Recently our long time and well loved cuddly member “Koala” won a huge makeover contest. Below is her experience, first hand.
Mid January I received a phone call that changed my life. I found out I was one of 5 winners of the Skin Vitality $10,000 10 Years Younger Contest! That was the first conversation of many that changed how I feel, and how I look. I literally won a gift of youth that most women only dream of. Entry was only a recent photo and story as to why I deserved a makeover and judges made the decision (based on the info submitted).
How do I feel now that my makeover is complete? Fantastic, honoured, and still fuzzy. Maybe it was all the champagne last night (haha) Honestly, I feel fantastic inside and out. Willy (my husband) went to every appointment with me and documented the entire journey. I am so proud of myself, and I know Willy is proud of me. We really make quite the team.I am still pinching myself to make sure that it is me, and this really happened.
Skin Vitality provided the most amazing treatments which included: Photofacial, Botox, Soft Lip, Skin Tightening, Fraxel, and Chemical Peels. Minimized are the wrinkles and any of my broken capilliaries and discolourations!! Included in my treatments were hair, teeth, wardrobe, cosmetics, and photo shoots. I was treated to not one, but two days with David Clemmer from Style By Jury! He provided fun, humorous, but constructive criticism providing tips how I should dress, and what I can wear. I finally realize I can wear belts, and fitted garments and look fashionable, comfortable, and if I don’t mind saying so myself, pretty darn hot!! Hey, it’s not every day you get a man to dress you. I highly recommend it.
Read about the entire journey over at my blog. You will find more pictures and more about my story.
Now!!! Who wants to win some SWAG?
These are the same goodie bags that were handed out at my reveal.
The bags consist of Vivier Cream Body Scrub, Eyelash curler, Lip Balm with SPF 15, and a Hair Bandana. ($80 value approx.)
I am giving away 2 of these swag bags on Smart Canucks and if you want to increase your chances in winning, go to Picture Ontario , and CNAF Autism Blog to enter. In total, there are 6 of these swag bags available to be won.
Entry is simple. Just comment once below. Go to the gallery and have a look around. Please refrain from “I want to win” or “would love to win” comments. I (Deb) would love the hear what you think.
Rules
* One entry per household i.e. you may only leave 1 comment on the blog. If you want to discuss anything or share your thoughts please include it in that 1 comment.
*Age of majority only
*Canada only no purchase is ness to enter, odds of winning are dependant on number of entries received.
*You may only win a max of 2 contests throughout the whole giveaways event to give others a chance to win
*Contest ends on July 1st 2011 at 11:59 (est) and the winner willl be announced July 2nd 2011.
* You must use a valid email so I can contact you with details on how to claim your prize. Persons who enter with an alias(fake) email will forfeit their prize and a new winner will be drawn. * Skill testing question required*
congrats koala!
hot mama! woohoo 🙂
Wow! what a great experience!
Congrats. You look beautiful 🙂
You look amazing! They did such a fantastic job with you hair make up clothes… -jealous- lol!
Congratulations! You look radiant 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to win some swag; it sounds like a great little package.
As someone who has been on SC for a few years and have been honored to “know” you, I just want to say that YOU LOOK FANTASTIC KOALA! How fantastic to have such an opportunity to have changes that make you look and feel so good about yourself…though you were always a beautiful person both inside and out…congrats, you deserve it, you look AMAZING!
What an amazing opportunity for you, you look WONDERFUL!
Thank you for sharing the opportunity to win something! You look fabulous and I’m glad you shared your experience with us!
I can’t believe how many contests you win. Congrats – you look amazing!
Wow awesome to win something that big, and life changing congrats!
I would like to enter to win.
you look amazing, and that outfit is amazing..and i don’t even want the swag bag, well i do if i win, but I wanna win a date with david clemmer too! oh im so jealous!
Wow, Wow, Wow, Koala, you look incredible. You are so lucky and congrats. You look like a million bucks! I am so shocked at your transformation.
