Happy New Year, dear friends. I hope you’re all well and safe. Lots of things will be happening on Brenda’s Blog this year, starting with a GIVEAWAY of $1,500 worth of makeup I purchased for myself. They’re products I’ve used only once or twice. Long enough to know the color or the texture isn’t right for me… but they might be perfect for you.
All you have to do is leave me a comment at the bottom of this post and you’ll be entered to win FIVE POUNDS of new makeup. LOL, yes, FIVE POUNDS. That’s what my scales say.
Think Chanel, Nars, Nikol Beauty, Laura Mercier, Chanel and more Chanel with a little more Chanel thrown-in for good luck.
You wouldn’t know it from this five-pound GIVEAWAY, but I don’t buy makeup very often. When I find a product I like, I stick with it forever, but because my skin has changed in the last few years, it was time to update most of the products I’ve been using. When I do buy makeup, I want quality, highly-pigmented brands I don’t have to reapply again in an hour.
Some of my purchases often start after a makeup tutorial I watched right before I fall asleep. Sound familiar? If you’re like me, it’s a dangerous time to buy anything. Last month I bought a round brush/blow dryer. In theory it sounded great, but in reality, it was the size of a fire hydrant and weighed half as much. I sent it back the next day.
So, drum roll, please…
In the GIVEAWAY there are two different shades of No1 de Chanel Foundation which is great for skin that’s “a certain age.” It’s $78 a bottle, is buildable and has a moisturizing formula that contains Chanel’s Red Camellia extract and ingredients to refresh and hydrate the skin, plus it smells wonderful. It took me a while before I zeroed in on the right shade—overhead store lights are misleading, and the Chanel Boutique doesn’t give away samples—but it’s the foundation I’m currently using.
In addition, there are two, $88, Chanel powder eyeshadow palettes, a $45 Chanel under eye corrector, a $52 Chanel lipstick, $40 Chanel lip gloss, and a $36 Chanel cream eyeshadow. There’s a new $40 Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge for Lips/Cheeks, a Nars cream eyeshadow, a little container of Burt’s Bees Cuticle Cream—I buy them by the bushel and tuck one in all of my purses plus one on my bedside table—a NYX professional eyeshadow palette, and four stackable Trinny London cream eyeshadows/blush. They’re all beautiful. They’re just not my colors.
Other items I’m including are a never opened Dr. Dennis Gross Lift+Repair Eye Mask and a never opened $20 Nécessaire Le Gel Déodorant. There’s a box of $25 Frownies Facial Patches—I use Retinol so I don’t want to use both at the same time—and there are a bazillion concealers in the GIVEAWAY, including the $130 Sisley of Paris concealer. It’s really great.
You may remember I tried every concealer known to man, high-end to drugstore, looking for the right one for my skin, and I posted a couple of blogs about the “Winners & Sinners.” Sisley was one of the ones at the top of my list, but ultimately I went with Chanel’s Sublimage Le Correcteur Yeux. It’s $150 a jar… GULP… but I only use a tiny dab and after a year and a half, I’ve used only a fourth of the jar so cost per wear is cheap. It was billed as “the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” and at least for me, I have to agree.
There’s also a bottle of Derma E Ultra Lift DMAE Concentrated Serum—Derma E is great stuff, I’ve been using it for 20 years—and a Bare Minerals lipstick. I LOVE Bare Minerals. This one is just too light for me. I’m also including Charlotte Tilbury’s bronzer in her gorgeous compact. This is the most used of all of the items. I wanted to like the bronzer, although it never looked like I put anything on my face, but the compact and it’s big mirror are to die for! Who cares if you don’t like the bronzer?
Then there are some of Nikol Johnson-Sanchez’s products. “Let’s get this beauty started.”
I love this woman more than I can say and several of her products are my “holy grails.” The four Nikol Beauty products in my GIVEAWAY, however, are the wrong color on me or, I wouldn’t be giving them away. Have you read the Ageless Style interview I did with Nikol? Incase you don’t know her, she’s a former model who’s building a cosmetic’s empire around her million plus YouTube channel and her fun and fabulous Instagram account.
