THANK YOU FOR ENTERING: Beauty Sleep Sweepstakes

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THIS SWEEPSTAKES HAS ENDED, THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIAPTED.*Some items displayed not available in Canada, substitutes apply.

Let's talk beauty sleep! We are hoping you will share a beauty sleep tip that helps you get you get ready for bed. Whether you have a special recipe for a nighttime sleepy drink or a nightly ritual that calms your thoughts, every tip counts. We want to hear your favorite tips so please comment with one sleep tip between 1/16 – 2/11 to enter. Out of all the entrants who comment with their tip, five lucky people will be randomly selected to win a sleep prize bundle*! See official rules in the spoiler tab below.

*For any Canadian winners, the following bundle components are not available in Canada and would be substituted for a component of equal or greater value: Beauty Chef Sleep Inner Beauty Powder, Four Sigmatic Mushroom Hot Cacoa with Reishi, and Glow Recipe Avocado Sleeping Mask.

UPDATE: Great news! Since Glow Recipe's Avocado Sleeping Mask is now available on Sephora Canada, this product will be available for Canadian winners. 

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES OR TO RECEIVE A PRIZE. Odds of winning depend on number of entries received. Void where prohibited. Open to U.S. residents (including Puerto Rico) and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec).  Must be age 18 or older (and age of majority), and a Sephora registered user to enter. Enter by 2/11/19 at 11:59 pm PT.  Five grand prizes (each APV US $614/CAD $815; assorted beauty products) awarded by random drawing. One entry per person. Sponsored by Sephora USA, Inc.

If you are on a desktop or mobile web device, please open the spoiler tab below to access the official rules. 

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Beauty Sleep Sweepstakes Official Rules:

1. NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES OR TO RECEIVE A PRIZE. A PURCHASE WILL NOT AFFECT OR IMPROVE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.  This sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”) is subject to all applicable laws and regulations. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. ODDS OF WINNING DEPEND ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ENTRIES RECEIVED.
2. Sponsor:  Sephora USA, Inc., 525 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, www.sephora.com (“Sephora” or “Sponsor”).    
3. Eligibility:  Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the United States (including Puerto Rico but excluding Guam and all other U.S. and foreign territories and possessions not otherwise mentioned herein) and Canada (excluding Quebec residents) who are 18 years of age or older and the age of majority in their state, province or territory of primary residence as of the date of entry, and who has a registered Sephora account (no purchase or payment is necessary to sign up for a Sephora account). Sweepstakes is not open to employees, independent contractors, officers, directors, agents or representatives of Sponsor, or of Sponsor’s parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, successors and/or assigns, or of Sponsor’s advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies, and legal advisors (all such persons and entities are referred to collectively as, the “Sweepstakes Entities”) and the immediate family members (mother, father, brother, sister, daughter, son or spouse, regardless of where they live) and persons living in the same household (whether or not related) of any of the foregoing.
4. To Enter:  To enter the Sweepstakes, view a post from Sephora announcing the Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes Post”) in Sephora’s Beauty Insider Community in the Conversations section (community.sephora.com) during the Sweepstakes Period, and post a reply to the Sweepstakes Post with your sleep tip (your “Submission,” which includes both your reply and your Sephora Community username) In addition, your Submission must comply with all of the Submission Requirements listed below. Posting of your Submission constitutes your unconditional acceptance of these Official Rules. 

Submission Requirements: Your Submission must comply with these Official Rules, including all of the following Submission Requirements:

• No person other than you, the entrant, may be pictured in the Submission.

• You must own all rights to the Submission.    

• The Submission must not contain any third-party trademarks (other than those of Sephora or the brands sold by Sephora), names, logos, drawings, cartoons, photographs, pictures, or phrases.   

• The Submission is your original work (modifying, enhancing or altering a third-party’s pre-existing work does not qualify as your original work), and has been legally obtained and created, does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights or any other legal or moral rights of any third party, or violate applicable laws, or regulations, has not been entered in or won previous sweepstakes, contests or awards, and has not been published previously in any medium (other than on a website where you retain the rights to use, modify and remove the Submission).    

