Competitions and giveaways from the past week

So, I thought I'd post a selection of the best giveaways and competitions I've come across in the past 7 days.

Totally selfless, right?  Wrong.  If you win any of these competitions, you have to give me the prize. 

Or share it with me. 

Or tell everybody I’m the reason you won.

Or comment on this post.

Just do SOMETHING to let me know I helped somebody out.  That would make me happy.

OK, here goes:

Win wine.

Win wine festival tickets.

Win more wine (I like wine, OK?)

Win an awesome 6-coure tasting menu meal for 2.

Win knives.

Win jewellery.

Win a 2 night stay at The Last Word.

Win a crap-load of freebies with afashionfriend.

Win a hamper worth over R9500.

Win an iPad - vote for www.utique.co.za (yip, I just did that.)

Win an Airloom Rug

Win fashion.

Win shoes for a year? um...  yes.

Good luck peoples!

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Prize: Shellac Mani/Pedi and eyebrow threading

So today I got pampered at Urban Apothecary in Wembley Square.

Now, as prizes go, this was a pretty good one:  Shellac Mani and Pedi and eyebrow threading (and those buggers were in need of a threading, let me tell you.)
This would be my first Shellac-ing, but I'd heard good things so my expectations were set quite high.

We started off with the threading (another first), which I'd been meaning to do for ages.  I gotta say it was pretty much as quick and painless as ripping facial hair out from the follicle can get.  It's also a lot easier on the actual skin than waxing, and I didn't have to worry about awkward shiny red patches on face afterwards - result!

The Shellac mani and pedi was done a lot quicker than I expected; my tootsies were done and dry and back in their shoes after only 40 minutes!

The Shellac blurb:
“CND Shellac is the original, one and only Power Polish. It’s not a gel polish – which are basically just “watered” down gels. It’s a true innovation in chip-free, extended-wear nail color! It goes on beautifully, wears beautifully, dries immediately and removes with no damage. Shellac is designed as a system. The application service time for Shellac nails is only 30/45 minutes, and Shellac goes on with the ease of a traditional bottle of nail polish. The dry time is zero – yes, that’s right, zero! There’s also no odor, and no damage to nails. Shellac is 3-free (contains no formaldehyde, DBP (dibutyl phthalate) and toluene). Shellac polish lasts for 14+ days, with durable shine that resists chips, scratches, and smudges. Finally, enjoy the easy-off that only Shellac delivers. Removal time is brief (10 minutes), and the method doesn’t damage the nails or surrounding skin.”

the results:

Not too bad I say!  Actually, I'm pretty chuffed with the results.

You can check out Urban Apothecary's price list here.  In addition to nails, threading and tinting, they also do spray tans and eyelash extensions! (I currently trek all the way past the boerewors curtain for my 3 week lash fills, so this was pretty exciting news for me...)

Big thanks again to Charlie from Urban Apothecary and kimgray.co.za for running this competition and, well, giving me the prize :)  Good Times!

I win stuff.

I win shit.
I mean, not really, obviously.  That would make for a whole different kind of blog.  But I do win stuff quite regularly.

It's not like I spend my days scouring the internet for competitions, I guess I just come across ones that nobody seems to know about.  Last month I won a prize only 2 other people had entered for.
Must have really sucked for those guys.

ANYways... this should be a running commentary of the stuff I win.  Part review and thanks to the lovely people who give me stuff, and part, well, showing off really.

I'll start off with a catch up on a couple of my recent winnings (not a lot of reviews as I can't remember the details - this bodes well for a new blog, I know.)

R500 Dreamnails voucher for Cosmopolitan Magazine SA
I haven't used this yet, so I'll let y'all know how that goes...

Leather clutch by Jinger Jack and Kimgray.co.za

2 tickets to a 3-man play (well, 2 men and a woman) called TAPE.
Took my Crawf along to this show in... I want to say Rondebosch... Newlands maybe?  Anyway some small high school theatre in the Southern Suburbs.
Alright, so only 2 other people tweeted for this giveaway, Crawf and I made up about 20% of the final audience, the wine was R25 and revolting (I mean, i still drank it...), and I really enjoyed this show!  In fact, after a long spell of only seeing musicals on stage, I'm making it a mission to see more of these kinds of dramatic productions.  We were totally absorbed from the first line.  Good times.


This week I'll be taking advantage of a prize I won last week, so stay tuned!