Monday, August 20, 2012

Reclaiming Beauty Giveaway (Closed)


Silk and Purple has teamed with Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin to give away one registration to the online webinar series Reclaiming Beauty!

All you need to do to enter is leave a sweet comment on this post and share this giveaway with your friends. Winner will be selected at random, so enter by Thursday, August 30, 2012.

Winner will be announced August 31, 2012.

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What is beauty?
Some say beauty fits in a size 0. Some say beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Some say beauty is only skin deep. Some say beauty is only a quality of the heart. Some say beauty is truth. Some say beauty is a lie. Some say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some say beauty is as beauty does. Some say Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly are beautiful. Some say everyone is beautiful. Some say beauty is divine. Some say beauty is corrupting.

From all this confusion, one idea emerges clearly: The world knows beauty matters. They talk a lot about it, write poetry and paint paintings celebrating it, and spend $160 billion dollars a year on it. But what’s equally clear is that they don’t know what it is. The question is: Do we?

Today’s young Christian women have grown up in the most image-obsessed generation in history, a generation that worships some of the most twisted ideals of beauty the world has ever seen. But whether we love them or hate them… they tend to shape our own perceptions of what beauty is. Some of us accept its ideals, and struggle to fit into its mold – others of us are repulsed by it, concluding that physical beauty itself is immodest, worldly, and unspiritual, and reject the realm of beautification completely. But when all we’ve ever seen is the counterfeit the world offers, we can sometimes forget that the world did not create beauty – God did. And though we all know the world has a lot to say about image, we sometimes don’t realize how much God does too.
Fashion though history
It’s time to reclaim beauty. For thousands of years, believers, pagans, Gnostics, Humanists, Neo-Platonists, iconoclasts, and creators of culture have battled over this critical turf called “beauty.” Today, we have only to look at who designs the fashions, markets the beauty icons, rules the red carpet, adorns magazine covers, crowns Miss America, and designs clothes-and-makeup advertisements, to know who is currently holding the turf.
It’s time to take beauty back. When faced with an industry that runs on photoshop airbrushing, plastic surgery, starvation diets, grotesque catwalk styles, and billions of squandered dollars, our response can no longer be, “Beauty is not for us.” It’s time for our response to be, “Get your flag out of our ground.” It’s time for us to be a light in a culture that uses beauty as a weapon against God. 

It’s time for God’s ambassadors to make His principles – such as modesty and femininity – look as beautiful as they really are. It’s time for us to show the world: Ugliness is not beauty. Emaciation is not beauty. Androgyny is not beauty. Immodesty is not beauty. Unnatural distortion is not beauty. From Genesis to Revelation, God paints a different picture of the inner and outer beauty of a woman, and it’s time to show the world what it really looks like – one soul, one body, one face, one closet at a time.


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Winner Announced

8/31/12

McKenna!!!!

"I'm so excited about this webinar! I have posted this on Pinterest and Facebook. It's so nice to find some sisters in Christ around the web. What a blessing this is!!! 
God Bless,
McKenna"

Please contact us to claim your prize!
silknpurpleprov31@gmail.com

30 comments:

  1. This is a great opportunity and I will pass this along on my blog's Facebook page!

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  2. Wow, this looks awesome! I've been looking for a talk on this by the Botkin girls for a long time. I'm sure they will be great on this subject!
    I'll post the link to this giveaway on my Google+ page, since I don't have Facebook. =D

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    1. I LOVE the Botkin sisters! They are amazing! Thanks for this oportunity Silk and Purple!

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  3. I love knowing the why behind things. I would be so excited to get to learn from this webinar!

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  4. Oh, I am so excited that you are doing a giveaway for the Reclaiming Beauty Webinar! I saw this before on your blog and wanted to see it soooo bad. Thank you for doing it.

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  5. Here is the link to the post I did about the giveaway!

    http://entwinedessence.blogspot.com/2012/08/giveaway.html

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  6. Sharing on my FB. This sounds great! Such an important topic to me as the mom of a teenage girl & the grandmother of twin girls!

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  7. I would love to see this! I am going to email this to my friends, since I don't have FB or a blog. :) It sounds like something I have been looking for. A Christian guide to beauty!

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  8. I posted on Google+ about this giveaway!! Love it!! <3 :)
    Here's where i posted it: https://plus.google.com/u/0/

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  9. Wow. This sounds really great! I know the Botkin's always do a wonderful job! I'll be sure and share it around.

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  10. wow, just went to their site. It really, really, looks great!
    (I'm not posting this for a second chance just wanted to let you know my thoughts after seeing their site :)

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  11. This looks like a wonderful webinar. Please enter me in the contest. I'm sharing this on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/pin/89509111315071737/

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  12. Oh, this looks great! I would like to enter to win.
    I also shared this via pinterest, and google+:

    http://pinterest.com/pin/154177987214274847/

    https://plus.google.com/111756048790150838737/posts

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  13. I would LOVE to see this! I will MOST deffinatliy pass this on via e-mail being that i don't have a blog or FB:) This is a GREAT giveaway

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  14. What a cool webinar, definitely going to pass this on. Some of the most beautiful woman I know are also the kindest. I'm very much looking forward to this! <3 :)

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  15. Hi my name is Trinity, I am very excited about this giveaway!! A friend told me about it through an email. I will also send some emails about the Webinar to some friends.

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  16. oh yeah I forgot to tell you I don't have a blog.
    That is why I will send out some emails:)

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  17. Hello!
    I'll send out some e-mails so count me in!

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  18. I'm so excited about this webinar! I have posted this on Pinterest and Facebook. It's so nice to find some sisters in Christ around the web. What a blessing this is!!!
    God Bless,
    McKenna

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  19. I know the Botkin ladies will do a great job, and I'll pass the word about it.

    Victoria

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  20. I love the Botkins! I attended their last webinar and was excited to hear about this one. Thank you!

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  21. I've been excited about this giveaway since the Botkin sisters first posted about it on their blog. I would love to enter! :)

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  22. I would love to watch this and learn from the Botkins! I'm excited to see this giveaway!
    Katelyn

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  23. I would love for Katie to win a gift to this webinar. First, her birthday is in Sept. and this would be such a treat! Secondly, she respects them very much. Thank you for offering this contest!

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  24. This webinar looks amazing. I would *love* to participate in it with my two daughters and glean the wisdom they have to share - from the comfort of my own home? BONUS!
    ~ Mary Shaw

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    1. I shared it to my facebook page:) ~ Mary Willcox Shaw

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  25. I would love to see this! It looks just like what I've been looking for the past few months. I just turned 14 and I've been talking with my father a lot about personal beauty, both inwardly and outwardly. My mom has also been a big help in this area, but I have been looking for a talk on reclaiming beauty.
    I don’t have FB or a blog (and my family's farm website didn't exactly seem appropriate considering it's a farm website) but I did send this email out to my friends with the post attached:
    Hello all!
    I thought you would be interested in this post from Silk and Purple, the Christian blog I signed up for. It looked like a wonderful webinar and something that you all would be interested in!
    Bethany

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