If you want to enter to win $1,500 worth of makeup—more if you add taxes—leave me a comment on the bottom of my blog. I want lots of entries here and will be calling for them on Facebook and Instagram as well, so don’t expect me to pick a winner in a day or two.
Good luck! I hope you’re the winner of these fabulous makeup brands!
134 thoughts on “ENTER TO WIN $1,500 WORTH OF MAKEUP”
I’m getting older and don’t seem to buy as much makeup as I did – and the cost of it doesn’t help. But between my daughter and daughter in law, we would sure enjoy seeing what’s all in your pile and trying it out!
What a fun giveaway! Like I give my daughter stuff that doesn’t work out for me but better cuz there’s so MUCH! And it’s all Fancy Pants make-up, so hopefully you don’t have to be too fancy to wear it.
How fun – lots of new things to try!
Thank you – this is a great opportunity to try some new and different products!
What a great giveaway! Would love to try these recommendations.
I would love to win this collection of amazing products because since I retired to Mexico, it’s impossible to find quality makeup here for my Caucasian skintone. Everything here caters to the lovely Latin Ladies but that means nothing works for me! And the wonderful Brands you have in the collection are amazing! Please pick me!
-Senior Lady on a fixed income
sounds wonderful. with changes to my skin, well everything with age and menopause, it sounds like a great way to play and experiment.
fingers crossed. kindest wishes Penny
I’d love a chance to at this. Maybe I’ll find my holy grail!
Thank you for doing this great giveaway. Some lucky lady is going to feel very blessed to receive this wonderful collection of makeup!
What fun that would be to win this.. All the makeup and correctors Ive wanted to try but just haven’t. Which retinol are you using? Im collecting names.. Happy New Year, hope it’s healthy happy and sane!
Ellyn
I enjoy your emails and look forward to the accounting of experiences you’ve had. Some are happy and others heart wrenching but always containing a life lesson. Thank you for sharing those with us.
The giveaway is very generous and with a challenging middle-age skin, I could use a new change in products.
Brenda, what a novel idea and so generous! It is really hard to find the right products and seems to be harder every year! I recognize and have some of the cases on the photo of your products. I did come across Nikol on a utube and she is mesmerizing! I do have a couple of her products and they are great!
I hope you have a lot of entries as this is a fantastic gift for someone!
What a fun giveaway! Thank you for your generosity!
Great idea to pass along instead of adding to the trash! And whoever wins might just find the perfect product she didn’t know she needed!
Thank you for the opportunity to enter your giveaway. On a very fixed income and recently diagnosed with MS, could really use to indulge and a pick me up!
old love to share your great give away with my besties!
I’d love to see what’s in your stash- might be something I like!
Brenda,
I love your blog and all that you share with your following. You always end with such an uplifting, inspirational, realistic spirit. This make up and skin care haul looks amazing. Being retired and with limited resources for these brands, it would be like winning the “mother load” especially the Chanel products.. I love anything Chanel❣️
Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Amazing !!!
Love your blog !! Always resourceful
What a wonderful opportunity to try so many products. Thank you for being so generous Brenda!
I always look forward to your posts and can’t wait for your book to come out!
5lbs of make-up, what a dream!
Who doesn’t need a new cuticle cream?
Lipstick, bronzer, concealer too
Everything to make a gal feel brand new!
Eye shadows are fun, great to try more than one
Thank you for the chance to try something new,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!
Sign me up!❌⭕️
This is such a generous beauty package. I use many of your listed products, including products from Nikol. It’s so much fun entering giveaways! Good Luck to all entering to win.
Thank you, Brenda. Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year.
Should I win this I think I’ll do what I do on Thanksgiving when I have a lot of guests….Have my not-so-country store where I put my high end garments that no longer work for me (or never did) and offer them to my guests. I get a bit of a clean out and they go home with something that’s a perfect fit in color and style. Great idea, Brenda!
How fun as well as thoughtful!
What are you trying to hide with all that concealer?? Just kidding, but I think this is super fun. My aunt with exceptional taste would share her extras with my sisters and me. Thank you!
Love to try your stash. Can we regift after we pick what we like and have our giveaway?
Enter me please! Thank you!
I would love to try some of your cosmetics! I have had trouble finding things suitable for myself in recent years, this would be a fun opportunity to try some luxurious products!
