Final Day of 20 Days of Giveaways by Striking Skin Care

Congratulations to Karen R. - you won! Thank you to all of our entries and we hope the names drawn will enjoy the prizes they won.












Giveaway:
Striking Skin Care System
Includes Striking Multi-Peptide Serum, Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme, Striking Restorative Moisture Creme and Striking Multi-Vitamin Cleanser. (Value $170.00)


















How to enter:
1. Post on the Striking Skin Care Blog – 1 time per person/giveaway
2. Post on the Striking Skin Care Facebook Fan Page – 1 time per person/giveaway
3. Email strikingskin@gmail.com – 1 time per person/giveaway

You can enter up to 3 times for each giveaway by entering on our blog, Facebook or by emailing us.

We will randomly select a winner on 11/9 at 9am Pacific. The winner will be notified and the prize will be mailed to them within a day or two. For more information, please email us at strikingskin@gmail.com.

We have given away over $1100 worth of prizes over the last 20 days. This is the final giveaway, we hope that you have all enjoyed the contest. For questions or comments, please email strikingskin@gmail.com.

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Day 14 of 20 Days of Giveaways from Striking Skin Care

Winner is Lilac - Congrats!














Giveaway:
Striking Multi-Peptide Serum, 1.13oz


A fast absorbing serum that provides hydration. Skin feels soft and supple to the touch. Humectants provide moisture to protect dehydrated skin.

Two SmartPeptides have been added to target the signs of aging. Fine lines and wrinkles are less noticeable; skin feels firmer and looks radiant.













How to enter:
1. Post on the Striking Skin Care Blog – 1 time per person/giveaway
2. Post on the Striking Skin Care Facebook Fan Page – 1 time per person/giveaway
3. Email strikingskin@gmail.com – 1 time per person/giveaway

You can enter up to 3 times for each giveaway by entering on our blog, Facebook or by emailing us.

We will randomly select a winner on 11/3 at 9am Pacific. The winner will be notified and the prize will be mailed to them within a day or two. For more information, please email us at strikingskin@gmail.com.

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Day 7 of 20 Days of Giveaways from Striking Skin Care

Giveaway:
Striking Multi-Peptide Serum, 1.13oz


A fast absorbing serum that provides hydration. Skin feels soft and supple to the touch. Humectants provide moisture to protect dehydrated skin.

Two SmartPeptides have been added to target the signs of aging. Fine lines and wrinkles are less noticeable; skin feels firmer and looks radiant.













How to enter:
1. Post on the Striking Skin Care Blog – 1 time per person/giveaway
2. Post on the Striking Skin Care Facebook Fan Page – 1 time per person/giveaway
3. Email strikingskin@gmail.com – 1 time per person/giveaway

You can enter up to 3 times for each giveaway by entering on our blog, Facebook or by emailing us.

We will randomly select a winner on 10/27 at 9am Pacific. The winner will be notified and the prize will be mailed to them within a day or two. For more information, please email us at strikingskin@gmail.com.

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5 Smart Comfort Foods When You Have a Cold

Having a cold is just plain lousy – it’s miserable to have a runny nose, coughs and sneezes. Be sure to drink plenty of fluids and keep your skin well moisturized with an extra dose of Striking Serum layered with Striking Creme. And to help beat the blahs and to give yourself a little TLC, we’re sharing some of our favorite comfort foods.

Cold season is here and when you feel lousy, you want comfort as well as healthy choices. Fitness Magazine highlighted some great choices that should help soothe your cold and keep your diet on track. Each one of these snacks is packed with cold-fighting vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that may help make your cold less severe.

Our traditional favorite - Chicken Soup!
It may be cliché, but Chicken soup is the perfect comfort food when you've got a cold! Drinking plenty of hot, nurturing fluids is essential when you're feeling run down and research at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha showed that chicken soup helps control the production and spread of inflammation and congestion-causing neutrophils (white blood cells).

Recommended serving size: 1 cup
Calories: about 190

Soothing Ginger Tea with Gingersnaps
Ginger helps relieve congestion and has a soothing, spicy taste. To make a throat-calming, congestion-busting tea, steep chopped raw ginger in boiling water for about 10 minutes. Make your teatime a little sweeter by adding a teaspoon of honey to the brew and two crunchy gingersnap cookies on the side. We think this is good on a rainy day, too!

Recommended serving size: 1 cup of tea with 1 teaspoon honey and 2 small gingersnaps
Calories: about 85

Fresh Clementines or Satsumas
Easy to peel, fresh, sweet and tangy all at once, they are a great source of Vitamin C – just two fulfill 100 percent of your RDA of vitamin C.

Recommended serving size: 2 clementines
Calories: about 138

Open Those Sinuses Vegetarian Chili
A spicy veggie chili made with onions, garlic, kidney beans, tomato paste and a good dash of chili peppers not only warms up a cold-afflicted body, it may also have medicinal properties! Onions and garlic have antiviral effects, beans have good-for-the-immune-system B vitamins, and the spices can actually help clear sinuses!

