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You still deserve something nice for Mother’s Day and…
We are giving one lucky reader the Mother of all Giveaways including these amazing gifts:
Lexli Skincare Starter Kit – $84Lexli’s 30-Day Starter Kit is an easy, inexpensive way to try our skincare line and make sure it’s right for you. Each kit provides a month’s supply of products featured as a part ofLexli’s Simple 4-Step System. Included in the travel-friendly kit is: Aloe-Based Cleansing Lotion (2 oz.), Aloe-Based AloeGlyC® Renewing Exfoliant (0.50 oz.), Aloe-Based Day Moisturizer with SPF 15 for Normal to Dry Skin (0.50 oz.), Aloe-Based Tone and Balance (2 oz), Aloe-Based Night Moisturizer (0.5 oz). www.lexli.com.
Le Baby Hair Gel – $9.95
Spotted recently in the West Village were Sarah Jessica Parkerand Matthew Broderick with their daughters, Marion and Tabitha. However, instead of SJP turning heads as usual with her unparalleled style, were her daughters, rocking their edgy new hair do’s! Setting the trend at a young age, the adorable one year olds, are strolling around and working the “spiked hair look.” (Image to the right is from the New York Post)Help your tyke be a trendsetter on the playground or at daycare by using Le Baby Hair Gel, a product designed for kids that is free of sulfates, fragrances and harsh chemicals. The lightweight formula makes it easy to spike hair, tackle unwanted fly-aways and tame after-nap hair. For more information, visit www.lebabyinc.com.
Envyderm Lash Regrowth Serum – $99.95We all know the wonders of mascara well; in fact, most of us feel naked without it. But breakage, thinning and damaging of the lashes are mascara’s little known drawbacks. Fortunately, EnvyDerm, a groundbreaking new nonprescription formula eyelash growth serum is here for our eyebatting rescue.
“Through meticulous research and development, scientific advances, professional expertise and the understanding of a customer’s well-being, EnvyDerm is changing the world of beauty,” says Nadia Smith, President and Founder of EnvyDerm. “At EnvyDerm, we provide consumers with the best eyelash care products to enhance their natural beauty.” One should begin to see the lash line becoming thicker, fuller and healthier looking in as little as 2 weeks! In a clinical study, users saw a 25 percent increase in eyelash length during this period. www.envyderm.com
Beanstalk Express Snack Time Survival Kit – $49.95
Welcome to Beanstalk Express, the home of the world’s first snacktivity game, The SnackTime survival kit. At Beanstalk Express, we’re parents too! And like you, we also envisioned raising fruit-and-veggie loving eaters, avoiding processed foods and “just saying no!” to drive through windows! But then something happened along the way … We had kids! After enduring the preschool battles with picky eaters and around-the-clock requests for sweets and goodies, we realized what was missing when it comes to inspiring our kids with healthy habits that will last …Food marketers have been making junk food fun for decades. So what if we made healthy choices just as much fun? We decided to try it … and it worked! When you empower children with the ability to make their own choices, amazing things happen! At Beanstalk Express, we make healthy fun! And in the process, they become habit! www.beanstalkexpress.com
The Bar Method DVD & Onesie – $20Master teacher Lee Potter in her third trimester with twins adds her own special wit and playfulness to the Bar Method’s pre-natal workout, a long-standing and popular class at its flagship studio in San Francisco. Lee leads you through this 45-minute long series of gentle, safe and challenging moves, including free-weight work, thigh exercises, standing seat-work, and abdominal strengthening exercises performed while propped up on pillows. Lee’s fellow performers are Hannah Blue, co-owner of the Downtown San Francisco studio and Lauren Dunning, a teacher at the Downtown San Francisco studio, both appearing in this DVD in their second trimester. As Lee puts it, this DVD “will help you feel strong during your pregnancy..www.barmethod.com
Young children are naturally curious – they’re full of questions and excited to learn about the world they live in. However, as times change, children’s curiosities have addressed more complex and sensitive issues, often at younger ages. In today’s American culture, more than ever, answers can increasingly be found in children’s books. Everything from divorce and global warming to potty habits and how to deal with a death in the family, children’s books have tackled it all. Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a Miami board-certified plastic surgeon and father of four, has taken the reins on a very hot topic and wrote “My Beautiful Mommy,” the first ever children’s book that addresses plastic surgery. www.mybeautifulmommy.com
Dermacyte Oxygenating Eye Complex is a smooth, delicate treatment to refresh, hydrate and restore the appearance of youth to your eye contour area. It is designed to enhance the skin’s hydration, elasticity and smoothness while protecting it against environmental stress. Dermacyte Oxygenating Eye Complex is a gentle marriage of modern technology and nourishing emollients extracted from avocado essence, oat kernel, sunflower oil, the calming High Ash, a tree indigenous to European forests rich in antioxidants, Vitamin C and seeds from the Pacific Northwest Meadowfoam plant among other nurturing ingredients. It provides a lightweight solution with its patented technology, a powerful oxygen-carrier developed to infuse oxygen for a fresher appearance and overall improved complexion. It immediately imparts a cool, moisturizing effect while also reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. These effects along with skin brightening and anti-irritating benefits deliver a lighter and healthier feel to your skin. www.dermacyteUS.com
How to enter the giveaway:
To enter, leave a comment below telling me why you want to win. Would the prize be for you, your mother, a friend? Which prize is most exciting to you and why?
