January is my birth-month, but also my site's birth-month! I started this site on January 9, 2009, and have managed to catalog my collection, photograph everything, and - in October - wearing each eyecolor at least once and posting a look almost every day. I've learned a lot about makeup application, found some favorite things, tried some other products and found that they don't work for me, and built my eyecolor collection up a lot. I haven't had tons of readers (mostly my fault, there was a considerable “dead zone” of posts in mid-209), but I've appreciated the emails, comments, and conversations with the folks who have stopped by. Now I'm celebrating by giving away four prize packs - one each week of January, starting on Sundays at midnight-thirty Pacific time.

How to Participate

• Each week, come by and leave a comment on the posts I make during that week. (All comments are moderated, so comments won't appear right away unless you're a member on my site and are logged in when you comment - but don't worry, I'll go by the date you left the comment, not the date I approved the comment.)
• Each Sunday morning, I'll randomly select one name from all the previous week's commenters - and I'll reset the clock for the next week's contest, listing the prize package I'll be giving away next week and reminding folks of the rules.
• I'll contact the winner and get their mailing address. If I don't get a response from the winner within 24 hours, I'll draw another winner from that previous week.

The Fine Print (such as it is)

• The more comments you leave, the more entries into the contest you get. You can comment once a week, on each post I make that week, or somewhere in between.
• I'll be using a spreadsheet and random.org to select the winners.
• No more than two comments per entry will be counted toward the contest - so even if you have an ongoing discussion with some other commenters, only the first two comments on any given entry will be counted toward that week's prize package.
• Spammy comments will be deleted - no affiliate links, posts about this or that great article on National Geographic's site, et cetera.
• Rude or abusive comments - toward myself, toward other commenters, directed at other sites - will be deleted.
• All prize packages (except the nail polish) are open to entrants of any age, in any country.
• No substitutions can be made on the prize packages. This is all stuff I bought with my own money, I don't have money to go out and buy more freebies.
• The nail polishes cannot be sent through USPS, and since I don't care to spend USD$80 to mail a prize package overseas...that one contest-phase is open only to residents of the US and Canada.

The Winners

• Week One (nail polish package): visitor Ellen1 (commented here, among other places)
• Week Two (scented body products package): Tee (commented here, among other places)
• Week Three (BE makeup package): TBA
• Week Four (The SheSpace LE eyeshadows package): TBA

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