Recommended serving size: 1 cup canned vegetarian chili
Calories: about 160

Tuna Salad
Packed with glutamine, an amino acid that helps step up your immune system's efficiency, tuna is a great pick when you're sick. Research at the University of Oxford showed that athletes who ingested glutamine after workouts were less likely to get an upper respiratory infection than those who didn't; for regular folk, glutamine could have the same beneficial effects. Mix your tuna with a tablespoon of low-fat mayonnaise and serve it on 6 whole-grain crackers for a healthy mini meal.

Recommended serving size: 1 6-ounce can of tuna packed in water with 1 tablespoon low-fat mayonnaise and 6 whole-grain crackers
Calories: about 290


Excerpted from FitnessMagazine.com, January 2006.
http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/recipes/snacks/healthy/6-smart-snacks-to-feed-your-cold/



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Free Striking Question of the Week - 2/26/10

Some of us rely on our hair dryer more than others, some of us could not live without one on a day to day basis. We hope that we are not the only ones that take our hair dryers when we travel to ensure we have one that works the next day...

How often do you replace your hair dryer?

Post how often you replace your hair dryer on Facebook, our blog or by email to strikingskin@gmail.com. Each post will be entered in a random drawing on Fri, Mar 5th @ 9am/PT.

Prize=Winner gets to select one product of their choice.


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Striking Mini Facial - Bring out your Valentine's Day Beauty

Make sure your Valentine's Day is perfect by pampering yourself with a Striking Mini Facial.

You will need:

A wash cloth & hand towel

Very warm water

1 cup regular oatmeal ground in blender to a fine powder

1 T honey + 3-4 T Orange or Grapefruit juice, warmed in the microwave

Striking Multi-Vitamin Creme Cleanser

Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme with SmartPeptides™

Striking Multi-Peptide Serum with SmartPeptides™

Striking Restorative Moisture Creme with SmartPeptides™


Steps

1. Clean your skin as usual with Striking Multi-Vitamin Creme Cleanser. Rinse well with warm water.

2. Mix oatmeal, honey and juice, adding enough juice to make a spreadable paste.

3. Apply to your face as a mask avoiding your eyes and hair line.

4. Relax for 10 minutes while the betaglucans in the oatmeal soothes, the gentle fruit acids help loosen congested sebum and the honey plumps and hydrates your skin.

5. Wet the hand towel in very warm water (not too hot). Wring until still moist, but not dripping.

6. Lie down and wrap the towel on your face avoiding your nose. Relax and leave it until it becomes almost cold.

7. Then rinse off the mask with warm water and use the moist towel to gently clean the skin.

8. Apply Striking Multi-Peptide-Serum to your face and neck and let it absorb in.

9. Finish with a layer of Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme and Restorative Moisture Creme.

Add a smile for perfect valentine beauty!



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In Case Your Valentine Needs Directions

Valentine’s Day should be full of romance and sweet surprises, but sometimes things can just go the wrong way, even with the best of intentions. So to help your Valentine stay on the right track here are our top 5 do’s and don’ts for Valentine’s Day, suitable for posting on the refrigerator in large font to help your guy get it right.


Definitely Avoid for Valentine’s Day

1) Weight scales, exercise videos, low cal sweets or anything that suggests you think she needs to trim down or change her appearance.

2) Gift certificates for make-overs – goes along the lines of number one above.

3) Unless she has specifically expressed a desire to get tools, TVs or video games, skip these too.

4) New tires for her car.

5) Dinner with your mother.


You’ll get bonus points with these:

1) Champagne and a single red rose.

2) Two absolutely decadent double dark chocolate truffles, cupcakes or brownies beautifully wrapped.

3) You make her favorite dinner and do the dishes.

4) A gift certificate for a relaxing spa experience.

5) Send a Tweet-sweet message or email telling her you can’t wait to see her. Or an "I Love You" note under her pillow.


And to make sure you are Valentine perfect, pamper yourself with a Striking Mini Facial.


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Free Striking Question of the Week - 1/22

Everybody knows that we all need to exercise to stay healthy, keep our bodies in shape and help reduce everyday stress levels. But do we do it on a regular basis? Sometimes it is a stretch to get in the routine and develop a workout or exercise that is done regularly. I know that many of us in the office are trying to get back to the gym but it seems difficult once the time comes to go.

What do you do for exercise to keep in shape? How often do you do it -daily, every other day, weekly, periodically, etc.

Post answers here on our Facebook fan page, here on the Striking Blog or email to strikingskin@gmail.com to win the Free Striking product of the week. (Striking Multi-Peptide Serum and a Snowflake Bear, $75.00 value and oh so cute!) Random post will be drawn on Fri, 1/29 at 9am PST.


