The Science of Beauty: Win one of two amazing Herbal Essences prize packs

Sunday, 3 June 2012

Win one of two amazing Herbal Essences prize packs

As I mentioned on Friday, I am back from procreating! And what better way to make a return to blogging than with a giveaway. The wonderful people at Herbal Essences have provided two amazing packs for my readers to win. You can wash away your winter blues with a luscious tropical paradise in the shower!

The Herbal Essences winter style prize pack is worth over $60 and contains:

1x Herbal Essences shampoo and conditioner from the Tousle Me Softly range
1x Herbal Essences shampoo and conditioner for the Long Term Relationship range
The entire Tousle Me Softly Styling range (mousse for easy tousling, flexible hold hair spray, tousling spray gel)
1 x treatment product
A Supersized Set Me Up hairspray

These two ranges are described by Herbal Essences as:

Long Term Relationship range Do you love your thick and full head of hair? Ready to go the distance? To get long, satin-soft hair, engage every strand in a long term relationship with a fusion of red raspberry and Brazilian silk. help protect against damage and split ends when you use our shampoo and conditioner enriched with hydro-activated silkening ingredients and split-end protector. go ahead, you grow your hair as long as you dare.

Tousle Me Softly range embrace your softer side with perfectly imperfect, wavy hair. layer our products together for soft, tousled waves that beg to be touched—not that they need to beg and hey, since we work well together to create one luscious look, it’s almost mistake-proof!

How to enter

Firstly, you must follow my blog either by Google Friend Connect, email or Facebook. Then post a comment with either your best hair tip or a funny hair related story.

I will choose one winner based on the comment I like the most.

The second winner will be randomly selected using www.random.org. If you really want to enter but have no good hair tips or stories then simply write 'pleeeeeeaaaaasssse enter me!' and you will go into the random draw!

Entry is open to Australian residents only and will be drawn at 8.30pm on Sunday 17th June.

Good luck!

All opinions are my own and I received no remuneration for this post. The prizes for this competition were provided by Herbal Essences.

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Ty Phang · 669 weeks ago

Thanks so much for the giveaway! :) Here's my funny hair story (just happened a couple of days ago!). I went to an expensive hair salon to get a hair cut. My hair was down my back when I walked in. I was thinking to myself that I want to get more hair cut off to get my moneys worth but keep my long hair at the same time. I must have misunderstood much the stylist said she was gonna cut off because the next thing I knew, I was walking out of the salon with hair just barely past my shoulders. I got more than what I bargained for! I was devastated but I guess this is my chance to regrow my hair that has been falling out incessantly.

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Ann · 669 weeks ago

Friend on GFC (your dot assistant). Here's my story: I was getting ready for a party at my boss's house, and I was curling my hair. The curling iron got stuck in my hair, and my husband had to cut a large chunk off the back of my hair to get it off. I was very upset, but I ended up laughing about it. It finally grew back ... a LONG time later. The good news is, the party was awesome.

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Jayne · 669 weeks ago

Thanks for offering such a great comp - I love herbal essences products:)
I have a long running love-hate relationship with my hair, as many of us do. I also have a slight obsession with trying new products (as many of us do!) but I have to say that no matter what style I am rocking or whether my hair is chemically straightened or naturally curly, my favourite go-to product is always plain old coconut oil. Yes, I love argan oil and my KMS moist repair range, but at the end of the day, coconut oil always gives me the best results - soft, silky, fizz free tresses, for a rediculously cheap price.
It makes me wonder why I even bother buying so many other (more expensive) products, but I am easily sucked in by pretty packaging - I am every marketing department's dream:)

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Karina · 668 weeks ago

Great comp!!!
Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassssssse enter me

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kerry santillo · 668 weeks ago

pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee enter me !!!!!

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bbBeauty · 668 weeks ago

I am not sure I have any hair stories, I am growing my hair at the moment so nothing much going on on my head :)
Please enter me.

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Kristine Simmonds · 668 weeks ago

Don't know if this is funny or creepy but we had a laugh over it...When I was 20 I had very long hair and was diagnosed with cancer, I was a nurse and was admitted to the same hospital I worked in. On my 3rd day of treatment all my nursey friends came to see me one lunchtime, and one of them jokingly grabbed my hair and said "So is your hair falling out yet?" She gave it a tug and the whole clump came straight out into her hand! She looked horrified and everyone's eyes just about fell out of their heads, then she said, "the worst thing is I've always said I wish I had your hair!" We all had a good giggle over it! 19 years later I am all cured, and after being bald for so many years I now have waist length hair again, I am too sentimental to cut it! I have promised to cut it into a bob when I turn 40 (eek!) next year :)

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@aliciaraul · 668 weeks ago

Hi. Congrats on your new baby. Both your kids are gorgeous.

I follow you by email, facebook and twitter

My funny hair story is about a recent haircut. I'd got a coupon deal at a salon I didn't know so I knew I was taking a risk. The hairdresser who attended to me was quite young but seemed very nice. We chatted a bit about what cut I wanted and then she asked about what I did for a job and did I have a family. I continued the chit chat also asking her about her life so that the conversation was not just one way. As the haircut progressed I noticed that every time we spoke she would stop cutting. It was like she couldn't cut and talk at the same time. Then I noticed as she cut she was not very dexterous and lacked some skill in holding a comb, scissors and a piece of my hair at the same time. Something I would have thought a hairdresser needed to be quite good at. It felt like my 8 year old was cutting my hair. After this worrying display I realised the time and I had to get the kids. So I stopped talking. She kept cutting, albeit very cautiously. She ended with the fringe and made some minor adjustments and asked if I wanted to have it any shorter. It was too long and normally I would have said 1-2 cms shorter was needed but with this girl I just didn't have the time.

