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Win your own "Dove Visibly Smooth" sticks – you don’t have to share

Remember when I told you guys about the “Dove Red Carpet Event” I hosted and I said that I would be giving away *5* sticks to 5 lucky readers? Well, it’s time to give them away. I’ve even made it easy peasy. Just enter your name and email address in the box below and it will pick 5 random winners. This contest will run from Monday, April 12th at 12pmCST to 11:59pmCST Monday, April 19th. (*Limit one entry per email address and for US residents only.) Good luck!

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You guys, I recently had a chance to host a “Red Carpet Event” sponsored by Dove Visibly Smooth Deodorant. (*And when I say sponsored, I mean they were generous enough to provide a flip camera to record the fun, funds for food, drinks and goodies for a gift bag for the party, jewelry for the guests to help them feel dressed up for the Red Carpet and samples of Dove Visibly Smooth Deodorant to try.) Unfortunately, my party wasn’t able to be scheduled for an Oscars viewing party, but I did have the Red Carpet vibe by showing Meryl Streep’s Oscar nominated performance in “Julie and Julia”, where she plays Julia Child. (*Did you know that that was her 16th nomination – more than any other actor/actress in the history of the Academy?). I also enjoy the “Julie” (*played by Amy Adams) side of the movie, as I can kind of relate to someone starting their own blog & enjoying when people discover it, too.aee95351a0312b93 dove visibly smooth.large Sponsored Post: Be Visibly Smooth on the Red CarpetBut, before we started the movie, we chatted about Dove’s Visibly Smooth Deodorant. Have you guys heard about this? They say it “is an anti-perspirant deodorant that works to minimize the visual appearance of underarm hair over time, while providing effective 24-hour odor and wetness protection. Its unique formula contains Pro-Epil Complex and natural extracts, as well as Dove 1/4 translucent moisturizers.” This pretty much means that it’s got 24hr protection and while its NOT a dipilatory, it will make your underarm hair less noticable *over time* – not instantly. It also smells really nice. We had a chance to try the “Wild Rose” scent, but there is also a “Nature Fresh” scent that I have smelled, too. Since I haven’t used it for all that long, I can’t say that I have gotten the full benefit of the “over time” visible difference, but I can say that my underarms do feel softer already, so that’s definitely something.You can pick up either one of these scents up at any local mass market drugstore or big box store for around $5, but if you click here right now there is a $2off coupon for you to use. PLUS, very shortly I will be giving away *5* sticks to 5 lucky readers. Can’t beat *free* right? Sponsored Post: Be Visibly Smooth on the Red Carpet

Goodies for the party
We had all kinds of snacks for the party, including meats, cheeses, fruits and chocolate dipped strawberries, pretzels and marshmallows.

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Chocolate dipped goodies
We even made chocolate dipped pretzels & strawberries. They were stupid simple to make, leading me to wonder why I don’t do that more.

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Cynthia and the necklace
One of the gifts that Dove provided was a necklace for each of the attendees.

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Jenna checking out her own necklace
The necklaces were in different colors, so each lovely lady had her own color in their gift bag.

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Putting it on
Cynthia couldn’t wait to try the deodorant out – not that she smelled funny or anything. We didn’t make her put it on, I swear.

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Dove Giftbag
Not only did I make sure everyone got a gift bag with a necklace and a deodorant to try, I added a few extra goodies to the bag, too: some sister Dove products like soap, hair spray and chocolates, there were also some e.l.f. products like eyelashes for glam eyes and even gloss in “Red Carpet”.

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Us watching Julie watching Julia
Our “Red Carpet” movie was “Julie & Julia”, starring Oscar nominee Meryl Streep. We had a blast eating snacks and hanging out watching the movie.

Raise your hand if you’re Sure….

Okay, lovelies – it’s another TMI time. I’ll just put it out there. I have itchy armpits. (What? Don’t act like you’ve never heard anything like that before….). I have been a Secret Deodorant user for years.
platinum soft solid Raise your hand if youre Sure....I was especially a fan of their Platinum Conditioning Solid in Botanical. Well, it appears they have changed their formula to this Secret Flawless formula. They say “If you like Platinum, you’ll love Flawless”. Eh, not so much. Ever since I got this “stick”, I swear I look like a chimp scratching at my pits. Not so pretty in the office, let me tell you. And since this is the only thing that has changed in my armpit routine (yeah, I guess you could call it that), it *has* to be this.
So, I turn to you lovelies – can you give me some suggestions as to what would be good to try and not have this problem any more? I am not all up in the “gotta be organic” wagon, but I won’t rule it out. (In fact, I have heard good things about “Pit Putty” by Bubble and Bee, whose Vanilla Peppermint Salt Scrub sounds almost good enough to freakin’ eat, too). Help a girl out here, plz.


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