Whirl-a-Style would like to introduce a creative competition that is open to anyone with a camera and a flair for hair. You could win $150.00 and be featured on our website! We will award $150.00 to two categories, the best photo and the best video.
To participate; you need to come up with a cutting-edge creative hairstyle using the Whirl-a-Style. You can use as many Whirl-a-Styles as you would like. They can be any size or color. Just come up with a winning hairstyle idea and send in pictures or a video showing how you created it step-by-step. Contest Rules are below!
Video Submission Rules
• Please only submit one hairstyle per entry.
• You must submit a video showing yourself doing the hairstyle. You do not need to show the front of your face, just the back and side of your head. The video must show the beginning of the process to completion. Once the hairstyle is finished, you must show a left and right side view as well as a back view of the hairstyle. Also, please include a clip or segment that includes all the Whirl-a-Styles, pins and tools you used in the hairstyle. Videos can be uploaded to YouTube or any other media hosting service. We only require a link to the video submission.
• In your email, please include your:
1. Name
2. Full Home Address (include state, province, territory, country and zip code)
3. Email Address
4. Phone Number
5. Date of Birth
6. Number of Whirl-a-Styles used
7. Anything else you would like to add: Inspiration for the style, how long it took you, etc.
• Please e-mail your information and all pictures to
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• All submissions must be in by 12:00 a.m. CST on October 1st, 2010. One winner will be selected from two categories, best video updo hairstyle and best photo updo hairstyle. All entries are judged by a panel of stylists and salon owners. A winner will be chosen by October 31st, 2010. The hairstyle must be an updo created with at least 1 Whirl-a-Style to qualify.
• There is no limit to the number of Whirl-a-Styles used in the contest. Whirl-a-Styles can be purchased at our online store or at any Claire's store.
• The use of hairspray, styling gel and pins are allowed. However, keep in mind the most points will likely be awarded to a hairstyle with fewer pins.
• You must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
Photo Submission Rules:
• Please only submit one hairstyle per entry.
You must submit the following photos: A) 3 step-by-step photos of the hairstyle in progress, B) 2 photos of the final product (side and back shots) and C) a photo of all the Whirl-a-Styles, pins and tools you used in the hairstyle. There should be 6 photos total.
• In your email, please include your:
1. Name
2. Full Home Address (include state, province, territory, country and zip code)
3. Email Address
4. Phone Number
5. Date of Birth
6. Number of Whirl-a-Styles used
7. Anything else you would like to add: Inspiration for the style, how long it took you, etc.
• Please e-mail your information and all pictures to
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• All submissions must be in by 12:00 a.m. CST on October 1st, 2010. One winner will be selected from two categories, best video updo hairstyle and best photo updo hairstyle. All entries are judged by a panel of stylists and salon owners. A winner will be chosen by October 31st, 2010. The hairstyle must be an updo created with at least 1 Whirl-a-Style to qualify.
• There is no limit to the number of Whirl-a-Styles used in the contest. Whirl-a-Styles can be purchased at our online store or at any Claire's store.
• The use of hairspray, styling gel and pins are allowed. However, keep in mind the most points will likely be awarded to a hairstyle with fewer pins.
• You must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
Other Contest Rules and Regulations:
To provide fair and equal chance of winning, the following are the official rules for all contests on LJL, Inc. websites.
Open worldwide. All winners must be 18 years of age or older, unless otherwise stated and/or posted.
1. Entering Contests and Choosing and Contacting Winners
Entrants must send entries using the correct contest entry email address and any other specific entry information requested in the contest announcement. LJL, Inc. is not responsible for and will not consider incomplete or incorrect entries, or emails sent but not received by LJL, Inc. for any reason, as potential contest winners.
Winners of all contests will be contacted at the “sender” email address used to enter the contest, and the person receiving and replying to the winner announcement email will be considered the winner unless they specify another person within the reply email as the winner. LJL, Inc. will mail the contest prize to the address supplied by the recipient of the winner announcement email.
