src="http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/karen-from-makeup-and-beauty-blog-bca-sign.jpg" alt="karen from makeup and beauty blog holding her october is breast cancer awareness sign" title="karen from makeup and beauty blog holding her october is breast cancer awareness sign" width="540" height="404" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-61154" />

You guys have blown me away with your entries for the href="http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/news/october-is-breast-cancer-awareness-month-show-the-world-your-sign-and-win-a-prize/">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 href="http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/news/october-is-breast-cancer-awareness-month-show-the-world-your-sign-and-win-a-prize/">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? style="margin-bottom:-3px;" src="http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/summer-heart-tiny.jpg" alt="love" title="love" width="20" height="17" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-26893" />

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The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway

Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment href="http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/news/october-is-breast-cancer-awareness-month-show-the-world-your-sign-and-win-a-prize/">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.

To Enter…

1. Take a picture of yourself with a sign that reads, “October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” Whether or not you show your face is up to you, but I think it would be great to see your lovely mug. src='http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />
2. Send it to me. You can either email it to href="mailto:karen@makeupandbeautyblog.com?subject=October%20is%20Breast%20Cancer%20Awareness%20Month">karen@makeupandbeautyblog.com, OR post it on your blog/facebook page and href="http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/news/october-is-breast-cancer-awareness-month-show-the-world-your-sign-and-win-a-prize/">leave a link to the pic in the comments on the original post, OR upload it to Twitter and send a tweet to me href="http://twitter.com/karenmbb">@karenmbb.
3. The giveaway is open to US and international readers, but you must be the age of majority according to your country’s local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21).
4. One entry per person.
5. Deadline to enter is October 31, 2010 at 11:59PM PST.