What an amazing experience! You look awesome. It’s actually pretty great to see before and after pics that you can actually trust NOT to be retouched. Thanks for sharing a gift with us!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us! Congratulations on your make over….you look beautiful 🙂
Its awsome, you won the opportunity of a life time. Every girls dream. You look great and deserve ever bit of it! You probably feel just as fantastik. You go girl, show’em what you got! If you got it flaunt it!!!
Well Koala, I thought you looked beautiful before, it appears that this makeover only enhanced that beauty:) I’m glad you enjoyed the journey and with Willy by your side.
I have only been here a few weeks but already I am loving the community here and I know that you must be truly deserving if you are a part of this community!
I am not the age where I have to think about all this stuff, but I can only dream looking as good as you do now when I am your age! Not that you looked bad before, but wow wee wa wa do you ever look good now! 🙂
Wow–you look amazing. Night and day difference from your before to after shots! Congrats!
Stunning transformation.Thank your husband for us for documenting your experience and sharing the pics with us.
I second what Dotty dot dot said! You look radiant & your skin looks flawless.
And I’ve totally seen Style By Jury before! 🙂
Fabulous. You look very pretty and radiant. The pictures are wonderful. 🙂
Totally worth the wait! I don’t even wanna take a guess at your age, but the new pic looks 10-15 years younger! David did a fabulous job with your outfit too! Soo figure flattering! Rawrrrr!
I love the hair colour,it warms your complextion,like a peach.
Wow! You look great! I have soooo many broken blood vessels under my skin! I would LOVE to win!!!!
wow!! congrats on your amazing prize!! you look great!! 🙂
Just a totally spectacular make over.
You look amazing…and it must have been so exciting to go through the whole process! Congratulations!!
Wow what a transformation!! You look beautiful! Congrats!
Congrats!!! What an amazing contest to win! It must have been amazing to be made over and having a photo shoot to capture the results 🙂 Thanks for sharing and the swag bag looks great 🙂
I absolutely love the top with the belt! Where is it from??? Either way, you look lovely and rejuvenated. My favorite transformation is the hair!
Good for you !! What a terrific experience that must have been and a lifetime of memories. It was so great you could share everything with your sweetie !
wow you look like you had a fantastic time. Sometimes we get so wrapped up with life we forget to enjoy and relax once in a while. you will remember this for a long time. congrats!
Sounds like it was a very good experience. Congrats! 🙂
wow, you look great! 🙂
Wow!! You look incredible!! Congratulations!
Congrats koala!! That’s an incredible and fun win! You look great!!
-ericaraina
Sounds like an experience of a life time and super amazing! Congrats on winning and ur skin looks absolutely glowing now!
I would love to win! And you look absolutely amazing in your picture!
You look amazing! Congradulations!
Congrat’s! Beautiful!
you look absolutly incredible. before you looked like the average woman but now you radiate!
Congratulations !!!! You look absolutely fabulous!!!! This is exactly what I need !!!! 🙂
What a wonderful story. I have never heard of this contest. You look like a million bucks.
Amazing what they can do at spas and the fact that you won this makes it even better. I like the photo posture too, congrats.
You look great. In the before picture you look happy but in the after picture there is a special sparkle in your eyes that says you are not only happy but confident and on top of the world!!!
You look amazing! It sounds like you had a great journey to a beautiful you. Enjoy your new found confidence, you deserve it!
Wow, you look amazing!!!
What an experience! You look fantastic!!
Wow wow wow, I love the picture of you standing in front of the backdrop/lights, you look gorgeous and comfortable 🙂 What a great experience.
You look great! It’s reassuring to see that someone i “know” actually won a contest. 🙂 Congrats
WOW! Sounds like you had an amazing journey and such a rare but amazing experience 🙂 and sooooo HOT 🙂
What an interesting and fabulous journey you have been on!
Congratulations on everything – you look absolutely wonderful and totally radiant! Yes, luckily you don’t have to go out there and find a prince, since you already have one – with no necessity of having everything go ‘pouf’ and return to pumpkin status!
