Congratulations to Kebabette and Morgan who, thanks to the random number generator, both won their choice of Linden Leaves room-sprays. If you guys would like to send me an email (joanna @ prettyprettypretty . com), I’ll get those prizes out to you soon. And for the rest of our readers who have to deal with stinky things in life, this might help – a picture of racoons making out.
Posts Tagged ‘competition’
Unstinking you
January 26th, 2009Your chance to shine like a black opal
December 9th, 2008Michael Jackson may have sang that it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, but when it comes to makeup, it does actually make a difference, and I’m suprised he doesn’t know that. That’s why it’s awesome that Black Opal is available in New Zealand.
Black Opal is a brand of cosmetics and skincare from New York, made exclusively for women and men of colour. All cosmetics are richly pigmented and technologically advanced to enhance and beautify brown skin.
Black Opal has been used in the Miss Indianz 2008 Beauty Contest, as well as the Miss Asia Pacific 2007 and Miss Africa NZ 2007/06, and now it can be used on you too!
Thanks to the lovely people of Amaka Beauty, we have two vouchers for a makeover worth $80 and a lipstick worth $20 you can select at the makeover to give away. The makeovers are available at Life Pharmacy Manukau, Life Pharmacy St Lukes Metro and Unichem West City Pharmacy (There are other stockists but not who are doing the makeovers, so sorry, non Auckland readers! We’ll have something for you soon), and if you want to win, all you gotta do is leave us a comment and we’ll draw two winners next Tuesday with the help of the randomiser. Hurray!
My, that’s Delicious!
October 21st, 2008
Recently we were contacted by a New Zealand company named Delicious, asking us if we wanted to try their products. To be honest, neither Amy nor I had ever heard of them before, but we’re always keen to try new things – especially if they’re New Zealand-made and inspired by a bubble in a glass of champagne (that’s where all of our best ideas come from too!), so our reply was a resounding “yes please!”
A couple of days later I got a bulging packet in the mail, crammed full of pink delicious goodness. They’re described as “divinely decadent and sensual”, and the exfoliator, shower gel, hand & foot balm and moisturiser products even smell pink, and I mean that in a good way. It makes a nice change for me, as I normally buy products that have one specific scent (and to be honest, that’s normally just coconut), but these are more perfumey. When my flatmate Smoo tried the hand & foot balm, he said it was probably a bit too girly-smelling for him to get away with (although he liked the way it felt), so we made jokes about how it could be useful in giving yourself a stranger, but my sister’s boyfriend Bambi said the scent was fine for him and his mother and grandmother are the lovely ladies from Herbatint, so we think he is more credible as a judge of beauty products. Both of them however, might prefer Delicious Aqua products, which apparently are “fresh, clean and unisex”.
Either way, it made for a very happy bathtime for me to be able to layer the fragrance upon myself, and then upon my clean sheets. I used the shower gel as bubble bath, and it wasn’t a big bubbler (they do make a bubble bath though which is undoubtedly better), but it made for a nice soak anyway, perhaps due to its manuka and olive extracts. I really enjoyed the exfotliator with apricot seeds – it was soft but I still felt like I was getting a good scrubbing. The moisturiser comes in a pretty pump bottle which is really handy, but my favourite product was the hand &; foot balm. It’s a really intense moisturiser with grapeseed and shea butter, and your hands feel so soft after using it it’s not unlike a much more expensive four-part treatment – but in one easy application. The balm went missing mysteriously before I could pass the products on to Amy to try, but as I am a good person I have brought it to her tonight to try. My verdict on Delicious? I’m really glad to know about it, the range is perfect for when you want to feel really girly, and the balm is going on my list of products to carry all the time.
There’s a list of stockists on their website, but for the rest of the month they’re offering free shipping and a free gift, so you don’t even need to get up from your computer to get yourself some tastiness. Or perhaps there might even be a giveaway from us tomorrow – if you’re really lucky…
Anouncing the winner of the Mary Kay Satin Hands Pack!
September 9th, 2008
Congratulations to Tessa! You have won the Mary Kay Satin Hands Pamper Pack. Thanks to everyone who left us a tip. There’s some great tips left by you lovelies!
Tessa, we’ll email you shortly with more details.
And big thanks to Karyl at Mary Kay for donating the prize.
Reminder: Enter the Mary Kay Comp
September 6th, 2008
Remember to enter our competition to win this wonderful Mary Kay prize. It closes Monday, so click here and leave a comment to enter!
Skinfood awesome prize pack – simplified
August 5th, 2008Okay, so perhaps my last post was a little bit confusing. Here’s the deal. We have a box worth $85 of some of the best locally-made, naturally-ingrediented, most lovely products to give away. Specifically, there’s:
- Shaving gel with soothing witch-hazel
- SPF 15+ moisturiser
- Cleans All Aloe & Manuka honey
- Norishing moisturiser
- Exfoliating scrub with Aloe and Sweet Almond
- Light Moisturiser
- Mud Masque with Natural Rotorua Mud
- Body Butter
This stuff is AWESOME. So if you want it, all you have to do is leave us a comment saying that you do, and link to our site from somewhere. Whoever makes the link (or links, you can accumulate them) that brings in the most traffic wins the prize! And runners-up receive nice giftboxes as well. Wahoo!
Announcing our winners
May 12th, 2008Today we have the lovely Rachel with us, and we got her to draw out the names of our Pretty Prize Pack competition winners. To prove our authenticity, we filmed the process.
But if you want to cut straight to the action, congratulations to:
- Morgan
- Kebabette
- Sue.
Yay! Can you guys please email amy (at) prettyprettypretty.com with your addresses, and we’ll get that straight out to you.