This giveaway is open to U.S. residents ages 18+ only. No P.O. boxes. Entries accepted until 11:59 May 8th, 2011.
It doesn’t work.
Mornings have been stressful around around here lately between my 4 year old fighting every outfit I put together for her, she is really picky about socks so we go through about three pairs each morning trying to find the perfect pair, she’s been having to poop right before we walk out the door to go to school, and I haven’t been feeling so hot for a little over a week.
This morning was no different. My daughter cried about her outfit, she had to poop right before we were going to leave then to add salt to the wound, my husband told me that we needed to drop money off at my son’s school for his school photograph – ASAP. What? What?
So I was running around like a mad woman, trying to get my 4 year old ready for school, fix her breakfast, fix her lunch for school, fix her hair, then I find out about the school pictures. I had to hunt down a check and make a decision on which photographs we wanted to keep..which I absolutely suck at – decision making.
Finally, I get through all of that. My daughter is dressed. Her lunch is packed. She’s going to eat breakfast in the car. Then she has to go to the bathroom again.
That’s when I remembered that my husband and I agreed that maybe she shouldn’t go to school because she ran a mild fever last night, has been coughing, and having this ‘poop issue’. But all that was going through my head was that if she stays home..
So, we get in the car, I tell her that she doesn’t have to go to school, we go to my son’s school to drop off the photographs and check, then I say “don’t you think you’d have more fun at school than at home today?”. She looks at me with her sweet little eyes and says “Yes, Mommy.. I think you’re right”. Huh, did I hear that right? She agreed to go to school?
I can get some work done? I hit the gas pedal like nobody’s business (her school is across the street from my son’s school so I probably got up to 25 MPH), parked the car, got her out, and my daughter said “look mommy, it’s the mayor!”. I looked up and saw a man dressed in a suit, carrying a bible. My daughter goes to a pre-k inside a church so I didn’t think anything of it. But I also noticed that there weren’t ANY other cars around. Strange for being just a few minutes late to school. There are usually a few stragglers in the parking lot at 9:15. The “Mayor” asked me if my daughter goes to the preschool there and I said Yes. He said “Oh, I’m so sorry, there’s no school today. No one told you?” Are you freakin’ kidding me.. is what I do not say out loud.
My daughter looked at me very sadly and we walked back to the car. At that moment I realized that I was going to have to come up with things for her to do while I worked.
That’s about when she stepped on the Wilton Chocolate and Easter Candy Molds on the floor in the car. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have something to do! Thank goodness the molds didn’t break!
She did really great for about an hour (watching TV) then broke down and asked me to play with her for about 20 minutes straight until I broke down and said OK. I reached a comfortable stopping point with work and got the Wilton’s chocolate candy and molds out and we got to work. She LOVED making chocolate candies and it’s such a quick, easy, and mess-free project that I think we’ll make chocolates for every holiday now. I just hope someone eats them!
What Easter traditions do you have? Do you have a favorite chocolate candy recipe? Do you put Oreos or other goodies, in your chocolate candies?
Have you ever taken your child to preschool only to find that it was closed? What did you do?
On May 14th, the Fabulous Fox Theatre is going to be transformed into a paradise for new moms and moms-to-be. The Atlanta Baby & Child Expo will be the place to meet up with Atlanta’s most experienced and respected professionals in the maternity and new baby world.
Atlanta Baby Event Brings Together Top Maternity and ParentingProducts, Professionals and Services.
The Atlanta Baby and Child Expo is a one day extravaganza of “all things baby” for newmoms and moms-to-be, as well as their friends and family. Set for May 14th at the FabulousFox Theatre Ballrooms, this is not your mass-expo event, but an elite pampering and shoppingexperience, providing new and expectant moms with a true treat.You’ll get to meet with Atlanta’s most experience professionals, check out the finest baby products, and be able to register for premier services. The event is geared toward expectantand new moms, from pregnancy to pre-k, and will include expectant massages, a maternityfashion show, cravings corner, baby dream gear runway, and a mom and baby product areawhere you can purchase the items you adore. There will also be thousands of dollars worth ofgiveaways, from strollers to car seats and even a crib. There are even special features fromthe www.BabyNameWizard.com where you can try matchmaking your interests with baby nameoptions and the Bump It Up Style Lounge where you can get personalized tips on how to “bumpup” your style before and after your pregnancy.