Brenda, you are sweet to share with your readers! It’s kind of like being with girlfriends and trading goodies. Ever since I was a wee girl, I have loved makeup, perfume and girly things.
Hope you are well. You are still on my prayer list.
What a nice way to start the new year!!!! I would love to win your makeup – I would have a “a wine and makeup party” and share with all my friends.
I hope you have a wonderful 2025!
What a great giveaway! I have followed you since Sandra Sallin interviewed you and enjoy your blogs. Like you, I am a widow and after several years of intense grief have now started to emerge back into enjoying life. Looking good, as well as feeling good, is a constant endeavor. I’d love to have this wonderful stash to use.
What a great way to try some new makeup! Love your blog!!
What a fun give-away and if I win I will try the Chanel products first!!
Thank you for your interesting blog posts.
what a super give away , luxury , beauty and dreams .. I love makeup and I would be super psyched about this .
thankyou on your posts , especially dayle haddon and her rat,, ( HAIR PIECE) Your writing, on her death , showed what a kind , beautiful person she was.. each day a gift.
What fun. Always fun to try new stuff but never know what to do with the stuff I don’t like… such a waste. This is a fun idea and at least gives someone (me!) a chance to try products for feel, etc, even if they aren’t the right colors.
What a fun and generous gesture – thank you!
My daughter and granddaughters and I would thoroughly enjoy these cosmetics!
My intention for 2025 is to be adventurous and try new things. I’m 65 and have always been a blush and lipstick gal- time to be adventurous and explore – I think it’s time to expand my basics and live it up, explore my “outer diva”!
A great giveaway! I would love a chance to win and thank you!
This would be a great way to start the New Year. My “older” face will thank you if I win.
What a novel idea! It would be so much fun to have a girls night party and share all of these high end beauty products. What a generous gift.
Hi Brenda…What a lovely thing to do! I’m 81 and I still LOVE to play with makeup!! It’s my creative outlet and allows me to FACE the world with confidence and compliments!!!
What a brilliant idea. Sigh me up! My fingers are crossed.
What a brilliant idea. My fingers are crossed.
What a great opportunity to try some of these products!
Happy New Year! This is such a great and generous idea! I love your blog and am a sister breast cancer survivor. At 63, trying to age gracefully and love the brands you are giving away. Thank you!
This is exciting! I just discovered Nikol Beauty and feel like a queen wearing her products. Always have loved makeup, and have accumulated many pounds of ‘not great for me’. Maybe I can let them go to make room for ‘better for me’ choices!
Brenda, how thoughtful of you to have that giveaway instead of throwing it all away. I certainly could use a pick me up as the past few years have been very difficult. Best of luck to everybody!
Five pounds of make up!What fun!
I love your blog and I love makeup! Thank you for this awesome chance to win these amazing products! ❤️
Hi Brenda,
I’m so taken back by your generosity.
I too have purchased things that do not work for me and wind up giving them away to a friend or donating. It’s a wonderful to share.
I would be thrilled to win your cosmetics.
Thank you so much for just being you.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful giveaway!
What a clever idea Brenda! I have so many products that retailers have given me. I never thought of a giveaway!!
Oh, haven’t we all bought products that don’t work for our skin type or tone. Giving them away instead of throwing them out is brilliant, Brenda. Whomever wins this stash will have fun trying out the many high end products. I would share this with my two grown daughters. Ha! I think a makeup party (with wine) would be fun!
I’ve just purged my makeup so I’m ready to over indulge again. Love your blog and am so looking forward to your book. Happy New Year!
Wow! what a generous and fun giveaway. Love it!
Wow! Thank you for this giveaway. What a generous gift. And what a great way to start a new year.
Brenda,
Hope I get L U C K Y! Thank you.
p.s. Looking for to your book release!
Whoop whoop…great idea!
Thanks for the opportunity – would love to win and share with all my girls!
I love following women of a certain age for ideas regarding makeup & clothing ideas. I wish they had a magazine for the older woman. I would also love to win your stash!
Thank you for giving us such good advice.
What a treat it would be to try expensive products.
My daughters and I have different coloring so everything would work on someone – thank you for thinking of us
How generous! Would love to try some of these brands!
