Chocolate!

One of my favorite "just for fun" blogs is Stop and Smell the Chocolate. Today Lisa is reviewing products from chocolate.com and offering instructions for a $5 coupon to that site as well.

I don't have any edible chocolate to offer today, but reading through her blog not only got my mouth watering, but got me thinking of a few of our beautiful Affordable Mineral Makeup™ (AMM) colors that I wanted to share with you:

First up is an AMM exclusive, Chocolate Mint, one of 54 colors currently offered in our Pearlescent Multipurpose Mineral line. This shade is a warm chocolate brown, enhanced with a slight shimmering mint green. We have 9 product size options to choose from, but to give you an idea of pricing, order a sample of this shade for $3.30 or an entire 5g sifter jar (1 gram net product weight) for $7.79.

Next we have great foundation shades for darker complexions such as African-American women, including Chocolate Foundation and Dark Chocolate Foundation. Our foundations (like all of our mineral powder products) are made from pure minerals, free of additives, fillers and irritants such as talc or bismuth and do not harbor bacteria like conrstarch-based mineral lines can. Many sizes to choose from with a 5 gram sifter jar (1 g. net weight) running just $6.79. :)

Chocolate Brown Mascara is an exclelent mineral-based mascara. It contains water, beeswax, candelilla wax, ozokerite, carnuba wax, fennel extract, hops extract, balm mint extract, mistletoe extract, matricaria extract, yarrow extract, iron oxide, titanium dioxide, and ozokerite and you can get a .25 oz tube (with applicator) of this dark chocolate shade for just $20.99

See the entire line of quality Affordable Mineral Makeup™ at www.InnerBeautyGirls.com by clicking on the "shop" button there right now. :)

Chocolate!

What's a Spa Weekend, Virtual or otherwise, without chocolate???

Michelle Glassmaker at The Gourmet Cupboard has us covered! She is offering one reader of InnerBeautyGirlz an amazing gourmet gift basket filled with 2 Heavenly Chocolate Pie/Chocolate Cheesecake, 1- 5 Minute Microwave Chocolate Fudge, PawPaw's Sugar Free Chocolate Pie, Chocolate Chip Cookies, M&M Bar Mix, Sugar Free Chocolate Fudge Cookies and a White Chocolate Mousse Coffee!



Yumm-O! I'm wishing this weren't my blog so I could enter! But I'll be nice and disqualify myself so that one of you has a chance to win this mouth-watering prize. To enter just leave a comment here with a working email address or some other method to contact you when you when. (Wouldn't it be sad to find out later that you had been selected but I had to choose an alternate because I couldn't get ahold of you?)

If you would like additional chances to enter for this prize, start posting the link everywhere you can. For each post to your own blog, website or social media sites like Shoutlife, Facebook, Twitter and so forth, come back and leave an additional comment with a link to your posts and you will earn another chance at this great prize.

Michelle started selling The Gourmet Cupboard about 3 years ago. "I LOVE this company because it is a small company based in Texas and run by a Mother/Daughter team. Every mix is handmade and made AFTER you order it. Every mix is SUPER easy to make and only requires a few ingredients you proabably already have in your cupboard. I started selling The Gourmet Cupboard to try and make some extra money to pay for adoption expenses. We brought our baby girl home last July." Please visit Michelle's site to thank her for being a sponsor of Virtual Spa Weekend or to ask her your questions about this delicious company.

Early Bird Spa Entries

OK, by now I hope everyone knows that we have an exciting Virtual Spa Weekend starting this Friday afternoon. I would love your help spreading the word! In thanks, I'm offering one person an $18 pink beaded necklace from Gurrlie Girl. This necklace consists of 6 beautiful strings of beads, each over 4 feet long, knotted together to be worn as a set. They can also be untied and used as a faux scarf either as a grouping or in individual strands. Very feminine!

So how will the Virtual Spa Weekend give aways work you ask? Well, let me tell you. :)

Through out the weekend there will be a seires of posts. Most will be beauty tips from me, and a few will be guest blogger spotlights from Hannah's Prayer memebers, small business representatives, and women interested in beauty, both the inward and outward kinds. The pink Gurrlie Girl necklace will go to someone who has commented on any one of these beauty or guest blogs all weekend long. You may receive one entry for each general comment you make, starting with this post and going through Sunday evening. You will also earn additional entries for doing specific things like sharing a link to the Weekend on your blog, Facebook or Twitter, then coming back and posting your link in an additional comment for each promotional activity you have done. In fact, you can start spreading the word about Virtual Spa Weekend right now to start earning entries!

There will also be give-aways for everything from chocolate and home decor, to jewerly and Tupperware. When a post is made offering a specific give-away, you must reply to that individual thread to be entered in that contest. At the end of the weekend I will randomly draw names from each set of contest entries and announce each winner early next week. Be sure to include your email address or other way for me to contact you when you leave your comments or I may have to select alternative winners if I cannot let you know that I've drawn your name. I'll put prize winners and contest sponsors in touch with one another next week for mailing information to get prizes to their new homes. :)

Chocolate Give-Away

OK, so it's not technically a "beauty" post, but I haven't posted any give-aways in a while and this one sure sounds delicious to me. Stop and Smell the Chocolates is celebrating their 1 Year Blogaversary Give-Away through Monday, April 13. To enter, just visit the chocolate give-away website at stopnsmellthechocolates.blogspot.com and leave a comment. How easy is that? If you could state in your comment that you found her site through the Inner Beauty Girlz blog, I would appreciate it. ;)