Winner Winner!!! Flexi-Clip Giveaway

I am So very sorry to those of you who entered the contest and were eagerly waiting to find out if you were the lucky winner!  We had a serious medical emergency with my Father-In-Law and we ended up spending the weekend at the hospital on the other side of the state.  I totally forgot about this giveaway!  The GREAT news is my FIL is doing so much better now and we are praising the Lord for a much better than expected outcome!  God is GOOD!

So on to the giveaway!  I have used our random number generator 

and the lucky winner is:

Ginger said... [Reply to comment]

My favorite product is the flexi-8 multicolored clip.

August 8, 2011 6:31 AM 

Thanks everyone for playing!  Ginger if you would please email Paula directly at LillaRose@rammnation.com and let her know that you have won the Keep Me Curly giveaway, she will get your $15 gift card to you!!! (be sure to do so by Friday or we will choose another winner!)

And don't forget to let us know what beautiful accessory you choose and send us some pics after you receive it!

Everyone please keep watching our blog as we have two more giveaways coming right up!

Lilla Rose - Flexi Clip GIVEAWAY!!!!

Hello Keep Me Curly Friends!  Today is the day we kick off the giveaway for a $15 coupon for Lilla Rose!!!!  Steph and Katie both highly recommend the gorgeous and sturdy Flexi Clip, but if you are our lucky winner, you may spend your $15 on any Lilla Rose hair accessory or jewelry of your choosing!!!!!

If you were wondering about all of the ways you can wear a Flexi Clip please follow this link to their Style Video.  Also, the size of clip you choose is very important, so be sure to watch the Sizing Video before making your purchase!  

We would like to give a big thank you to Paula Ramm, our Lilla Rose consultant, for offering this giveaway!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE remember to write a SEPARATE comment for EACH thing you do on the list.  If you put all of your entries in ONE comment you are selling yourself short!  Each comment gets a number for our random generator, so you want to get as many comments as possible.  

You have until NOON EST on Friday, August 12th to enter the drawing.  We will be choosing the winners from the comments left on THIS post!

To enter this giveaway please leave a comment on THIS blog and answer THIS question:

After watching the style video, which style did you like best? 

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If you would like to earn EXTRA entries do one or all of these things:

1)  Go to the Lilla Rose products page and tell us which is your FAVORITE product they sell?  

2) Go to Paula Ramm's Facebook page and become fan.  Leave a comment stating that you are a fan.

3) Head on over to our Keep Me Curly! Facebook fan page and become a fan. Leave a comment stating that you are a fan. (or that you already were a fan)

4) "Share" our Keep Me Curly! Facebook page with your friends and come back and leave a comment letting us know what day you "shared" us THIS week.

5) Follow @keepmecurly on twitter Come back and post a comment that you are a follower and leave your Twitter ID. (or that you were already following)

6) Tweet any unique tweet announcing our blog or the giveaway with @keepmecurly in it! Cut and paste your tweet (not tweet id status) and post as a comment. You can get 1 entry for EVERY new and unique tweet!

7) Become a follower of our blog or subscribe to our blog through an RSS feed. Simply post a comment saying that you are a follower. (or that you were already following)

8) Subscribe to Katie's youtube channel and come back and leave a comment stating that you are a subscriber. (or that you were already a subscriber)

9) Leave a comment on one of Katie's youtube videos. Leave a comment HERE letting us know the title of the video you commented on.

10) Go to Steph's Snapaholics website and leave a note in her guestbook. Come back and leave a comment HERE letting us know that you signed the guestbook.

11) Place an order at Snapaholics between 8/7 and 8/11 Noon EST. Leave a comment including your order number and order date.

12) Grab our badge! If you add our badge to your blog leave us a comment saying that you are using it with a link to your blog.

13) Advertise our site or this giveaway in a forum or other blog! We would really love it if you wrote about our site or this giveaway on your blog. If you are passionate about natural hair care, or Katie's youtube videos have been really helpful to you, or if you love cute hair things, talk it up on your blog! Earn TWO entries for doing this one! Simply post a comment saying that you are talking about us with a link to the forum or blog, then put (first entry) then comment again and write (second entry).

14) Get a friend to talk about us or our giveaway on THEIR blog, earn two MORE entries! Just leave us a comment with a link to THEIR blog and tell us that you encouraged them to participate. Then make sure they enter the giveaway for themselves too!

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The winner will be announced on Saturday, August 13th. It is the responsibility of the winner to contact us at keepmecurly@gmail.com to let us know their mailing address. IF the winner does not contact us by Friday, August 19th, we will choose a new winner.

Who can participate? This contest is open to any friends in the US, Canada or Mexico.

*** If you have any questions or if you have comments that are not related to the giveaway please feel free to email us at keepmecurly@gmail.com or leave your comment on a different post. In order for this giveaway to work we have to ask that you do not leave any other comments on this post if they do not follow the guidelines of the contest.***

The Fabulous Flexi-Clip!