I liked looking through the gallery of photos – my favourite picture of you is image 151!
You are a STAR – inside and out! 🙂
From one Mississaugian to another you look amazing.
You look amazing Koala 🙂 glad to hear you enjoyed it 🙂
Beautiful! What an incredible opportunity! I looked through your pictures, and I love them. You look so confident now!
Wow! You look amazing. I love your new hair color and getting to spend 2 days with David Clemmer must have been so fantastic!
Congrats Koala!! You look absolutely amazing!! What a fantastic experience that must have been for you. Talk about the ultimate pampering experience 🙂
You look amazing!! Glad to hear it was a great experience!
Great winning by you really transformed you into a beautiful butterfly….hope you will keep the new look it really is you …….congrats…best wishes and lots of love
You look fantastic! Congratulations!
Koala you look fantastic…love your new hair colour. Thank you for sharing your transformation with all of us.
Congrats! sounds like an amazing experience and the pics are wonderful! Thanks also, for sharing your win with us….. =)
hi there you look great! wow!!!! thanks for doing the contast as well it is something i need!!! [email protected] 🙂
why i need this? bein student income is low and well the way i see it…. you win something i win something then somone else wins something or you give help i give help exetra…..
Hot Mama! Congratulations 🙂
thanks so much for taking the time to share your experience with us. you must have been thrilled to received that suprising phone call. i must say that i am totally jealous! lol. you look incredible and your really did deserve it 🙂 all i gotta say is keep on smiling!
Sexy koala in the house!
Rawr!
congratulations, your clothing ensemble and the overall results are fantastic.
Thanks for sharing your experience & you look fantastic!!! Congrats!! 🙂
Congratulations! You look fabulous. Thanks for sharing.
Congrats! You look absolutely amazing, so bright and refreshed! What a great experience!
wow !! you look hot !! 😉
Congrats! You look amazing. You look so much younger.
Great new look! I am wondering if you can share which us which treatments you felt made the most difference? For those of us that need a “refresher”, which would give us the most bang for the buck? Thanks!
WTG! you look very happy…it couldnt have gone to a kinder person..:)
What an amazing transformation! Congrats!
Bill. . .
You are a very Lucky to have the Love of such a wonderful Woman.!
Now its your turn, then do the 2nd honeymoon. . .
Thanks for sharing and congratulations
I think you were beautiful before the makeover, so glad you had a wonderful experience!
I love that outfit they have you in at the photo shoot, very sheik!
You were and are beauitful. I think sometimes it takes a change or even just all that attention for us to be reminded of it. Glad you had an amazing experience and that your hubby was right there every step of the way. You look amazing and so happy, Congratulations!!!!
Wow that sounds amazing:)
WOW!!! Great transformation, you look stunning 🙂
Your soooo lucky!
Congrats! Your transformations was amazing and you look absolutely wonderful! 🙂
You look amazing. It must be nice to look and feel 10 years longer.
WOW!!!! you look amazing and radiant !
you are literately glowing and i see in your eyes how good you feel 🙂
i didn’t know about the contest you won…i would have love to enter my dear mom..
so if i win the price you are offering, I’ll give it to her.
She so deserve it..and in need of some TLC. We are 5 children’s in our family and she raised us by herself..last summer the last one (my little brother) left the house for an apartment and since then, she don’t really know how to reorient her life..
anyway…its a fantastic prize you won there and if all the women we love could get this kind attention ,it would be wonderful ! 🙂
congrats on such a fantastic win..You look amazing
congrats and thanks for sharing! your pics look great!
Congrats Koala!
You just look amazing!
This has got to be one of the best contest wins I’ve seen on Smart Canucks ever! Congratulations – it sounds like you are still somewhere up there on Cloud Nine 🙂
you are radiating with love ! Beautiful.
It’s good know deserving people get what they deserve and nothing less 🙂
Wow, you look great. It must have been an amazing experience. You watch all these makeover shows and see all the great transformations. You are so lucky!
wow, amazing!! love reading and looking at you experience, congrats!!
