Bare Escentuals Rethink What Matters Campaign, Contest and Giveaway

Bare Escentuals, the company that started BareMinerals makeup, asks what you're rethinking for 2010. With some imaginative play on words and creative marketing approaches Bare Escentuals has started the revolutionary topics of Rethink Going Bare in Public, Rethink Your Environment, and now Rethink The Need to Find Yourself with a contest and new campaign called Rethink What Matters. You can visit their Rethink What Matters website to take their quiz and share the quiz with your friends. Each week 500 randomly selected women will receive free BareMinerals goodies just for taking part. Also, at the end of March, they will announce a Grand Prize winner who will be able to chose a sweet trip to places like Paris, Costa Rica, Turks and Caicos, Italy or Asia!! This contest will run for 9 weeks total, with the first set of Rethink questions going out on 1-22-10 (Week 1) and the last set of Rethink questions going out on 3-19-10 (Week 9). The contest will end on 3-26-10. Weekly giveaway information will be updated every Thursday.

Now in its third week running this contest is sure to turn some heads as they also will have a quickie van with the topics branded on them going from place to place in San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago (five days a week in SF from 2-8-10 to 3-28-10; NYC from 4-5-10 to 5-2-10; Chicago from 5-10-10 to 6-6-10) doing what they call complementary "make-unders" and giving out tips, products from their line, and Bounceback cards [which offer women a free Handy Buki Brush ($20 Value) with any purchase of either a bareMinerals Original SPF 15 Foundation or MATTE SPF 15 Foundation - redeemable in SF from 2-8-10 to 4-30-10; NYC from 4-5-10 to 5-30-10; Chicago on 5-10-10 to 6-30-10]. If you are in one of the cities at these times you can follow the quickie van on Twitter to find out where it is in real-time and stop on by for an impromptu and complementary make-under!

So...Get to Rethink What Matters and Start Rethinking!!

WIN SOMETHING HERE:
Catherine from American Pop - Social Media Marketing has generously offered a BareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara ($18 value) to give away to one of my readers!

Mandatory:
1. Go to the Bare Escentuals website and tell me what product is your favorite.

Additional entries:
1. Subscribe to my blog by email and let me know. (2 extra entries)

2. Become my fan on Facebook. (1 extra entry)

3. Blog about this giveaway on your blog and provide me with the link. Make sure you have the link to this post and Bare Escentuals Rethink What Matters in your blog entry or it won't count. (2 extra entries)

4. Grab My Button (see sidebar to the left) AND/OR Put My Blog URL in Your Blogroll - Leave Your Link. (1 extra entry)

5. Technorati my blog and let me know your link. (1 extra entry)

6. List this giveaway on any giveaway listing website or blog and tell me where you listed it. (2 extra)

7. Follow me on twitter and retweet this: @finamoon: @bareescentuals WIN: BareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara #giveaway http://bit.ly/cselFn
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8. Fave me on Momfaves. (2 extra entries)

9. Comment on one of my other of my posts and tell me which one. (2 extra entries per post)

10. Fan Bare Escentuals on Facebook. (1 extra entry)

11. Follow Bare Escentuals on Twitter. (1 extra entry)

Make sure you leave me your email in all posts so that I can contact you. If you subscribed by email, blogged about this, listed it, commented on another post, or faved me on Momfaves leave 2 entries saying you did. This contest ends on Sunday February 14, 2010 at midnight (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada). This Giveaway is open to U.S. Only!!

DISCLAIMER: Thanks to American Pop - Social Media Marketing and Mom Fuse POP (Post Our Pitch) Alerts for this information to share with my viewers. Bare Escentuals and American Pop is also gifting me a BareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara as well as hosting this giveaway for my blog.

World Gratitude Day

It is World Gratitude Day today! So I would like to take time and thank each and every one of my readers and soon to be subscribers. You are wonderful! I also want to take time to thank God for all the trials and tribulations in my life that have made me stronger. I am so very blessed to have a wonderful family who looks out for me and wonderful friends who are there for me. Thanks! I am grateful to you all!


These pictures of Tatiana were taken shortly after Christmas of last year. She had to spend Christmas in the hospital and my parents helped watching her while she was there so she would not feel alone. The hospital staff gave her Patti the pink platypus to hug and cuddle. During that time we had trial after trial thrown at us at home: our toilet backed up, our water heater broke, and our furnace broke. When my husband went to go see Tatiana in the hospital both back tires on our van blew out and we had numerous times the chains on his tires kept breaking. In January our family and friends sent blankets to keep us warm while the furnace was being fixed and despite the trials we got through it all. I am so grateful to my friends, family and strangers that helped pull us through.


I am also posting this video from Mom Fuse. They and Tiny Prints asked several well known bloggers to volunteer their time and to take part in a 21 day challenge that encouraged them to take note of the brighter side of life. Now they are asking for more participation. Join the Gratitude Challenge! Seek out things that that you feel gratitude for and share them on your blog, Facebook, Twitter or wherever you express yourself.


Follow them on Twitter @TakeNoteGiveThx hashtag: #GratitudeChallenge
Fan them on Facebook. You can even add an interactive 21-day gratitude calendar widget to your blog or website.

Thanks to Mom Fuse POP (Post Our Pitch) Alerts for this information!

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Tupperware's Chain of Confidence Challenge

I just entered the Tupperware's Chain of Confidence Challenge, a ‘pay-it-forward’ contest which invites you to share your story of inspiration on Chain of Confidence by nominating a friend, relative, or member of the Tupperware community, who has empowered you through an act of kindness. Three winners will receive $5,000 to donate to the charity of their choice. My mom was my choice of women. Come vote for my essay and enter your own: She Is There For Me.

Here is my essay:

My now five year old daughter, Tatiana, has been through more than anyone should. At 8 months of age she was diagnosed with a brain tumor that when resected took her sight, caused her endocrine problems, and cerebral palsy. My mom flew out from Utah to be with my family in Florida during that tough time. She grew up in Alaska so the heat there didn't agree with her, but she was still there giving her support.

Now that my family has moved to Oregon. My mom and my dad have dropped everything to move out to Oregon also to try and be closer to us to help out more. There has been many hospital stays for Tatiana where my mom was there watching out for her when I couldn't. She has been a Godsend!

April 2008 was a particularly stressful time. I was pregnant with my 4th child and Tatiana went into the hospital again. She was given an antibiotic, had a severe hemolytic reaction to it, and almost died. I was to be induced to labor in a different hospital merely days from that and my mom went with me and my dad stayed with Tatiana. The same day I went into labor we received word that Tatiana had to have an ileostomy because her small intestine had developed a hole. I was devastated, but my mom comforted me and empowered me to have strength to have my baby. In the end everything went fine.

With each experience I have learned a lot of things and grown as a person. One thing I have learned is that my mom will always be there for me. Thanks Mom!

Thanks to TwitterMoms and their Reach A Mom Blogger Online (RAMBO) Alerts (A special newswire designed to connect marketers, advertisers, and members of the media with influential mom bloggers, like yourself!) for this information. Join TwitterMoms too and you can get the Rambo Alerts also if you list your blog.

Also, thanks to Mom Fuse and their Post Our Pitch (POP) Alerts and Blog Friendly PR for this information as well.