This is exciting everyone!

Remember a few months ago when I posted about these awesome hair things I would LOVE to get my hands on - if only we had the spare cash for a frivolous purchase?

Well, I had written to one of the Lilla Rose distributors, the lovely Paula Ramm, to get permission to use their pictures on our blog.  Not only did she gladly grant that permission, but she asked if we could work together on a review and giveaway!  EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!  That is my happy squeal!

It was a REALLY hard decision to pick out which Flexi-clip to get first, because they have a huge selection in each size.  I decided to go with an all silver one because even though the colorful ones are cute, I thought silver would be more versatile.  Than I watched the sizing video and I had a tough decision to make on size.  I was hoping to get one that Miss B and I could share.  So I chose a MEDIUM clip.

When our clip came in the mail I was SO excited!  I put it in B's hair right away!  A Medium is a great size for doing half up type of styles on her.  Her locs have gotten so beautifully thick that I can't quite get a whole half of them into the clip, but we can still do some really pretty, simple styles like this:

Oh my gosh!  Don't her locs just look gorgeous!  This would probably look a bit more elegant without the floss hair wraps, but it still looks very pretty.

I am very pleased with the quality of the clip.  It is super sturdy, easy to use, and fun!  

For my hair the medium is a bit too big.  Next time I might have to get myself a small.  The only way I can make it work in my hair is to pile all of my hair into a bun - as condensed as possible - and fix the clip over top.  Anything else I have tried to do, my hair is just not thick enough to hold the clip in.  But, when I do it this one way, the clip holds all day long, really well!

Hi, Steph here!! We also decided get a medium, but we went with the multi-colored one

(same as I used to do beaded styles on G...usually very colorful. G picks her own clothes and I gave up matching clothes to beads years ago LOL. I would be happy to see shirt match to pants most of the time!). G's locs are not as dense as B's, so we were able to get all her locs in a medium clip. It is super secure and SOOO pretty. I wore the same clip to work and got lots of compliments. On me, the medium fit all my hair but seemed a tiny bit loose. I think the small holds all my hair much tighter.

Paula recently had a free shipping sale so I ordered a small

and an extra small

after I had tried the medium. The extra small was great for a partial ponytail on G, and it stayed tight and secure over a few days without removing it....she even swam in it and it didn't budge an inch.

Here are all three in her hair so you can see the sizes. I think it's a bit of an optical illusion that the gold one (the small) looks the same as the multicolored one (the medium). I think it's due to my tall camera angle:

Notice in the second photo, the top clip - look how flexible it is! G was already wearing a partial ponytail in an elastic, and I put the extra small clip right over the elastic, so it had to really bend into a semicircle. It did this perfectly!

I have to mention one of the best features about these clips is that, unlike its predecessor, you remember, the leather patch with the holes in it and the stick that poked through (remember the 60's and 70's?), with the flexi-clip, the stick is ATTACHED to the clip. It CANNOT get lost. I didn't realize this until I got mine in the mail and I thought it was ingenious.

You will notice that Paula has also chosen to advertise on our blog!

If you love these clips as much as we do, we would love for you to show some love to Paula, click on her ad and order through her.  She has been great to work with, and in a few days we will be posting a giveaway that she has offered to sponsor. Hooray!

To check out Paula's Lilla Rose Website click here, or find her on facebook, or twitter.

I can't wait to get some more Flexi Clips!  I am going to get a small for me and someday a mini to do half up stuff on my hair.  I also want to get a large or extra large for B to try and hold up all of her locs!  I will post links to the sizing info with the giveaway so that you can get an idea on what you and your daughters might need!  They also have other really beautiful hair accessories that I would love to try out.  Check out the rest of the Lilla Rose products here.

Hair Accessories I would LOVE to buy!

I have been drooling over these awesome hair accessories for a few weeks now and I thought I would share them with you.  It isn't exactly in our budget at the moment to spend money on frivolities such as these, but if it were, you can believe I would be getting quite a few!  So maybe if you like them as much as I do, you can buy them and let us know what you think!

 Flexi Clips by Lilla Rose also on Facebook

I think these would be PERFECT for B's locs!  They look so easy to use but cute and elegant and awesome!  I love that they would also work great for my hair so we could share them!  With the variety of sizes they sell I might even be able to use them in Little E's very thin hair!

 Lilla Rose also sells these cute Head Bands and O-Rings.  Aren't they pretty?  And if you are a jewelry person they nave necklaces and bracelets and things of that nature too!

Now check out these AWESOME pics of Flexi Clips with locs!

GORGEOUS!

I think this is the BIGGEST size - can you believe it holds all that hair!

This would HAVE to work on little E!

Do you have any great new accessory finds to share with us???

Katie