Comment to Win $150 in Rimmel
Mon, 06/22/2009 by Karen | Posted in: Just For Fun
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One thing I’ve noticed about getting older is that time seems to move a lot faster than it used to. It must be a side effect, ha!
Like, I can’t believe 1999 was 10 years ago…
In the summer of 1999 I was hooked on Krispy Kreme and Cibo Matto. I’d moved back home after college and remember how tough it was adjusting to life back under my parents’ roof.
As much as I love my family, that summer was rough. Turns out I wasn’t the same person I’d been when I first left for school five years earlier.
There were lots of arguments, and sometimes I’d have to just get away. Most of the time I’d hit the local drugstore to hang out in the makeup aisle, like some weirdo lipgloss stalker.
It was on one of my late-night drugstore runs that I discovered the Rimmel makeup line.
I dug the simple packaging, price and mix of bright and neutral colors right from the start, and since then several Rimmel products have become staples in my makeup bag.
Some of my Rimmel favorites…
This summer Rimmel celebrates their American 10-year anniversary, so I figure let’s do this right and mark the milestone with a super summer giveaway. 
The prize!
One lucky lady will win a Rimmel prize package worth $150. Among the products in the giveaway: previews of Rimmel’s upcoming Sexy Curves Waterproof Mascara and Glam’Eyes Lash Flirt Mascara (arriving in stores next month).
The complete prize package includes…
- NEW Sexy Curves Waterproof Mascara
- NEW Glam’Eyes Lash Flirt Mascara
- Lash Maxxx Waterproof Mascara
- Exaggerate Waterproof Eye Definer in Jet Black
- Exaggerate Waterproof Eye Definer in Deep Ocean
- Colour Rush Eyeshadow Quad in Chocolatine
- Colour Rush Eyeshadow Quad in Bronzed
- Fix & Perfect Foundation Primer
- Stay Matte Clarifying Matte Foundation
- Natural Bronzer in Sundance
- Mono Blush in Peach
- 1000 Kisses Lip Liner in Natural and Indian Kiss
- 1000 Kisses Lip Liner in Indian Kiss
- Lasting Finish Kiss & Stay Gloss in English Rose
- Lasting Finish Kiss & Stay Gloss in Lustrous Nude
- Lasting Finish Intense Wear Lipstick in Pink Champagne
- Lasting Finish Intense Wear Lipstick in Alarm
- Lasting Finish Intense Wear Lipstick in Crush
- 60 Seconds Nail Polish in Camouflage
- 60 Seconds Nail Polish in Shocker
- 60 Seconds Nail Polish in Pulsating
- A red and purple cosmetics train case
How to enter
To enter, just leave a comment at the bottom of this post. In it, tell me what you were doing in the summer of 1999. Were you living at home and going to middle school, graduating from college, starting your first big job, training for the next Olympics or cultivating your own Krispy Kreme addiction like moi?
I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59PM PST Wednesday night.
Good luck!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
This giveaway is closed. Thanks for entering!
1999 I was graduating High School and started college in IOWA (i’m from los angeles). I only lasted one semester and came back home…
I turned 12 in the summer of 1999. I spent most of it visiting my dad in Palm Springs, in sweltering 120-degree weather.
Summer of ‘99…Got my first real job and first apartment.
Back in 1999 I went on a trip with my family and toured the East Coast. How do four teenagers, a minivan, and two exasperated parents sound? Talk about needing to get away…
In the summer of 1999, my mom and I were still going over all the plans of how to come to the United States from Bangladesh.
Reading all of these posts makes me feel so old! In the summer of 99 I was celebrating my daughter’s first birthday. She’s going to be 11 this year, how time flies!
I was only 9 at the time, but I’m pretty sure I was enjoying being a child. And I’m pretty sure that was the year my mother took me on a road trip around the United States – I believe we visited around 13 states that summer; still one of the best trips I’ve ever been on. :]
The summero of 1999 has beenmy best summer EVER! I had just graduated from high school and celebrated the end of school with my best friends in Ibiza! It was awesome…
I was spending time with my family at the beach! As I did every summer when I was still in school
Summer of 1999 is very important for me. First year of college was done and I met my husband and fell in love that summer. We also had an amazing vacation with my three friends for a month and even thinking about that summer makes me smile in my cubicle right now
I had just moved from Monterey, California to New York New YORK!! from going up in Monterey to moving to a fas city – it was a big change! but I’m still here, almost ten years strong!
