’t have that magic touch I guess.
There is a fabulous little bistro here in Denver called 240 Union. But their managers would chew out employees in front of their customers. It made me so embarrassed for them that I told the manager I couldn’t eat there anymore!
I guess I’m lucky cause I’ve only had good experience on both.