Yay! Gorgeous!
Everything looks great especially the hair color
WOW.. That is amnazing, you looks beautiful (not that you didn’t before)!
Wow, jaw dropping results! You look great!
You must be so pleased with the transformation! What an incredible experience it must have been. I love the before/after face shot. You skin is definitely more radiant and glowing!
Who would of thought that couponing could get you that! Amazing results with your skin looking drastically younger (love the hair colour change too – looks great with your blue eyes)
Congratulations, a wonderful win.
Deb you look awesome!!!! What a great transformation. I always wished I could win something like that
Wow, incredible prize to win. You look terrific, Congrats!!
Absolutely stunning!! What an incredible journey & experience this would have been for you to partake in….many women dream of an opportunity like this & I think it’s wonderful you were able to win it 🙂 congrats & you look positively lovely & happy!
Wow – you look amazing!!!! 🙂
Wow, you look fabulous. What an awesome opportunity to have such an experience. Congrats.
I want to win!!
Congrats, you look fantastic and thanks for sharing your pictures!!
You look wonderful!
I wonder what kind of processes I would go through if I won something like what you won…
Thanks for sharing!
Congrats!
you look so beautiful – I love the clothes!! you are a lucky Goddess.
Koala, what an amazing prize! I would have loved to win this! You deserve it and i bet Willie’s loving your new look!
Congratulations!
Congratulations Koala! I love reading your input on Smartcanucks! It was great to be able to put a face to your username. 😉 You look fabulous, by the way!
Wow! What a fantastic and inspiring story! Congratulations to you! You look absolutely stunning, and I can tell that you feel even better than you look! Congratulations again, so happy for you!!!!!
What a difference, and it’s actually believable. You look great, and congratulations.
you look amazing, it looks like a once in a lifetime experience for a well deserving person. Congratulations!
wow you look great!
way too expensive tho!
lucky gal.
xo
Wow, what an experience that must have been – and you look GREAT!
You look lovely and how lucky are you are to have this experience. I’m jealous.
🙂
Congratulations! You look great! Enjoy the new look!
You look so beautiful and I will try to believe that I can look better too (maybe not all the way to hot) with a little attention and care.
You look fantastic! It sounds like a wonderful prize!
I bet you’re not the only one pinching you. It’s wonderful that your husband was right there with you through it all. I just wonder how often he gets the urge to “pinch” you too. Congratulations, you deserve it and it certainly looks good on you.
wow i see a HUGE change! i especially love the hair colour. it suits you wonderfully. congrats!
You look amazing, I am slightly older and if I good look nearly as good as you wow, wouldn’t my co-workers be shocked, after all I haven’t changed my hair style in 40 years.
What a unique experience….thanks for sharing with us. Congrats on winning and you look fabulous darling.:))
It looks like it was your turn to shine, and shine you did. Congrats on your win.
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You really do look 10 years younger! Amazing..beautiful! Congratulations to you Deb!
amazing , what a once in a lifetime opportunity,,,you look great,,before and after,,,enjoy the makeover, ( i had hair and makeup done once for a wedding party i was in,,,i felt the same way u do now,,,,little things make such the difference,,,
How awesome such a great opportunity, you look great 🙂
I always see those ‘before/after’ pictures in magazines with various products, and I always find myself wondering, “Does that actually work, or was that really photoshopped?” (Everyone thinks that – admit it!). It’s REALLY awesome to see a ‘real person”s before and after, and know that clearly, something out there is working how it’s advertised to! You look amazing! Congrats. 🙂
It’s wonderful to have a member win such a wonderful prize. You look great! If only all the women in the world could be blessed with a prize like yours! Congrats!!
OMG you look amazing. Now thats what I call a reveal. Your gorgeous and I love the outfit with the belt you do look great. Really great!! I hope you feel good about yourself and comfortable about your looks again cause it was always in there just needed a little help.