• The Submission must not contain any libelous or defamatory statements or discriminatory language, or other language not suitable for a public forum, including but not limited to words or symbols that are widely considered offensive to individuals of a certain race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic group (as determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion).

• The Submission must not contain any nudity, lewd, hateful, vulgar, indecent or obscene behavior, language or material (as determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion), or any other material that is unlawful, harmful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any jurisdiction where the Submission is created, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, tortious, threatening or harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation, or is otherwise deemed by Sponsor to be objectionable or otherwise unsuitable for a public forum. 

• The Submission must not contain any images of medical conditions or claims of medical effectiveness, or any critical comments about other images posted on Sephora’s Gallery or their authors.

• The Submission must not contain any advertisements, "junk mail," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes,"  “spam” content or references to other products, offers or websites, or any other form of solicitation.

• The Submission must not contain any email addresses, URLS to other websites, phone numbers, physical addresses or other forms of contact or personal information.

• The Submission must not contain any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.

• Your Submission otherwise complies with Sephora’s Terms of Use (http://seph.me/VTDbQH).    

Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, disqualify any Submission that does not comply with these Submission Restrictions or that Sponsor otherwise deems to be inappropriate in its sole discretion. In the event of disqualification, the Submission will not be entered into the Sweepstakes. 

By uploading a Submission, each entrant understands and agrees that the entrant’s Submission may be accessible for viewing by the general public and any such posting will be deemed made at the direction of the entrant within the meaning of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (US) and the Communications Decency Act (US).             

Only one entry per person is permitted. Use of multiple email addresses/accounts to enter more than once is prohibited. There may be only one (1) named entrant for each Submission, regardless of the number of persons who may have contributed to the creation of the Submission.

In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the Sephora registered account of the entry, which the entrant will have the obligation to establish. Entries generated by a script, computer programs, macro, or other automated means will be disqualified. Sponsor is not responsible for late, incomplete, misdirected, delayed, or undelivered entries, or entries not timely received due to telephone failures, Internet or website failures and disruptions, and ISP problems. Incomplete information may result in disqualification of entry. All eligible entries carry an equal chance of winning.

1. Sweepstakes Period:  The Sweepstakes begins on January 16, 2019 at 12:00 a.m. (midnight) Pacific Time (“PT”) and ends on February 11, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. PT on February 11, 2019.   
2. Selection of Winners:  Potential winners will be selected from all eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period in a random drawing conducted by Sponsor on March 1, 2019 and will be notified by email. Potential winners will be required to provide Sponsor with their full name, mailing address, telephone number and/or date of birth, and may also be required to complete, sign and return an affidavit/declaration of eligibility and liability/publicity release. Canadian potential winners must also correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question in the manner specified by the Sponsor.   For US residents, if the value of any winner’s prize is $600 or more (or $500 or more if Puerto Rico resident), the winner must supply Sponsor with his/her social security number for tax purposes, and complete (if requested) a W9 form.  A winner’s prize will be forfeited upon the occurrence of any of the following:  (i) the potential winner fails to confirm acceptance of the prize and eligibility within five (5) days of notification, (ii) the potential winner fails to return any required documents within seven (7) days of receiving such documents from Sponsor, (iii) the return of a prize or prize notification to Sponsor as non-deliverable; or (iv) the determination by Sponsor that winner is ineligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules. If a potential winner forfeits a prize or is deemed ineligible, an alternate winner will be selected by random drawing from all remaining eligible entries until a winner is determined.  If any alternate similarly forfeits the prize, Sponsor will use a reasonable number of attempts, in its discretion, to award the prize to another alternate but if it is unable to do so, the prize will be finally forfeited and Sponsor shall have no further obligation to award the prize.  All decisions of Sponsor are final and binding on all entrants.  Limit one prize per person/household.  Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received.
3. Prizes:  Five (5) grand prize winners will each be awarded a grand prize with an approximate prize value of US $614 / CAD $815.