In the summer of 99, I started a new job in June after being laid off from another one in March. So that year my “summer vacation” was during springtime lol
enjoying the summer sun
In the summer of ‘99 I was 19 and back home in L.A. after spending my first year of college back east in New Jersey. I definitely felt some culture shock, but was glad to escape the humidity of the east coast!
Ah! The summer of 1999..back in da day! (ok..I’m feeling old, so I’ll stop now!) I was getting my second degree, enjoying the weather, entertaining fam from the UK and trying to deal with overhype of how the world was going to crash when year 2000 hit (seriously, Karen, my Dad stockpiled water, batteries..everything.!! too funny!..I’m sure we still have some yr 2000 goodies left over!)
In the summer of 1999, I was married, raising my son who turned 15 that year, and working many long days with a visiting nurse association.
In the summer of 1999, I was getting ready for junior high. Probably one of the most exhilirating feelings ["MOM! I'm not a baby anymooore!] and queasy feelings [uh, why didn't I get the memo that crochet ponchos weren't cool?!] for a youngster.
Living at home, making plans to study abroad and generally lovin’ life
It was the summer after my first year of high school, I was out all night with friends. And we spent the days at the beach.
That summer, I started running with my new high school’s cross country team. I’d been taunted mercilessly about my weight until then, and I still run today.
Wow, it’s hard to remember back that far! I was married, my daughter was 11 and we went on a trip to Disney World with my brother-in-law and his family. It was super fun but hot. I remember it was nice because we went for a week and would go to Disney during the day, go back to the hotel, swim in the pool for awhile, have a nice dinner and then put the kids to bed for some cocktail time on the balcony with the adults! Also on the best days was spent all day at a waterpark going down the humongo slide!
Summer of 1999 I was a newly-wed living in small mobile home in Jacksonville, Florida, sweating my butt and all my makeup off on a regular basis. I was young, in love, and scared to death of what the future might hold. Blessedly, I am still in love with the same guy, and now we have to great kids. Future turned out okay
I was 11, and in elementary school and I had a hacksaw asymmetrical bob that was all the rage last year. And overalls, lots of overalls.
I was graduating, too…
I was 16 and getting ready for my last year in high school I was trying to pick a good college and kind of stressing but non the less It was a pretty good time and the things I remember the most are the talks my three friends and I had on our lunch hour in a french bakery that was two blocks away from school, ahhhh to be young and not care about calories.
I was entering my last year of college and living in my mom’s guest house. I was 20 and had just moved out of an apartment with 4 roomates.
In the summer of 1999 I was dealing with my fathers death and I also just started working in healthcare. This July I’ll have ten years in at my job!
summer of 1999 i was 7, going on 8. i think my family and i were vacationing in the bahamas. i wish i could be back there this summer!
On a staycation with my family!
My husband and I got married on the Big Island in Kona, so we were blissful newlyweds that summer. Ah, to be just married and able to sleep in on the weekends… Not so with kids now!
The summer of 1999…Well my aunt(who I was living with)had just moved from Queens(NYC) to Old Bridge,NJ and we were discovering the wonders of the Jersey shore LOL;)!!!!!
Summer of 1999 was the summer before grade 7 when I had my first kiss :$
In the summer of 1999 I was 22 and had just finished my first year of teaching high school English. An old friend and I took a 2-week road trip to visit others in our group of friends who had moved all over the US. It was major. It was a BLAST.
Let’s see…in the summer of 1999 I was 15 and about to enter 10th grade. I spent my summer at tennis camp getting whipped into shape for the Fall tennis season. It was brutal.
In the summer of 1999 I was 6 years old… and went to Disneyland for the first time in my life!
I was waiting desperately to start high school. Trying to be cool and hang out with high school boys at church.
In 1999 I was 12! I started 7th grade that year.
in 1999 i was 8 years old, this year was exciting because I got to be star of the week, were you share with your class your talent
Starting out my first ‘real’ job and traveling to Seattle, enjoying great seafood and great weather!