Your hair colour really makes your face stand out, and your skin is so smooth! You look amazing! Congrats:)
amazing transformation !
Congratulations Koala! What an amazing experience! You look fabulous!
I *love* David Clemmer and Style By Jury! How fun that you got to meet AND work with him! 😉
You are a beautiful lady. You look so full of life now. Congrats on such a wonderful opportunity. Memorable for sure. We are all so jealous 🙂
Beautiful Lady 🙂
You look lovely Koala!!
your skin looks awesome!
You look fantastic — What a Gift 🙂
Congrads! Sounds like an amazing experience.
Congratulations and Kudos to you! Very beautiful!!!
I loved reading your story Koala – thanks so much for sharing it with us
Wow what a chance of a lifetime. Not only did their treatments work wonders but can truly see how much happier you are in the after pic! Congratulations!
Wow, I love your makeover. You look stunning!
Wow, what an amazing win! It’s nice that someone on our community won a big prize like this! You look amazing!
You are so lucky! Congrats!! You look beautiful!
Wow. You look years younger! amazing makeover! You look beautiful!
I love your makeover – you still look like yourself (unlike most on those makeover shows, they dont resemble themselves at all) but your face appears more relaxed and softer. Enjoy looking like a kid again!!! 🙂
What a great win – you were queen for a day!!!
What a Great win!!! you look fabulous!!
Wow, congratulations! I just wanna say you look great! My mom had a makeover like this a while back and it was such a wonderful experience! I’m sure you feel the same way!
Wow! The results are amazing!
When I saw the picture I thought it was a SCAM! Photoshopped to advertise a product… but your a real person. I think you looked beautiful in your ‘before’ photo anyway – but what I see in the ‘after’ photo is someone who has been treated like a princess and made to feel special. I wish every woman could feel like that at least once in her life.
Congratulations on your wonderful transformation, you look great! Its amazing what you state that you can wear fitted stuff and belts, my mother sometimes says stuff is too young for her. I think that it was great to learn about how to dress to accentuate your beauty, as well as learn fashion tips from an expert. IF I should win the swag, I think I will give it to my mother, which would really appreciate your whole experience, as well as the products! 🙂 Thank you again for the opportunity…you are paying it forward, that is wonderful!
It looks like your inner beauty rose to the surface. Confidence is written all over your face! Congrats!
Oh my god red is definitely your colour!!! Congratulations and work it!
i first want to thank you for the autism website, my son has autism and this is one site i did not know about! you look stunning!
Congrats! You look fantastic!
It’s very refreshing to see a happy ‘before’ picture. I just had a baby 2 weeks ago so I look like the usual sad ‘before’ pics.
What a transformation!! Red is really your color. They can really do all that with wrinkles too? There’s hope for me!! Really enjoyed your story – lucky you!! You look great!
Congratulations! You look absolutely amazing! 🙂 All the best!
You look fabulous. Congratulations on an awsome prize. 🙂
Congrats on winning the makeover prize! You look absolutely stunning!
I have been a member on SC for a few years now and I have to say that the contest you won has got to be the best I have seen. What a great way to boost confidence and self esteem. You look fabulous – time for me to start saving some $, this would be a great gift for someone. What a great experience!
Looks amazing!
Koala you look about 15 years younger. You must feel so good! Anice summer pick-me-up.
Amazing how a little make up and knowledge can make a women look so amazing we should all be taught how to do this in school what a way to increase a woman’s self confidence
What an opportunity – you look great! And thanks for sharing.
Wow, what a great makeover, hope I can have one like that one day!
I love the change of hair colour.
Beautiful and definitely younger! Your spirit is contagious! Love it! Everyone shoyld be pampered! I am so happy for you.
Cheers!
That’s must be a super amazing experience. You’re glowing. Every woman should be pampered.
Sounds like an amazing experience. Every women should get a chance to feel good about themselves and a make-over can do that trick.
Great Makeover!
Looking Lovely!
Ahh, you look so gorgeous! I absolutely love the new hair colorr, congrats