Each grand prize package will consist of the following prizing components (note that some of the prizing components are different for US and Canadian winners): 

Grand Prize Package	Approximate Prize Value
Youth To The People Superberry Dream Mask	US $48
Ole Henriksen Retin-Alt Sleeping Crème	US $55
Beauty Chef Sleep Inner Beauty Powder*	US $60
Four Sigmatic Mushroom Hot Cacao with Reishi*	US $20
REN Now to Sleep	US $25
Murad NightFix Enzyme Treatment	US $70
Peter Thomas Roth Green ReLeaf Therapeutic Sleep Cream	US $65
Fresh Lotus Night Cream	US $48
Caudalie Vinoperfect Glycolic Night Cream	US $65
Algenist Sleeping Collagen	US $98
Glow Recipe Avocado Sleeping Mask*	US $60

*These specific prize components are not available in Canada. If the prize winner is a Canadian resident, these components will be replaced with a substitute Sephora beauty product of equal or greater value, selected by Sephora in its sole discretion.

Prizes are non-refundable and non-transferable, cannot be combined with any other special offer or promotion and must be accepted as awarded. Prizes may not be exchanged for cash value or substituted, except that Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to substitute with either the cash value of a prize, or a prize or prizes of equal or greater value. Prizes are provided “AS-IS” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, and sponsor hereby disclaims all such warranties, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.  Applicable federal, provincial, state, or local taxes and any other costs or expenses associated with the prizes or the use or redemption thereof is the sole responsibility of the winner. The prizes will be awarded, and will be delivered to the confirmed winner to a valid U.S. or Canadian address within 3 weeks of the determination of the winner. 

1. As a condition of entering this Sweepstakes, you warrant and represent to Sponsor and the other Sweepstakes Entities the following:

THAT YOU OWN ALL RIGHTS TO YOUR SUBMISSION;

THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL PICTURED IN YOUR SUBMISSION (IF APPLICABLE); AND

THAT THE SUBMISSION: (a) IS YOUR ORIGINAL WORK AND HAS BEEN LEGALLY OBTAINED AND CREATED; (b) DOES NOT INFRINGE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PRIVACY OR PUBLICITY RIGHTS OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR MORAL RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY, OR VIOLATE APPLICABLE LAWS, OR REGULATIONS; (c) HAS NOT BEEN ENTERED IN OR WON PREVIOUS SWEEPSTAKES, CONTESTS OR AWARDS; AND (d) HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED PREVIOUSLY IN ANY MEDIUM (OTHER THAN ON A WEBSITE WHERE YOU RETAIN ALL RIGHTS TO USE, MODIFY AND REMOVE YOUR SUBMISSION).

As a further condition of entering the Sweepstakes, to the extent permitted by applicable law, you release and agree to indemnify and hold the Sponsor and the other Sweepstakes Entities harmless from any and all claims, damages, expenses, costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) and liabilities (including settlements) arising from, or relating to, the breach or alleged breach of the representations, warranties and agreements in these Official Rules, your Submission, or your participation in this Sweepstakes, or your conduct during and in connection with this Sweepstakes.     

By submitting a Submission, you grant to Sponsor a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable, and transferable right and license to display or modify your Submission on Sephora's websites and social channels, and to use it in accordance with Sephora’s Terms of Use (http://seph.me/VTDbQH), and hereby agree to waive any of your moral rights in connection with your Submission in favor of Sponsor.  You understand this means that your Submission may be utilized and distributed by Sponsor in its marketing materials, including but not limited to, Sponsor websites, Sponsor emails, social channels, and store materials. 

1. By participating, each entrant agrees to comply with these Official Rules and agrees that Sponsor is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of entries in the Sweepstakes. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or tampering with or hacking of, the web site or any technical failure or malfunction, or any injury or damage to an entrant’s or any other person’s computer or property.   

IN NO EVENT WILL SPONSOR OR ANY OTHER SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE SWEEPSTAKES, ENTRANT’S SUBMISSION, ANY PRIZES WON, ENTRANT’S ACCESS TO OR USE OF SPONSOR’S WEB SITES, APPLICATIONS OR SERVICES, OR THE ACCESSING, DOWNLOADING AND/OR PRINTING OF ANY MATERIAL AVAILABLE ON SAID SITES, APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON SPONSOR’S WEB SITES IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSIONS OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY.

