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ElizabethN!

Please send me an email so we can work out the details.

Mandy Aftel wishes to thank everyone for their participation and comments. Here it is, in her own words:

Thank you so much for your time and thoughtfulness and kinds words about my website and my perfumes. I appreciate the time you took looking at the site and your suggestions are very helpful in pointing out ways that I can improve my website. I will be making some of the changes you suggested. I have really liked meeting you all here and connecting with people that love perfume like I do.

Models and contest supervisors: Tulip and Giselle

Natural Perfumer Mandy Aftel has redesigned and overhauled her website, Aftelier.com. I've spent more time than I care to admit exploring the products and wealth of information she offers about natural perfumes and essences and entertained a little fantasy about commissioning a bespoke perfume. Up until now I was only familiar with the Aftelier scents that are sold at Henri Bendel (my favorites have always been Tango and Fig, but I also have a serious thing for Cacao). But now I've been reading about the EDP formulation, the bath and body line and  the chef essences- yes, scents for food by a celebrated perfumer. I've been taking mental notes that can be summed as "want! want! WANT! NEED!".

Now Mandy is offering one of The Non-Blonde readers a mini perfume of  their choice (excluding Parfum Prive). To enter the contest you will need to visit Aftelier.com and then come back here to leave a comment that answers the first two questions and optionally the third one:

1. Have you tried any of of Aftelier creations? If not, which one(s) interest you most?
2. What is the ingredient in the center of Parfum Privé?
3. (Optional) What content/features would you like to see added to the Aftelier site? What would make visiting it a better experience?


The contest will remain open until Wednesday, July 7th.

Photo of Mandy Aftel at her perfume organ from the website.

*Disclaimer and clarification: I'm not affiliated with Aftelier and have no commercial interest in this giveaway in any way, shape or form. But you knew that, right?

Thank you to all of you lovely people who follow and like us - we've collated all the names and chosen one at random.  Our lucky winner is....

Michelle Cooper!

Please get in touch via email with your address and we'll post your prize to you!

Just a gentle reminder that our Facebook and Followers giveaway closes tonight.  The lucky winner, who will bag themselves products including Kiehl's lipbalm, Cargo gloss, and Bourjois mascara, will most likely be announced on Friday!  You can find more info here.

A massive thank you to everyone who entered our Dove, Vaseline and Sure giveaway, which closed yesterday. We absolutely loved reading all of your favourite "basics" and we've picked up lots of awesome-sounding recommendations from all of the readers who took the time to write an entry. So yes, thank you all!

Winners have just been selected using my very sophisticated randomised method - I ask my boyfriend to call out three numbers without telling him why. Quick, easy and totally impartial!

Our lucky winners are:

Ria
Liz
Sara Amorim

Congratulations guys - I've just emailed you to get your postal addresses.

If you didn't win, don't be downhearted! We've just launched a brand new competition which you can enter here. Don't say we aren't good to you.

Oh yes.  We're having yet another giveaway, this time of a random assortment of stuff we thought we'd put together as a giveaway for our lovely blog followers and people who like us on Facebook.

So, for your chance to win these lovely products...

• GOSH Gypsy Blue polish
• Soap and Glory Daily Smooth Body Butter
• CARGO Classic Timestrip Gloss in Alexandria (netural pink)
• Kiehl's Lip Balm #1 in Vanilla
• Bourjois Ultra Care Mascara in Noir

If you haven't entered yet, go here now to win one of three sets of essential products from the brands above!

Three readers will each win;

• Dove Summer Glow Beauty Body Lotion  (RRP £4.99) 250ml
• Dove Original Beauty Cream Bar (RRP £1.54) 2x100g
• Dove Triple Moisturising Beauty Care body wash (RRP £1.99) 250ml
• Vaseline Intensive Rescue Soothing Hand Cream (RRP £3.39) 50ml
• Vaseline Intensive Moisture Locking Body Lotion (RRP £2.99) 250ml
• Sure Crystal Clear Aqua roll-on (RRP £1.69) 50ml
• Sure Maximum Anti-Perspirant Deodorant (RRP £4.99) 50ml

Good luck!

Disclosure - prizes are provided by PR for the purposes of the competition


The sun is out in London and to improve the mood even more, we are giving away three massive bumper bundles of goodies from Sure, Vaseline and Dove.