Summer of 1999 I was 13. I spent the summer traveling all of the country for horse shows. I earned to money for it by working for the horse show photographer, a job I ended up keeping until I was 21!
i was fifteen and practicing driving to get my license. lol now i feel old.
Ah yes, 1999. I had ended a really bad (but thankfully brief) marriage and unknowingly had just met my future second husband. (He’s a keeper.) I consider that year the true start of my life.
The summer of 1999: I graduated from college, got married and moved cross country, and started graduate school, all within about six weeks. I get tired just thinking of it!
i was in the process of moving into a new place (was 10, turning 11 soon) and was waiting for my little bro to be born!
i love rimmel sexy curves mascara, so i can’t wait to try out the new waterproof version!
In summer 1999 I was….irritating my mother with constant moaning about being bored in the summer holidays probably. Oh and going through a glitter phase – nice!
I was in middle school in 1999 and vacationing with my family in the summertime down the shore, which is a tradition we still do today!
i was 8 and prolly at camp with my family
I was living with my Grandma and watching cartoons all day!
I was 10 in Summer 1999, and that was the height of my Nsync obsession. I was daydreaming about my wedding with Justin Timberlake. XD
I was doing volunteer work for a local hospital (I was 13 at the time so not to much responsibility). Love your site
In the summer of ‘99 I was dating a frisky hockey player, going out salsa dancing on school nights and doing yoga. It was a good year with plenty o’ makeup-wearing opportunities…just like this year!
In the summer of 1999, I was at one of my many years at camp!! Ha ha! Those times were fun!
wow i was 10 yrs old in 1999!! Summer times always meant coming to US to visit my mother’s side but that yr was the yr after my brother (only sibling i have) stayed with my mother’s side so i was just soo happy to c him after 9 months. I do remember the 10 days of summer when i was back in Iran (Tehran) trying not to miss my brother too much and excitement for starting JR high. Ok before I break into tears about what is happening there right this minute I thnk u for this contest
In the summer of ‘99, I have just recently graduated from grade school. My friends and I would go to the beach and I would sneaked in my sort-of boyfriend at home! Haha.
I was a sweet and innocent child worrying about going into thrid grade. LMAO. Thank god for not being so innocent anymore.
XOXO,
RobbyRaynebow
1999…
I was switching to a new school.
Crushing on boys!
Was an avid journal-keeper.
The summer of 1999 I had just finished up my first year of high school. I spent a lot of time at summer camp experimenting with boys, makeup, and fashion. It was the first time I really thought about how I looked and what I wanted people to think about me. It wasn’t the most fun of times, but it was a summer of a lot of growth!
Gearing up for 8th grade! I tell ya, middle school SUCKED.
IN 1999 I WAS ONLY 9 <–YEAH A BABY!
I WAS GOING TO SCHOOL AND HELPING MY MOM
I DID A PLAY IN SCHOOL THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET, I WAS PUMPKIN =]
I was mentally preparing for my last year of elementary school.
Summer of 1999, I was partying like a heathen and getting ready to head off to Virginia Tech for my freshman year.
In the summer of 1999 , i was about to enter the last grade at Secondary school, up to ears with extra classes preparing for the exam entering the gifted high school I have been dreaming about during 5 years at school.
Now I already graduted from University and had a good job. Everything in the past is a greatist dream with trials and hope and , I think.
In the summer of 99 I was 11, getting ready to celebrate the millennium! (southern hemisphere summer starts in December). I was also getting ready for my last year of primary school! Oh man that was so long ago… takes me back haha
In the summer of 1999, I was contemplating whether to take up Math classes in university so I can shift to another course. I ended up spending the whole season partying with friends!
In the summer of 1999, I was preparing to enter high school! I was busy worrying about my courseload and whether I would get lost on the first day.
Summer ‘99 I was enjoying my last free time before stating high school! No idea what I did those holidays though!
I was still a witty bitty elementary schooler, attending good ol’ summer school.
I was still in high school!
In the summer of 1999, I was preparing to finish my last semester of college and deciding what I wanted to be when I grew up.
in the summer of 99 i was just trying to figure out how to live life as an 8 year old girl
1999 I had a very bad car accident.
A guy was drive drunk in the early afternoon so he crashed inside my car.
All my summer was between hospital and physical therapy.