Wow! 5 lbs of gorgeous curated brands – good luck ladies!
It is the lottery, only no scratch tickets! Makeup! How novel and thoughtful of you to think of your readers in such a generous way!
Love your blog and this giveaway!!
I began cancer treatment in March 2024 and haven’t worn any makeup other than tinted moisturizer, blush and brow pencil since then. For safety, tossed all makeup products and will be starting from square one in purchasing liners, shadows, mascaras and lipsticks. So, the timing of this giveaway is perfect! Thank you so much for your generosity and the opportunity to enter this drawing.
Your Blog is the best! I’ve been reading it since our time on Nextdoor. I’d love to be considered for this gift of makeup. I’m 64 and counting my best days on earth! Granddaughters are my best achievement!
Looked in my mirror today and I look so pale. Perhaps all this could give me back a healthy glow after 6 months of chemo and 6 months of infusions to keep the cancer at bay!
I stopped wearing makeup two years ago because I became ill. I threw out all my nice makeup and now that I am well, I am considering going out to shop for all the feminine goodness my soul needs! (My husband will be so happy to see me dolled up.) What a great idea to share! I hope I win…
How fun!! Of a certain age, on a certain budget, swooning over the possibility of Channel touching my skin.
I have always defaulted to inexpensive products; skin, hair and makeup. I sort of live vicariously through others who invest more in themselves. What a gift this will be for someone.
Happy New Year to everyone, may there be abundance of of goodness, health and lots of joy!
Brenda,
Who wouldn’t want to experiment with new shades of quality cosmetics. Count me in!!
I’m going to think positive here … If I get picked, I do have an US address.
Jeez… it’s Robin from Glidingthrusixty
Thanks Brenda ❄️
Hope I win. I could use some new products.
Great Idea Brenda! Many things in our lives have “another” life for someone else. Thank You for thinking of us!
Brenda..this world needs more broads like you and I mean that in the best sense of the word..Happy New Year!
(I’d like to think I’m a broad, too )
I’m 79 and desperate for new makeup but I don’t have a clue what I need for my skin type. The giveaway would be great to choose makeup that would work for me. Thank you for the giveaway.
What perfect synchronicity as I am on the verge of a purge! I was looking to do the big heave ho and start with all new and fresh makeup. Mature skin can be a little more challenging to perfect (or as close to what one considers perfection at my age). I would love to win the giveaway and what doesn’t work for me I will donate to our local shelter. Happy New Year
Ooh la la
Sweetheart, I’ll be glad to take all this great makeup. Sorry, it didn’t work for you but maybe it will work for me and my sweet niece.
I would LOVE to win! You’re the sweetest to do this, Brenda!
I am trying to change my favorite blogs over to my new email address. Hope this works for that. Love reading your blog.
What a kind and generous offer!
Would love to try some new makeup – especially Channel, which I don’t buy because of the price range. I also have a 14 year old granddaughter who loves makeup and it would be fun to share it with her!
What a generous and fun idea! As a full time care giver for my now disabled husband I rarely get out to shop for myself. I try to dress nicely everyday to perk me up. This would really do me wonders and I can share with my daughter and granddaughter too!❤️
Hav loved following you all these years. What a fun and fantastic give away. Phenomenal selections. Very good taste, of course. Cheers!!! Sara ❤️❤️
Hav loved following you all these years. What a fun and fantastic give away. Phenomenal selections. Very good taste, of course. Cheers!!! Sara ❤️
Put me in coach!
I’d love to win this!!
Hi Brenda,
After using mostly drugstore products it would be fun to try the fancy stuff!
Happy New Year,
Xo Heidi
Brenda,
This is a wonderful give away – I too try many products and then trying to uncover what is thee best for me is sooooooooo difficult. But I keep trying and I would love to have another “batch” to play with. Thanks you for the opportunity!!!!
Terry
I absolutely love makeup and trying new products! I’m sure the ones you have are fantastic products and my daughter and I would love to try some of these high-end products. I read about them all the time.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Carol Larochelle
Your creativity always cheers my heart. And, here your are offering a New Year gift that makes every woman smile. Thank you❤️
Thanks Brenda. This sounds great. I would love to try these wonderful brands.