In the end I just made to pick up the kids and the haircut was ok but I am growing out the fringe only 4 weeks later. I think as it was a coupon deal I had been attended to by the inexperienced and nervous apprentice and I won't be returning.

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Votrebelle · 668 weeks ago

I once had to attend a date with Elvis-style sideburns. As a last minute decision I had asked my Mum to dye my hair the usual dark brown. Little did I know that she had applied the dye accidently down the sides of my face. When it was time to wash the dye out, my new look was revealed and I had no choice but to go ahead with it. Luckily he saw the funny side of it!

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meedee1 30p · 668 weeks ago

Oh gosh. Was when I was a teenager and my girlfriend and I were always looking in the latest magazines for tips on how to make ourselves more beautiful and we came across a tip for lovely glossy hair. It suggested conditioning your hair with an egg mask. I didnt think my Mum would be too happy with me using her eggs so we went to my friends house and she decided she would give it go. We broke open a couple of eggs and helped to put the gooey mixture through her hair. We waited for a while and then she jumped in the shower to rinse it out. We hadnt read the part that said to rinse out with cold water. The heat from the water cooked the egg. Oh lord what a mess. It took ages to get all the bits of egg out of her hair. We never did that again.

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Jess · 668 weeks ago

Funny Hair Story:
I was about 10 at the time and I was out to dinner with the extended family. As I was the only child at dinner, my family had had a few bottles of wine... and I was bored so I was playing with the tealight candles they put on the tables. Somehow I managed to set my hair on fire - and as everyone had had a bit to drink, it wasn't until you could actually smell my burning that someone noticed my hair was on fire. I lost about 10cm of my hair and was absolutely devastated.

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Steph · 668 weeks ago

I went into the hairdressers december last year (a week ish after my knee reconstruction) wanting to get pixie lott's short/mid length hairstyle as I thought it would be more manageable. At that point, I had long hair (past my boobs). Showed the hairdresser the photo, she starts... In my painkiller induced haze, I wasn't paying too much attention, and ended up having about 30cms of hair being chopped off, and my hair sat at my ears... Crutched my way out happy-ish (had wanted it a little above shoulder length) with the style, it did look good.

Few days on when I got around to washing and restyling, I remembered my hair when shorter is an uncontrollable afro type boofy, not the sleek Pixie Lott, just towel dry and go hairstyle..

Still suffering the consequences, my hair is a tad past my shoulders, and still fairly uncontrollable unless I spend a good 40minutes with my straightner... So until its back to its long lusciousness, I'm stuck piling it into a bun..

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Thanh Luu · 667 weeks ago

I have really long hair that gets messy and tangled all the time! One time I was eating cheetos I dropped 2 pieces on my hair and without realising it tied my hair up with the cheetos still stuck in my hair. I walked around westfields with my hair in a bun and 2 cheetos sticking out! Not one person said anything, until I got home took a shower and found soggy cheetos in my hands.
I subscribed to your facebook page!

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Beautyobsessed · 667 weeks ago

Hi, please enter me! Thank you x Have subscribed via email :)

P.S. Congrats on the gorgeous new bundle of joy!

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dorme · 667 weeks ago

When I was younger (say about 9ish), I desperately wanted to be a hairdresser and have amazing hair, so I really got into doing my own hair, pulling it up for school, I learnt how to braid my own hair and always did something different. One day in my 9-year-old wisdom I decided that I would put my hair up in a high pony tail on top of my hair like the 'cool' kids. In my school bag I always had a whole shop worth of hair ties and clips, along with my hairbrush and detangle spray. After I'd eaten lunch I thought it would be cool to change my hair style. I then decided it would be inherently awesome to put an extra hair tie in my hair. So I did. On top of the original hair tie. And than another. And another. And another. I continued piling my hair high with hair ties until I had what would have easily been described as a tree. On my head. There was a tiny tuft of hair sticking out the top of a rainbow hair tie cone. I thought I was the coolest kid around. I thought I was even cooler when other girls started copying me. That was until we had to go back to class and the people behind me couldn't see over my hair sculpture.

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Nightlace · 666 weeks ago

This is not a 'good' hair story but it certainly could be seen as 'funny'.

I've always had super long, but fine, frizzy hair. About 8 years ago, chemical straightening was all the rage. So i decided to jump on the Poker-Straight-Hair-Bandwagon, and saved up my pocket money for months on end for my hairdresser appointment. I was ecstatic when I had the $200 and I couldn't book myself in fast enough, telling the lady that I wanted the straightest locks on Earth.

I was unbelievably excited when my appointment arrived. However, ss the hairdresser began the process with the stinky chemicals, alarm bells started ringing. My hair had turned to the texture of wobbly jelly. She reassured me that it was totally normal and she continued merrily on her way. After a lengthy time, she started to blowdry my hair. To my horror, tufts of my hair broke off, about 1cm from the root at the crown. I burst into tears as more strands fell to the floor. The hairdresser was flabbergasted and embarrassed, she was extremely apologetic and waivered the appointment fee.

I was left with tufts of broken hair sticking up straight for weeks on end, and I attempted to hide it with a comb-over. I looked like I had a serious balding disease, was laughed at and hence wanted to live under a rock.

I discovered an important lesson - my hair could never be chemically straightened as it was too fine and brittle. Now I'm obsessed with my GHD and paranoid about getting any chemicals near my hair!

Thanks for the awesome blog comp! Have subscribed via GFC!

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