In the summer of ‘99 I went to summer school. If I wasn’t at summer school, I was at home watching cartoons or playing with my cook set! I probably evacuated from a hurricane too…I live in good ole New Orleans!
I was in grad school finishing my degree that summer. I met my husband who I’m now divorcing. If only I would have taken another class………..
In the summer of 1999 I had just finished my sophomore year of college, and moved in with the boy of my dreams (now my husand) to save money. Mike was the first boy I’d ever lived with! Turns out that was a summer of firsts for me, it was the first summer I didn’t go home to spend the season with my parents!
I was spending my second year working at a Girl Scout camp. This was the first year I was given a unit that was all my own, but it turned out to be the farm living unit and I was a city girl through and through. That summer I learned how to make ice cream, butter, jam, bread, and corn husk dolls. I also learned how to care for pigs, a calf, bunnies, ducks, chicks, and a goat.
Summer of ‘99? Hmmm…I just finished my junior year of high school. Of course, still living at home with the parents. Hanging out at The Block (an outdoor mall in So. Cal.) Lots of summer movies and being a mallrat since the A/C wasn’t that great at home.
Funny you mentioned that late night drugstore run because I just did that a few days ago. I went to pick up a last minute wedding card and since I was already there, I started browsing at the makeup aisle. Now I know I’m not the only weirdo that does that.
Summer of 99′ – well let’s see…. that summer was quite a wild one as I remember right. I was in a new relationship and just bought a new car and had a bank account that was diminishing rapidly because I was out of work in a new town (Modesto) with no real direction. So actually the summer of 99 wasn’t the best but at least I can say that I mad it thru a ruff patch and things are better then they were ten years ago. Let’s hope this summer goes better, so with my eyes on the prize I’m very hopeful that I just might start this summer off with that wonderful Rimmel kit. Wow that would be great! Aloha
Nettie209
In the year of 1999, I was the mother of an 11 year old son and a 8 year old son! I was happy being a mom to our sons.
Please enter me in your marvelous prize giveaway drawing.
Many thanks….. Cindi
The summer of 1999 saw me on a holiday trip to the fantastic Europe! It’s a real pity that I was too young (11 years old) to appreciate everything (I sure can now) but I’ll hold on to my memories till I get to visit again. =)
I graduated from my elementary school in 1999. So there was a huge transition in the summer of 1999. I was going to a complete new school in September. Not knowing anybody there scared me, so I was preparing myself in the summer of 1999. I also went to Disney World for the first time in 1999, it was great!!! Although there were some sucky moments, like racist cashier at the fast food store. I mean, how can he be racist to me when he has the same heritage as me. That was just ignorant. Anyway, the summer of 1999 was not all happy, but it was memorable, and it was the last summer in the 20th century =)
In the summer of 1999 I was celebrating getting out of 6th grade! And waiting to turn 12, my birthday’s in the summer
omt omg omg!! I remember i was ten so i was playing in dirt and runing away from boys! =)
nicole’s last blog post… Happy Father’s Day and Sunday Cuteness!
I had just finished my sophmore year of high school and as far as I can remember I spent my summer lounging around the house and hanging out with friends most of the time. I think that was the year my sisters didn’t go to day camp and spent all their time driving me insane.
I don’t know if this giveaway is international but i’ll try any way.
In summer 1999 I was service in Israeli army [here it's an obligation service to girls too and not voluntarily].
In 1999 I was 12, that’s when I started to really get into makeup!!
I was about to enter kindergarten!
I was going to my friend’s house everyday to watch TRL and calling in to vote for backstreet boys! It was so cool to hear carson daily’s voice haha
I was 13 and was hopelessly obsessed with the backstreet boys
summer of ‘99, i just started a volunteer job that turned out to be a full time job.
summer of 1999, i was 11. i was learning how to ice skate. i talked on the phone to my best friends everyday about absolutely nothing, and it was awesome. i also got really chubby. hahaha.
Summer of 1999 I had finished 7th grade and was making big progress in figure skating. It was an exciting and challenging time in sports and school. That fall, I ended up winning the state figure skating competition. It was the beginning of achieving success in the sport for me.
I believe I was about to embark on the journey to high school.
that was the hardest school year of my life. I didn’t enjoy high school all that much!