What a treat it would be to win this generous giveaway. I have found that as I get older the less cosmetics I use and buy. I have procrastinated getting a facial and make-over. I would surely enjoy this and be motivated to do more self-care. Thank you for this opportunity.
New Year, New Makeup!
I absolutely love it!
I never spend much money on myself so this would be a great opportunity for me to try some fancy makeup.
Thank you for your generosity!
That is a lot of makeup. The person who wins this is going to have so much fun experimenting.
Happy New Year Brenda!
I recently purchased Chanel for the first time, love the makeup but will purchase carefully as it is pricey, but a great product.
Happy New Year Brenda!
I recently purchased Chanel for the first time, love the makeup but will purchase carefully as it is pricey, but a great product.
I love trying new makeup!
I would love to try some new make-up for my skin of “a certain age!”
What a great idea!
Super! A great way to try new products for those of us that have aging skin and would like a bit of help!
Brenda,
First I would like to wish you a happy and healthy New Year!
I’ve been an avid reader of your blog and find your topics very relatable.
Your make up give away is quite generous and that would be an extra five pounds that would be welcomed!
Thank-you and ,
Cathy
Well this certainly exciting!
Happy New Year!
What a fun New Years giveaway! So generous of you and how fun to try all of your make up that you personally chose! It’s always so interesting and inspiring reading your posts and I love seeing the photos you share! You have so many amazing stories and incredible advice! Cheers to the New Year! I hope to be sparking in your gorgeous make up!!
Does it get any more exciting than a makeup giveaway? I don’t think so. Please toss my name into the bowl. Thank you for your outstanding blog.
Hi! I originally started reading your blog to deal with the loss of my husband. I find your writing very inspiring! Thank you for your honesty.
What a bonus to find out about a makeup giveaway! We all need to feel beautiful on the inside and out!
Happy and healthy New Year.
Happy New Year. I hope you and your blog have a wonderful year. This is an amazing selection of beauty items. The Chanel eyeshadow quad looks especially beautiful.
I enjoy your posts and I love trying new makeup! I especially love the Chanel lip products! Thank you for letting someone enjoy the products you can’t use! So nice!
Happy New Year! I especially love the Chanel lip products! Thank you for letting someone enjoy the products you can’t use! So nice!
To tell you the truth. . .I’m 71 and really don’t wear that much makeup. But, I do support a homeless shelter and a local high school in the area. I know they both would love to have the opportunity to glam up and feel special. Thank you for any consideration. It is very nice what you are offering!
Great idea! Love make-up and would be thrilled to try any and all products.
We have very similar coloring, so these might be great for me and my sister. I’d love to try. Great, fun idea.
What a lovely idea…some wonderful colors and products!
Love trying new products- thanks for your generosity
Love love Nikol Johnson and use some of her products now. So generous of you to make this offer ! And love your blog…!
It is a Need, Not a Want!! ❤️
Greetings and Happy New Year from the East Coast. Thank you for sharing a lovely array of beauty products from your collection, which will go to one of your many followers from across the country. It will be a wonderful opportunity for the lucky recipient to experiment with new colors, beautiful quality, and perhaps introduce her to a new forever product resulting from your generosity. A refreshing new approach to our makeup and skin care is always welcome and exciting!
Would love to sample some new to me items— you saved me the leg work shopping for them and the” should I splurge on that” thoughts!
Thanks for the wonderful opportunity – I would love to share with all my girls!
How fun is this?! Thanks for the chance to try some new products! My mom and I would enjoy this! Love the idea! My best to the winner!
you are certainly offering a lot of good stuff, Brenda!
I so, so relate to this post–stick with my favorites but also am constantly trying new things!!–and am crossing my fingers that I win this very, very fun lottery! (Also, really looking forward to your memoir!) xoxo, J
This is such a great giveaway. Thank you for the chance.
A great idea! We all have the drawerful of what doesn’t work. Thank you for the giveaway and Happy New Year!
A great idea! We all have the drawerful of what doesn’t work. Thank you for the giveaway and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
This sounds amazing What a great opportunty to try new products.
Wow ! What an amazingly generous thing to do. Very much looking forward to your book, the sneak previews you’ve given of it in your blog are fascinating.
How exciting! I would love to win!