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Another Best Things in Beauty Product Review

Adrienne Whyte of Best Things in Beauty has been using our Striking Multi-Peptide Serum and wrote a fabulous review on it. Read her post here.

Subscribe to her feed and read the latest about all the "best things in beauty".

bestthingsinbeauty.blogspot.com

My Shopping Connection

MyShoppingConnection.com is a one stop shopping galleria of ideas for the person who loves interesting products and is looking for that one of a kind item when shopping. It lists reputable online and local stores by area.

There are several features on the site such as the Shopping By Mail and My Area Shopper pages. The Galleria lets people quickly scroll through products that are reviewed by the editors to see if something peaks their curiosity. Products are only selected as Editor’s Pick if the editor(s) have used the product and felt it would be of value or interest to their readers. Striking Skin Care was selected as an Editor’s Pick and a product review was written on our line of products.

My Shopping Connection is a fun shopping site where there is something for everyone to find there. Are you having trouble finding that perfect gift for something, My Shopping Connection could provide the idea you were looking for.

My Shopping Connection
www.myshoppingconnection.com

Romy Raves About Striking

Romy Raves about Striking in her recent post, Skin Care for 40 Somethings. Romy Raves is a blog that is the "Go to" girl for tips, trends, product reviews and any other suggestions that would be of interest to you. Read about her Striking Skin Care experience and stay tuned for an opportunity to win products on her site Romy Raves.

Striking Giveaway at Best Things in Beauty

Adrienne Whyte from Best Things in Beauty is hosting a giveaway of Striking. To enter click here for more information.

Best Things in Beauty
http://bestthingsinbeauty.blogspot.com/

Striking Product Review: Best Things in Beauty

Adrienne Whyte from Best Things in Beauty has been using Striking products for a month or so. She has written a fabulous review about using Striking Skin Care on her blog titled Best Things in Beauty. Read about Striking and other products that she reviews on her blog.

Best Things in Beauty
http://bestthingsinbeauty.blogspot.com/

Only a few more days to enter the Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway

The giveaway will end at midnight on 10/30/09. Make sure that you enter before then and let your friends know about this fantastic giveaway before it is too late!

Read more here: Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway Post

Free Striking Friday-Question of the Day 10/16

Winner drawn was Linda I. Congratulations Linda!

Question of the day: What is your favorite thing about fall?

Prize: A fall basket full of a Striking Daily Essentials Product Set, a delectable bar of Seattle Chocolates and a cozy assortment of Bigelow teas to warm you on these cool Fall days.

Set includes - 4 conveniently sized products:
•Striking Multi-Vitamin Cleanser, 2 oz bottle
•Striking Multi-Peptide Serum, 0.5 oz bottle
•Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme, 0.25 oz jar
•Striking Restorative Moisture Creme, 0.5 oz jar
Product Value: $50


Post your answers here or email us at strikingskin@gmail.com. All answers must be posted by 9am Pacific time on Friday, October 23, 2009 in order to qualify. Winners will be randomly selected and then emailed for contact information. Please do not post your address or other contact information to this blog other than your email address.

Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway - Striking Skin Care + Clarisonic Mia!

We are thrilled to be able to offer a fantastic October Giveaway, the Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway includes the Striking Skin Care System and a pink Clarisonic Mia. Total prize package worth $319!!

Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway includes:

Striking Skin Care System ($170)
• Striking Multi-Vitamin Cleanser (8 oz.)
• Striking Multi-Peptide Serum (1 oz.)
• Striking Restorative Moisture Creme (1 oz.)
• Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme (0.5 oz.)

Pink Clarisonic Mia ($149)
Mia is the new, go-anywhere Sonic Skin Cleansing System in a great compact size. The one-button, one-speed Mia fits your active lifestyle for beautiful, glowing skin wherever life’s adventures take you.

To enter the Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway, enter your name and email address in the giveaway box in the right panel or click on our Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway Contest Page. All entries must be made by October 30th, 2009 at 11:55 pm. One winner will randomly be selected using Contest Machine. The winner will be notified via email and asked for contact information to send the Clean Beautiful Skin Giveaway prize to. For more information, visit our Clean Beautiful Skin contest page.

Free Striking Friday - Question of the Day 10/2

Question of the Day:
What is the name of our patented ingredients that are used in 3 of the 4 Striking products?

Hint-________peptides.

Prize:
1 free Striking Mini Kit (value $40)

Includes:
Striking Multi-Peptide Serum, 0.5oz
Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme, 0.25oz
Striking Restorative Moisture Creme, 0.5oz

This is a great introduction to the Striking line.

Post your answers here or email us at strikingskin@gmail.com. All answers must be posted by 9am Pacific time on Friday, October 9, 2009 in order to qualify. Winners will be randomly selected and then emailed for contact information. Please do not post your address or other contact information to this blog other then your email address.