I’m sure my summer was filled with beach trips, vacations to Nags Head, NC and Busch Gardens
I haven’t tried any Rimmel products, so it would be awesome to win this!
Let’s see summer of 1999, well I graduated from 8th grade in 1998, so 1999 would have been my first summer as a HS student. I was listening to the local hip-hop station (b96) and burning CD’s from a free Napster! Gettin’ rides from my parents, begging them to put in my CD and drive me to the mall!
Hahaha! Good times! Karen, you always make me remember stuff and I love it!
Nessa’s last blog post… Win $150 of Rimmel products @ Makeup and Beauty Blog for Rimmel’s American 10-year Anniversary ends TONIGHT
The summer of 1999 I was in 8th grade going into 9th grade (starting High School)! eek. Lots of sleepovers with my friends every night. Since we couldn’t drive yet we basically walked around the city every day and went to the mall.
Wow….’99 I was on summer break from my senior year in college….had just started to date the man i would be with for the next 7 years after that (waste of quality time in my 20s in my opinion) Went to Florida for my first bike show with my new boyfriend & his friends…
Summer of ‘99 was the most chaotic of my life! I was on a hormonal up-swing that caused me to take incredible risks in my lifestyle. Looking back, it was a nightmare. I’m just thankful to have survived it!
summer of ‘99
wow!
i still remember that..i was 10 yrs old & we moved to our new house. The house that we are currently living now is that house & it was a pretty busy summer since we have to do some decorating & stuff..
i can even still remember what my brother said before…that when we moved to the house we will be called rich..lol
its because we live before with our grandma & grandpa & having a house on\f our own just seems like too good to be true!
^_^
I was probably running around the yard playing with the water hose as I was like, 9.
In the summer of 1999, I was 15 and getting ready to enter my sophomore year of high school. I loved (and still do love) going to baseball games with my dad and visiting my grandparents and was getting really excited to learn to drive!
Oh wow, 1999…. i was still living at home working for a lawyers office. It was good times, i was making good money and my living expenses low. All in all a good year.
Awesome contest! thanks
The summer of 1999 I was 14 and just about to enter high school. I got my braces off that summer and was loving the new straight-toothed look!
I was 12 back then, was worrying whether Y2K was gonna be happening, and I made myself watching the tv all night long during new year eve to see if the city shown during count-down that became year 2000 would crash or burn with all the computer failing, which did not luckily, or won’t be writing this as we speak.
I didn’t stop watching until my country reached year 2000. LOL
i was suck a dork.
Is this open to International Readers? Well, I’ll try anyway. Lets see…1999 would make me 15. I was actually busy studying and preparing for one of the major examinations back in my country. A lil sad but yeah that was what I was doing.
I was 5 and going on my first vacation to Hawaii! I remember going to this park for watching the sunrise and a lady had a small stand, she was making little flowers out of dyed leaves or something like that. I got a pink rose made and she pinned it in my hair. thanks for the contest! awesome
Summer of 1999 I was taking my last summer course at university so that I could graduate in the fall!
In the summer of 1999 I was 14 and preparing to enter high school! (ours started in 10th grade then) So I was probably at the country club pool wishing for boobs and trying to look cool in front of the boys!
The summer of 1999, I was had a newborn baby! My firstborn was born in May of 1999. It was a great summer full of so much “newness”!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway and the chance to win!!
Living in Hollywood, spent the summer working, partying up the street a.k.a. “The Block” (hippest row of bars and resteraunts in Hollywood) and meeting my future husband!!
Well Summer of’99 was full of ups and downs for me. It was the summer that my parents got divorced, but also the summer that I worked at Starbucks so I spent the sunny days making lattes and the warm nights going out drinking with my coworkers.
Let’s see… summer of 1999…. I had just finished 7th grade & spent a large part of my vacation staying with my grandpa and a couple of cousins.
Good times.
unfortunately my story isn’t cool…in 1999 i spent some time in the hospital. sucked!!! i was 10 years old and in the 4th grade.
I was 12 years old and visiting the Carolinas with my parents, swimming in the Atlantic for the first time.
I was 13 and in the seventh grade. I was in the middle of my training bra stage…awkward! All the popular kids would say to me your Asian so you must be smart…can you help me with this assignment? HAHA they didn’t know I was half Caucasian!