Attendees who register at least one week in advance will go home with sweet swag bags. VIP’swill be able to enter early and have access to a VIP only zone with additional treats. Tickets canbe purchased online at www.AtlantaBabyandChildExpo.com. Potential vendors and sponsorscan also find out more information on that site. This is the officially licensed Atlanta event forthe Pregnancy Awareness Month campaign and is organized by Bottles to Britches PremierBaby Planners, a company with a passion for educating and connecting new and expectantparents with the people and products they need. Partners and sponsors include TheBump.com,Atlanta Parent magazine, Safe Kids of Georgia, Atlanta Kids Directory, www.MomsLikeMe.com(Atlanta), www.AtlantaMoms.com, and www.MyAtlantaMommy.com, along with many othernational and local leaders in the baby industry.
The Atlanta Baby and Child Expo is hosted by Bottles to Britches Premier Baby Planners in partnership with TheBump.com.
Make sure you don’t miss out on any of the action and order your tickets now! Tickets are just $20 if you order in advance ($25 the day of the expo) and that you’ll get a fabulous swag bag when you order your tickets in advance. Or, you can buy VIP tickets for just $40 – these tickets include early bird admission, exclusive VIP area access, deluxe treats, and priority seating! Buy your tickets now.
Three lucky Atlanta Moms / The Mommy Insider readers will win two tickets (each) to the Atlanta Baby & Child Expo on May 14th! The value of this prize is approximately $40 per winner.
To win, all you have to do is leave me a comment telling us what you are most looking forward to at the Atlanta Baby & Child Expo and why you want to to win.
One lucky winner will be chosen to receive two tickets on the following dates: April 27th, May 4th, and May 11th.
Be sure to tell us what you’ve done in the comments below so we can count all of your extra credits!
The winners will be notified via e-mail (so make sure you leave a valid e-mail) and will have 24 hours to respond. I (AtlantaMoms.com) will have a booth at the Atlanta Baby & Child Expo so be sure to stop by and say hi!
I ran out of my favorite tinted moisturizer a couple of months ago and decided that I would go to Sephora at the mall after I took my mom to the airport and dropped a tent of at my friend Stacie’s house this morning. Since I was out that way, I thought I’d go to the Sephora at Perimeter Mall.. near Stacie, not so close to my house, but that didn’t work out seeing as how I got way lost. So, I drove on to my neck of the woods.. Kennessaw, GA and thought I’d be in and out of the mall (not one of my favorite places to be) in a few minutes. Well, that didn’t happen but I’m glad!
Once I got to the Sephora store in the mall, I went to the Laura Mercier counter and grabbed my favorite tinted moisturizer. Then I thought that while I was there I might as well take a look at some eyeshadow and lipgloss. After about 15 minutes of browsing and swiping at least a dozen lig gloss colors on the back of my hand, a store employee asked if I needed help. I may have scared him a little when I replied with “Yes, I’m desperate!” and told him that I needed to find a lip color that would provide good coverage, but not require a lot of swiping on my lips. You see, my lips are very sensitive and more than two swipes of a lipgloss makes my lips bright red and puffy. Not pretty. Well, this wonderful employee (who’s name I’m sad to say I don’t remember) said that I gave him a challenge he’s never experienced before! Score for Alicia!
After seriously pondering (I could see it in his eyes) my predicament for a few moments, he walked me to the Smashbox section of the store where he excitedly said “a brush applicator is what you need”! A brush applicator! Why didn’t I think of that? He proceeded to try a few colors on my hand, adding to the dozen I had already tried, and wahlah.. we found a delightful color that applied smoothly and matched my skin tone. It’s a miracle!
Next thing you know he and I were talking about the eyeshadow color palette I picked out (above) and when he had to go to the register to tend to a customer, another talented Sephora employee talked to me about less expensive tinted moisturizer options. I went in to Sephora thinking I would buy my usual $42 tinted moisturizer and thanks to this helpful employee, I left with Sephora’s own tinted moisturizer, saving me $21!
That wasn’t the end of my trip to Sephora.. not at all! As I was about to check out, an employee asked me if I had a few minutes to spare to get a free hand massage and eye treatment. By this time, they knew me by name and I couldn’t turn down a free hand massage from Sephora employees who referred to me by name. Even if they called me Bob I wouldn’t have turned down a free hand massage. The wonderful employee in the photo below, gave me an amazing hand massage and used the fabulous Clarisonic Opal Sonic Infusion System ($245) on my eyes. I’m not sure when my eyes will look as vibrant and non-puffy as they do since the treatment. It really has an instant effect on the puffiness and dark circles.. love it!
I don’t think I’ll be so hesitant to visit Sephora at the mall again. It’s not Sephora.. it’s the mall. I just don’t like going to the mall really. I usually buy makeup products online but the service and personal makeup and beauty advice that the employees at Sephora provided me made it 110% worth the drive and time to go to the actual store.
Disclosure: I was not compensated in any way for this post.