1. By accepting a prize in this Sweepstakes, each winner grants to Sponsor, where permitted by law, the right to use and publish (worldwide and via the Internet) his/her name, city and state, province or territory of residence, Submission, portrait, image, picture, voice, likeness and comments for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without notification, review or approval, and without additional consideration.

BY ACCEPTING A PRIZE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH WINNER AGREES NOT TO SUE OR BRING ANY LAWSUIT OR MAKE ANY CLAIM UNDER ANY THEORY WHATSOEVER AGAINST THE SPONSOR OR THE OTHER SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE, PARTICIPATION IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES, THE WINNER’S SUBMISSION OR ANY SWEEPSTAKES-RELATED ACTIVITY.  IN ADDITION,  TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH WINNER  AGREES TO WAIVE, RELEASE, FOREVER DISCHARGE, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS SPONSOR AND ALL OTHER SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, LOSSES, CAUSES OF ACTION AND LIABILITY OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, FOR ANY MATTER, CAUSE OR THING, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOSS, INJURY OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND TO PERSONS, INCLUDING DEATH, OR PROPERTY, OR OTHER HARM OR LOSS OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, COMPENSATORY, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL, CAUSED OR CONTRIBUTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, WHILE PREPARING FOR OR PARTICIPATING IN OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE, PARTICIPATION IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES, THE WINNER’S SUBMISSION OR ANY SWEEPSTAKES-RELATED ACTIVITY.

1. If, for any reason, the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned because of circumstances including, but not limited to, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes, which, in Sponsor’s sole judgment, corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right, in their sole discretion and determination of fairness, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes and, if possible, to select the winner from entries received prior to such event or interruption. Sponsor may disqualify any entrant who tampers with the entry process or operation of the Sweepstakes or who violates these Official Rules.
2. By entering the Sweepstakes, each entrant acknowledges he/she has read, understands and will abide by these Official Rules. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of entrants and/or Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, without regard to the conflict of laws principles.  In the event of any inconsistency between the full version of these Official Rules and any abbreviated rules, the one most beneficial for entrants shall prevail. 
3. For a winners list or a copy of these Official Rules, send a self-addressed stamped envelope for receipt by March 31, 2021, to: “Sephora Marketing, Beauty Sleep Sweepstakes (January 2019),” Sephora: Social Community Team, 525 Market Street, 32nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.   
4. Except as provided in these Official Rules relating to the use of the Submissions and of certain winner information and the availability of the Submissions for viewing by the general public online, the Submissions and personal information collected from each entrant with respect to the Sweepstakes will be used by Sponsor for the purposes of administration of the Sweepstakes and as otherwise permitted by Sephora’s Privacy Policy (www.sephora.com/includes/privacy_policy.jhtml).   

[karaboo22]

Putting away the gadgets an hour before bed, sipping on some SleepyTime Tea, and a good book all help do the trick for me.  You can't go wrong with a good sleeping lotion like the GENIUS Sleeping Collagen & Liquid Collagen from Algenist! ALGENIST - GENIUS Sleeping CollagenALGENIST - GENIUS Liquid Collagen

[Iloveskincare55]

My best advice for a great nighttime routine, is to double cleanse your face before applying night creams. This is important so you remove all the dirt/oil/makeup. Also, no phone at least 30 mins before bed!!

[jetgirl63]

My bedtime ritual may seem excessive to some, but I have it so down pat that it has become second nature - here we go:

1-Wash with gel cleaner - I use PTR

2-Exfoliate with a rice cleanser - I use either Josie Maran or Tatcha

3-Toner 

4-Essence

5-Retinol - Also PTR

6-Serum - Caudalie

7-Moisturizer or (Oil in winter) - PTR or Charlotte Tillbury or (Josie maran)

8-Eye cream - PTR or Charlotte Tillbury

See.... simple!  Honestly, its not as bad as it seems.

[scrappinmom]

When I have a lot going on, I like to keep a pad and pen by my bed so that I can add to my to-do list so that I can "release it" from my brain for another day and my mind can rest effectively.