Three individuals will win the following:

• Dove Summer Glow Beauty Body Lotion  (RRP £4.99) 250ml
• Dove Original Beauty Cream Bar (RRP £1.54) 2x100g
• Dove Triple Moisturising Beauty Care body wash (RRP £1.99) 250ml
• Vaseline Intensive Rescue Soothing Hand Cream (RRP £3.39) 50ml
• Vaseline Intensive Moisture Locking Body Lotion (RRP £2.99) 250ml
• Sure Crystal Clear Aqua roll-on (RRP £1.69) 50ml
• Sure Maximum Anti-Perspirant Deodorant (RRP £4.99) 50ml

The giveaway will run for 2 weeks from today (closing on Monday 7th June). To enter, just write us a comment telling us what your favourite "basics" are. That is, the day-to-day items that work best for you and that you return to time and again. Could be deodorant, nail polish remover, body wash, anything that you buy over and over because it works well for you.

Please also include an email address, Twitter @name, blog URL or similar so we can notify the winners and get their postal details.

Good luck!

The winner of a mini bottle of Ayala Moriel Yasmin extrait is Jane from Canada (See_Jane_Sell). Please contact me directly!

Natural perfumer Ayala Sender of Ayala Moriel Parfums is offering The Non-Blonde readers the opportunity to win a mini bottle of Yasmin extrait (4ml). To participate in the draw, please leave a comment and tell us about natural perfumes you've tried so far, which ones are your favorites or if you haven't tried any, what makes you interested in natural perfumes.

Image: Winter Jasmine Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker, circa 1930-1940

Sarbeauty!

Congratulations Sarbeauty - please send us your address via email and we will arrange for your prize to be sent out to you.

As we reported earlier this week, OCC have just unleashed 4 new shades of their culter-than-cult Lip Tar - Complex, Demure, Hoochie and Vapid. They are exclusively available in the UK, along with the other 20 shades, from The Makeup Artist Boutique.

They can be pre-ordered now, and are expected to ship on 23rd March. (Use the promo code OCCLBR for 10% off your order.)

We are offering you the chance to win one of these new Spring shades - Hoochie (third from left, above) in conjunction with the girls at The Makeup Artist Boutique, who are supplying the prize.

To enter, just drop us a comment below, telling us what other products you would pair with Hoochie (for example, you might combine it with black cat-eye liner and a matching plum blush). If for some reason you're not yet following us (*nudge*, *wink*), please leave us your email address in the comment too.

The competition will close on Saturday 20th March at 12.00 GMT, when we will pick a winner at random from the entries.

(NB - Get Lippie is also giving away one of the new Lip Tars - head over to her page to enter.)

We've had a great month organizing ourselves! A big thanks to Toni from A Bowl Full of Lemons, Jenny from Planner Perfect, Jess from Makeunder My Life, and Debra from Housewife Eclectic for joining us this month.

Today I have an awesome giveaway for you!

The lovely Meridith from Anything Adorable is giving one reader the purse organizer of her (or his, I guess :) choice from the shop (a $14 value) AND a great discount!

These purse organizers are AWESOME:



Not only does a purse organizer keep your purse organized, it allows you to transfer the most important things from one purse to another easily... and from the diaper bag to the night-out purse easily. ;)

Meridith offers the organizer in 16 different fabric patterns, so you're sure to find one that you love. And everything in the Anything Adorable shop is just... adorable (and also comes in a wide variety of adorable fabric patterns)!



To enter to win your choice of purse organizer from Anything Adorable (leave one comment per entry):

(required) Visit Anything Adorable and mark as a favorite the purse organizer you'd choose if you won (and then come back and tell me here in a comment).

Link up to the Organize Thyself party with an organizing tip or project.

Grab the Housewife MacGyver button for your blog.

Publicize Housewife MacGyver and/or this giveaway via your blog, Facebook, Twitter, or whatever social media you so choose. :)

The giveaway is open until Friday, March 4th at noon MST. Winner selected via random.org and announced later that day.

And, if you're not a winner this time around, Meridith is still hooking you up with a 15% discount on anything in the shop. The code will be in your Etsy inbox after the giveaway ends and is valid until April 4th. (Be sure that you're logged in to Etsy and "favorite" the purse organizer you'd love to win -- that's how she'll send you the code.)