Summer of 99, That was not the best summer My Mom(she was my best freind) passed away earlier that year and during the summer I was handling her estate and disposing of her belongings. Nevertheless it was a lovely summer.
aiyyyy 10 years ago… this shows how bad of a memory i have. 10 years ago summer… i was getting ready for my first year of junior high. i was happy that i had good scores to move on to the next level of education lol but 10 years ago… that’s all i remember, wouldn’t want to make up anything here now lol
In the summer of 1999 I had just finished my Junior Year of high school, hanging out with friends, and avoiding summer reading.
in the summer of 1999 i was 19 years old, had just dropped out of theater school and was working my first cosmetics job at the elizabeth arden counter at the bon marche while attending community college.
i’ve since gone on to work as a freelance makeup artist and complete my degree in creative writing.
During the summer of ‘99 I was recovering from having just finished high school!
In the summer of 99 I moved from my hometown to a new city right before the 5th grade…scary stuff >_<
In summer 1999, I was 5 years old and super exited to begin in 1th grade! And I was probably swimming in a little pool, living the life of a 5 year old girl
That was the summer before my freshman year of high school and if I’m not confusing it with the summer before I was working with my best friend at a Christian day camp called “Magic Mushroom.” Seriously, it was called Magic Mushroom.
In the summer of ‘99, I was chillin with the family.
The summer of 1999, I was hanging on The Island.
I was about to start kindergarten. ha!
I had just graduated 6th grade and was about to make the big jump into junior high. I spent the summer hanging out with my best friends because I knew a lot of us would be seperated into different junior high schools (absolutely devastating, i know). I had braces and wore Roxy boardshorts basically everday of my life. Clear mascara was all I was allowed to wear at the time, but I would sneak black eyeliner and purple eyeshadow on when I’d leave the house and wipe it off before I got home. Since I couldn’t wear lip gloss, lipsmackers and BonneBell had to do
I was 15 that summer,living in California.I had just became the new girl in our neighborhood so right away I was the “IT” girl of the moment…ah,good times!!
The summer of 1999 I was 11 years old, and hanging out at Camp Monroe where I fell in love with horseback riding and mancala (anyone remember that game?!)… memories…
The summer of 99, I was preparing to go off to college.
In the summer of ‘99, I was getting ready to move my life to Austin, TX for college. It was exciting and scary all at the same time because it was the beginning of a new chapter of my life, but I had to leave behind everything I had known for the past 17 years!
summer 99, wow….i was 9 and practically lived at my cousins house. id sleepover just about every week. & we deF rocked the nintendo, id kill to get my hands on a copy of “the zombies ate my neighbors!”
wed go to the park or have water balloon/silly string fights, or play in one of those blow up pools….omg diva, her crazy ass neighbor lol- so nice though. i miss that house so much! they had a bar in their basement, how awesome?
my oldest cousin would tell us care bear stories to go to sleep. she made them all gross though but we loved it, laughed our little butts off. then in the morning wed watch recess and pepper ann…OMGGGGG! i havent thought of this in yearrrrs, thats when my wonderful aunt introduced me to hash browns =) which is now my favorite form of potatoes and i LOVE all forms so much. potatoes rock! haha
thats one hell of a give away, *fingers crossed* been wanting to try that sexy curves mascara for months now….hope youre havin a good day
ciao
In the summer of 1999 I was 15 and was on summer break where I had my very first job. I only lasted a couple of months!!
Summer of 99…i was 12…and everyday I used to bike around on my cute little purple bike
in the summer of ‘99 I was 9 years old! So crazy, I was a huge bookworm when I was younger… so I’d imagine I was either at home reading all the time, going to summer school or playing in the neighbor’s backyard with my sister and my other neighbor.
We lived in a townhouse around that age, so I probably rollerbladed in the afternoon up and down the long common driveway monotonously (sounds like it would be boring now, but as a kid I totally loved it).
I was celebration my daugherts 1 yr birthday. It was a good year.
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Sweating like a mofo. Working in Chgo, and with no AC I was croaking — used to lay in a bathtub-ful of cold water to bring down my core temp.
I was 5 years old, and i imagine that i loved everyone that was older than me! I used to love hanging out with older teenagers!