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Look at those lovely faces. 🙂
Ladies, thank you for sending your signs and for sharing your stories last month. Now, come look and see what you helped make possible. We showed how much we care as a community of women (and beloved pets). Damn if it sounds trite, but we’re all in this together. Much love and respect to you all.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Today as I resized the pictures for this final reminder post in the Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway, I got a little teary. I’m so used to seeing pictures of myself, but I almost never get to see pictures of you. In a way, it felt like the mirror turned into a window this month, and I feel selfish for making this about me, but it was wonderful and something I absolutely didn’t expect.
Most of the time when I blog it’s about makeup, a subject I love, but one that rarely lends itself to weighty contemplation.
And then it’s October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sometimes it feels like the “cancer” part of that gets lost behind a veil of pink ribbons, but it’s there. And not just breast cancer. Pancreatic cancer, brain cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, other cancers — and words like malignant, metastasized, melanoma, ductal carcinoma — very ugly words.
Taker of mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, girlfriends, friends, fathers, brothers, husbands, strangers we’ll never get to meet. Love, despair — utter despair — faith, loss of faith, hope, sometimes joy, gratitude, guilt, sacrifice, the unfairness of life, the inevitability of loss…
My family has been lucky so far, but after everything sometimes that’s easy to forget. My mother-in-law is in remission. She takes drugs with awful side effects to help keep the cancer from returning and has to get blood tests every three months for the next five years. Imagine how frightening it would be waiting for those results. “How long will it take,” you ask the nurse. “A few days,” she replies. “We should have them by Thursday.”
Thursday.
And now they post them online. Imagine that, being at home in front of the computer and pulling up your test results online…
When people say to me, “October is about increasing awareness,” I think, yes, it’s also about that.
If you feel like sending in your support sign, please do. It only takes a minute, but the gesture means a lot. Just send in a picture of yourself with your support sign, and you’ll also be entered to win a prize worth $400 in makeup from MAC and Chanel.
Please be sure to leave a comment on the original post if you do submit your sign entry by email, twitter, blog posting, etc.
These lovely ladies are standing up with me to raise awareness this month. Won’t you please join us? 
Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment on the original post. Not only will you be showing your support for the cause, but you’ll also be entered to win a $400 prize package of makeup from MAC and Chanel.
Please comment on the original post to enter (and not on this post here).
Please take a moment this weekend to show your support.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Does your phone have a camera? You might be able to snap your pic and email your entry from there. 😉
Tabs would like to give you kitty hugs and nose kisses to thank you for showing your support this Breast Cancer Awareness Month. With just one week left in October, you still have time to enter The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway. It only takes a minute, but the gesture means a lot. Just send in a picture of yourself with your support sign, and be automatically entered to win the special prize of $400 in makeup from MAC and Chanel.
Please be sure to leave a comment on the original post if you do submit your sign entry by email, twitter, blog posting, etc.
These lovely ladies are standing up with me to raise awareness this month. Won’t you please join us?
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Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment on the original post. Not only will you be showing your support for the cause, but you’ll also be entered to win a $400 prize package of makeup from MAC and Chanel.
Please comment on the original post to enter (and not on this post here).
Please take a moment this weekend to show your support.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Does your phone have a camera? You might be able to snap your pic and email your entry from there. 😉
You guys have blown me away with your entries for the The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway. Thank you for showing your support and for sharing your stories. It’s hard to fully comprehend the meaning of words like courage, love, sorrow and strength until we’ve been forced to deal with something beyond our control. To those of you who’ve faced this disease yourself or within your family, and to those of you facing it now, I send you all of my love and the greatest respect.
Keep those entries coming! We’re halfway through the month, which means you still have time to enter. Just be sure to leave a comment on the original post if you do submit your sign entry by email, twitter, blog posting, etc.
These lovely ladies are standing up with me to raise awareness this month. Won’t you please join us?
Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment on the original post. Not only will you be showing your support for the cause, but you’ll also be entered to win a $400 prize package of makeup from MAC and Chanel.
Please comment on the original post to enter (and not on this post here).
Please take a moment this weekend to show your support.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Does your phone have a camera? You might be able to snap your pic and email your entry from there. 😉
When I popped by Target and Tuttimelon last night to get a few cans of gravy for Tabs and a pint of “premium frozen yogurt” for moi (I the taro flavor), I spied these cute Breast Cancer Awareness products from Sonia Kashuk.
Sonia’s a breast cancer survivor, and every year she releases something cool for BCA. Last year I got this makeup case (cute, huh?).
This year the company’s donating 15% (a sizable chunk) of the purchase price of these BCA products to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
All week long the entries for the The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway have been rolling in! I don’t even have the words to describe how wonderful it’s been to see all of your lovely faces and hear your stories.
These lovely ladies are standing up with me to raise awareness this month. Won’t you please join us?
Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment on the original post. Not only will you be showing your support for the cause, but you’ll also be entered to win a $400 prize package of makeup from MAC and Chanel.
Please comment on the original post to enter (and not on this post here).
Please take a moment this weekend to show your support.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Does your phone have a camera? You might be able to snap your pic and email your entry from there. 😉
Heya, honeybears! I just wanted to show a few of the wonderful entries in The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway.
Look at these lovely ladies standing up to raise awareness this month!
Kudos, Amber! [INSERT RAUCOUS APPLAUSE HERE]
Love your smile, Michelle 🙂
Kerry, you’re so creative!
Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment on the original post. Not only will you be showing your support for the cause, but you’ll also be entered to win a $400 prize package of makeup from MAC and Chanel.
You gotta comment on the original post to enter (and not on this post here).
Come on, ladies! Let’s raise awareness together, so send in your sign today.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Does your phone have a camera? You might be able to snap your pic and email your entry from there. 😉
WINNER: Drum roll please… Katie! Congratulations, you’re the winner of $400 in makeup from MAC and Chanel.
Hi, ladies. As many of you know, breast cancer has touched my family, as it has many of yours. It’s something I think about all year long, but especially when October rolls around.
For the past two years I’ve run donations for breast cancer charities, but this year I’d like us to try something different — an e-rally of sorts.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is about many things — remembering friends and family, promoting the importance of early detection, helping to raise funds for research and treatment, and standing in support of those affected by the disease.
That’s why I made the sign you see at the top of this post. It’s one easy way to say, “We’re all in this together, and I’m here with you.”
You’ll have many opportunities to give and show financial support on other sites and in stores this month, but this gesture’s simply about emotional support and the strength of solidarity.
Will you make your sign and stand with me?
Join me this Breast Cancer Awareness Month by taking a picture of yourself with a sign like the one at the top of this post. You’ll also be entered to win a $400 prize package of goodies (20 products in all) from MAC and Chanel. Scroll down for the full deets…
