My First Giveaway, HIZZAH!!

Here's my thing, I LOVE samples. I recently went to an esthetics conference in Vegas just for the samples. The classes I took there were just a bonus. It's kind of silly that I spent all that money to get to and stay in Vegas that weekend just for what was probably under $20 worth in samples. I'm not a roller-coaster person, products are my thrill. I love the way they look, smell, and feel. I love dispensing product for a facial.  I look at it on the pallet and get super excited knowing that I get to touch it soon.

You know that cosmetic marketing technique where they cut up the lipstick or make a mess with the powder or spill the nail polish? I'm the target of those campaigns. Those pictures are so freaking exciting to me. Someday I want to be the lipstick chopper for those pictures. That would be the best job ever.

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This first giveaway, my friends, will be rather small. It will be a sample giveaway (very, very good samples), I'm hoping some of you guys like samples as much as I do and that they will be enough to motivate you. There will be five winners, and each winner will receive two samples from Sanitas, one of my favorite skincare lines. 

The first sample will be Sanitas' Rose Facial Scrub

You use it as a cleanser, but it also exfoliates with silica crystals which are round so they won't tear up your skin (microscopically) and cause problems (unlike apricot scrub, which isn't a good choice for anybody's skin because of this reason). It also has vitamin C which stimulates collagen production and vitamin E which is an antioxidant (fights free-radicals, aging prevention). 

The second sample, and yes, the even better sample... will be Sanitas' Cranberry Enzyme Mask

Part of me is begging myself to keep the cranberry mask samples for myself because words can not describe my love for this mask and it will be hard for me to send them out to my five lucky winners. I love enzyme masks in general. Pumpkin enzyme masks are common because pumpkin does awesome stuff for your skin, but this is the first cranberry mask I've come in contact with and I love it more than any other so far.  In school I learned an easy way to think of enzymes, they're like little tiny pacmen (apparently they're shaped like pacmen) eating and digesting your dead/gross/ready-to-slough-off skin. After 15 minutes of this mask (which is slightly active, mind you) your skin will be brighter, softer, and your skin-tone will be more even (if you're uneven, like myself).  You can think of this mask as a very light chemical peel, it does as much as some peels that I've performed (no, your skin will not actually peel, the enzymes dissolve your dead layers and leave newer, brighter tissue. Therefore there is nothing leftover to be peeled) (p.s. chemical peels are nothing to be afraid of, they promote good cell turnover). This mask is also formulated with hyaluronic acid which literally holds 1000x its weight in water. So if your skin is dehydrated (which most people's skin is), you will find this very beneficial (especially if you have a good moisturizer that you can pair it with). After using this mask make SURE you wear your spf because you won't have extra, dull, and useless skin layers to protect your true skin from the nasty, evil sun (who acts like he's your friend but really just wants to ruin your skin in any number of ways) for a while and you may find it easier to burn (but really with fall coming this probably won't be an issue... but you REALLY should wear an spf of at LEAST 30 EVERY DAY with physical sunscreen ingredients, NOT chemical spfs... or never leave your house except at night... or get skin cancer, your choice). 

All Sanitas products are paraben and preservative free, they are also kosher.  I like to get preservative free products when I can but I am also not a no-preservatives freak.  It would be extremely difficult to live a 100% preservative free life these days. 

anyway...

HOW TO ENTER:

ONE entry for becoming a follower of this blog

(thank you Megan, you're a good friend)

ONE entry for pushing this button (found just under Followers)

TWO entries for sharing this blog on Facebook as your Status, or on your own blog (ONE if your blog has less than 50 followers, TWO if your blog has more), or on twitter for ONE entry (found at the bottom of this post)

Leave me a comment on this post letting me know which entries you've done. Obviously I'm doing this contest to grow my readership, so if you have another mode of communication that will make me famous don't hesitate to tell me about it and I will reward entries as I see fit. 

This giveaway will close NEXT WEEK on September 22, 2012 OR when this blog reaches 25 followers WHICHEVER COMES SECOND. So if I don't have 25 followers by next Saturday I will just keep the contest open until I do, but if I get those followers say, tomorrow, then of course I will close the contest to be fair to my contestants (if everyone does all of the entries, you will have a one in five chance of winning, if you do more entries than everyone else, your chances go up). Remember, there will be FIVE winners. It's also a comment race, so if you do some entries but are the 26th to comment saying that you did your entries, you're out of luck (but I will still like you for doing it, not that you will care because you just want these magical Narnian samples).

Good Luck :)