[bethy78]

Ok so if I haven't had a hard day and haven't had any makeup on as well I wipe my face down with cold water. It sounds strange but it truely clears my face and closes my pores. Of course I can't do that when my face is really dirty and I have had makeup on. It has to be cold water because hot will open pores. Cold water also can help with acne and truely is the cleanest way.

[crystald2737483]

The best sleep tip I know is taking a relaxing bath. Not just a regular bath, but a bath where you use scented soaps or muscle relaxing salts. Light some candles, put on a soothing song, and drink as glass of beverage of choice. Baths like these can make you feel like you are cleansing not just your body, but your spirit of all the negative vibes from a long day. You will go to bed feeling relaxed, clean, and peaceful. 😊🌙⭐️

[tinkerbell808]

I usually go to hot yoga before I sleep, and then I get home and immediately wash my face. From there, I will apply Josie Moran argan oil, and the Farmacy Green Mask, as well as the Kiehls under eye cream.

[vict919]

I work at a wedding venue and often get done around midnight and it can be difficult to unwind after such an energetic event. After washing my face I use Tartes Marcula Oil on my face and lips, I apply some Castor oil to my eyelashes and eyebrows for some growth. Then I plug in my fairy lights, prop myself up on all my fluffy pillows, and read a book. When my eyes get heavy the lights go out! 

[strawberryf1eld]

Dream balm (a balm with calming oils) on my wrists and temples

[Anonymous]

I usually wash my makeup off in the shower and then use a refreshing cleanser. (I also exfoliate every 2 days before applying cleanser.) After that I usually use serum, then toner, and then a nice moisturizer. (I always make sure the moisturizer isn't one that's greasy and clogs pores.) Hope this helps anyone.

[angibaby94]

A nice cool room with sateen cotton sheets on the bed and a satin pillowcase.  An eye mask over my eyes.

[Anonymous]

Nightly routine... I spray lavender pillow mist on my sheets and pillows. I have blackout curtains on bedroom windows. Relaxing smell and a dark room relaxes my mind for a good night's sleep.

[snowhitetwin]

Following a night time routine is important, but actually any time of the day, the skin needs to be taken care of!! I always wash my make up off, use a nice lux oil of some sort, and then a prescription retinol. I actually leave my eye makeup on because I like the way it looks and it doesn't bother my eyes. One important thing that helps me besides sleeping pills, CLEAN SHEETS!!! Seriously, several times a week, change them!!! I feel like a hotel maid at times, but so worth it!!

[Anonymous]

Give yourself a foot rub, it can help calm your mind and relax your legs if you have restless legs. I also love a good lavender pillow spray to calm my mind. 

[Kris1369]

I do yoga before bed. It really helps me release the stress of the day, and slows my mind down. Also, I try to put my phone down before I go into bed, and not have it next to me while I sleep. 

[cefrd13]

For me staying on a schedule is key. Going to bed at the same time and getting up at the same time every day. My body knows when it’s about time to go to bed and I’ll sleep better then if I try to stay up late or sleep in. 

[csuh17]

I work rotating shifts so I work day and over night shifts: therefore, I have learned to try to take better care of my skin and body. I have gotten into the habit of double cleansing and using Vit C oil/face oil. I also spray a lavender mist on my pillow and blanket before bedtime to just help my body relax. 

[lillangston]

So I work 3rd shift,  and wear no makeup to my job location,  due to it being highly inappropriate., so i just make sure my face is clean. I might put on some moisturizer if my face is feeling dry and when I lay down, I'm out. 

[lillangston]

So I work 3rd shift,  and wear no makeup to my job location,  due to it being highly inappropriate., so i just make sure my face is clean. I might put on some moisturizer if my face is feeling dry and when I lay down, I'm out. 

[Anonymous]

I hate to  say it but I really don’t have a routine. I do wash my face and moisturize before I go to bed but I enjoy trying different products!

[magmar007]

Try taking 6-9mg melatonin 1-2 hours before bed, or when you want your body to think the sun has set. And if you live in a geographic location with little to no sun in the mornings, definitely invest in a light box, at least 10,000 lux for the mornings to help entrain your body’s natural circadian rhythms!