Only one entry per email address used to send the email will be considered for contest entry, unless multiple entries are specifically allowed in the contest posting. Unless otherwise specified in an individual contest post, no person may enter any contest more than once using multiple email addresses.
Claiming of prizes requires an email response to LJL, Inc. from the winning sender email address within 15 days of being notified of winning at the email address used to enter. Failure to respond shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize. LJL, Inc. is not required to award elsewhere any prizes forfeited by the chosen winner(s).
2. Submission of photo, text or other content for Contests
Entries selected for display and to win “best of” contests and any other contests requiring photo, text or other content from the entrants will be judged entirely at the discretion of LJL, Inc.;
By submitting any photo or information to LJL, Inc., you hereby grant to LJL, Inc. and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free right to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, prepare derivative works of, modify, publish and otherwise make use of the submitted photo or other information in any and all media, whether now known or hereinafter created, throughout the world and for any purpose. In addition to other things, the rights granted to LJL, Inc. includes but is not limited to the right to resize, crop, censor, compress, edit, feature, caption, affix logos to, and to otherwise alter or make use of the submitted photo;
By submitting any photo or information to LJL, Inc., you hereby represent and warrant that the submitted photo or information does not and shall not infringe on any copyright, any rights of privacy or publicity of any person, or any other right of any third party, and you have the right to grant any and all rights and licenses granted to LJL, Inc. herein, including but not limited to all necessary rights under copyright, free and clear of any claims or encumbrances;
You acknowledge and agree that LJL, Inc. shall have no obligation to post, display or otherwise make publicly available any photo or information submitted by you, and may, in its sole and unfettered discretion, remove, edit, modify or delete any photo or information that you submit to LJL, Inc.;
You understand and intend that any photo or information submitted by you to LJL, Inc. may be available for viewing, rating, review and comment on by the public, and understand that comments or ratings with which you disagree or are unhappy about may be published or otherwise become associated with any photo or information you submit to LJL, Inc. By submitting any photo or information to LJL, Inc., you hereby waive any privacy expectations that you may have with respect to any such photo or information submitted by you to LJL, Inc.;
You hereby agree to hold LJL, Inc. and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees sponsors and assigns harmless from and against, and hereby waive any right to pursue, any claims of any nature arising in connection with the inclusion in, publication via or display on any LJL, Inc. site, or any other use authorized under these Terms, of any photo or information submitted to LJL, Inc. by you;
Photos or information submitted by you to the Site shall be the property of LJL, Inc., and LJL, Inc. shall have no obligation to preserve, return or otherwise make available to you or others any photos or information so submitted.
All participants portrayed in all media need to be modestly clothed. Any entries with pornographic or questionable attire will be disqualified.
3. Awarding Prizes
Winners are solely responsible for all taxes and/or fees that may be incurred. All cash winners are required to verify proper and legal picture identification and Social Security number within 30 days of notification of winning the cash prize. Winner may forfeit any and all cash winnings if verification cannot or has not been made within 30 days. Upon proper verification, cash winnings will be awarded by check, and mailed to winner's mailing address within seven (7) business days.
Each prizewinner must supply LJL, Inc. with his/her legal name, mailing address, birth date, daytime and nighttime telephone numbers. In the case of a cash winner, winner must also supply social security number.
Winners may not request substitutions of prize winnings. All winners are solely responsible for any and all taxes and/or fees, and all such additional costs that may be incurred.
Neither LJL, Inc., LJL, Inc. sponsors, nor employees of LJL, Inc. or sponsors may be held liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of usage of any winners of a prize once possession has been taken of the product by winner. LJL, Inc. is not liable for any loss arising out of or in connection with or resulting from any contest promoted by LJL, Inc.
If the specified prize becomes unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances, LJL, Inc. may substitute a prize of like or equal value.
Management, employees and families of LJL, Inc. are prohibited from winning any prizes awarded by LJL, Inc.
LJL, Inc. reserves the right to alter any rules of any contest at anytime. If you have any questions or complaints about a LJL, Inc. contest, please contact questions at
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