Put down the emo (aka a giveaway!!!!)

Moving at the spur of the moment (thanks to a Dodge Durango and a Pretty woman crossing the street) back in November meant having three hours to decide what I could fit into a large back pack, a suitcase and a random paper bag with strong handles that I could carry across 4000 miles (via 4 planes and 23 hours of travel time).

• Running clothes (check)
• Running shoes (check)
• Every single race bib since 2009 (check)
• Every medal earned (check)
• Favorite Jeans (check)
• Shirts (check)
• Underwear (check)
• Shampoo and Conditioner (check)

That last one seemed kind of weird for me since there were so many things I had to leave behind. You see a few weeks prior to Red’s accident I was contacted Sergio from Made From Earth. I did a review of a few products back in June. He asked if I would review some hair products and in the midst of packing, trying to use up all my old hair stuff and then the quick get-a-way in Novemeber I never got around to using what he sent.

So into my small collection of “must take to Halifax because I don’t know when I’m going to see the rest of my stuff” went a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of conditioner from SHIELO:

Their Philosophy: “is to create products with integrity and ensure that we preserve the future well-being of our environment. Shielo is against animal cruelty and proud to use post-consumer recycled and recyclable packaging. Our products contain the highest quality ingredients from nature, combined with advances in haircare research to ensure desired performance and ultimate results. As an organization, we have committed to developing naturally-based formulas infused with organic botanicals harvested from plants grown without the use of synthetic pesticides or chemicals.“

Confession: Since losing all of my weight I’ve become a little vain about the one thing and one thing only: My hair. It’s the truth. I get my hair cut once a month and up until November it was with the same person for the last two years. I spend more time on my hair than I do picking out my clothes. I can’t explain why with all the changes to my body I am vain about the one thing that never really changed.  I think it might have do with my 87% boy 13% girl equation but that’s another post…

       

This is what Sergio sent.

I always give an honest opinion when doing a review. When I like something, I like it. When I don’t, well I don’t. I’m not afraid of losing the opportunity to do reviews because of an honest opinion. Just because I don’t like something doesn’t mean the people taking the time to read a blog post and enter a giveaway will feel the same way that I do.

I like these products.

A lot.

Here’s what I like about them:

• Smells good (not overbearing, not perfume-y, very light)
• I don’t need a whole lot so the bottles have lasted a long time (this is good considering I’m not working right now)
• Hair feels fantastic (soft)
• Hair looks good (super vain double plus bonus here).
• It’s an online company so I can order more instead of hunting it down in stores.
• The bottle is super cool looking (yes that’s important to me)
• Did I mention my hair looks good!

It took me a few months to get around to doing this review and when I contacted Sergio about doing a giveaway much later than anticipated, he sent back an email that gave me not only one thumb up but when I informed him that I had moved to Canada and was hoping to include my new Canadian neighbors on the give-a-way he put the other thumb up and said “let’s do it”!

So here we go with the details!

SHIELO is giving away one free Leave in Protectant Antioxidant to one of you!

(And by you I mean both US and Canada)

You know how this works. Just leave me a comment below. If you want you can like them over at Facebook and Twitter and tell me about it. Each comment you leave is an entry. Each entry will be thrown into a random number generator at the end of day January 18th (that’s a lot of opportunity to leave a comment here people) and one of you will have a little happiness sent via the mail.

Thanks again, Sergio and Shielo for giving my vain little head of hair some love.

Much Appreciated!